The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"Well..."

Anser smiled gently: "Maybe he just wants Xi'er to have another friend."

I will also feed you the first sip of sweet spring water in this pasture.

*

"Anyway, these are all Hydra said."

Not long after the meeting in the imperial capital, an emergency meeting was also held in a very secret place somewhere in the north.

"In other words... he is planning to take action against the North?" A burly man on the left side of the round table asked in a low voice.

"Not necessarily." The mature female voice whispered, "He seems to want to leave the interests of the North to other nobles and extraordinary people. He has no intention of establishing a unified army, and has no inclination to do it himself."

"Let those profit-seeking hyenas fight and consume each other in the process of conquering the north..."

Someone laughed inexplicably: "As expected of the coordinator we chose a long time ago, even though he has the power to dominate the overall situation, he is still so meticulous and cautious in the small details."

"Compared to the Northland... don't you think there is something more worthy of our attention?"

Someone tapped the table gently, and an old voice rang out: "His attitude toward Ivora."

"Hydra's attitude towards Feast of Flames, the Regent's attitude towards the Crown Prince... Is there anything wrong with his reaction?" asked the thin man.

"...No." The mature female voice seemed to have realized something, and her tone gradually became a little shocked. "Hydra shouldn't have cared about her so much."

"That's right." The old voice just now said slowly, "Hydra's speech is fundamentally to make those maggots have confidence in him, but if Ivora can only be crushed by him, why does he need the confidence of those maggots?"

"The answer is simple... In fact, he didn't have the confidence to fight Ivora, otherwise he wouldn't just blow up Antichego and the throne, but would directly hang Ivora in the square and humiliate him."

The other meaning implied in these words is self-evident.

The revolutionary army's victory in the north is unstoppable, and what they have to consider next is the affairs of the entire empire.

The demise of all the grand dukes was the best thing for them, second only to the death of the emperor. But the problem was that although the grand dukes were dead, they had to face a more difficult regent.

Moreover, this regent...will not necessarily treat them as toys like the emperor would and allow them to develop as they please.

"Leng Zhu...what do you mean?" The burly man who spoke first did not hide his anger at all, "You want us to find Ivora to fight Hydra!"

Leng Zhu's old voice was filled with sneer: "If you have other ways to fight against the Deus Ex Machina, you can mention it now."

"...It's really inappropriate to unite with Ivora." The mature female voice was also a little hesitant. "If this is how we fight Hydra, then I would rather choose to cooperate with Hydra. At least he does want to change the empire."

"Shit, you reformists haven't given up on that idea yet!"

The burly man roared, "Hydra is a monster! He has already exposed his ambition and nature. You still hope to unite with that guy to change the empire? The only way to change this rotten world is to destroy it and start over again!"

Afterwards, the meeting evolved from a discussion of important matters to factional attacks, with some people becoming indignant and others watching from the sidelines.

The successive victories during this period seemed to have gone to their heads, causing them to forget one very important thing.

That is, the reason why they were able to win, or in other words, the North was able to maintain this ridiculous "independence" -

It’s all because of... the tacit consent of His Royal Highness the Regent.

And this tacit consent had a price tag from the very beginning.

When the war in the North begins again, the devil will take his reward.

Xin asked Anser what he wanted, and the answer was of course very simple - the devil naturally only wanted her as a saint.

But what he wanted was not a saint who believed in God, but a lost lamb who left the heaven built by God and came to the paradise he built... a lamb.

If it were Hitana, a girl who was easily irritable and extremely difficult to train, Anser would only need to use the Red Frost Territory as a cage to tame her.

As for Xin, a believer who is far away from the world and full of divinity...

The entire empire was the pasture that Anser created to lead this lost lamb to paradise.

Chapter 6: Injustice (K)

The saint lady, who didn't care about the so-called deception, played the role of "kind saint" without hesitation after getting Ansher's promise, and acted as if she had the same aspirations as Hitana.

So as Xitana's investigation deepened, Xin's relationship with her became better and better.

Because death is a very common thing in today's imperial capital.

"That's strange..." Xitana was a little confused, "Why do things keep happening these days?"

While investigating along the line of the Skyfrost Tower, Xitana made two major discoveries: first, there were many extraordinary people in the imperial capital, all of whom had close ties with the academy that she hated so much; second, something seemed to be happening in the imperial capital during this period... an inexplicable fight.

