There wasn't much time for sentimentality. Carlotta quickly informed Noah of the current situation in the most concise way possible.
"So, to sum it up, you have to stop the Fisalia Family's scheme, protect the Montelli family's interests, and also guard against that fake potato sabotaging things."
Hearing Noah's summary, Carlotta nodded:
"Exactly."
"Easy!"
Noah snapped his fingers. A pair of dragon horns grew from his forehead, and the Sentinel's phantom emerged, floating and moving around his body as if alive.
Flinging out a few points of Dawnlight, he pulled Carlotta along with a few steps, leaping into the air above Ragunna City:
"From now on, you don't need to scheme against that fake potato or the Fisalia Family people. You just need to point out the Fisalia Family's strongholds."
The Sentinel's phantom faintly breathed terrifying white light from its mouth. Noah spoke calmly:
"You point where, I shoot there!"
Hearing these simple six words, Carlotta couldn't help but feel an excited flush rise on her face.
It's here! This feeling is here! The feeling of having cheats activated!
When the weather turns cold, it's time for the Fisalia Family to go bankrupt.
Without hesitation, she stretched out her hand, pointing far toward a district in the center of Ragunna City.
"Celestial Court Radiance!"
Pure energy-formed white light cascaded from the Sentinel's phantom mouth, its brilliance illuminating the pitch-black rainy night completely.
Wherever the white light passed, the brick and stone outer walls of buildings on the streets melted rapidly like wax, and the charred internal frameworks collapsed with a boom in an instant.
The entire Ragunna City was as fragile as thin paper before this white light. Whether flesh and blood or metal and stone, nothing could block it in the slightest—it was indestructible, unstoppable.
Finally, the white light dissipated. The place Carlotta had pointed to was now only a deep pit of wasteland, nothing else remaining.
A large and a small palm clapped together in mid-air.
"Great job, Tall Chestnut!"
"Of course. Any other places that need bombing?"
"There, there, and there!"
At this moment, Carlotta's hand became the Grim Reaper's judgment pen. Wherever she pointed, that place was declared wasteland.
The Fisalia Family, which she had once barely resisted with all her means, now turned to ashes in the snap of a finger.
"You're cheating!"
A woman's figure materialized from void to solid in mid-air, standing off against Noah and Carlotta from a distance. She furrowed her brows tightly:
"A victory won with such cheat-like power—I won't acknowledge it!"
"What cheating?"
Looking at the copy's angry expression across from her, Carlotta smiled lightly, answering breezily:
"This is clearly persistence and hard work."
"Exactly, exactly."
Seeing Carlotta start the taunt, Noah instantly followed up:
"If you're bad, practice more. If you can't afford to lose, don't play! I admit I did turn on cheats, but what can you do about it?"
"Good, good, good. Not even pretending anymore."
'Carlotta's expression suddenly shifted from gnashing teeth to a chilling smile:
"You turned on cheats, then I'll turn on mine too!"
===
In the old room, Cristoforo revealed a chilling smile identical to 'Carlotta's.
In front of him, the blood-red script opened and closed. A streak of white color on it was erased with Cristoforo's will.
At the same time, in the scene projected by the script, the Dawnlight under Noah and Carlotta's feet suddenly dimmed and vanished. The two plummeted directly from mid-air.
"Hahahaha, Phrolova, did you see that? Now these two guys are completely under my control."
Cristoforo couldn't help but throw his head back and laugh loudly:
"This world inside the stained-glass mirror fuses both my power and the Threnodian Leviathan's power. I am the god who controls this script world."
"No matter how much or how strong Noah's power is, for every Resonance ability he displays, I alter or erase that ability's frequency from the root of the script world."
"In this way, Noah can no longer use the corresponding power in the script world, and he fundamentally cannot escape!"
Listening to Cristoforo's confident words of certain victory, a faint smile couldn't help but appear on Phrolova's face.
Is Noah really unable to escape? Hilarious.
===
Inside the stained-glass mirror.
Noah caught the falling Carlotta in mid-air, landing steadily on the ground.
He opened the panel; the mailbox was flashing with a little red dot.
[Due to an unknown vulnerability BUG, the character "Jinhsi" is temporarily unavailable. Emergency repairs are in progress. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. Corresponding compensation has been issued.]
[Attachment: 800 Astrite.]
A bug? The character Jinhsi got banned?
Noah frowned, but his hands didn't slow down at all. While setting Carlotta down, he claimed the 800 Astrite at lightning speed.
"Tall Chestnut, what happened? Why did we suddenly fall?"
Carlotta felt somewhat uneasy.
"I don't know. That ability of mine suddenly stopped working." Noah shook his head, guessing: "It should be that fake potato's doing."
The 'Carlotta' who had been floating in mid-air landed with a smiling expression, still standing steadily opposite the two:
"This time, I'll count it as your win for now, but... Mr. Tall Chestnut, your Little Potato lost a full thirty-two times before this."
Hearing this teasing remark, Carlotta clenched her fists tightly, stepped forward, her expression indignant:
"That's all because you were sabotaging in the dark; otherwise, not even once."
"Hehe, I don't care about that. The current score is 32 to 1. You need to win at least thirty-one more times, or it doesn't count as victory."
'Carlotta' spread her hands. Her pair of brilliant eyes shifted to Carlotta, instantly becoming sharp:
"You refuse to surrender to the Order of the Deep and seek shelter by offering everything. But have you ever thought that asking for help from the Tall Chestnut beside you is also a different kind of surrendering to a stronger power?"
"I..."
Carlotta was about to retort but suddenly couldn't speak. Her face gradually turned pale.
Yes... she couldn't win in this rainy night with her own abilities and had to seek help from Noah's powerful strength.
In the end, without Noah, she still couldn't win... Isn't that the same as Capollo surrendering to the Order of the Deep?
So, she and her uncle were the same kind of person?
Thinking of this, something in her heart seemed to quietly shatter.
"Don't overthink it, Carlotta."
Noah pressed on her shoulders and spoke gently:
"No one is perfect, so the meaning of family bonds is to resist storms that one person can't withstand alone and accomplish things one person can't do alone!"
"You're not surrendering to a stronger power outside the Order of the Deep; you're just encountering a storm you can't resist and needing family to hold an umbrella for you."
"Don't forget, I'm also a member of the Montelli family."
As his words fell, an exquisite and delicate pistol was placed into Carlotta's palm. The instant she clearly saw the gun, Carlotta's pupils contracted slightly:
"This is... Grandfather's gun. He never parts with this gun; even Capollo has never touched it..."
This gun represented the authority of the Montelli family's leader. Wherever the holder's muzzle pointed, that was the direction of the Montelli family.
"Before I came, your grandfather entrusted me to give you this gun representing the Montelli leader. He said you are the one qualified to hold it."
Carlotta's shoulders were suddenly held. She had to look up, her eyes meeting a sincere gaze.
"No one really thinks of you as Little Potato. I know you've always been Rinascita's most shining opal."
"Now, you will be allowed to make any decision in the name of Montelli—whether to fire, where to shoot—it will all be decided by you!"
"You point where, I shoot there!"