Yes, Madam Prime Minister

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That's when she realized Ronan actually wanted to take a shower.

They don't have bathtubs or tubs here, but they do have a very nice bathing area.

The priestess led Ronan to a special bathroom, a wooden house.

Ronan went inside and found it to be a very peculiar bathroom. The house was small, with a shelf in the middle covered with stones. Next to it was a small pool where people could only stand and scoop hot water to wash themselves. One side of the house had a row of seats, enough for about five people to sit close together.

This isn't a bathroom; it's a sauna, the kind where you pour water onto heated stones to create steam.

The priestess described their custom: once it got hot inside, they would quickly cleanse their bodies, then sit there and steam until they were covered in sweat, before opening the back door of the hut.

There's a lake right outside the back door of the cabin. You rush out and jump right into the lake. The temperature goes from extremely hot to extremely cold, and it feels like you're flying.

At this point, the priestess suddenly became somewhat saddened, "It's a pity that this place became somewhat abnormal after the sealing seal was used; otherwise, the area around this lake should be covered with ice and snow."

It seems to be talking about the weather changing, but it's actually about the past being gone.

Ronan did not respond to her.

Sadness is a personal thing, and when you can't truly empathize with someone, it's best to say nothing.

Moreover, it might not just be sadness, but also the bewilderment after the collapse of faith. The priestess might not understand the moon goddess's tales, but she at least understood one thing: the moon goddess was not a god. She hadn't had a good impression of the moon goddess in the past, but no matter what, she was still her god. But now, her god was gone.

"You and Faith go first, Elena and I will follow." Ronan told the priestess to go wash with Faith first.

The priestess nodded.

At this moment, Faith suddenly interjected, "Mr. Ronan, are you sure you don't need me to come along? Are you even French?"

Ronan shrugged helplessly and said half-jokingly, "I have a formal position here, and it requires approval from the leadership. You have no chance of getting approval."

Fisse's character is that of a die-hard fan of Dinia. Although it's just a character design, it's enough for the leader to judge her as a member of Dinia's faction and give her a red cross.

"Oh, does the princess have such authority in front of you?" Faith looked incredulous.

Ronan's face instantly darkened, his eyes becoming exceptionally sharp. "This is a good wife's understanding and respect for her husband. Don't question it, understand?"

Faith didn't say anything more.

The priestess went inside to light a fire and pour water to warm the entire house until the temperature was high enough before she beckoned Faith to take off her clothes and come in.

The two did not stay in the sauna for long before rushing out of the room and leaping into the lake.

The alternation of hot and cold, the intense stimulation seemed to strike straight to the soul, instantly dispelling the priestess's fatigue and even easing her sorrowful and sentimental feelings, making her feel relaxed.

At this moment, Faith also felt an unprecedented clarity and comfort. Originally, she only wanted to follow Ronan and Dinia to peek more about the other side of this world, but suddenly, she began to wonder what changes Ronan would bring to this world.

A short while later, the two swam back to shore and put on their clothes.

On the other side, Ronan, wrapped in a bath towel, and Elena also entered the sauna.

Upon entering, they were immediately enveloped by a wave of heat. After taking quick showers, the two sat down together on the wooden seats.

The bath towel couldn't cover Elena's large breasts, and Ronan's thing made the towel look like a tent, so the two of them simply went naked.

"Are we going to run away tomorrow?" Elena asked, while casually pouring another ladle of water over her.

Ronan slapped Elena's thigh. "Is it too hot here? Are you out of your mind? If I was planning to run away, I wouldn't have let her do anything to you. This moon goddess can be said to be telling the truth or lying. She gave you a special power, granting you immortality and advancing your cultivation level. This must mean that she has stronger control over you, her 'descendant'."

After Ronan said that, Elena immediately realized what he meant and asked, "So, we really have to make a deal with her and let her out? This woman isn't a good person."

