The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"Don't you feel...sad?"

"Sad? Why should I be sad?" Xin seemed even more confused. "Am I suffering from some kind of pain?"

Xitana was speechless and could only remain silent.

And that’s what Xin wanted.

The Saint Lady was also silent, but she was aware of Shitana's emotions at all times.

——Yes, she did swear not to read Sitana's mind, and since she said this in front of Ansher, she would really keep her promise.

But reading minds is reading minds, and sensing emotions is sensing emotions, isn’t it?

I learned this from you, too, Mr. Devil.

An ambiguous truth doesn't mean lying, right?

Xin sensed the emotion she wanted from Sitana's heart - sympathy.

She needed Sitana to sympathize with her, with her lonely friend.

Xin realized that what she did in Donggang was not actually wrong. The only thing she did wrong was one thing - that was making Ming Fuluo hate her.

If she became friends with Ming Furo, nothing would go as Ansel wished. The final winner would not be the revolutionary army, not Lian De, not Ming Furo and Ansel, but her.

So she won't make such a mistake again.

Xin's thinking is strange, but she can understand what is "important" in the eyes of humans.

The desire for food, physical intimacy, spiritual comfort... that is what all living beings seek, and it is also an insatiable desire.

That was a sin, and for her there was no sin that was necessary.

No need to eat, no need to rest, no need to hug, no need to feel the beauty in human cognition, and no need for so-called love.

It doesn't matter, Miss Wolf. I don't need any of these things.

But you always feel that I need you because you are a kind person.

This is just the beginning. One day, Xitana will know everything that happened in Donggang. How Xitana's opinion of her will change at that time will depend on her current performance and foreshadowing.

This time, Ansher was still looking at Xitana and was still by her side, but what did that matter?

Xin will not lose again, because——

"Oh my, I didn't expect I was so late. Is there already someone here?"

A casual and elegant voice sounded at the entrance of the bathtub, and when Shitana heard the voice, her whole body froze, and she even stopped spitting bubbles. Xin's snow-white feet kicking the pool water also froze for a moment imperceptibly.

The person who walked into the bathroom barefoot was like dancing on smooth, wet stone slabs. Her footsteps were as light as feathers brushing against the ground, without making any unseemly "pa chi" sounds. Even though her figure was hazy as she approached from the mist step by step, her steps and demeanor always maintained a pleasing elegance.

"Mind if I'm included?"

The dark witch tucked her hair behind her ears and smiled intoxicatingly.

She clearly wasn't looking at anyone, but both people in the bathtub felt that she was looking at them.

Sitana swam to the other end of the bathtub with a stiff grunt, and the saint sitting by the bathtub slowly raised her head and looked at her.

Pitch black and holy blue intertwined in an instant.

It was as if lightning was flashing.

Chapter 5: Same Kind (K)

There were three women in the bath.

One is comfortable and at ease, one is silent, and one is soaking in water and pretending to be dead.

"Miss Saint, don't you want to take a bath together?"

Marina tilted her head and combed her waist-length, smooth hair with her hands. The black hair soaked by the pool water was like top-quality silk, exuding a luster that would make any woman jealous.

"I don't have any feelings about hot water." Xin looked down at the beige pool water and repeated the answer he had just given to Xitana.

But Marina was not as gentle and considerate as her sister. Instead, she asked in surprise, "Then why are you staying here? Are you going to watch Xitana take a bath?"

"..." With half of her face submerged in the pool water, Hitana shrank a little further, leaving only her two eyes exposed.

Xin finally turned around and looked at Marina. "If you don't want to take a bath, can't you stay here?"

"Will the battlefield allow soldiers who don't want to fight to exist?"

"So the bathhouse and the battlefield are the same, Miss Crow."

In just a few words, even though she had dipped her nose into the pool water, Hitana could smell the strong smell of gunpowder, which made her, who was already a little nervous, even more at a loss.

