And after leaving, this young lady went straight to the Divine Realm. Shien couldn’t help but be curious about what had happened and what she had discovered.
Leisha opened her mouth, as if wanting to say something, but then closed it again.
“…You’ll find out later.”
Leisha said these sullen words and nothing else.
Shien only wanted to say,
“I hate you people who keep secrets. It’s because you guys keep things to yourselves, thinking it’s some kind of unbreakable secret, that the plot drags on so much.”
Shien wanted to knock Leisha on the head.
“Trust me, you’ll be happier not knowing such heavy matters.”
Leisha rolled her eyes and said these seemingly sympathetic words to him, then took Lasha’s hand and turned to leave.
“I’ll be happier?” Shien curled his lip and muttered, “I’d rather make you happy.”
Just you wait.
When his children are old enough to run errands, he’d see if she could still be so stubborn.
…
After that, Anima left.
Leisha stayed, seemingly without any further plans.
Airi was still the same, occasionally appearing out of nowhere, making Leisha nervous, but mostly sleeping.
And Shien, recently, had been feeling a bit melancholic.
Because he discovered that since Leisha’s return, Lasha had been following her around all the time, no longer acting as his attentive, all-purpose maid.
Although Lasha was still in charge of their meals and various chores, the daily wake-up ritual (appearing by his bedside to attend to him, helping him wash and change clothes) was gone, making Shien very sad.
“Big Sister, are you planning to burn bridges after crossing them?”
Shien looked at Lasha with a pitiful expression.
Unfortunately, Lasha wasn’t someone who would fall for this.
“I originally served Mr. Shien as my master because of Milady’s orders. Now that Milady has returned, she is naturally my first priority.”
Lasha said calmly.
This made Shien abandon his pitiful expression and turn to stare intently at Leisha, who was playing with Lilith.
“Ugh…!”
Leisha shuddered.
“?”
Lilith, who wasn’t interested in Leisha’s teasing and had been quietly watching her, tilted her head in confusion.
“N-nothing…” Leisha shook her head, then whispered, feeling a chill, “Why do I feel like someone just had murderous intent towards me, as if wanting to get rid of me and snatch something from me…?”
Could it be that someone else was targeting the things she stole from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Mitra?
She had to be more vigilant recently.
Just like that, while the outside world was in an uproar over the incident in Cosmos, only Shien’s side remained peaceful.
Until Elise appeared.
“It seems you’ve found your precious companions.”
Seeing Oz and Maeve accompanying Elise on their visit, Shien raised an eyebrow and said these words with a smirk.
“Yes, it’s great that everyone is alright.”
Elise looked relieved and joyful.
Oz and Maeve, beside her, also spoke.
“Thanks to Goddess Anima’s guidance, we not only found our companions from the priest group and saved them from the danger of being corrupted by the evil aura, but also found our lost tribesmen.”
Maeve smiled rarely.
“I didn’t expect Lady Beatrice to actually succeed in returning and becoming Goddess Lilith…”
Oz looked at Lilith, who was clinging to Shien, with a complicated expression.
Lilith was the evil god their clan had guarded for a thousand years, and they had suffered quite a bit because of her. Now that the evil god was unsealed and had returned to her original form, they didn’t know if they should be truly happy.
“What are you planning to do next?”
Shien, holding Lilith, asked casually.
Lilith had been unsealed, and Cosmos was destroyed. Where Elise and the beastmen would go next was a big question.
Fortunately, their patron goddess seemed to have made arrangements.
“With Goddess Anima’s coordination and assistance, the Empire no longer pursues this matter and has retreated to its borders. The Kingdom will also rebuild Cosmos.”
Maeve answered Shien’s question.