In the end, Xu Qi sighed and spoke first. "Um... Yae, I'm sorry, I..."
"It's fine. It was my fault. If I hadn't thought about teasing you, none of what happened afterward would have occurred."
So she had noticed me coming a long time ago?
Actually, Xu Qi was pretty speechless too.
He was a New Type, after all!
His Mental Power perception was absurdly strong.
And yet... among all the people in the Golden Courtyard, Xu Qi couldn't sense a single one of them.
Were the people from the Golden Courtyard all monsters?
Right now, the only person he could mark with his Mental Power was Mei, who was an ordinary human.
And Griseo...
Tsk...
What did marking a child count for?
The two of them stood up and awkwardly left the kitchen together, then sat down on the sofa in the living room.
"Don't you want to talk about it? I never expected you to actually win over both of them."
"Don't use the word 'win over'..." Xu Qi said with a bitter smile. "I love Mei, but I realized... I seem to be unable to reject Elysia either.
"Sister Yae, sometimes I really feel like scum. Isn't this just falling for everyone I meet?"
"A lover of all, are you?"
"Don't make fun of me, Sister Yae."
Seeing the expression on Xu Qi's face—the happy agony—Yae couldn't help feeling a wave of pleasure inside. She didn't even know why. She simply liked watching Xu Qi get himself into trouble.
And then... come to rely on her.
"Sometimes, don't overthink things. Just do what you most want to do, Xu Qi."
What he most wanted to do?
Xu Qi subconsciously glanced at Yae, and Yae subconsciously looked back at him.
It was as though they had a tacit