Quadruple split.

Chapter 2865 Very Casual
Soon, after exchanging a few polite pleasantries, Cole took his leave.

In the empty space between the crimson moons, only Leisa Caeves, clutching the Scarlet Diva, remained, along with the overly flamboyant blood-red full moon above her head.

"You heartless bastard..."

The countess bit her lower lip, revealing a charmingly naive side that no one else ever had the chance to see. She gritted her teeth and tightened her grip on the increasingly restless, twisted spear in her hand, scolding, "Behave yourself!"

"Oh dear, oh dear~"

In the next instant, a figure that did not exist in the present world but appeared as if branded in the center of Leisa's retina grinned and mischievously muttered in her mind: "Just because someone is too busy to pay attention to you, you're going to take it out on the weapon that's been helping you stabilize your physical condition? You're such a grown-up, why do you always act like you're less mature than me?"

Leisa glared at the half-dragon girl in front of her, who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, with long pinkish-purple hair and sapphire blue eyes, and said irritably, "Why should I be more mature than you, who has been dead for who knows how many years?"

"Because I'm only fourteen years old!"

Wearing a red and black, intricately designed tiered skirt, Eliri Bathory swayed her beautiful, slender, dark red dragon tail and said in a cheerful tone, "No matter how old I was before I died, I am now fourteen years old, a super young half-dragon beauty."

Given that Eliri Bathory only retained her memories when she 'committed suicide' and reset the existence and consciousness within each drop of source blood to her state at age fourteen, she is indeed not a Bloodseeker in a sense now, and is indeed only fourteen years old, so this statement is not entirely unfounded.

This is easy to understand. After all, for Eliri Bathory, who is only a real fourteen-year-old at this moment, apart from her power and memories, although she still remembers the events of the 'future' clearly, the form is not 'personal experience', but rather like a database that can be accessed at any time. Although she can browse it to her heart's content, she has no sense of reality at all.

"If your purpose in coming out this time is simply to emphasize that you are a 'beautiful 14-and-a-half-year-old dragon girl'..."

Leisa glanced at Illyri, who was striking various poses, and said expressionlessly, "I've learned my lesson well. You can disappear now."

Eliza pouted and said angrily, "You're so boring. Although I'm just an innocent and beautiful fourteen-year-old girl, I'm still a famous person. If I were an ordinary Bloodseeker, I'm afraid I would pay any price just to see me. Little girl, don't take your good fortune for granted."

"Yes, yes, I am honored."

Having already begun to subdue the increasingly restless [Crimson Diva] with both hands, and with sweat starting to bead on her forehead, Leisa said absentmindedly, "Are you satisfied now? If you are, then disappear."

Elizabeth roared, "You're being completely unreasonable!"

I'm very busy!

Crimson lines were gradually appearing on her shoulders, collarbone, and the back of her hands. Her eyes were also glowing with a bewitching red light. She almost bit her lip until it bled. She said irritably, "If I can't control this damn gun of yours, I'm afraid I won't last a minute before it backfires and kills me. At that time, the drop of your source blood residing in my body might also be swallowed up. If you don't want to die on your own weapon, don't bother me!"

Elizabeth chuckled and said cheerfully, "Since you know that's 'my weapon,' can't you guess that it actually can't hurt me?"

"so what?"

Leisa sneered and asked, "Are you planning to take my place after it kills me?"

"No, no, no. If I was open to this before, after getting to know your 'bad guy' that you've been thinking about day and night, I no longer have that kind of idea at all."

Elizabeth shrugged and spread her hands, saying, "I have absolutely no confidence that I can hide it from him after replacing you. Rather than having a more adorable, stronger, and more knowledgeable lover, he would probably choose to play me to death without hesitation. I'm still young and can't bear that kind of suffering."

Leisa choked for a moment, and after a while, she blushed slightly and mumbled softly, "Mmm..."

"Hey! Why are you blushing now, girl!"

