"You actually ran?"
Jun An looked at the undried water stains, undoubtedly the sweat of Vita's efforts.
But Jun An had only told her to run ten laps as a formality. A single lap around this tower had to be at least two kilometers, making ten laps twenty kilometers. Although for a Valkyrie, this was just normal training—usually, they'd carry an additional two hundred kilograms to simulate marching with weapons—Vita had the negative debuff of carrying a little toy!
How could any normal person possibly finish running?
"Weren't you the one who told me to run!"
Vita glared at Jun An through gritted teeth. Thankfully, the area near the tower was considered the Tower Sage's sacred ground, and people generally didn't pass through. Otherwise, if anyone saw water splashing from under her skirt with every step, how could she possibly explain it?
"But you're usually so scheming; I thought you wouldn't run."
Jun An looked at Vita collapsing limply onto him, really wanting to take out his phone and snap a few pictures. Unfortunately, he didn't have flexible tails like Rozaliya or Liliya, and both his hands were currently attracted by something larger, temporarily unavailable.
Vita: "If I hadn't run, you definitely would have found trouble with me using the excuse that I was disobedient, right?"
"Even if you ran, I'd still find trouble, wouldn't I?"
Jun An asked back, even more puzzled, "Did I fuck you stupid?"
Jun An thought that, given Vita's personality, she should have been able to guess.
Vita paused slightly. Fucked stupid?
Was she? Absolutely not!
Besides, was that something a person should say?
Vita immediately glared at Jun An. "Are you deliberately trying to pick a fight?"
Jun An's expression said it all. After all, nothing was more fun than punishing this kind of bad woman. Not to mention, she was originally Sa's accomplice, so bullying her came with zero psychological burden.
Seeing Jun An's "go ahead, kill me if you can" look, Vita fumed.
But she really couldn't do anything about Jun An. She didn't even dare take out the object inside her body, terrified Sa would discover it, connect to her lifeline, and kill her.
"Forget it,"
Living under someone else's roof always comes at a price. Vita had already resigned herself. "Because I came too many times, my legs are too weak to move now. Can you carry me to my home in Salt Snow Holy City? Once we're home, you can torment me however you like, okay?"
"Alright, I'll help you just this once."
Jun An wrapped Vita with shadows and directly dragged her away from the tower. "Coincidentally, I still have quite a few things I want to ask you about Sa, like her powers and such. Although you said she's omniscient and omnipotent, she shouldn't be capable of everything, right?"
If Sa could truly do anything, she wouldn't need to rely on the destruction of world bubbles in the Sea of Quanta for self-expansion. She could perfectly well create her own world bubbles, self-producing and self-sufficient.
Vita didn't want to be dragged into Salt Snow Holy City like this; quite a few people here still recognized her.
"Carry me princess-style, and I'll tell you." Although Jun An's shadow cushioned her underside, preventing her head from hitting the ground, it still felt uncomfortable.
"If you don't want an extra one added, you'll tell me now." Jun An was in no mood to bargain with her.
"Mmph~ Aren't you usually quite gentle with other girls?"
Vita looked dissatisfied. "Can't you share just a little bit of that gentleness with me?"
"No."
Jun An continued dragging Vita. "By the way, you can go home, but only for two hours. Have you thought about what you want to do in those two hours? We're departing immediately afterward."
For example, saying goodbye to the residents here, talking to your friends, things like that. I can take you."
Jun An remembered Vita probably hadn't been in this world bubble for very long, but long enough for most residents of Salt Snow Holy City to recognize her.
"No need."
Vita thought for a moment. "There's nothing much to say anyway. Since they live in ignorance, let them continue to be happy in their ignorance."
After all, with Salt Snow Holy City's civilization development comparable to Earth's Middle Ages, telling them about world destruction and her being an accomplice to the culprit—they probably wouldn't be able to truly understand.
"However, what are you doing sticking this tentacle under my skirt?"
Vita frowned. "You're not planning to parade me through the streets, are you?"
She felt that, given Jun An's personality, he might actually do something like that.
"Oh, no, just simply touching your leg."
Vita had one of the most visibly long pairs of legs in Honkai Impact 3rd. Although not as meaty as Elysia's, as long as Aponia's, or as elegant as Eden's, they were perfectly standard.
"Wait? Can this shadow share sensations with you?"
"If I want it to, it can. After all, it's something that requires mental control."
