Wyatt Barnes's left arm hung at his side, wrapped in Leilany's embrace.
But his right hand, at some unknown point, had come to rest behind his back—and in that hand, a hairpin had appeared out of thin air…
Around the hairpin, mysterious light flickered; it was clearly no mundane thing.
More importantly, at the tail of the hairpin there was a flower with three petals, and around that flower there was actually a layer of blood-colored radiance coiling; the flower itself was blood-red.
As though it had been dyed by blood to become like this.
"I want to know… this attempt to kill me—Maximus Lee, is it your idea alone, or the will of the entire Joyful Zen Sect?"
As Wyatt Barnes asked Maximus Lee this, one petal of the flower on that hairpin in his right hand behind his back began slowly pulsing, and in the end turned into liquid.
The liquid quivered, and that single petal seemed to wither in an instant!
The next moment.
