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Chapter 521: Great Lover, Lanchi, You Scare Me to Death!
Chapter 521: Great Lover, Lanchi, You Scare Me to Death!
In a room where the ceiling was crafted from wooden boards and beams, the slanted angle of the glass skylight created the ambiance of a terrace that could reflect the starry sky at night.
However, at this moment...
Under the increasingly bright daylight of summer, the heartbeats of the two people inside the room were already racing.
"Tara, it's not what you think."
Lanchi immediately denied the accusation.
"No? You didn't mean what I heard just now?"
Hearing Lanchi's crisp and firm denial, Talia's voice seemed to take on an additional tone of anger.
"No, don't take my words out of context."
Lanchi's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
Talia could detect lies, and the more he explained, the more chaotic his words became.
"So, I didn't misread your thoughts..."
Talia's breathing became rapid and shallow as she experienced intense emotional turmoil.
Her cheeks also had a hint of unconscious blush, a physiological reaction to extreme shock and tension.
"Calm down, Talia! Calm down!"
Lanchi's palms were sweaty, and as Talia grabbed his tie, he could only sense the dangerous temperature emanating from her at this extremely close distance.
Talia was extremely dangerous right now, even more so than when they had first met on the second floor of the Wilford residence last week!
Firstly, Lanchi couldn't understand why she could suddenly read his thoughts without any warning signs.
Secondly, Talia's mind-reading magic was still half-baked, and with the [Mark of Truth] on him providing some resistance to divination magic, it shouldn't have been easy for Talia to read his thoughts completely.
Just a second ago, Lanchi had thought that he was as steady as a mountain.
Now, he never expected that Talia had already started to awaken her mind-reading magic at a rapid pace!
"Please, just let me explain everything. I was on the Northern Continent for more than half a year, and a lot of things happened during that time. It's not something I can explain in a few sentences. I won't lie to you. Let's sit down and talk slowly, okay?"
Lanchi spoke slowly like a bomb disposal expert, trying to calm Talia down.
"..."
Talia's movements were somewhat mechanically stiff.
There were already too many things that she couldn't understand.
Why were Antanas, Sinora, and Pranay, the three great demons, able to trust Lanchi, get along with him, and return together? According to her impression, apart from Antanas, who had a lower aggressiveness, the other two great demons would probably try to eradicate Lanchi the moment they laid eyes on him, leaving no room for negotiation.
Even if they had gained a chance to negotiate, Lanchi's hopes of making them believe him were slim.
Unless... Lanchi took advantage of her identity as a demon princess.
Recalling Lanchi's thoughts from earlier, Talia became more and more frightened.
Was she just sitting at home, while her husband was out there playing games?
"Tara, listen to me. We need to communicate. Rest assured, there's nothing that can't be fixed. Even if you feel that things have gone too far, I won't run away."
Lanchi continued his attempts at soothing her.
He felt that Talia's emotions were gradually returning to stability after the initial shock.
Even with some surprises along the way.
He could still salvage the situation.
He had always been steady, and the word "failure" didn't exist in his dictionary, after all, he was never a comedian.
Just then.
Some indistinct noises came from the restaurant on the floor below, filtering through the floorboards.
"Ah! There's a mouse in the store!"
A young girl's startled scream pierced through the floors, traveling up the stairs and along the corridor to reach Talia's living room.
This was followed by a cat's meow.
"Meow, meow, meow! There aren't any mice here!"
It seemed like Cat Boss had been startled onto a cabinet.
Then, chaos ensued.
"It's a fox!"
In the end, Antanas realized that it was a large fox that had shrunk in size and was scurrying around on the ground, which had startled Great Lover Poet into thinking it was a large black rat.
The ruckus on the ground floor quickly died down.
Just from the sounds, Lanchi could deduce what had happened in the restaurant downstairs.
It was a simple twist of events, not entirely unexpected.
Lanchi's expression froze, his face utterly blank.
If not for the ticking of the clock on Talia's wall, one might have thought time had stopped.
In this moment of Talia's emotional instability, any influence could be extremely terrifying.
And what's more, the Great Lover's alluring voice amplified emotions tenfold!
For a moment, Lanchi couldn't tell if the Great Lover was genuinely afraid of mice or if she was determined to finish him off!
"Tara...?"
He felt stiff all over, his face dripping with sweat as he struggled to force a smile, looking at Talia whose eyes had gone cloudy with circles.
Talia, as if she had lost her soul, groped around on the cabinet for a while, and the first thing she grabbed was a fruit knife.
"Lanchi—!"
Talia pushed Lanchi against the wall, pressing the knife to his neck.
"You... you have to take responsibility for me. If you can't take responsibility, then I..."
Her voice, broken, angry, and helpless, trembled incoherently.
At this moment, Lanchi couldn't analyze the components of her emotions.
He only knew that the Great Lover had ignited a bomb far more terrifying than a nuclear fusion wolf.
"......"
Lanchi couldn't speak for a long time. If he dared to utter half a word of excuse now, Talia might take him down with her.
But if he didn't make excuses and said too much, by the time Talia came to her senses, they might still end up in an explosion.
Now...
He was only half a step away from death!
There was no way he could talk his way out of this like before!
...
On the first floor of Cat Boss's restaurant.
"Hmm?"
Antanas looked up, puzzled.
She felt that Talia's magical fluctuations had been very strong just now.
"What are those two doing up there?"
Sinora asked, perplexed as well.
"......"
Pranay continued to polish the glass cups.
Hyberrian frowned, deep in thought, with her chin propped up.
What was supposed to be a touching reunion turned out to be a mix of Talia's emotions—touching, stunned, and unexpectedly, a bit flushed.
"...... Wait, is Tara very different from the way she usually is in your impression?"
Hyberrian looked up, as if she had just realized something.
"Yes."
Antanas and Sinora nodded.
"Hiss—"
Hyberrian sucked in a breath of cold air.
Oh, my dearest friend, you're so determined to die, and I really can't stop you! Hyberrian hugged her head, finally understanding what was going on.
As everyone knows, the failure rate of magic-powered airships is the lowest, but once they crash, the survival rate is also the lowest!
The worst part was the Great Lover's intentional or unintentional voice, and if it had reached the second floor, the situation in the room might have become unpredictable.
In the first moment, Hyberrian recalled the Tongue-Tied Lover and kept her under control, not letting her out again.
"You three!"
Hyberrian quickly addressed them.
Antanas had indeed sensed the unusual magical fluctuations upstairs and nodded, following Hyberrian towards the staircase.
"What's going on?"
Cat Boss didn't understand why Hyberrian's expression had suddenly changed, and he was curious, so he followed along.
Soon, they all arrived at Talia's room on the second floor.
Listening through the door, the room was calmer than expected, with only the slightly more pronounced breathing of the two, and it seemed that no one had died yet.
"......"
Hyberrian was now very anxious. She held the spare key, unsure if she should force the door open to rescue Lanchi.
But from the previous experience at the Wilford residence, she realized that if she barged in, there might be an even more unpredictable tragedy.
Fortunately, no one else knew about that incident except Lanchi's family.
She finally clutched the key, turned her head, and signaled to the three great demons to be ready to rescue Lanchi at any time.
Unable to determine what was happening in the room, she decided to listen first, and if the situation worsened, they would intervene!
(End of Chapter)
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