"Woo woo?!"

Upon seeing Leon appearing before her, Miss Zhuangpo, who had her ears and mouth blocked, suddenly couldn't help but shudder. Then she hummed with full terror in her eyes.

"Shh!"

After raising his hand to signal silence, Leon first looked back and found that Veronica had not been awakened. He then hurriedly put on his coat and proactively slipped into the dressing mirror, entering the room where "Lyla" was "confined."

"Let's change places to talk… Why did you suddenly come to the palace?"

"Woo… woo woo… ha!"

After the northern specialty beast hide stuffed in her mouth was pulled out, Miss Zhuangpo, now unbound, took a long breath and shrank before answering:

"I… I was just passing by…"

"Passing by?"

"It was when 'Miss Lisa' took me, rushing through mirror after mirror, I couldn't hold it any longer, so I came out… came out to catch my breath.

Pointing at the glass beside Leon and indicating for him to look at the golden hair inside, Miss Zhuangpo timidly explained:

"Yesterday, I mentioned Prince Joshua to the director. After listening, the director seemed somewhat surprised, so he sent me to check Joshua and see… see if there's anything strange about him."

Strange?

Upon hearing this, Leon couldn't help but raise his eyebrow.

"Does the director suspect Joshua has awakened an abnormal object?"

"I'm not sure what's going on… but the director gave me this to check."

Reaching into the side pocket of her skirt, Miss Zhuangpo pulled out a women's wristwatch, handing it over. Leon examined the style of the watch curiously and touched the crown of the women's wristwatch.

"Zizz~"

[Name: Time Difference Watch (Detection)]

[Appearance: A ladies wristwatch made by Time Must Be Precise Company of Crolock Kingdom 608 years ago. The case is sulfurized white steel, the interior mechanism adjusted brass, equipped with soft gold magnetized hands and reverse-suede leather straps. The back is engraved with the founder of Time Must Be Precise Company, Evans Rockda's, signature.]

[Ability: Time Difference Detection]

[Cost: None]

[File: As the most outstanding watchmaker in human history, Master Evans Rockda's wristwatch is not only exquisite and durable but uniquely precise —said to have a deviation of less than 0.01 seconds even after a hundred years of wear.

Yet, as Rockda's final masterpiece, this ladies wristwatch frequently displays huge timing errors, with the largest documented one occurring on the seventh anniversary gear inside the case —a total time difference of 43 years, 9 months, and 6 days.

Faced with this extraordinarily faulty wristwatch, Master Rockda was immensely satisfied and reportedly told his wife that this highly erroneous and odd wristwatch was his lifelong favorite, incomparable to anything else.

In response, Master Rockda's wife was exceptionally furious, shouting "Then go across with your watch!" and, with a feather duster, drove the shocked master Rockda out of the house...]

[Evaluation: Time is an unstoppable river; no matter how exceptional a time traveler is, after a brief past or future touch, they will never perfectly return to their original spot, inevitably causing more or less time differences.

When you wear this wristwatch and contact any time traveler, this ultimate masterpiece by Master Rockda precisely reads the 'errors' on them and provides exact time difference readings, without a hint of mistake.]

[Contamination Value: 0.1]

…

A special wristwatch for detecting abnormal objects related to time anomalies… So, does the director suspect that Joshua has not only awakened an abnormal object but also a time-related one?

After reading the description of the Time Difference Watch, Leon felt a surge of curiosity in his heart.

After looking back at the mirror, confirming that Veronica was unlikely to wake up soon, Leon tidied up his coat and then, with interest, proposed:

"Why don't I go with you?"

"Ah?"

"Though our relationship is somewhat average, Joshua is, after all, Veronica's brother, rounding it up, he is my relative too. There's no problem if I, his relative, tag along for a glance, right?"

"No… no problem!"

For this kind-hearted senior who brought her into the Virgin Branch, Miss Zhuangpo still held considerable respect… or rather fear. Upon hearing Leon's request for "watching," she promptly agreed.

As "Miss Lisa" barked, Leon and Miss Zhuangpo were directly sucked into the nearest glass, shuttling through the glass windows scattered throughout the palace.

Relying on the connectivity of Mirror World, in less than twenty seconds, the two and a dog traversed half of the palace complex sideways, finding Prince Joshua, now semi-confined in the manor.

Even though Veronica, for the sake of their blood relation, did not retaliate against the old King and Joshua's mother-son pair, the complete loss of succession rights was still a massive blow to Joshua…

Tsk, not enough beating.

As Leon looked at the human-like punching target in the centerpiece of Joshua's bedroom, resembling his own features by eighty percent, he involuntarily twitched his mouth and felt a rare itch in his right hand.

And in the room, Prince Freckles, unaware that two people had stealthily entered his room, spat towards the Leon target in the center of the room from the balcony, habitually stroking his face hard afterward.

???

I haven't hit you yet, why did you start hitting yourself? Could it be that spitting towards my target gives you a sense of guilt?

Under Leon's confused and puzzled gaze, the face-slapping Joshua's eyes slightly defocused for a moment. At the same time, the hands of the Time Difference Watch on Miss Zhuangpo's wrist rapidly jumped towards future time.

It's this! It is this!

Detecting the Time Difference Watch's reaction, Miss Zhuangpo couldn't help but feel a burst of joy, hastily patting Leon's arm to signal him to see the hands on her watch, which had begun showing discrepancies.

With her reminder, Leon noticed the abnormal readings and looked at Joshua's right cheek with astonishment. Meanwhile, with his gaze cleared, Prince Freckles sharply turned his head, staring at Leon's face through the mirror cabinet.

"You?!"

"Good morning."

With a gentle smile towards his brother-in-law, Leon stepped out of the mirror cabinet, grabbing Joshua by the back of his neck, pulling the fleeing Joshua back, giving him a light slap.

"Slap!"

"Zizz..."

[Name: Omen of Beating (Observation, Immunity)]

[Appearance: The left cheek of Joshua, former Prince of the Kingdom of Lutung]

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