Elven Holand, outside the tree house.
When Shien, Lucy, Lasha, Lilith, and Millu erged from the tree house and descended the vine bridge, soone was already waiting for them.
“Mr. Shien! Everyone!”
lika, as if she had been waiting for a long ti, ran towards them with shining eyes.
“lika?”
Shien blinked and smiled.
“You’re here?”
Lucy also looked at the elf girl, smiling warmly.
“Miss lika.”
Lasha greeted lika.
“Hmm?”
Lilith tilted her head, either surprised by lika’s sudden appearance or just rembering her.
As for Millu, she looked curiously at this unfamiliar elf girl.
lika, seemingly not noticing Millu, ran up to them, then apologized, her face full of guilt.
“I’m… I’m sorry, everyone, for leaving you behind.”
lika seed apologetic for not being with them yesterday.
They didn’t mind.
“You haven’t been back for a long ti. You must have wanted to catch up with your friends.” Shien looked at lika, a playful smile on his face. “You look much better than yesterday. You must be in a good mood, right?”
Shien’s words made lika blush and lower her head shyly, speechless.
Indeed, lika’s complexion had improved considerably.
lika didn’t know why, but she felt much better after returning to the Elven Holand, and even her magic power, which had been increasing, seed to be growing at a faster rate.
Perhaps returning ho had truly improved her spirits.
This was a good thing.
lika didn’t feel anything was wrong, and her deanor was less restrained and shy than usual.
“Where’s Princess Airi?”
lika looked around, not seeing Airi, but noticing a strange little girl staring at her curiously, holding Lasha’s hand.
“Airi is still sleeping in the tree house. You know, that girl loves to sleep.” Shien explained, then patted Millu’s shoulder. “This is a newcor, sort of related to Airi. There was supposed to be another one, but she didn’t co. I’ll introduce you later.”
lika said, seemingly understanding, “Related to Princess Airi…?”.
Clearly, lika hadn’t connected her to Airi’s Demon Lord sisters.
“Millu! My na is Millu!”
Millu raised her hand and introduced herself energetically to lika.
“O-okay! Miss Millu!”
lika hurriedly bowed, still polite despite being less shy and reserved.
Lucy then spoke.
“Are you alone?” Lucy asked casually, smiling. “I thought you would bring your friends along.”
This made lika hesitate.
“I… I also wanted to introduce my childhood friend to everyone…” lika glanced at Shien cautiously, then whispered, “But she didn’t want to co after hearing that there are n from other races here…” Ȑ𝒶₦οВĚꞨ
Shien was speechless.
Another elf with gender discrimination.
This place was truly unfriendly to n.
“I-I’ll definitely introduce her to everyone next ti!” lika said hurriedly, “Jenom is a very good person, bolder and more capable than . Everyone in the village says she’ll be the next genius to join the Elven Corps. She has always taken care of and protected since we were young. She’s just not very familiar with everyone yet, so she’s a little hesitant. After I persuade her for a few days, she will definitely agree to et everyone!”
lika spoke highly of her childhood friend.
Just like yesterday when she was speaking up for Shien.
This showed that lika valued this elven friend nad Jenom.
Shien beca curious.
“So, your childhood friend should be more outstanding than you, right?” Shien asked, “Then why did you leave the Elven Holand to travel, while she didn’t?”
Shien had heard this from Carol.
It was said that lika and her childhood friend were very close.
They had both gone through their reincarnation cycle as fairies and transford into elves around the sa ti, returning to the Elven Holand and joining the Elven Race together.
Therefore, these two elven girls had been inseparable since childhood, like sisters.
Carol also ntioned that lika and her childhood friend had received their magic enlightennt from her together, starting to learn and practice magic at the sa ti.
They were the sa age and had been best friends for over a hundred years, their relationship much closer than that of ordinary elves.
However, two years ago, these two childhood friends took different paths.
Jenom, following in the footsteps of her seniors in the Elven Corps, diligently trained in the Elven Holand, hoping to join them.
lika, however, suddenly decided to leave the village and travel, to broaden her horizons and gain experience.
But according to lika, Jenom was much more outgoing than her.
Under such circumstances, why was it the more timid and shy lika who went out to travel, while Jenom stayed in the village to train?
“This…”
lika hesitated.
Seeing this, Lucy nudged Shien’s side with her elbow.
Shien winced and glanced at Lucy, exasperated.
He knew that this princess was blaming him for not being able to control his mouth, for not considering whether he had touched upon a sensitive topic and put lika in a difficult position.
This lazy princess, for so reason, suddenly seed to care about lika.
Shien could only shrug helplessly.
“I was just casually asking. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to.”
Shien said to lika.
lika shook her head.
“Actually, it’s not sothing I can’t talk about…” lika said, a bit hesitant, “The reason I wanted to leave the village and travel was simply because I felt that if I didn’t, I might never be able to compare to Jenom.”
This wasn’t difficult to understand.
“Since we transford into elves, we’ve always been together, doing the sa things every day, living the sa life, even our magic training was exactly the sa, almost no difference at all.”
Under such circumstances, they did the sa things, but achieved different results.
“Jenom was the first to learn magic.”
“Jenom was the first to level up.”
“Jenom was the first to learn interdiate magic.”
“Even the first one to successfully subjugate the monsters outside the village and be noticed by the Elven Corps was Jenom.”
lika gripped her staff, her tone not resentful, but still a bit dejected.
“We were always doing the sa things, but Jenom was always one step ahead of , making wonder if I was simply inferior to her.”
It wasn’t jealousy or unwillingness, just a bit of self-doubt.
But it was this slight doubt that ultimately made lika decide to take a different path.
“If I continued training like Jenom, I would probably never catch up to her.”
“And once Jenom joined the Elven Corps, she would receive better training and guidance, and I would truly never be able to catch up.”
“I didn’t want to be left behind by Jenom.”
“Therefore, I mustered my courage and decided to leave the village, travel, and train hard.”
lika murmured unconsciously,
“I wonder if I’ve caught up to Jenom now.”
lika clearly wasn’t confident about this.
And since they had just reunited yesterday, both of them were too happy to notice this.
Only now did lika seem to recall her original intention for leaving the village, feeling a bit nervous and apprehensive.
Her appearance made people feel a little sympathetic.
Lucy stepped forward and gently hugged lika.
“It’s okay, you’ve definitely caught up to her.”
Lucy comforted her softly.
“Th-thank you, Princess Lucy…”
lika was a bit shy, either because she had revealed her innermost thoughts, or because of Lucy’s intimate gesture.
At the sa ti, lika secretly glanced at Shien, seemingly caring about his opinion on this matter.
Shien understood.
Therefore, he said without hesitation,
“I also think you’ve caught up to her now, even surpassed her.”
Shien gave her the highest praise.
“Surpassed?” lika didn’t seem to have considered this possibility and said quickly, “No way, Jenom is so talented and outstanding. It’s already good enough if I can catch up to her.”
It seed lika’s evaluation of her childhood friend, Jenom, was much higher than her own.
“Is she that talented?”
Shien wondered.
He didn’t know how capable Jenom was.
But he didn’t think the current lika was inferior to her.
Just lika’s rapidly increasing magic power over the past few months was sothing Jenom couldn’t possibly match.
That was a growth rate that even Airi noticed, and the Elven Queen was surprised by.
Of course, just having outstanding magic power didn’t an lika was stronger than Jenom.
But both of them were magicians.
Since they were both magicians, the one with stronger magic power definitely had an advantage.
Therefore, Shien believed that the current lika was definitely no less than her childhood friend.
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