Seeing the three of them disappear in an instant, even Lamia, who had anticipated it, felt the corner of her mouth twitch.
Were these the heroes trained by the ancient Pantheon? Their speed and finesse in escaping were just too smooth.
Somehow, the three of them managed to leave in perfect sync. Lamia felt like a fake Four-Digit, while they were the real Four-Digit elites. Why was there such a huge gap between them when they were all at the same Four-Digit level?
"Calm down. Someone from the Heavenly Army is stopping them, so we don't need to intervene." Lamia said resignedly, her heart feeling exhausted. Even the word "exhausted" wasn't enough to describe how she felt right now.
Why did she, a child not even ten years old, have to bear such a huge responsibility, leading four Four-Digit-level individuals to secretly escort Kalki away? It was far too challenging.
Yes, she was nine years old this year, and thanks to Leticia's Divinity, she had reached Four-Digit status even faster than Leticia. It could be said that vampires in Little Garden truly produced many talents.
"Oh, I see. Then it's fine." Aslan said without a hint of embarrassment, despite facing Lamia's almost intimidating glare.
The grayish-black figure reappeared. Aslan reverted to his original form from the Blacklight Virus state and reconstituted his body.
"Don't worry, I've asked my maid at home to hang the laundry." Aslan said. He didn't care about shame. He was using a secondary account, so why should he care about embarrassment? Wasn't a secondary account created precisely to do whatever one wanted?
"I think my nails still look quite pretty, so I won't go there for now. Besides, I own that nail salon." Merlin said, wiggling her slender fingers adorned with nails painted like a starry sky, smiling sweetly.
And Aishelia? What? Did she leave? Of course not, she had been standing in the same spot the whole time. You just saw wrong earlier. Of course, that's if you could ignore the faint blush on her face.
After all, Aishelia still retained a bit of her honest knightly nature, and she wasn't as thick-skinned as Aslan and Merlin.
Seeing their reactions, even Maxwell didn't know what to say. He wanted to complain but didn't know how.
"Hey, are you guys the ones who can teleport, or is it me?" He felt their disappearing speed was far faster than his teleportation.
"We just need to pick up His Highness from a Gift Game and then let Maxwell take him away." Lamia said without hiding anything, directly relaying the mission details given by her superiors.
"Oh? That's it? Then it's no problem." Aslan breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't ready to face a crushing blow from the Heavenly Army.
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End Capital, No Name Headquarters.
After discussing with Merlin to meet again at the designated time and place, Aslan also switched from his secondary account back to his main one.
It was tough not being able to create multiple clones. Thankfully, he had strong enough spatial abilities. Otherwise, managing two accounts alone, sometimes logging into both simultaneously, would be a headache. Especially now that he had graduated from Scathach and taken over Avalon.
But fortunately, Aslan had found the ultimate agent—Angra Mainyu, the mother of the Evil God. He just needed to let her log into that account later.
As for Avalon, he would leave it to Artoria. "You don't want Great Britain to go unsaved, do you?"
As Aslan stretched his body…
*BOOM!!!*
A loud crash came from the main gate. Shiroyasha had kicked the gate of No Name so hard it came off. That kick seemed a bit too strong.
"Boss, that's 500 Thousand Eyes gold coins. This gate was installed by Canaria and the others, so it's not cheap." Aslan immediately extended his hand toward Shiroyasha.
"Hey, why are you acting like that with your boss?" Shiroyasha smacked Aslan's head with her folding fan, speaking irritably.
"I came with good news! Don't you want to hear my good news?"
Aslan didn't say anything. He let Shiroyasha hit his head with her fan, only pursing his lips and gesturing for her to look behind.
Curious, Shiroyasha turned and saw Kurousagi, whose hair had changed color, glaring at her angrily.
"Lord Shiroyasha, you really don't know how hard it is to make a living. 500 Thousand Eyes gold coins could feed the children in our community for so long!"
"And this is a relic from Lady Canaria and the others, so it's deeply meaningful!"
Kurousagi spoke through gritted teeth. Shiroyasha's kick just now nearly killed her. Especially seeing the now-deformed gate, her heart almost leapt out of her throat.
Though she had never lived in hardship, helping Leticia manage the community's finances over the past few days had made her realize what it meant to spend money like water. She wanted to split every copper coin in half to spend.
