"He...escaped?"

"Yes."

Green nodded slightly.

After confirming this fact, Teya's face was full of disbelief. The powerful sin user, Kexika, who had been evading capture for hundreds of years, had actually escaped.

Looking at Green again, Teya found the ridiculous monkey mask not as annoying as before, although it still wasn't very good-looking...

"Princess, it's time for you to go back. You were lucky to encounter me this time, but who knows what will happen next time. Your guards should find you soon, and the nearby monsters have all been scared away. Just wait here."

Teya's eyes dimmed noticeably. Indeed, the conditions proposed by Kexika were tempting, and she wanted to quickly become stronger and break free from her father's control. But reality was so powerless.

However, Teya wanted to hold on to a glimmer of hope.

"Before you leave, can you fulfill one request for me?"

"Tell me, and I'll consider whether or not to agree."

"Can you take off the mask?"

"No."

"...!"

Green's refusal was so unambiguous that Teya hadn't anticipated it. And Green's reason for refusing was simple – his intuition told him that it would bring trouble.

Teya felt a bit at a loss for a moment.

"Alright, I'll leave now. Goodbye."

With that, Green left without looking back.

Green soon returned to Falsist with Miyabi. He had originally wanted to greet Lilies, but discovered that there was no one in the new house Fubu had bought. So he went to the agreed location and informed Yuria of the news, and the three of them returned to the castle together.

However, Green soon discovered that there were many unfamiliar people in the castle. When he asked Yuria, she said she had been out for several days and didn't know what had happened.

After that, Yuria and Green separated. She said she was going to see the king about the situation, while Green went to find Aloof.

At this moment, in the garden pavilion, Aloof, Yuzuriha, and Lilies sat harmoniously together, eating desserts made by the pastry master, with happy smiles on their faces.

"The master's desserts are truly works of art. I wonder how long it will take for me to reach this level. It feels like I'll never get there in my lifetime."

"Speaking of which, Green will be staying in Caesar for several days. It's a pity we won't be able to taste them."

"..."

"What's a pity?"

Green heard Aloof and the others discussing something before he even got close.

What was even more surprising was that Lilies appeared in the castle, and Fubu guarded the three of them like a bodyguard.

When Aloof saw Green suddenly appear, she immediately stopped what she was doing.

"Green? Weren't you supposed to go today? Why are you back so soon?"

"There was a little accident. The meeting has already ended."

"Little accident?"

Green didn't respond to Aloof's confusion. Instead, he took out the broken sword he obtained at the auction and mysteriously said to the others, "By the way, I brought something good."

"Something good?"

"This sword?"

"Are you sure, Green..."

"Um... Did you take the wrong thing?"

The reactions of the people when they saw the sword Green took out were all different. Fubu directly suspected that Green had taken the wrong thing, but Green shook his head and explained to them.

"Don't let its appearance fool you. There's an extremely special power within!"

"What kind of power?"

Aloof curiously asked, and in response, Green had a proud expression.

"I'm not sure either, but there is definitely a mysterious power within it."

"........"

Aloof sighed and rubbed her forehead. She didn't even know what he was proud of...

Then, Aloof suddenly thought of something and looked at Green, who was playing with the broken sword, asking, "Where did you get this sword? You didn't just pick it up, did you?""It was bought by me at an auction."

"For how much?"

"It seems to be ten million."

"?!?"

Upon hearing Green's words, Lilies and Aloof were stunned, even Fubu couldn't believe it. They couldn't fathom how a sword that didn't seem to have any special qualities could be bought for ten million. However, Yuzuriha didn't feel anything about it, as she had never really dealt with money before.

Green quickly explained the events that took place in the Caesar Empire, and as they listened, the more absurd it sounded. They couldn't believe that someone could encounter two of the Seven Deadly Sins in just one day. Were the Sins really that easy to come across? Nevertheless, Green's explanation quickly subdued their surprise as they used that as their reasoning.

"What did you end up doing to Cexika?"

"Well..."

Green's mouth curled into a sinister smile.

Meanwhile, in the southern snowy continent.

Cexika listened to the voice that existed within him, ultimately having to accept reality. The reality was that Green had left behind an energy in him that even the entity couldn't decipher, and it was unclear whether this energy was harmful or not. Even with all its effort, the entity couldn't expel that energy. It was like having a time bomb buried within him. How could anyone remain calm in such a situation? Cexika became increasingly anxious and didn't even have the mind to carry out the tasks assigned by the entity.

"Is there really no way to deal with this energy?"

"No."

"In that case, what should I do? If I die, you won't survive either!"

"For now, the only thing you can do is complete the assigned tasks."

"... "

Cexika sank into his spiritual world and looked at the list of tasks.

"Seize the inheritance of the Goddess of Power - Task failed."

