Are you kidding me?! The boss of the Hell Dungeon is a loli!

Jiang Luo stopped chewing the candy.

There was a three-second silence in the hall.

"That sir." Jiang Luo repeated the four words, his red eyes shifting from the lollipop stick to Naya's face. "Which sir?"

Nyarlathotep did not respond.

An arc appeared on the skull-patterned face, like a smile, or perhaps a deliberate avoidance.

"Lolo is asking you a question."

"I heard you, Master."

"Then why don't you answer?"

Naya switched the bone staff to her left hand, placed her right hand on her chest, and bent slightly at the waist.

"Because you are not yet capable of making contact with that person."

Jiang Luo raised an eyebrow.

"Lolo is already SSS-level."

"Yes, but that's not enough."

"Not enough?" Jiang Luo shoved the lollipop stick back into his mouth, crushed the candy, and the crunch echoed through the hall. "Luo Luo just cleaved through Shura, slashed Satan, and utterly humiliated three SSS-rank monsters. You're telling me Luo Luo isn't enough?"

"not enough."

Nyar answered without hesitation.

Jiang Luo turned around in front of Naya, her black leather shoes clicking crisply on the throne steps.

"Okay, then Luo Luo, try asking the question differently."

She turned around, her red eyes reflecting Naya's skull tattoo.

"What is that gentleman's relationship with Jiang Juechen?"

Naya's skull-patterned face froze for a moment.

It's so short that it's almost imperceptible.

But Jiang Luo noticed it.

"The master is very perceptive."

"Lolo isn't perceptive, Lolo is just not blind." Jiang Luo swallowed the crumbs of candy in her mouth. "When you were talking about that person just now, you switched hands with your cane. You only switch hands when you're nervous."

Nyarko looked down at the bone staff in his left hand.

"The master is very observant."

"Stop talking nonsense and answer Lolo's question."

Naya remained silent for five seconds.

"Master, you only need to remember one thing."

"Lolo doesn't like to memorize, Lolo likes to listen."

"The previous Lord of Calamity, Jiang Juechen, had countless connections with that great man."

"What contact?"

I cannot tell you the answer to that question.

Why?

"Because I myself am not entirely clear." Naya straightened up, the cracks on the skull pattern on her face flickering in the candlelight. "Jiang Juechen is a very cautious person. Only he knows the full picture of every move he makes. I only see a corner of it."

Jiang Luo stared at Naya for three seconds.

"What was that corner you saw?"

"Perhaps when you meet Jiang Juechen, you will understand everything."

Jiang Luo took a deep breath.

Again.

"Nyarlathotep, do you find it interesting to talk to Lolo in a way that's not human?"

"That's not what I meant, Master."

"Could you please explain yourself clearly?"

"If things are made too explicit, things become boring." A smile curved across Naya's skull-patterned face, his voice tinged with amusement. "My esteemed master."

Jiang Luo pulled the lollipop stick out of her mouth and flicked it towards Naya.

The candy stick touched the front of Naya's suit jacket and bounced to the ground.

"Riddler, get out of this weird world."

(╬￣Dish￣)

Nyar bent down, picked up the candy stick, and placed it on the tip of his cane.

"Is Master angry?"

"Lolo isn't angry. Lolo is just considering whether or not to put you back into the seal."

"If the owner deems it necessary."

"Lolo thinks it's necessary."

"Then I accept."

Jiang Luo rolled her eyes.

That's how it is when you talk to Naya: you threaten him, he accepts it; you scold him, he laughs; you hit him, he stands still.

It's even less fun than hitting a sandbag.

But thinking about it, this does indeed fit Nyarlathotep's style.

Forget it.

Jiang Luo turned and walked back to the throne, stepping onto the steps in her black leather shoes and plopping down on the ground.

She crossed her legs, took out the eighth lollipop from her pocket, tore off the wrapper, and put it in her mouth.

"Lolo, I'll ask you one last question."

"Please speak, Master."

"Is that person friend or foe?"

Naya was silent for two seconds.

"It depends on the owner."

"It depends on Lolo?"

"right."

"What do you mean?"

"Wherever Master goes, that person's attitude will be the same." Naya rested her cane on the ground, her skeletal fingers tapping the tip of the cane twice. "You are not yet strong enough to make that person take a stand."

Jiang Luo chewed on her lollipop and didn't say anything.

She went over every word Nyarlathotep had said that day in her mind.

She understands the need to rebuild the bizarre world order, and she genuinely wants to do it.

Those old fogies in the Senate are occupying their positions without doing anything, the lords are dividing up the land and fighting amongst themselves, the pollution of the abyss is spreading everywhere, and the human world is being harvested like leeks, one crop after another.

She wants to change all of these things.

But the person Naya mentioned remains a mystery.

She has countless connections with Jiang Juechen, and her strength is so high that even she, who is at the SSS level, cannot come into contact with her. Her attitude depends on how far she goes.

Jiang Luo disliked this kind of existence.

The unknown must either be controlled or destroyed.

Jiang Luo has now inherited a part of the will of the strange world, and she can sense whether Naya has any malice towards the strange world.

Based on today's question, she has a general idea.

Naya is essentially harmless to Lolo.

Knaia was, after all, an outsider, so she needed to take precautions.

"I won't ask about that person's affairs anymore."

Naya tilted her head slightly.

"But Luo Luo wants to tell you something: no matter who that person is, how strong they are, or what their relationship is with Jiang Juechen." Jiang Luo turned around, her red eyes shining brightly in the candlelight. "Luo Luo is not used to being arranged by others, nor does she like being someone else's pawn."

"If that sir wants to cooperate with Lolo, then he can first line up and pay protection money."

"If you want to go against Lolo..."

Jiang Luo took the lollipop stick out of her mouth and flicked it into the distance.

"Then Luo Luo will turn him into Luo Luo's coffee table."

There was a two-second silence in the hall.

A crack appeared on Naya's skull pattern.

"My master is indeed different from Jiang Juechen."

"What's different?"

"Jiang Juechen will kill the other party first, and then consider whether the other party is friend or foe."

"Lolo is more civilized than him." Jiang Luo stuffed a new lollipop into his mouth. "Lolo will collect protection money first, and then consider whether to kill or not."

Naya laughed out loud.

It was very light and low, carrying a kind of inexplicable sense of relief.

Jiang Luo ignored Naya's laughter and turned to walk towards the throne.

Just then.

A system notification suddenly popped up on my retina.

[Detected that the servant "Nya's" loyalty has reached its maximum value; Red Moon Castle's influence level has increased!]

Jiang Luo paused for a moment while chewing the candy.

Full value?

She glanced down at Naya's name on the system panel; the number next to it, which had been stuck at 97%, had somehow jumped to 100.

"At least you have some conscience."

Jiang Luo twirled the lollipop stick in his mouth and casually remarked.

Naya didn't reply, but the curve of the skull tattoo on her face deepened.

Immediately afterwards, a second system notification popped up.

[The Red Moon Castle's power level has reached the threshold; signs of an unknown entity awakening have been detected in the deep basement area.]

Jiang Luo pulled the lollipop stick out of her mouth.

His red eyes lit up for a moment.

Deep in the basement?

The last thing dug out from the depths of the basement was the Thousand-Eyed Demon God.

An SSS-level ancient Old One was pinned down at the castle gate and had two bowls of blood poured out of him every day, which she used as an ATM.

And now another one?