In Amy’s experience, the meals William prepared were always delicious and fragrant.
She had never imagined that William would stuff a whole tube of wasabi into her mouth.
Just as the thin slice of sashimi entered Amy’s mouth, she bit down hard.
“Hmm?” Amy only felt a sharp, intense flavor shooting straight to her brain, causing tears to stream down uncontrollably.
As William continued slicing the octopus, he asked, “How is it? Tasty?”
With tears streaming down her face, Amy swallowed the wasabi-covered sashimi, her voice filled with crying and pain, she asked, “What… what is this?”
Oh!
She swallowed it?!
That was unexpected for William.
Shouldn’t she have spit it out immediately after tasting it?
Apparently, she wasn’t very bright.
“It’s octopus sashimi, didn’t I tell you?” William no longer wanted to discuss what an octopus looked like with Amy.
“It’s not tasty!” Amy said as she wiped her tears, “Can you really eat this stuff?”
William replied, “You should have seen the information I wrote, the Blue-Striped Devil Octopus is highly toxic.”
Amy’s tears hadn’t stopped yet, and hearing William say this, she recalled the information William had typed on the computer.
Blue-Striped Devil Octopus, its blue blood contains potent toxins, and if not properly cleaned before consumption, it could poison a Demi-God level Soulmancer.
Clearly, Amy hadn’t seen how William cleaned the octopus meat, and although she hadn’t seen any blue blood, that intense flavor…
Could it be that she was poisoned!
Amy pouted, her face filled with sadness as she looked at William, then asked, “Mr. Johnson, do you have a pen and paper?”
William, still slicing the octopus, asked, “What do you need a pen and paper for?”
“I need to write a will, to give to my mom after you go back.”
“Oh, there’s some on the table,” William glanced at the living room table, and suddenly, a pen and a piece of paper appeared out of thin air on it.
Amy, still shedding tears, walked over to the table to write her will.
One could only imagine how deeply hurt this little girl was feeling.
Meanwhile, William acted as if nothing had happened. After finishing slicing the octopus, he took a small dish, placed some soy sauce and wasabi in it, and arranged the octopus slices into the shape of a flower.
Five minutes later, William walked over to Amy with the plate in hand and looked at the will she was writing.
“Dear Mom, I’m going to die, and you won’t see me anymore.”
“I was greedy just now and ate some octopus meat, which wasn’t tasty at all.”
“Please take good care of Seraphina.”
“Also, you must never eat octopus meat.”
“My teddy bear goes to Seraphina, and my hair clip to my best friend Lucy. Don’t let the cake in the fridge go bad.”
…
Seeing this will, William asked nonchalantly, “Aren’t you going to leave me anything?”
Amy’s tears dripped onto the paper.
Hearing William’s comment, she burst into tears: “You knew the octopus was poisonous and you still fed it to me.”
“You’re a bad person!”
William popped a piece of the octopus sashimi shaped like a flower, dipped in a bit of soy sauce and wasabi, into his mouth and said, “I ate it too, let’s die together!”
“Ah?”
Amy stared at William with a face full of surprise, tears continuously falling, her eyes wide open and mouth agape, unable to utter a word.
William then stuffed a piece of octopus meat without soy sauce or wasabi into Amy’s mouth: “Since you’ve already eaten it, might as well have some more.”
Amy had initially thought that the octopus meat would taste as bad as before, but to her surprise, this time it was tender, smooth, and delicious—a true delight.
She had never tasted sashimi as good as this.
With a slight chill, each bite felt like swimming in the ocean, bringing waves of happiness over her.
“How can this sashimi taste so good?” Amy wondered, her small head filled with big questions. “Does it have to be shaped like a flower first?”
William explained, “The piece you ate before was poisonous, these aren’t.”
Amy felt a sudden sense of injustice.
Why hadn’t she waited a bit longer before eating?
At this moment, she had already forgotten that it was William who had fed her the first piece.
William placed more octopus sashimi in front of Amy and asked, “Want more?”
Without any hesitation, Amy stuffed piece after piece into her mouth.
If she was going to die anyway, why not enjoy more?
She cleaned out the entire plate of octopus sashimi, and William, after the first bite, didn’t eat any more.
After finishing, Amy lay motionless on the couch.
“What are you doing?” William asked.
“I’m going to die!” Amy declared, lying down.
William touched his nose, thinking how under the tutelage of Poseidon and Zeus, this child really hadn’t gotten any smarter.
He casually pulled out a blanket from his spatial storage ring and covered Amy with it, saying, “Sleep now. If you don’t die tonight, you won’t die tomorrow.”
“Really?” Amy’s eyes brightened, then she closed them, pondering whether she would actually die.
William patted Amy’s head and said, “Sleep.”
These words seemed to carry a magical calmness, quieting Amy’s mind. She stopped worrying about when she might die and drifted off to sleep.
Watching Amy sleep peacefully, a slight smile appeared on William’s face.
Living to a ripe old age sometimes makes you fond of children.
Although Amy wasn’t his child, William had come to see the little girl as a daughter.
This made him think of Alice.
Thinking of his daughter naturally led him to think of his wife.
William finally remembered that he still had a wife training in the Divine Realm.
After tucking Amy into bed in the bedroom, William returned to the living room to video call Alice.
Alice answered immediately, her smiling face popping up on the screen: “William, you finally decided to call me first. You missed me, didn’t you?”
“Yes!” William said, and then he abruptly ended the call.
When Alice called back, he hung up again.
“Ahh! How dare you hang up on me!” Alice was furious. Just when she thought William missed her, he hung up so quickly and wouldn’t even pick up her calls!
“Why aren’t you answering the video call? Don’t you miss me?”
“I told you, I do miss you!”
“Then why did you hang up so quickly?”
“I didn’t want to interrupt your training.”
“I’m actually quite free right now, nothing much going on.”
“Oh?”
…
Seeing that question mark, a bad feeling suddenly arose in Alice’s heart.
She was free!!
With a thought, William sent a message that reached all the major powers in the Divine Realm.
“I want to put Alice through special training, make her endure as much hardship as possible.”
William the Obliterator commanded, and the Divine Alliance, Ultimate Force Alliance, Shapeshifters, Demons, Undead…
Countless powerful beings set their sights on Alice.
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