The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"I know, so I don't feel very angry because that would be an insult to their resolve."

"I just..." Xitana clenched her fists tightly, "I'm a little sad, just a little sad."

Until this moment, she still believed that those who fought for her died worthy deaths.

Marina, who was controlling all of this and could only watch helplessly as it got out of control, could only remain silent.

She should have felt remorse. Faced with her sister's pure integrity and trust, she should have felt remorse that overwhelmed her heart.

But what confused Marina was...she didn't.

Even from an objective point of view, Marina herself could see that she had done something terrible, but she did not feel any guilt in her heart.

Whether it is for Xitana or for the dead civilians.

She just felt... regretful, regretful that she couldn't do better.

This strangeness began to make Marina feel panic.

But before she felt more panicked, a cold voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Marlena Lancemalos."

In front of the base, the figure of the delicate scholar appeared before Hitana and Marina.

"Can you tell me why the downtown area became like this in less than two days after Anser and I left? Where did you put the alarm I gave you?"

"Shorty, don't be so mean to Lina right away. What can she do if something like this happens in the lower city? She's been captured!"

Hitana was not surprised by Ming Furo's appearance, and she firmly protected Marina who was being questioned.

"...Also, what is an alarm?" she asked casually.

Ming Fuluo slowly shifted her gaze to Xitana, and her voice became even colder: "I haven't talked about you yet, stupid dog. After knowing that you were going to duel with Anser, did you just ignore everything? You keep saying that you want to protect the residents of the lower city, is this what you mean by protection?"

"I'm not good at those things anyway, isn't it normal to leave it all to Lina? Do you want to see me messing around and making a mess of the downtown area?"

Xitana snorted: "Then you will have another reason to criticize me, right?"

"..."

After hearing what Xitana said, Ming Furo was visibly stunned. She caught the most crucial part of Xitana's words.

“You just said.” The woman narrowed her eyes slowly, “You left everything to Marina to handle.”

"Yes, what else?"

"……Ah."

Ming Fuluo sneered: "Then do you know that after you handed all the matters over to her, the entire downtown area became even more chaotic?"

Xitana was also stunned, but after she came to her senses, her first reaction was not to ask Marina, but to angrily question Ming Fuluo: "What do you mean! Are you trying to say that Marina turned the downtown area into this?"

"I didn't say anything." Ming Fuluo pointed to the bloodstains at the entrance of the station expressionlessly, "I've said enough about the facts."

Before Sitana could get angry, she cast her cold and sharp gaze at Marina.

"You have to give us an explanation, Marina. Give it to me, to your sister, and...Ansher."

Hydra's figure finally appeared at this moment. When Xitana saw him, she immediately grabbed Anther's hand angrily and aggrievedly: "Anther! The dwarf can say whatever he wants to me! But I don't allow her to say that to Lina! How can she do this! I don't know how much Lina has done here. She hardly sleeps every day. How can she... Lina, don't be afraid, Anther and I will help you, Lina, Lin..."

Looking at her sister who lowered her head slightly and remained silent, Shitana had already realized something was wrong.

"You, say something, Lina."

Xitana let go of Anser's hand and shook Marina's shoulder vigorously: "Don't be afraid of her, you can't let her slander you like this, Lina!"

I failed and got into a lot of trouble for Mr. Anser.

According to the results that had been considered before - if it was wrong, it was my own mistake and had nothing to do with Mr. Anser.

We must not let Xitana and Ming Furo realize that Mr. Anser has ever had any idea of ​​controlling the civilians in the lower city, not even the slightest bit.

Fortunately... this mistake still has some value in the end.

As Sitana's questioning became increasingly panicked, Marina remained calm inside. She had already made preparations. From the very beginning of her plan, she had been prepared to fail and take responsibility for her mistakes.

So the girl raised her head and prepared to speak.

"I……"

She met those ocean blue eyes.

Those eyes were telling her——

I don't have a habit of letting others take the blame for my failures.

Chapter 8: Wrong Path, Beginning (K)

"Hey! That's it!"

The huge demon shadow behind Hitana grabbed the last huge piece of debris in the ruins, raised her hand and threw it into the bottom of the deep pit. The crowd surrounding her immediately burst into applause and cheers.

"How amazing! As expected of Lord Fenrir!"

The tall girl listened to the praises and tried hard to restrain her overly proud expression. In order to make herself look calm enough, she coughed lightly, put one hand on her waist, and the terrifying and huge wolf shadow behind her swung its huge claws that could hold an entire adult.

