Please, please don't pull any tricks! Good people live long and happy lives!!!
His heart was almost in his throat. Su'er was really afraid... You can't guess what a lunatic thinks.
And now that the magic had been lifted, the attention of everyone in the settlement was focused on the two figures, one tall and one short, who had been standing at the outermost edge since the beginning. No one found anything unusual. Even a few of the more vigilant people recalled the presence of these two people in their minds. They had been there all along, but they just hadn't noticed them because their attention was completely on Su'er's return.
It seemed that at this moment, they finally waited for the fact that they were being noticed, and the two figures slowly walked over.
"Alright, everyone, please disperse first," Riku suddenly raised his voice and clapped his hands, looking at the crowd that had gathered. He said, "I will introduce them to you later. If you all crowd around here, it will easily make the guests too nervous."
"Oh! Then we'll wait for Brother Su'er to give a proper intro~duction later, okay?"
"Let's have a good talk later, Su'er."
"..."
Riku's prestige was still so high, and the people in the settlement were not being difficult. They left in twos and threes sensibly, but couldn't help but look curiously at these two mysterious figures who still hadn't taken off their hoods.
The short one was too short, and her hood was pulled down especially low. He didn't know how she could walk like this. Her face was completely hidden. The tall one was the same. Only a bit of her lower lip was visible. By the light of the fire in the hall, one could vaguely see golden hair inside the robe, but even so, one could carve out the image of a beautiful woman in their mind just based on this small amount of information, and the faint floral scent when she passed by.
"Okay~~, everyone, please sit down and talk~," Couronne skipped to the side of the table, pulled out a chair with a smile, and invited them, "Don't be so shy, ahem~"
Avoiding many curious gazes, the few people had now arrived in Riku's room.
Apart from the chess board that was never left behind after several relocations, Riku's room had nothing that could be related to the words "relaxation" and "entertainment." In fact, when he first came in, Su'er could see the map of the current battle situation and power distribution of the continent spread out on Riku's table.
This man never let his guard down at any time.
"I wanted to ask ever since we were outside! This beautiful lady!" Breathing heavily through her nostrils, Couronne couldn't wait to look at the tall stranger beside her as soon as she sat down. She said, "What is your relationship with this idiot Su'er!!!"
She started with her old profession. Usually, in the settlement, Couronne was responsible for managing and allocating all the life supplies and related matters, uh, including but not limited to emotional issues, etc. What's more, this matter involved one of the two people she cared about the most.
The red-haired girl had a reasonable reason to suspect that the reason a certain guy had been wandering outside for so long and didn't choose to go home was because of this woman beside him!
She had already smelled that scent!
And this tiny one next to her... Could it be that they even had a child?!
Couronne's gaze kept darting to the tiny figure sitting on the chair next to her. To be honest, her thoughts and the meaning behind her words were completely exposed in the eyes of these smart people present, even to an ordinary person like Su'er—what should he do, he wanted to cover his face so badly.
"It's just an ordinary companionship relationship! Couronne! You'll scare people like this! Think of some normal things, can you stop always thinking in that direction??"
In reality, you're the only one who's getting scared.
Of course, he couldn't say such internal thoughts out loud. Su'er could only quickly try to stop her... It was useless.
"What nonsense are you talking, Su'er!" Even though Su'er directly tried to stop her like this, Couronne didn't show any sign of embarrassment. She even straightened up, put her hands on her hips, and said, "I can see the reason why you haven't been back for so long at a glance! It must be related to these two children, right!"
She was a beautiful lady just now, why did she become a child in the blink of an eye...
Hey hey hey, the two guys you're calling children are old enough to be your great-great-grandmother! Couronne!!
Su'er's expression became more and more pained.
What kind of torture is this?
Is this the pain of someone who must keep a secret?
You are so powerful, Keeper of Secrets.
"...Is your head okay, Couronne?" Su'er rubbed his cheeks hard, and a muffled sound came from between his palms. He sounded so numb, "How could there be someone who would stay outside for more than two years for a woman in this kind of world?"
What should he do? He wanted to clear the dust from Couronne's brain...
"Really, why are you still so shy after growing up so much?" To be honest, if she wasn't sitting across from Su'er, Couronne would have been so angry that she would have wanted to give this boring guy an elbow jab on the spot. "What's there to be shy about in this era?!"
"In this era of little hope, the most important things are first, having children, and second, food! By the way, three, four, and five are all having children!"
The red-haired girl said something that would get her beaten with a set of Wing Chun by feminists without any reservation. She even angrily waved her fist at Su'er across the table, meaning that she was saving that punch for him.
As for Su'er... Su'er just wanted to die.
Although the logic was sound, but... The truth really isn't as simple as Couronne thinks...
You're completely off the mark, Couronne.
This is an Elf plus a Flügel—Think is okay, but Su'er is most afraid that Jibril will feel insulted by Couronne's words. When a lunatic like her goes crazy, no one can stop her.
But Su'er was clearly worrying too much.
He was still too normal.
"Hey! It should be like this!" Jibril, who had been silent since she came in, suddenly spoke with her eyes lighting up. Couronne's words were very much to her liking. "You're the only one who's bothered by this problem, Su'er. Being so awkward is really annoying."
"Just like I told you before, it's a very correct thing for a race to reproduce for survival! It's strange for you to suppress it like this!" The hooded Flügel spread her arms and almost hit Think next to her. Her tone was still so sacred, but the amount of information in her words was too damn much.
At the very least, Su'er had already seen Riku looking at him with a strange gaze.
Don't look at me, please, don't look at me like that.