This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 273: You Old Dog, Who Are You to Lecture Me?!

After briefly closing her eyes to gather her thoughts and prepare herself, Rita turned to Nivalis and said, "Turn back time twice."

Nivalis followed her instructions, and the time quickly flowed backward, returning to 280 seconds ago.

At this moment, Jameson was saying, "…From this moment on, you will no longer harm anyone from the White Family. I will tell you the location of the sea demon’s corpse and how to use it to evolve your Divine Gift. Once you bring me Miyaas’s corpse, I will give you dragon scales, and of course, I will swear an oath."

Rita looked as though she was struggling internally. She started pacing in the room, clearing her mind, and gave the same response as before the time reversal: "I can stop attacking The White Family because of my grudge with Sanchez, but if The White Family takes action against me, I will not just sit by. Even if our grudges are cleared, I will never allow Sanchez’s injured eye, the one I blinded, to heal."

At the same time, with her back to Jameson, she cleared her mind, took out the Soul Catcher, and held it. With a casual wave of her hand, she hit the "Truth or Dare" button that appeared above the hand bone—game on!—the bone then firmly locked onto her hand.

However, just as she was about to think of her next move, the bone that had been tightly gripping her right hand suddenly loosened.

Jameson’s voice came from the crystal coffin: "There’s no need for you to test me. I know that Sanchez’s eye isn’t actually blind. The problem lies in her ears."

Rita suddenly gripped the sea demon’s hand bone tightly!

So that’s it… so it was true!!!

She had intended to test Jameson by using the Soul Catcher, thinking that perhaps he was trying to deceive her. She didn’t believe that the Life Record would show that she was the one who had ruined Sanchez’s ears.

But before she could even entertain that thought, time had already been turned back to the moment before the game started!

This meant that Jameson not only had the ability to turn back time, but he could also read her thoughts!

His "perfection" and his "flawlessness" were all achieved by testing his responses through repeatedly turning back time!

No wonder everything felt so unnatural. Every single one of his actions, every point he focused on, seemed to match exactly what she was thinking. Every time she had doubts, Jameson would fill in the gaps, making it seem as though he was always one step ahead.

That’s why he would say, "Any loophole will be magnified by you. Even if there are no flaws, you would see them as flaws!"

Even though he meticulously patched up every possible gap, she still couldn’t trust him and didn’t want to cooperate with him.

In the end, he couldn’t hold back his frustration and cried out, "Even this won’t make you believe me? Don’t you have a heart?!"

And yet, he couldn’t read Nivalis’s thoughts. Before time had reversed, Nivalis had quietly mentioned that Sanchez’s problem was with her limbs, but Jameson didn’t know that, which meant either his skill could only be used on a single target, or Nivalis had some sort of restraint against it.

Rita’s mind was racing with all these thoughts. The only thing she couldn’t understand was why Jameson didn’t trigger the "Cured, but still drooling" skill. Was it because his mental resistance was higher than hers, or could his current state immune him to various spells?

At this point, Jameson was thoroughly confused by Rita’s rapid train of thought. If the statue could move, its first expression would definitely be: "Huh?"

Rita sneered, "How dare you lecture me?"

What was all this about "You are weak," "Caution is your shackle," "Strong people aren’t raised in sewers"…

Pfft!!

What right does this dirty old dog have to lecture me, a cute little puppy?!

Jameson’s time reversal must have limits, otherwise, it wouldn’t have ended with the countdown running out and the silence returning.

Rita thought to herself and said to Nivalis, "Rewind time, back to when I said stop."

Nivalis replied, but after only one rewind, the skill was disabled.

The point in time now was when she was pacing in the room, facing away from Jameson, and preparing to use the Soul Catcher for her test.

When she heard Nivalis say the skill couldn’t be used anymore, Rita immediately stopped her actions and gathered her thoughts. She then shouted to Jameson, "Stop! Time out! I need to go out for a moment!"

Jameson: This is allowed? Does this young generation not understand the rules of negotiation?!

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Rita didn’t care about that. She activated her invisibility and quickly left the cabin, pulling away from the sinking ship. She asked, "Does your skill have a restriction? I didn’t see anything like that."

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Nivalis explained, "This is the first time I’ve encountered such a situation. I rarely use it, but I sensed just now that for the next 40 natural days, I won’t be able to use Steal Dragon’s Milk."

"Snow Pile taught me before that when this happens, it means that in a certain area, time has flowed backward at least a hundred times in a short period, causing a time disturbance in that civilization. This is a punishment for interfering with the flow of time."

A hundred times… They had only used Steal Dragon’s Milk four times in total.

Jameson, that old dog, must have reversed time 96 times?!

How many times had I doubted him in my mind?

No wonder he went crazy in the end, furiously accusing me... even asking if I had a heart!

Turns out, without me even knowing, I had challenged him over ninety times... If I had known... if I had known earlier, I probably would’ve challenged him too.

Now it made sense why Jameson had gone on and on with all those stories. Rita hadn’t been interested in his backstory at all, but because of her personality, she would never make a deal with something she didn’t fully understand.

She needed to use the "story" and dialogue to judge the other party’s character, to find flaws and determine whether she should cooperate. That’s why Jameson had told her so much.

But now it was too late. If she left now, it would be leaving behind a huge potential danger.

Rita sighed inwardly. Since she couldn’t go back to before the incident, this deal had to be done. The fact that Jameson had put so much effort into cooperating with her meant that there was something he wanted from her, and he couldn’t use force against her. Given this, the only way to turn things around was to get involved.

Furthermore, there were the dragon scales and the evolution of Divine Gift—such tempting bait.

Rita, with Nivalis, waited outside for a while to make some preparations before heading back.

By the time they returned, the countdown had already started.

Jameson was truly anxious this time. His survival until now had been dependent on two skills.

Half Dream (Grade A): This skill automatically activates upon death, allowing the user to survive in a different form through a deep sleep. Death is just a long dream. For every 10 natural days of sleep, 1 second of wakefulness is granted. (The wakeful time can be preemptively used, up to 10 minutes, but after using it, double the sleep time is required to repay it.)

Half Wake (Grade A): The wakeful time gained from Half Dream can be freely controlled by the user. In this half-dream, half-awake state, time is manipulated as if it’s in their hands.