Viego sat with Ines by the campfire for the entire night. Ines maintained her knee-hugging posture, sitting with her eyes closed for the whole night. Viego thought she was practically a superman.
When the day broke, Ines opened her eyes. The first sentence she heard was— "Ines, do you know what hemorrhoids are?"
"?" Ines's expression was cold. "I do. What about them?"
"You've been sitting like that all night, without even lying down. Aren't you afraid you'll…" Viego noticed Ines's quietly clenched fist and wisely stopped talking. If he continued, this cold-faced, fierce woman would probably cut his tongue out.
"It's time to move out." Ines stood up and gave Viego a cold glance. "Stay by my side. Don't say anything unnecessary, and don't do anything unnecessary. Otherwise, I'll kill you."
"Alright?" Viego followed behind her. "Where are we going now? What about W? Is she coming with us?"
"I didn't expect you to care about her so much." Ines sneered. "She and I will be moving separately. You won't have a chance to see her for a short while. If you want to say goodbye, I can give you twenty minutes."
Viego was tempted. It wasn't that he would miss W, but mainly because from what Heavily said, a high-intensity battle was likely to occur. If he could take the opportunity to suck a few more mouthfuls from W, he might have a better chance of surviving on the battlefield.
But after thinking about it, he still shook his head and refused Ines's proposal. "Forget it, I'm not going."
"Oh? Why?"
"Nothing. It's just that she's still angry. If I go over at this time, she'll probably pin me to the ground and beat me up." Viego had no doubt about the possibility that W would pull out her dagger and stab him. He was supposed to go back last night, but instead, he left with Ines, a captain who was clearly at odds with W, leaving W to "guard an empty room" alone… Based on his understanding of W, she was probably grinding her teeth in anger right now. If he appeared in front of her at this moment, there was a high probability that he would be pinned to the ground and beaten senseless.
—She might even threaten to castrate him to force him to agree to some unequal treaties. For example, not being allowed to follow Ines, or not being allowed to follow Ines, and also… not being allowed to follow Ines?
W is also a very possessive cockroach… Sarkaz.
"Heh." Ines's lips curled into a slight smile, seeming to find Viego's answer interesting. Although the smile was very faint and lasted only for a moment, it was still caught by Viego.
Viego had a feeling that this woman, Ines, showed much stronger emotional fluctuations when it came to matters concerning W.
"Why don't you smile more often?" Viego asked, looking at Ines's returning icy expression. "Captain Ines looks very beautiful when she smiles."
"Is that so?" Ines looked over with a meaningful gaze. "Then between me and that woman W, who do you think has the better smile?"
Viego's face stiffened. He felt a huge, blood-red "DANGER" sign appear above his head! At this moment, he wished he could give his past self two big slaps. Why couldn't he just control this mouth that loved to spout flirty words?
This was bad. A death-trap question had arrived. How should he answer? And why did it suddenly turn to this kind of question??? Ines, where's your cool and aloof persona?! Why are you asking this kind of question like a jealous little woman???
Viego read a hint of satisfaction in Ines's expression. He grieved in his heart. Damn it, this woman doesn't care what the answer is at all, nor does she care whether she's prettier or W is prettier. She just wants to use this question to shut my mouth and stop me from bothering her.
Sure enough, in the next second, Ines spoke: "Can't answer? Then wait until you've thought of an answer before you speak again. And the answer must satisfy me. Also, you only have three chances. If you answer incorrectly…"
This was a death-trap question. Viego was all too familiar with this kind of thing. Before he transmigrated, he had been tormented by similar questions from that bad woman ex-girlfriend more than a few times.
If he said Ines was prettier, Ines might not give him a hard time now, but she would definitely tell W his answer and then watch the show from the sidelines. And that crazy woman W, although she wouldn't care at all whether Viego thought she was pretty or not, if Viego chose Ines instead of her, she would definitely take the opportunity to act up and make sure Viego would unswervingly support her in the future… And if he were to say W was prettier, then Ines would have a reason to act up as well. If he said both were pretty, then it was even simpler—he would be directly judged as a smooth-talking, glib-tongued scumbag, and he would end up pleasing neither side.
In short, when the other party was intentionally making things difficult, no matter how he answered, the answer would be wrong. Women, especially women who have a man by the balls, are always "reasonable" no matter how unreasonable they are.
Viego raised his hands in surrender, making a zipping motion over his lips, indicating that he would not ask her any more questions for a while. He sighed silently in his heart, hating how he always spoke flirty words without thinking. It was a good thing he hadn't said anything like wanting to touch Ines's legs. Although he really wasn't a leg-fetishist and didn't want to touch her legs, if his brain had short-circuited and he had accidentally said it, it would have been disastrous. This woman Ines was really fierce. He could feel that she was the type who would actually do it, unlike W, who, although she threatened fiercely, had never really taken any actual action. There was a sense that she was all bark and no bite. Viego felt that the crazy woman had always been very tolerant of him, and he didn't know why.
A moment later, the members of Ines's team had assembled, and a mercenary came over to report that they could set off. At this point, Ines's attention was finally shifted away from Viego for the most part, and she was no longer thinking of teaching him a lesson to stop him from bothering her.
Viego was also relieved because of this.
The rest of the day was spent on the road. At dusk, the team stopped in the wilderness and began to set up camp. Ines still set up a separate campfire outside the main camp, and Viego still stayed by her side.
Night fell, and the campfire was lit.
Ines glanced at Viego. "You can talk now." She said, "You didn't bother me with your voice today. I'm very satisfied."
Viego noticed Ines's unusually gentle attitude and instantly became vigilant. I smell PUA tactics.
Ines, I didn't expect you to be a bad woman too?!
It seems everyone with the surname "Yi" is no good.
Get lost, don't think you can PUA me into becoming your simp!
Ines did indeed have a similar idea. Viego's performance today made her notice that this man could actually obey commands and orders, he just needed to be handled by his "leash." So Ines decided to use a mix of grace and power, some simple little tricks. But her goal was really just to make Viego talk less. She had no further thoughts.
This wave, this wave was just his Bad Woman PTSD acting up.
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