Ellie understood perfectly well that Hill could not possibly have failed to notice the assimilation array on that Wind Law elemental creature.
So he must have known what she had done.
She did not know what exactly she was insisting on, either.
But it was only after the Undead appeared that she learned Hill was truly one of the Long-Lived Species.
He was indeed much older than Ellie, but the Long-Lived Species measured age differently.
So Hill was actually still very young. He might not even have come of age yet.
The Undead had said many things, but what Ellie remembered most clearly was that this powerful Mage had never fallen in love with anyone.
They had joked that perhaps Hill was still underage, which was why he was so indifferent toward girls.
That gave the already despairing Ellie a faint glimmer of hope... What if, one day, the way Hill looked at women began to change?
Yet Ellie discovered something even more terrifying... To Hill, a hundred years was no more than the flick of a finger. To her, a hundred years meant nothing but a fading face.
Her talent as a Mage was not even as good as Lucimar's. She might have more resources than others, but she certainly could not have more than the Young Masters of the Ismail Family.
So even maintaining her appearance into middle age would probably be difficult.
By then, even if Hill finally learned to appreciate feminine beauty, what would it have to do with her?
Her father had never intended to marry her off anyway, so... Ellie felt that even if she changed forms and could no longer bear children, what did it matter?
As for things like being controlled by Venti, Ellie did not care in the slightest.
She had