After Lucy had taken Li Xing from door to door, knocking and introducing him to each household in turn, she finally brought him to the door of the last house she had mentioned.
This time, though, she did not knock first. Instead, she called out loudly at the door.
"Aniekra! Aniekra! Are you there? I've come to see you!"
Before long, a voice answered from inside the house.
"Coming, Lucy! Next time you need something, come earlier. You're interrupting my work now!"
As she spoke, the door opened, revealing a pretty figure.
The woman inside had fair, rosy skin like Lucy's, but unlike Lucy, she was not slender. On the contrary, she struck Li Xing as voluptuous and full-figured. A flash of pale skin at her chest caught his eye, then vanished from sight in an instant.
"Ah!~~"
The moment the woman named Aniekra opened the door, she noticed Li Xing. She hurriedly covered her chest and gave Lucy a reproachful look.
"Lucy, why didn't you tell me beforehand that someone else was here?" As she spoke, she turned sideways, using her long, silky brown hair to cover herself while she adjusted her clothes.
Once she had finished, Aniekra turned around and spoke to Li Xing, her face flushed with embarrassment.
"I'm sorry you had to see me looking so undignified!"
Li Xing looked at the shy woman before him and answered with considerable interest.
"Not at all. That was probably my luckiest moment in recent memory! o(∩_∩)o... Haha."
After he spoke, Li Xing saw Miss Aniekra's face flush even redder.
If Lucy reminded him of a fawn in the woods, then Aniekra reminded him of a gentle little lamb on the grasslands.
When Lucy saw that Li Xing's words had left Aniekra too embarrassed to compose herself, she gave him a pinch at the waist.
"Don't you bully Aniekra! She's my friend! If you dare bully her, you'll have me to answer to!"
Feeling the pain in his waist and seeing the warning look in Lucy's eyes, as though she wanted to eat him alive, Li Xing realized he had been a little rash.
"I'm sorry, Miss Aniekra. My words just now were somewhat frivolous. If they made you uncomfortable, I would like to apologize. If possible, I hope to offer someone as beautiful as you appropriate compensation!"
Imitating the noble knights in the Western films he had watched before transmigrating, Li Xing placed a hand over his chest and bowed as he spoke his words of praise.
The young woman had not been greeted with a bow in a long time. Looking at the tall, handsome, resolute man before her, who was as charming as a heroic knight from a bard's tale, the young woman in the prime of her youth immediately imagined herself in a romantic story of a knight and a princess.
Li Xing, standing before her, seemed just like the handsome, powerful, loyal knight in such a story. And she was the princess who could not be with the one she loved. The figures from the romantic love stories she remembered had come to life from words on a page at that very moment!
Lucy watched from the side as Aniekra stood there in a daze, taken in by Li Xing. She had a rough idea of what was going on with her friend.
So she hurriedly changed the subject and made the introductions.
"Aniekra, let me introduce you. This is Li Xing, a new resident of Hunter Town. I brought him over so you could meet."
"Li Xing, this is Aniekra, our weaver in Hunter Town! She's also a good friend and family to me. If you ever want clothes made, you can count on her."
Lucy had barely finished speaking when Aniekra pulled her inside the house. After peeking out to see Li Xing waiting alone, she shut the door, turned back to Lucy, and spoke in a low voice.
"Lucy, Lucy! There's nothing going on between you and this Li Xing, is there? You know what I mean."
Hearing that, Lucy looked helplessly at Aniekra, who was acting coquettishly toward her.
"Don't worry, Aniekra! I only met him today. Uncle Turner asked me to show him around. If you like him, you'd better put some effort in. I've spent quite a while taking him from house to house around town. I could tell quite a few girls in town were very interested in him!"
Lucy had thought Aniekra would calm down once she had explained, but instead, her words sent Aniekra into a panic.
"Lucy, how could you do that? I'm your friend! How could you not bring him to meet me first? You should at least have given me a warning.
