Nini's face had already gone completely pale, but she still kept trying to heal Nana as she cried, "Sister Nana, stop talking already! Don't waste your strength anymore! You'll definitely get better! Wuwuwu!"
"Nini, be good. I'm just going to another world. There's no need to worry," Nana rubbed Nini's head, but even such a tiny movement seemed to use up all the strength left in her body.
"I have to admit, your plan was pretty well thought out," Ethan replied with a smile, "I really am interested in the space transfer skill you used earlier, but your skill copy blueprint can only copy something once too, right?"
"How about this? I'll take your stuff, and then I'll send someone to escort Nini back to your… Region Four, right?"
"I'll send her back to Region Four for you. Sounds fair enough, doesn't it?"
"No!"
Nana's chest suddenly heaved hard as she said, "If you want to take my things… then you have to promise me you absolutely won't send Nini back!"
"Why?"
Nana's reaction immediately made Ethan curious, "Isn't Region Four your sect? If I send her back, someone can take care of her, and you're all on the same side. Don't tell me someone there would hurt her?"
"The Young Sect Master…", Nana gave a weak smile, but her eyes were filled with hatred as she said, "He was never a good person! I know he has an evil skill called… Soul Search Technique!"
"Soul Search Technique?", Just hearing the name made Ethan feel that it probably wasn't anything good. He immediately asked with interest, "What does that spell do?"
"The Soul Search Technique, just like the name says, is a method for searching another person's soul and taking useful skills from them to use as your own," Nana continued explaining, "I've already seen him use this skill on people more than once… more than once…"
"When we first came to this world… there was someone in our sect who got lucky and received a Lucky Treasure Chest right away."
"He obtained a skill called [Enslavement]. It lets him use the skill on someone lower level than himself… and then that person becomes his prisoner for a certain amount of time, fighting and charging for him… even dying for him."
"The Young Sect Master wanted that skill, so he used the Soul Search Technique to take it away."
"And that person…"
"After the Young Sect Master searched his soul, he suddenly changed from a normal person into someone slow and foolish… He wasn't completely stupid, but whenever someone asked him something, it would take him a long time to react… before answering."
"And what he said… usually made no sense at all."
"Later, a lot of people started noticing what happened… To cover it up, the Young Sect Master sent him to an extremely dangerous place, then had one of his trusted followers get him killed out there. That way there would be no proof left."
"I don't want… don't want Nini to become the next one like him!"
"So…"
"I'm begging you, Lord of Region Seven."
"Nini really is a genius. I was only afraid the Young Sect Master would notice her talent, so I kept suppressing her abilities with everything I had. Otherwise she would have already…"
"But believe me, she'll definitely be able to contribute a lot to Region Seven…"
"She can also do many things for you…"
"If you take her in… you definitely won't lose anything from it!"
"How did you know I'm the Lord of Region Seven?", Ethan raised a brow and looked at Nana. He was very curious how she had seen through his identity, "I don't think I ever told you who I am from beginning to end, did I?"
"Because you're… flashy!", Nana smiled. The smile looked weak as she said, "Someone as strong as you, there probably aren't many in the whole Mist World… And I already recognized you from the photos you posted in the world channel. It's just that you didn't want to say it, so I didn't bring it up either…"
"Uh…"
Hearing that, Ethan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
He had thought nobody knew his mysterious identity, but in the end...
'Sigh!'
'When someone stands out too much, getting noticed is easy.'
"Since you already knew me from the world channel, then you should know I'm not exactly a good person, right?", Ethan asked back, "And you still dare hand your sister over to me?"
"A bad person with principles… can't be worse than a hypocrite with no… no bottom line, can they?", Nana's eyes carried a trace of trust as she said, "Actually, compared to a hypocrite like the Young Sect Master… I prefer someone like you… Someone who puts a clear price on everything. You're someone driven purely by profit, so… working with you feels safer."
"Alright, I agree."
Ethan accepted cleanly and directly.
Ever since he learned that Orin, the Lord of Region Four, actually possessed such a strange skill, he had already made up his mind that he absolutely could not send Nini back to Region Four.
After all, a skill that could stab someone in the back at any moment was just too bizarre.
If the Lord of Region Four learned it too, who knew whether the first person Orin would stab in the back would be him.
"Tha… thank you…"
Nana's face had already completely lost all color from excessive blood loss.
At this moment, she looked like a paper doll with no color left in it.
Even her voice sounded light, as if it were drifting away.
It felt like, a gust of wind could easily carry her off at any moment.
"There's… a comb in my arms. It doesn't do anything special. Can you help me leave it for… Nini?", Nana struggled to move her fingers and gently stroked Nini, who had completely fainted from overusing her spiritual power, "I know… asking you to bury me or something is too much, so… I only hope that after I die, you can burn my body into ashes. At least then I won't end up getting dragged around everywhere by monsters carrying my corpse."
"Okay!"
Ethan agreed.
Only then did a trace of relief finally appear on Nana's face as she said, "Tha… thank you…"
After speaking, Nana's head tilted to the side. She was completely dead.
She had actually already reached her limit long ago. It was only for her sister's sake that Nana had forced herself to hold on and finish explaining everything.
Now that she had received Ethan's promise, she was finally able to leave in peace.