Lina and Xin...why do they seem to hate each other? And why does Xin seem to have changed?

"I'm just watching out for people I have to watch out for."

After washing her hair, Marina tied it up. Even when she was soaking in the bathtub, she straightened her back and sat down gracefully. Her tone was extremely gentle, but her eyes were full of coldness.

Finally, Shitana couldn't hold it in anymore. She felt that there seemed to be something wrong on both sides. Although Xin's behavior seemed a little strange, wasn't Marina's targeting somewhat unreasonable?

However, she did not stupidly help her friend who had just built a snowman with her and seemed to have been living a miserable life. Instead, she hesitated for a moment and asked:

"Marlena...are there any...problems between you and Xin?"

Even when seeking answers, Sitana was asking Marina.

Marina turned her head to look at Shitana, and her brows softened instantly. However, Shitana, who had been missing and longing for this tenderness, for some reason she turned her head stiffly to the side.

Miss Witch didn't lose her temper at all, she just smiled and said, "Perhaps Miss Saint can answer one or two questions for you, Xitana."

So Xitana could only look at Xin, who, after a brief silence, said in a very calm tone: "I'm just doing what I should do."

"What should be done? Do you mean planning with the Church to start a war that will engulf the empire?"

Marina lay lazily on the edge of the bathtub. The water flowing over her snow-white shoulders and neck made her look so fresh and delicious. It seemed that she was the only one in the whole bathtub who was truly enjoying the bath.

——Because when Hitana heard these words, she couldn't hold it any longer and stood up immediately.

"This war was planned by the church!?"

She first looked at Marina in disbelief, who just curled her hair, squinted her eyes and chuckled without saying a word, then she looked at Xin, but Xin also remained silent.

In the long silence, Marina's slightly hoarse, seductive and mature voice sounded again: "Miss Saint is obviously doing what she should do, why don't you say it out?"

“……” Xin lowered his head slightly, still saying nothing.

"Well, since you don't want to, I will have to tell Sitana."

Marina rested her head on her arm, reached into the shadows with her other hand, and took out the wine and the glass, while casually saying:

"The most important leader of the Revolutionary Army, the only surviving founder of the New World, the old man codenamed Leng Lu, his real identity is the bishop of the Church of the Holy Alliance, Ji, who may have been dormant in the empire for hundreds of years."

"This rebel group has been a pawn of the church since the beginning. They started wars, created rebellions, brought destruction, and brought about killings... No one can tell whether all the turmoil they have created over the past few decades was for their slogans, or whether they were manipulated by the church to do shameful things."

Miss Witch glanced at Xitana's clenched fist, her lips curled up slightly, and then continued to pour herself a glass of wine leisurely: "Not long ago, this Bishop Ji made the revolutionary army exert its last remaining energy. He tried to balance the forces of both sides and let the revolutionary army fight a protracted war in Donggang. As for the purpose of doing so, it is unknown, but they underestimated Mr. Anser, and even more underestimated... Miss Ming Fuluo, who was regarded as a treasure by Mr. Anser."

"And among them, according to Miss Ming Fuluo..."

Marina took a sip of wine, holding up her face which was slightly red from the alcohol and heat, and chuckled, "Miss Saint, as a core member of the church, has made a great contribution."

"That's what she calls...the right thing to do."

The woman shook the wine glass. Even though the walls of the glass were blurred by the mist, her smile reflected in the wine was still as charming and enchanting as ever.

The bathtub became quiet again, with only the sound of Marina's lazy breathing and sipping wine.

And...the low howls of wolves.

At some point, the red-black murderous aura had been spreading and surging around the bathing pool. A group of ferocious and vicious wolves surrounded Xin who was sitting by the bathing pool. They tried hard to restrain the murderous intent that originated from their nature, waiting for the order from the Beast King.

"explain."

Now Hitana has lost all the cheerfulness and patience she had when she was making a snowman with Xin just now.

