As he watched his sister run toward him with a beautiful prize wreath in hand, Oakris looked helpless on the surface, but his feelings were actually a tangled mess. He did not know what expression he should wear when facing Mimibes, who was as excited as a child receiving a gift, nor did he know what words could convey how he felt.
Without question, when Mimibes suddenly stepped onto the stage at a local event like this in Emerald Leaf Town, she crushed the competition as effortlessly as a professional gamer bullying bronze-ranked newbies. Faced with the beautiful girl's moving singing voice and breathtaking dance, even though the audience could not understand what the song in Abyssal Tongue was about, they still willingly cast their votes for a girl whose abilities had utterly transcended the ordinary.
Thus, when this unprecedentedly spectacular event came to an end, the participating "Candy Merchant" won the divine wreath offered as the first-place prize through an overwhelming display of talent.
It had been a perfect performance, had it not? Being able to witness a great Legendary spellcaster dance so gracefully, Emerald Leaf Town had received an incredible, if not particularly useful, stroke of luck.
Perhaps the mortals who did not understand Abyssal Tongue had no idea what story the beautiful girl was telling. Even if they did understand Abyssal Tongue, they could never have known what feelings the dancing girl onstage wished to express.
But the devil grand duke standing in a dark corner beside the square, who had never once looked away from his sister, understood perfectly what emotion that song, "The Persistent Light Chaser," was alluding to. He also understood the precious sincerity behind the thoughts Mimibes wanted to convey to him.
Yet it was precisely because he knew his sister too well,