But everything Trina had suffered over the years left her at a loss when faced with Elysia's kindness and affection—
When she traveled the Lands Between as Trina, Trina had always been skilled at making use of her appearance. Yet faced with such wholehearted goodwill, she could no longer accept it as naturally as she once had.
At the same time, Trina truly found Elysia's excessive enthusiasm somewhat hard to handle.
Yet Gwen, Trina's only "lifeline," merely wore a polite smile and watched as Elysia carried Trina away like a doll.
When Gwen finished helping Elysia work out after their bout of lovemaking and left the space within the Golden Tree, it was still the middle of the night.
Gwen had originally intended to ask Trina how much time he had spent in total, but instead found the girl so exhausted that she had fallen asleep facedown on her desk.
The sight of her small body curled up on the desk stirred a faint sigh from Gwen. He did not wake her, merely draped a black coat over her before leaving to ask Oga, who was on night watch, about the situation.
From Oga, Gwen learned that less than a day had passed from start to finish, which finally put him at ease—
Gwen had actually worried that he might sleep for a month or two, leaving Trina and the others to deal with the forces from across the universe and suffer losses.
After breakfast, Gwen also met with the advance personnel the company had dispatched nearby.
Having heard that Gwen had single-handedly utterly destroyed the living celestial body Jidu Mirage, created a phantom seemingly born of a failed ascension that had caused the Amber King's hammer to fall in haste, and then produced a spectacle visible from almost the