I! Cleaner!-Chapter 1047 - 964: The Scales (Part 2)
"Just like I told you earlier, I was actually ready to abandon this contingency plan, but after you hugged little Aerial, whether you couldn't spare the focus to use your powers, or you felt you had already won, you gradually let down your guard.
Even after I first sent you into the dream realm, you relaxed the power of [Heart Lake] that you had been maintaining, and completely stopped checking the people approaching. Otherwise, I might not have had the chance to act.
So don't be discouraged, this time you didn't lose to me, you just lost to your own carelessness~"
"..."
"Come on, don't be upset. Didn't you also prepare a bunch of things against me? I just gave a tiny bit back to you."
After making a "tiny" gesture, looking at Leon who was still hugging Queen Aerial and not looking too good, the red-haired director dragged over a chair, sat down, then looked at Leon's expression and comforted with a smile:
"I understand you, just as you understand me. Although I didn't want you to get involved, I could guess for sure that you would come looking for me, and I would definitely prepare in advance to deal with you.
And although you're a once-in-a-millennium genius, you've been with the Cleaner Bureau for too short a time, and haven't had enough encounters with cleaners, so it's normal to stumble on these little details. Take it slow from here on~"
"Alright, I admit defeat this time."
After closing his eyes slightly, Leon glanced at the smiling red-haired director, then with a stern face said:
"So what do you plan to do with me? Just leave me here until the Watcher's Palace is weakened to the extent that the True God can descend? Until everyone in the East Carleighwen Kingdom is resurrected?"
"..."
Hearing this, the red-haired director's smile slightly faded, and after a moment of silence, she couldn't help but ask in return:
"Is my plan that obvious?"
"Much more obvious than that!"
Leon curled his lips and said:
"Director Serpent's power is also not bad, but with his brains, he definitely couldn't have turned you against us. He must have offered a condition you couldn't refuse, and ever since I've eaten the God of Wine's gem, the only condition left that you couldn't refuse is the old East Carleighwen Kingdom."
"What?"
At these words, the red-haired director suddenly jumped up in shock, exclaiming:
"You actually ate the God of Wine's gem? How could you... never mind, that's not important!"
After biting her lower lip hard, with her face slightly flushed, the red-haired director took two deep breaths, sat back down in the chair looking dejected, and asked:
"Why did you eat... I mean, what do you think of the God of Wine... ahhh!"
After screaming while holding her head, the red-haired director pinched her thigh hard, then gritted her teeth and said:
"What I mean is, that gem you... ahhh! Never mind, you definitely know what I want to ask! Just say it yourself!"
"Alright."
After giving a glance to the somewhat frantic red-haired director, Leon opened his mouth, silently exhaled a breath of wine towards her.
"Whew, you don't want the Cleaner Bureau to know, which proves that the Bureau doesn't want this to happen; whew, you don't want me to know, which means I also don't want this to happen; and, gathering these conditions, what you're planning to do isn't hard to guess, you're... what are you doing? Sit down!"
Leaning his only movable head back, trying to increase the distance, Leon, with a stern face, transformed as the wine incarnate, threatened:
"Coming over won't help! Now that I've figured out how to use the God of Wine's gem, as long as I don't want to, you could wring me dry and not get a drop of wine!"
"..."
"Come, it's negotiation time again."
After exhaling the richest wine breath, still not letting go of Queen Aerial, Leon smiled, imitating the red-haired director's earlier demeanor, and said:
"Now it's my turn to ask you questions, for each one you answer, I'll turn a bottle of clear water into fine wine, how about that? Whew!"
"..."
"I've already been caught by you, what more do you have to worry about? Whew whew!"
Drawing a circle with his only movable head to indicate that only his head could move now and he had no resistance left, Leon put away the red-haired director's personally taught smile, speaking sincerely:
"You indeed won this time, in my current state, whatever you plan to do I can't stop you, but now my only thought is just wanting to know what will happen in the future... whew whew whew!"
"..."
"Moreover, no matter what you and Director Serpent plan to do, it will certainly take some time to succeed, so at the very least you'll have to keep me for two or three days, or even longer, and in such a long time, we should talk about something, shouldn't we? Whew whew whew whew!"
"Stop whewing!"
Dazed by the rich aromatic wine breath, dragging her chair back seven or eight steps, the red-haired director couldn't resist the tease of the wine bugs, gave Leon a fierce look, and then pouted, humming:
"Ask your questions first! I'll decide if I'll answer based on the situation!"
Got it, decide how much wine to exchange based on the question's content, right?
Nodding towards the red-haired director, with a smile understanding and enduring, Leon sent a command to Little Ha in the mirror world, asking it to temporarily not stamp the temporary notification to cancel Olivia Farolan's eviction from the royal family, then gazed into the red-haired director's eyes, and earnestly asked:
"Then I'll ask the first question... will you die?"
"?!"
"Or I could rephrase it." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
Noticing the brief pause in the red-haired director's expression, Leon, who had already surmised it, squinted his eyes and said:
"With the Watcher's Palace not being weakened, the citizens of East Carleighwen Kingdom being resurrected... are you planning to use your own life to achieve both these outcomes?"
"..."
"Great, I've got your answer... bring the water over."
Watching the silent red-haired director in front of him, Leon slightly shook his head, took a sip from the glass of water Little Ha brought to his mouth from the mirror world, then biting the edge of the cup, using his teeth and neck's strength, flicked over a full glass of fragrant fine wine.
Yet strangely, the always wine-loving red-haired director didn't reach out to catch it, but let the glass full of clear wine crash to the floor and shatter with a "snap".
"Leon."
Calling out Leon's name, the red-haired director looked at the wine splattered all over the floor, full of helplessness, and asked:
"Is my plan... really so obvious?"
"Much more obvious than that."
After calmly answering the question, Leon gazed at the red-haired director's downcast eyes, and with a steady voice replied:
"You said it yourself, I understand you, just like you understand me.
And although you like to hold grudges, are double-standard, especially love to prank people, drink during work, habitually owe money and don't repay, have exceptionally low moral standards... but you're indeed a good cleaner.
Resurrecting the citizens of East Carleighwen Kingdom is indeed a condition you cannot refuse, but if the price of correcting this regret is weakening the Watcher's Palace allowing the True God to descend at will in the real world, causing large casualties, you would definitely not agree."
"..."
Thank you for your evaluation... if only you didn't take the opportunity to criticize me!
After hearing Leon's words, a warmth surged in the red-haired director's heart, but also an anxious prickling feeling, causing her to shake her head and say:
"But didn't I still end up on the opposite side of you? How do you know I am just like how you think..."
"I understand you, just as you understand me."
Repeating this sentence once again, Leon spoke with certainty:
"I know your bottom line very well. The only situation where you'd side with Director Serpent is if the revival of citizens and preservation of the Watcher's Palace are on one side of the balance, and what's certain to be raised high on the other end could be replaced with another weight.
Considering you wanted to hide it even from me, refusing to give me a heads-up about 'Director Serpent's actions', it proves you think even if you told me the truth, I likely wouldn't agree with your plan.
And what I can think of that meets all these conditions is just one 'new weight', and that's your life. You're planning to place yourself on the balance, becoming what is destined to move towards destruction."
