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Chapter 71

Author: C.ELLICA
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Two Hours Later – Moonshroud Castle, West Garden

If anyone asked me two years ago whether I’d be standing in a castle garden, spying on a possibly possessed ex-best friend with the help of a sarcastic rabbit, a pint-sized war strategist named Anton, and a team of enchanted vegetables with military ranks—

I would’ve assumed they were drunk.

Or me.

And yet here we were.

“Operation Sour Soup is a go,” Anton the Ant declared, adjusting his leaf-shaped helmet as he crouched behind a rose bush. “Targets: Lana the Limb-Loser and the Parentals of Questionable Loyalty.”

Anton might’ve only been three inches tall and technically not a legal citizen of any realm, but he took espionage very seriously.

Behind him, the Crisp Crusaders were in full position:

Greg the Potato, nestled in a flower pot, looked like an unassuming lump—but underneath, he had glow-runes carved into his sides that could detect dark magic within a 20-foot radius.

Broccolini was perched on a trellis, holding a pea-pod telesco
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