17~ Folks,
Who gets it?
“Welcome back, Your Highness~”
“It’s been such a long time.”
“Yes, it’s been a long time.” After landing and becoming clear about the surrounding scene and seeing the person in front of him, Dillin was silent for a long time.
“How could it be you??”
Indeed, previously due to a spatial barrier, they seemed to be in different dimensions, unable to clearly see the specific features of the maiden behind the curtain.
Now that Dillin was also behind the barrier, the appearance of the silver-haired maiden was very clearly revealed to him.
The Elf Girl’s long hair was like silver gossamer cast by the crescent moon, her beautiful eyes like glittering violet gemstones, and her ivory-white skin was bathed in moonlight. She wore a white dress with a back cut-out and a pair of open-toed white crystal high heels.
That peerlessly radiant beauty, which made the bright moon pale in comparison.
Hmm, not unfamiliar, should be considered an acquaintance, but someone he would do anything to never see again.
“Did you trick me into coming here?” Dillin silently took a step back, increasing the distance between them.
“How could it be considered trickery? In a certain sense, it was also Your Highness’ voluntary decision to come here, wasn’t it?~” The Moon Elf giggled, covering her mouth.
Indeed, this Moon Elf was the maid of Filisia he met during his first intrusion into Coleman Forest.
“How can I go back?” Dillin clearly didn’t want to listen to the Moon Elf lady’s further sophistry.
“Your Highness, you have already returned here, isn’t this your home?”
“Don’t joke around, only birds’ homes are on trees.” Dillin stared vigilantly at the Moon Elf, full of caution. “How did you know I was still alive?”
“Your Highness, asking that is a bit disrespectful to Empress Filisia.” The Moon Elf smiled with deep meaning, her glass-like fingers toying with her hair.
“I almost died in your sacrifice, how doesn’t it end? Are you going to exterminate me completely??”
“Your Highness, don’t you misunderstand us? How could your dear sister possibly harm you?”
“Tch.”
They indeed wouldn’t harm Tillysha, but harming him, who knows?
The pain caused by the sacrifice, the feeling of bl**d and marrow being forcibly stripped away, was still fresh in his memory.
If he didn’t escape, he might suffer even worse torment, or even eternal damnation. Dillin couldn’t afford to gamble.
He silently glanced behind him.
This silver-haired trouble talks about Filisia so god-like, but didn’t she still fail to escape restraints?
The fact that he was manipulated proved one of Dillin’s speculations: Filisia was limited for certain reasons and couldn’t freely move in Caleburn. Otherwise, she would have come to capture him herself instead of designing so many twists and turns.
Clearly, even Filisia at this level couldn’t personally come to Coleman Academy, but had to lure him by manipulating his mind to the entrance of the secret realm somewhere in Coleman Forest, and let him submit willingly.
As long as he finds a chance to escape from this secret realm, they can’t do anything to him!
“Why after the experiment failed, and I almost died, the orphanage received your funding afterward, shouldn’t our contract have ended?” Dillin pretends to be puzzled, attracting the other party’s attention to the discussion.
“Don’t you think that between you and your sister, there is only this cold contractual relationship?”
“Isn’t it?”
They indeed wouldn’t harm Tillysha, but harming him, who knows?
The pain caused by the sacrifice, the feeling of bl**d and marrow being forcibly stripped away, was still fresh in his memory.
If he didn’t escape, he might suffer even worse torment, or even eternal damnation. Dillin couldn’t afford to gamble.
He silently glanced behind him.
This silver-haired trouble talks about Filisia as if she is so powerful, but she still can’t get rid of the restrictions.
The fact that he was manipulated proves one of Dillin’s guesses: Filisia certainly can’t move around freely in Caleburn for some reason, otherwise, she would have come to grab him herself, wouldn’t she? Why would she need to design such a complicated conspiracy?
Apparently, even a powerful being like Filisia couldn’t personally visit Coleman Academy to catch him. Instead, she can only use psychic manipulation to lure him into a secret realm hidden somewhere within the depths of Coleman Forest and make him comply willingly.
If he finds an opportunity to escape from this secret realm, she would have no control over him!
“The experiment failed, and I nearly lost my life because of it. Afterwards, the orphanage did receive your support, so our contract relationship should have ended already. Why are you after me again?” Dillin feigned ignorance, drawing the other’s attention to the conversation.
“Isn’t it, in your highness’s eyes, that the only thing between you and your sister is a cold contractual relationship?”
“Isn’t it?”