Elizabeth jumped up and down, puffing out her cheeks, and said angrily, "Just because he'll avenge you after I kill you, huh?! Can't you be a little more dignified?!"

"No."

Leisa smiled and cheerfully retorted, "Since he can arrange everything for me, why should I strive for anything?"

"Okay, I get it now."

Elizabeth crossed her arms and said calmly, "To put it simply, you're quite satisfied with your current pet status, and you enjoy being turned into a little bat kept in a cage by him, right?"

Leisa gave a soft snort and did not answer Illyri's question, whether she didn't care or she herself hadn't figured it out.

However, this beautiful half-dragon girl, with limited life experience but a wealth of knowledge, did not let her off the hook. Instead, she continued to cross her arms and said leisurely, "I must say, you are indeed a qualified vase, but apart from being a vase, at least in my opinion, your usefulness is very limited. You can't even compare to that expressionless, big-breasted maid, what's her name... oh right, Liz. We are all Bloodseekers, and that person would rather take her out on errands than spend a little more time with you."

“Liz is now a member of the Caworth family, and she’s the bodyguard that Tanmo asked me to take over.”

Leisa's gaze turned cold, and she said in a deep voice, "As for me, my staying in the City of Freedom is the greatest help I can give him. He needs the Cavos family now, and he needs me too... He needs me very much."

"As it stands, perhaps, especially now that you've just become some kind of neighborhood representative, they do need such a facade to fill the void. I've spent a long time in the City of Freedom and know very well how fun this godforsaken place is. But the question is... how much longer can you, or the Caworth family, remain important to them?"

As Elizabeth examined her pale pink nail polish, she casually remarked, "Based on my experience with the future, even right now, the [Clown Card]'s hidden influence in the City of Freedom is almost on par with the Caworth family. Especially since you willingly offered your family to them as puppets, it probably won't be long before they can easily create a second, third, or even tenth equally effective puppets using their resources. You might as well think about it: aside from the fact that your good looks give them all sorts of advantages, do you really have an advantage over that pig-headed guy from Cammy Street?"

Leisa: "...Don't compare me to that filthy, pig-headed cook."

"Yes, yes, of course you smell wonderful and look beautiful. That pig-headed guy is definitely not worthy of being compared to you."

Elizabeth shrugged and chuckled mischievously, “But the problem is, even if we disregard those who can’t compare to you, there are plenty of people who can. Take that little girl named Lehman, for example. She’s just as good-looking as you, and she has a family of mages with an incredibly long history that even a hundred Caeves families combined couldn’t match. Plus, she’s much smarter than you. So, where do you think you have an advantage over her?”

Leisa gripped the seemingly more docile [Crimson Diva] tightly in her hand and said irritably, "I'm not living to please Tanmo."

"But you can't deny that you really hope he'll put in more effort to please you."

Eliza stuck out her tongue and laughed, "But now it seems... even though he's willing to spend time with you and comfort you every time he comes back, what about next time? And the time after that? And the time after that?"

"..."

Leisa remained silent.

“I remember, Evie Lehman’s hand was… the 10 of Clubs, right?”

Eliza blinked and laughed, "And you? You're a Queen of Diamonds, two levels higher than her. You're a super high-level character, second only to King and Ace in usefulness, and possibly even more useful than Ace. But right now, besides being a decorative figure and a landlord, what else can you do that's worth mentioning? My dear Leisa?"

"..."

Leisa remained silent, and the twisted, blood-red spear in her hand had fallen silent at some point. "I admit that not long ago, you and your family were very important to the [Clown Card], and you certainly deserved the Queen of Diamonds card back then. But you should also know very well that the organization you were affiliated with was never some unambitious charity or public welfare organization."

Eliza gazed into Leisa's crimson eyes and said softly, "Look at its unsettlingly inflated influence. Look at what the other person in charge besides Tanmo has done since he came. You don't really think that even if you continue to be so relaxed, you can still receive enough respect, care, and pampering as before, do you?"

