“There’s no way you’re leaving now.”

Zhou Jiuyu shut the door directly, then sat by the bed and patted his thigh. “Come sit here yourself.”

Akizuki Airi’s young little face instantly turned bright red. She bit her lip and hesitated for a moment, but in the end, she still closed her eyes and walked toward Zhou Jiuyu.

Then, as if obeying his command, she sat on Zhou Jiuyu’s lap.

“Twenty-seven seconds! I-I’m timing it! You’re not allowed to go over!” Akizuki Airi took out her phone, turned on the timer, and set it aside.

“Okay…”

Zhou Jiuyu answered softly, not in any hurry. One arm wrapped around Akizuki Airi’s soft waist. The other lifted her arm, and then he actually leaned in and gave the hollow of her armpit a light sniff.

That instantly made her whole body tense up. Her mind went blank. When she came back to herself, she couldn’t help turning back at him in shame and anger.

“How are you this much of a pervert?! There... it’s dirty!”

“As long as it’s part of you, Airi, I’d never think it’s dirty.”

“You... shameless!”

The shame inside Akizuki Airi had already exploded. She’d prepared herself for the worst... but what was this? You actually sniffed my armpit first?! How could anyone be this perverted?

Still, thank goodness she’d showered that morning. She’d even sprayed on a little perfume when she changed into her dress that afternoon, so there shouldn’t be any weird smell... b-but a place like that was still sensitive...

“What a pity. Airi isn’t wearing stockings today...”

Zhou Jiuyu suddenly said that with a smiling look.

“Y-you...” Akizuki Airi’s lips trembled, and for a while she couldn’t get any words out.

The most humiliating part was that while he was defiling her like this, her body... wasn’t resisting.

Only endless shame rippled through her heart.

But just when she thought he was about to do something even more excessive, Zhou Jiuyu did the opposite. He suddenly grabbed her small, jade-like foot. Her toes were full and pale, tender-looking.

“Pervert... you pervert... why do you always pick places like this... feet aren’t for this...” Akizuki Airi was so ashamed she felt like dying. Her whole face was so red it looked ready to drip blood.

“Not for what?” Zhou Jiuyu asked with a smile.

“N-not for... playing with...” Akizuki Airi kept her eyes shut. Her long eyelashes trembled like cicada wings.

“So you know I’m playing with your foot.” Zhou Jiuyu let out a soft laugh.

Akizuki Airi bit her lip, enduring wave after wave of shame. But... for some reason... she was actually starting to sink into it... and this bad guy seemed to be getting bolder and bolder...

And just as he was about to touch her panties, just as she’d already imagined the edge of her underwear being hooked up—

Beep beep beep—!

A shrill sound came from the phone she had tossed aside.

“Alright, twenty-seven seconds are up. You can go back now.”

Zhou Jiuyu set Akizuki Airi down.

“Huh?”

Akizuki Airi stood there blankly. Even after she was pushed out of the room, she still hadn’t fully come back to her senses. There was still a trace of dazed haze in her eyes.

Why... why...

This was clearly a man defiling her, staining her body... She was like some inflatable doll in his arms, letting him toy with her however he wanted... She should’ve been desperate for it to end as fast as possible...

So why... why was it that after it ended... she still wanted what had just happened to continue?

So strange... it was really so strange...

He’d played with her feet, sniffed her armpit, touched her thigh... and he’d pinched her there this morning too...

Why was she actually looking forward to this kind of awful thing?!

...

After Akizuki Airi left, Zhou Jiuyu lay down on the bed as well. He savored the lingering feel of it, then closed his eyes.

A powerful wave of drowsiness quickly surged over him.

His consciousness fell into darkness again.

Everything in the dream came rushing in like a tide.

Beep beep beep...

Zhou Jiuyu’s awareness returned once more inside the dream. He looked at the phone in his hand.

Only then did he remember that when the last dream ended, Tong Che had called him.

“Hello?” He answered.

“Boss! Don’t go back to the Sanctum... it’s not safe there right now either. Sword God Mountain is pressuring the Sanctum’s upper ranks. I really can’t say what the Sanctum’s attitude toward you and Miss Nan is anymore...”

“We’ve already returned to the Sanctum.” Zhou Jiuyu’s face immediately darkened, and his gaze sweeping the surroundings turned wary.

“Then I’ll head over right now!”

“No need. Even if you came, it wouldn’t help much. You might even lose your life. Handle your own matters. I... have my own way.”

Zhou Jiuyu hung up.

Actually, if Tong Che came, he could still be of some help. But not much. It might even cost him his life. His own troubles in City Four still weren’t resolved. Zhou Jiuyu wasn’t heartless enough to let Tong Che die here.

“Idiot girl, move... we’re running!”

Grabbing Nan Mengling’s hand, Zhou Jiuyu smashed the window in front of them and prepared to jump straight down.

But just as they were about to move, a powerful force of gravity locked onto their bodies and dragged them backward. For a moment, they couldn’t break free at all.

At the same time, the shattered glass began restoring itself bit by bit under the effect of Spirit Energy.

“Young Master Zhou, Miss Nan, where are our two guests trying to run off to?”

At the stairway entrance, a man in a black trench coat walked up with a smile. His temples were already slightly gray.

Behind him followed five espers, and all of them were actually Seventh Tier!

At the same time, the elevator beside them opened with a ding. Sanctum guards in combat uniforms poured out in a line, firearms in hand. The Spirit Energy fluctuations on them were all Sixth Tier. There were more than a dozen of them!

As for the man in the black trench coat, the Spirit Energy radiating from him was even more terrifying... Ninth Tier!

That gravity just now was his ability. As for the shattered glass restoring itself, that was probably one of his subordinates’ powers.

“So this is how you treat guests?”

Zhou Jiuyu swept a glance over the overwhelming lineup and let out a cold laugh.

“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Wen Xingsi, Fourth Elder of the Sanctum.” He smiled mildly, then continued, “Young Master Zhou is indeed a guest of our Sanctum, but... unfortunately, Lord Sword God is an honored guest of our Sanctum.”

“What, so guests are ranked too? Didn’t your Sanctum claim that as long as someone is a guest here, no one can touch them? You’re scared of a single Sword God? And you call yourselves the Sanctum? Heh...” Zhou Jiuyu still sneered.

“If it were people from other factions, like the official Patrol Division or the Shadow Syndicate, trying to hunt down our Sanctum’s guests, then of course we would protect our guests...” Wen Xingsi said with a smile. “But the two of you are only long-term residents of our Sanctum for one year, while Lord Sword God possesses permanent residency here and is also one of our Sanctum’s honorary elders.”

“So the situation now is this... as guests, you showed disrespect to one of our Sanctum’s honorary elders. That is why I have personally come to arrest you and bring you to apologize before Lord Sword God.”

“Our Sanctum... is very reasonable, you see.”