"You over there, wait a minute!"
Just as Shien and Merica were staring at each other, as if they had forgotten everything around them, a tender voice suddenly rang out.
This voice instantly broke the ambiguous atmosphere between Sean and Melica, and brought them back to their senses from their state of forgetfulness.
“~~~~~”
After coming back to her senses, Merica realized what she had done. Her entire face immediately turned red, as if it was boiling.
Seeing Merica like this, a thought flashed across Shien and Rosie's minds.
That was, they had missed this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Thus, Shien and Rosie's faces fell at the same time.
Everyone turned their heads in unison and looked toward the source of the voice.
In the next second, they saw it.
In front of them, in a rather remote corner, stood a girl from the Elf Clan.
It was a pretty, smartly dressed elf girl who seemed to be about the same age as Merica. She held a short cane in her hand and had shoulder-length hair.
The girl looked quite heroic and awe-inspiring. Her eyes were also somewhat sharp, and her limbs were slender and slim. She looked like a big sister who knew how to take care of the neighbor's children, giving people a sense of security.
However, this Elf young lady was currently glaring at them with a furious expression.
No, to be more precise, it should be said that he was staring at Sean.
"Jenom …!?"
Merica also saw this heroic girl, and her pretty face, which looked as if it had been boiling, couldn't help but show an expression of surprise.
When Shien and the others heard Merica's words, they were stunned at first, and then astonished.
Jenom?
Merica's childhood friend?
"That's her?"
Rosie came to a sudden realization.
The elf girl who suddenly spoke and appeared was Merica's childhood friend, Jenom.
"Why are you here?"
Merica was really surprised.
Yesterday, after the two reunited, they spent the whole day in joy and excitement. They even slept together at night, as if they had returned to the past and were inseparable again.
However, in the morning, when Merica proposed to introduce Jenom to Shien and the others, Jenom refused without hesitation.
Now that this childhood friend had actually appeared here, Merica was naturally surprised.
Little did she know …
"I've actually been following you all this time. I just wanted to see what kind of people you've met outside."
Jenom walked over and looked at Merica angrily, as if he had been deceived.
"I remember when I asked you yesterday, you told me that you and the foreign male you invited were just ordinary adventurers, right?"
Genom looked as if he could not contain his anger.
That was to be expected.
Yesterday, when he learned that Merica had returned, Jenom was very, very happy.
Ever since two years ago, his childhood friend had suddenly decided to go out and train, they had not been together anymore. Naturally, Jenom missed her very much.
Thus, now that the peace sacrifice was about to be held, Jerome had deliberately written a letter to remind Merica, who was away, to remember to come back.
There was no other reason than that Jenom missed Merica.
Under such circumstances, when he learned that Merica was coming back to participate in the Peace Sacrifice, Jenom was overjoyed.
So much so that yesterday, Jenom had been waiting for Merica's news, wanting to welcome her back as soon as possible.
Then, Merica came back.
But after this first moment of joy, Jenom was no longer cheerful.
This was because Merica had actually invited a foreign male to return to the Land of Elves to participate in the Peace Sacrifice.
"Why did she bring a foreign male back? Merica! "
Genom had put this question to Melica in his astonishment.
Then, Merica's expression was still fresh in Jenom's memory.
"… Because he's a very important person to me."
At the time, Melica had blushed and said to Genom in a very, very low voice, with a tinge of shyness and indescribable happiness.
Clearly, when she saw her childhood friend, who had been inseparable from her, Merica could not help but reveal the biggest secret in her heart that no one else could share.
Unfortunately, Merica didn't know how much of an impact her words and her expression had had on Jenom.
She had never seen Merica like this before.
She had never seen such an expression on Melica's face before.
This made Jenom realize that in the past two years, Merica had changed in some ways that he did not know about, and she had become more unfamiliar than before.
Of course, this was not the most important thing.
The most important thing was that Merica, his most important childhood friend, seemed to have touched an emotion that elves should not touch the most.
That emotion was — "love."
Merica had fallen in love with a foreign male.
When he realized this, the shock in Jenom's heart was something that no one else could understand.
She had never thought that one day, her childhood friend would actually fall in love with a foreign male.
She had also never thought that after Merica, who she had waited anxiously for, arrived, she was no longer the most important person in Merica's heart.
Then, Jenom thought of those clansmen who had fallen in love with a foreign male.
He thought of their sad faces.
He thought of their expressions of deep thought.
"… I have to stop this."
This was Jenom's first thought.
Because of this, Jenom had been beating around the bush the entire day, trying to learn all sorts of things about Merica's sweetheart.
Under Jenom's investigation, Merica had personally said that she and the foreign male were just ordinary adventurers.
Thus, Jenom had decided to secretly observe Shien and Merica at a time when it seemed like things could still be salvaged, to see how far the two had progressed.
As a result, today, Jenom had seen Shien and Merica staring at each other.
She did not know what Shien and Merica had been talking about for them to suddenly stare at each other, and for the strange atmosphere to appear between them.
But there was a voice in Jenom's heart telling her that she could not let the two of them continue like this.
Thus, Jenom could not help but step forward.
"What was that all about just now?"
Jenom questioned Merica.
"This …"
Merica recalled what had just happened, and her head immediately felt as if it was boiling. Not only did it turn red, but it also began to emit smoke.
Clearly, Merica was so embarrassed that she was about to faint.
She did not even dare to look in Shien's direction. She only had the urge to run away.
But Jenom was getting angrier and angrier because of Merica's behavior.
