Xu Ke sighed. "I understand that you are angry. I made a mistake. I know threatening you wasn't such a very good idea. However… you must consider. I am hopeless without your help."
"I am not angry." She looked at him. "I am hungry."
Xu Ke sighed. "It seems that coming into this world thoroughly changed your priorities."
However, Lyca's attention was no longer with him. It was on the batches of food that two people were carrying towards the table by her bed.
"Eat it. It's not poisoned."
"I would eat it even if it was," she fired back, rendering him speechless.
"I am here because I want to ask you something about this…" he held a stone in his hand. "Right now, I can only summon stones as small as this and creatures."