"So that was it. No wonder there had always been something about you that felt strange to me." Xu Fu sat on the beach as the sun dipped toward the horizon.
"So, your name is Xu Fu?" The woman looked at Xu Fu curiously, blinking her lovely brown eyes.
"...Mm, my name is Xu Fu." Xu Fu hesitated slightly, but still nodded. Then a new question arose, and he asked with a frown, "But how did you get here? Didn't you say you were mysteriously knocked unconscious in a rainforest in the southwest? As far as I know, the southwestern rainforest is very, very far from here."
"Let me think." The incarnated elf, whose simple consciousness had only just come into being, scratched her face as if pondering. "I think there was someone who took all my magic power away, and then, then..."
"Ah, then I passed out!" The incarnated elf wore an extremely clever expression.
"...You already said that part, nameless elf." Xu Fu's expression was beyond speechless.
"Mmnh, then, then... After losing my magic power, I could only lie helplessly in the forest. I lay there for a long, long time and couldn't get up, and then it started raining! Such heavy rain!" The elf shook her head as she spoke. "The rain washed me into a river, and I drifted and drifted along it. Then I drifted into the sea, floated on the ocean for a very, very long time, and then I ended up here."
"...Ridiculous." Xu Fu gaped wordlessly for a long while before managing to say those two words.
The incarnated elf had not possessed self-awareness for very long and was still at an exceptionally innocent stage. Innocent elves did not lie—at least, not so smoothly and without the slightest ripple in their emotions—so...