Chapter 871: I Just Happened to Study You by Accident!

In an instant.

As red light flashed across the device's lenses, Lynn struggled, but Sir Aiwen pinned him down with brutal force. Naturally, there was no chance of escaping.

“Big Brother Aiwen, you’ve gone too far! If you saw some depraved scene, you could’ve just watched it yourself. Why did you have to drag me into this...”

Lynn struggled and protested.

But at that very moment, as the scene before his eyes gradually took shape, Lynn’s struggling body suddenly went still.

“...”

Seeing Lynn suddenly stop struggling, the surrounding Roots exchanged baffled looks. They had no idea what he was seeing.

Then, after a brief pause, Lynn reached out and gave a small cough. He actually sat down cross-legged, propped his chin on his hand, and seemed to have become incredibly calm all at once.

Sir Aiwen’s gaze turned slightly vacant.

Something was wrong.

Why wasn’t this guy making the face he’d expected?

What had he seen...?

Could it be that only he had seen that depraved, cringe-inducing scene? Was this machine, which Lynn had tampered with, somehow showing different things to different people...?

“What did you see?” Sir Aiwen asked with a frown.

Lynn said quietly, “This device is pretty amazing. I thought you’d seen something really depraved and wanted to drag me down with you, Big Brother Aiwen. Looks like I really did you wrong. This machine is incredible!”

Sir Aiwen’s face was filled with astonishment and shock.

Something was wrong!

Something wasn’t right!

Was this guy really seeing the same thing he was? Had Sir Aiwen seen a scene inside a women’s bathhouse, while Lynn was seeing something normal?

“What on earth did you see?!” Sir Aiwen demanded urgently.

But Lynn didn’t answer.

Instead, he pulled a Notebook and a pen from his clothes and sat there, drawing with great enthusiasm. The pen scratched across the page, sketching out a picture with clearly excellent artistry.

Sir Aiwen immediately frowned and looked over.

Lynn was gazing intently upward, the pen in his hand scratching rapidly as he sketched. As the image gradually took shape, it looked like one long, barbed chain after another, hanging upside down from the surrounding walls.

And then,

among that mass of menacing chains, Lynn gradually drew the graceful, delicate back of a woman.

Layer upon layer of wings.

A head of long, golden hair.

And she was trying to slip out of her clothes, revealing her fair back...

Buzz—

Sir Aiwen’s gaze went instantly blank.

If he couldn’t tell who this guy was drawing after seeing that much, then all his years of life had been wasted. So the person Lynn was seeing this time was... was...

This was absolutely not something he should be looking at!

Sir Aiwen nearly fell apart. In utter shock and panic, he reached out and grabbed the device over Lynn’s eyes.

“My God! Take it off! Take it off now! Don’t look! This isn’t something you should be seeing! God!”

Lynn immediately clamped one hand over the device on his eyes, furious, while his other hand kept drawing rapidly on the paper.

“Big Brother Aiwen, stop bothering me! I haven’t finished drawing yet! Wait until I’m done before you snatch it away! It’s not like I won’t let you see...”

Sir Aiwen was stunned.

Did I say I wanted to see it?!

What made you think I was trying to snatch it from you?!

And do you really not know what’s going on right now...?

Where did you get the nerve to sit down and sketch in a situation like this?!

(ΩДΩ)!

I’m falling apart! I really am going to fall apart!

Sir Aiwen immediately reached out and desperately tried to pull the device off Lynn’s head. The person on the other end was his respected Matriarch! If she found out he’d used his own device to peep at her, how could he ever face the Matriarch he admired again?

He had to take it off!

He had to get it off!

The two of them frantically wrestled over the device on Lynn’s head. One was trying to pull it off, while the other refused to let him. All the Roots around them stared in utter confusion, completely unaware of what was happening.

But just as their tug-of-war reached fever pitch, Lynn suddenly froze in the middle of pushing and shoving.

Then they heard a voice come through.

“Um... Matriarch, can you see me?”

Buzz—

Sir Aiwen’s gaze went instantly blank as he clutched the device and tried to pull it off.

His whole body froze in place.

Then Lynn swallowed, still wearing the device, and hurriedly waved his hand.

“Matriarch, it really isn’t what you think! Hear me out. I just tried out a device Big Brother Aiwen gave me, and somehow my view got projected here. I wasn’t peeping. You know, if I really wanted to look, with my personality, I’d usually do it out in the open...”

Buzz—

The emptiness in Sir Aiwen’s gaze deepened tenfold.

Lynn swiftly stuffed the sketch into his clothes, then stood up and gave a courteous nod, still wearing the device.

“Mm-hmm! We’re outside, in the Plaza. And of course we weren’t doing anything. We just happened to be together, testing the new device Big Brother Aiwen gave me. He said that if I wore it, I could see places far away, so I very politely gave it a try.”

Beside him,

Sir Aiwen had already turned around, trembling, and was trying to get away one step at a time.

“Uh... You’re saying Sir Aiwen should go see you? That... doesn’t seem like a good idea... No, no! That’s not what I meant! No! Really, Matriarch, you’ve got it wrong! We weren’t in this together! We were just testing it out, and we only happened to study you by accident! It really wasn’t planned!”

【Ding! Sir Aiwen’s SAN -1】

【Ding! Sir Aiwen’s SAN -2】

“Don’t worry, Matriarch. Surely you trust my character, don’t you? I promise I didn’t see anything I shouldn’t have! If I really did, I’d gouge out both my eyes!”

“That’s right, (￣▽￣)／ Matriarch, you’re worrying too much. How could I have seen anything? And you were taking your clothes off so slowly, I’d only drawn your ba—”

“...”

(Silence...)

“...”

The Plaza fell into a prolonged silence.

The next moment,

Lynn ripped the device from his eyes, swept his hand out, and pulled out his fold-jump Scythe. He shouted,

“Everyone! I’ll be taking my leave first!”