Chapter 260 - Conquer the Greed The Rank 3 dungeon『Isckia Hills』was a dungeon located between Spada and Fauren. In the first place a natural region shouldn't be called a dungeon, but to adventurers, any place where they could fight monsters was a dungeon, hence the main reason was amplified and is being called as that. Anyhow, the Isckia Hills were covered with abundant nature, but as it was called a dungeon, there were a great variety of monsters living there. Even this swamp area called『Thunder Cloud Swamp』, located in the interior of the dense forest was included in the range of Isckia Hills. If an adventurer stood and looked over this swamp, they most likely wouldn’t realise that this was the ‘Thunder Cloud’ That was because this place only had one small filthy muddy swamp, there was nothing special in particular. It was a completely ordinary swamp located in any forest. Even the scene of monsters going near swamps for water was quite common in this world. However the monster currently here was quite a rare one. SFX: GoooGGGyyyayaaaaaaaa!! A earth-splitting loud howl reverberated. In an instant, ten-odd metres of ground protruded and a great tree standing there was blown away. A monster literally split the earth and appeared. The earth and sand grandiosely blew up and rained down on the surroundings. It truly was a downpour of earth and sand. The monster that appeared by creating a rain of mud was the rumoured rank 5 monster, Greed Gore. It looked like a dinosaur, no, in this world it had the form of a typical land dragon, i.e. he had a form with head and tail in a horizontal line and walked on two legs, similar to a Dagger Raptor. However, this Greed Gore had a big body incomparable to a 2 metres long Rank 1 monster. Greed Gore's body was so big that even if the Rank number was to be doubled it would still not reach there. He was 30 metres from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, its overall height easily crossed over 10 metres. Among the numerous monsters, he would enter in the large-monster category. From the looks of its oblong angular face and carapace that was the same colour and shape of a brick, it truly looked like a dinosaur-shaped Golem. This golem had high affinity with the Earth attribute, just from the fact that it could move underground with its big body shows the fact that he had a powerful Extra Magic that could manipulate the earth. If there were other monsters in the vicinity, they might've been killed by this Extra Magic. But then, most of the monsters were of about the size that would conventionally fit into Greed Gore's mouth, moreover, thinking on the Rank of this dungeon, there would no monster powerful enough to make it use its Extra Magic. As though trying to prove that, the moment Greed Gore appeared from under the ground, the monsters hiding in the vicinity attempted to escape at full speed. Fortunately the thirst surpassed the hunger for the current Greed Gore. It stepped forward towards the swamp in front of it without showing any interest in the presence of other monsters quite far from it. Although after sating its thirst, it would eat all the fish, insects and monsters living in the swamp and sate its greedy stomach. After all Greed Gore had come here while greedily devouring everything in front of it. Every time it would step forward with a thud, the swamp would have ripples spread over the surface. There was no existence that could stop those heavy steps, and as if it knew this, Greed Gore didn't pay attention to the surroundings and neared the tip of his nose to the muddy water surface. It opened its fiendish mouth which bared fangs like knife, no, they were already bigger than swords, and started slurping the water of the swamp with such great force as though he wanted to drink all the water there. However at this time, to stop the water level of swamp from decreasing,the sound of thunder burst out on the tip of Greed Gore's nose. Greed Gore raised his head up whilst making a short shout——no, a menacing sound. Shrill sounds of blitz flashing reverberated in the surroundings, only noticing now, the swamp was enshrouded by a black fog. No, this black mist had purple lightning flashing inside it, in that case, this place truly was worthy of being called Thunder Cloud. In the blink of an eye, the dark clouds surging with electricity covered the swamp and Greed Gore. The occurrence of this phenomenon, as if thunder clouds were thrown onto the ground, was the main reason for this place to be called as『Thunder Cloud Swamp』. The monster responsible for causing this phenomenon appeared in front of Greed Gore. The monster which surfaced by bulging up the water surface was an eerie violet big fish with slippery skin. If one word was there for that figure it could only be『catfish』. It had a flat head, big mouth, long moustache (ET: ?), a body surface without scales and covered in mucus, and every other trait a catfish could have. Its length was definitely larger than 10 metres. It was hard to think that fishes of this size were present in several tens and hundreds within this small swamp. Most probably, this one was the owner of the swamp. However the biggest reason that this catfish was called as monster wasn't because of its body size but because it had a powerful Extra Magic that could manipulate lightning. This was a Rank 3 electric catfish monster called as『Mazuna Cruz』. [1] SFX: Goooaaaaaa!! One long straight purple-tinted lightning bolt surged towards Greed Gore, who was roaring  out a menacing yell. The lightning attack of Mazuna Cruz wasn't fired from the mouth and hence wasn't a Breath Type attack, but rather it was fired from its whole body so it was a Blast Type attack. The electric attack