I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

The owner of this auction house is named Dorothy. Although she runs a black market in the underground world of the floating city and even has other unseen gray businesses under her control, few people know that this underground queen of the floating city is also one of the witches of the floating city.

Dorothy's situation is quite complicated. To sum it up in one sentence, it's like, "Three years after three years, it's been decades! If I keep going undercover like this, I'll become the queen of the underworld... Oh, I already am, never mind."

That's right. She came to the underground world of the floating city to develop because of the previous city lord's order. However, until the previous city lord was overthrown in a coup, she, as an undercover agent, did not achieve the desired effect.

Now, few people know Dorothy's true identity... Perhaps there is a record in Carol's city lord's archives, but at least since the Queen of Time took power, she has not contacted Dorothy.

"I told you long ago, that old geezer has probably forgotten about you."

As an orphan raised by the former city lord, Anne was one of the few who knew Dorothy's identity. She had no special feelings for her foster mother and simply analyzed rationally: "Now you either accept Carol's offer of amnesty or rebel to avenge your benefactor. If you continue with the status quo, something bad will happen sooner or later."

Dorothy understood this perfectly well, but she still couldn't make a decision in a short time. She rolled her eyes, then her eyes darted around, and she leaned closer to Anne's pale face, revealing her alluring features, and asked with a light laugh:

"If I really rebelled, would you help me or Carol?"

Anne answered without hesitation: "Carol."

Dorothy stared wide-eyed at her plastic best friend, her voice trembling with disbelief: "Why?"

“I don’t want to die, so I’ll stand on the side that will win,” Anne said expressionlessly. “Compared to you, Carol… Carol will win.”

"Oh, Carol will definitely win, I really have nothing to say about that."

Dorothy shrugged.

This is also the reason why she hasn't taken any action so far: she doesn't want to pledge allegiance to the new government led by Carol, nor can she defeat the new government led by the Witch of Time.

Because their strength is neither high nor low, they're stuck in that position.

"So, can you tell me your reasons for staging this farce?"

Dorothy waved her hand and pointed outside the private room, where the host was excitedly repeating "10 gold coins," which gave her a bit of a headache.

“In principle, we would never encourage self-selling and self-photographing, as this is suspected of fraudulent transactions and damages our reputation... It's just that we are old acquaintances, and Annie, you gave a very generous commission fee of 1 gold coins, so I reluctantly agreed.”

Clearly, the point of agreement is the 1 gold coins, not their vague friendship.

That's right, the "artificial remains of the ancient magical empire" that Annie just bought is actually a "fake" she made herself. Although the craftsmanship is so realistic that it is indistinguishable from the original, and many details are superior to the original, it is ultimately not a real antique.

"I'm just curious now, what exactly were you trying to achieve by losing 1 gold coins in the process?"

"I'm looking for someone."

Anne smiled slightly. This was the first time Dorothy had seen her smile during their meeting. Even Dorothy, who was well-versed in the underworld, was momentarily stunned by Anne's smile before hearing her continue:

"And thanks to you, I've found it."

"what?"

How was this found? By what means? Can you really find someone just by spending a fortune at an auction? Is that reasonable?

Dorothy, the proprietress, was in a state of confusion, but Anne didn't think much of it because she knew Duke all too well.

The auction tickets that those ignorant playboys had were deliberately leaked by Annie. If Duke gets the auction tickets, he'll most likely come and join the fun.

The first item up for auction was a "artificial body," which would guarantee that there was no body and only a soul. He became interested and focused his attention on the first item in the auction.

Thus, Annie bid, Annie took the stage, and Annie triumphed over all others.

After this process, each box will react to some extent, and from these reactions, you can find out where Duke is.

Every detail of his actions and thought patterns was within Annie's calculations. If Duke knew that Annie was looking for him, he might have been able to use various anti-logical tactics to deal with her, but at this moment, Annie was calculating against him.

She had already locked onto the box where a cute bunny girl was holding up a sign, and then rushed out of her box with her staff in hand.

"Got you."

I don't know why you're hiding from everyone else and going off to the underworld of the floating city alone... but did you think I wouldn't be able to find you that way, Duke? Heh heh heh...

……

Duke suddenly shivered.

Even though the soul cannot feel cold, he still felt a chill.

He had felt this chill many times before, and each time it was related to the same person—Anne.

Although she saved his life, Duke still doesn't understand many of her thought processes... At least he has no clue why she would fall in love with him and even become his yandere.

Duke couldn't understand Anne and her actions, but even as the auction continued, the chill that lingered in his heart remained.

He suddenly realized a problem:

What if this auction was a trap set by Anne, designed to catch someone willing to take the bait?

Immediately afterwards, he saw Annie striding towards their private room.

"Damn, we've been tricked!"

Duke immediately turned around and shouted to Cecil and Zun, who were still confused about the situation, "We should run away!"

"Huh? Why?"

Guangbao didn't understand... but his body was much more obedient than his brain. He immediately grabbed Zun and quickly left with Duke.

Hiatus for a period of time

I've been taking care of my mother, who is undergoing chemotherapy, at the hospital for the past month, and this morning she suddenly passed away from heart failure.

Only 52 years old.

Why the hell?

I'm not in the mood to write anything right now, I have to take care of the funeral arrangements. I'll update again in a while.