Dillin asked, taking a step back almost imperceptibly, planning how to escape.
“This time, actually, it’s Empress Filisia…”
This is it!
Seeing the Moon Elf Girl start her explanation, Dillin seized the moment, pulling a flashlight potion out from his pajamas, and throwing it toward the girl’s face.
“Eat my flash grenade!” Without hesitation after throwing the potion, Dillin turned and ran like hell.
The flashlight potion, also known as the blinding potion, is a type of interference potion with low cost, low rank, and common utility, but its practicality is incredibly strong!
This humble and easily accessible potion has saved Dillin countless times in perilous situations, and it has made indelible contributions to his victories against orcs, Princess Filisia, and many monsters.
This time Dillin pinned his hope on this miraculous potion, employing the legendary secret art, the Pant-crammed Thunder.
Running away, Dillin could feel the intense white light exploding from behind him as he dashed forward through the darkened grassland.
His heart pounding like it was on fire, Dillin practically expended all his strength, his legs pushing as hard as they could.
You always regret not exercising more when you need to.
But luckily, the result was good. The flashlight potion worked; there was no sight of the wily silver-haired girl chasing him.
Hmph, no matter how high your skill, a common kitchen kn*fe can still cut you down! No matter what level you’ve attained, a flash grenade will still blind you!
Dillin felt a touch of smugness in his heart.
Wait a second, something’s not right?
As Dillin ran for a while, gasping for breath, he began to notice abnormalities.
It wasn’t this long when he was brought in, why was it taking so long without reaching the end? Was he caught in a looping path?
Hadn’t he seen some of these places before? It felt like he was running in circles, heading back where he had started.
The more uneasy he felt in his heart, the more urgently he wanted to run away as soon as possible. Regardless of how much he ran, the surroundings remained unchanged, as if someone had installed a treadmill beneath his feet, causing him to run in place.
This, this isn’t right?
Dillin, about to pass out from exhaustion, tripped on something, falling roughly into a flower bed.
“Phew, phew, phew…” Drenched in sweat, Dillin’s chest felt so uncomfortable. His lungs were burning like a rapidly spreading fire, forcing him to take deep breaths of fresh air.
“Your Highness sure loves exercising. You are much more lively than before. Queen Filisia would be very pleased to know,” a radiant smile appeared before Dillin’s vision, her voice sounding sweet and melodious like the flow of a spring brook, her lustrous eyes looking down at Dillin from above.
From this angle, Dillin could see her white, shapely legs. Looking up further, her delicate toes in the high-heeled open-toe boots were right in front of his nose, like mint sweets, tempting, and the silk patterns concealed under her skirt…
No, no, this definitely isn’t the time to be focused on these matters!
“When did you catch up?” Dillin flipped himself up, standing, though exhausted, he bent slightly, breathing heavily.
He was completely out of breath and didn’t want to run anymore. Flipping himself up already exhausted the last of his strength.
“I didn’t intentionally follow Your Highness. Isn’t it that you’ve been running in place?” The Moon Elf girl tilted her head, pretending to be puzzled, poking her own pale cheek.
“So it’s your doing!”
“Does Your Highness know where you are now?”
“How would I know? Wasn’t I lured here by you?”
“This is not Caleburn, Your Highness.” Ignoring Dillin’s sarcasm, the Moon Elf girl continued, “Spaces cannot be shifted simply by running. Your speed can’t be faster than light, can it?”
“To move from one space to another, you need spatial transfer, right?”
“So, even if you run your legs off today, you won’t be able to leave here,” the silver-haired elf lady stood with her hands behind her back, smiling under the moonlight at the sweaty young man.
“………Nonsense.”
“Your Highness should not use such vulgar human language.”
“I’ve already told you, I’m not your Highness! Release me now! How skillful you think you are to plot against a human who won’t live more than a hundred years? How low-class could you get!” Seeing that he couldn’t escape, Dillin started employing psychological warfare.
“Do you know how much effort Queen Filisia has put in for Princess Tillysha?”
“Finding Tillysha is none of my business, Dillin!”
“Even if your experiments failed, don’t vent your anger on me! What’s the point of blaming me? Even if you exile me to the end of the space, Tillysha won’t be revived!”
“You simply don’t understand, do you…….” Seeing Dillin’s reaction, the Moon Elf sister rubbed her forehead, slightly confused.
“Alright, come, hold my hand, I will take you to see Her Majesty. She has been waiting for you impatiently. She really misses you a lot.”
