"My king, please stop slacking off!"
After offering an impeccably courteous salute, the silver-haired girl Liliana immediately delivered her earnest admonition.
The girl had fairy-like features, and her beautiful long silver hair hung loose in some disarray. The dark circles beneath her eyes stood out especially clearly against her pale face.
She looked like an overworked corporate drone exploited by a ruthless company, on the verge of burning out.
Although she tried hard to keep her frail body straight, she still swayed unsteadily, like a white lily trembling gently in the wind.
"I've been busy lately too. Lily, thank you for all your hard work..."
Looking at Liliana, who remained meticulous and struggled to maintain her proper posture despite her exhaustion, the "idle" Uchiha Naruto could not help feeling inexplicably guilty.
Just then, Liliana's face went white, and her body tilted as she nearly collapsed onto the floor.
Uchiha Naruto used the Body Flicker Technique to flash from his stone seat to Liliana's back, catching her slender waist.
From this angle, he could clearly see the Cursed Seal of Heaven's three-tomoe pattern on the back of Liliana's neck, as well as the pointed ears beneath her silver hair.
"Forgive me! I have let my king see me in such an undignified state."
Liliana's cheeks flushed slightly. She slipped out of Uchiha Naruto's embrace and bowed.
Uchiha Naruto's expression grew serious as he studied Liliana's face.
Her elf-like appearance was more than a figure of speech. Liliana had actually grown a pair of slightly elongated, pointed ears like an elf's!
Making Lily enter her cursed-seal transformation just to work overtime-am I being too ruthless a boss?
Like Hagoromo Shiranui's fox ears and tail, Liliana's long ears were an aftereffect of her cursed-seal transformation.
The three years of Severing the Connection Between