But now, the community suddenly had to spend a huge sum. Just thinking about it made Kurousagi's heart ache.
"Alright, I'll pay for it." Shiroyasha said resignedly, then glared at Aslan, as if asking, "Did you deliberately let Kurousagi handle the finances?"
Shiroyasha, of course, knew the Moon Rabbit's personality. Every beautiful word in the world could describe a Moon Rabbit—wise wife, good mother, and thrifty. Letting Kurousagi manage the finances directly awakened her stingy side, making her almost only allow money to come in and not go out.
Of course, that was an exaggeration. Kurousagi wouldn't object to reasonable expenses and was even quite generous, but for unreasonable expenses, it was hard to say. Especially for Shiroyasha, who had been treating the Planswalker established by Aslan as her personal piggy bank.
The comfortable life was gone… and she had enjoyed it for less than two months. It made her unable to even buy Kurousagi some nice clothes.
As for Aslan, he naturally pretended not to see anything. It had nothing to do with him; he just wanted Kurousagi to have something to do. It was Shiroyasha's fault for teasing Kurousagi every day.
Shiroyasha dug into her pocket, her face awkward, and gave Kurousagi a sheepish smile.
"Um, Kurousagi, can you give me a discount?"
"I don't have enough coins…"
Damn it, she forgot that today the Thousand Eyes headquarters came to the Lower Layer to audit accounts, and she had already used the money on her to cover a shortfall.
Kurousagi sighed helplessly. She looked at Shiroyasha's awkward smile and rolled her eyes.
"Fine, how much of a discount?"
"Hm, I'll deduct it from my allowance when I get back."
"How about a 0.000001% discount?"
Shiroyasha sheepishly pulled out five Thousand Eyes copper coins and handed them to Kurousagi.
"This is all the money I have."
Kurousagi was speechless, unsure of what to say to Shiroyasha.
"Hehe."
Shiroyasha could only laugh awkwardly, trying to brush it off by acting cute.
If it had been five silver coins, Kurousagi wouldn't have said anything, but five copper coins? What was that supposed to be?
"How about you just forget it, Kurousagi? I'll keep these five copper coins to buy snacks on the way back."
"No way!" Kurousagi firmly refused, then reached out and snatched the five copper coins Shiroyasha was tightly clutching.
"My last bit of money…" Shiroyasha looked at her despairingly as Kurousagi unhesitatingly tossed the five copper coins into her wallet.
As for Aslan, he held back his laughter, watching the show. "You love teasing Kurousagi every day, making her wear all sorts of embarrassing clothes, don't you? Now you're getting your karma!"
"Alright, enough joking, Boss. By the way, what's the good news you wanted to share?"
Aslan grabbed Shiroyasha's collar as she lunged toward Kurousagi to snatch her wallet, reminding her it was time to talk about something important.
Of course, he was more interested in Kurousagi's cuteness than in stealing her wallet. "Kurousagi just took my last five copper coins, so it's only fair I want to hug her, right?"
Then Shiroyasha was lifted by Aslan, her arms and legs flailing in the air.
After seeing her plan fail and Aslan's reminder, Shiroyasha remembered why she had come to No Name.
"Ahem." Shiroyasha cleared her throat, then shouted with great enthusiasm.
"I have good news for you all!"
"I found a clue about your flag!"
Instantly, Kurousagi froze. Even the wallet in her hand slipped and fell to the ground. Gold coins, silver coins, and Shiroyasha's five copper coins rolled across the floor.
"Lord Shiroyasha, what did you just say?"
Kurousagi still doubted whether her ears had misheard. But a Moon Rabbit's ears were directly connected to the center of Little Garden, so it was nearly impossible to mishear. That meant Shiroyasha wasn't lying—she had truly found news about No Name's flag.
"I said I found news about your flag."
Shiroyasha repeated herself. She could see the emotion on Kurousagi's face, so she didn't say anything more, just repeated it to help Kurousagi snap out of her shock.
"But why don't you look surprised at all?" Shiroyasha looked at Aslan strangely.
Aslan remained as calm as ever, as if he already knew everything.
"Don't tell me this was all your doing?"
"Shh." Aslan gently placed his index finger in front of his lips, signaling Shiroyasha to stay quiet.