“Hold it right there!”
Just as Shien and lika were gazing at each other, seemingly oblivious to everything around them, a sharp voice suddenly rang out.
This voice instantly broke the slightly ambiguous atmosphere between Shien and lika, bringing them back to reality.
“~~~~~”
lika, realizing what she had just done, blushed furiously.
Seeing lika like this, both Shien and Lucy had the sa thought.
This once-in-a-lifeti opportunity was gone.
Shien and Lucy’s faces fell.
Everyone turned their heads and looked towards the source of the sound.
In a secluded corner, an elven girl was standing there.
She was a beautiful elf with a heroic appearance, seemingly around lika’s age, holding a short staff, and sporting shoulder-length hair.
The girl looked valiant, her eyes sharp, her limbs slender, like a kind older sister who would take care of the neighborhood children, giving off a sense of security.
However, this elven girl was now staring at them with a furious expression.
No, more accurately, she was staring at Shien.
“Jenom…!?”
lika also saw this heroic girl, surprise appearing on her flushed face.
Shien and his group also heard lika’s words, stunned at first, then surprised.
Jenom?
lika’s childhood friend?
“Is that her?”
Lucy seed to realize.
This elven girl who had suddenly appeared and spoken was lika’s childhood friend—Jenom.
“Why are you here?”
lika was truly surprised.
Yesterday, after they reunited, they spent the whole day together happily, even sleeping together at night, as if they had returned to their inseparable childhood days.
But this morning, when lika offered to bring Jenom over and introduce her to Shien and his group, Jenom refused without hesitation.
Now, this childhood friend had actually appeared here, naturally surprising lika.
However…
“I’ve been following you, wanting to see what kind of people you’ve befriended outside.”
Jenom walked over, looking at lika with a hint of anger, as if she had been deceived.
“When I asked you yesterday, you told that you and the man from another race you invited were just ordinary adventurer teammates, right?”
Jenom looked furious.
This was only natural.
Yesterday, when she learned that lika was returning, Jenom was overjoyed.
Her childhood friend, who had suddenly decided to travel two years ago and was no longer with her, Jenom naturally missed her very much.
Therefore, with the approaching Peace Festival, Jenom deliberately wrote a letter to remind lika, who was away from ho, to co back.
She simply missed lika.
Under such circumstances, Jenom was ecstatic when she learned that lika was returning for the Peace Festival.
Yesterday, Jenom had been waiting for news from lika, wanting to welco her back as soon as possible.
Then, lika returned.
But after the initial joy, Jenom couldn’t be happy anymore.
Because lika had actually invited a man from another race back to the Elven Holand to participate in the Peace Festival.
“Why did you bring a man from another race back, lika!?”
Jenom asked lika in shock.
And Jenom still rembered the expression lika showed after that.
“…Because he’s soone very important to .”
At that ti, lika blushed, and with a soft voice, a hint of shyness and an indescribable happiness, said these words to Jenom.
Seeing her childhood friend, lika couldn’t help but reveal her biggest secret, a secret she couldn’t share with anyone else.
Unfortunately, lika didn’t know how much of an impact her words and expression had on Jenom.
She had never seen lika like this before.
She had never seen lika with such an expression.
This made Jenom realize that in two years, lika had changed, becoming a stranger to her.
Of course, that wasn’t the most important thing.
The most important thing was that lika, her most important childhood friend, seed to have developed a feeling that elves shouldn’t have.
That was—”love.”
lika had fallen in love with a man from another race.
When she realized this, the shock in Jenom’s heart was beyond words.
She had never thought that her childhood friend would one day fall in love with a man from another race.
She also hadn’t thought that after waiting for lika with anticipation and anxiety, she was no longer the most important person in lika’s heart.
Then, Jenom thought of those elves who had fallen in love with n from other races.
She recalled their sadness.
She recalled their pained expressions.
“…I have to stop this.”
Jenom imdiately had this thought.
Therefore, Jenom spent the entire day yesterday trying to get information about lika’s beloved from her.
And under Jenom’s questioning, lika personally said that she and that man from another race were just ordinary adventurer teammates.
Therefore, Jenom decided to secretly observe Shien and lika while things could still be salvaged, wanting to see how far their relationship had progressed. 𝖗ＡꞐ𝔬ꞖЁ𝓢
And today, Jenom saw the scene of Shien and lika gazing at each other.
She didn’t know what they had talked about that made them suddenly gaze at each other like that, a strange atmosphere between them.
But a voice in Jenom’s heart told her that she couldn’t let this continue.
Therefore, Jenom couldn’t help but step forward.
“What was that just now?”
Jenom asked lika.
“This…”
lika recalled what had just happened, and her face flushed red again, as if she was about to faint from embarrassnt.
She didn’t even dare to look at Shien, wanting to run away.
But lika’s reaction made Jenom even angrier.
