"It's almost time for dinner, won't you go get ready?"

"...What did you do with that woman all night?"

Ignoring Yong Ye's reminder, Ais just repeated the previous question.

"Just go... um, I didn't do anything anyway, you don't need to care, let's go eat quickly."

It was difficult to explain what he was doing, so Yong Ye simply did not explain, patted Ais on the head and walked to the castle first.

"--and many more!"

"?"

Before taking two steps, the girl behind him suddenly stopped him, causing Yong Ye to turn his head in confusion, only to see the girl biting her lip but not speaking, as if she was worried about something.

"What's wrong?"

"You and I…"

She desperately wanted to say something, to express her unhappiness in her heart, but under the golden light of the sunset, the girl whose hair became more dazzling couldn't weave a complete sentence.

After that... As if it had been settled long ago, a bell that could rang through the entire street came from the heights of the castle, interrupting the girl's hesitant words that made Yong Ye feel a little uncomfortable.

This bell is a signal that dinner time is up, because Loki likes people from his family to eat together, so he specially made such a bell.

And just now, even Yong Ye can see that although Ais's expression lacks changes as usual, like the doll princesses said by the outside world, they are no different from dolls, but today is much more gloomy. The child must be in a bad mood, he is very clear about this, but he is not clear about the reason.

So, Yong Ye folded his arms around his chest, and the expression on his wounded face gradually became serious.

"Although I don't know what you're worrying about, since you don't know how to say it now, just keep thinking about it. When you organize your language and are willing to talk to me, let me know, and I will definitely help you out when the time comes. I've figured out how to do it, so... let's go eat now."

"…Ok."

Because the fundamental reason for her to be like this was actually caused by Yongye, so being said by Yongye made Ais's mood extremely complicated, but under the persuasion of such a statement, she could only nod reluctantly. , After that, although the gloomy face did not return to cheerfulness, it became more or less better.

On the other side, after waiting too long, Loki finally ran down from above when he discovered the culprit of Yongye.

"--you!"

"…me?"

Being pointed at by Loki aggressively, Yong Ye also pointed at himself subconsciously, looking confused.

"Yes, it's you! You..."

"...Ais, your main **** will be handed over to you, I'll go back to the room first."

Loki's vexatious and inexplicable things are no longer a matter of once or twice, so Yong Ye did not hesitate to regard Loki's behavior as another vexatious vexatiousness. Steps enter the castle from the side.

And Loki, who was pulled by Ais's wrist, was still behind, and he was so angry that he could not stop talking, "Ais' carbon is my thing! Even if you are a godless bastard, I will not admit defeat. of!"

Ais, who grabbed Loki with one hand and made it impossible for Loki to make trouble, just stood there and looked at the back of Yongye's fading away with a thousand thoughts. There was no expression on her delicate face, which made it impossible for people to do so. See what she was thinking.

Chapter 18 The Dragon Girl in the Dungeon

late at night.

Yong Ye's usual technical interdiction practice with two girls is the last time.

The countless slashes that flew in a crisscross pattern forced Ais and Tiona to have no way to escape, but the two of them couldn't bounce back with a single attack, and they were beaten by the wooden sword in one hand.

Although he still holds the sword in one hand, in fact, in the evening, after more than a month of hard work, the last divine power has been expelled. With sufficient energy, the left hand quickly repaired after meditation. It's just that Yong Ye is still used to fighting with one hand, which is a humility to Ais and Tiona.

"The other hand... okay?"

Ais resisted Yong Ye's attack, barely took some time to spare, and looked at Yong Ye's left hand, which was still bandaged, but not hung around her neck, and whose coordinated movements were obviously different from before. She suspected that Yong Ye's hand might have been yes.

"Well, it's alright."

"Then... use your hands, let me feel the real power of you."

"Hey?! Ais, are you kidding me?! One-handed swordsmanship is so powerful, isn't that pure abuse with two hands?!"

Ais' words made Tiona scream in surprise.

The evening practice of the three was purely a technical contest, but Ais and Tiona were technically inferior to Yongye, and they were unilaterally crushed even with one hand.

This power makes the two of them sigh about how Yong Ye has cultivated their skills, and at the same time, it also makes Tiona's courtship more enthusiastic, but... courtship is courtship, this does not mean that Tiona wants to miss the chance. Was beaten for no reason.

However, unlike Tiona, Ais yearned for strength, and her desire to become stronger even surpassed that of the fighting race Amazon, as well as the vast majority of people.

It was also because of Ais' insistence that Tiona could only find an excuse to go shopping with her sister and take the opportunity to leave. In the end, only Yong Ye and Ais were left at the scene.

"…bring it on!"

Facing Yong Ye, who was holding a sword in both hands in a normal stance, Ais, who felt that the pressure had risen more than a bit, tried to cheer herself up, but when Yong Ye did not move, she also did not move... To be precise, no Dare to move easily.

Her hands were sweating unconsciously. She had never felt this way before. It turned out that the presence of the sword could not increase her sense of security. Even if she held it tightly, it still made her feel unreliable and she couldn't find it at all. A sense of security.

"Then I'm on..."

As the sound progressed, the wooden sword in Ais's hand was picked up without two strokes, and then the wooden sword in Yongye's hand was swung out at an angle and timing that Ais couldn't avoid, and an unimaginable sword struck at on her chest armor.

Not long after the sound of the wooden stick attacking the metal, the petite girl also flew out, and soon fell to the ground, making a muffled sound when she fell on the floor tile.

"Although you are different from other adventurers, you have not paid too much attention to relying on God's grace to sharpen your skills and tactics, but even so, your skills and tactics have not really experienced tempering, so... it's still not enough."

"Real... tempering...?"

On the floor tiles, the girl who got up with difficulty, after lamenting Yong Ye's sword skills far exceeding that of the head of the team, Finn, couldn't help but be curious about the real tempering of Yong Ye's words.

"This... I don't know if I should tell you or not."

Looking down at the girl who was half-kneeling on the ground, holding her chest and looking up at her, Yong Ye seemed a little embarrassed.

"Please tell me! What I'm missing!—True tempering!"

"Okay okay... calm down."

Facing the child who wanted to become stronger all day long, Yong Ye finally decided to tell her.

"You can tell by the look in your eyes, you must have never killed anyone, right?"

"…kill?"

Yong Ye's sudden words made Ai's face a little worse. Isn't it necessary to kill people to become stronger? She wanted to ask, but was terrified of the answer.