Become a powerful shadow master in the new world

"That's right, that's right, this morning, Mr. Sid, you asked me to keep an eye on Xenovia before you came back, but I didn't do it. Just now, Xenovia suddenly woke up and wanted to leave. I wanted to let Qian take care of her for a while longer, but she tied me up. Woo woo woo..."

Sid held Asia, who was sobbing, in his arms, his palm gently caressing Asia's back, with a calm expression on his face.

Well, he did ask Asia to keep an eye on Xenovia before he came back this morning, but that was because he calculated the time and felt that with Xenovia's physical ability, one day would be enough for all the traces and sequelae of his experiments on Xenovia yesterday to disappear.

No matter how you think about it, what he meant should be to ask Asia to take care of the unconscious Xenovia, instead of asking Asia to lock Xenovia in the room as if she had caught a criminal.

Given the difference in strength between the two, it was impossible for him to give such an order. A priest was using his head to hit a warrior. Even if he had taught Asia something yesterday, it was questionable whether Asia could use it in such a short time.

"Wow... Mr. Sid, am I useless? I promised you to keep an eye on Xenovia, but Xenovia tied me up just by touching me..."

No, Asia, you are being too modest. You have turned the living room into such a mess that Xenovia had no choice but to tie you up. How persistent are you?

Holding Asia tightly, ignoring the pressure on Asia's slime being squeezed into two pieces of iron under the heavy weight, Cid turned his gaze to the door of the room where Xenovia used to live.

The scratches scattered all over the floor and the mess in the living room near Xenovia's room told Sid that some heavyweight tug-of-war had taken place here before.

"Asia, I think... you may have misunderstood what I said this morning?"

"Eh?"

Hearing Asia's puzzled voice, Sid put Asia down and told her in detail what had just happened and what he had said this morning.

"…That means I didn't mess up the mission Mr. Sid assigned me, right?"

No, I've talked so much to you, Asia, but why is your mind full of that mission?

"Well, since there are no missions, how can there be mission failures?"

He wanted to complain, but being stared at by Asia's expectant eyes, Sid suppressed his desire to complain and comforted Asia softly.

"Great!"

After receiving Sid's affirmative answer, Asia cheered and hugged Sid tightly.

"I thought……"

The voice gradually became lower, and Asia's heart, which had been on edge since Xenovia left, finally settled down after receiving Cid's answer. The fear that had been suppressed in her heart suddenly burst out.

Listening to Asia's trembling voice, Sid only felt a wetness on his shoulder, and Asia's body was shaking violently while he was hugging her.

"I was kicked out because I didn't complete the task assigned by Mr. Sid, and I wandered around the world alone."

"How is that possible? He fires people for making a mistake. Such a boss should be punished by heaven."

While complaining like this, Sid's movements to comfort Asia slowed down. He suddenly thought of something.

If Shadow Garden and the Cult of Diablo really exist, then as the supreme boss of Shadow Garden, he said that he would lead everyone in Shadow Garden to save the world and fight against the cult, but his behavior of disbanding the organization because of a sudden whim seemed even more excessive. Fortunately, the Cult of Diablo does not exist.

"Oh, it would be great if it really existed."

He smiled at himself and continued to caress Asia.

"Well, I really don't want to disturb your emotional interaction with this nun, Master, but I want to know where my sleeping room is. I'm sleepy."

A voice that was so calm that it barely contained any emotion came from behind, and Asia was startled when she heard it.

Turning around, she saw a beautiful elf with long purple hair staring at her with great interest. Asia, who had just realized that there was a stranger in the room, suddenly turned red and white, and hurriedly wanted to say something to explain what he had just said.

"Relax, Asia. Let me introduce you. Her name is Ita. She's my friend who knows my real identity. She should be staying at my place for a while.

Ita, you just heard Asia’s explanation, this was not done by me.

Well, you two can get acquainted, I'm going to clean up the room first."

Sid was so busy trying to comfort Asia's inexplicable emotional breakdown that he almost forgot that Ita was watching them next to him.

After being reminded, Sid let go of Asia and explained something to ease Asia's fragile and nervous heart. He raised his eyebrows and winked, then picked up his luggage and walked towards the guest room.

"From the Master's tone, you are the other 'Seven Shadows' that the Master has found to replace us, right?

Hello, my name is Ita, and I am one of the Seven Shadows."

With an expression neither happy nor sad on his face, Ita seemed not to be speaking of himself when he said such cruel words, and he tilted his head and stretched out a hand forward to shake hands with Asia.

"Ah, hello, my name is Asia, and what does... Seven Shadows mean?"

Like a frightened rabbit, Asia held Ita's hand and asked nervously, her eyes red from crying just now.

"Well, roughly speaking, it means... one of the seven high-ranking officials of a religious organization called 'Shadow Garden' founded by the Master. Well, I think it can be described this way..."