"You went to such lengths to provoke me..."

Leisa slowly raised the [Crimson Diva] in her hand, calmly met Illy's gaze, and said softly, "You wouldn't have just come to tell me this little trick to calm it down, would you?"

"Oh."

Eliza didn't answer Leisa's question. Instead, she walked slowly to Leisa, placed her small hand (which didn't actually exist in reality) on Leisa's shoulder, and said with a smile, "I just think the [Clown Card] is very useful, and at the same time, I don't want you, who is forced to be bound to me, to be completely marginalized, so I just kindly reminded you a few things."

bah—

With a clench of her right hand, Leisa crushed the [Crimson Diva] into countless sharp fragments. In the next second, she made these fragments reassemble behind her, transforming into a crescent moon that was far less flamboyant than the blood-red full moon above her head, but deep, cold, and sharp. She said coldly, "Why do you think I'm bothered by this broken gun of yours every day?"

"To become a useful, good woman?"

Elily blinked, then made a face under Leisa's unfriendly gaze, and said with a wicked smile, "I can see that you plan to use my gun to speed up the fusion with my drop of source blood and reach the epic rank sooner."

Leisa didn't miss the disdain in the other person's words. She snorted coldly and asked irritably, "Is that not allowed?"

"Sure, of course!"

Eliza grinned and said cheerfully, "Your thinking is fine. If you continue like this, as long as you don't get backlashed by my gun, you'll soon reach the epic rank, which is difficult for most people to even touch. And then what?"

Leisa paused for a moment: "...And then?"

"Yeah, you don't actually think you can secure your position in the [Clown Card] just because you're an 'Epic Rank' character, do you?"

Eliza rolled her eyes and said irritably, "If you were a low card with a face value of 6 or lower, that would be fine, but as the Queen of Diamonds, I can tell you with certainty that even if I use the most conservative evaluation method to look at the [Jester] card, you, at an epic level, don't deserve this card."

Leisa gritted her teeth, embarrassed and annoyed, and said, "Then what do you want me to do!"

"What to do...tsk tsk, let me think. Judging from the specifications of the Q card, your background is average, your ability is terrible, your scheming is average, your cunning is terrible, your potential is average, your appearance is okay, your brain is average, your execution is okay, and your reliability is... very high for Tan Mo. It's just a pity that the traits of 'reliability' or 'loyalty' are the most useless in the [Clown] card."

Elizabeth spread her hands and said helplessly, "In the end, I'm afraid you can only start with strength."

Leisa: "...But you just belittled me to nothing, as if my efforts to reach the epic level as soon as possible are a joke."

"Because epics just aren't enough."

Elizabeth looked completely innocent.

"What can I do?!"

Leisa glared angrily at Illyri and snapped, "Are you going to ponder the legends?"

Snapped!
But Elizabeth snapped her fingers crisply and exclaimed with a satisfied look, "Ah! That's right!"

Leisa: "...Huh?"

"What? Are you so happy you can't speak because I praised you?"

Elizabeth chuckled and said in a lighthearted tone, "Anyway, since you're so keen on it, then..."

"Wait a minute! What heart do I have?"

"Go and ponder the heart of the legend, just as you said yourself."

"I'm complaining!"

"Then you're absolutely right to complain!"

"...Don't go too far, okay? You just said yourself that my potential is average, right?"

"It's just average. Without my source blood, you wouldn't even be able to touch the threshold of epic. This level of potential is actually conservative to say it's 'average'."

"So why should I bother studying legends!"

"Why can't you study the legends?"

"You said it yourself, without your source blood, I..."

"So do you have my bloodline?"

"Uh……"

"Do you have it?"

"……have?"

"Isn't that settled then?"

"...What's done?"

"Legends? They're pretty easy to come by!"

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Chapter 2856: The End