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Chapter 68: He Had Done What He Could
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"Mommy, don't cry? What kind of mission is that?" Guan Ling said, bewildered.

Xing Ye faced Coco, "I have something important to ask you and hope you can give me an honest answer. Your answer will decide the fate of the little puppet and all of Puppet City."

Coco was a bit scared of Xing Ye, trembling as she nodded.

"Kill Benedict, and Puppet City will be free forever. Will you be happy if we do that?"

Coco shook her head fiercely, her head almost flying off from the force. "No, no, no, I never wanted to kill Master. Master is our creator, I never wanted to kill him!"

Xing Ye asked patiently, "Are you sure you've truly never thought that? Think well before answering. Don't worry, we have a way to kill him and don't need your help. If you don't want to part with the little puppet, we can trick Benedict into installing the heart inside the puppet before killing Master."

"No!" Coco was practically shrieking at this point, a crack sounding as the wooden block in her throat fractured.

Xing Ye nodded, "Okay, I got it. Don't forget to ask Old Nect to fix your throat later."

The little puppet heard Coco's voice and reached out to rub her throat.

"He really has no feelings?" Xing Ye asked the mirror. Such perception and love wouldn't be possible unless he was alive.

The mirror looked at the little puppet, "There is, but his feelings are very simple. The strength he used when he hugged Coco earlier was completely different from when he hugged me earlier. Look at how his entire body's clinging to Coco, he doesn't want to leave her at all."

"How can he have feelings without a heart?" Cao Qian didn't understand.

"It's probably Benedict's wish," The mirror said after thinking, "When a father's making a puppet for his son, some of his own emotions would definitely be infused inside it. The puppet responded to his emotions."

"Isn't that too ridiculous?" Guan Ling muttered.

But Xing Ye strongly believed in the mirror, "This is a fairy tale world, after all. Nothing's impossible, using the real world's perspective to perceive everything isn't enough."

Coco and the little puppet were still hugging each other. Xing Ye's little shoulders drooped as he watched them, feeling a headache coming on, "This really is a troublesome mission. It'd be easier if all we had to do was kill Benedict."

Even he felt it was hard. Cao Qian and Guan Ling would definitely find it even more difficult.

"I..." The mirror really wanted to speak. He snuck a glance at Xing Ye.

"Go ahead." Xing Ye said.

"I don't think we can take the little puppet," The mirror said, "He should be left with Coco."

Hearing the mirror's words, Coco tightened her embrace around the little puppet, terrified he would be stolen by Xing Ye's group.

"New problems just popping up..." Xing Ye thought doing that would be troublesome, but when he saw how Coco looked like a mother getting her child stolen away from her, he felt like forcing them to separate would indeed be going too far.

"Alright, the little puppet can be left here. However, you have to make a scratch on his body. That way, if someone else wants to find him, it'll be very hard to identify him." Xing Ye finally nodded, exasperated. In the end, he wasn't ruthless enough.