"Really, you've only been out for a year or two, yet you've already become so strange. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have let you leave." Jenom pulled Merica over and said in an unquestionable tone, "Come, come back with me."
With that, Jenom wanted to take Merica away.
"Wait … Wait! Jenom! "Merica reacted and hurriedly said," I still have to entertain Mister Shien and the others! "
"Entertain?" Jenom immediately said, "That kind of thing can be left to the elven division. You don't have to do it."
"How can that be?" Merica said in a daze, "I invited everyone here, and they're all my friends. I should be the one to entertain everyone."
"I said there's no need, so there's no need!" It wasn't that Jenom didn't understand this, but he still said unyieldingly, "In any case, you should come back with me!"
With that, Genom began to tug on Merica's hand and pull her to his side.
"Ah!"
Merica couldn't help but let out a small cry of surprise. Her body tilted toward Jenom, and she was involuntarily dragged over.
Just as Merica was about to be dragged to Jenom's side, a hand suddenly reached out.
Slap!
With a crisp sound, Merica's other hand was grabbed.
"Eh?"
Jenom was stunned.
"Mister … Mister Shien?"
Merica let out another cry of surprise.
Rosie, La Xia, Lilith, and Mi Lu all looked to the side.
There, Shien had reached out a hand and grabbed Merica's hand, a faint smile on his face.
"Miss Jenom, right?" Sean said casually. "Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you."
That leisurely greeting made Merica and the others almost unable to react. It also made Jerome's pretty face darken, and her expression became somewhat unsightly.
"I'm not good!" Jenom glared at Shien and said in a low voice, "Let go of me!"
Looking at Shien holding Merica's hand, Jenom didn't know why, but he felt like something had been snatched away from him, causing his anger to soar.
But Shien didn't seem to care.
"I should be the one saying that, right?" Shien narrowed his eyes, the faint smile still on his face. "Not only did you suddenly come here to stir up trouble, but you also want to take one of our people away without saying anything. That's not right, is it?"
Faced with Shien's words, Jenom didn't even think about it before retorting.
"Who's one of your people?!" Jenom stared at Shien as if he was staring at a sinner, and said loudly, "Merica isn't one of your people!"
As he said this, his tone was filled with stubbornness.
It was as if he was really trying his best to protect something.
"Is that so?" Shien raised his eyebrows. "If she isn't one of us, then is she yours?"
"Of course!" Jenom puffed out his chest and said resolutely, "We've been together for more than a hundred years, and we've never been separated!"
What he meant was that due to this bond and relationship, the two of them were already inseparable.
In that case, Merica naturally belonged to him.
Regarding this, Shien had something to say.
"In other words, you're just childhood friends, right?" Shien looked at Jenom and shrugged. "Since you're just Merica's childhood friend and not her mother, to be honest, I don't really agree with you trying to take her away without saying anything."
"You …!" Jenom was immediately exasperated.
At this moment, Merica finally realized what was happening.
"You … Why are you two fighting?" Merica hurriedly stopped them. "Calm down, Mr. Shien, Jenom."
Neither Shien nor Jenom heard Merica's words.
At this moment, the two of them were staring at each other, their gazes colliding. When their gazes collided, it was as if sparks were flying, vividly expressing their irreconcilable relationship.
Without a doubt, the relationship between Shien and Jenom had dropped to a negative value the moment they first met.
Jenom regarded Shien as the bad guy who was harming Merica, and viewed him as an enemy.
Shien was also extremely displeased that this elf girl had rudely interrupted his relationship with Merica, and that she was planning to ignore them and forcefully take Merica away.
This caused the two of them to directly clash, and it was the kind that couldn't be reconciled.
"Let go!"
Jenom warned.
"No way!"
Shien naturally didn't want to be outdone.
"Are you letting go or not?"
Jenom's body was already emitting magical energy.
"I'm not letting go."
Sean, on the other hand, grinned and laughed calmly.
"…"
Jenom fell silent.
"…"
Shien also didn't say a word.
However, as if they had agreed on it, the two of them began to pull on Merica's hands.
"Ah!"
Merica's cry of alarm rang out.
Shien and Jenom grabbed Merica's hands at the same time, trying to pull her to their side.
"Wait … Wait! Mr. Shien! Jenom! "
Merica was pulled from the left and right. Her entire body froze in midair, as if she had turned into a doll being pulled back and forth by the two of them.
She didn't feel any pain, just a little.
Shien and Jenom still had some sense of propriety, and didn't use any strength that would cause Merica pain.
But within the permissible range of strength, neither of them was willing to compromise, and silently pulled Merica to their side.
This left Merica a little confused and at a loss for what to do. She didn't know what to do.
At the side, Rosie and the others were all speechless when they saw this scene.
“？”
"Is this a game?"
Lilith and Milu tilted their heads at the same time, their heads full of question marks.
"This guy is competing with a little girl again."
Rosie sighed.
"This is Mr. Shien."
La Xia said calmly.
The others could only watch from the side, not knowing whether they should intervene or not, causing the scene to become a little strange.
On the other hand, when Jenom was pulling Merica, he suddenly realized something.
Merica actually didn't resist the touch of a male of a different race at all …?
Jenom stared at Shien's hand holding Merica's. When he saw Merica's confused expression, but not the slightest bit of resistance, he finally felt a sense of crisis.
With the purity of the elves and the importance they attached to purity, they would feel uncomfortable if they were approached by someone of the opposite sex, let alone being touched by them.
But not only did Merica not resist at all, she seemed to be used to it.
What did this mean?
Before he could figure it out, Jenom was enraged.
