Without a doubt, Jacinta was dumbfounded.
Completely so in fact.
Never mind Jacinta, just Jace and Liece were utterly petrified by the sight before them with frozen expressions of shock on their facersr.
“M-ma…”
Jacinta pointed at Airi and just constantly repeated that “ma” syllable while shaking, but even after some time, he still couldn’t spit out the latter half of what he was trying to say.
“Ma-?”
Shien just blinked with a puzzled expression.
As for Airi, she just gave Jacinta a glance. Then she took a look at her hand that was still being held by Shien’s, went silent for a moment, before finally turning her gaze back onto Jacinta.
It was a cold and warning gaze.
Jacinta shuddered at that, comprehended the message sent, and shut up in terror.
Shien on the other hand, seeing Jacinta’s reaction to Airi, spoke up with a curious tone.
“What? Do you know each other?”
Obviously!
Jacinta really wanted to reply with that.
Even if all the demons in the world were to die, there’s still no way that he could fail to recognize the one before him.
It’s exactly because of that that he’s so shocked and flabbergasted.
Why is the Master here?
Why is Princess Lucilosti’s favored person here?
Why is that person holding the Master’s hand?
Who am I?
Where am I?
What was I doing?
Jacinta’s mind was completely tangled up like that.
Since even Jacinta ended up like that, then never mind Jace and Liece.
Those twins who rather disliked Shien from the start, at this moment, were completely panicking at the sight of Airi who was obediently holding Shien’s hand.
“You…”
“You’re…”
The two of them were also trying to say something in a scratchy voice, but they too were unable to spit out a complete sentence in all that time.
This entire situation made Shien really want to make a sarcastic comment.
“Do demons have some kind of problem with their voice-boxes, to the point where they cant’ even get a complete sentence out?”
It was quite an impolite comment that.
Of course, Shien had actually realized something from the three’s reactions.
And that was that they definitely know Airi.
They also know Airi’s true status at that.
(As I thought. This little girl is…)
Shien gave a glance to the side at the emotionless looking Airi whose hand he was still holding with complicated feelings.
It’s basically set then. She’s definitely one of the most amazing big shots among big shots, and she’s also one of the group that he can least afford to provoke at that.
This made Shien feel quite a bit of pressure.
Knowing too much isn’t necessarily a good thing.
At the very least, if he wants to tease this loli in the figure, he may end up hesitating now that he knows just how amazing she is.
This is unquestionably something that would make one sigh.
Therefore, Shien let go of Airi’s hand.
And then… He picked her up and hugged her the second after.
“Pff!”
Jacinta’s eyes widened and he couldn’t stop himself from doing a spit take like he choked from sheer shock.
Jace and Liece’s legs wobbled. They nearly collapsed right down onto the ground in their own shock.
And this time, it was Airi’s turn to be flabbergasted.
“What are you doing?”
Airi turned her head and looked at Shien with a dumbfounded expression.
Shien just continued to hug this soft little girl with a completely nonplussed expression.