38 - Eh? Eh?

38 - Eh? Eh?

"Aiya, don't play deaf. Why don't you tell me why you have come? That way, we can wrap this up quickly and go to bed early. I'm a growing lady—you can't be so callous as to deprive me of my beauty sleep, right?"

The lilting voice was full of mischief; neither loud nor soft, neither fast nor slow, a sound so innocent and harmless that it could cause the listener to feel good…

… and yet the childish laugh that accompanied those casual words caused the person with the alias Yi to be covered in cold sweat.

"Why don't you remove your mask? Or do you want me to do it?"

In a blink of an eye, Number One was several mu away, both legs bent like a tightly coiled spring. He held a small sword with an icy blade i