"I followed aside into the smoke-free zone."

"I had a brief encounter with it, but it managed to escape."

"It was running around like an insect, trying to escape my pursuit."

"It's probably hiding somewhere feeling resentful, waiting for the right moment to ambush us, hehe."

"Acadia really has the misfortune of having such an unreliable deity."

Turing absentmindedly played with her flowing red hair with one hand, her gaze shifting to the upper right, as she searched her memories of the time spent in the smoke-free zone.

"As for discoveries..."

"They were all insignificant discoveries."

"Ha, actually, it's because I don't understand English. I can't make sense of all those English materials I collected."

"Even if I don't read those documents, it shouldn't be a problem."

"Well, as long as I reach the top level."

Turing looked up at the hole in the ceiling, lost in thought for a moment, then lowered her head and spoke to Merka.

"Oh, by the way,"

"What about you? How did you end up in this state... What have you been doing in the smoke-free zone?"

Turing tilted her head slightly and smiled gently at Merka.

She chose not to directly read Merka's memories with aside, as it would be a major sign of disrespect to the person themselves.

"Well, um..."

Merka initially wanted to tell Turing every detail of her experiences.

But then she realized that doing so would inevitably involve the character Lilyss.

Thinking about Lilyss's almost teasing words to her, Merka blushed and felt that some of her experiences were hard to talk about in front of Turing.

"What's wrong?"

Turing raised an eyebrow, looking at Merka with interest as she struggled.

"Oh my, isn't this darling!"

"I didn't see you for a while, I thought the owl god had eaten you."

"I didn't expect you to be here teasing with other women!"

Suddenly, Lilyss's scolding voice interrupted Turing.

With her hands on her hips, Lilyss had appeared on an open space not far from Merka and Turing.

She looked pensively at the hole in the ceiling of the park, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.

"Didn't I specifically instruct you to call me before going to the next level?"

"You're not thinking of leaving me behind and going to the next level by yourself, are you?"

"It seems you don't understand the hidden dangers in this beta level. For angels, it's like salt to snails, Mars to cotton, and jackals to sheep!"

"If you don't have someone to guide you, even a little fox will stumble without fail."

"Not to mention your... not quite human, not quite magical little sweetheart."

As she spoke, Lilyss seemed quite blunt and contemptuously glanced at Turing.

Turing caught the fleeting and slightly hostile change in Lilyss's expression, furrowing her brow deeply.

But more than the words themselves, what concerned Turing was the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language in Lilyss's speech.

【"Darling," "other women," "leave her behind," "little sweetheart."】

Taking a deep breath, a sense of anger slowly rose within Turing.

She had no doubts about Merka's loyalty.

But Turing had not anticipated that this woman's frivolous tone and her flirtatious gestures, seemingly accentuating her figure, would make her so angry.

"Shab, apprehend her."

Turing's tone suddenly dropped by a hundred degrees, completely different from her previous gentle conversation with Merka.

A purple thunderstorm suddenly erupted behind Lilyss.

A headless angel, towering three stories high, swung down its lightning-fast hand and firmly grabbed Lilyss.

"All right, sister, how many pieces should I break her into?"

Shab asked with an innocent tone, uttering horrifying words.

"Don't kill her, read her memories with aside..."

"Hah! Lucifer's foolish offspring. Foolish and shallow, you are not even a match for a single strand of your mother's hair!"

"I want to see how you'll escape this smoke-free zone where the buried angels lie without my guidance!"

Before Turing could finish speaking, Lilyss immediately interrupted her, loudly teasing and cursing at Turing.

She transformed into a small snake, slipped through Shab's fingers, vanished in an instant into the ground without a trace, as if she had never existed.

"I'm sorry, sister, I let her escape. I didn't react in time."

Shab lowered her body, knelt on one knee in front of Turing, and explained in a distressed tone.

"It's okay, I don't blame you."

"Did you manage to read her memories? That one second should have been enough for you to read through her memories, right?"

Even though Shab had no head, she shook her neck slightly to indicate a negative.

"Sorry, sister... I didn't read anything."

"This is the first time I've used aside and it felt so strange."

"I felt like I wasn't using magic on humans or angels, but on the air itself..."