About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

Almost instantly, Silence understood Qingjin's behavior. He controlled Pause to remove the disinfection mask on the head of another corpse not far away, and then immediately walked to Baijin.

"Hold on to me and follow me."

"Wait, Orson, that's poison gas—ugh!"

"I know, so don't take off your mask!"

Before Bai Jin could finish his words, Shi Sheng forcibly put the gas mask on Bai Jin's head, then he took a deep breath, grabbed Bai Jin and walked towards the exit of the building.

Although the distance to the exit was not long, the two of them did not walk very fast because of their platinum legs.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

When he was still a few hundred meters away from the exit, Jinsheng started coughing violently, and all the air he had, which was already insufficient, was lost.

"Orson...Orson!!"

"I'm fine— wooooo!?"

The sound of the virtual vocal cords was interrupted along with Orson's. Platinum, wearing a gas mask, took a deep breath and then put his small, rosy lips directly into Orson's mouth.

The two clung to each other in the poisonous gas.

As Platinum's "first kiss", this environment filled with poisonous gas is not very romantic.

——A moment later——

"Ahem! Ha... ha... I always thought this kind of 'self-destruct device' was only seen in villain bases in cartoons... You, the management of the No-Horn Alliance, have some issues with your brains, don't you?"

In the open space outside the hidden headquarters building of the Wuzhou Alliance, Orson was gasping for breath and complaining that Qingjin had done such a thing after his death. He really couldn't stand it.

"..."

On the other side, Bai Jin, with bandages on her thighs, sat closely next to Orson. She said nothing, but buried her head between her legs.

"Um, Miss Platinum?"

Orson noticed Platinum's "abnormality" and leaned over to ask in a low voice, but Platinum continued to twist his body and kept his back to Orson.

"Let me calm down for a moment..."

Platinum's voice was weak and extremely shy. This little pony, who never showed his emotions, had experienced too many "firsts" today and still couldn't calm down.

"I know...but just now...uh, Miss Platinum, after you took a breath, wouldn't it be better if you just lent me your gas mask and took a few breaths?"

“Wuwuwuwu!?”

There's nothing to talk about. As soon as Orson started talking, Platinum let out an indescribable Kuranta scream.

Before, when Rhodes Island and Froststar were angry with each other, Platinum blushed even when holding hands. Now he went straight to kissing, and the Platinum leader was somewhat unable to bear it.

"Anyway...it was my first time after all...my first kiss, although it should be your second time, Orson."

Bai Jin complained quietly.

"Uh……"

Orson's slightly embarrassed reaction made Bai Jin stunned for a moment.

"Besides that snow rabbit, are there others?"

Bai Jin finally looked at Orson, but only in the form of questioning.

"Have……"

"One? The green lynx from Rhode Island?"

"Uh……"

"Two? The Reunion leader, Vaifan?

"..."

"Don't tell me you even know the one from Lin Guang's family—"

"I really don't have that! Um, well, ah, right, that's right! Speaking of which, Maria might not be safe either. I have to hurry—Puff!"

Feeling increasingly guilty, Orson stood up and tried to run away, but was pulled down by Platinum.

"That Maria you mentioned just won, so don't worry."

Bai Jin pointed to a large billboard not far away, which was broadcasting the news of Maria's victory.

"Huh...that's great."

Orson breathed a sigh of relief.

"By the way, give my phone back to me, Orson."

"Oh well."

Orson returned the key item, the mobile phone, which led him here, to Platinum.

"What are you doing?"

Orson asked curiously to Bai Jin who started fiddling with the phone after taking it.

"Send pictures of you in women's clothing all over Casimir."

“Why why?!”

Orson was in tears. How had he offended this little devil?

Looking at Orson's panic, Bai Jin smiled faintly.

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In an unregistered hidden shelter in the Casimir branch of Rhodes Island—

"This should be the first time we meet, Lin Guang family."

"Nice to meet you... Um, are you the friend Orsen mentioned?"

"'Friend'—who knows? Did you, on the other hand, leverage your status as a member of an ancient and renowned knightly family to extract a lot of unsavory favors from that 'knight squire'?"

"Okay, benefits or anything like that... I don't have any! But why is the Knight Killer of the No-Helm Alliance so familiar with my Knight Squire? Did you also use some shady tactics...?"

"Ahem! Don't talk nonsense, Lin Guang family--"

Maria and Platinum's voices came out intermittently from the room. At this time, the Knight Killer and Lin Guang's head knight were lying on the hospital beds side by side, with IV drips hanging beside them.

It was obvious that the two girls, despite being both Kuranta, didn't get along very well. They were arguing with each other over a certain infected knight.

"Excuse me, I'm here to replace the potion for Sister Maria and Miss Platinum—Um, are you guys arguing?"

A soft voice came from outside the door. Rosemary walked into the room dragging a cart that was almost as high as her chest, and asked Maria and Platinum with some concern.

"No, no, Rosemary. We were just chatting, right, Miss Platinum?"

"This lord knight just said that he would duel me after the treatment is completed."

"I, I, I never said anything like that!?"

After meeting Rosemary, Maria wanted to pretend to be friendly with Platinum, but Platinum, with his devil attributes at full power, obviously ignored the olive branch offered by Maria. Not only that, he also skillfully shifted the blame and framed her.

"Um... Sister Maria, you can't fight now."

Rosemary's ears twitched, and the kitten looked at Platinum and then at Maria, and finally whispered to Maria in embarrassment to dissuade her.

