It Feels So “Suh-Hu.”

...It was actually Bella accompanying her. Well, strange, yet somehow reasonable.

And if we were talking compatibility, Mei and Bella got along quite well too.

"Where's Acheron?"

"Acheron said there was nothing worth watching here..."

Mei answered honestly. "So I thought Bella was also the Herrscher of Thunder, so I brought Bella over."

"Mm-hmm!"

The little dragon girl kept nodding as she ate dried fish.

"..."

Liu Bai felt an inexplicable sense of weirdness.

But there seemed to be nothing wrong with that reasoning?

Bella might have been a little aloof, but there was nothing wrong with her character.

"Then get ready. I'll grant you the authority."

Liu Bai picked up the Gem of Conquest.

"To avoid suspicion, I'll put it in through your abdomen. No problem with that, right?"

"No problem."

Mei had wanted to say that a girl's abdomen was also a very private area, but when she thought about Liu Bai's private life, saying that seemed a little too fussy.

"Ah~!"

"...Why are you yelling?"

Mei's rather difficult-to-describe cry startled Liu Bai so badly that the hand holding the Gem of Conquest trembled.

"S-sorry... But... this is still my first time having someone touch my stomach."

Mei looked a little embarrassed.

This was not a battle situation. Having someone of the opposite sex touch her lower abdomen still made her feel a little awkward.

"Oh... What a pure maiden."

Illusion Moon watched the scene beside them with disgust.

"What happens next? Are you going to get all lovey-dovey?"

"N-no, it's fine. I'm ready now!"

Mei became even more embarrassed after Illusion Moon's words.

But... it really was just her first time being touched like that, okay!

Well, strictly speaking, it was not the first time. There had been contact during sparring sessions.

But it was obviously different