Reject me, you damn woman.

"Norton, you bastard!"

As soon as Theresa saw Lynn, she felt as if Historia beside her was emitting some kind of aura that she could not understand, and she walked forward step by step.

"Huh~ You didn't retreat in fear after seeing me, but walked towards me instead?"

Lynn sneered, looking at Historia with eyes full of mockery and disdain.

"If I don't come forward, how can I let you lose miserably?!"

Historia gritted her teeth, and now Theresa had to believe that what she said was true.

Because if I didn’t lose several nights in a row, I wouldn’t be so angry and frustrated…

"duel!"

The two sides quickly took their positions and began a card duel.

The two were playing a card battle game called "Arcane King" which was very popular in the Purple Gold Flower Empire. In short, the game was about summoning monster cards to attack each other, and using various magic trap cards to assist in the battle.

According to Historia, the two played a best-of-five format every night, but she basically always ended up losing miserably.

Before she was sure whether it was a trap, Theresa chose to wait and see.

However, what Theresa did not expect was that Historia did not even last three minutes in the first game before being defeated.

It's not that she's a bad player. To be honest, although Historia's operation is indeed clumsy, she has good luck. She is a lucky player, a typical European dog. The cards she needs every round just happen to come, and the card she forgot to use in the previous round just happens to save the situation in this round.

But what can’t be helped is that Lin En on the opposite side is the King of Europe!

Lynn's cards are weird, but they can always restrain Theresa.

For example, when Theresa took great pains to summon the super-high-star ace monster Slime, and was ready to kill it with one blow, Lin En just drew a useless card, a one-star monster Slime with zero attack power. The only weakness of Slime is that it cannot actively attack the Slime because it is controlled by its wife...

In addition, Lynn's operation was much better than Historia's, and within a few minutes, the first game was about to end.

"Damn it! Why are you so lucky?"

Historia pounded the stone table angrily.

"There is no point in talking any more. Go and accept your punishment quickly."

Lynn sneered.

Historia sighed, but did not deny the debt. Instead, he turned to look at Theresa beside him and said angrily:

"Hey, you've seen enough, right? You should give me some ideas for the next round. This is always the case with me. I lose to him for no apparent reason."

"Punishment, why should I accept it?"

Theresa frowned.

"Of course."

Historia said as a matter of course:

"Aren't you my teammate? We are a team, so of course we should rise and fall together. Don't worry, after we win, I will transfer 50 Imperial Silver Coins to you and treat you to a good meal."

"Okay, what's the punishment?"

Theresa hesitated for a moment and decided to make some compromises.

"Nothing much, just put on a miniskirt maid outfit and play the rest of the card game with him."

Historia said indifferently, and looking at Theresa's cold eyes staring at her, her pretty face couldn't help but blush.

"Hey, don't look at me like that. It's you who didn't ask clearly. And don't worry, after you lose the second game you can wear very thin black stockings. After the third game you can wear cat ears. Cat ears, cat ears. As long as I believe that I am a cat, I won't be the one being humiliated, hahaha!"

"Wow, I don't want to be humiliated by him every night, but Xiao Ai asked me to make peace with him, what can I do? In the past two nights, I have felt that the maid costume is not bad. It feels weird..."

Listening to Historia's cries of laughter and tears as she was about to break down, Theresa just sighed deeply.

She suddenly pointed at the card table and said, "Master Lin, although Miss Historia is stupid, it's not a good idea to cheat and win against her, right?"

"Cheating?!"

Historia blinked and immediately realized something was wrong.

Yes, why do I always draw cards that are restrained by him? There must be something wrong!

"You, you cheat every night...you, you"

Historia chose her words carefully:

"This bad bastard!!"

Lin En, who was sitting across from him, frowned immediately: "Don't talk nonsense, when did I cheat?"

"I have found the evidence. Please see here."

Theresa pointed to the card table, and Historia and Lynn looked over there.

Theresa couldn't help but curl her lips.

Sure enough, according to her observation, as long as the other party is accused of cheating in the game, no matter what kind of personality the card player has, he will immediately get angry.

The hook is straight and the bait is salty, but it is always useful.

The next moment, a gunshot rang out in the silent night sky.

"boom!"

"Trash fish!"

Amid Historia's screams, Lynn on the opposite side suddenly shattered and turned into a can-shaped air bag. After the bullet pierced the air bag, a pink mist sprayed on the faces of the two people and was inhaled into the lungs through the nasal cavity. Theresa's consciousness immediately began to become confused.

She immediately wanted to stop breathing, but the pink gas seemed to have life and actively entered her body. It was too late to hold her breath after taking the first breath.

Before she fell into a coma, she heard the voices of a man and a woman talking:

"Student Lin, is this really okay?"

"Of course, no problem. Elena saw it too. She was the one who shot me first, right? How did you say that...?"

“The hook is straight and the bait is salty, but it works.”

"The fish is hooked~"

Chapter 52: Scoring twice

The cool night breeze irritated her skin, and after a slight shudder, Theresa woke up from her coma.

After opening her eyes, the first thing she saw was the endless starry sky, which reminded her of the night sky of the small town that had long been burned down by flames.

The assassin's face cannot be seen. Theresa, who has long developed the habit of keeping her head down, has not looked up for a long time. This feeling makes the girl feel nostalgic and uneasy.

The experience would have been much better if her hands and feet hadn't been tied up like a knot with ropes and she hadn't been woken up.

