"Can we talk alone?" Raven glanced at Moira MacTaggert.
Moira MacTaggert didn't quite understand the meaning in her eyes, but it wasn't a good time to ask, so she nodded in agreement and turned to leave.
"Swish!"
Raven returned to her original appearance: red hair, golden eyes, and blue skin. At first glance, she looked like an enchanting blue elf.
Samuel was not startled. Instead, he looked her up and down with interest.
Fear comes from the unknown. Samuel already had a deeply ingrained understanding of her, so how could he be startled by her sudden transformation?
Samuel's calm attitude made Raven secretly breathe a sigh of relief. She was very afraid that Samuel would be startled or show disgust.
"What do you want to talk about with me?" Samuel asked her with a smile.
Raven hesitated and said, "Actually..."
"You like me?" Samuel suddenly said.
"Ah?"
Raven was stunned, and subconsciously nodded in admission. Immediately after, she reacted, feeling flustered that her thoughts had been seen through, and quickly shook her head, wanting to deny it.
Samuel deliberately teased, "Seeing you hesitate, I thought you liked me and wanted to confess."
Raven boldly asked, "If I confessed to you, would you... what would you do?"
Samuel said frankly, "What else could I do? Of course, I'd accept. After all, you are inherently very beautiful and can also transform into other people."
"Did Moira tell you? Actually, the person I wanted to recruit the most was you. It's just that we didn't have much interaction, and you wanted to eliminate your abilities, so I could only give up."
Moira didn't tell me, but you told me.
Raven hesitated and pointed to herself, "Me, looking like this, do you really think I'm beautiful?"
Samuel shrugged, "Don't you think it's very unique, with an enchanting beauty?"
It wasn't that he was deceiving Raven; although Raven's appearance did somewhat deviate from the general aesthetic, Samuel didn't have any unusual aesthetic preferences.
However, Raven's appearance had indeed become deeply ingrained in his heart, and he had accepted it.
To put it simply, Samuel's aesthetic understanding of her was based on the movie.
With the character halo and filter established by the movie, it was naturally different from the aesthetic standards he had when he first met her without preparation.
Besides Raven, there was also Nebula, who had blue skin and was a cyborg, and she was also very beautiful.
Let's just say, anyone who has seen the movie wouldn't be scared by Raven and Nebula, right?
At least not in terms of appearance!
With such an aesthetic understanding, after spending a long time together and looking at her for a long time, he naturally got used to it.
It's like now, if Samuel said he genuinely thought Raven was the kind of beautiful that fit popular aesthetic perception, that would be a bit of a stretch.
But from the perspective of an exotic beauty, Raven was indeed very beautiful; at the very least, she didn't look grotesque or violate the most basic human aesthetic understanding.
Moreover, Samuel had seen quite a few grotesque creatures; compared to them, Raven's appearance could indeed be considered normal!
"You, you can accept me looking like this?" Raven asked, a little emotionally.
Samuel pouted: "Isn't that nonsense? If I couldn't accept it, I would have told you to scram a long time ago."
He spoke very impolitely, but Raven liked this kind of impoliteness.
Taking a deep breath, she said firmly, "I don't want to eliminate my abilities anymore!"
"No!"
Samuel unexpectedly refused.
Raven was stunned: "Why?"
"Helping you eliminate your abilities was my deal with Moira. Moira has already paid the price, I can't go back on my word and become fat."
"If you can convince Moira, then I don't care."
Samuel didn't plan to let Raven and Moira MacTaggert off the hook just like that.
Although the one who had been dealing with him all along was Raven, she was after all wearing Moira MacTaggert's appearance. How could it be so easy for her to just say it was over?
And Moira MacTaggert, if she didn't know the inside story, that would be one thing, but if she knew the inside story and helped Raven fake it, then she shouldn't expect to stay out of it and get away scot-free.
I want to see how you'll cover up your lies next!
How else could they cover up the lies?
Just tell the truth!
Raven was nervously preparing to confess. She had wanted to confess just now, but Samuel had interrupted her.
"Actually..."
"You like me, don't you?!"
Samuel saw what she meant and interrupted her again.
Are you kidding? If you confess, how can this game of truth and falsehood continue?
Samuel deliberately said playfully, "You care so much about what I think of your appearance. I said you have an exotic beauty and are pretty, and you won't eliminate your abilities anymore."
"And you say you don't like me?"
Raven's train of thought was interrupted, and the courage she had finally mustered dissipated somewhat.
What if I confess the truth and he can't accept it?
Her fear of gain and loss intensified, and Raven hesitantly decided not to confess for now.
"I, I do like you!"
Samuel said with a smile, "Then just follow me from now on."
Raven's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "Okay."
"Come here, I'm very interested in the tattoos you have. Let me take a closer look."
Samuel beckoned to Raven and began to study them carefully.
This study lasted for several hours.
Outside the palace, Moira MacTaggert looked at the blue Raven who walked out and frowned: "You didn't eliminate your abilities?"
Raven shook her head.
"Did you confess?"
Raven shook her head again.
Moira MacTaggert became a little anxious: "You, you already... with him... why haven't you confessed?"
What else could it be because of?
Fear of losing him!
Raven explained apologetically, "I've already told him that even if I don't eliminate my abilities, I'll convince you to agree to end the deal."
"I'm sorry, I know this is unfair to you and hurts you, but the deal is over, and he, he won't look for you again in the future."
"I owe you a favor, and I will help you with anything you need!"
With an apology and a promise of a favor, and no real loss, there was no reason for Moira MacTaggert not to agree.
In fact, she was prepared to agree.
But for some reason, she always had a feeling of dissatisfaction in her heart, as if she had been excluded, or perhaps... abandoned.
Recalling Samuel's behavior towards her in front of everyone, and that sentence, 'You are my person, it's my job to protect you,' even though she knew he wasn't saying it to 'her,' it still made her feel like she had someone to rely on.
At least her feeling of being moved at the time was real.
And now, all of this would have nothing to do with her. This feeling was very complex, so complex that it gave rise to an absurd thought.
How good it would be if it were really me!
As if possessed, she said to Raven, "I can forgive you, but if he looks for me again, you must notify me!"
When Raven heard this, her expression gradually became strange.
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