This villain, please exercise some restraint.

"...You can't?"

The shorter boy looked at the girl, "I'm sorry, you're saying, you can't?"

The girl nodded, quite sure.

"Why do you look so confused? Please, this is a world where appearance matters. If it was you or that four-eyed guy who was held hostage, I might not save you."

"After all, a hero saving a beautiful girl... You two don't fit my aesthetic of rescue."

The girl said it as a matter of course.

"So...what do you mean by being brave and righteous?"

"That's right. The handsome ones are brave and righteous. I'll consider the average ones. As for the ugly goblins, that's - not helping them."

What the Wheel of Fortune said was quite straightforward.

The curve of the boss's lips disappeared, and he suddenly felt that trying to reason with this wheel of fortune was a kind of cruelty to himself.

"Since you don't want to let go, then——"

The Wheel of Fortune subconsciously hugged the brown doll in her arms tightly, but her sweet voice was a little tense, "Then - we'll slip away first, New Temperance."

Almost as soon as the words fell, both the little girl and Shi Si disappeared.

"..."

“…Excessive.”

The short boy lowered his head, and after a long time, he raised his head and looked towards where the Wheel of Fortune was, towards where the boy with short white hair was taken away, and uttered these two words calmly...

An Xu stared blankly at the place where the two disappeared, with a hint of confusion in his sight.

Yes, since he came to this place, everything that happened seemed to be beyond his expectations, but the ending... unexpectedly... made him feel... acceptable.

As a normal person, he should not show sympathy and pity to someone like Shi Si, so he chose to end this evil fruit.

He chose the choice that most kind-hearted people would make. His only mistake was that... he misjudged the effect of the "Dice of Disgust".

Yes...that's it...it must be...that's it.

An Xu said this to himself in his heart.

"I'm sorry. It was my stupidity that led to...his escape."

The young man wearing silver-white glasses looked at the short boss standing not far away and spoke with guilt.

He rarely used the word "stupid" to describe himself, but now, it seemed that only this most fundamental mistake could explain everything that was happening.

Because... given Shi Si's condition at the time, the simplest attack could easily... make this existence disappear forever.

But he chose to use the "Dice of Disgust" and chose to believe in... the power of disgust.

[Can the fate of living things be influenced by emotions? 】

Suddenly, An Xu thought of the problem he saw when he first obtained the "Disgust Dice".

The power that came from disgust brought Chi Xuan a very painful experience, and when this power was applied to Shi Si... based on the current results... can it be explained that -

Shi Si's fate of death was temporarily reversed because of his own emotions...?

No...it's not like that...it can't be like that...

An Xu squatted down with his head in his hands, trying to curb his uncontrollable wandering thoughts. He felt that he couldn't think like this anymore, and he shouldn't... think like this anymore.

The initial restraint... Shi Si, the damage he had brought to him, the damage he had brought to a group of players, and even... the damage he had brought to the genius spirit that reality could only blame...

He couldn't ignore the injuries. As a normal person, a normal player, and as a targeted person, he should be... disgusted.

He thought so, and he...did it.

But...why is this the result?

The golden light that burst out from the "Disgusting Dice" summoned the "Wheel of Fortune", and the "Wheel of Fortune" took Shi Si away in a relatively strong manner.

Head... a little dizzy, a little hot, An Xu's mind was working, he felt that everything seemed easy to sort out, but... the more he tried to sort it out, the more confused he became.

A pair of warm hands gently took away his hands that were tightly holding his head. An Xu raised his face and found that the boss seemed to be smiling slightly.

Boss... is he laughing? He... suffered such a huge setback, got injured, and even lost the crime he was supposed to solve... Now... is he actually laughing?

Or... this kind of very friendly smile.

For a moment, An Xu stared at that smile, and suddenly felt that his thoughts seemed less tense.

The boss didn't seem to be blaming me.

"An Xu."

The short boy helped the boy with silver-white glasses up.

Only then did An Xu notice that the wound on the boss' chest had disappeared at some point, and his torn clothes had been restored to their original state.

"Please don't blame yourself too much. I won't blame you, nor will I hurt you. I believe that the reason why he was able to escape death today is because the timing was not right."

The short boy blinked, and there was a hint of tenderness in his brown eyes.

“…Is the time not right yet?”

This statement is quite metaphysical, and An Xu found it a little difficult to understand at first.

"Yes, I believe that everything is because the time has not come yet. Everyone will get his own ending, but his ending may not stop here."

"The moment before he disappeared, I thought this was his final destination, but...it turns out that it wasn't."

"An Xu, I think you might also subconsciously judge whether his end point is here... and the current result is no."

An Xu was even more confused after hearing this. "Ah? Is that so?"

"Yes, it must be like this. I think, in my understanding, this is the only possibility."

The boss looked over with a serious expression.

"I think that among the people present, there will be people who feel that this is not his end, so... he did not die here."

"...Huh? Are you talking about the Wheel of Fortune?"

An Xu was stunned for a moment and asked.

It seemed that among the people present, he was the only one who might think so.

"Who knows?"

The boss smiled and took a deep look at the boy with glasses in front of him.

Then he reached out and patted his shoulder.

"But An Xu, no matter what, please believe that I will not hurt you."

He said this with extraordinary seriousness, yet... it seemed to contain no personal emotion.

It's as if... this is some kind of innate... and natural mission.

"Why?" An Xu asked subconsciously.

The boss seems to have been emphasizing this. This is a kind of protection without reason, while the initial restraint was targeting without reason.

There is no prelude, no foreshadowing.

"Because you are An Xu."

The short boy smiled and said, "Because you are An Xu, I will... protect you, and this - please believe me, this is probably what I am good at."