Ronan leaned against the wall, sitting with his legs spread wide in complete relaxation, and replied, "Ultimately, an agreement must be reached, but before that, I need to give her a reason she can't refuse."

Elena turned to the side, tucking her wet, golden hair behind her ear, and looked at Ronan. "But she doesn't have a horse." She remembered the gangster stories Ronan had told her when she was a child.

“I didn’t say I was going to kill her horse,” Ronan emphasized.

Elena straddled Ronan and asked, "What's going on?"

“I mean, I’d draw her a ‘horse’,” Ronan replied, then pressed his lips to Elena’s nipple and began to suckle.

"So that's how it is, uh, ah." With that, Elena let out a soft moan and began to hug Ronan, kissing and rubbing against him.

Ronan has been out of the spotlight for half a month, while Elena has been feeling empty for more than twenty days.

The foreplay had barely begun when Elena couldn't wait to grab the thing with her hand and insert it into her empty cavity, experiencing a long-lost sense of fullness.

The humid room accelerated his blood flow, and Ronan was completely immersed in pleasure, without any control. A few minutes later, more than a dozen streams of hot liquid erupted like a volcano, all spraying into Elena's body.

Elena held Ronan tightly until the contents inside had completely softened. Only then did she stand up, kneel down, take the contents into her mouth, and suck in all the remaining contents before cleaning the surrounding area with her tongue.

But after a long while, she showed no sign of stopping, clearly wanting Ronan to get hard again and do it once more.

Ronan reached out to stop her. "Stop. There might be a conflict tomorrow."

Elena reluctantly spat out the thick, half-erect penis and sat back down. Ronan smiled, reached out, and comforted the unsatisfied Elena with his hand.

After a while, Elena was somewhat satisfied, and Ronan withdrew his hand and began to water the plants to warm up the room again.

After sitting for a while, Ronan and Elena couldn't stand the heat any longer, so they rushed out of the house and jumped into the lake.

It was a sudden jolt; it's hard to describe whether the feeling was pleasurable or painful.

After swimming around in the water for a while, the two swam ashore and got dressed again.

Back in his room, Ronan called Faith over, and they discussed tomorrow's plans carefully by the fire.

Then I went to sleep, wrapped my body in my leather coat as a blanket, and drifted off to sleep.

Chapter 354 Knees are hard, no more horses, that's what I thought too.

The following day, at the altar on the surface, Ronan sat facing the moon goddess, who had reverted to her original name, Kate Pierre.

Ronan verbally listed a bunch of requirements.

At first, Kate Peter listened, but later, he pulled out a nail file from somewhere and started filing his nails.

She didn't put down her nail file until Ronan finished speaking. "Do you know why I joined the resistance? It's because the equipment that made me malfunctioned and made my knees too stiff to kneel down."

Following that, Caterpillar presented his terms.

"First of all, I can't work more than two hours a day. During that time, I'll obey you. I can't work more than eight hours a week in total. I'll get extra pay for any extra projects." Ronan making her work eight hours a day was simply a pipe dream.

"Secondly, meals and accommodation will be provided, the standard of living will not be lower than yours, and you will have complete freedom of movement." Ronan wanted to stipulate her range of activities and various things she couldn't do. Did he really think she was a wage earner?

"Third, the monthly salary shall not be less than one hundred, and I mean gold coins." Ronan meant that giving him two hundred silver coins a month was just trying to get rid of a poor man.

"The first three are nothing special, the key is the fourth one: you must unconditionally support my decision to become a magician." Ronan said a long and convoluted sentence, which was basically laying the groundwork for finding excuses to back out in the future.

“My own mission is set as ‘to live for myself.’” Ronan meant “to survive,” which is a big difference.

"The entire agreement will last for three years." Ronan wanted to sign a five-year agreement, but a word: crawl.

After saying that, Kate Pellegrini looked at Ronan.

Ronan neither got angry nor laughed; he simply asked calmly, "Who are you to me?"