"Alright, alright, stop surrounding me. I'm going to the next place. Everyone go do what you should do!"

There is only one day left before Faust leaves Fenrir.

The invitation that attracted the attention of many extraordinary people in the Western country was about to arrive.

Whether it was Indra, who was able to crush the veteran fourth-tier transcendent, and who looked the most like Faust at the moment, or Fenrir, who seemed to have appeared out of thin air, but could not find anything no matter how hard he tried to dig for information, except that although her brain was not normal, she had extraordinary potential and an unfathomable background... Under the deliberate operation of some people, her reputation was like molten iron in a furnace, becoming more and more blazing.

Some audiences were really looking forward to this rather strange battle, and there were also many voyeurs who were waiting for Faust to appear on stage again.

Hitana, who had been preparing for this big show for a long time, was now running around in the lower city, assisting civilians in rebuilding. She did not have the tension and concentration she had when she was polishing herself all day long.

After greeting the civilians, Hitana was about to go to the next location with her hands in her pockets. However, when she bent her knees slightly and prepared to jump more than ten meters to the upper block, she suddenly glanced at the edge of the street railing.

The girl looked left and right, sniffed, and after making sure that no one was staring at her, she coughed lightly and walked carelessly to the empty railing.

She pretended to lean on the railing, stretched her head to look at the dark bottom of the mine, and said in a low voice: "You just watch? Why don't you help?"

Ming Fuluo, who was sitting on the railing, frowned slightly: "Go away, don't expose me, and don't cause trouble to Anser."

"Hmph." Xitana snorted and pointed to her nose, "I can smell it."

"I don't think your nose is that useful."

"Ha, so you've been discovered. Can I say that your sneaky skills are not up to par?"

The wolf sneered, arguing with the scholar lady.

"Stupid dog..." Ming Fuluo narrowed her eyes slowly, "Do you need me to help you tuck your tail in before Anser teaches you a lesson tomorrow?"

Xitana turned her head slowly and replied with a fake smile: "I don't mind spanking your butt a little. At least it will be much fuller than it is now."

The two girls who seemed to have been at odds with each other since they met stared at each other's eyes, as if they were born to be incompatible.

This tense standoff lasted for about half a minute. In the end, Ming Fuluo was the first to give in. She snorted coldly, looked away, and said indifferently:

"Until Ansel Faustus's identity is fully established, I can no longer act rashly... The frequent and sudden appearance of alchemical instruments that go beyond the mainstream academic understanding will expose his identity."

Before Xitana could mock her, Ming Furo stretched out her hand, and countless iron-gray particles that were observable to mortals and imperceptible to extraordinary people spread in all directions.

These particles help the residents of the downtown area to work more easily, clean up chaotic streets, broken ruins, and just do some simple lifting, allowing them to get more results with less effort.

"This is all I can do." Ming Furo said softly.

Only then did Xitana realize that Ming Furo had been helping her secretly. On the one hand, she was shocked that she had not noticed it, and on the other hand, she was quite embarrassed by what had just been said. She swallowed the sarcastic words that she was about to say and scratched her head unnaturally.

But after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't bear to back down like this, so he could only say with a little toughness: "Aren't you...only able to use weird little things? Why are you doing it yourself now?"

"Weren't you a fool who did nothing but cause trouble for Anser?" Ming Fuluo glanced at Xitana, "People change, and so do I."

"Grandpa placed all his hopes on the Universal Ether Furnace because he believed that it would be impossible for the extraordinary to offer their strength to mortals."

She looked up at the lower city built inside the mine and murmured, "Anser hopes that I will find my own way. If I start over, no matter what, I will definitely choose all the forces that can play a role."

"As for when we will hit a wall... that's a matter for the future. And I believe that with Anser here, even the most impossible things can be realized."

Xitana was stunned for two seconds, and the last bit of hostility and stubbornness on her face disappeared. She just snorted twice: "Humph, after being taught a lesson by Anser, you... you are also a pretty good guy."

"Don't treat me as one of your kind. I don't have your special obsession with justice."

Ming Fuluo did not respond to Xitana's symbolic words of reconciliation. Her voice remained cold: "What I hope for is for the extraordinary to be used by ordinary people to shatter the solidification of this dead world. I don't have your stubborn pursuit of equality and justice, but I don't refuse to make necessary sacrifices."

Xitana blinked, tilted her head and looked at Ming Fuluo for a while, then chuckled:

"To put it bluntly, we just want everyone to have a better life."

"I told you that you and I have the same essence—"

"Oh, okay, okay, I get it. Anser said that you like to be tough and it makes sense."