fire from the back of its body moved forward while creating a purple trajectory. Moreover it wasn't any normal lightning, but the amount of electricity in it kept on increasing, and it increased in size and thickness as it neared. These thunder clouds covering the swamp were one of the abilities of the Mazuna Cruz, in other words it was a thunder-attribute strengthened barrier. However this wasn't activated by it alone, but through the help of few other Mazuna Cruzes living in the swamp. Mazuna Cruz didn't have the nature to work in crowds, but when they felt danger for their habitat because of a foreign enemy, they all join and work together to fight against the common enemy. They obey their wild instincts that sometimes show rationality surpassing that of humans, hence the Mazuna Cruz obeyed the instinct and challenged the Greed Gore that had been said to have enough power to destroy the world. The lightning attack fired with the wager of Mazuna Cruzes' existence became as thick as a big serpent by the time it reached Greed Gore. It burned everything that touched it and attacked like a big rocky mountain. Greed Gore didn't move at all, maybe because it wasn't quick-witted and agile enough to evade that lightning attack, and so the attack landed. The purple lightning burst open as though a Flash for blinding someone was activated. Like that the dazzling light sparked consecutively. That was not just for show, in truth that attack could defeat most of the monsters, even those monsters that are stronger than the top Ranks humans have set for their convenience. The lightning attack was fired by the owner of swamp, other individuals Boosted it, the attack was just like a coordinated attack done by any Adventurer Party, but SFX: Goooggyyyyyyaaaa!! It wasn't able to defeat Greed Gore. The brick-like carapace, after getting hit by lightning, truly became grilled brick-like. However just that much, the lightning attack didn't reach down the thick and hard carapace. The Earth-Attribute was far surpassing other attributes in defence, one reason for that was because the earth itself was quite a hard substance. Especially it was the best defence for blocking against lightning, the difficulty to pass electricity through rock was a given, but even most of the electric heat was cut off. For the Mazuna Cruz, an Earth-Attribute specialized monster like Greed Gore was the worst enemy. Greed Gore calmly started walking towards the swamp as though it had already known about the superiority of its body. It moved in straight line aiming for the Mazuna Cruz floating in the centre of swamp, whilst the water surface would ripple every time it took a step. Having its own territory breached, the Mazuna Cruz was completely enraged, and fired off lightning from its body with full power, while it also started swimming as though it were sliding on the water surface. One side was Greed Gore with its big mouth opened for eating the big catfish, the other side was Mazuna Cruz trying to defeat the foreign enemy to save its whole territory. Both parties collided against each other in a straight line within the swamp. The battle was decided in just one attack. The Mazuna Cruz that attacked with its strongest and biggest lightning attack had its stomach ripped apart by Greed Gore, who didn’t even bat an eye to the lightning strike. The dark red liquid started spreading across the muddy water. The Mazuna Cruz now with a chewed stomach was already dead, but it’s tail and fins were still active above the water’s surface purely due to reflexes. Greed Gore raised a voice of happiness after capturing a big prey and opened its mouth to devour the swamp's master greedily. It was that time it opened its mouth. A single lightning attack leaped out from the bitten off stomach. No, looking closely it wasn't lightning. Although that thing was clad in purple lightning it was something completely different. A lower body of a snake, upper body of a human, it looked just like the Lamia race, but—— SFX: Goaaaaa!!? Before it even recognized what the mysterious lightning was, it entered the open mouth of Greed Gore. It reflexively tried to chew down that eerie thing in its mouth, but all that happened was its fangs united making a *clang* sound. There was no magic that could do something about the thing that had vanished in its mouth. Hence, Greed Gore restarted eating the food as though it had forgotten the existence of that lightning. The change occurred after it had eaten the whole corpse of Mazuna Cruz. A reaction as though the meat it ate was poison, in other words, Greed Gore started writhing in agony. The 30 metres big body was rampaging in the swamp, large columns of water rose up as though a Mage Squad had simultaneously attacked. However that also stopped in a few moments, and after it lost all it’s strength, Greed Gore silently sank down to the bottom of swamp. It died, a person watching from side would only see it like that, but the next moment, it again surfaced. Like that this time, it returned back to the ground in an extremely lazy manner. Before Greed Gore knew it, the Thunder Cloud barrier had already vanished and the scene had returned to its original state. However, for some reason even now the sound of lightning bursts reverberated. The source of those sounds was Greed Gore, but it had Extra Magic of Earth-Attribute, it could never create electricity like a firefly, no matter how. However the current Greed Gore was clad in the eerie purple lightning just like a Mazuna Cruz. — AUTHOR’S NOTE: Oh! Greed Gore looks different...... TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: 1. Mazuna is a pun on the way catfish is called in Japanese. Catfish = Namazu. Pfft, so bad naming sense!

