“Why would I resent you?”
“Just. When that time comes, and you want to blame someone, there might not be a suitable target.”
Luibel asked in disbelief, and Anselot answered in a calm voice.
“Then just blame me. It’s all my fault that the Princess became a player, that I became a bug.”
Luibel pouted her lips.
“I’m already resenting you, don’t you remember how I hit you earlier?”
Luibel showed her fist in a mock threatening manner, though to Anselot, it seemed nothing more than a cute gesture.
“That didn’t seem enough to me.”
Anselot smiled wryly and leaned towards Luibel.
“Hit me more until you feel better, Princess. I’ll take as much as you give.”
“Go away!”
Luibel, startled by the sudden closeness, pushed Anselot away.
“Ow, that hurts when you look so disgusted.”
“Why would you suddenly get so close!”
However, despite her apparent disgust, Luibel’s ears were slightly flushed.
Deep in the forest.
A small boy sat huddled under a tree trunk.
He had mysterious black hair and black eyes.
Half of the boy’s blood was elf, the other half human.
Because of this, he didn’t belong in either the world of elves or humans.
Black mist swirled around him.
He was pondering over Luibel’s words.
‘You were actually lonely, weren’t you? Alone in this vast forest, enduring through time.’
She had said that to him. You were actually lonely.
But the boy didn’t know what loneliness was.
Since he was always alone from the moment of his birth, paradoxically, he didn’t understand loneliness.
Yet, there was one clear thing.
‘I’ll be by your side.’
The moment he heard those words, he wanted to grab her outstretched hand.
It was the first time.
Someone had said that to him.
Is it true? If I just take her hand, will she really stay by my side?
But even the one who gave birth to me abandoned me.
Why would she want to stay with me?
‘Come with me. You don’t have to hurt people anymore.’
Despite endless doubts, he kept thinking of her voice.
Elay wanted to see her.
As he thought this, the black mist beside him coalesced into her figure.
The black figure extended its hand towards Elay, just like Luibel had, and silently mouthed, ‘Come with me.’
The scene repeated endlessly, but something felt off.
She wasn’t that dark.
She was like spring, with a gentle pink hue.
Unlike me…
Elay was lost in thought, fiddling with his black hair, when a large shadow loomed over him.
He hesitated, then slowly looked up.
Golden eyes gazed down at him.
“Ah…”
Elay’s lips quivered as he instinctively recognized the figure.
Piya woke up well past noon.
Chirp! Chirrrp!
Seemingly having recovered its strength during the sleep, it looked healthy. Thankfully.
Chrrrrrrr!
―Crazy Anselot is back to normal!
Piya landed proudly on my shoulder and spread one wing towards Anselot, proclaiming loudly.
“Crazy… what?”
Anselot’s eyes narrowed dangerously at Piya’s words.
But Piya, undeterred, continued.
Chrrrr! Chiriririririt!
―Crazy Anselot! The mad one who lost his mind and tried to attack Lady Lulu!
“…….”
Following Piya’s words, Anselot’s lips pressed tightly together.
The original Anselot would not have tolerated Piya’s insolence, but perhaps he still feels guilty about attacking us…
“Shall I show you how a madman, gone crazy, deals with a cheeky bird?”
As he finished speaking, Anselot threateningly smiled and conjured a white sphere in the air.
Chirrrrrp!
―Lady Lulu! Anselot is trying to eat Piya!
Piya screamed and flew up hastily.
‘At least it looks healthy.’
I chuckled, watching Anselot and Piya bicker.
Fortunately, unlike last time, Piya had no serious injuries, thanks to my immediate protection when Anselot revealed himself as a bug.
And with Piya regaining consciousness, the system started functioning again.
[Quest in Progress]……The forest fog and your party……
As expected, the second quest in the Forest of Illusions hadn’t met its clear conditions yet.
‘Now that Piya is back, it’s time to find Elay again…’
Just as I thought that.
Elay appeared beyond the bushes with rustling sounds, without much trouble.
Black hair and golden eyes. The boy, who looked like a doll, seemed about 6 or 7 years old.
The reason I recognized him immediately was…
Light Sage
His name was boldly written above his head.
‘Huh? Light Sage?’
I blinked, staring at the golden name floating above Elay’s head.
In the original story, Elay left this forest, genuinely accepted Hezen’s group as comrades, opened his heart, overcame loneliness, and awakened.
But he had awakened before leaving the forest or becoming our ally.
Like Klaus, his awakening happened earlier than in the original.
‘Why?’
Klaus awakened while trapped in this space with me, facing a crisis.
‘But what could have triggered Elay’s awakening?’
Pondering this, I noticed Elay, only his eyes peeking from behind the bushes, staring at me.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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