This villain, please exercise some restraint.

"Oh, after you did something like that, how can you still have the nerve to ask me to go back?"

After staring at the paper crane for a while, the back of his hand tilted slightly, and the lavender paper crane immediately fell to the ground feebly.

With one foot, he crushed it into the crevice under his feet without mercy.

Temperance looked up in surprise and saw the bright smile still on the lips of the wolf-tailed boy.

That smile was quite dazzling, as blatantly blazing as the sun.

But in those eyes, there was a faint residual light like the moon.

And it was this lingering light that made the supposedly harmless smile turn a little evil.

"For things that are annoying and useless, just destroy them."

Akun's eyes turned slightly, and he met those dark eyes that were originally hidden in the darkness.

He smiled so harmlessly that the sun was so bright that the paper crane under his feet had been crushed to pieces by him. In an instant, it turned into dots of lavender light and disappeared without a trace.

When the priestess saw this, her expression changed slightly.

Temperance squinted to see all this, and when he looked at the wolf-tailed boy again, the corners of his lips were already curved.

If I remember correctly, this guy's name is A Kun...but he looks surprisingly pleasing to the eye.

"Priestess, I called you out this time to ask you to protect someone."

"Who?"

The priestess was slightly stunned.

Temperance...will there be people you want to protect? Will...will be the world - no, impossible, how can the world need temperance and protection...

But the person who can make Temperance say that he wants to protect should be... also a very important existence, right?

For a moment, the priestess didn't know whether to feel relieved or what to feel.

Temperance stretched out his pale index finger and pointed at the white wolf-tailed boy beside him, quite casually.

"he."

"he?"

The priestess looked at the wolf-tailed boy and raised her voice slightly.

Akun was also a little surprised by this. The NPC Temperance was really ridiculously easy to talk to sometimes.

He said he needed shelter, moderation...and he actually found a protector for him.

This is still not a friend. What would happen if he became a true friend of Temperance... He simply didn't dare to think about it.

Moreover, you must know that this game originally emphasized the inclusion of Tarot elements, but until now, except for the kryptonian "Wheel of Fortune" named with some occult elements, and the short-lived copy of The Fool, the rest seemed It has nothing to do with Tarot elements.

But Temperance is dealt the cards... and the Priestess appears, and so on! This NPC is called Temperance - and in the Tarot, there is also a corresponding... Temperance card.

Is there any connection between the two?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Temperance was a mysterious and powerful guy.

It would be quite a sense of accomplishment if I could make friends with this person.

Besides, he had a deep appreciation for moderation.

There has never been a time, whether it was a real player or an NPC in the game world...never has he been so eager to make a friend as Temperance as he is now.

Not just because of the pitiful experience value in the first judgment, but - he could imagine that making friends with a guy like Temperance would be very challenging.

The showdown between liars and liars... is more interesting, isn't it?

Ever since he was "cheated" out of all his experience points by Ji Ji, his desire to win has been completely aroused.

"Yes, Priestess. Your mission is to protect him and do your best...to protect him."

Temperance emphasized.

Now he doesn't even bother to explore the abilities of the priestess. The so-called mission of the world has lost its meaning in his opinion. From now on, he will no longer be able to obey the command of the world.

That guy in the world is simply not worth the effort he expends on him.

As soon as Temperance finished speaking, "Mian" stumbled in.

The strong smell of blood on his body could not be concealed even by the scent of medicine.

"Temperance, 'his' messenger is here. My use of 'broken heart' to deceive 'him' seems... to have been discovered."

"Mian" said, blood flowed out from the corner of his lips. The blood snaked down his white neck, and then slid down his blood-stained red clothes to the cracks in the ground.

The larvae hiding in the rock crevices immediately scrambled out and sucked up all the blood.

"He looks... badly hurt."

The priestess looked at Temperance.

The wolf-tailed boy turned to look at Mian, who looked quite embarrassed, and let out an exaggerated "Yeah".

Temperance walked up to the young man in red, and as he got closer, he saw the bead-sized cold sweat rolling down Mian's forehead, as well as the milky-white bugs that were faintly visible crawling on his skin.

"This is a punishment, a punishment for deceiving 'him'. Although 'he' cannot come to the Central Plains and come here, 'his' bugs can."

"Maybe when 'he' asked you to bring me here, he left a backhand. On this body that belongs to Mian, he left a backhand that I couldn't detect."

"Mian" endured the pain and expressed his guess.

The bugs in this body seemed to appear out of thin air, gnawing at this body ferociously and violently, and as the "King of Gu", he was unable to completely suppress it.

"At this rate of gnawing, it may not be long before this body can no longer be used, and my life will also go to -"

His words were interrupted coldly by the throttling.

A cool hand pulled up Mian's red sleeve, revealing in front of Temperance an arm covered with blood that was constantly seeping out.

Under the blood, milky white bugs were wandering one after another, constantly tearing the barrier between flesh and blood with their sharp mouthparts, and drilling deeper.

It looks... inexplicably infiltrative.

"hiss--"

A Kun, who was following me, saw this horrible arm. Although he had been prepared for it based on his "sleep" state, at first glance, he couldn't help but take a breath.

Is this an arm? It was clearly almost turning into a piece of rotten flesh.

Because of the blood, the sleeves were slightly adherent to the arms. When he pulled it out, the sharp pain made "Mian"'s face turn pale again.

"Have you solved the "broken heart" in that woman?"

Jiejie raised his head slightly and looked at the embarrassed "Mian" in front of him with his dark eyes.

He could even see the squirming bulges under Mian's face.

"..."

"I will do as you command."

"Mian" didn't give a direct answer, but the answer in his words was already quite obvious.

The "broken heart" in Song Xiaoyun's body was removed, so the Gu refiner discovered the abnormality, so - the punishment for the "worm" came.

Maybe "Insect" didn't expect that the Gu refiner would tamper with the body given to it.

Temperance fell silent.

"Mian" stared at the silent restraint and blinked.

"Where's Ah Qiao?" Temperance asked suddenly.

"In my current state, I couldn't control her at all, so I forced her into a deep sleep while I still had some strength left."

"at......"

"Mian" said, covering Jiejie's ear and whispering a location.

"Temperance, if I...die, I will use my skills to hand over the final control of Ah Qiao to you before I die - in this way, having Ah Qiao by your side means that I am -"

"enough."

Temperance suddenly interrupted what the insect in front of him was about to say.

"Mian"'s face turned pale again, and he lowered his head slightly, like... a child who had done something wrong.

"You didn't betray me."

"......what?"

"Mian" slowly raised his bloodless face, looked at the young man hidden in the darkness in front of him, and was stunned for a moment.

The pain made his thinking a little confusing. For a moment, he didn't understand why Temperance said this.

Fortunately, Temperance is not the Riddler.

"So, I won't let you... die because of my fault."

After Temperance said that, he turned around and put one of his hands on the priestess's shoulder, "Priestess, my intuition tells me that you are a being worthy of being trusted. Now, I will 'sleep', too. Delivered to you.”

"Can I... trust you?"

Temperance asked.

The priestess smiled, and there was peace on her calm face.

"Of course, moderation."

"As long as you are restrained...then what you care about will be what I care about."

Hearing the words, Temperance nodded, and the next moment, he disappeared.

The guy who didn't betray him, even if he hated him, shouldn't be punished for it.