"Ah, what do I do?
"Will what happened just now give him a bad impression of me? What do I do, Lucy? Help me!"
Faced with her best friend shaking her arm, blaming her and begging her for help at the same time,
Our guide, Miss Lucy, felt a little weary.
I'm just the guide Uncle Turner asked to show him around, not a matchmaker. How can she blame me for this too?
What does she mean, what should she do? What bad impression?
Even I want to feel and touch that gleaming chest of hers from time to time, let alone a vigorous young man like him. He's too happy for words, so what bad impression could he possibly have? He's probably secretly delighted right now!
Aniekra knew nothing of Lucy's inner grumbling. She simply kept clinging to Lucy and asking for help.
As Aniekra pressed against Lucy and acted coquettishly, Lucy's arm felt the radiance of Aniekra's maternal charms from time to time, plucking at a nerve inside her!
In the end, Lucy could not stand it anymore and shouted at Aniekra.
"Take this!"
With that, Lucy reached out with her groping claws, drawing a series of coquettish protests from Aniekra, who had just been blaming her. Watching Aniekra cover her chest with both hands and edge away warily, Lucy felt an overwhelming sense of conquest. She planted her hands on her hips, puffed out her chest, and gave Aniekra a wicked grin.
"Are you going to keep making a fuss? If you are, shall we continue?"
Aniekra shook her head, her hands still guarding her chest, and hurriedly made her position clear.
But she stubbornly added,
"I don't care about the other girls in town, but Lucy, if I fall for him, please don't compete with me for him, all right?"
Hearing Aniekra's words, our Miss Lucy felt her blood pressure shoot up.
Compete with you for what? Even if I did, could I possibly win? Do you know how tempting your figure is? Even I wish I could turn into a man and devour you!
"Aniekra, it seems you still haven't learned your lesson! Take this!"
Once again, our Miss Lucy unleashed the dragon claw hand she had perfected over many years, attacking her opponent, Miss Aniekra, until she begged for mercy.
After their bout of roughhousing, both of them had nearly exhausted their strength.
Lucy then took Li Xing away from Aniekra's door, and they left the place.
Aniekra watched Li Xing and Lucy walk away and murmured,
"Lucy, there are so many girls in town. But you're family, and you're the one person I don't want to compete with over this!"
On the road afterward,
Li Xing looked at Lucy's flushed face and asked,
"Lucy, what were you two doing just now? I could faintly hear Miss Aniekra moaning from outside. You two weren't..."
Lucy, walking ahead of him, heard Li Xing's question.
Her blood pressure, which had happily gone down after she satisfied her desire to conquer, shot back up in an instant.
Without another word, Lucy turned and delivered a flying kick at Li Xing from close range.
Li Xing's body reacted instantly. With a few quick steps, he dodged the attack and looked at Lucy in puzzlement.
Seeing Li Xing dodge her attack,
Lucy could only reluctantly drop the matter. "If Aniekra falls in love with you in the future, Li Xing, you mustn't let her love go to waste! If you dare bully her, I swear you'll have me to answer to!"
"What? What's all this about? How did Aniekra fall in love with me? What's going on?"
Faced with Li Xing's puzzled expression and the distress in his voice, Lucy chose to ignore him. She could still feel the sensation on her hands from roughhousing with Aniekra, and at the thought that the silly young man before her might someday enjoy that pleasure all to himself every day, Lucy's blood pressure rose again!
Seeing Lucy suddenly lose control of her emotions again, Li Xing was utterly baffled!
Faced with the bewildered Li Xing, Lucy snatched up a branch from the roadside and ran at him, swinging it.
Realizing that Lucy's mood had changed, Li Xing hurried toward the blacksmith's shop in the center of town, intending to ask Uncle Turner for help.
Lucy chased after him, shouting as she ran.
"Don't run! Stop right there! Don't run, you~~~~~~ You can just enjoy your secret delight!"