Anise's cold words carried clearly to everyone nearby through the Elf Race's special magic, leaving them all stunned.
Looking from a distance at Anise's still-beautiful face, now calm and utterly expressionless, everyone immediately felt that she must have meant what she said.
At the thought that Anise might disappear for good, and that the Elf Race, which had finally appeared before humans again, might vanish with her, everyone grew deeply uneasy.
"No! Miss Anise, we never meant to offend you. Please don't misunderstand!"
"That's right! We really just wanted to see you. We weren't treating you like a monster. Honestly!"
"Exactly! How could anyone see an elven girl as beautiful as an angel as a monster? They'd have to be blind!"
"Yes, yes! Miss Anise, please don't leave. I finally got to see a legendary elf in my lifetime. How can you just leave like this?"
"Miss Anise, please stay. Whatever you ask of us, we'll agree. All right?"
"Yes! We'll listen to you. Whatever you tell us to do, we'll do it!"
Anise was a little surprised to see everyone pleading so desperately. She wanted to turn back and ask Xu Yi's opinion, but then remembered what he had just told her. Steadying herself, she continued expressionlessly, "I left my tribe to live in the human world because our Elder hopes that we elves can coexist peacefully with you humans. I am an experiment she arranged. That is why I hope you humans will treat me as normally as possible. I simply want to see whether humans can get along normally with us elves. If things continue like this, the experiment will have failed."
"All right! We support you, Miss Anise. From now on, we'll treat you like an ordinary human!"
"Yes. You're just a slightly unusual human