“Not going, absolutely not.” Hearing what the Moon Elf girl said, Dillin immediately squatted down cross-legged, displaying a completely laid-back attitude.
“You take me there if you can, otherwise I won’t go anywhere.”
“Do you wish for me to carry you there? But that is very impolite, and I also don’t have authority to force you.”
“As if you had my permission to trick me here.” Dillin rolled his eyes.
“This is the order of the Empress.”
“Then go ahead, carry me there.” Dillin gestured with his hands, with an attitude like a dead pig not fearing boiling water. “Anyway, I’m just Dillin. No matter what you do, I’m human. Want to waste time on me? Fine by me?”
The golden dragonfly was left in his dormitory; there was no way he would transform into Tillysha.
He had it all planned out already; since Filisia wanted Tillysha, he would stare her down to see who gives up first.
The reason he could transform into Tillysha was entirely due to that hair ornament; without it, he could only be Dillin; it must hold true to the law of conservation of mass.
No matter how they manipulate him, he is still this sorry lot.
“Let’s strike a deal, I’ll return the golden dragonfly hair accessory to you. From now on, we owe each other nothing. Neither of us will bother the other anymore, that should work, right?” Although the hair accessory was important, it wasn’t more important than life. With such a powerful figure watching over him, living comfortably wasn’t possible. It was better to just surrender and return it, as it originally belonged to them anyway.
“What does your Empress need with that hair accessory? Even if it is a precious heirloom, it can’t reproduce if left in the warehouse.” The moon elf maid changed her tone to a very colloquial one.
“Then that’s something I don’t know about. The hair accessory’s yours, so you can take it back. You don’t want it? Handle it as you wish. As far as I’m concerned, it’s none of my concern.” Dillin turned his head, unconcerned.
“Your Highness, if you continue to be this way, I may have to do something inappropriate.” Seeing Dillin lying on the ground acting tough, the moon elf maid’s smile carried a deeper meaning.
“What? Are you going to resort to violence?” Dillin looked at the elf maid. “Alright, you carry me to see Filisia if you dare. I just want to let you know in advance that I won’t address her as ‘sister’ or anything like that, disgusting.”
“………..” The elf maid smiled without speaking.
“Alright, if you won’t let me go back, then you’d better cater to my three meals a day.”
“Alright, if there’s nothing else, you may go. Why are you still looking at me? You won’t see a Tillysha that way anyway.”
“Well, not necessarily oh.” The elf maid took a delicate golden bell from her waist belt. “Your Highness, will you not come with me?”
“How many times do I have to tell you? Do you have issues with comprehension?” Dillin, thinking the elf maid couldn’t do anything to him, said unhappily.
“Well then, sorry.”
“Sorry? What for?………” Before Dillin could understand what the elf maid meant, her slender fingers pinched the bell, and a melodious sound of nature rippled through his mind.
“I……” Dillin wanted to say something, but this beautiful melody penetrated his heart, and for a moment, his expression was filled with confusion.
What a beautiful sound………. It was like the hand of the mother of life, caressing this damaged land, all things coming back to life, vegetation covering the land, as if new sprouts appeared on the withered and broken walls.
Dillin gradually closed his eyes, entranced and basking in this sound of nature.
Suddenly, this heart-stoppingly beautiful sound stopped abruptly.
Dillin abruptly opened his eyes, as if waking up, but his eyes still carried a hint of confusion.
She suddenly felt something strange about her body……….
She looked down, and golden hair, as warm as the sunlight, flowed down her shoulder, cascading over her delicate collarbones, flowing into the deep, white valley, revealing a breathtaking beauty.
The familiar scene and the sensation of the body made her feel a chill down her spine.
“Your Highness~” Lifting her eyes, she saw that beautiful, smiling face. “This time, you finally returned home.”
“Welcome back, Princess Tylisagala Nolin.” The silver-haired elf, solemnly kneeling before the seated golden-haired elf girl with her legs tucked inward, bowed in salute.
“Me??” Tillysha’s pupils contracted, pinching her cheeks, touching her ears.
They were pointy, soft……
How could this be?!
Tillysha quickly touched her hair, and sure enough, the butterfly hair accessory was not there.
Right, the accessory was at home. How could she transform into Tillysha?!
No way, no way?! How is this possible?!
What trick did this silver-haired elf use? How could she forcibly turn him into Tillysha!?
“Come, Princess Tillysha, please hold my hand, and let me escort you to the splendid and revered Holy Tree Palace.”
Folks,
Who gets it? What is this lower-elf girl blabbering about?
