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"Holy crap! Wait, hold on!"

Outside the southwestern city in the desert, Yino, holding the white dragon girl’s hand, stopped halfway as he suddenly realized a critical issue.

He looked around, confirming his suspicion, and his face grew even more covered in sweat.

"What’s wrong?" she asked.

"I forgot something..."

"Huh?"

"Damn it! I was so focused on attacking and escaping that I forgot Jinyue is still lying outside the city!"

Yino cursed under his breath and quickly released the white dragon girl’s hand, rushing back to the southwestern city at top speed.

No matter how often he acted selfishly, he still had enough conscience for this.

Just moments ago, Yino, Jinyue, and Nina had executed a blood-pumping combination attack.

Yino provided divine support, Jinyue provided illusion support, and Nina provided straightforward violent support.

But the evidence proved that the Fallen Witch was truly formidable.

She also possessed an Abyss Eye like Jinyue’s, though with different properties. The Fallen Witch’s Abyss Eye seemed to grant a simple but powerful increase in cultivation.

In the game, the Fallen Witch wouldn’t activate her Abyss Eye until volumes four or five.

This was Yino’s carelessness.

At the critical moment, to cover for Yino, ordinary illusions weren’t enough for Jinyue, so she also activated her Abyss Eye against the Fallen Witch.

Yino was very familiar with Jinyue’s Abyss Eye from his previous life.

It was far more insidious than the Fallen Witch’s numerical boost. It could rewrite almost anything with illusions, and when the energy of the illusions reached a certain level in a short time, Jinyue’s Abyss Eye could forcibly rewrite the development of the plot on the timeline.

After all... If she put all witnesses under hypnosis, no one would remember anything that happened in the southwestern city today.

Thus, with Jinyue’s Abyss Eye empowering him, Yino’s power rose a level above the enemy’s, and he managed to cut off one of the Fallen Witch’s arms by the narrowest margin.

The Fallen Witch immediately flew into a rage.

Terrified by her darkened energy waves, Yino sheathed his sword and ran away, only now remembering that this life’s Jinyue was different from the game

In the game, Jinyue used her Abyss Eye as casually as breathing, with no side effects.

But the reborn version of Jinyue seemed different.

She hadn’t had as many desperate situations, so she rarely used her Abyss Eye. Without using the Abyss illusion techniques, her body wasn’t corrupted by the curse, which meant Jinyue’s body couldn’t handle it when she occasionally used the Abyss Eye.

Now... Sensing Jinyue’s life in danger, Yino had no choice but to rush back to the battlefield at the risk of his life.

"Yino, you jerk..."

When she saw the young man sprinting from the distant sand dunes, the red fox girl leaning against the city wall, utterly exhausted, couldn’t help but curse.

But despite her words, when Yino picked her up, the red foxgirl pouted and wrapped her tired arms around him.

This scene strangely reminded Jinyue of their time at the back mountain of the Wuji Sect...

Back then, Jinyue had just fallen from a tree, and Yino had caught her securely in his arms with a princess carry.

That was probably the first time Jinyue had been held by Yino.

Half a year later, being held again, Jinyue truly felt something different—both touched and unable to hide her resentment at nearly being abandoned.

Thinking of this, the red foxgirl pouted, turned over, raised her face and bit Yino’s neck.

"Mmm—!"

She wasn’t a vampire, but at this moment, her sharp little fangs pierced his skin as if she truly wanted to suck blood from Yino’s neck.

"Ouch, stop biting. This time it really was my fault. I promise I’ll make it up to you when we get back!"

Yino controlled his flying sword while trying to comfort her. Despite his usual selfishness, today he couldn’t hide his guilt toward the foxgirl in his arms.

He had already truly come to trust Jinyue.

Now that Jinyue had activated her Abyss Eye for him, Yino felt an unprecedented sense of gratitude...

Honestly, from Yino’s perspective, Jinyue seemed unlike the Pleasure Witch.