“I’m your grandma,” Kate Peter replied.

“Well, we don’t respect the elderly in the Western Continent. Everyone here is a master at beating up grandmas,” Ronan said, then changed the subject, “Let’s not talk about money for now, let’s talk about ideals.”

As a good boss, how can you talk about money? That's too vulgar. You have to talk about ideals.

"Hehe." That was Kate Pierre's response, the meaning of which couldn't be clearer.

Ronan, unfazed by the chuckle, asked again, "What do you plan to do after you survive?"

Kate Pierre's expression froze on his face, and his fingers, which were always about to move, fell silent.

She had thought about what she would do after surviving; she wanted to enjoy life.

But upon closer reflection, this goal seems rather vague.

Before her youth, she worked as a laborer, and after her youth, she participated in the revolution. After the war, the world was in ruins. Later, she came to this world, which was still very primitive at that time, and they did not pay much attention to the humans here.

Later on, all she cared about was her own life.

Thinking about it carefully, she had no idea what it meant to enjoy life. She had never lived a normal life, and as an advanced artificial intelligence, she had never even experienced it. In her original world, she was forbidden from connecting to the internet and was not even as good as the lowest level of humans.

"The conditions I initially proposed were indeed a bit harsh, especially the clause that I had the right to force you to shut down. But these were entirely out of concern for you. You have to admit that you are very advanced in terms of both your abilities and knowledge, but at the same time you are also very backward because you have never actually been exposed to society. The so-called revolution you experienced was just an uprising."

"You have no idea how to get along with people, and the evidence is the terrible relationship you have with your descendants."

"So, in a sense, you need some re-education."

Ronan said.

“I agree with you.” Kate Peter’s pupils turned a captivating gold. “But unfortunately, none of this has anything to do with our agreement.”

Her tone was very firm; Ronan's plan to paint a "horse" had already failed before it even began.

Ronan sighed. "Then I'll have to offer another condition that you can't refuse."

“What a coincidence, that’s what I was thinking too,” Kate Peller said.

In an instant, a white cube appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, but at the same time, Faith's magic threads wrapped around Kate Pierre's limbs, restricting her ability to move. Ronan strode forward, his movements so fast that the sword was only halfway through the thrusting motion before it fully materialized in his hand.

Just as the sword tip was about to touch Catpeler, a powerful shock that spread outwards without any blind spots sent Ronan and his sword flying. This was "Moon Tide," which, in addition to its recoil, could also interfere with the operation of magic. The same move was used much more powerfully than Elena's. Ronan's sword melted instantly, and at the same time, all the countless threads on Catpeler's body were shattered.

When Ronan came to his senses, Caterpillar's figure had disappeared, replaced by a female giant completely covered in white mechs, with only her face showing.

Ronan conjured the longsword again, which flew out of his hand and spun toward the mecha giantess. However, just before it reached her mecha, "Moon Tide" was automatically triggered, and the spun sword was shattered.

Just as Ronan attacked, the giantess in the mecha unleashed a "Moon's Lunar Attraction" attack on him, pulling him in completely. If Ronan's magical body hadn't already fused with the skeleton, he wouldn't just have been pulled in as a person; a significant amount of his magical power would have been drained as well.

In mid-air, Caterpillar swung his other hand and unleashed a "Moon Tide," sending Ronan flying like a pinball. Ronan traced a straight line through the air before crashing into the ground. The violent impact created a large crater, and the surrounding ground cracked irregularly, forming deep trenches.

Although Ronan managed to push out his magic armor in time, the armor still shattered, and he was subjected to a tremendous impact, his flesh torn open and his bones shattered. If it weren't for the power of the original seed, Ronan would have already collapsed.

Caterpillar's attack intervals were almost non-existent. Ronan had barely landed when the next attack came. If it weren't for Faith's intervention, which slowed down her movements, Ronan would have taken another hit while unarmored.