"Ms. Platinum—!"

Maria, who was successfully tricked, complained loudly to Platinum beside her with an angry face. As a result, this made Rosemary think that the two were really going to fight. Kitty Cat hurriedly jumped on Maria in a panic, trying to stop the fight.

"Sister Maria, calm down... You're still very weak."

"I'm not angry—it's soft and smells so good~"

Maria said "I'm not angry" but was already very unhappy. After touching Rosemary who was lying on her, she fell in love with her. The fluffy and soft cat ears of Rosemary, coupled with the faint fragrance on her body, immediately calmed Maria down like aromatherapy. She indulged in the joy of petting the cat and hugged Rosemary.

“Mmm…!?”

Rosemary, who was originally planning to stop the fight, accidentally found herself turned into a pillow. For a moment, she didn't know whether she should get away or lie down and let herself be stroked.

After the previous "Orson's Broken Shoulder and Neck" incident (commonly known as the fight for the right to team up with a duo), Rosemary and Maria's relationship became much closer.

"Very energetic."

Just as Maria and Rosemary were being affectionate, the door was pushed open again, and this time it was Orson and Zofia who walked into the room.

"Ah, Orson!"

After noticing Orson coming over, Kitty and Maria immediately looked over. Even Platinum beside them couldn't help but change her posture and tidied her hair to prevent it from being too messy.

"..."

Sophia, who came with Orson, was different from the others. She stared at the scene in front of her with a very serious expression.

"I'm sorry...Aunt, I failed to protect Maria and let her get hurt. This is my responsibility."

Orson noticed Zofia's abnormal behavior and bowed his head to apologize, but what he didn't expect was that after hearing his apology, Zofia said "Ah?" and seemed very confused.

"I'm not mad at you, Orson. No, in a sense I am mad at you... but it has nothing to do with Maria's injury. It's simply because - when and where did you get this white horse again?"

"Ah... uh, ahaha, it's just work, work is all..."

Zofia leaned close to Orson's ear, her tone sounding awkward and helpless.

Orson responded with a silly smile, saying that he and Platinum had only an ordinary office relationship (meaning that he was working for this little devil unilaterally), and she could only use his photos of himself in women's clothing to threaten him at will.

As Maria's "sister", although Zofia also has some subtle feelings for Orson, she is more inclined to act as a "bystander assisting" to help her naive sister pursue the rare love.

However, putting aside the possibility that Zofia herself might get herself involved while assisting, Orson's "harem" alone is enough to give Zofia a headache.

Just the known ones are the leaders of the Reunion Movement and Rhodes Island, two big names. And even with a bit of guessing, I know that there must be reserved competitors in the Reunion Movement and Rhodes Island.

I thought that was enough, but this guy is actually running a harem! He's only been in Casimir for a few days, and already kidnapped his own sister, and now he's brought in a knight killer from the Helmetless Alliance out of nowhere!

If Orson keeps driving like this, even Merlin might not be able to turn that stupid sister away.

"Alas...Maria, you are still too stupid."

"Why, why are you suddenly scolding me, Auntie!?"

The more Sofia thought about it, the more she felt that Maria's love life was bleak. She couldn't help but sigh, leaving Maria confused.

"Speaking of which, what exactly happened with your match, Maria? I was about to charge into the arena, facing that infamous pair of Corrupted Blight Knights, and I was only one person on my side. It looked like a conspiracy by the organizers."

Zofia glanced at Platinum beside her, hoping that this Knight Killer from the Helmetless Alliance was not a troublemaker, and then asked Maria about the details of her last game.

Orson was also very curious about what happened in Maria's previous match. Normally, the Chamber of Commerce had rigged that match in order to prevent Maria from continuing to participate in the knight competition, but in the end, Maria won.

"Hmm... Honestly, I'm not quite sure. At first, I thought I was really going to be killed by the Corruption Knight... Their Originium skills are really weird. But during the match, the Corruption Knight suddenly attacked the Blight Knight and seemed to have injected some kind of reagent into the Blight Knight's body. The reagent seemed to have the Rhodes Island logo printed on it. After that, the Blight Knight remained unconscious, and the Corruption Knight challenged me to a one-on-one battle."

"As a knight, I naturally chose to fight! Although I almost lost consciousness in the process, I still managed to win - it hurts!"

As Maria spoke, she puffed out her chest, as if saying, "I'm so awesome, why don't you praise me?" But what she received was not praise from Orson, but the sought-after skull-splitting blow from Zofia.

"Idiot! You should have just surrendered in that situation! Look at yourself now. You have multiple organs failing and are severely anemic. If it weren't for Dr. Kal'tsit's help, I'd probably be helping you pick a grave right now, idiot Maria!"

"My my my ears... Orson, please help me!"

Zofia grabbed Maria's ear and scolded her loudly, and the latter immediately looked at Orson with tears in her eyes.

"Don't take such risks next time, Maria."

Contrary to expectations, Orson also hopes that Maria can be more stable next time.

"Hey...why is this..."

Feeling betrayed by Orson, Maria turned to look at Rosemary.

"Sister Maria, your health is the most important thing."

"Even Rosemary?!"

Feeling the coldness of the world, Maria buried her head in the quilt and began to withdraw.

"You are quite the fool, my dear knight. But I don't dislike your personality."

"Really, Miss Platinum?"

Maria, who thought she was deserted by everyone, suddenly heard the support from Platinum and emerged again with her head covered with messy horsehair.