Chapter 261 - The Reward of Bandit Subjugation

「Truly thank you very very very much!!」

On the 10th of Platinum month, we, the Element Master came back from the Bandit Subjugation and Greed Gore search, but the person who met us first was neither Simon nor Wil, but some unknown boy.

However seeing a glasses-wearing girl standing beside him, I quickly understood the situation.

「You're welcome. It's good that she was fine, right」

I replied, hearing that the boy was overcome with emotion and started crying while still saying words of gratitude.

「Geez, don't cry anymore Eddie, it's embarrassing for me」

「B-But!」

The name of young man crying out loud is Eddie. He is apparently the childhood friend of this girl standing beside him and is also an Knight Cadet in Royal Spada Academy.

And the girl is Shenna, who we saved from the hideout of bandits.

It is easy to imagine just what feeling Eddie had before she returned to Spada completely fine.

「Umm, I'm sorry, he seemed to caused an uproar on his own......」

Shenna poked Eddie with a troubled expression. Seeing their pleasant actions my face distorted, no, I smiled wryly.

「I see, so you came here to say thanks, well, you don't need to worry about it」

「I'm sorry, thank you very much」

Like that, after talking for some time with them, Shenna left, taking(dragging) Eddie with her.

Incidentally, when returning, Eddie,

「Kurono-san! I will help you if anything occurs, please do tell me!!」

Proposed an offer like that.

「Thank you, I will keep that in mind」

「Shall I spread an information that the rumour of Kurono-san pushing down the Princess of Avalon is a fake?」

「Ah, please, seriously, do that」

Anyhow, like that, the Knight Cadet duo of Eddie and Shenna left.

Now I just need to pray that bad rumours about me would just fade out......no, there is one more great thing

「Looks like everything is back to normal, thanks to Lily」

「Eheheh」

I patted the head of carefree smiling Lily. However, my heart was stinging due to guilt for telling a lie to Eddie.

I said she was perfectly fine, but that was a complete lie.

Although I hadn't seen it directly, but definitely, her body and heart both were in tatters, all the girls captured there were treated like an entertainment outlet. I heard all this from Zack.

However it was Lily who made it all 'non-existent'.

Shen used Fairies' Miracle Drug on this seven girls, but didn't use it to recover their health, but controlled it using her Telepathy ability, and deleted memories from the time they were captured.

I learned that Shenna's memories were all gone after 20th of Red Flame month, the other girls were also the same. They all had their memories from some days before getting captured deleted.

And because that disgusting memories were deleted, a lie that 'not done anything' to this girls by the bandits was established.

「This was for the best, right」

「Yes, considering the situation this time, this is the very best end」

Fiona strongly affirmed.

Originally these girls would've have to heal an emotional scar by spending lots of time, no, if it went bad, then they would have to live their life in a nightmare.

The mental power to getting over a heartbreaking reality may be great, but, from the point of happiness, the choice would be to make it all 'non-existent'.

That why, I didn't tell them the truth, it will be just fine if they moved on in life happily while believing in the kind lie made up by Lily.

「Yeah, it was for the best」

This matter ended with everyone being rescued. To me, this is more valuable reward than money or fame.

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Next day: 11th of Platinum month.

The city of Spada was filled with liveliness today as always, but more than that, there was a cheerful rumour coming out of people.

That was the Rank 5 part of Royal Spada Academy, the『Wing Road』had punished the evil Slave Dealer.

In truth this 'evil Slave Dealer' was the wirepuller behind the bandits we subjugated, and thanks them, girls not present in the hideout were rescued safely.

They might have fought against the wirepuller, but before I knew it, the whole matter ended safely, truly a happy ending.

However, thanks to that I was able to escape from the tiresome things I had predicted, so I'm thankful to them.

