“Queen Meiya is indeed a very special person…”
“Hmm.”
Shalan thought he was murmuring about the Queen’s wise handling of affairs and smiled in response, but Ye Lin was actually referring to her hair color!
Due to the Venus Curse, Dark Elves not only have dark skin and cold personalities, but are also warlike and easily angered, and their hair color is mostly grayish-white.
Shalan and Kakun both have grayish-white hair, but Queen Meiya, whether it’s natural or dyed, has beautiful green hair that reaches her knees, and her appearance is exquisite and her temperament noble, making her an extremely beautiful sight among the Dark Elves, truly rare.
“Please, Principal, pay close attention to the news from Noire Ferra. For necessary material aid, you can contact Celia in Hutton Mar. If the situation develops beyond recovery, then we can make the best of a bad situation and perhaps build momentum for Queen Meiya.”
“I… I’ll try, sigh…”
The blue enchantress on her head wilted a bit. If Alice’s prophecy was true, then the disaster in Noire Ferra would cause panic throughout the Dark Elves. The only benefit would be that Queen Meiya, who proposed “moving,” would feel ashamed and express her loyalty to the Dark Elves afterwards.
After another conversation about the Dark Elves, the Delos Empire, and the Apostles, Shalan personally saw them off and said she would visit her friend Alice when she had time.
Renting a carriage and slowly heading towards Hutton Mar, Siate clasped her hands behind her head and recalled, “Dark Elves, it’s hard to imagine them living underground. Would it be dim, cold, and damp?”
“Heavenly people, perhaps they guess the same about us, living underwater, would we grow gills? Right on your face, hahahaha.”
He pinched her little face, and she turned her head away in annoyance. Siate was sitting on his right, and his right hand naturally rested on her left leg, earning him another roll of her eyes, which he was used to.
Upon returning to Hutton Mar, Yuena left to report the situation of the Apostles to Majello, Mo Mei went directly to the shop, and Siate and Mai Lu also went shopping for some food ingredients, preparing for a celebration party in the evening.
“Celia, Tana, we’re back!”
He shouted loudly and enthusiastically at the entrance of the manor, and then saw Alice on the lawn, who had set up a lounge chair to sunbathe, with maryllete beside her. He couldn’t help but pause, feeling awkward.
“Damn it, this is my home, what am I afraid of?!”
Thinking this, he strode forward again, feigning an air of strength, and entered the manor.
“Celia is not here.”
Alice glanced at him coldly, her eyes still unfriendly. The scene from West Coast that she had finally suppressed surged back the moment she saw him.
“Ah haha, she’s not here, then she must be at the shop.” Ye Lin feigned composure, but his eyes couldn’t help but dart around.
“How was it? Lotus?”
She suddenly found Ye Lin a bit amusing; he was impulsive and dared to lay hands on anyone, but as soon as the other party genuinely got angry, he immediately chickened out.
“We won, but, it’s a slight pity.”
He took out the egg of Lotus, which had an eye, placed it on the ground, and patted the shell. Ye Lin suddenly became worried again.
How to hatch this egg? Like hatching chicks, 360-degree insulation? Or just smash it with a hammer?
“Lord of Water, just throw it in the water. Octopuses are not warm-blooded animals, so insulation is useless.”
Alice had no interest in this egg. She had studied various Apostles when she was in the Demon World, so she was generally not interested in a mere Apostle’s egg. If Lotus hatched, she might be able to discuss the application of mental power while he was still weak.
“Then… throw it in the water.”
He also had no good solution. An octopus egg, how could it be artificially hatched? And it was so big.
There was a clean pond in the front yard of the manor. Celia had suggested buying some ornamental fish to put in it, but that matter was accidentally forgotten.
Using earth to form a rope to drag the egg, he kicked it into the pond with a forceful kick, clapped his hands, and said contentedly, “Luo Zong, hatch and grow up quickly. I’m counting on you to help me whip Held.”
The single eye on the shell of Lotus’s egg, which had sunk to the bottom of the water, suddenly glowed blue. It was unclear if it understood his words and was responding, or if it was happy from touching the water, or perhaps angry at his kicking action.
“I’m going up, you can sunbathe slowly.”
Tana sat at her desk in her room, with Bakal’s notes on her left and a new notebook on her right. She was carefully analyzing something in Dragonic script, occasionally furrowing her beautiful brows, seemingly encountering a problem.
He quietly walked over and pressed Tana’s shoulders. After her joyful yet provocative gaze, the person who received the hint began to misbehave.
“Is there anything in the notes that troubles you too?”
He brushed aside her often unkempt hair and gently massaged Tana’s shoulders, his gaze simultaneously falling on the notebook. The translation effect of Heaven’s Seal sometimes appeared and sometimes played dead, and unfortunately, this time he couldn’t understand it.
“Hmm~ It seems to be something from the Sky Realm. Although I’m similar to you, regarding the Sky Realm… I really don’t know much…”
She annoyedly tried to swat away the two hands that were quietly approaching her “justice,” signaling him to look at the notes first, as there was serious business, and the job change could wait.
Heaven’s Seal finally showed its effect at this moment. The Dragonic language was translated, but the content made him frown deeply; even translated, he couldn’t understand it.
“This looks like… a design for some kind of precision instrument? It seems to be only palm-sized. I don’t remember any palm-sized machine worth being noted by Bakal. This thing isn’t the Great Justice.”
He initially thought it was a Mechanic’s detonation device, but then he thought that thing was too low-level, being one of a Mechanic’s basic operations.
“Do you want to show it to Kelly?” Tana stood up and took a step forward, breaking free of his control, a playful smile on her lips. The giant dragon had been provoked!
“She’s a Wandering Gunner by origin; her mastery of mechanics doesn’t reach the level of a Mechanical God of War. This was written by Bakal… but we can still try.”
Nodding with a smile, Tana bent down and took out a checkered cloth to simply tie her hair behind her in the middle, otherwise, it would be inconvenient for the job change later.
“Did you change the color?”
“You don’t like this color? No, that’s not right, I offered it to you several times and you didn’t want it.”
She tugged at the hem of her cheongsam. If there wasn’t a magic circle for heating in the room, it would definitely be chilly.
“I like to be prepared before doing things, so the atmosphere is very important. Let’s skip the second step and go with the first and third.”
A crystal hard candy dangled between Tana’s fingertips. Perhaps suddenly remembering that the last time it melted completely took a while, she squeezed the candy with two fingers, crushing half of it, and then threw it into her mouth.
“You are stronger than me, so how to read Dragon Knight is up to you, but can you not tie my hands? When I get nervous, I want to grab something… like justice…”
“This… alright.” Tana thought about it and felt she wouldn’t lose anyway, so she simply nodded.
“You were in a deep sleep when I left last time. Have you become stronger?”
“Hmm, of course.”
“Alright then, let’s test your flexibility!”
At sunset, as dusk fell, Tana’s right leg went numb, and she quickly propped herself against the desk, giving a certain someone an annoyed glare.
It wasn’t that her combat power was insufficient, but that she had been standing on one leg for too long, and was also undergoing a job change. Several times during the process, she suggested that she could reluctantly give Ye Lin some face and turn around to lean on the windowsill to watch the scenery, but he refused…
“You deadbeat, go mop the floor.”
“Eh? Didn’t you say you’d do it?”
“I only said I’d wash the bedsheets, not mop the floor. Go quickly, I’ll sit for a bit…”