Frankly speaking, it wasn’t even enough to tickle him!
Shien smirked and, while Jenom was stunned, pulled Melika towards him forcefully.
Jenom, caught off guard, loosened her grip.
“Ah!”
Melika cried out in surprise again.
But this time, with this cry, Melika was pulled into Shien’s arms.
Yes.
Shien embraced Melika.
“Huh?”
Melika let out a silly sound.
“Aaaaaaaaaah!”
Jenom finally reacted. Seeing this scene, she let out an earth-shattering scream.
Shien ignored this and, amidst Melika’s surprised cries, lifted her into a princess carry.
“M-Mr. Shien…!?”
Melika’s voice cracked as she instinctively wrapped her arms around Shien’s neck, her face turning bright red as she realized what was happening.
Shien ignored Melika, sniffing the sweet fragrance on her and feeling her delicate body in his arms, seemingly satisfied. He turned to Lucy and the others.
“You guys go ahead. I’ll play with this girl for a bit.”
Saying so, Shien, still carrying Melika, leaped onto a glowing tree amidst her continuous cries of surprise.
Then, Shien continued leaping from tree to tree, his figure flashing, heading into the distance.
Jenom could only stare blankly at this scene, finally understanding after a while.
“Melika… was taken away by a man…?”
After a stunned murmur, an astonishing magic power erupted from Jenom’s body.
It was an incredibly powerful magic power.
Jenom had exploded.
“Stop! Right! There!”
The elven girl roared like a demon, then started running, chasing after Shien.
Soon, the figures of Shien, Melika, and Jenom, chasing each other, disappeared into the distance.
“What… what’s going on?”
“Was that Jenom just now?”
“It was Jenom…”
“Why is she so angry?”
“I don’t know…”
“Is she chasing after someone?”
“It seems so.”
“I saw a dark shadow fly overhead.”
“Me too.”
“What happened?”
The surrounding elves, noticing the commotion, started discussing amongst themselves, surprised and confused.
Only Lucy, Lasha, Millu, and Lilith remained, looking in the direction where Shien and the others had disappeared, silent for a long time.
“???”
“???”
Lilith and Millu tilted their heads, their faces full of question marks.
The current situation had clearly confused these two little girls with their not-so-mature minds.
They subconsciously wanted to follow, but Lasha held them back.
“Should we follow them, Princess Lucy?”
Lasha turned to Lucy and asked softly.
Lucy rolled her eyes.
Follow?
Follow what?
Help that bastard chase after a girl?
No way!
Lucy could tell that Shien had noticed Melika’s affection and wasn’t planning to let her go.
Perhaps that idiot didn’t know about the elven view of love, or their pure and selfless devotion, but he definitely knew that if a cute girl threw herself at him, he wouldn’t be a man if he didn’t devour her completely.
Under such circumstances, Lucy didn’t want to follow and watch her future husband flirt with a pure elven girl.
Therefore…
“Let’s go, let’s play on our own and leave them alone.”
Lucy said, pretending to be unconcerned, and pulled Lasha’s hand, walking away without looking back.
“…”
Lasha glanced at Lucy’s hand holding hers, then chose to remain silent.
“Play?”
“Play!”
Lilith and Millu quickly put aside their confusion and became excited again.
Just like that, Shien ran off with Melika.
With someone chasing after them.