As if he had been caught stealing, Lacospo made the sound of "Gi-kuh" upon being discovered, staying and began to sweat and pretending ignorance: "Err... What are you talking about?" He averted his gaze.
"I think I was pretty clear that the target's data couldn't be false or made up." She said calmly: "You're not going to tell me... You're not trying to deceive me, right?"
Startled, sweating cold, with his lips tightly closed, seeing himself without escape, he burst out starting to tap dance like a child who heard from his mother that on the way back she would buy sweets: "Shut up, shut up! Rito Yuki is a bad guy who is putting Lala in danger. Why would I lie?!"
He began to gesture non-stop trying to deceive her.
Lala looks at her: "Yami, don't believe what Lacospo says!"
Yami looks at her.
"Yes, Rito isn't like that!" Mikan also spoke for him.
Yami looks at her, then at Lacospo who shrank under her gaze.
But, like a little boy pretending to be strong, he tilts his head forward, looking at her, even though deep down he was almost shitting himself in fear.
When Yami closes her eyes and opens them again, her dark red eyes seemed sharp like a razor.
Lacospo literally cried under her gaze with tears in his eyes and snot coming out of his nose.
Recoiling in fright, he stuttered while pointing his finger at her: "W-W-What... what's with that look? I-I'm your client, r-remember?!"
Yami said coldly: "If you want to continue with this, you'll have to give me the correct data."
As if he were straining to shit, Lacospo closed his eyes tightly, then opened his eyes, shouting: "If you won't obey me, I'll have to punish you!" He points his hand at the spaceship: "Come, Gama!"
He begins to be abducted by the golden light.
Soon, he reappears on top of a gigantic green toad with thick lips just like his.
"Nyooohhhh!"
The toad emitted a sound somewhat similar to that of a cat.
"A huge toad!" Mikan is surprised.
She wasn't the only one to be surprised; with the disappearance of the barrier, several people saw the giant toad.
"That's a rare colored toad!" Peke exclaimed.
Lala looks up: "Do you know something, Peke?"
"I had seen this before in the astrobiology reference book..." The wings hide Lala's hat eyes as a sign of Peke's fear: "If it's really as I read, then he is my natural enemy."
The toad took a step forward and Lacospo asked: "Golden Darkness, you won't obey me even now?"
Silently, Rito activated the Sage Eyes now that he managed to recover around 50%.
When she stayed silent without responding, his expression distorted with veins on his forehead and a crooked mouth, he pointed his finger at Yami while shouting: "Go, Gama! It's time for punishment!"
Inflating its mouth, the toad called Gama spat out a green liquid with bubbles.
Yami jumped back, retreating, but the splash touches her clothes a little, destroying the part of the clothes that was touched.
"My clothes..." Yami was surprised.
"Ihahaha! Gama, destroy her clothes!" Lacospo commanded with a perverse expression.
"That's exactly it, that toad melts clothes..." Peke shrank with a voice of fear: "It's very scary for me... Very scary..."
"What a scoundrel!" Mikan exclaimed with disgust.
Lacospo shouted from atop the toad: "Now I will leave you naked in front of everyone, Golden Darkness!"
Yami responded: "I don't approve of these creatures so disgusting." Her hand is transformed into a blade.
"I can't cut this mucus?" When she advances and cuts the toad's belly, she found herself unable and retreated.
Rito deactivated the Sage Eyes and moved, standing in front of Yami while a shot of mucus advanced in the direction of her.
Of course, he didn't use his body to defend her, just to get naked in front of her, he created a wind barrier and swallowed the slime with the wind, returning it to Lacospo who was too slow to manage to defend himself.
"Ahhhh!"
A calf's scream echoed and Lacospo is hit by the green slime.
"It's over for you!" Rito said loudly while Lacospo's clothes begin to melt.
In his hand, a ball of wind was created. It was bigger than a basketball.
"W-W-Wait, wait, wait! Let's talk...! What do you think you're going to do? D-Do you want to kill me?" Lacospo panicked.
"As I said, it's over for you. Go back to where you came from!" He threw the wind ball right at the toad's belly which began to lift off the ground, until it began to shoot off at great speed.
The spaceship he came from zigzagged in the air, trying to recover Lacospo.
Seeing this, Rito had a thought that he found funny at the time: 'Two toads taking off at the speed of light!'
"Phew~ What a thing." Lala said with her hands on her waist while looking at the sky: "That guy was terrible, wasn't he?!"
Peke said: "That's all because he has a little money... And thinks quite a lot because of that."
Yami went to Rito.
"Why did you protect me?" She asked upon stopping in front of him: "Even though we are enemies?"
"But, it was Lacospo who was behind all this." Rito said: "Besides, I learned a lot from you, even if unintentional on your part and, I couldn't let someone do such cruel things to a cute girl like you, Yami."
"Cute? You meant me?" She seemed surprised.
"Huh? Did something happen, Yami?" Lala approached.
"Nothing..." She blushed a little: "It's just... It's the first time someone says something like that to me."
She looks at the ground, even the tips of her ears were red.
"Really?" Mikan was a girl who adapts quickly. The fear she had of Yami was gone now that she knew the truth. And, hearing what Yami said, she spoke: "What a surprise, I thought someone as cute as Yami would be used to hearing something like that."
Yami looks at her, but didn't say anything.
"Changing the subject." Rito asked: "Yami, now that Lacospo is gone, what do you intend to do?"
"Huh?" She turned to him.
Her expression was becoming empty.
"Actually, if you have nowhere to go, how about coming with us?" Rito asked.
"Rito?" Mikan looks at him in disbelief.
Even though now they were fine, in the end, she was still the person who until a few minutes ago wanted to assassinate him, why would he invite her to their house?
Was it because she was a cutie? It must be that...
The look Mikan was giving him was precisely a look of judgment.
"Why?" Yami said: "I tried to kill you, remember?"
"It doesn't matter." Rito smiled: "As you yourself said when you attacked me the first time, you didn't do it because you have grudges against me. Just knowing that is enough for me. And, honestly, having someone strong like you around is reassuring. If possible, I would like to hire you to protect my little sister mainly."
He signaled to Mikan.
"Protect me?" Mikan pointed to herself.
"Yes." Rito explained: "Like today, there may be other idiots who want to marry Lala because she is the daughter of the King of Planet Deviluke and desire to climb the social ladder. Nothing guarantees they won't try to use you to threaten me and Lala."
"Rito is right!" Lala clasped her hands.
"Me, protect someone?" Yami didn't seem to understand those words.
"Yes, you." Rito answered.
"I am an assassin." She said in a cold tone.
"Have you heard this before?" Rito said: "If you are capable of hurting, you are also capable of protecting. It all depends on how you choose to use your powers."
"It all depends on me..." She murmured softly.
"Yami..." Mikan looks at her with her sparkling eyes.
It was the type of look impossible to resist.
Even Yami's expression became difficult. She seemed to struggle against something, until she escaped, jumping while leaving the following words behind: "Give me some time to think!"