"Eh?"

Asia was stunned, looking at Ita in shock as he said these words nonchalantly, his mouth gradually opening.

"You, you are one of those friends that Mr. Sid mentioned, who grew up with him and worked hard to develop the organization, but finally quit?"

"If the Master has no air friends around him, it should be me... The idea of ​​quitting is a bit strange. Didn't the Master himself say that we couldn't keep up with him and gave us his magic interface and all the wealth of Shadow Garden as a breakup fee?

And although Shadow Garden is almost disbanded now, in name Shadow Garden is still not disbanded...right?"

Having said that, Ita's face, which had always looked calm and composed, showed a look of doubt for the first time.

She was not sure whether Shadow Garden should be considered disbanded after the Master, the only god of Shadow Garden, personally announced the disbandment because she did not know what to do next. Therefore, Shadow Garden, which kept its pre-disbandment name and continued its pre-disbandment activities step by step, was considered disbanded.

In theory, Shadow Garden has been disbanded, but a group of subordinates are turning a deaf ear and dumb and maintaining the behavior pattern of Shadow Garden in a self-deceptive manner. They should treat the current Shadow Garden as the "Ship of Theseus" that has been dismantled and rebuilt, with only a missing plank, while everything else remains the same.

Or should we think that it was the Shadow Garden as a whole that had sidelined the Shadow, so that the disbandment order issued by the Shadow was not carried out? This is a question worth pondering.

"Well...it doesn't matter. Shadow Garden has not disbanded anyway. As long as Master calls out, Alpha and the others will definitely agree."

"But, but Mr. Sid can't be happy with a companion like this..."

Recalling the day when Sid told him about his past partners, although Sid said very little and looked carefree, Asia saw clearly the sadness and regret in Sid's eyes when he talked about his past.

"Indeed, the Master once said that if something is not suitable, it will not be suitable for the rest of your life. Forcing it will only cause trouble to one of the parties and end up in a bad mood."

Ita strongly agrees with the separation of her Master and Shadow Garden, because in her personal estimation, the lone Shadow is truly the strongest in the world, no doubt about it.

Conversely, Shadow is not the strongest with Shadow Garden holding him back. Maybe the only way to defeat Shadow lies among them?

"Because Mr. Sid is very gentle, he would never do such a thing. You...you are just being scoundrels..."

Now Asia truly understood what it meant to be at a loss. Her predecessors had already used the word "inappropriate" to describe them and Sid, which was enough to prove how much they disliked the organization founded by Mr. Sid.

And it was precisely because Sid saw through this that he took the initiative to propose disbanding and maintain face between the two parties.

This is the best outcome. Sid's friendship with them is still there, and no one was hurt. If the sadness in Mr. Sid's eyes that day didn't exist...

"Don't you have any feelings for Shadow Garden?"

These days at home, Sid would occasionally tell Asia about the past, so she didn't believe it, didn't believe that the Seven Shadows had no feelings for the "Shadow Garden".

"For me... No, I have no feelings for Shadow Garden, especially after the Master left. It would be better to say that the only value of Shadow Garden to me is to provide research funding...

It’s a bit regrettable to say this. The departure of the Master has made it much more difficult for me to get funding. Lord Gamma is more difficult to deal with than Alpha…”

"Scumbag!"

Ita spoke slowly, but that didn't mean he was slow to react. Looking at Asia glaring at him, he recalled the conversation just now and understood why Asia was angry, and sighed.

"I thought that the people who were accepted by the Master would understand me, but in the end, I turned out to be just a mediocre person..."

Chapter 191 Three people, three channels, three different understandings

The atmosphere feels a little off!

After cleaning the room for Ita, Sid felt something was wrong as he walked out of the room.

On the surface, Ita and Asia seem to get along pretty well, but Sid, who is an air entity, can clearly feel the distance between the two.

Ita sat on the sofa with an expressionless face, using the coffee machine to make coffee. There is no need to pay attention to this, this is how Ita is.

On weekdays, she is a stay-at-home girl. Apart from one hour for eating, sleeping and bathing, the remaining twenty-three hours are spent on sleeping for twelve hours and doing experiments for eleven hours.

This extremely irregular schedule requires Ita to often take coffee to stay awake in order to avoid falling asleep during experiments.

Because he was basically immersed in his own world, Ita had no ability to control his facial expressions and looked very indifferent.

But this was just on the surface. In fact, Ita was very warm to people. Every time he went to see Ita, Ita would excitedly take out a bunch of random things for him to eat (although they were very unpalatable), and often invited him to her place for a physical check-up (although it felt like the machine didn't look like it was used for a physical check-up at all).

Asia was also sitting on the other side of the sofa, lowering her head with a shy look on her face, her face red...