Both situations were related to her investigation mission. The former was needless to say, and the latter, as the rioters who infiltrated the imperial capital as Anser said, seemed to be taking advantage of this opportunity to fish in troubled waters. But it didn't matter. After this period of hard work, she was about to catch the mastermind.

According to the inference of the genius girl Hitana, the mastermind behind this is most likely the Skyfrost Tower!

As long as you find me evidence... Humph! I will run back to the Northland and break the old principal's walking stick!

"Miss Wild Wolf, do you really want to finish this mission quickly?" Xin asked suddenly.

"...Hmm? Of course, these guys are slowing down my training progress."

Xitana curled her lips: "But it doesn't matter, I'm about to find someone anyway."

The difficulty of this mission for Hitana lies in the sudden disappearance of the aura. Her intuition and the King of Wind cannot find the aura that can spread from the crime scene, otherwise she would have caught the criminal within a day.

But fortunately, with the Sky Frost Tower as a clue, and the slight help provided by the Supervisory Bureau, she found several people one after another and quickly connected the matters together.

Among them, Xin provided great help.

Miss Wolf put her arm around Xin's shoulders and rubbed her cheek against his with a smile: "If it weren't for Xin's help, I wouldn't have been able to catch them so quickly. Thank you!"

"It's just... a piece of cake." Xin responded softly.

After Shitana let go, she subconsciously touched her face. The remaining softness and warmth were still a little strange to the Saint Lady.

She doesn't get close to people, and even when she is performing salvation or judgment, she rarely has physical contact with others. Apart from Anser, the enthusiastic Sitana is the person who has the most frequent physical contact with her.

This is a good thing for Xin. After all, the closer Xitana is to her, the simpler and more direct way she can use to solve Xitana's sins.

Is this... a good thing?

Xin looked at Xitana's profile and couldn't help but ponder in his heart.

She did not feel any guilt about her deception, but was just thinking about what was natural for her from the perspective of her duties as a saint.

[If Miss Wild Wolf knew that I became her friend only to redeem her, would she never want to see me again when she is entangled in such a fierce sin of tyranny?]

She felt that her friendship with Hitana was developing too quickly, so quickly that she felt that if she proposed redemption under the pretext of being friends, Hitana would become suspicious.

Shouldn't a relationship like friendship take a long time, go through a lot of things, and accumulate a lot of emotions to build?

Why would Miss Wolf treat me as her friend so easily?

Is it...

Miss Xin was shocked.

Could it be that Miss Wolf is testing me?

Although Mr. Devil said that Miss Wild Wolf treated me as a friend, he is Mr. Devil after all, so it is not surprising that he would lie to me...

Our Miss Wolf certainly has no idea what strange things her good friend is thinking. She just wants to make great achievements and complete the task given to her by Anser beautifully.

Through the information provided by the Supervisory Bureau, she followed the line of the Sky Frost Tower and found several extraordinary people who graduated from there more than ten years ago and settled in the imperial capital. But just finding people is of course useless. With Shitana's genius-level reasoning ability, there is no possibility of obtaining information except through violent coercion.

At this time, Xin's miraculous power that reached the soul solved many unnecessary troubles.

Whenever the moon wrapped in thorns rises in the eyes of these extraordinary people, they will bow down at Xin's feet and tell Xitana everything they know.

At first, Hitana was frightened by this strange power, but every time she asked, Xin would not do anything more, and they all returned to normal, so naturally she didn't take it seriously.

According to the information and clues provided by these people, many of these students from the Skyfrost Tower kept in touch after graduation, forming small groups scattered throughout the empire.

Most of the time, almost no one would remember the identity of "Graduate of the Sky Frost Tower", and they themselves never mentioned it. But any opportunity that could generate an exchange of interests, they would communicate secretly with this identity and help each other.

Because of this characteristic, everyone is often only responsible for a part of the matter and does not ask anything, so Xitana has not yet found out who the murderer and the mastermind behind the scenes are. However, based on the information provided by the previous person, Xitana has locked on a new target, and she is sure that she is very close to the truth.

The next target is a seasoned warrior who graduated from the Skyfrost Tower almost thirty years ago. He has been engaged in guard work in the imperial capital for more than twenty years and is very famous. Hitana even went to find people from the Supervisory Bureau, but they didn't know that this warrior had such an identity - this clearly showed that there was something wrong.