The reason they were so easily able to arrest the Slave Dealer living in a mansion in the Upper Class Area was because the party members of Wing Road were either royalties or from The Four Great Nobles, meaning they all had status of upper echelons of the society.

If it were freelance adventurers like us, we would've got ourselves in a bad situation against a Slave Dealer with this much assets and influence.

Anyway, thanks to that, highly influential party were able to work as adventurers without any problems.

Thinking on it, the First Princess of Avalon, Nell-san, is also a member of Wing Road. I should say my thanks to her if I meet her anytime soon.

Of course, only when a sword-using brother and a hysteric friend wouldn't be around her.

Thinking this and that I finally reached my destination.

「Well then, today I will buy a good robe」

That destination was a Mage Robe Specialist Shop with an old woman being the clerk. This place was called『Fix & Fika』

The blackened armour made for anti-Greed Gore purpose had a hole opened in the stomach area because of Ludora's katana, so I plan to send it to Stratos Smithing Workshop later.

Moreover, my standard equipment is still a Robe, after all my Class is『Black Magician』and not a Cursed Weapon-wielder Class like『Berserker』.

Well, armour is also not bad, but its better to have a robe as a primary equipment. Moreover now, fighting monsters for trial, I will need a magic resistant defence, rather than physical resistance defence.

「Hahaha, today for sure I will make that witch clerk give me a good reception, and it will happen, when I show off my assets!」

I have my wallet filled so much, that my enthusiasm is just leaking out of me, or rather, I couldn't have decided to buy robe if I didn't had money.

Naturally, the origin of this abundant fund is the reward from Bandit Subjugation.

Although, I didn't take the quest officially, but concerning the results, we had subjugated the bandits, the guild accepted our work and paid us the suitable amount of reward.

Moreover, it turned out we could take all the possessions of bandits we subjugated, so we got all the money, that was enough for near twenty people.

Although, plundering stuff from bandits may sound cruel, but if a bonus of this much wasn't present, then Bandit Subjugation quests wouldn't have been established in the first place.

Well, like this and that, with the intention of buying the most expensive stuff of this shop today, I entered confidently through the door of the shop.

Upon entering the shop, a lot of robes greet me, even the mannequin clad in Apprentice Robe with words「Freshman Purveyor」etched on it greeted me. I felt like the whole shop was welcoming my visit.

Haha, sorry, but today I am graduating from Apprentice Robe.

I am already in shirt and pants, without a robe, in other words, I will return back while wearing a new robe. 「Will you wear it here?」, the answer choices to this question are just Yes and YES.

Incidentally, Fiona said she needed that Apprentice Robe for some sort of Enchant experiment or something, so I donated it to her.

If that robe turns into cinder due to the failure in experiment, I wouldn't feel even a little bit of regret. I just need to think than the memories of me being underestimated while wearing that robe were also burned to cinders with the robe.

To the current me, with a strong resolve to part with that robe, exists nothing that could stop me from walking forward.

In front of my vision is the same witch clerk from before, sitting on the counter.

Apparently she sensed my arrival already as her eyes that were looking down on the book in her hands before, were now looking towards me.

Well then, what sort of sarcasm will come out of her mouth today——

「You're Kurono-sama from Element Master, right. I welcome you for coming here」

Eh, wtf, candid camera?

I can't help but think of it that way now, that she is bowing at a perfectly right angle.

Or rather, I don't even remember telling her my name or party name......

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「I see, so she was your daughter」

Again, I feel the world surely is small. Guess what, this witch clerk old woman is the mother of that Shenna.

She already knew about the situation from her daughter, more or less, I am her daughter's life saviour, hence she bowed to me.

「I'm truly sorry, I was thinking of coming to meet you for giving my thanks——」

「No you don't have to do it, I just did my work as an adventurer. I also got the reward from the Guild properly」

I feel utterly uncomfortable to the kind, careful interaction with a person who had been spouting sarcastic words at me 'till now, but,

「It can't go on like that, after all you saved my daughter」

I didn't have the guts to poke fun at a mother saying thanks with teary eyes.

I personally think that just that feeling of wanting to thank me is enough, as for the reward, I already got a great amount of money. I also don't have greed or arrogance to want more than this.

「No, this is the reward I had prepared for the rescue quest, please take it」

I just heard yesterday that the families of victims pitched in money and requested the Guild to post up a rescue quest.

The heart can't be measured by money, but, the reward wasn't small, it told that the families were concerned about the girls' safety.

