"----"
At that moment, a bone-chilling cold began to spread through the silent treehouse.
It was killing intent.
Genuine, unmistakable killing intent.
Both Lide and Roxie were radiating intense killing intent, making Milu, who had been sobbing with tears streaming down her face, stop crying.
"...Is what she said true?"
Lide stared at Shien. Her beastly eyes showed no emotion, and she looked at him as though he were a piece of meat about to be devoured.
"I'd like to know too."
Roxie nodded lightly. Her voice was pleasant, but the killing intent around her was even stronger than that of Lide, the fierce Beast Demon.
"Haha."
Shien laughed.
What else was he supposed to do?
Cry?
He wanted to, but it seemed nobody here intended to give him that chance.
Especially Aiyi, who acted as though she had noticed nothing and simply declared it outright.
"Of course it's true." Aiyi spoke blandly. "He's even seen my chest. What do you think?"
"Pfft!" Shien spat blood.
"Heh heh." The killing intent around Lide and Roxie grew even denser.
It had practically solidified, becoming sharp as blades, enough to slice someone into a thousand pieces.
Under that killing intent, Lilith and Milu merely looked at each other, seemingly unaware of what had happened, or perhaps not thinking anything was wrong.
On the other hand, for some reason, Lasha was also radiating an icy chill like Lide and Roxie, and the look in her eyes as she watched Shien had become colder than ever before.
That made Shien shout.
"You don't actually believe her, do you?!"
Shien wanted to say that such a clumsy lie could not possibly fool anyone.
You were all figures at the pinnacle of your respective races. Your brains were not that small, were they?
Yet before he