Shiro looked at her worried expression, feeling somewhat confused. Where did all this sudden urgency come from?
"No, why do you suddenly look so worried?"
When Erina heard this, she no longer cared about anything else and immediately spoke in a worried tone:
"How could I not be worried? How long have we been in here? The people outside are probably already getting impatient. I seriously doubt what kind of looks we'll get from those people if we go out now."
At this moment, Erina was shocked at herself, because she had completely forgotten about the time. After all, they had been inside for so long, which meant a lot of time must have passed outside. Alice might even be waiting just to mock her when she came out.
After hearing this, Shiro realized why she was worried and immediately patted her on the back, signaling for her to calm down.
"Don't worry, how could I do something that stupid? I already prepared everything."
Erina was somewhat confused when she heard this. Prepared? Prepared what?
"Do you remember the time when you came to negotiate with me?"
"9 o'clock, 9:30, I think."
Erina frowned as she thought about it, then gave an approximate answer.
At this moment, Shiro once again pulled out his phone using his spatial ability and then showed it to her.
Erina looked at the time: 9:37. Damn it, what was going on? And more importantly, something was wrong. It was as if everything around them had stopped.
"What's going on? What did you do?"
At this moment, Erina could only find one culprit.
"What else could I have done? I just stopped time a little."
"After all, I originally wanted to eat meat, but I didn't expect you to have this 'get out of jail free card' of yours."
Erina's mind buzzed when she heard this. What was this guy talking about? Stopping time? Was he still half-asleep? How was that even possible?
If anyone else had told her something like this, she would have immediately dismissed them as someone showing off and wouldn't have listened any further. But now the facts were right in front of her.
Erina realized she couldn't refute this and closed her eyes, frantically trying to process the entire situation in her head. When she opened her eyes again, the way she looked at Shiro had changed, filled with curiosity and questioning.
"Who exactly are you?"
"Are you sure something like this is a power that some superpower should have?"
Erina felt that this was too outrageous. It felt like a lot of time had passed, and yet this guy had stopped time at that moment.
It had to be admitted that actions spoke louder than words. At this moment, she believed him. She believed in his methods.
"Just a small trick, nothing worth mentioning."
"After all, without a few tricks, how can a person truly enjoy life in this world and do whatever they want?"
Shiro said this while wrapping one arm around her waist and lifting her chin with the other.
"Erina, I can give you one more chance to back out. After all, you weren't completely in your right mind earlier."
"Do you agree to my previous demands?"
At this moment, Erina was so furious inside. This guy was doing it on purpose, absolutely on purpose.
"You think I still have a choice now? Or are you, bastard, simply feeling like you've had enough fun and want me to back out?"
A conspiracy theory suddenly appeared in Erina's mind. After all, if it weren't for her special situation today, he would have completely taken advantage of her. The fact that this guy was saying this now made her suspect that he had done everything intentionally, just so he could throw her away with a clear conscience after experiencing what he wanted. She didn't want to think that way, but this guy was too much, so she had no choice.
Shiro looked at her hostile expression and shrugged, pretending to be innocent.
"You're unfairly accusing me of this. You have to understand, I never thought that way. I was just giving you a choice. After all, I'm not a bad person. But now it seems you've already given me your answer."
After hearing this, Erina looked at Shiro with contempt.
"Do you have no shame at all? If I backed out now, wouldn't that mean I suffered a huge loss?"
"To be direct, were you planning to take advantage of me for free from the very beginning?"
Erina's eyes changed. After all, things had already reached this point. She wasn't an idiot, so how could she allow this scumbag to take advantage of her for free?
As for making a huge scene, that was definitely out of the question. After all, her combat ability was nowhere near this guy's. If she angered him, she might even end up in a situation where he forcefully broke through her final boundaries.
Erina had been raised as an heir since childhood, so she definitely wasn't just an ordinary tsundere girl like in anime.
"No, I was just giving you a choice. After all, I never force anyone. Think about it carefully, did I ever force you to agree from beginning to end?"
When Erina heard this, she originally wanted to curse at him, but then she realized that although this man had not forced her, he had definitely used dirty tricks behind the scenes, such as the state she had been in.
"You definitely didn't use force, but do you have no shame at all? Did you forget the things you did behind my back? For example, why did I become so shameless and improper?"
"Do you dare say you didn't tamper with anything?"
Shiro heard this and made it clear that he was no longer sleepy, because he truly hadn't tampered with anything, so he could openly answer this question.
"Honestly, it's fine if you criticize me for other things, but if you criticize me for this, then I really have something to say. You have to understand, the Shiro you usually see is in a state of completely suppressing himself, suppressing everything that he is. And I only loosened that suppression a little, but that was still me."
"So I don't think there's any problem."
Erina was somewhat confused after hearing this, not expecting such an answer.
"You've seen my abilities, right? You should also know my power. When strength reaches a certain level, the level of life improves. And the greater that improvement is, the stronger the influence on ordinary people like you will be."
"It's just that I usually reduce those effects to zero."