Moreover I never took on this quest officially, although, the objective was completed, I can't say that I've got a legitimate right for accepting this reward.

However, seeing her trying to corner me, I feel it would be rude to keep on obstinately refusing her.

At any rate this sort of situation is a first for me, so I don't know what is the appropriate way to deal with these sort of situations.

「Moreover, if Kurono-sama is still wanting『Baphomet Embrace』then I think this reward would be equal to it」

In her eyes while saying this, a sharp pointy light was flickering.

Hmm, as expected, I cannot look down on this person——No, this time she is trying to pay the reward with good will, so I shouldn't be vigilant.

「Do you have the『Baphomet Embrace』here?」

「Please, wait a moment」

Saying that she temporarily went in the interior of the shop. Hmm, what a suggestive behaviour that is.

Most probably not even five minutes have passed, but it seemed much longer to me.

Soon enough, she came back with a folded black robe in her hands. Like that, she unfolded in front of me and answered to my question from before.

「This is a robe made from a high class demon just like Baphoment. This one is called『Diabolo's Embrace』and is made from Diabolo's skin」

That was different from the fur of Baphomet, and had a profound feel of a real leather. The design too seemed different from the one I wore before.

However, sensing the dense black magical energy residing in it, I understood that this is a product on the same level, or maybe even better than『Baphomet Embrace』.

「*chuckle*, looks like you liked it」

「Yeah, this is......a good stuff」[ED: An expression like he smoked a hookah for the first time]

Even more than the Apprentice Robe I was using some days before.

I was completely charmed by that jet black gloss, making it seem like the pulsation of magical energy is reaching to me.

「Please, wear it and see if you like it」

「......Yes」

I had no reason to refuse her.

I silently faced my back towards her, who had opened the『Diabolo's Embrace』that looked more like a coat and less like a robe.

At a glance, the size of the coat seemed small for me, but when I put my hand in it, there was no cramped feeling in there.

No, speaking truthfully, it automatically resized itself based on the wearer's body proportions.

That's right, I felt a pleasant temperature change the moment this coat completely fit my body.

Aaanhhh, I feel severely nostalgic right now. So,『Baphomet Embrace』felt this good. I realized that fact just now.

「It looks good on you」

Even those simple words seemed like truth, when feeling this pleasant sensation. Truly mysterious.

No, this time it isn't the problem of looking good or bad, but there is something in this, that makes me want to just purely 'yearn' for it.

「So, how about it Kurono-sama, will you take this『Diabolo's Embrace』from me as the gratitude reward」

I'm pretty damn sure that she already knows what I am going to say.

After all, I have been charmed by it to the extent, that the hesitation for refusing it had already left my body.

「Please let me have it」[ED: With the fase of cheshire cat]

I just wasn't able to find words other than that.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE:

He finally got his yearned『Devils' Embrace』-type Robe!

Kurono is now armed with a black coat. Kurno's Chuuni-level: level Upped!

Chapter 262 - Don't tell to Kurono

「*breathe in* *breathe out*」

Fiona had been taking deep breaths since some time ago.

The scene would've been refreshing and hygienic, if this was a place in the forest with subdued sunlight peeking out trees and gentle breeze blowing around.

However,

「*breathe in* *breathe out*」

This place was a room in the dorm, Fiona was on her bed in her black underwear, and would sometimes roll her body in agony while stuffing her face in a black robe.

「Annh, it smells of Kurono-san......」

Fiona's body shivered while she let out a sound, seeming entranced.

The robe she held in her hands was without a doubt an Apprentice Robe that Kurono had been wearing just today's morning.

They've got a lot of money from Bandit Subjugation, so Kurono revealed thoughts about buying a new robe that Fiona heard, and thinking of it as lucky chance, had Kurono give the robe to her.

Kurono didn't have a lot of affection towards this robe from the start, and so she was able to get it from him by making a vague reason like「I need to use it in experiment for Enchant Magic」.

However, the 'vague' reason said here wasn't something fake.

It was her plan to cast Enchant on the robe and have Kurono wear it again, like that she would be able to let his scent remain on the robe for a longer time.

Fiona, who actually planned out such a devilish infinite-loop idea could be truly called a Witch, in the sense that a normal person would never do it.

「Aaahh, aannhhh, Kurono-san」

Fiona showed a blissful expression whilst being covered in the scent of the person she loves, but her figure looked just too impure.

Although it was symptom of lovesickness, for seeing the things worn by their beloved person as special and wanting them, however, the current Fiona seemed more like underwear thief.

