"What exactly happened?"
Welt gazed at the glowing red-and-white feathers, increasingly feeling that something was off.
…Diting, who kept running around aimlessly.
And.
"Hm?"
Suddenly, a flash of insight hit Welt, and the scene from the beginning appeared in his mind.
It was when Tingyun was letting Diting smell the perfume… Zeig had also crawled over.
"At that time… what Diting smelled seemed to be Zeig's coat?"
No wonder after he suddenly changed direction, Diting didn't correct his route.
Most likely at that moment, Zeig had also suddenly changed direction and headed alone to Stargazer Navalia!
...
Stargazer Navalia.
On top of a large container.
A girl with wine-red long hair was currently standing there silently.
Opposite her, a deformed creature was on all fours, staring at her menacingly.
"Hehehehehehe—!!"
"Oh my? Why are you appearing here at this time?!" Seeing Zeig lying opposite her, Kafka's eyes lit up.
"Eh, where are your companions?"
She looked around but didn't seem to find any traces of others.
"How strange… If they noticed you were missing, they should be looking for you. How exactly did you find my location?"
Zeig lay on the opposite container, grinning ferociously. "Heh heh, I am…"
"Alright, let's put that question aside for now."
"..."
Kafka pointed at Zeig's posture, her delicate brows slightly furrowed. "You came all the way here like this?"
"What's wrong? Can't I?"
Zeig slowly stood up, patted the dust off his hands, and said in a deep voice, "Do you know why humans can't outrun cheetahs, tigers, and the like? It's because they only use two legs to move!"
"So I also fully utilized my limbs to maximize my speed!"
"..."
"Sigh." Kafka held her forehead and sighed. "I didn't expect that after staying on the Astral Express for so long, your mental illness still hasn't been cured?"
While she was speaking, two Cloud Knights quietly approached behind Zeig and swung their glaives down fiercely!
"Clang—!!"
The sound of clashing metal rang out.
At some point, a middle-aged man had appeared beside Zeig. His white hair fluttered in the wind, and there was some stubble on his chin.
"Haha… Can't let you sneak attack!" Siegfried laughed heartily.
"Oh my… I've been discovered." Kafka looked quite dejected.
"How did these Cloud Knights come to listen to your orders?" Zeig crossed his arms, standing at a high point. The strong wind made his clothes flap loudly.
"Just a small hint to make them listen to me speak. In the past, you understood this best of all."
"?"
Three black question marks immediately popped up over Zeig's head.
This woman seemed to keep mentioning their "past."
But… he had no impression at all.
"We were very close before?"
"Of course. Do you still remember the bank card password from your previous life? You knelt and begged me to take it, and even called me Mommy~"
Zeig pursed his lips. "6."
"Then how about this?"
Snap—!!
After a finger snap, the two Cloud Knights suddenly stopped fighting Siegfried. They strode toward Kafka and leaped up fiercely!
"Huh?!" Kafka's pupils shrank abruptly.
The two Cloud Knights raised their glaives high and slashed down heavily at her.
Kafka was slightly surprised, then calmly drew her long blade and easily knocked them down.
"You can even influence their consciousness now. I'm truly impressed."
"Enough talk. You lured the Astral Express here and deliberately waited here. What exactly do you want?"
From the moment Zeig approached, he had noticed that Kafka had no intention of moving at all.
If she really was the prey fleeing everywhere as the Xianzhou claimed, she wouldn't be this calm.
"Ah… You think I have some scheme, so you came ahead alone?"
Kafka seemed somewhat dissatisfied. "This makes things a bit difficult."
But soon, she raised her head again and smiled. "But your enemy has never been me."
"Since you arrived here early, I might as well tell you some news."
"?"
"There is a very dangerous entity that has been following you. When you reached the Xianzhou, all your information was sold by him to your real enemies."
"For example…"
Kafka extended her slender hand and pointed at the Cloud Knights who had fallen below. "The information about that ability you just used is definitely included."
"Huh?"
Zeig raised an eyebrow. "Who wants to mess with me? How do you know?"
Kafka shook her head and smiled unhurriedly. "I have my own channels, of course. What you should be most concerned about right now isn't me… but whether you can survive this time."
"…Acting like this, always wanting to run over alone to solve problems, is very dangerous."
"I'm fine, but if you encounter their people, even with all your strange abilities, you won't be able to hold on for long."
Zeig listened silently to Kafka's words and couldn't help asking, "So you stayed here just to remind me of this?"
"Haha… Of course not."
Kafka smiled. "I just wanted you to know that I am friendly toward you. We shouldn't be in conflict."
"Do you remember who protected you at the very beginning?"
"Of course. You also said you would protect me~"
"..."
Faced with the riddle-speaker's words, Zeig summarized the following points.
First, he really did know her from before. This was clear from her knowing his pre-transmigration bank card password.
That meant the real time he arrived in this world was not at the space station.
Before that, he had lived with this person called Kafka.
And their relationship seemed pretty good.
Second, someone had been following him the whole way.
"..."
Zeig narrowed his eyes.
If it was really as Kafka said, and that person knew all his information, then they must have been following him since the space station.
All the Divine Keys on him, as well as other abilities… any information that had been used was recorded.
Then… he sold it to Zeig's enemies?
"I have a small question." Zeig raised his hand.
Kafka opposite him smiled. "Of course, you can ask as much as you like. Whether I answer depends on what exactly it is."
"Who do you think my enemy is?"
"Oh my, isn't that obvious?"
Kafka spread her hands naturally. "Whoever wants to kill your companions, whoever wants to kill the whole world, whoever wants to kill you—people like that… aren't they your enemies?"