According to the entity, the inheritance of the Goddess of Power resided in Tia, and Cexika had waited for hundreds of years for this opportunity to activate the task. However, it ended up failing at the hands of someone unfamiliar. Cexika felt irritated. He then looked at the other tasks.

"Seize the essence of the Elf God Tree - Task in progress."

"Seize the inheritance of the Goddess of Life - Not activated."

"Forget it, help me activate the inheritance of the Goddess of Life first. Also, check if there's anything nearby that can be absorbed."

Following the entity's instructions, Cexika searched for something he could absorb in this perpetually snowy area. Before long, he found a frozen body buried deep in the thick snow.

"This person is... Dexisis?"

Cexika recognized him. Dexisis was also a Sin, and according to the entity, he had a powerful ally supporting him. But Cexika never expected to see him in this place, and in this state - his face filled with fear, as if he had seen something terrifying.

"Is he dead?"

"No signs of life, absorbable energy."

"Alright."

Cexika placed his hand on the ice surface, and a black energy spread from his arm onto the ice, seeping into the interior of the ice block, enveloping Dexisis. Shortly after, the black energy dissipated, leaving only Dexisis' clothes where he once stood. This was one of the abilities of the entity - to absorb all creatures' corpses and convert the energy into a currency-like substance for Cexika to gain convenience from the entity. For example, when Cexika grilled the monster meat for Tia, he used something called 'Premium Seasoning' along with the 'Top Cooking Skills' he obtained from the entity, turning even the unappetizing insect monster meat into a top-grade delicacy. Apart from that, Cexika gained many useful things from the entity. Cexika looked at the currency inside, although it was quite a sum, it still wasn't enough to buy the opportunity to escape like last time. Without savings of several decades, Cexika couldn't escape from the crisis in an instant like last time. Thus, Cexika's hatred towards Green had grown to its peak, and what frustrated him the most was that even the entity couldn't analyze Green."What kind of person is that guy?"

"Analysis failed."

"Fuck!"

The image of Green wearing a mask was deeply imprinted in Kaxika's heart. From this moment on, his goal was to kill Green. Anything else didn't matter as long as Green was dead.

And it seemed like that presence responded to Kaxika's thoughts, immediately issuing a task:

"Warning: New mission- expel the invading power from the body."

"Mission reward: one chance to escape."

However, this was pointless. Even that presence couldn't do anything, so what could Kaxika do?

Since receiving help from that presence in childhood, it had been six hundred years. It could be said that everything Kaxika had came from that presence. Without it, Kaxika could do nothing.

Extreme panic appeared in Kaxika's heart. He felt so helpless for the first time.

That presence was everything to him, an absolute existence. Without it, he couldn't do anything, couldn't dare to do anything. Without the protection of that presence, Kaxika felt no hope.

It seemed that the only option was to beg for mercy, but Kaxika would never do that.

After all, he didn't feel any discomfort from the invading energy, except for the unease in his heart. There was no problem at all.

Comforting himself this way, Kaxika's panic subsided a bit.

However, at this moment, Kaxika suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen.

"Ah...! Fuck!"

—Ouch, it hurts!

Kaxika was very puzzled. His body was fine, and he didn't eat anything strange. Why did his stomach suddenly start hurting??

Kaxika's first reaction was to quickly buy some spiritual medicine from that presence. But even after taking the medicine, the pain in his stomach didn't change at all.

There was no way, Kaxika had to go relieve himself to see.

A few minutes later...

"Huh— I thought it was something serious. It turns out to be just a normal diarrhea, scared me to death"

Although he didn't understand why the spiritual medicine from that presence didn't work, Kaxika felt very comfortable now, so he didn't bother to think too much. At this time, he felt a bit hungry, so he took out something from his storage and started eating.

However, before he could eat a few bites, his abdomen suddenly felt a sharp pain again.

"Fuck! What the hell did that ** do to me?!!"

At this point, Kaxika already knew that it was because of Green that he had a stomachache. Self-deception was useless anymore. If he didn't solve this, Kaxika probably wouldn't be able to live a good life in this lifetime.

But just as Kaxika was thinking this, the pain in his abdomen suddenly disappeared, and his body felt comfortable again.

"What's going on? The duration didn't decrease like last time, is it starting to weaken?"

Kaxika felt relieved, but before he could feel happy for two seconds, the intense pain in his abdomen came back once more. It wasn't that the duration had become shorter, but the frequency had increased.

So, in this way, Kaxika's abdomen would occasionally experience intense pain, but it would come and go quickly. He also noticed that every time the pain disappeared, he would feel comfortable all over, which made Kassica extremely irritated.

And Kassica gradually realized that there was no pattern to this intense pain. It would last for a short or long time, sometimes making him suffer for a while, and then it would stop only to come back again.

After a few days, Kassica's face was pale, his body weak and emaciated.