Seeing that he was really about to be designated as an unrestricted trash can, Ash suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered one thing: "Wait, both Igula and Harvey's lovers have appeared in the Weaving Festival! The Divine Being of the Gospel can vouch for me!"
"I get it now!" Felix suddenly realized: "You guys aren't lovers; you're friends with benefits!"
Thud!
Felix got a smack on the head from Dedarose, who dragged her out of the game room, politely saying, "We'll go prepare the afternoon tea."
Although Ash was almost cleared of suspicion at this point, everyone still had doubts. If Igula and Harvey had only sent five or six bottles of Essence of Knowledge, no one would think much of it. The problem was that these were enough resources to raise them all to six levels of Prison Wings, making the Sword Maiden and others feel something was off. In hindsight, they could only think Ash had traded on his looks again—at least it was the most reasonable explanation.
