Inside the meeting room, Lin Ling snapped out of her silent contemplation after hearing a scream from outside.
“Huh?”
Lin Ling raised her head and looked toward the meeting room door.
That scream just now sounded a bit familiar.
Was it Lady Furni's voice?
But wasn't Lady Furni a dragon?
Do dragons also scream like they've been thrown from a great height?
Lin Ling thought about it, then finally stood up and walked out of the meeting room.
When Lin Ling stepped outside, she saw Ivelia standing by the window.
She had one hand covering her face, looking deeply exasperated by something.
Lin Ling looked around but couldn't find any sign of Furni.
“Eh? Has Lady Furni already left?”
It had only been a brief moment.
Was this the recovery speed of a dragon?
Lin Ling stared at the empty corridor, her face filled with shock.
As expected of a guardian dragon.
Even after being blown up like that by her, she was able to use teleportation magic to go back so quickly.
The dragon race was truly terrifying.
Ivelia merely glanced at Lin Ling, who was marveling at Lady Furni's incredible feats, and ultimately decided not to tell her about Furni flipping out of the window and falling.
Just then, thinking of Furni, Lin Ling suddenly seemed to remember something.
“Wait! Oh no!”
Lin Ling suddenly cried out.
Hearing her sudden shout, Ivelia thought something was wrong with her body and immediately raised her hand, casting four or five protective spells on Lin Ling in an instant.
“What's wrong?”
Ivelia's tone was clearly tense.
Lin Ling stood in place, rings of protective light shimmering around her body.
In the next second, her tears actually started flowing on command!
“Demon King~”
“I accidentally left Sia-chan in the residential district.”
As she spoke, Lin Ling looked at Ivelia with tearful eyes.
Her expression was like a small animal that had lost its companion.
However, upon hearing the name “Sia-chan,” the purple in Ivelia's eyes darkened slightly.
“Sia-chan?”
She repeated softly.
Her voice wasn't loud.
Yet the protective spells on Lin Ling's body seemed to flicker along with it.
Lin Ling: “...”
She felt that the Demon King's aura around her was somewhat off.
Very off.
Thus, Lin Ling's brain instantly made the most correct judgment.
Run.
“D-D-Demon King, I want to go find Sia-chan.”
“B-Byebye!”
Having said that, Lin Ling very decisively rushed toward the window.
Ivelia: “...”
She watched Lin Ling's retreating figure as she flew out of the window, falling silent for a moment.
“Wow~ ‘Sia-chan,’ is it~”
At that moment, Aliviel appeared out of nowhere.
She leaned gently against Ivelia, her tone dripping with obvious teasing.
As Aliviel spoke, she naturally draped her hand over Ivelia's shoulder.
But when Ivelia heard that name again, she could no longer suppress the pressure belonging to the Demon King.
Purple magic slowly manifested around her.
The air itself seemed to grow a bit colder.
Eh, cold? Over at the clock tower, Cecil sneezed for some reason.
“Aliviel.”
Ivelia's voice sounded very calm.
But beneath that calm lay a terrifying, raspy undertone.
“Do you know that the Demon King's Castle has a place very suitable for scouting?”
Feeling the purple magic rushing toward her, the smile on Aliviel's face froze.
“Uh, haha.”
“Demon King, you must be joking.”
“How could there be such a place...”
Before she could finish her sentence.
The scene shifted.
The clock tower—
“Yo~ Isn't this my old acquaintance Aliviel?”
“You're here too?”
Cecil, who was currently cosplaying as a teru teru bozu, did not forget to tease Aliviel as she was hung up beside him.
He was hung upside down from the edge of the clock tower, swaying gently in the wind.
Meanwhile, Aliviel was once again hung up right next to him.
She didn't immediately respond to the demon's teasing.
She just silently stared at the white figure floating off in the distance toward the residential district.
After a moment, Aliviel slowly spoke.
“Cecil.”
“Hmm?”
“You had better pray I never catch you hung up here alone.”
Cecil: “...”
A gust of wind blew by.
The two of them continued to sway and drift in the wind.
For some reason, the wind at the Demon King's Castle today seemed exceptionally cold.
Meanwhile, the white figure drifting in the distance seemed to sense their thoughts.
Lin Ling suddenly sneezed in midair.
“Achoo!”
In the next second, she flipped halfway around in the air.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa—”
She almost fell straight out of the sky.
Fortunately, her practice with Levitation Magic lately had yielded some results.
Lin Ling frantically adjusted her magic, finally stabilizing herself.
“Whew~ That was close.”
She patted her chest.
“Miss Saintess almost crashed just from a sneeze.”
“Dying like that would have been way too embarrassing.”
Once Lin Ling stabilized herself, she looked into the distance and noticed someone on the road below waving at her.
Lin Ling squinted to get a better look.
Then her eyes lit up.
“Wow! It's Sia-chan!”
Down on the ground, Leticia had also spotted the white figure in the sky.
She raised her hand and gave Lin Ling a gentle wave.
In the next instant, Lin Ling appeared in the air not far above Leticia, almost as if she had teleported.
“Sia-chaaan!”
Lin Ling's voice trailed off in a long whine from above.
Then, like a small white animal, she threw herself straight at Leticia.
Leticia instinctively opened her arms as she watched Lin Ling dive toward her.
She steadily caught the white creature plunging from the sky.
“Waaah~ I'm so sorry.”
“I accidentally left you behind in the fields, Sia-chan~”
After diving into Leticia's arms, Lin Ling immediately unleashed her baby-talk act.
It was super effective.
Leticia was pushed back half a step by the impact.
Then, she gently patted Lin Ling's back.
“It's alright, Lin Ling.”
“I'm fine.”
Her voice was much softer than usual.
“And besides, I should thank you.”
“You gave me a very novel experience.”
“Really?”
Lin Ling stopped nuzzling Leticia's chest and looked up at her.
Leticia nodded.
“Really.”
Looking at her expression and confirming that she really didn't seem angry, Lin Ling finally let out a sigh of relief.
“That's wonderful.”
“Miss Saintess almost thought she had committed the major crime of abandoning her friend in the residential district.”
Leticia let out a soft laugh.
“By the way, Lin Ling.”
“Hmm?”
“Did you see Mr. Phelan when you came out?”
Recalling what had happened at Mrs. Nashi's house, Leticia asked Lin Ling, who had just come from the Demon King's Castle.
“I have something to ask him.”
Lin Ling blinked.
“Phelan?”
“I didn't see him just now.”
Just then, Phelan's calm voice echoed from right behind them.
“Lady Leticia, you were looking for me?”
Lin Ling and Leticia turned around at the same time.
Phelan had appeared behind them without them noticing.
He was still holding his recording board.
His gaze naturally drifted to their embracing posture.
Lin Ling was still being held by Leticia.
Leticia's hand was still resting on Lin Ling's back.
Phelan stared at the two of them in silence for a moment.
Then, he looked down and began writing.
“Addendum: Lin Ling and Leticia met outside the residential district.”
“Method of meeting: A flying leap into an embrace.”
“Relationship between both parties suspected to have grown closer.”
Lin Ling: “...”
Leticia: “...”
Lin Ling slowly let go of Leticia.
“Phelan.”
“Hmm?”
“Can you please not record things like that?”
Phelan looked up at her.
“No.”
“Why not?!”
“Because this is also vital data for observing changes in the Saintess's relationships.”
Lin Ling covered her face.
She suddenly had a premonition.
If this record was seen by the Demon King.
The temperature at the Demon King's Castle today would probably continue to plummet.
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