Do you come to my room every day when I'm not home?

After listening to Anna's words, Leon's expression slightly froze for a moment, and corresponding scenes involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

When he left home, she would quietly come every day to have a look, hoping to see him appear in the room and greet her with a smile, but she could only sigh softly in the end and either leave, slightly disappointed, or sit on the bed for a while...

"Sorry, Anna, I've been really busy lately, and I can't stay home for too long this time... I might have to leave again in about seven or eight days."

"I see..."

Seeing the hint of guilt on Leon's face, the slender girl blinked, then reached out to help straighten his collar and said with a gentle smile:

"Having seven or eight days is already very, very good, and it's not like you're just idling around; you have very important serious business to attend to... Hmm..."

At this point, Anna suddenly paused slightly, then stopped adjusting his collar and said with a somewhat difficult expression:

"Brother... where exactly did you just go?"

Huh?

Faced with Anna's question, Leon was momentarily stunned and then asked back:

"I just got back from the office, reporting on my business trip to the Director... Is there something wrong?"

"..."

Is there something wrong... everything is very wrong, okay? 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Looking at the lipstick mark on Leon's collar and smelling the mixed scent of alcohol and perfume on him, the slender girl pursed her lips, then angrily pinched Leon's waist hard.

Noticing what his sister was looking at, Leon realized these... lingering traces, quickly waved his hand to explain:

"Anna, it's not what you think! The Director has been troubled recently and drank a bit too much today, and I happened to return, so she leaned on me... Really! I didn't do anything!"

"You better not have!"

After giving the increasingly suspicious brother a glare, the slender girl said nothing more but reached out to help him take off his jacket, picked two drunken red hairs off it, and handed them back into Leon's hand.

"Take off your clothes!"

"Huh?"

"Quickly change into something without a lipstick stain! I'll wash this shirt for you!"

Rolling her eyes at Leon in exasperation, Anna couldn't help but pinch his waist again, then reminded him through gritted teeth:

"You're not planning to go see Veronica after coming back, are you? Are you actually going to see her wearing this?"

"Oh, oh!"

Hearing Anna's words, Leon suddenly woke up as if from a dream, hurriedly changed out of the pajamas the Director had rumpled, and after grabbing his jacket, whispered a reminder:

"Um, don't touch the hair on this; I'll deal with it, it's quite dangerous."

You're the one who's dangerous!

After Leon took away the intoxicated [Slaughter Blood Hair], confirming there was nothing left behind, the slender girl collected his jacket and shirt, left the room angrily, and returned a moment later with a folded set of clothes, tossing it into the arms of Leon, who was bare-chested.

"Quick, change! You'll catch a cold otherwise!"

"Oh..."

As Leon followed his sister's order and began to put on the shirt, Anna hesitated slightly and then softly asked:

"Brother, the work you do at the cleaning bureau, dealing with those things that don't exist in reality?"

"Huh?"

"Like having continuous nightmares..."

Nightmares?

After putting on the slightly smaller-sized clothes, seeing the hesitation on his sister's face, Dream Realm Destroyer·Nightmare Master·Yan Zhiang blinked, looking incredulous:

"Anna? How come you're suddenly asking this? Did you have a nightmare?"

Who the hell is brave enough to mess with my sister for some merit points? If I find out which damn nightmare dared to trouble Anna, I'll go down myself and...

"It's not me having nightmares."

Just as Leon was about to mobilize seven nightmare envoys to thoroughly investigate the Demonic Soul Abyss, the slender girl slightly shook her head, saving the innocent nightmares in the Demonic Soul Abyss, then furrowed her brows deeply:

"It's Ellie... Emma brought her here for me to look after, and not long after she left on a business trip, that child started having nightmares repeatedly, dreaming of some... some very bad scenes every day."

Hearing this, Leon pondered for a moment, then asked further:

"Those very bad scenes mean..."

"Just... some scenes where Emma is suffering."

Pursing her lips slightly, Anna said worriedly:

"The child can't clearly explain the situation, but she feels very upset every time she wakes up, and yesterday she even held me crying nonstop, no matter how I comforted her, and kept saying things like 'Mommy is in pain,' and 'It's so dark around.'

"..."

Emma senior...

After hearing Anna's worrisome recount, Leon, who guessed what was happening, fell silent.

The [Sin of the Precious Flower] possessed by Emma senior and the [Jewel Flower's Woe] held by young Ellie, are actually a pair of undead anomalous items, likely having some sort of connection between them.

Due to the Overlords of the Dead Realm's ambush, Emma senior's royal ship was dragged into the Realm of the Dead, with young Ellie perhaps sensing the pain she is going through, relying on the connection between the two anomalous items...

"Brother?"

Noticing Leon's odd expression, Anna couldn't help but grab his arm, asking urgently:

"Do you know something about Ellie's nightmares? Does this mean... Emma really is in trouble?"

"Hmm..."

After hesitating briefly, Leon reluctantly nodded:

"Emma senior was ambushed by the enemy during a mission and was captured along with dozens of cleaners. Although she is hopefully still safe now, she's being held in a very dangerous place and can't come back at the moment."

"?!"

Upon hearing Leon's words, Anna trembled slightly, then couldn't help but grasp Leon's arm and ask:

"So, after these seven or eight days, you're actually going to..."

"..."

I knew it would be like this...

As his sister, who figured out the situation simply from his slip-up, Leon couldn't help but sigh slightly, then gently tucked her falling strands behind her ear, looking into her suddenly tense eyes, warmly comforted:

"Don't worry, this operation involves not just me but also many very experienced seniors going along. It will surely be foolproof, and we'll successfully rescue Emma senior... Oh, by the way, Anna, is young Ellie awake yet? If she isn't, let me go and check on her first!"