And this happened just three seconds after the battle began.

Realizing he couldn't instantly defeat Ronan, Caterpillar changed the pace of the fight.

Ronan, Faith, and Elena formed a tactical formation. Ronan tanked in front and occasionally dealt some damage, Faith focused on control and occasionally took damage to protect Elena, while Elena's strength decreased when she was near Ketterbler, so she simply stayed outside the battle circle and focused entirely on healing.

The mecha giantess has both physical and magical defense, as well as both physical and magical attack. She is also very fast and agile, with no weaknesses.

Every second, Ronan, Faith, and Elena were giving it their all.

Under such intense pressure, every second that passed felt like the end of a fierce battle.

Half a minute later, Ronan, Faith, and Elena were already showing signs of fatigue.

The mecha giantess only suffered a few extremely minor scratches.

But at that moment, the mecha giantess stopped moving.

Chapter 355 Admitting Defeat, Negotiation, and an Acceptable Outcome

The mecha stopped, and in an instant, a large patch of black cubes appeared around it, rapidly spinning and maneuvering in the air while emitting white light.

This was her backup plan prepared last night. If she couldn't dismantle Ronan and his two companions' fighting strength in a short time, she would activate this plan.

Just then, a large number of puppets suddenly appeared. With one hand, Faith controlled the puppets and forcefully rushed towards the black cubes to prevent them from breaking the tactical link between her, Ronan, and Elena. With the other hand, she maintained control over the female giant machine.

Half a minute later, Faith's puppet had been smashed to pieces, becoming a pile of scattered, broken pieces of wood lying on the ground, just like the prop warehouse of an abandoned puppet theater had been overturned.

The mech stopped again, and the remaining small cubes also came to a halt and landed.

The hatch opened, and Kate Peller crossed her forearms in a cross shape. "Ceasefire, I surrender."

Although it only lasted a minute, and although she completely dominated Ronan, Faith, and Elena in that minute, and although if it continued, the three of them would become increasingly unable to hold on.

But, she lost.

Her goal wasn't to defeat Ronan and his group, but to subdue and control them, and then implant some of her power into Ronan. Only in this way could she and Ronan be equals; otherwise, in her eagerness to leave, she would always be the weaker party at the negotiating table.

And there's a prerequisite: it has to be fast.

Because she was dying, even while piloting this mecha giant that wasn't considered top-tier in terms of power, and even without maximizing her output, her life force was still rapidly draining away. This one minute of high-power output cost her three months of lifespan. For her, who only had three years left to live, she couldn't afford any more losses.

Continuing further has become pointless.

On the other side, Ronan breathed a sigh of relief. It was expected that Caterpillar would not dare to engage in a prolonged battle with them. What was slightly unexpected was that this nearly dead artificial intelligence robot still had such combat power. The three of them, while not exactly cooperating perfectly, at least managed to execute their tactics, but they were still suppressed without any chance to catch their breath.

Caterpillar leaped from the cockpit, exhaled a long breath, and remained silent.

Ronan sheathed his sword and shield. "If you were an old lady about to enter your coffin, perhaps you should lament 'the fading beauty and the end of a hero'. But aren't you a new moon about to pierce the dark clouds and illuminate the night sky? Everything that just happened was nothing more than a small, passing cloud."

"You've fooled quite a few women with your words, haven't you?" A smile flashed across Kate Pierre's face. Did she not understand the道理 (reason/principle)? It's just that sometimes, some truths need to be told to you.

“Ha, I never rely on deception, I rely on solid skills.” Ronan joked, then got down to business, “Let’s continue the negotiations.”

"Go ahead and say it." Kate Pierre had no intention of arguing anymore; he had already lost, so what was there to say?

Ronan slowly took two steps forward. "Aside from the fact that I must have the power to forcibly shut you down (of course, there can be some limits on the number of times), and that I can only provide limited support for your becoming a magician, all other conditions can be as you said before."