I! Cleaner!

【Name: Shrivelled Heart of the Red King (Truth, Blood, Legacy)】

【Appearance: A giant heart exceeding two meters in diameter. Even though the residual blood within has been mostly drained, it still exudes an incredibly strong bloody aura. Approaching it will cause you to be drenched in blood plasma.】

【Abilities: Crimson Domination, Blood Manipulation, Heart of Legacy】

【Cost: The Red King's heart is the only heart. When using its truth and authority, your own heart will temporarily stop beating.】

【File: As the core component of the Crimson Sovereign's body, after the Crimson King's body was killed, the Cleansing Bureau dissected its heart, drained the blood, and placed it in the secret vault for preservation... During the assessment, after refuting the current Aquarius Director's incorrect answer, the Crimson Heart was subjected to abnormally cruel abuse by the other party and was forcibly dragged to the brink of death fifteen times within a minute, with its heart rate once exceeding 230 beats per minute. Ultimately, it had no choice but to submit to his lewd power.】

【Evaluation: Although harboring ulterior motives, after your threats, having been so close to death for the first fifteen times, it has fallen into boundless fear. Until it finds a way to safely escape from your grasp and avoid you for all eternity, you can use it with complete peace of mind.】

【Contamination Value: Equivalent to the user's maximum contamination value.】

"Buzz"

【Through your own observation and summarization, you have obtained a large amount of information about the 'Shrivelled Heart of the Red King'... Your resistance to Crimson-type anomalies has greatly increased, and you are now able to shield against a certain degree of influence.】

Safe, the thing to restrain the Ophiuchus Director is in hand!

Reaching out and touching the slightly trembling Crimson Heart, Leon couldn't help but nod with satisfaction after sensing the great fear from the bottom of its heart.

I said there's no need to answer any questions, just stab it! Look how obedient it is now?

"Thank you, Taurus Director."

Picking up the trembling Crimson Heart, and somewhat laboriously prying it out of its original position, Leon wiped the sticky blood from his face and gave the Taurus Director, who looked utterly speechless, a blood-splattered smile.

"Then I'll take it first, and return it after solving the problem of the Sicariven Kingdom."

"Easy to say... If you can control it, then you can keep it forever..."

Looking at Leon, who was covered in blood plasma and smiling in a way that didn't look like a good guy at all, the Taurus Director couldn't help but remind him:

"Leon, there's something I still have to tell you. Although you have gained the Crimson Heart's... approval, it is, after all, the heart of the Crimson Sovereign, originating from the former Supreme Four Pillar Gods, so you still can't be too careless. Be careful not to be influenced by it in reverse."

"You're right, I will definitely pay attention."

Happily accepting the Taurus Director's kind advice, Leon casually stabbed the Crimson Heart twice, and the stabbed Crimson Heart suddenly shrank, then hurriedly screamed:

"Thought! Thought is more advanced than blood! You're right! Don't stab me!"

"What else? Why is blood red?"

"Because... because of that egg thing and that iron thing, they combine with something..."

"Pfft pfft"

"Ah!"

After screaming again, the Crimson Heart, which had fallen into Leon's hands, understood a profound truth as if enlightened by some experience from when it was a god.

"I know! Because of you! You say blood is red, then blood is red!"

"Pfft pfft pfft"

"Ah! Why are you still stabbing me?"

"Stabbing you is what you deserve! Do I need you to flatter me?"

Giving it two more stabs with a look of disgust, Leon dragged the trembling Crimson Heart out of the secret vault, leaving a long trail of blood on the ground, while complaining in annoyance:

"You don't study knowledge properly every day, you just think about those useless things, you don't even know why blood is red, and you still have the nerve to test me?

"You memorize it first, and after you've memorized all the answers, I'll explain it to you depending on my mood."

"Oh..."

"..."

Looking at it this way... I seem to have been a little worried?

Looking at the Crimson Heart in front of him, which was being stabbed every now and then, spurting blood all over, and trembling like a two-meter-tall chick, the Taurus Director didn't know what to say anymore.

Theoretically speaking, Leon should be careful of being contaminated by the Crimson Heart, but if he continues to teach it knife by knife like this, it's hard to say who will "contaminate" whom in the end...

...

"Ugh..."

Reaching out and pressing on the position of his heart, holding down the strange stabbing pain like a knife, the thin and tall man raised his head again, his two eyes fixedly looking at the snow-haired woman opposite him:

"Olivia!"

After calling out her name, the black-haired, black-eyed middle-aged man frowned and questioned:

"You dare to come back?"

"Why wouldn't I dare to come back?"

After taking a small sip of the amber honey wine in her glass, the already slightly drunk red-haired... snow-haired Director smiled and said:

"Although I was kicked out a long time ago, I am still a member of the Sicariven Kingdom's royal family, and even the king sitting on the throne now has to call me aunt. Why can't I come back?"

"You know that's not what I'm talking about!"

Reaching out and covering his heart, which was constantly sending out strange stabbing pains, the black-haired man, who vaguely resembled Leon by three or four points but looked much older, said coldly:

"You promised to help me change this world together! But just when I was about to succeed, you colluded with the Cleansing Bureau's Directors and almost killed all of my people! You despicable traitor!"

"..."

Faced with the middle-aged man's accusation, the smile on the red-haired Director's face couldn't help but fade instantly, and then she didn't immediately open her mouth to defend herself, but instead tilted her head back and drank the wine in her glass.

"Your path is wrong."

In her eyes, where her vision suddenly blurred slightly, another figure with black hair and black eyes flashed quietly. Leaning halfway on the small round table, the red-haired Director supported her cheek with her hand and shook her head slightly with drunken eyes:

"The past you were too stupid, and I was too stupid... Although we are not weak, we didn't really see the appearance of this world clearly. Many things are not just based on... Thank you."

After nodding to thank the waiter who passed through the middle-aged man's erratic body and brought two bottles of sherry, the red-haired Director reached out and pointed to the position opposite her and said softly:

"Please bring me a few more glasses and put them on the opposite side. I want to have a drink with my old friends."

"Okay."

Nodding in agreement to this strange guest's request, the waiter holding the tray asked with a smile:

"Do you have friends coming? How many glasses do you need?"

"Specifically... five or six, my friend has a bad temper. If we happen to argue later, I'm afraid he'll be so angry that he'll smash the glasses."

"?"

Isn't it... You know that there might be trouble later, and you still want to chat in our store? Can't you and your friend go somewhere else?

Looking at this beautiful woman, who was so beautiful that people didn't dare to look directly at her, but was drunk, the waiter had the mind to ask her to leave, but felt it was not good to directly chase people away, so he could only try to remind her as tactfully as possible:

"Then when will your friend arrive? If you need it, I can call the store's security over in advance to help you."

"No need, he's already here, just put the glasses on."

"???"