(Many thanks to 'Lonely Lactic Acid Lord', 'World's End Ballad', '~. Meow Meow', 'You're Quietly Watching Me Update', 'Invincible Origin', and 'Yan Ai Ai' for their tips!)
When Noah and Wendy left the room in the villa together and arrived in the first-floor hall, the sight before them immediately surprised them both.
The entire first-floor hall was filled with an extremely sinister atmosphere, and the tense, sword-drawn feeling had everyone present firmly on edge.
"Mm..."
Suddenly enveloped by that ominous atmosphere, Wendy shuddered involuntarily and hid behind Noah.
Noah raised his eyes and looked over the situation in the hall.
In the center of the hall, four people were glaring at one another with grave expressions, their eyes filled with deep-seated hostility.
Two of those four were extremely familiar to Noah.
They were Gray and Lucy.
Facing Gray was a cool-looking young man with neat, short blue-white hair like ice.
Noah could sense magic power from that young man that was extremely similar to Gray's, which caught his attention somewhat.
The one glaring at Lucy was a young woman.
She had waist-length, flowing, slightly curly red hair with a pinkish tint and was dressed rather seductively.
At that moment, she was covering her mouth as she looked at Lucy with a provocative expression, making Lucy so angry she was nearly smoking.
It was obvious without thinking that Gray and Lucy did not have a good relationship with those two.
But who were they?
Just as Noah furrowed his brows in thought, an indignant voice rang out.
"You human male over there!"
The speaker was Charlulu.
With a pair of wings spread behind her, Charlulu descended from midair and landed before Noah, glaring at him.
"Why did you take Wendy away without permission?!"
"Charlulu?" Wendy poked her head out from behind