Becoming Their Guiding Spirit

They would start packing essential supplies so they could leave at a moment’s notice. Lucas’s catalyzing ability was much stronger than Alina’s had been, so they naturally couldn’t eat all the food he had produced in one go. Half of it was preserved—the ice fields were very cold, effectively a natural freezer, even colder than a refrigerator’s freezer section. At the same time, they would dispatch specially trained scouts to gather intelligence.

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”Lucas? What were you doing just now?”

Jessica looked at the re-emerged Lucas with some confusion.

In the past.

As long as there were no outsiders around, Lucas would rarely return to the necklace unless he was sleeping. According to him, the necklace was cramped and stuffy, and he’d rather be out and about.

But today, he had uncharacteristically gone back into the necklace.

Strange...

”Nothing, I just suddenly remembered I hadn’t made my bed inside the necklace...”

Lucas casually made up a ridiculous excuse.

Jessica was completely baffled.

Beside them, Ceobe, who had just eaten a huge lunch of eighteen bowls of rice, was already munching on snacks just a short while after the meal. She had a particular fondness for desserts; as long as it was sweet, Ceobe loved it. After all, she couldn’t get these things in the forest. Jessica was also very indulgent with Ceobe, buying her whatever she wanted to eat, like those sweet cakes she liked.

Jessica would just use her ’snack money’ to buy out all the desserts from a nearby, incredibly expensive cake shop. And... with Ceobe’s constitution, she could gobble down ten super-sweet cakes at once without having to worry about gaining weight or her blood sugar spiking.

No wonder Ceobe was being raised at Jessica’s house.

Franka’s income probably wouldn’t even be enough to feed her...

With Jessica’s family fortune, Ceobe could eat for a lifetime and not even consume a millionth of it.

”By the way... um... Lucas, do you still remember... what we talked about before?”

Jessica suddenly remembered something and spoke hesitantly.

”What we talked about before?”

Lucas couldn’t recall for a moment.

”It’s... during the last mission, you promised me something...”

”?”

Seeing that Lucas still hadn’t remembered, Jessica pouted.

”It’s that in two days, my family is having a big banquet, and I wanted to ask you to come with me!!”

”Oh~~”

It dawned on Lucas, and then he asked a fatal question.

”How do you want me to attend?”

Lucas was just a soul.

He couldn’t just show up like this, right? When other people introduce their significant others to their parents, they say,

*Mom, Dad, let me introduce you to my partner.*

When it’s Jessica’s turn.

*Mom, Dad, this is Lucas.*

Then Lucas floats out of the necklace.

Oh, great... I can already picture it...

I can already imagine all the elderly people with weak hearts being rushed to the hospital.

”Mmm~~”

Lucas’s question stumped Jessica.

What should I do...

She really wanted to introduce Lucas to her parents, but his form... was really inconvenient...

Franka and Liskarm had already agreed to attend the ’noble’ banquet at Jessica’s house as her seniors. Franka had even bought a formal gown specifically for the occasion.

”Can’t Lucas possess a body? We can just find a body for him, right? It doesn’t matter whose body it is, as long as the soul inside is Lucas.”

Magallan’s words instantly enlightened everyone.

Jessica’s eyes lit up.

”You’re so smart, Miss Medivh!!”

Magallan: ”???”

”So... whose body should we choose?”

Franka asked a sharp question.

Everyone looked towards Magallan, but she just waved her hands.

”I have work for the next few days, no time...”

Franka and Liskarm also needed to attend the banquet, so that wouldn’t work.

Just then.

The sound of munching from the side caught everyone’s attention.

Everyone turned their gazes to Ceobe. For a moment, all their mouths curved into slight smirks. Ceobe, who was happily eating, looked up and met their gazes. Her beastly instincts nearly made her fur stand on end. A bad feeling began to spread in her heart.

”Ceobe, how has big sister Jessica been treating you?”

Franka asked with a ’kind’ smile.

”Um... very well.....”

*Gulp...*

Ceobe swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

——Two hours later——

With the help of the most professional styling team in all of Columbia, summoned by a single phone call from Jessica.

Ceobe’s image underwent a heaven-and-earth-shattering transformation.