Miss Wolf's smiling face is very cute, but in the eyes of some people, it is just asking for a beating.

Ming Fuluo raised her brows: "You——"

"Besides, I don't have any justice, uh...what does justice cleanliness mean? Anyway, it's not that exaggerated."

Xitana turned around and leaned against the railing as well, her tone very casual: "I don't have any particularly great ideas, I just can't stand seeing others being bullied. Saying that it's just to make myself feel better doesn't seem to be a problem."

Her words also surprised Ming Fuluo. In the eyes of the scholar lady, it was absolutely impossible for this stupid dog to say such thought-provoking words.

"That's not something you would say." Ming Fuluo said this subconsciously.

"People always change." Xitana snorted and replied to Ming Fuluo, "Me too."

When discussing these topics, the conflicts between them were resolved silently, not because of something as superficial and fragile as "for Ansel's sake", but because of some deeper recognition.

"Okay, I won't say any more to you. If you keep talking to yourself like this, you'll really get noticed."

Xitana stretched and said energetically: "Then I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the upper block to take a look. That's it."

Ming Fuluo wanted to nod in response, but when she saw the ruins around the street and the crowd throwing corpses into the bottom of the mine, a hint of hesitation flashed in her eyes.

When Hitana was about to jump and go to the upper block, she suddenly spoke. Her tone was no longer cold as usual, but quite serious. It sounded like a rather cautious...discussion?

"Hitana, wait a minute."

Ming Fuluo rarely called Xitana "stupid dog" or "dumb dog". After a slight pause, she said in a deep voice:

"Can you accept Marina's explanation?"

"..."

The cheerful smile on Sitana's face froze.

Once it came to Marina, her unacceptable stubbornness and bad temper immediately took over, and the girl's face was full of displeasure, and even a little angry.

"What else do you want to say?" She asked back, "Anser has accepted Lina's words... and I have already run into that revolutionary soldier, how could there be a problem?"

Marina's explanation for the chaos and riots in the downtown area was... the revolutionary army was at work.

She said that the revolutionary army deliberately disrupted the order of the downtown area for some purpose, and she did not want this to interfere with Hitana's preparations, so she planned to deal with it alone. Although she had tried her best to control the chaos in the downtown area, she had little success.

As for the alarm, they were worried that it would be dismantled immediately by the revolutionary army after being deployed. They had no means to deal with it, and had originally planned to deploy it slowly and in a roundabout way, but they did not expect that a riot would be triggered immediately.

The escape of Bone Knife further confirmed this statement. In Hitana's words, "that guy still has some conscience."

There are many doubts in this statement, such as if they knew that it was the Revolutionary Army who was causing trouble and didn't want to find Acyril, why didn't they ask the Winding Legion to deal with it? Why did the Revolutionary Army dare to make small moves when they knew Acyril was in the lower city? All of these were explained away by Marina with extremely clever reasons.

"I didn't look for the people from the Howling Legion because I didn't want them to control everything. Helping the residents of the Lower City and stabilizing the order in the Lower City is to allow them to be self-reliant, not to make them more dependent on the gifts of the Extraordinary."

"As for the Revolutionary Army... maybe they have hidden deeper strength. The Revolutionary Army that Miss Sitana encountered may have an extraordinary mission."

Although the former has some flaws, it is understandable considering Marina's self-esteem as a mortal. She has made such plans based on the self-will of the residents in the downtown area before. Although the latter is completely unfounded speculation, there is nothing wrong with this statement.

Ming Fuluo didn't believe that the riot was so simple, but Marina's answer was impeccable. The girl who stood quietly and answered the questions gave her a sense of difficulty as to where to start.

It may be a little exaggerated, but Ming Fuluo has only experienced this feeling when she was playing against Anser.

Although the feeling that Marina brought her was very rare and faint, it was incredibly refreshing to have that kind of aura.

Ming Fuluo took a deep breath, made her tone and emotions as rational as possible, and said to Xitana very seriously:

"This riot was planned too much. Look at the surrounding streets. It's impossible for an ordinary fight to damage the buildings like this. Those gang members are hiding a few low-level extraordinary people, and they have low-quality alchemical firearms and blasting tools in their hands."

"Answer me, Xitana, do you think that the civilians in the Lower City, who have long been numb to these things, can not only not be defeated, but also annihilate the enemy completely?"

"…What's impossible?"

After a brief silence, Xitana lowered her head and whispered, "In Red Frost City, the civilians of the entire city dared to threaten Anser."