South Wantina Heart Meridian Plaza. An afternoon breeze swept through, and the gentle burble of the canal's flowing water sounded soft and pleasant.
"Oh no! It's a miracle!"
Lanchi walked along the river with his hands clasped over his head, his voice rising half an octave.
"You..."
Talia's blood pressure shot up at once, and she clenched her fists.
Although she couldn't understand what Lanchi's sudden mysterious language meant, she could figure out what he was thinking from his tone!
That summer, Lanchi gradually began to feel a familiar chill.
"I'm sorry. You really are Tata."
Lanchi immediately admitted defeat and gave Talia a rather respectful bow.
Talia kept her face cold and didn't want to talk to Lanchi.
This guy was still hopeless. I never should have been nice to him.
"..."
Hughberlian looked left and right at the two of them, who had stopped talking again, and felt that something was strange.
It was perfectly normal for Lanchi and Tata to bicker like this. In the past, whenever Hughberlian heard them interact at Tata's home, she couldn't help laughing.
But now, for some reason, Lanchi and Tata seemed to have a slightly more ambiguous air between them, even though Lanchi could still be in mortal danger at any moment. After all, flirting with a demon race was something that required wagering one's life.
And with herself caught between the two of them, the whole thing felt even stranger...
"Lanchi, you're too close to the river. You can come a little closer to me."
Hughberlian watched Lanchi's footsteps and reminded him.
"It's fine. Although the stone railing around South Wantina's moat has seen better days, it's still sturdy. There's no way I could fall in."
Lanchi spoke confidently as he reached out and patted the sharply outlined stone pillar