I'll come back. Writing something can help distract me, but not now.

So be it.

New Year's celebration!

Happy New Year everyone!

Let me briefly explain the arrangements below.

My mother's funeral was held before the new year, and my mood has calmed down a bit. Life should get back on track, and I do need to find something to do to distract myself, so I'm going to start updating again.

The initial plan is to start from the third year of junior high school, after my mother's seventh day memorial service.

Don't worry, I will return like lightning.

Chapter 189 The Second Choice of the Dead

Although he didn't know why Annie was there, Duke felt a chill run down his spine. Only one thought occupied his mind:

"Damn, we've been tricked!"

Duke wasn't sure when they fell into Annie's trap, but once they stepped into the auction house, they were definitely already under her spell, and she probably already knew which box they were in.

"We should run away!"

"Huh? Why?"

"No time to explain, get going."

And so, the two men and the dragon hurriedly left the private room under the strange gaze of the bunny girl.

Duke wasn't afraid of or disgusted by Annie. Although her yandere behavior and other outrageous actions were somewhat irritating, his opinion of her had changed after she saved him once—his values ​​made it impossible for him to harbor hostility towards his savior.

However, he can't meet with Annie right now.

As a researcher in the floating city, Annie has a very strong official background. Let alone cooperating with her, even just exchanging a few words with her face to face could trigger the rampage of Talia's soul fragments.

Among Duke's friends (girlfriends and ex-girlfriends), Amber has a close working relationship with the floating city authorities and is one of the few spatial magic masters in the entire floating city. She is responsible for many of the floating city authorities' related affairs; Annie is a researcher with an official background and receives research funding from the authorities; Natasha's exclusive spell "Gate of Truth" has extremely high research value and is a "test material" that the authorities attach great importance to. She is always accompanied by a near-legendary level bodyguard (Geyue); Carol goes without saying, she herself is the representative of the floating city authorities.

Meanwhile, a certain ex-girlfriend witch who has not yet appeared has a close relationship with the official team of the floating city, and according to Duke, she is not currently on the floating city.

In conclusion, although Cecil and Carol have a good personal relationship, she is the only one who does not have a clear cooperative relationship with the official authorities. Her job is to leave the floating city to become a monster hunter on Azure Star so that Duke can safely act with her.

With perfect timing, location, and people all in place, this volume is definitely Miss Radiant Witch's show. The only question now is... whether Radiant can seize the opportunity.

Judging from her current dazed state, it seems unlikely that she will make it.

Urged on by Duke and leading by example, the two men and the dragon left the private room as quickly as possible and fled the auction site. However, being on Dorothy's territory, they could not escape the eyes of the underground queen of the floating city. Every servant they overlooked would report the information to their superiors, which would then be passed down through the layers to Dorothy and then to Annie.

After leaving the auction, Duke hid in Cecil's arms, while the baby dragon was also held in Guangbao's arms. The masked Radiant Witch ran away quickly, attracting curious glances from ordinary passersby, let alone the sentries who were specially assigned to her.

The instant Cecil left the auction house, four or five bunny girls chased after him and disappeared. They were all professional intelligence agents trained by Dorothy; Duke and Cecil were completely unaware that they were being followed.

The Bunny Girl agents quickly relayed Cecil's whereabouts back, and Annie only needed to follow the intelligence to find him. But at this moment, the agents' abilities were too great, causing some minor trouble—in addition to Cecil's location, another piece of intelligence was delivered to Annie.

Intelligence indicates that... Amber has appeared nearby.

……

Amber and Cecil.

After hearing the intelligence relayed by the bunny girl agent, Annie began to hesitate.

Such a dilemma is truly perplexing.

Cecil disappeared without a word and then suddenly appeared in the underground world of the floating city, a place she had never been before. There was definitely something wrong with this. Based on her personality and interpersonal relationships, Annie could almost conclude that the reason for her strange behavior was the missing soul of Duke.

But then another problem arises: this doesn't mean Duke was actually by her side at that moment.

Amber's sudden appearance in the underground world also seems suspicious. What if Duke wasn't with Cecil but with Amber? After all, Amber is Duke's official girlfriend, and their relationship seems very good. His abandoning Amber to elope with Cecil is a very difficult behavior to understand—unless there is some special reason, Annie can't think of any reason why Duke would do this.

It's also possible that Duke is with Amber, and Amber, who inherited the title of Space Witch, is a more useful tool in Annie's eyes than Cecil. Duke obviously thinks so too, otherwise he wouldn't have only brought Amber and not Cecil when he was trying to win over Sleeping Beauty.

If we only consider Amber and Cecil as individuals, the answer becomes obvious.

"Keep following Cecil, don't lose him."

Anne gave these instructions to the bunny girl agent who came to report on her work, and then resolutely made up her mind to pursue Amber, because in her opinion, only Amber was qualified to be her rival in love, and others like Guangbao were not worthy of competing with her at all.

"Then let's go find amber."

……

"It seems no one is chasing us?" Cecil gradually stopped walking. She deliberately looked back to observe, but did not find the hidden bunny girl agents. She scratched her head and asked Duke, who was hiding beside her, "Should we still run?"

"Escape," Duke said decisively. Although he hadn't spotted the bunny girl agents, he was certain someone was secretly pursuing them. "We still have to..."