When Shien finished dressing, Millu, holding Lid, came to him.
“Airi, Airi…”
The little girl with immense magic power tugged at Shien’s clothes repeatedly, her face anxious, as if urging or worried about something.
“This…”
Shien didn’t know what she wanted and looked confused.
“Alright, don’t worry, Airi won’t run away.”
Lid comforted her in a casual tone, and although Millu still looked anxious, she didn’t say anything more.
Seeing this, Shien had a thought.
“Could she be wanting to see Airi?”
Shien asked the little beast on Millu’s head, a strange expression on his face.
“Well, haven’t you guessed it already?” Lid yawned, looking at the puzzled Shien, a glint of intelligence in its eyes. It chuckled and said, “This girl likes Airi the most. Whenever she sees Airi, she’ll cling to her until Airi gets annoyed. If we hadn’t heard you mention Airi’s name when passing by, we might not have even noticed you.”
In short, if it weren’t for the mention of Airi, Shien might have been ignored by them.
To this pair, Shien’s only value seemed to be “knowing Airi.” Besides that, he didn’t seem to have anything they were interested in.
…He felt an urge to ruffle that child’s hair and eat a roasted beast leg.
“You want to see Airi, right?” Shien said with a forced smile, “Fine, I’ll take you to her.”
He would deal with their arrogance later.
However, as Shien thought this, Lid said,
“Before that, do us a favor first.”
Lid actually said this.
“A favor?”
Shien raised an eyebrow.
“That’s right.” Lid pointed outside the barrier. “It’s in that direction. Let’s go.”
Without waiting for Shien’s response, Lid tugged at Millu’s hair.
“Let’s go, Millu. Let’s finish this quickly so we can go see Airi.”
Lid’s words instantly changed Millu’s aggrieved expression.
“See Airi! See Airi!”
The little girl’s face lit up, and she ran outside.
Surprisingly, the barrier of the Elven Homeland seemed to have no effect on her.
The little girl with the mysterious creature on her head passed through the barrier silently, as if walking through water, completely unaffected.
“What the hell…”
Shien was dumbfounded.
The barrier that the Elven Homeland was so proud of, and which was possibly set up by the Goddess of Nature herself, was actually ignored by her so easily. It was truly shocking. ŘåƝꝊ฿Ěș
If she had broken the barrier with force, Shien wouldn’t have been so surprised.
If he hadn’t guessed wrong about her identity, then her power could only be greater than that of the Goddess of Nature. Being able to break the barrier set up by the Goddess of Nature wasn’t strange.
But she didn’t break the barrier, but directly ignored it, as if nothing in the world could stop her, completely unaffected.
This was quite impressive.
Shien hadn’t intended to follow.
After all, being ordered around like this, what did that make him?
But now, Shien was interested in this pair.
What did such a strange duo want to do here?
“Let’s go and see.”
Shien couldn’t suppress his curiosity.
Shien followed them.
Lid, as if knowing Shien would follow, said casually to Millu,
“Bring him out of the barrier, Millu.”
Millu didn’t hesitate at all, walked through the barrier, took Shien’s hand, and pulled him out, as easily as if they were taking a stroll.
“Airi! Airi!”
Millu, holding Shien’s hand, kept chanting this name, then pulled Shien forward impatiently.
“Where are we going?”
Shien couldn’t help but ask.