Chapter 539: Do what you want; if you

The next day, early morning.

Esme opened her bleary, sleepy eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling above.

How did things turn out like this...

I clearly only feigned a confession, with the goal of establishing a relationship status with him, and then inciting him to rescue my sisters who were locked up in the Sentinel Services detention center.

Why...

Did the fake become real? Did the act turn into reality?

Recalling the events of last night, Esme awkwardly discovered that she didn't seem to have resisted; one could even say... she had gotten carried away!

"Damn bastard..." Esme cursed under her breath. As for who she was cursing, hmph, it certainly wasn't herself.

"You're awake? Perfect, get up and eat something." Su Quan walked out of the wall in a bizarre fashion, carrying a tray.

Esme raised an eyebrow. There's a door, yet he insists on walking through walls. Is having one hundred and twenty-eight abilities something to brag about?

Fine, it actually is.

Esme still remembered that before she got carried away last night, Su Quan had used his illusion-creating ability to turn the simple, plain bedroom into an indescribable, beautiful scene.

The lifelike scenery and the immersive wonder were the main reasons she had gotten carried away.

To be so skilled at playing these tricks... Esme was certain she had been deceived.

She thought Su Quan was the prey, little did she know that in Su Quan's eyes, she was the prey.

High-end hunters often appear in the guise of prey.

Hmm, lesson learned!

Esme turned the food into strength and began to eat with her head down, not saying a word.

Su Quan didn't act strangely, asking things like, "You weren't like this last night, are you going to deny it now that you've woken up?" or simply saying gloomily, "You've changed."

He sat quietly to the side, waiting for Esme to finish. He waved his hand to teleport the tray away and said in a measured tone, "I won't be rescuing Sophie and Phoebe for the time being, but you can tell the Hellfire Club that you've already handled me."

Esme's expression stiffened instantly. How did he know about Sophie and Phoebe? And he even knew I was from the Hellfire Club. My... my identity has been exposed?

Deny or admit?

Her brain raced, and finally, she said bitterly, "You knew my identity all along, but you didn't expose me. Instead, you played along and treated me like a monkey!"

"Good! Very good!"

Deny? Admit?

Neither!

Her eyes lit up with a deep blue glow, her pupils like stars, and she used her psychic ability directly on Su Quan.

With a hum, psychic energy surged toward Su Quan's mind.

"Bang!"

An invisible psychic barrier blocked Esme's psychic power. Having slammed into it, she only felt dizzy, her spirit shaken, and her psychic power dissipated instantly.

Esme looked at Su Quan in horror. Su Quan smiled faintly: "I have one hundred and twenty-eight abilities, you know. Did you never think that among so many abilities, there might be psychic ones?"

"You..." Esme was just about to speak when a psychic force like a violent storm suddenly crushed her psychic defenses and instantly controlled her body.

Esme was stunned.

Su Quan had psychic abilities, and his psychic power was extremely strong.

Does the light of a grain of rice dare to compete with the sun and moon?

Let alone just her, even if Sophie and Phoebe, or even the deceased Celeste and Mindee were here, and the five of them linked their mental energy into a five-in-one, they still wouldn't be his match.

This guy is too devious, he hid too deep.

"What do you want!" Esme had lost, but as a master of "tea art," she didn't use their relationship to beg for mercy.

Perhaps she didn't want to be looked down upon by Su Quan.

After all, tea art was just a means to an end; it didn't mean she lacked self-respect or people she cared about.

Su Quan shook his head with a smile, his voice gentle: "Self-respect tells me: this is impossible. Experience tells me: this is risky. Reason tells me: this is meaningless."

"But my heart whispered: 'Give it a try.'"

Give it a try, truly turning the fake into reality!

Su Quan looked at her and said earnestly: "The starting point being wrong doesn't mean the result is also wrong. I know that many times you are also in pain, because your malice and your kindness are neither pure enough."

Some of Esme's actions were indeed somewhat malicious, but she wasn't evil enough, nor was she kind enough.

Swaying back and forth only adds to the pain.

In the original story, only Esme had an explosion of humanity among the three sisters, eventually joining the mutant underground organization.

Esme stared blankly at Su Quan: "You... are you trying to reform me?"

Su Quan shook his head gently: "I don't care if you're a good person or a bad person, nor do I care if you're a hero or a villain. Gold will shine wherever it is, and besides, you are a diamond..."

Esme curled her lips: "Isn't it just that you want me to be with you? What can you give me?"

Su Quan said earnestly: "Do what you want; if you're wrong, it's on me."

If you're wrong, it's on you...

Esme stared fixedly at Su Quan. She admitted that her heart was moved.

The year she escaped from the laboratory after sacrificing Celeste and Mindee, she was only thirteen.

Silently bearing the pain and self-reproach of her sisters' sacrifice, hiding everywhere to avoid the laboratory's pursuit, she... her sisters could be said to have tasted all the hardships of the world.

Even after joining the Hellfire Club and having a backer, she still had to constantly demonstrate her value to receive protection.

There was no concept of relying on others in her life. From childhood to adulthood, she had always had to rely on herself, and on her sisters who were like one.

It was the first time she had heard someone say to her, "Do what you want; if you're wrong, it's on me." It felt... not bad?

Taking a deep breath, she smiled as she got up and put on her clothes, saying: "You are very strong, you have one hundred and twenty-eight abilities, but you don't know what the Hellfire Club means."

"Whether it's mutants or humans, the elites of this world are in the Hellfire Club. To be enemies with the whole world for my sake... do you dare?"

"If you dare, from now on I am yours, the kind that is loyal until death!"

Esme stood in front of Su Quan, her gaze direct, the corners of her mouth raised.

This was a gamble, a gamble on her own future!

"Using reverse psychology, huh..." Su Quan rubbed Esme's golden hair with a strange expression and said with a light laugh: "Do you know why they aren't worried about immunity at all? Because they know that immunity is only useful in this world, and my foundation is not in this world!"

"So... don't talk about being enemies with this world; even if there were a few more worlds, it wouldn't matter."

Esme's raised mouth corners froze. If I didn't misunderstand, you mean... there are other worlds?

Su Quan said with a mischievous smile: "I have prepared a gift for you, or rather, for you Cuckoo sisters. Do you want to receive the gift yourself first, or wait for them to be together?"