Echo of the Past (10)

"Y–You…!" Momoko's blue eyes stared at him like a deer caught in the headlights, and within them, Shen Nianzu could see the wheel of time spinning. She grasped Shen Nianzu's wrist and made a desperate struggle, but upon noticing that she couldn't budge him at all, tears began to well up in her eyes as she glared at him accusingly, "How dare you! Let me go at once, or else Toki will not forgive you!"

"Oh?" Shen Nianzu raised an intrigued brow. He recalled the words the guardian of the fountain had said and the rule stated in the brochure, and took a guess, "But it seems like your relationship with Toki is not that good?"

Momoko: !!

"Plus, he's not even here right now. Isn't it you who caused him to be lost in this labyrinth? Who do you think he will be angrier at, you or me?"