Her dark red eyes burned with a tyranny that seemed to last forever. Just uttering this word expressionlessly was enough to scare even the most battle-hardened soldiers into trembling with fear.

This is the dangerous aura produced by a predator after biting and swallowing countless prey. It is also the pressure produced by you after you use pure power to make rebels and enemies submit or destroy one after another... It is the pressure of a hegemon.

She just said this one word and nothing else, but if Xin's explanation was even a little bit not to her liking, the result would be self-evident.

Xin slowly met those dark red eyes, and it seemed as if he was looking at the shadow behind Xitana.

That flaming hungry wolf that seemed to want to burn the world to ashes.

If Mingluo's arrogance can be described as "terrible", then to describe Xitana's rage... probably only "crazy".

The madness of tearing apart, crushing, and destroying everything that angers her.

“I don’t know what the bishops are doing.”

Facing this blazing rage, Xin just looked at Xitana and said these words very calmly.

A light laugh came from the bathtub. It was Marina's.

The woman was resting her head on her arms, with a wine glass with some wine still left next to her. No one appreciated the slightly tipsy and seductive smile on her face, but some people could enjoy the sneer and contempt in her dark eyes.

Xitana didn't say anything, but the wolves approaching Xin step by step said it all for her.

——This alone is not enough.

Xin was silent for a while, then said softly: "I didn't cooperate with them. I was just fulfilling my duties and doing what I thought was right."

"for example?"

At this time, it was Marina who helped her, although looking at the playful look on the witch's face, it didn't seem like she was trying to help her.

"Redemption of Mr. Devil." Xin lowered his eyes and whispered, "This is more important to me than anything else."

"Higher than the Church?"

"I am a holy woman of God, not of the church."

"What about Bishen?"

"..."

The saint returned to silence.

The wolves were still approaching her little by little, and the violent fire in their dark red eyes did not seem to be quelled by her answer. Perhaps they felt that it was too perfunctory and wanted Xin to spit out more.

But Xin really has nothing more to say, or rather... if what he has said here has no effect, then there is no point in saying more.

More meaningful things will come later, and she doesn't think it would be so ridiculous for her to be defeated before the war even starts.

If you want to say why...

Her identity and her abilities are the winning trump cards that are only useful to Hitana.

"I will ask Ming Fuluo to confirm these things."

The wolves stopped and Xitana's cold voice came: "But no matter what the truth is, I have no reason to believe you anymore."

She slowly closed her five fingers, and the murderous aura that had escaped returned to that beautiful body that combined beauty and power. However, her voice seemed to be even more frightening than this power:

"You are...lying to me."

Now, Xitana obviously believes that all of Xin’s previous performance were lies, terrible lies to achieve some of her purposes.

This cannot be explained away by the word "innocent", because if Xin really believed that she was doing the right thing, she would not have remained silent when questioned by Marina.

If Xin could tell everything she did in Eastport without hesitation and still insist that she was right, then Xitana might not be so angry.

Hitana could not tolerate such deception. She had been unable to tolerate lies and betrayal since a long time ago.

——Because she almost destroyed herself in "betrayal", she never wanted to taste that despair again.

No matter how pathetic Xin was, no matter what problems she had with Marlena, Sitana would no longer consider her her friend.

If she wasn't needed to treat Marina, Sitana would probably have regarded Xin as an enemy by now.

Because of this, Xitana believed that she needed to treat Xin with a bad enough attitude.

...At least the patient shouldn't treat the doctor with a bad attitude, otherwise who knows what the doctor will do to the patient. If she can't convince the patient, then she can only transfer the doctor's dissatisfaction to herself.

Although she was not quite sure whether Xin had any such feeling of "dissatisfaction".

After this incident was suddenly exposed, Xitana no longer had the heart to continue taking a bath. She got up from the bathtub in annoyance and left.

However, the other two people in the bath had no intention of leaving.

"What a shame, Miss Saint."