This is normal. Asia is very shy. The blush on her face is probably caused by not knowing how she got along with Ita...

So what's wrong?

After a thorough investigation and finding nothing wrong, Sid began to wonder if his air-reading skills were not good enough, leading to the wrong sensation?

"I've cleaned up your room, Ita. Do you want to go and see if it's suitable?"

Unable to figure out what was wrong, Sid was too lazy to think and just walked behind Ita.

"No need, Master, as long as it's not intentional, it can't be wrong...

Ah, okay, Master, do you want a drink?"

"..."

Sid remained silent as he watched Ita pour out two cups of coffee, then take out something like an effervescent tablet and throw it into one of the cups of coffee, shake it and hand it to him.

After looking at Itana's gaze for a moment with dead fish eyes, he sighed, took the coffee and drank it.

"No matter how delicate the fragrance is, it cannot conceal its painful nature. When will you understand this, Ita?"

so bitter!

Sid, who was almost expressionless due to the bitterness, patted Ita's shoulder. The bitterness of this coffee was unprecedented. He could only say that it was fortunate that Ita still had some conscience and threw a piece of candy, otherwise he would really put Ita on the blacklist.

"I'm already trying to fuse them. This time I'm just bringing out the semi-finished product that was closest to success but hasn't been used yet for Master to try. Maybe I've already succeeded, huhu..."

Shouldn't the semi-finished product be given to Delta? Why are you giving it to me?

"Then I'm looking forward to your complete work. Maybe it will be interesting to me."

Although he was complaining about Ita in his heart, Sid actually understood Ita very well. It must be very difficult to develop such an epoch-making product that dissolves far faster than coffee sugar cubes.

From the time when powder could be seen to now when it completely dissolves into water in one second, it can only be said that Ita's scientific research progress has improved visibly. The only drawback is that the quality has seriously declined, and now the sweetness of a piece of candy is basically negligible.

"Well, Master, you will see it. After all, that is the knowledge you taught me."

With a forced smile, Ita looked at Asia, who was looking at her angrily, with interest.

"Master, Asia is the new helper you found to replace us, right?"

"Yeah, what do you think of her?"

"Not very good. In terms of strength... I feel he is not as good as Delta. In terms of wisdom... he is a mediocre person who is driven by emotions."

Ita, are you implying that I deceived you before about the existence of the Diablo Cult in the world and asked you to play the Shadow Power game with me?

"From my personal perspective, under the pressure of the dark side of this world, she will definitely betray you and fail to live up to your expectations, Master. I still don't understand why you chose her, Master?"

You are saying that even if I find a relatively innocent child to trick, he will eventually find out that the Diablo Cult is a scam and choose to leave like you guys, right? ! !

Veins bulged on his forehead and his squinted eyes opened a little. Sid glanced at Ita meaningfully and wanted to say something, but before Sid could open his mouth, someone else had already spoken.

"I'm not as bad as you say. I can't possibly betray Mr. Sid. Don't think of me as the same as you do..."

Facing Sid's surprised gaze, Asia's angry voice suddenly stopped. Only then did she realize what she had just said.

Subconsciously, she wanted to apologize to Ita and act like an ostrich, but looking at Ita's calm eyes that didn't show any ripples because of her words, she clenched her fists on both sides of her body, and the timid instinct that was engraved in Asia's bones was suppressed.

She didn't want to, she didn't want to bow to Ita.

She could tolerate being insulted by others, and she didn't care about being slandered by others, but the only thing she couldn't accept was being insulted by Ita, and being told by Ita that she would betray Mr. Sid like them.

During the time they lived here, although he rarely told her the stories about his and the Seven Shadows' childhood.

It was a very heartwarming story, giving the seven shadows a new life, teaching them survival skills, and taking care of them until they could become independent...

Each of these actions, if taken individually, would be a saintly deed, so Asia couldn't understand why the Seven Kages could use the excuse of "growing up" and "maturity" to leave...

Asia didn't believe that Sid really didn't care about the disbanding of Shadow Garden. Every time Sid mentioned Shadow Garden in front of her, a trace of barely perceptible regret would flash in his eyes.

If it is not really necessary, who would take the initiative to let the friend who grew up with him and formed a team with him leave?

Asia was really angry when she was told by those people who took advantage of other people's kindness and only knew how to take without giving anything in return that she would become like them and even betray her benefactors!

"I will always be by Mr. Sid's side. I will be his helper!"

After saying this in a way that could almost be described as a roar, Asia blushed as she looked at the two people staring at her at the same time.

"Mr. Sid, I'm really sorry. I got carried away and talked too much. It was Mr. Sid who took in the homeless..."

"No, Asia, I'm very happy."

With a gentle smile on his face, Sid interrupted Asia's apology, pushed Ita's shoulder, and raised his eyebrows proudly.