"Ellie." Countess Ster gently shook her head... Forget it. It was normal for a young girl to be trapped in her first unrequited love and unable to pull herself out.
As long as Ellie still had her senses and would not offer up her reputation and her family's interests to be trampled on... Her heart might not be retrievable, but she had to hold on to her mind.
"Linde, respect a girl's privacy." Helena then instructed her younger son. "Don't you also dislike people prying into your thoughts?"
"Heh~" Ellie chuckled softly. "If you exposed it yourself, why would you expect others to keep being nice?"
"Ellie!" Helena's tone was much harsher this time.
Ellie pursed her lips, gave her younger brother a casual glance, then turned back toward the battlefield.
Linde felt that something was wrong.
His sister truly was proud deep down, and she looked down somewhat on people inferior to herself... But normally, she always came across as very approachable.
Especially in front of their parents, she would never speak harshly to Linde. Most of the time, she only retaliated.
This Ellie, who refused to yield an inch and even took the initiative to provoke conflict, felt so unfamiliar to him.
Especially that look in her eyes... Why did it feel like she was looking at some other kind of creature?
Yet it was not evil.
If there had been malicious intent, Linde would certainly have sensed it long ago. He would not have only discovered today that, compared with Dieter, Ellie cared more about the Grand Sage atop that Mage Tower.
Of course, they knew that as long as the Undead could hold out, Dieter would probably be fine.
But he was family!
Even if Ellie had been the one standing there, Linde did not think