Back when he arrived at the Georgi family home, Shien was welcomed by the entire household and was invited in with full honors. He was shown the greatest respect possible then.
However, when he left, Shien did so all on his own. Those who didn’t know any better might have thought that he got chased out by the Georgi family due to having done something wrong.
When Shien exited the gates of the Georgi family home, the girls around him also just happened to also reappear at the same time.
“Are you done now?”
Airi continued to act like she’s still half asleep and yawned as she glanced at Shien while lazily asking him that question.
Lasha also pulled Beatrice along as she unhurriedly walked up to Shien.
The first thing that Shien did was to shift his gaze onto Beatrice.
“?”
Beatrice tilted her head as if confused.
It was because the way that Shien looked at her was different from how it used to be.
Now, Shien’s eyes showed various emotions like consideration, suspicion, and resignation. It wasn’t just Beatrice either. Even Airi and Lasha turned questioning at the change.
“What is it?”
Although Airi was still not all that interested, she still ended up asking about it.
“… Nothing.”
Shien thought for a bit, but in the end, he didn’t say anything.
Although he had already read through that old book and thus more or less now know about just why Terrance was so wary of Beatrice’s existence, Shien still can’t be certain that Beatrice really is the existence mentioned in that book, so there’s no need to say anything about it just yet.
Right now, rather than Beatrice’s history, the bigger headache for Shien is just what he should do with this little girl.
Is he really going to just toss her away?
But, can he really do something like that?
That’s obviously not possible.
Perhaps if it was someone else, they may very likely do that. However, while Shien didn’t consider himself some kind of good person, he still isn’t capable of doing something like just simply abandoning an innocent girl to whatever fate that awaited her.
Even if he does bring Beatrice along with him, while this may very well lead to him encountering a lot of troubles from then on, in the end, he does still have Yulin, the Holy Sword, and worst comes to worst, he even has Airi. Thus, Shien doesn’t need to be as wary and worried as people like Terrance.
Therefore…
“Let’s let the person in question decide for herself then.”
Shien thus made that decision and knelt down in front of Beatrice.
Beatrice was following Shien with her gaze the entire time from the start, so due to the height difference, she had been looking up the entire time that Shien was standing. When Shien knelt down, her own gaze also slowly followed him downward until their eyes were even.
This young looking girl just stared intently at Shien without saying a word. She looked unusually calm and acted as if she was waiting for Shien to speak first.
Shien thus smiled at Beatrice before speaking.
“Hey little guy, want to go with me?”
Shien met Beatrice’s eyes and asked her as he stared right into her violet crystal-like eyes.
Over to the side, while Airi and Lasha didn’t know what was going on, they did realize that now that Shien had asked that, it meant that he intended to keep that girl with him.
Thus, the two of them did not speak and instead quietly waited for Beatrice’s response as if respecting Shien’s decision.
Beatrice on the other hand pause for a moment. It’s unknown if it was because she was surprised by Shien’s invitation or if she simply didn’t understand what Shien meant.
Only Shien, who was focused directly on Beatrice the entire time had noticed that when he made his invitation, there was an instant where a flash of disbelieving hope that flashed across the young girl’s eyes.
It’s obvious that no one had every said something like that to her before.
Beatrice thus ended up falling into a daze, unable to respond for some time.
Shien didn’t hurry her either. He didn’t say anything more and simply waited patiently.
This made Beatrice’s eyes finally show some ripples.
After an unknown amount of time, the ripples in Beatrice’s eyes finally vanished.
Right after that, Beatrice nodded and agreed to Shien’s invitation.
Shien smiled.
“Aright then.”
Thus, Shien stood up and spoke up without any more hesitation.
“We’ll be setting off now and heading for Cosmos now then.”
In response to that, Airi and Lasha exchanged a glance, but neither had any intentions of objecting, and simply nodded.
Beatrice was still acting as quiet as always, only now her eyes as she looked at Shien contained something else to it.
“Yulin!”
Shien shouted out up at the sky.
“Roar!”
A draconic roar rang out and a black figure descended from the sky like a meteor, quickly flying over with a wave of heat and winds as it arrived before Shien and the others.