Eren withdrew his hand from Trisa's clothes, revealing the object he held.
"This is the reason I did this."
"This is...?" Trisa looked at the object in his hand, her frown deepening. Shock flickered across her face.
In Eren's hand, there was no storage ring. Instead, he held an insect that could only be found in the Upper Realm. It was an energy-devouring insect, a common sight in the Upper Realm, including in the city where they were staying.
It wasn't a lethal insect, as it could only devour a person's energy, not kill them. The only danger was that if left on the body for too long, it could consu almost all of their core energy, leaving them weakened for at least a few days.
"We are in the Central Region. As you said, it's a dangerous place where anything can go wrong. If I left the insect, it could have weakened you. It would have made things more dangerous for in the long term as well, since I can only rely on your protection until I reach the Territory of Arcadia."
On the surface, Eren was quite calm as if he was only stating sothing that was a matter of the fact. But deep down, he felt slightly relieved that he managed to think of sothing in such a short ti.
The storage ring couldn't be kept in another spatial realm. Even soone like Trisha couldn't achieve it. However, he was different.
He didn't have to rely on a spatial realm to keep items. He had an inventory that surpassed the rules of reality. It could even keep living objects, let alone other objects that used the laws of space.
The mont Trisa issued a warning to him, his mind had almost frozen in place. He subconsciously blurted out an excuse that he was trying to stop an insect.
It was that excuse which later gave him an idea, and he rembered that he actually had an insect to make this excuse more realistic. It was an insect that he had gathered just out of curiosity while traveling from the Ice Maiden Palace to this place.
He thought that he might be able to extract so of the poison of this insect to make an even stronger poison in the future to strengthen the effects. He didn't expect this insect to beco useful in another way.
He quickly switched the insect with the storage ring, and revealed his hand. His actions gave even more validity to his words, but there was still one problem.
"If that was the case, you could have just woken up. I would have handled it myself."
Eren had already thought of an excuse for this as well. He looked like he had been wronged, as he said, "I did it for you."
"I saw how exhausted you were, and how much you needed this sleep. I couldn't get myself to disturb your sleep, so I thought of handling this matter myself." He sighed pitifully, and took his hand back. "Still, if you think that I need a punishnt, I will accept it."
Trisa looked at him suspiciously, but even she couldn't find any flaws in his words. Was he really trying to be considerate and nothing else? Did she really misunderstand him?
She went silent, and didn't know what to say. Was she the only one misunderstanding his intentions? She couldn't deny the fact that her mind had indeed been in a ss, especially since she kissed him for the first ti.
She still couldn't forgive herself for feeling sothing from that kiss, and his reaction to that. Was it her who had ulterior motives towards him, and kept blaming him instead to maintain the distance?
The more she tried to think about it, the more hazy her mind beca.
"I will forgive you this once then." She should only close her eyes, feeling overwheld by these thoughts. "Go back to sleep as well. And next ti you see an insect, you better wake up."
She didn't bla him anymore, and tried to go back to sleep but this ti, it took her a longer ti to fall asleep.
Eren waited until the mont she had actually fallen asleep, and only then did he sigh in relief.
Inwardly, he thanked the insect for helping him this ti. He sent the insect back in the inventory, and finally brought out the storage ring that had made him go through such extensive trouble.
'You made do so many things. You better be worth all the trouble.' He looked at the storage ring in his hand, which was clearly one of the highest grade storage rings in the upper realm that one could buy from the rchant union.
These storage rings were also tied to their owners and no one except their owners could open these rings, even after their deaths. But Eren had already thought of this problem before trying to take the ring.
If it was about the protection, he could easily surpass that thing by just boring a small fragnt of her consciousness while she was sleeping. It was much easier than actually trying to invade her mind.
This ti, everything went extrely smoothly and he was easily able to open the storage ring of Ice Maiden Palace Master. The storage ring was filled with various treasures, and aura stones. It felt no less than a small portable treasury of the Ice Maiden Palace.
Even when faced with so many treasures, Eren didn't spare a second glance at them. He just wanted to find sothing that could be hiding so kind of secret.
His consciousness kept skimming through the items, especially the ones that were kept in the most secure parts of the storage ring, ant to be destroyed if soone tried to forcibly open the ring.
"Why are there a bunch of papers here?" Amidst the treasures, he soon discovered a bundle of papers that were grouped together, and kept right next to the Identity Plaque of the Ice Maiden Palace.
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