Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 77 - Lower. Your. Blade.

[I apologise… in advance for your… divinity…]

After saying this, the Destiny Scale disappeared into his body. He received a final piece of info from it before it went quiet, and no matter how Long Di called out to it, he received no response.

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Long Di then looked to the spot where Boss Bao disappeared before he stared at the three bandits in the distance who were on the ground with white foam coming out of their mouths.

“This is… irksome.” Long Di said.

He took up Shen Ling in a princess carry and made his way to where the cannon fodders were. As he passed by the disciples, he instructed. “Follow along children.”

Tie Lang, Feng Yu and Jia Yan tagged along in silence. They looked at the back of Long Di with complicated expressions.

When they arrived where the bandits were lying, Long Di turned around to face them.

“I never… what?” Long Di saw that they were shooting him looks of confusion, shock, hurt… and betrayal.

He could guess those first few ones were for Shen Ling, whilst the last one was because of him.

Tie Lang was the first one to speak up in a shaky voice. “Did you not care?”

“You were going to let us die,” Jia Yan followed up.

“You were going to let them kill us!” Feng Yu exploded. Many thoughts swirled in their heads at the moment, but as the most powerful emotion was anger, whatever thought it was that was fuelled by this was the one that burst forth.

Feng Yu continued. “We trusted you and you were going to let them kill us! We put our lives and our futures in your hands, and this is what you did with it!? You didn’t even care!”

Her chest heaved in her anger, and Long Di remained silent in the face of this. He saw the tears streaming down Feng Yu and Tie Lang’s faces and Jia Yan’s attempt to keep his emotions in check.

“Do you believe that?” Long Di simply asked.

This one question threw them off, and they all looked away in self-reproach and embarrassment.

This question truly dredged up from the back of their mind something that was always there.

They knew that Long Di wouldn’t let

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