Dust scattered before the window as someone burst into the room.
Seated in the shadows, Annan turned his eyes blankly.
"Getting rejected left you looking ready to die? You really are hopeless, Annan..."
"Lei... why are you here?" Annan's voice was unbearably hoarse.
"I heard someone asked Lady Idelia out, got rejected, and shut himself in his room, so I came to see if he was dead~" Leila leaned forward with her hands behind her back, smiling wickedly. "What's this? You don't look all that heartbroken."
Annan was watching everything in the room from a third-person perspective.
The scene reminded him of when he had first met Little Spider.
So the Demon Lord's curse was over?
Lei and Idelia seemed a little off... but this was still better than being stuck beside the empty Lava Lake.
Annan watched himself in the chair lower his eyes and murmur, "I'll never feel joy or sorrow again..."
"How hopeless. You made a hopeless invitation in the most hopeless way, and now that it's failed, you're moping hopelessly. You really are Mr. Hopeless~"
Annan looked up. "Are you done? Could you leave?"
A trace of hurt crossed Leila's delicate face. Instead, she sat on the bed, swinging her dangling legs. "You went about it all wrong. Of course you failed. Want me to help?"
"...How?"
"I'll help you get closer to Idelia. Teach you how to talk to girls and what girls like."
"Spare me..."
"Pull yourself together!" Lei hopped down and clapped Annan on the shoulder. "How do you know you'll fail a second time if you don't try?"
"I... I don't dare say anything."
"What am I going to do with you..."
Seeing Annan look like a wounded little animal, Leila crouched in front of him and tilted her head. "Then I'll