Seeing the silver-haired beauty freeze for a few seconds, the elf girl beside her hurriedly jumped in to back her up, her tone…even making Keti feel a little uneasy.
This is way too unfamiliar…
Sylvia wasn’t always this expressionless before?
Ahem…but that’s not the point anymore, because under the successive threats from these two former teammates, the silver-haired beauty seemed to have realized one thing.
It looks like she still hasn’t been recognized?!
Ahem, Keti even started doubting for a moment…this shouldn’t be some kind of trap set just to embarrass herself, right?
But after thinking it over, that seemed unlikely—if they wanted to ridicule her, they could have just laughed out loud at her right now.
No need to set up a scene for that…
Layla isn’t that scheming anyway, she’s always been pretty kind to her…
So, right now, the strange attitudes of these two girls only made Keti more certain…
That she….really hadn’t been recognized!
Otherwise, these two would hardly ask her where she hid Keti, or make her lead the way to find her, which was just absurd enough to be ridiculous.
Ah, to be honest, although the silver-haired beauty felt a huge relief at not being recognized, a sudden sense of loss emerged in her heart.
It’s strange—she didn’t want to be recognized, but being treated like someone else by her two former teammates made Keti feel a bit uncomfortable too.
Why?
Her mortal enemy could spot her immediately just by little habits and details, yet her former teammates who had spent so much time with her couldn’t recognize her…
Could it be…her mortal enemy is just that good?!
Ahem ahem ahem…
Forget it, no need to think about that now.
Not being recognized is obviously a good thing for Keti!
It’s just……uh, seeing these two furious former teammates, Keti suddenly realized that Layla and Sylvia must think they know Keti, so they want to find her through her?
Though it sounds complicated, Keti seemed to have been through this kind of situation several times before……
But this time, Keti made up her mind…she absolutely must not let her current self be connected in any way to her old self!
Otherwise, it would only cause more trouble.
Huff……she can definitely bluff her way through this, she definitely can!
After a moment, the silver-haired girl took a deep breath, then suddenly raised her head, her gaze firm as she truly looked at Layla and Sylvia, and asked:
“Which Keti?”
“Bang—!”
“Crack—!”
Just as Keti was putting on an act, thinking that acting dumb would gain her former teammates’ trust and make Layla and Sylvia give up looking for the real her.
Right after she spoke, Sylvia immediately raised her hand and summoned a fireball, precisely targeted at Keti’s right side.
The explosion startled Keti so much she trembled all over.
When the smoke cleared, she saw the scorched, glowing earth crater beside her, and the silver-haired beauty gasped.
N-
No…how is this even life-threatening?!
“Heh heh heh, how can you still be stubborn at a time like this? ‘Which Keti?’ You’re not telling me you don’t know Keti-kun, right~?”
Seeing the elf girl’s twisted smile, Layla quickly stood up to give Sylvia room.
The green-haired elf then pulled out a machete from her pocket and slowly approached Keti.
“Shhh…Who’s Keti? I-I-I really don’t know her?”
Watching the machete get closer and closer, the silver-haired girl trembled and shuffled backward, still clinging to a faint hope, but…this had already become a life-threatening situation.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just admit the truth?
Layla couldn’t bear to watch anymore either; this really couldn’t end in someone getting hurt, ahem…
So she quickly grabbed Sylvia’s arm and coldly said to Keti:
“You don’t need to keep denying it. Since we could find you, it means we have some insider info. Hmph, for example, you once admitted to the landlady of the Xiasha Tavern that you’re friends with Keti~”
“Heh, not only that, the landlady who rents the place to Keti also said you not only helped pay Keti’s rent, but you even told her that every night you party with Keti till dawn! Guh…heh, heh heh, you sneaky cat!”
“Meow~”
Faced with Layla and Sylvia’s barrage of accusations, Keti, hit again and again by these verbal boomerangs, felt like crying and laughing at the same time…
No, that’s not it……
Those were just things she said casually! How did the landlady and the Xiasha Tavern’s owner go blabbing all this stuff to others?!
Ugh—!
Hiss
Well…looks like there’s no way to deny it now.
The silver-haired girl faltered for a moment, then finally forced herself to explain: “Oh oh oh……I get it now, you’re talking about that silver-gray-haired boy!”
“Ahahaha…sorry, I just didn’t remember earlier. I…… I’m actually not that close to Keti-kun.”
“I just bought a lot of materials from him, that’s how I know him. He asked me to deliver some of the money to the landlord to pay the rent!”
“What I said before was only because I had a fight with that landlady, I wanted to annoy her…because that old woman at her age definitely doesn’t have a nightlife, haha……”
“Ahem ahem, in short, that’s it. As for where Keti is now, I really don’t know. After buying his materials, I haven’t seen him again!”
“What I said to the tavern owner was just to comfort her because she worried about Keti! Keti maybe has already gone back home, haha….”
“Lies!”
After hearing Keti’s defense, Sylvia shouted loudly, then her emerald eyes without any shine locked onto Keti, a chilling smile creeping across her face:
“Keti-kun hasn’t left the Imperial Capital, I know this perfectly well. You sneaky cat, you’re still covering for him. Tell me…………why?”
“Is it because Keti-kun doesn’t want to see Sylvia? But I really, really want to see him! Ah…I can’t wait even one more second! Giggling….”
“With this machete, I’ll cut your sneaky cat body, one slice at a time~ Then Keti-kun will definitely rush out worried to protect you! Heh, I’m so jealous, why……does my Keti protect you so much?”
“But it’s okay, Sylvia will make Keti-kun change. Miss Sneaky Cat, are you ready~ Heh heh heh heh heh heh”