I... Am Innocent!

The group chatted off to the side for a while, occasionally fooling around, making for a rather pleasant atmosphere.

Only two individuals standing nearby seemed to be in less-than-beautiful moods.

No, more precisely, it should have been one person and one beast.

The person was Liel.

The Stone Woman was currently glaring fiercely at a group of cold-faced Ice Maidens in the village as though they were mortal enemies. She was just short of pouncing on them and issuing a challenge.

Even the Dragon Race, known as the strongest race, felt pressure from the return of the Ice Maiden Tribe. The Stone Woman Race, which had always ranked below the Ice Maiden Tribe, naturally had it even worse.

How could Liel possibly be in a beautiful mood?

What made Liel feel even worse was that her beloved mistress had not only gone out alone with Shien in the middle of the night, but had also witnessed the Ice Maiden Tribe's return firsthand.

Meanwhile, she, the loyal servant, had stood guard outside her mistress's room all night without realizing her mistress had slipped away. She had foolishly guarded an empty room the entire night.

When Liel learned about this, she was utterly dumbfounded.

Thus, she experienced what double the unhappiness felt like. Since earlier, she had kept a stiff expression, just short of painting herself stone-colored and becoming an actual female stone statue.

Beside Liel stood the Lion-Tiger Scaled Beast.

Yes, this bootlicking magical beast had actually come along too.

It seemed to have become completely inseparable from Shafna. Ever since that night, wherever Shafna went, it followed obediently behind her, trampling the dignity of a Legendary-tier monster beneath its feet and turning itself into a pet that obeyed her every command.

Liel had originally wanted to stew it alive in