"Miss Theresa, right?"

"Or should I call you Arcanist Slayer?"

A calm voice sounded, Theresa turned around and saw Lynn still sitting in her seat behind the card table, exactly the same as when she first arrived.

The only difference was that the people sitting opposite the card table were an angry Historia and a chestnut-haired girl. Of course, Theresa knew that girl, Elena, a first-ring arcanist with phantom attributes and the last member of Lin En's study group.

Her presence was too weak. She studied hard, had no bad habits, and was a typical top student. Theresa didn't even put her on the threat list, and she never thought that she would help Lin En deal with her!

"Isn't this an illusion again?"

Theresa revealed a self-deprecating sneer at the corner of her lips.

Lin En also smiled, then suddenly raised her hand and slapped her.

"you?!"

Theresa's eyes widened slightly in shock.

"I think this can explain your problem and our current situation better than words can."

Lynn said calmly, his eyes fixed coldly on the girl in front of him.

"Your behavior is always unexpected."

Theresa's words had a hidden meaning.

In fact, she had long been prepared that this card game was a trap, and she thought she understood the true purpose of the trap - the humiliation brought by changing into a maid outfit was small, and it would remove all the weapons she had hidden, so Theresa acted without hesitation. However, what she did not expect was that even her sudden attack was part of the other party's plan.

There is no doubt that his previous love of playing cards was all pretend. From the beginning of the declaration of war, Lin En had already begun to make plans against him.

Her eyes finally stopped at Historia, who was standing across the card table. Theresa couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, I lost. I didn't expect that the princess's acting skills were so outstanding. From her acting skills and intuition, there were no flaws. Most importantly, she was willing to risk her life for you. I didn't lose unfairly this time."

"Perhaps you have some personal charm that I haven't discovered yet."

Hearing this, Historia's face suddenly turned red, and she stared at Lin En fiercely. Elena lowered her head, holding her skirt tightly with both hands, as if she was trying to hold back her laughter. Lin En also turned his head slightly away:

"Of course, Her Highness Historia is my best ally. Her wisdom is as trustworthy as her personality."

Historia then snorted and said nothing more.

Theresa sighed and asked:

"What are you going to do with me? Let me make it clear in advance that the Magic Clock Tower and I are not subordinate to each other, but only have a cooperative relationship. If you plan to use me to exchange for something with them, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible, because in the eyes of those arcane lunatics, once I fail, I will be worthless."

Elena and Historia also looked at Lin En. Although they both actively or passively participated in the plan to capture the killer lady, Lin En had not yet revealed to them how to deal with her after the success.

After hearing this question, Lin En smiled and looked Theresa up and down. His eyes, which seemed to be cold but admiring, made Theresa curl up her legs subconsciously. He said leisurely:

"Ms. Theresa, do you underestimate your own value?"

"What do you mean? I don't have to lie to you."

Theresa said this in a cold voice, but a bad feeling arose in her heart.

"You misunderstood me,"

Lynn smiled softly.

"Of course I know that you and the Magic Bell Tower are not that close. After all, for you who aims to use the 'Extermination Forbidden Technique', the Magic Bell Tower should regard you as an enemy. Your cooperation is what surprises me."

"you!"

Theresa could not suppress the surprise in her eyes. She couldn't believe that the man in front of her would tell her her biggest secret so casually.

However, Lin En suddenly changed the subject:

"Do you know how much a female arcanist is worth in the hands of slave traders on the black market? Moreover, I don't need to explain the added value of a well-known arcanist killer like Miss Theresa."

"Slaves...black market?"

There was a flash of fear in Theresa's eyes. She was a frequent visitor to many black markets, but slave traders were still the people she least wanted to deal with, because in their eyes, there was no concept of peers, only commodities.

The arcane madman in the Magic Clock Tower might have to dissect a human being in order to study the root arcane, while the slave traders in the black market would blind the eyes of a slave without hesitation at the request of a customer, simply because that would better meet the customer's conditions and earn more money.

For Theresa, an arcane killer with enemies everywhere, if she ends up on the black market, the fate that awaits her is so imaginative that it would make one's stomach cramp.

An ordinary young nobleman would not condescend to come into contact with those low-class guys, but Theresa had a feeling that Lynn Norton would!

After all, he could make the Princess of Fire Rose risk her life for him, so what else could he not do?

"Hey, Norton, this is different from what you and Elena... told us, right?"

At this moment, Historia's dissatisfied voice sounded from the side. Lin En's expression immediately changed and he smiled gently: "I'm kidding, I'm just a student, how could I know such an indecent person?"

He is definitely not joking!

Theresa's heart was pounding.

"Don't worry, Miss Theresa. It's curfew time at school now. I can't leave the school at all, so I will send you to the security department of the academy. You will be secretly sent to the Shadow Knight's prison. I happen to know a few acquaintances there."

Hearing this, Theresa's expression remained unchanged on the surface, but she secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. Although the Shadow Knight's methods were also brutal, fortunately the Magic Clock Tower was able to influence them. Although the two parties were only in a cooperative relationship, if this useful tool of hers could be preserved, the Magic Clock Tower would do its best to rescue her.

"Want us to go with you?"

Elena asked.

"That's not necessary. Xiluwa doesn't want too many people to know about this. I hope you can understand."

Elena nodded. She was not too keen on facing the strong Shadow Knight Captain.

She stood up and took Historia's hand: