"It must be the ghost of that incorruptible and shameless woman!"

After investigation, the human girl who claimed to have "a goal of peace" also disappeared - Luna heard the news, and almost reflexively came to the conclusion that "the other party is the reason for the princess's disappearance". Not to mention the specific situation, the elf princess disappeared again, and this human with a certain suspicion disappeared at the same time, and if there was no relationship between the two, Luna would never believe it.

"I'd actually believe that guy......"

"Well, there's no need to jump to conclusions. Aisha carefully examined the scene of Sheena's disappearance, "These few small footprints should be able to temporarily clear her of suspicion of deliberate kidnapping." ”

"The size of these footprints ......"

Luna compared some of the impressions in her memory, and quickly determined the identity of the owners of these two footprints - no way, the two elf Lori that Luna usually knew the most, their feet were exactly the same size.

"Wouldn't it? Yes...... Those two little ones found here?"

"It looks like that's how it should be. ”

The facts are in front of you~ After all, where Hina disappeared here, if she really came with the purpose of kidnapping the elf princess, it would be impossible to find her trace here. Moreover, there was no trace of a scuffle at the scene......

"What I don't know now is whether that human already knows the true identity of His Highness Io. Perhaps, she just didn't know the identity of the person in front of her, so she didn't move for the time being?"

"It's not out of the question. But ah. Your princess may really be a child, but Lilou's words are already adult elves in essence. What to be careful about at this time, she must have understood. ”

Lilou ...... Is she reliable?

Seeing that Aisha gave Lilu so much confidence, Luna was also a little relieved - yes, although Lilu didn't seem to be an adult, she was still a "top student" in the assessment. Except for personality problems, at least hard power is still passable.

Hard Power ......

"Something is going to happen, Lilou's level. It's going to be killed instantly by the other party, right?"

"So you elves, sometimes your thinking is too serious~"

Aisha's words made the faces of the elves around her look embarrassed - not angry. It's that they have more or less had the experience of being complained about by their compatriots in life as "too serious". Maybe today you are complaining about others, but maybe tomorrow you will make others helpless......

The lifespan is much higher than that of other races, and the slow and leisurely way of life, the thinking of the elves is quite straightforward. That's right, to put it mildly. To put it mildly. It's the so-called "brainless".

In fact, many elves also want to be more active, but elves seem to have a kind of mental inert hormone in their nature - in short, they will subconsciously have thoughts like "it's troublesome to use their brains". That being said, it seems that because they are relatively "straight" overall, it seems that many people have a subtle understanding of elves.

There are quite a few people who believe that the elves are not only upright by nature, but also regard the "heart and eyes" as a manifestation of the evil and impurity of the mind...... Actually, there is no such thing at all.

This is purely because many humans themselves have taken their seats.

In fact, the elves were not as arrogant as their ancestors. If the elf girl meets a nasty guy, the most she can do is pretend to be stupid and look invisible. Bad words, cynicism, glaring at people with nostrils, and so on, will not be done.

"Luna, do you know what the biggest weapon is for an individual like Lilou, who is outwardly younger than her mental age?"

“...... Is it a strength that doesn't match your age?"

This kind of situation, to be honest, is not uncommon - because in terms of popularization, this is not limited to the scope of "children", and the "seniors" who have been slapped in the face for belittling such and such a young talent are not one or two...... Luna knows that when people judge a person's abilities, most people's first reaction is to judge them in terms of "age" and perspective.

A youthful appearance symbolizes "youthfulness, immaturity, and inexperience", while an older person, or even an old appearance, can give people a feeling of "rich experience and accumulation". The same point of view and advice, expressed by a veteran employee in his forties, must be much more "convincing" than the fresh graduates who have just been recruited.

This can be considered human instinct, right?

But there will always be many "individual cases" in the world, and there will always be some individual guys that cannot be measured by the overall situation of an age group.

For example, many thirteen-year-old junior high school students will feel very sleepy in their hearts when they learn a certain text of "Thirteen-year-old encounters" - the author went to Peking University at the age of thirteen, but he is afraid that he will not reach the threshold of Peking University at the age of thirty.

...... However, Aisha dismisses Luna's opinion.

"That's really what many 'old-timers' who capsized in the gutter hate, but it's actually only second...... Thinking, mentality, and rationality that do not correspond to the age of appearance are the most dangerous. Although Lilou seems to be very unreliable, there is no doubt that as long as she is conscious, she is indeed an adult in her mentality. ”

......

"Lilou, why do you seem to have been wandering all the time?"

Io patted Lilou on the shoulder, startling her out.

"No, nothing ......"

With some wariness and fear in her eyes, Lilu casually glanced at the human on the side. Seeing this, Hina also felt a little helpless in her heart, and sure enough, the attitude of the elves towards humans is not very good now. The elf girl looked at her gaze, and those hidden emotions could not be hidden from Sheena.

Anyway, as a good stalker. Reading emotions and atmospheres is a necessary skill.

But Sheena actually misunderstood Lilou.

"Io, is it really okay for us to do this? If Lord Luna found out about this, I'd be severely criticized...... Or. Let's not continue......"

As she said these words, Lilou's mind was on the human woman behind her. As Lilou had guessed, she could feel a slight pause in the breathing of the human woman behind her at the mention of the name "Lord Luna". Although she quickly returned to normal, these small details. Didn't hide it from Lilou.

[She knows Sister Luna...... And, do you know Luna-san's identity?]

Naturally, Luna wouldn't tell a little sentry everything that happened next. Naturally, Lilu didn't know that Sheena had actually taken the initiative to contact Luna before entering here. Judging by the other party's reaction, it was clear that she knew what the name "Luna" meant here - if it was a diplomatic envoy in the ordinary sense. But there wasn't much chance of meeting Luna.

He's a busy man around the clock. It doesn't actually belong to the elves' administrative system, and there is no reason for Luna to intervene in issues such as diplomacy.

So Lilou became suspicious of the human woman who called herself "Sheena".

Luna's "part-time job" is basically what it does? It's very simple, it's the garrison, and it's the kind that doesn't show much of it.

The human woman would know Luna's secrets, and Lilu couldn't help but nervous - either way, this wouldn't be a simple human envoy. Moreover, Lilou also vaguely felt it. The strength of this human behind him is far beyond his limit.

“......”

Seeing the other little girl looking back at her vigilantly from time to time, Hina also felt embarrassed. She tried to reach out and stroke Lilou's ponytails, but Lilou unceremoniously dodged Sheena's overtures.

"Don't show your affection casually, human!"

After Lilu instinctively slapped Sheena's hand away, she suddenly felt that something was not right-the weight of the other party's arm was not right, and according to the proportions of the other party's body, her arm seemed to be a little heavy!

Oops, what if you off the other person?

Lilou had already begun to think of Sheena as suspicious, and had come to the elven hinterland for a special purpose - naturally, she thought that the other party's overtures were a gesture to paralyze the two of them. It stands to reason that in order to protect Io's safety, she should pretend to be a girl who is ignorant of the world and lacks defense, so that it is not easy to attract the hostility of the enemy. However, if she dies well, Sheena is aiming for the double ponytail that she cherishes so much......

Even other elves wouldn't let strangers touch their hair. Although children may not be very defensive against this kind of behavior, Lilu is no longer Lori, she is essentially an adult! Moreover, Sheena's goal is still a double ponytail, which is undoubtedly more out of Lilu's bottom limit.

Only intimate people can touch their own double ponytails! An unidentified human still wants to touch his own double ponytails...... Don't even think about it!

How to put!?

Lilou couldn't help but get nervous - what if it was because of her attitude that the other party was vigilant, and finally even did it?

"Lilou?"

Io, who prides himself on being "mentally mature", but still can't get out of the child's heart after all, is also surprised to see Lilou's uncharacteristically hostile attitude towards the human.

She believes in the lies made up by Sheena, living in the territory of the elves, and Io, who has rarely been in contact with "lies" since she was a child, is still easy to trust others at this time.

That's why she wondered about Lilou's attitude - but even so, for a moment Io didn't associate Lilou's attitude with the threatening aspect of Sheena.

"Lilou, you...... Do you have some bad views and experiences about human beings?"

Io thought of Lilou's identity - she was a member of the active elven sentinels, the head of the outer forests on the border, and the easiest to deal with humans. Isn't there going to be a war between humans and elves lately? Io guessed that perhaps it was for this reason that Lilou, who had been serving on the border. The impression of humans is not very good, right?

[With ...... If Io is here, maybe it can be ......]

Lilou suddenly had an idea.

"Humph!"

She didn't answer and explain directly, but turned her head and replaced her original answer with a cold snort.

This action, this attitude, made Io confirm his guess - and it also made Hina have a similar idea about Lilou's attitude.

"I'm sorry. Is it because of the unpleasant things lately...... Are your parents sentinels?"

Sheena didn't know if humans had caused any friction on the border recently, and she knew very well that with the nature of the elves. I'm afraid they won't take the initiative to provoke, and if there is any local conflict, most of them will be picked by human beings. And seeing the appearance of the little elf in front of her, Sheena was very suspicious. It couldn't be her family serving at the border. You've been attacked in the past few days, right?

"I am. ”

Speaking in such a cold and hateful tone really made Lilou very uncomfortable, but for Io's safety, she had to bite the bullet if she didn't get used to it. Lilu made up the terrible picture of her double ponytail being maliciously cut short in her mind, and finally pretended to be bitter and hateful.

"I'm an active elven sentry, and the area I'm in charge of is coincidental, the outermost area. ”

Resisting the urge to blink, Lilou stared at Sheena for ten seconds with "vicious and distorted" eyes. After that, he turned his head.

"As for what happened recently...... Hehe, you as an envoy of humanity. Don't you really know?"

It's true that Lilou hasn't met anything - but her appearance is what makes Sheena and Ioxin believe it to be true. Especially Sheena, originally, she actually didn't have much expectation of her compatriots, and after realizing that she and others were calculated, Sheena's favorability for those who started the war in a short period of time dropped below freezing. In other words, she would not be stingy to guess these people with the greatest malice.

Since Lilou said that something had happened recently, well, it must have been something excessive on the part of those people.

In particular, this little elf would not say what happened, and it must not be an ordinary conflict...... Maybe an elf died, or something else......

"Sorry, sorry......"

Sheena bowed her head, sincerely apologizing - no matter what, it was her own countryman, and she was actually involved in this war.

"Hey, if the apology is useful, what else do you want you to do?"

"Uh......"

Now Sheena is stuck, and her self-proclaimed self-proclaimed two elf Lori is to "look for the possibility of peace". But she is not a professional after all, and it is impossible to learn the necessary skills of these identities at the same time, right?

At least, it's shameless or something, and Hina thinks she's still choking enough.

"Listen, human!" Lilou puffed up her little chest and stared at Sheena with a grim gaze, "I'm very annoying to humans right now, and I won't do anything to you for Io-chan's sake for the time being...... But if I find out what bad things you're going to do -- then I'll show my weapons!"

Lilou believed that she had never had such a lofty attitude since she became a sentinel.

It turns out that when I get serious, I'm actually quite imposing!--that's what Lilou thinks.

It turns out that Lilou is serious, is it actually so imposing?--this is Io's idea.

It turns out that the mission I took on before was so heinous?--This is the idea of Sheena, who was frightened by the appearance of the "Boy Scout" Lilou, and fell into deep self-blame.

Well, that's right...... When Sheena learned that Lilou's identity was actually a sentinel, her first reaction was not to doubt her age, but to think that the elves had all been soldiers, and they had begun to let underage girls go to the front...... Should it be said that this is the result of the unique cultural atmosphere of human beings?

"This ...... Everybody ......"

The first time Ao encountered this situation, the strange aura between the elven sentinels who did not hide their identities but faked their emotions and the human stalkers who forged their identities but did not hide their emotions made her feel very uncomfortable.

How can I say it, it's roughly similar to the feeling that the two ends are not human, right?

is framed in the middle. Io, who didn't know who to talk to, was in a state of anxiety - instinctively, she was going to support Lilou. But she also sensed another human woman more or less, who didn't seem to be an evil person, and her attitude seemed to be very sincere...... If you put other people's sins on her head like this, it's actually too much, isn't it?

Io anxiously shifted her gaze back and forth between the two men, and eventually, Lilou noticed this and relented.

"Big ...... Deal...... If you don't find out that she's a bad person in the end. Wouldn't it be nice if I apologized to her!"

Not only was this Lilou's original idea, but she needed it now to paralyze the other party—after all. Her appearance is the image of a Lori who has not grown up, and Lilu knows very well what kind of behavior she will make with this gesture. It is even less likely to arouse the suspicion of the enemy.

She had just faked a false hatred. Now it shows the simplicity and kindness unique to Lori, and the effect of this addition and subtraction is enough to numb the vigilance of most people.

If you think about it, this is actually a very despicable and shameless practice...... But no matter what, Lilou didn't dare joke about Io's safety. Didn't you just do something inauthentic? No problem - I'm a filthy adult anyway!

Sheena hadn't thought about it so much, or rather, she didn't know from beginning to end that the elf Lori in front of her who looked a little weak but was very stubborn. In fact, there are so many twists and turns hidden in my heart.

"Listen! If I apologize to you then, it's because of Io-chan! Actually, I don't want to apologize to you as a human at all!"

Lilou thought back to some of the "knowledge" she had learned from Miss Purple Ponytail. Start learning and using it - what kind of Lori is the easiest to make people relax their vigilance? It's not Lori who looks natural and pure, nor is it a well-behaved and obedient Lori, but a tsundere Lori who says she doesn't want it but her body is very honest!

When the "adults" see that little Lori forcibly pretends to hide the emotions in her heart and makes a tough gesture, they will always smile knowingly - among them, men tolerate and identify with Tsundere Lori, and Cheng Dù is even more than women.

What Lilu didn't know was that the human woman in front of her was actually a male disguise...... The worst thing is that Sheena's resistance to tsundere Lori is very low......

This made her unconsciously think of her sister who was no longer alive - back then, the image of the little girl who always shouted "Brother hates the most!", appeared in front of Xina again.

"Haha......"

Sheena laughed unconsciously.

"I mean really!"

Seeing that Hina's watch Xiàn didn't play her cards as she expected, and actually showed this heartfelt smile, this made Lilou feel quite shocked - according to her expectations, shouldn't this time be the kind of expression mixed with perfunctory and helpless......? What's the deal with this incredibly warm smile?

What about a good enemy with bad intentions? How could such a person naturally say with such an expression!

"Don't laugh!" Lilou was no longer pretending this time, but an instinctive reaction naturally driven by her nature, "I was serious just now! Do you know that if you show your feet, I can't be happier!"

"I think so...... You might want to figure out how to apologize to me?"

Sheena teasingly glanced at Io on the side, her eyes staring at Lilu, the feeling of being targeted by a snake made little Lori shiver.

"Didn't you just say that this was actually for your friend? So, your apology must not be too shabby—otherwise, wouldn't it be equivalent to your friendship, and not your own face?"

Why is this human so confident!?

Lilou was terrified—didn't she really have any bad thoughts...... No, no, this should be my own trick on the other party, right, why now, it seems to be a little reversed!?

Lilou was shocked to find that she seemed to be surrounded by the human woman.

"That's right, that's right!" Io followed along, "If there's no evidence that Sheena is a bad person, Lilou will have to apologize very, very sincerely—otherwise, our friendship is no match for pride...... I'll be very sad then!"

"I ...... I ......"

Lilou was on the verge of crying. (To be continued......)