Chapter 2167

"Perseus, do you know her?" Azrael scratched his head as he turned to Melinda. She looked familiar, yet he couldn't place where he'd seen her before. Perseus rolled his eyes, ignoring Azrael. Instead, he strode toward Melinda. "Linda, why are you here? Did you come for me?" Melinda rolled her eyes at him. "I came back to look around. I'm not here for you." Perseus rubbed his nose awkwardly. Maybe he'd read too much into it. From the start, Melinda had only approached him to shake off Jebediah. It was never about genuine interest. Even when they had slept together, it had been for Grant's health—nothing more. "But if I hadn't come, it seems you wouldn't know what to do with the problem in front of you." Melinda's gaze shifted toward Ysle Lake. A thin white line stretched across the water's surface—a clear mark of the phago-ectoplasm. Perseus sighed. "It swallowed another phago-ectoplasm just now. Now it's just lying there, and I have no idea what to do with it." Though Melinda