"Okay, okay!"
Nadi smiled brightly, clearly delighted by Frieren's reaction.
Just like that, Nadi skipped over to Frieren and led her into the district ahead.
Meanwhile, in the Mirror Dimension where neither of them could see, two figures stood side by side, silently watching the backs of the two girls.
"What do you think?"
The handsome youth on the left turned his head and looked at the person beside him with a smile.
"Should we go say hello?"
"Better not..."
The orange-haired beauty on the right considered it, then shook her head. "Frieren has been by my side for so many years. I've already taught her everything I could. From here on, she should grow on her own for a while!"
The youth—or rather, Lin Yu's True Body—clicked his tongue. "As expected, you really are cold-hearted!"
Flamme rolled her eyes at him and said softly, "She's an elf, a Long-lived Race with a long lifespan. If she can't even bear my death, how will she face all the partings and deaths to come?"
At that, Flamme paused and turned to look at the Immortal Race girl beside her.
"Isn't that girl clinging to Frieren for the same reason?"
Lin Yu looked at her somewhat surprisingly. "You figured that out?"
Flamme sighed. "Did I even need to figure it out?"
"This Immortal Race girl named Nadi is beautiful and quite lively by nature."
"Logically speaking, she shouldn't lack friends or admirers at the Magic Academy."
"Yet she acts so lonely, even carrying out her research project alone."
"That means she's either deliberately putting on this personality in front of Frieren, or she has distanced herself from her classmates for some reason..."
Flamme turned to Lin Yu and said, "My guess is that she experienced something, so she doesn't dare befriend short-lived