“Really, after just a year or two outside, you’ve beco so strange. If I had known, I wouldn’t have let you leave.” Jenom grabbed lika’s hand and said in a tone that brooked no argunt, “Co on, let’s go back.”
Jenom was about to take lika away.
“W-wait! Jenom!” lika reacted and said quickly, “I still have to entertain Mr. Shien and the others!”
“Entertain them?” Jenom said imdiately, “The others from the Elven Corps can do that. You don’t have to.”
“But…” lika said, stunned, “I invited them. They’re my friends. I should be the one to entertain them.”
“I said no, so no!” Jenom said forcefully, “Just co back with !”
Jenom pulled lika’s hand, trying to drag her away.
“Ah!”
lika let out a small cry of surprise as her body tilted towards Jenom, being pulled along.
Just as lika was about to be dragged away by Jenom, a hand reached out.
“Slap!”
With a crisp sound, lika’s other hand was grabbed.
“Huh?”
Jenom froze.
“Mr. Shien…?”
lika exclaid.
Lucy, Lasha, Lilith, and Millu all turned their gazes to the side.
There, Shien had reached out and grabbed lika’s hand, a playful smile on his face.
“Miss Jenom, is it?” Shien said casually. “Nice to et you.”
His relaxed greeting almost made lika and the others unable to react, and Jenom’s face darkened.
“I’m not nice!” Jenom glared at Shien and said in a low voice, “Let go!”
Jenom glanced at Shien’s hand holding lika’s, a feeling of sothing being taken from her rising in her heart, fueling her anger.
Shien, however, was unfazed.
“I should be the one saying that, shouldn’t I?” Shien narrowed his eyes, the playful smile still on his face. “You suddenly ca here to cause trouble, and without saying a word, you’re trying to take away our person. That’s not right, is it?”
Jenom imdiately retorted without thinking,
“Who’s ‘your person’!? ” Jenom stared at Shien as if he was a criminal. “lika isn’t yours!”
Jenom’s tone was filled with possessiveness.
It was as if she was desperately trying to protect sothing.
“Really?” Shien raised an eyebrow. “If she’s not ours, then is she yours?”
“Of course!” Jenom puffed out her chest and said firmly, “We’ve been childhood friends for over a hundred years, never separated!”
The implication was that with their bond and feelings, they were already inseparable.
Therefore, lika naturally belonged to her.
Shien had sothing to say to this.
“So, you’re just childhood friends, right?” Shien looked at Jenom and shrugged. “Since you’re just lika’s childhood friend, not her mother, then your actions of trying to take her away without saying a word, frankly speaking, I don’t quite agree with.”
“You…!” Jenom was furious.
At this mont, lika finally realized what was happening.
“Why… why are you arguing?” lika hurriedly tried to stop them. “Calm down, Mr. Shien, Jenom.”
Neither Shien nor Jenom listened to lika.
They glared at each other, their gazes clashing like sparks, their animosity clear.
Undoubtedly, Shien and Jenom’s relationship, upon their first eting, had dropped below zero.
Jenom saw Shien as a threat to lika, an enemy.
Shien was also very unhappy with this elven girl’s rude interruption and her attempt to take lika away without any regard for him or the others.
This put them at odds with each other, irreconcilably.
“Let go!”
Jenom warned.
“No.”
Shien naturally wouldn’t back down.
“Are you going to let go?”
Magic power surged around Jenom.
“No.”
Shien grinned, calm and unhurried.
“…”
Jenom fell silent.
“…”
Shien also didn’t speak.
But as if they had agreed beforehand, both of them tightened their grips on lika’s hand.
“Ah!”
lika cried out in surprise.
Shien and Jenom pulled on lika’s hands simultaneously, trying to drag her to their respective sides.
“W-wait! Mr. Shien! Jenom!”
lika, being pulled from both sides, froze in mid-air like a doll.
It didn’t hurt, just a little uncomfortable.
Shien and Jenom were still sowhat restrained, not using enough force to hurt lika.
But within the allowed range of force, neither of them would compromise, silently pulling lika towards themselves.
This made lika confused and at a loss, not knowing what to do.
Lucy and the others, watching this scene, were speechless.
“?”
“Are they playing tug-of-war?”
Lilith and Millu tilted their heads simultaneously, confused.
“This guy is competing with a little girl again.”
Lucy sighed.
“This is Mr. Shien.”
Lasha said calmly.
Everyone could only watch from the side, not knowing whether to intervene or not, the atmosphere awkward.
Jenom, while pulling on lika, suddenly noticed sothing.
(lika isn’t resisting being touched by a man from another race…?)
Jenom stared at Shien’s hand holding lika’s, then at lika, who, although looking confused, wasn’t resisting at all, a sense of crisis rising in her heart.
With an elf’s purity and emphasis on it, they would feel uncomfortable even just being near soone of the opposite sex, let alone being touched.
But lika not only wasn’t resisting, but also seed used to it.
What did this an?
Before she could figure it out, Jenom was furious.
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