Book 4: Chapter 85: You’ll Be Dead Meat

Book 4: Chapter 85: You’ll Be Dead Meat

“Ohoho, you’ll have to partake in this meal first if you wish to know.”

“.....”

Lesiah and Lilith exchanged looks with each other.

To eat or not to eat, that is the question.

The princess cast a brief glance at her meal, then shook her head grimly. Lilith also cast a silent glance at her meal, then nodded in understanding. The pair looked at Shiloah, then announced the decision that they both had agreed on at the same time.

“I’m not eating!”

“I’m eating!”

“??”

“!!”

“I thought you agreed that we won’t eat that!”

“I thought you said there’s no problem with it!”

“.......”

“.......”

“Ohoho, so is that a yes or no?”

Lesiah massaged her throbbing temples.

“I’ll never eat that.”

“Why not? Are you not even in the slightest bit curious about the reason behind this world’s destruction?”

With a cold snort, Lesiah pushed away the plate that Shiloah tried to set down in front of her.

“Hehe, do you take me for a fool? After saying all that, you still insist us to eat this. I’m afraid you can’t even convince a three-year-old to believe that there’s nothing fishy about this.”

“That’s right. I can see right through your little dirty trick. I only deliberately agreed to give you false hope. Haha, are you surprised? How does it feel to have your hope dashed? Haha.”

Lilith pushed her plate away without any reluctance too and forced a smile. However, her slightly trembling hands gave her away.

Who wants to eat that? Not me. Nope...

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“.......”

“Ohoho, as expected of the perfect princess. It seems like I have failed to deceive you with reason and emotion.”

Shiloah set the plate down and straightened up. The waiter costume he wore suddenly turned into dust.

“But then again, I already expected that such a simple trick could never fool you. My objective was to only buy enough time.”

“What do you mean?!” Lesiah demanded an answer sternly.

“One last question.”

Feeling her eyelids slowly getting heavier and heavier, Lesiah struggled to voice out her question. “How much of what you said is true?”

“Ohoho, well... Apart from the fact that both of you have nothing to do with the commotion in this world, everything else is true.”

“That means...”

“Correct. The answer you want to know... The root cause of this world’s destruction...”

The expression on Shiloah’s face turned vicious. “IS THE OUTSIDERS LIKE YOURSELF!!!”

“.....”

“I’ll take care of both of you first before the others. So goodnight. The others will join you very soon.”

It was only then Lesiah’s consciousness finally faded. Shiloah took out a pocket watch from his chest pocket and took a glance.

“Ohoho, as expected of Lady Cornelia’s Hypnosis Incense. It really worked within five minutes as she said. I guess not even a real dragon could withstand it.”

“Ugh...”

“HMM?!”

A voice that he thought he’d never hear again startled him. He turned to the source, only to discover that it belonged to none other than Lilith. To his great surprise, instead of being out cold like her fellow companion, she was still struggling even though she was slumped on the table.

“How is this possible? How are you still conscious after five minutes?!”

“He...he... This is... nothing... compared... to the one... from the titans... There’s... no way... I’ll... be knocked... down... that easily...”

Her willpower left Shiloah in awe.

Just what sort of conviction does one need to have such willpower?

Perhaps not even his most respected Lady Cornelia was capable of this.

Lilith stretched her hands out to reach the plate that she was so obsessed with. And finally, with much difficulty, she managed to finally pull it toward her.

“How can... I... fall... before... I taste this...?”

“......”

With a knife and fork, she struggled to cut a small piece of it before sending it into her mouth.

Because of the effect of the mist, every small action came as a great challenge to her.

She shut her eyes as she slowly chewed, trying to savor the flavor of the extremely rare piece of meat.

All of a sudden, she snapped her eyes wide open. Tremor raked through her supposedly weak body.

She then turned to Shiloah.

Her every word was spoken with great clarity and vigor, as though the effect of the mist was completely gone from her body.

“You’ll be dead meat when I wake up. How dare you trick me, this is just an ordinary piece of meat!!!”