Or perhaps... Her behavior had always been logical from the beginning.

She caused trouble everywhere and gained notoriety in the Western Region because of the tasks assigned by the Celestial Master.

And her pranks were meant to disrupt the Celestial Master’s prophecies.

In volume one, the Celestial Master’s task was to kill Chen Jianxin, so Jinyue appeared to be plotting against Chen Jianxin but was actually secretly protecting him. Yuyan, who came to the rescue at the end of volume one, was summoned by Jinyue.

In volume two, the Celestial Master secretly guided Liuli to kill Chen Jianxin, but with Yuyan absent, Jinyue couldn’t remain hidden and had to personally step in front of Chen Jianxin.

In volume three... The Celestial Master finally revealed the truth to Jinyue, and she learned she had been deceived—the Celestial Master had been secretly nurturing Chen Jianxin all along.

So Jinyue changed her target. To kill Chen Jianxin, she stabbed him in the back during the chaos of the demonic tide and mercilessly kicked him into the abyss while he stared at her in confusion.

Yes.

After repeatedly comparing notes with Jinyue, Yino finally understood the logic behind her behavior in the original story.

Clearly. Jinyue’s mind was very sharp.

She was far too clear-headed to be a Pleasure Witch who simply played pranks for fun.

"Pleasure" was merely a mask she wore to hide her true self.

But in the game, after wearing this mask of "Pleasure" for too long and overusing the Abyss Eye, Jinyue was continuously corrupted by the abyss, and her mental state could only approach the manic form of Pleasure...

Thus. For the sixteen years since his rebirth, Yino had always assumed Jinyue was the Pleasure Witch.

But before being corrupted by the curse, Jinyue was actually just a girl with a fragile heart, longing for freedom.

"Yino... I’m so scared..."

"I thought you didn’t want me anymore..."

At some point, Jinyue, still biting the young man’s now-bleeding neck, finally revealed her inner fear of being left alone at the southwestern city.

Actually... Jinyue had no sense of belonging in the Witch Tea Party...

She didn’t consider herself the same as those cult witches, and those witches certainly had no sense of camaraderie toward Jinyue.

The reason was simple: Jinyue had never consumed the demon elixir!

She couldn’t even be considered a witch in the traditional sense.

She was a fox demon with an innate charming Physique, a slave imprisoned by fate.

Her choice to impersonate a witch and join the Witch Tea Party was merely to gain access to more information.

For this reason, Jinyue had almost never participated in missions with other members of the Witch Tea Party.

If Moxin discovered that it was Jinyue’s secret interference that caused her to lose an arm, Moxin would undoubtedly chop Jinyue into a bloody pulp without hesitation...

"Don’t be afraid. From now on, even if we go to the ends of the earth, I’ll take you with me."

During their journey, Yino continued to comfort the girl in his arms with gentle words.

He could feel that after activating her Abyss Eye, the abyssal energy inside Jinyue was constantly rising. Yino felt like he was carrying a small nuclear bomb that could explode at any moment.

The pressure when Jinyue truly activated her Abyss Eye was no less intimidating than the Fallen Witch from earlier.

From the distant southwestern city, endless abyssal energy shot into the sky. At the same time, a roaring demonic sound descended like dark clouds pressing down from the horizon.

Yino felt goosebumps rising from this inhuman sound.

Looking back, he saw the one-armed witch in black had soared thousands of feet into the air. She wielded an enormous blood scythe shadow, with jet-black wings sprouting from her back. Her entire form transformed into a pitch-black, swinging her dark scythe as she dove down from the distant sky—

"Young heroes, quickly get behind me!!!"

At the critical moment, a voluptuous holy maiden in black led numerous imperial guards to the front line.

She raised her hand and opened a barrier as vast as the sky, and like swatting a fly, with a heavy thud, she forcefully repelled the diving black-robed witch, creating an explosion of rolling black smoke.