Even Maispear looked at me with a surprised expression. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It seemed unthinkable that I would show such obvious anger at his words.

Liu Xiao also looked back at me in surprise.

"No, no, brother, don't be so angry"

Liu Xiao was comforting me.

"Mespier's meaning is that the dragon may be looking for information related to me"

"As long as I stand still and am in line with Mespil, he will not dare to act rashly"

"With my presence as a deterrent, then you are safe, whether it is a dragon or any other race, it will not touch you"

Liu Xiao hurriedly comforted me.

I hurriedly squeezed out a smile to indicate that I was fine.

"No, no, I'm just a little worried about you, well, it's okay now, ah~"

Although Liu Xiao was no longer flustered, her expression still looked a little uneasy.

But what was the uninvited, rapidly expanding anger in my heart that I couldn't even control......

"Hmph"

Mespier snorted, then curled the corners of his mouth.

Seriously, I've never seen an Elven King look like this......

"You're a couple...... Interesting brother and sister"

Maispear took two steps towards us, came up to us, and held out two hands.

The Elf King is not a particularly tall elf, but Liu Xiao and I can only catch up with his shoulders.

Maispear put one hand on top of my head and the other on top of Liu Xiao's head.

"I have never seen a guy like you who can genuinely care about each other to such an extent"

The Elven King's Palm...... How to say it, precipitating time.

It's not as warm as Ellie, but it has a sense of reliability that comes with mellow power.

This man doesn't seem to want to play any tricks on us, it's like a condensation of infinite power - very pure.

The Elven King lowered his hand, and I looked up at his face.

There seemed to be a hint of ...... in those silvery-white, mercury-like eyes. Envy?

"Sometimes I envy both of you"

"Huh?"

I couldn't believe that Mespier's mouth could say such a thing.

"But, after all, this is the object."

Mespier gestured at Ellie.

"No matter what you think, she and I can't be as intimate as you."

"What!?"

Elle blushed at once, clenched her little fists, and demonstrated to Mespier.

"Poof"

Liu Xiao almost laughed.

But it's true...... It's hard to imagine that Mespier and Elle have a good relationship and are intimate......

"Imp!

Ellie's face turned even redder, as if she was going to catch fire at any moment, and stared at me super unhappily.

After a brief preparation, Elle served as an envoy to Kasta.

With a dozen or so guards in his entourage, Ellie and I boarded the flying ship and set off for the Black Fire Mountains without returning to Ergonda.

"Ellie, aren't you going back to see Sercelia-sama, is it really okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay~"

Ellie sat on my shoulder, her eyes closed, enjoying the mountain breeze blowing by the side of the boat, and waved her hand casually.

"She's not so easily afraid of loneliness"

"Besides, if she knew I wasn't going to the celebration, she would be verbose again."

Belch...... That's the main reason why you don't want to see her.

"By the way, Ellie, thank you just now"

"Oh?"

Ellie didn't know what I was talking about, so she turned around and stared at me with those blue eyes.

The little one tilted his head and leaned back slightly, his long blue hair fluttering in the wind and sweeping past my back.

The look of staring at me in bewilderment, a little dull, but the straightforward eyes and slightly open mouth ooze her innocence.

On the boat, looking past from my perspective, with the emerald green of the mountains and the pale white of the sky as a background.

Look......

True...... Pretty.

"Kuo, what do you suddenly say to be ashamed!"

The little one panicked and almost fell off my shoulder.

"Oh be careful, be careful"

Hurriedly held her, I don't know why, and felt the feeling of holding Ellie's left hand on the back...... It's hot.

"Hot!"

Ellie felt it too, and jumped up from my shoulder.

"Hey, what are you doing, little ghost!"

Hey?

It turned out to be really hot?

"No, no, it's not ......"

Ellie grabbed my hand and looked closely, and the hand, uh...... Covered in a layer of magic.

"Oh?"

The little one cautiously put his nose up and sniffed it slightly.

"Isn't that my magic?"

Nonsense.

"I'm your medium, of course I got this magic from you."

"But it's you who activates it."

"No, I didn't activate the mana."

"Oh? huh~"

The little guy shook my hand away with an understatement, and then sat down again.

"It's bad luck to choose you as a medium"

"I thought you were weak at first, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even control my magic."

Ellie spread out her hands and sighed with a helpless expression, as if deliberately emphasized.

"Alas~~~"

"By the way, what did you just say?"

The little one stared at me again with her curious blue eyes.

Speaking of which...... It's a bit of a trick, isn't it......

Being stared at with such eyes, I always feel that I can't get out of the fire.

"Oh, yes, I want to thank you."

"Ahhh~ I, Lord Ellie Heranna, am sure enough, the mortal who is waiting for you to thank you, clam clam"

I really don't know where this confidence comes from......

"Earlier, I almost got angry with Mespier, you helped me unspell the spell, thank you"

"Huh?"

The little one stopped laughing, and thought as if racking his brain.

"Is there such a thing?"

Hey, isn't it Ellie?

So I explained to her.

"At that time, Mespier gave Liu Xiao a code word, I didn't understand the deep meaning, I thought that Mespier's threat to Liu Xiao scared her"

"So I was angry, it felt like I wasn't me anymore, so angry"

"To be honest, I was shocked myself"

"Thanks to you touching my face, I came to my senses"

"I thought I was affected by some magic accidentally, and you helped me get rid of it."

Ellie looked at me incredulously.

"Uh......"

"No wow, I just look like something is wrong with you, just casually"

Ay?

So where did that extraordinary anger come from?

"Are you alright?"

Ellie looked at me with a look of doubt and reached out to touch the top of my head.

It's like protecting your own toys.

"Uh-huh"

I shook my head.

"It's okay"

Looking up, the high mountain in the center of the Dawn Mountains was getting closer and closer.

I've heard from Elle that it used to be the place where the sky and fire fell to the ground, and then a volcano formed.

After the fire was extinguished, the volcano gradually went into dormancy.

Nurtured by volcanic ash, the forest returned to the land and eventually became the prototype of the Dawn Mountains.

From here, all the way west, across the Black Earth Plateau, is our destination, one of the strongholds of the barbarians, Karsta.