Hearing Fu Hua say she was being nosy, Fei Lun stopped talking as well. She merely looked around curiously, seeming to sense something watching her. Fei Lun glanced toward a spot not far behind them.
There was no one there...
But Fei Lun knew that Kumoko, now invisible, was right there. Kumoko's invisibility skill was quite advanced; ordinary detection magic really had a hard time discovering her.
At that moment, Kumoko watched Fu Hua standing together with Fei Lun, being received by others... and felt so angry! The girl standing beside Fu Hua should have been her.
Whether in her past life or in this world, she was Fu Hua's girlfriend!
But there was nothing she could do. She was now a spider monster, and if she suddenly appeared... she would definitely frighten quite a few people. Even though many people here were followers of the Goddess Church, whose doctrine regarded spiders as divine beasts at the goddess's side.
But... just like people who claimed to love dragons without ever having seen one, they might call spider monsters divine beasts, but when a terrifying spider monster truly appeared, most people would still be afraid, wouldn't they?
Unless they were devout followers of the Goddess Church!
So she would wait until later, when there were fewer outsiders around, before going to Fu Hua's side.
Madam Seras carried her child and led Fu Hua and Fei Lun into the manor. Though it was only a town mayor's residence, perhaps because this was a fantasy world with magic, it was so luxurious that it was hard to describe.
It was just a town mayor's home, yet anyone unaware of that might have thought it was the palace of some small kingdom!
In proper history, a town mayor's residence would probably only have