You Have No Time to Rest

"After the members for this competition have been chosen, are you going to Nolan again?"

After discussing the matter of spies with Joshua, Cecily suddenly asked this as he was preparing to leave.

"The Frost Plains beyond the Border Fortress are Brother Nogs's battlefield. Yours, Sister Cecily, is the Demonic Realm Royal City, and as for mine..."

Joshua knew this might be Cecily's most vulnerable time. The death of a father was something no child could easily accept.

"Is it in Nolan?"

Cecily knew that trying to keep Joshua here now would be both willful and unreasonable.

In the distance, the Purple-robed One had already checked Ciri's summer homework, but neither of them came over to interrupt Joshua and Cecily's conversation.

A very brief silence fell between Joshua and Cecily.

"Then, Sister, I'll first..."

Just as Joshua was about to say something, Cecily took the initiative to interrupt him.

"How long have you been seeing that human girl?"

Cecily did not lower her voice when she asked the question. Both Ciri and the Purple-robed One heard it clearly.

The question immediately put Ciri on alert. She seemed ready to come over and answer it for Joshua.

"Two years."

Joshua directly gave Cecily the answer she wanted.

In just a few seconds, the atmosphere between them became tense. Cecily had never particularly supported Joshua finding a human girl as his partner.

But that had nothing to do with Joshua. He could comply with most of his elder sister's decisions, even helping push her into the position of one of the Demon Realm's Rulers.

But there were some things that could not be changed even if Cecily opposed them. Joshua's stance on his relationship with Ciri was the firmest of all.

Cecily kept a cold expression as she faced Joshua's answer, while