As Jun An touched her leg, he felt the little toy he had put inside. "It's a bit loose. Let me push it back in properly for you."
"Oh, thank you so much! Mmph!!"
Vita had no temper left to deal with Jun An's antics. After all, he was truly strong enough, capricious enough.
Couldn't beat him, so she could only endure.
Jun An took Vita home for a bit. Because she had gifts for the seven Little Vitas at home, she planned to take the gifts with her when she went back.
Of course, Jun An naturally wouldn't just parade Vita through the city bound in shadows. He applied a mental buff to anyone who saw them.
It had to be said, the brainwashing skill derived from Aponia was really useful; anything could be turned into common sense.
Vita also possessed some degree of mental perception. After realizing Jun An didn't actually intend to publicly execute her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hi, Vita! You're okay! That's wonderful!"
A girl from Salt Snow Holy City saw Vita and came over to greet her, visibly relieved. "I didn't see you at the evacuation point when I was following the divine envoy to take shelter just now. I was so worried!"
"Shali, I... Of course, I'm fine."
Seeing the person before her showing no reaction to her or Jun An, Vita also felt relieved. "I was with the friend of the most omnipotent Tower Sage; how could anything happen to me? I just got a tiny scratch from a wild beast."
The resident was puzzled. "A wild beast? But we haven't seen any wild beasts in Salt Snow Holy City for a long time."
"Yeah, it was a really ugly, really fierce beast~~ Mmph!!"
Undoubtedly, she was cursing him. Jun An directly used a shadow to invade her mouth, filling it completely.
This kind of woman deserved proper punishment. Jun An showed no mercy.
"Vita, what's wrong?! Are... are you okay?!"
However, Vita had been forcibly silenced by Jun An, so Jun An explained everything for her. "She's fine, just sick. I was just about to take her to the Tower Sage for treatment."
The girl looked worriedly at Jun An. "You are..."
"I am the Tower Sage's divine envoy."
Jun An couldn't help but think how convenient it was to use gods to explain everything inexplicable. Any situation that didn't fit could just be blamed on the divine.
"Anyway, do you have anything else to discuss? If not, I'm taking her for treatment."
"No, as long as Vita is okay."
The girl looked at Vita's flushed face. Processed by Jun An's mental influence, she merely thought it was a sign of illness.
"So what illness does she have? Why is she trembling constantly? Is she really okay?"
"She's fine."
Jun An's shadow wantonly gagged Vita's mouth. "It's just a case never seen before in Salt Snow Holy City. It's nothing for the Tower Sage."
"That's true,"
She even prayed piously for the "sick" Vita. "Great Tower Sage, please be sure to cure this child's illness!"
"Mm."
Only after Jun An had taken Vita far away did he let her speak. "Well? Was cursing me fun?"
The shadow left her mouth, saliva stretching in a long strand. After being suffocated, breathing in oxygen again made her want to dry heave uncontrollably, then gasp greedily for air.
This feeling of rebirth, the feeling of her throat being forcibly stretched open, the feeling of her windpipe being compressed, unable to breathe, the feeling of being watched while climaxing...
Vita didn't know why, but deep down, she actually had the thought of wanting to experience it again...
"What are you smiling about?"
Jun An looked at Vita, who had clearly climaxed to the point of losing all strength, yet was still showing a faint smile. It felt creepy.
Vita naturally wouldn't tell the truth, let alone admit she had already set him up.
"Nothing, just wondering, since your shadow can share sensations, what place was your shadow sharing sensations with just now?"
Vita deliberately changed the subject, glancing at Jun An's 'handle'. It was clear the MANTIS's recovery ability was terrifyingly strong.
"It seems bullying me in front of others really excites you. There's an alley over there, very few people. Want to go?"
"It seems your lesson wasn't enough."
Jun An decided. From now on, he absolutely wouldn't let her get any pleasure.
At this moment, Vita revealed a satisfied smile.
As expected, the Captain wasn't omniscient, nor did he possess Sa's "All-Seeing Eye" that could see through all of the "present."
Therefore, information warfare was still effective against the Captain.
And driven by his kinks, even if he knew, he might not necessarily remember that among the Tower Sage's powers was the ability to "respond to the wishes of others." The Tower Sage could perceive people's wishes, pay attention to them, send divine envoys to interfere, and even fulfill those wishes.
In other words, when that girl prayed for Vita's health, Seele had already been watching.
This time, victory is mine!