Xitana stood on tiptoe and looked at the single-family villa in the distance for a while, then turned to Xin and said, "I heard that guy is very powerful. Xin, can you handle him?"

She looked at the prosperous scene on the street and stretched her body: "The Imperial City has become like this, all thanks to Anser. I don't want to destroy this place because of a fight."

Although Xin had come out of the wonderful brainstorming session, he was still a little absent-minded. After responding, he began to think about what he should do next.

Mr. Devil said that if I was a good friend of Miss Wolf, she would give me the right to dispose of souls.

But at that time, I always felt that Mr. Devil had other ideas... Was he lying to me?

Thinking from the perspective of ordinary people, even if they are friends, it is impossible to give away your soul at will.

During this period, Xin was learning to look at things from a normal person's perspective. After all, only in this way could he become Xitana's friend more conveniently.

This was not a difficult thing for her, or in fact she had always known what the normal person's perspective was like, but because it was meaningless, she never chose to deal with things from this perspective and method.

And because of Anther's strange arrangement, she had to use this method to get along with Hitana.

After all, no one would like a strange saint who only pursues judgment and salvation, and Xin never needs others to like her, but now... she has to make Xitana feel good about her before she can be friends with her.

friend……

The Saint Lady sighed in her heart with some sorrow.

If I had had friends before, would I know now how to better deceive Miss Wolf and trick her into being willing to let me redeem her?

*

Sitana and Xin came to visit casually and left after five minutes.

As soon as Xin entered the room, she used her ability on the warrior, who, like everyone before him, wanted to tell her the smallest thing he had done thirty years ago.

"Great! I knew it was the Skyfrost Tower!"

Xitana waved her fist excitedly: "As long as we find the mastermind behind this, the mission will be accomplished!"

According to the warrior, he received a direct request from a big shot, requiring him to kill a designated target in the imperial capital and collect information about Hydra's movements and intelligence. It doesn't need to be too secretive, as long as it is public.

And this "big shot" also graduated from the Sky Frost Tower. We were able to contact him through this relationship. If we trace back further...it is obvious that there can be no other existence except the Sky Frost Tower.

Although she didn't know what the Sky Frost Tower was trying to do in the imperial capital, it didn't matter. It was not something she needed to consider. The mission was almost completed anyway, and it would be better to leave the rest to professionals... As for her, it would be better for her to just beat people up on the front battlefield.

Thinking about being able to successfully complete Anser's mission and get rid of this troublesome trouble, Hitana was in an extremely happy mood. She looked at Xin, who was in a daze beside her, not knowing what she was thinking, and gave her a big hug.

"Thank you so much, Xin!"

When Xitana thought about how much trouble she would have to deal with without Xin's help, she said with gratitude and sincerity: "If it weren't for you, I don't know how long I would have been busy alone."

"Miss Wild Wolf has thanked me many times."

Xin whispered softly, "I told you, it's just a piece of cake."

"It's just a small favor, but I want to thank you for it." Xitana let go of Miss Saint and put her hands on her hips. "People who don't repay a favor will be punished! You helped me, and if I don't even say thank you, wouldn't that make me a jerk?"

She patted her chest confidently as she said this: "And I won't just say thank you. Is there anything I can help you with? Tell me now, and I will definitely do my best to help you!"

Miss Xin had an idea. If she asked Miss Wild Wolf to redeem her now, would she agree?

"I think……"

She pursed her pink lips, stared at the bright and pure smile, and thought of what Mr. Devil had said to her.

[Xi'er has few friends]

Miss Wolf has few friends...so she will cherish every friend around her more.

"I guess... we're friends, right?"

As Xin said this, he saw a dazed look on Hitana's face.

"Of course! Aren't we friends already?"

Then, she heard Xitana's happy response and saw an even more pure and beautiful smile, that kind of innocence that could not be doubted at all... made Xin a little dazed.

It turned out that Miss Wolf was not testing me, but really regarded me as a friend, she thought so.

But Xin still didn't understand. Even if he was just trying to please the other person, could a friendship like this be established so quickly? A friendship that was established so quickly... wouldn't it be very fragile?

She thought for a moment, then asked a very abstract question.

"If I ask Miss Wolf to die, will Miss Wolf die?"

"..."

Hitana, who was originally very happy, couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard this question. If she didn't know that there was something wrong with her new friend, she would have lost her temper long ago.