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It had to be said that the road to the Throne Room was undoubtedly the most agonizing walk Noah had ever taken in his life.
Holding Vera's hand, Noah had been battered by all sorts of looks along the way.
To be honest, those gazes made it seem as though they were watching someone abduct an adorable child to do something utterly heinous. Even Noah, who hated involving innocents the most, could not help feeling the urge to chop every one of those idiots around him into pieces.
At a time like this, if he let go of Vera's hand out of sheer discomfort as though he were trying to run away, Noah would only feel even more guilty.
So Noah gritted his teeth and simply held Vera's hand all the way to the Throne Room.
"Hm?" Vera apparently did not understand why Noah looked so conflicted or why everyone around them looked ready to eat him alive. She tilted her head, still utterly bewildered.
If there really were some weird old perverts around here, they would probably get a nosebleed just from seeing Vera like this, wouldn't they?
And because of that, Noah only received even sharper stares along the way, making the journey even harder to endure.
At last, Noah finally made it to the Throne Room.
The moment he entered, Noah saw some familiar faces.
"Sarah? Sandra?"
Hearing Noah's voice, Sarah and Sandra, who had been chatting amicably about something, turned around and saw him.
Just as Sarah and Sandra