บท 234: Alliance

"So do we have a deal?" Yuki walked closer and asked.

Vincent paused for a moment, acting as if he were contemplating it. In reality, he already had an answer.

"Okay," he replied.

"Good decision," she said with a smile. It seemed that she was genuinely glad that he agreed with her.

"So she can actually smile like that. She's quite adorable when she's not acting like a spoiled brat," he thought to himself.

It's true that she had almost killed him, but now that he thought about it, he realized that he couldn't judge her by normal women's standards.

"Take these," she said, reaching into her robe and handing something to him.

He accepted the items, examining them closely. They were talismans, each shaped like a rectangle made of thin paper. The characters on the talismans were unfamiliar to him, written in an ancient Asian script that he couldn't decipher.