"You need to take good care of it. It saved my life. If something happens to it, I'll be so upset I won't be able to eat." People always said that when a woman refused to eat, it meant real trouble at home. When Emma used to live alone, no one cared whether she ate or not. She never understood why that would ever be a big deal. But the moment Edric heard her say that, his face turned pale. His hands tightened around Lucien. "Emma, don't worry. As long as I'm here, nothing will happen to it." Even Damian, who had been sitting quietly on the couch without saying a word, jumped to his feet when he heard Emma say she would be too upset to eat. His tone was full of worry. "Ms. Tibarn, Edric and I will take good care of Coalball."So it really was true that when a woman stopped eating, it was serious. "I was just saying that. You don't need to be so tense." After that, Emma felt there was nothing else to say. She was about to go back to her room to rest. "Ms. Tibarn!" As she turned to leave, Damian took a few quick steps forward and stopped in front of her. He looked nervous as he spoke. "Ms. Tibarn, Edric needs to advance to level ten, so he can't stay with you. I…" Emma already knew what he wanted to say, so she cut him off. "Damian, your room is on the second floor. You should rest first. Also, this…" She took out the capsule that held the Gravicar and handed it back to him. "I still think it's too expensive. I can't accept it."She didn't look at his reaction. She turned and went upstairs quickly. Damian watched her disappear around the corner on the third floor. His eyes dropped to the capsule in his hand. His chest felt tight. She had actually rejected him. Even a top-tier Gravicar wasn't enough to move her. She had once agreed to help Drake with mental comforting just for a few star coins. Yet now, she didn't even care about a Gravicar worth trillions. She didn't care about money anymore. Then how was he supposed to earn her forgiveness? Edric heard that Emma had turned Damian down, but he didn't bother to comfort him. The fox tricked Emma, so he deserves to suffer a bit.If he hadn't behaved decently back in the forest, Edric would have already thrown him out of the villa when Emma refused him. Ignoring Damian, Edric dropped Lucien on the couch and stared at him with a sharp look. Lucien met his glare and instinctively shrank back into the corner of the couch. A fallen phoenix was no better than a plucked bird. When had he ever been this humiliated? "Chirp!" What are you doing? "Chirp, chirp!" Don't come any closer! Edric frowned at the noise. He didn't want to wake Emma, so he grabbed Lucien by the beak. "Stop making noise, ugly thing. I'm not going to eat you. But you're so dark, so fat, and so ugly. If I take you out like this, Emma will be embarrassed. I need to clean you up a bit." At least he couldn't let it stay this hideous. Lucien froze, speechless. Edric looked down at the fat black ball on the couch, still thinking about how to fix it up, when his lightcore suddenly buzzed. He glanced at the screen, and his face darkened. He called out to Damian. "Stop standing there like an idiot. Something's happened. Check your lightcore." Damian quickly opened his lightcore. His brows furrowed as he read the message. Edric asked, "Didn't you block all news about that night when the Divine Flame appeared? How did it still get out?" Damian stared at the video on the screen. It was already trending, with over seven trillion views. It was impossible to stop it now. The clip showed the giant fireball that had fallen from the sky the night a high-tier Chitinid attacked Emma. That fireball carried terrifying energy and a piercing cry that sounded almost alive. Only the Divine Flame sent down by the Beast God could cause something like that. The blast had killed a Rank 11 Chitinid instantly, yet Emma was completely unharmed. Both Damian and Edric believed the Beast God had sensed Emma's danger and sent the fire to save her. It wasn't the first time this kind of thing had happened in the Interstellar Empire. There had been other cases where the Divine Flame descended to save a female. Those women had all later reached level ten in their abilities. Afterward, the Interstellar Empire's government decided that any female saved by the Divine Flame had the strongest natural talent. They believed the Beast God was protecting the Interstellar Empire's therian through them. Whenever a woman was saved by the Divine Flame, the government would take her to Central Planet. They provided her with the best living conditions and ensured her safety. They also provided her with top-tier training resources to help her advance faster. But only those who lived among the elite on Central Planet knew that all those so-called privileges were nothing more than sugar-coated traps.