If one had to follow-up for her then it could be said that this robe was the main thing that made her realize her feelings for Kurono during the Wrath-Pun Battle. This robe was the one that gave her a good memory of Kurono covering her body in this robe after cutting her with his hatchet.

However, if there was a legitimate reason and chance to get Kurono's underwear, she would've jumped at it.

That sort of powerful persuasive power could be felt from her current foolishness.

It seemed like she would continue to playing with Kurono's Robe until fully satisfied, but,

「Fiona, are you in there?」

Due to a knocking sound and Lily's voice, her fun time was forcibly terminated.

From her tone it was easy to perceive, that her consciousness was that of an adult, so any sort of deceiving won't work on her.

「Yes, coming」

Fiona immediately threw the robe in the Dimension Space, present in the three-cornered hat lying besides her, wore on the housedress cape, present in the closet, and opened the door.

Her face had already returned to her sleepy expressionless face.

That terrifying speed of switchover, her innocent face, made her entranced expression and her impiure acts from before seem like a fake illusion. With that innocent expression she greeted Lily.

「......Hm」

Although Lily was in her loli form, she didn't wear either the black one-piece or uniform, but the White Pun Robe that Kurono presented to her.

Apparently, they were both on holiday today.

Lily wearing that relaxing sleep-wear, frowned upon entering the room and muttered.

「This place smells of Kurono......」

*Startled*, Fiona's heartbeat increased for a second and she felt shivers.

How was she able to sense that from the lingering scent of Robe, it would've been a different story if she were a Beast Person, but she was a fairy, whose olfactory sense is on the same level as a normal person.

An idiotic thought crossed in her mind, "Does wearing this White Pun Robe increase the olfactory sense?"

However she couldn't show unrest right now, after all, Lily was already staring at her with her round eyes, filled with suspicions.

Incidentally, the face on the hood she was wearing also seemed to be glaring at her.

「Is that so, it might be because I took over the robe Kurono-san wore, for 'experimental purposes'」

She was finally able to negotiate with Kurono behind Lily's back, but for this fact to be still revealed so fast, thinking over this Fiona clicked her tongue within her heart.

However she couldn't lie to Lily, even if she had a Mind Protect to not let her emotions leak out.

「Hmmm, experimental purposes, eh」

「Yeah, for experimental purposes」

A turbulent atmosphere streamed between the two.

「Considering that, there is Kurono's scent coming from your body, don't tell me you're doing something suspicious?」

「No way, I just wore it for a bit, for checking its feel upon wearing」

The former part was truth, Fiona actually wore the robe and spoke silly stuff like「Like this it feels like Kurono-san is hugging me」, and was even got happy from that.

Naturally, checking its feel was a completely made-up fake reason.

However, although she may confess wearing the robe, she definitely can't tell about her feelings at that moment.

Fiona tried counterattacking for evading the point of Lily's suspicions.

「Even Lily has Kurono-san's left eye, right. Aren't you using it to do something suspicious?」

「H-How did you know about that!?」

An unexpected surprised voice, the rabbit on Lily's head shook violently as though they were showing Lily's unrest.

「Lily-san is quite inattentive in child-form. Try to make sure that Kurono-san doesn't discover you fawning over the eyeball in a potion vial with a love-struck expression」

「Ugh, uuuuu......」

If one knows the sly Lily, then her normal child-like behaviour might seem like an act, but in truth, her thought ability truly degrades to that of a baby.

In that state, it can't be helped if she had problems and showed openings in hiding something.

「If Kurono-san knew that Lily-san keeps his eyeball with herself all the time, he might draw away from you」

「D-Don't get the wrong idea, who knows if there will be a time for using that eyeball, so I'm safekeeping till that time」

Fiona had expected this sort of theoretical answer coming from her, and stepped on the common grounds she found.

「Is that so, in that case, Lily-san is safekeeping the eyeball while taking all the responsibility, and I am using the robe for a certain magic experiment. We're both not doing anything suspicious, right?」

「......You're right, I'm sorry for doubting you」

As expected, the adult Lily knows when to back off.

It's better for them both to keep on having things of Kurono, while keeping silent and not fighting uselessly.

And, it would be fine as long as Kurono doesn't know how they were using his things.

「We will be travelling together from now on, so I don't want to start any discord」

「No, same here, I said too much, I'm sorry」

The two reconciled, and just as Lily said before, from now on, Fiona and Lily would work together.

And it was also the reason why Lily visited Fiona.