It couldn't be this coincidental, could it?
Victor muttered to himself.
How come these talismans keep jumping into his hands one after another, as if they've grown legs?
At this rate, it feels like the entire plot could be wrapped up in half a movie.
He had clearly planned to put the talisman business aside for now and focus on enjoying his vacation.
But now, it felt like fate was practically force-feeding him.
It asks if you want to eat? You wave your hand saying no, no, and then a bowl of fragrant rice gets slapped right in front of you.
What can you do? The food is right at your mouth, can you just spit it out? Might as well eat.
"You big bad guy! I won't tell you anything!"
Although Jade was hanging upside down, her little face flushed red, she still glared fiercely at Victor, trying to kill him with her eyes.
"Oh? Still being stubborn, huh?"
The smile on Victor's face grew even wider, tinged with a playful interest.
The symbiote tendril wrapped around Jade's ankle began to swing rhythmically, causing the girl hanging from it to sway back and forth like a pendulum.
"You big bad guy! Let me down right now! If you have the guts, let's have a one-on-one fight!"
Jade waved her little fists, trying to maintain her imposing aura, but the swaying perspective was making her dizzy.
"Ah, kids are just so full of energy."
Victor picked his ear casually and gave an offhand order.
"Venom, turn up the intensity a bit, help her burn off some of those excess calories."
"Roger that, BOSS!"
The next second, Jade experienced the "360-degree Invincible Wind Fire Wheel" style swing that Dennis and Winnie loved so much.
The world spun crazily before her eyes—the deck, the sky, the pool, Victor's infuriating smiling face... everything blurred into a high-speed streak of colors.
"W-Wait! Stop! I was wrong! Let me down! I'm gonna throw up ahhh—!"
"Victor, don't bully children."
The kind-hearted Enid couldn't bear to watch anymore. She stepped forward and gently "plucked" Jade from Venom's tendril, as if receiving a dizzy little kitten.
Jade slumped dizzily in Enid's soft, warm embrace, her eyes having turned into two spinning mosquito coils, feeling like the whole world was swaying.
"It's fine, kids are tough, they won't break from a little play."
Victor waved his hand dismissively, casually giving an example.
"When I was a kid, my sister Mavis would often take me up ten thousand meters and then drop me to play freefall, saying it was to train my reflexes and aerial posture."
Wednesday nodded expressionlessly in agreement beside him, adding in a matter-of-fact tone:
"I also frequently put Pugsley on a modified electric chair to play with electricity, testing his tolerance limit. He's still alive and kicking, and immune to most conventional currents now."
Jade, who had just started to regain a bit of clarity, shrank back desperately into Enid's arms upon hearing this conversation.
She looked at Victor and Wednesday with a gaze reserved for monsters, her voice trembling: "A-Are you guys devils?!"
"No, no, no," Enid retorted, "It's clearly you guys who are abnormal. With your way of playing, even a monster would lose half its life, okay?"
While gently patting Jade's back to help her catch her breath, Enid asked curiously:
"Victor, who is this little girl? Is she related to the talismans?"
Victor nodded, gesturing with his chin towards the still shaken Jade in her arms.
"That's right. The rabbit talisman was 'generously donated' by this little one's uncle. By the way—"
He looked at Enid, his smile turning somewhat subtle.
"That Super Moose plushie you absolutely adore was a 'welcome gift' from this young lady here."
Jade's eyes instantly widened in disbelief as she stared at Victor, her little face flushed with anger, her chest heaving violently, as if she had never seen someone so shameless!
She took a deep breath and loudly retorted: "You're talking nonsense! It was clearly you who..."
"So it was you!"
Enid interrupted her with delight, her azure eyes sparkling. She lifted Jade up to her face and happily nuzzled the little girl's soft cheek.
"Thank you for the gift! I absolutely adore it! I'll treasure it!"
Seeing Enid's pure, enthusiastic, and completely unclouded smile, and feeling her genuine affection, the words on the tip of Jade's tongue instantly got stuck.
She opened her mouth, looking at Enid's face so close, filled with 'you're so cute, I like you so much.' The accusations and explanations just wouldn't come out.
She struggled for a long time, finally just red-eyed, with a hint of grievance and reluctance, muttering softly:
"I... you... you have to take good care of it, okay."
"Mm! Absolutely!"
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