"You know, that's not exactly the truth." Loriel corrected Hilde this ti.
"Hah!" Hilde smirked lightly at him and rolled her eyes.
Loriel disliked Hilde's personality so much as it reminded him of his older sisters. The ones who pretended to like Loriel because of his position as king after he took over power but still secretly plotted against his back.
Hilde knew how to tiptoe in between being rude and yet still on the side of polite conversation.
… and yet Loriel couldn't afford to be rude to her and shooing her away.
This woman knew Loriel's secret. Loriel needed to make sure that Hilde didn't say anything else that would let Elise know about the past, but that ant tolerating Hilde's presence and her touchy-feely treatnt towards him.
.
"Um, what are the two of you talking about?" Elise asked at last.
At first, it was only Hilde who was making her feel left out by completely ignoring her… but this ti, even Loriel was reminiscing about sothing that Elise did not have any context with.
Loriel and Hilde were in a competition? What did they do together? When was this?
Loriel didn't know how to explain it without saying too much, but Hilde spoke over him and gave Elise a smile. "Loriel and I go way back, like I told you. We joined a small competition in the past for a nice reward. It was really fun. To be honest, it was my fondest mory, ever."
This ti, it seed like Hilde was actually happily reminiscing over a mory instead of being rude and an to Elise.
"I see… that sounds really interesting. What kind of competition was it?" Elise asked. She couldn't imagine Loriel competing with Hilde in the first place and it seed like a very weird scenario in the back of her head.
"You can consider it as so sort of race or survival ga," Loriel said at last. "A unique kind of. Soday I will tell you all about it. It's been a really long ti. I barely rember what happened."
Gosh. Loriel was such a good liar. Even though he had promised himself to lie a little less to Elise, this ti, he couldn't help it.
How could he forget the race, where he t Hilde for the first ti. It was the once-in-a-lifeti event, where the gods held their race and all creatures who wished to be immortals could join and compete in a life-and-death ga.
The reward for a few that survived was the immortality potion and a seat among the gods. Hilde was the most ambitious woman Loriel had ever t and their desire and determination to beco immortals were comparable.
If Loriel wanted to be immortal so he could et Elise again, Hilde just wanted youthful beauty and power. And she got everything she ever wanted.
Well, everything but Loriel, who imdiately fled and avoided her like the plague after Hilde confessed her love for him.
Anyway…
"I can't believe you forget about those gas. It was the turning point of my life," Hilde chided Loriel.. The man only rolled his eyes and scoffed. "So, what? I only like to rember good things. Those are not one of them."
Elise looked at Loriel and then Hilde and inwardly admitted that the both of them looked good and in shape. It seed like the two of them were people who used to work out in the past.
Survival gas? Were they so kind of triathlon challenge of so sort?
Elise wanted to ask about it so more and yet there was sothing about their words that were completely vague. Why did it feel like there was sothing not being ntioned to her and was left out of the picture?
Maybe Elise just didn't have the sa amount of information as them so it seed strange to hear them talk about it without having any single clue.
Not only did Hilde teach Loriel how to cook but they also participated in a ga. If Hilde really taught Loriel how to cook Italian food, when did it happen?
Did the cooking lessons or competition happen first?
Probably the competition, first, right?
"Hearing that the two of you participated in this competition… it must have been exhilarating to do. Was that how the two of you t each other?" Elise asked.
"Yes. The competition was where I t Hilde for the first ti." Loriel nodded. "After that ti, we parted ways. There wasn't anything that connected us beyond that event."
Hilde turned to Loriel and pouted. "You simply cut off, but the two of us are good "friends" as you said. I think you owe an apology."
"I do not particularly owe you anything," Loriel replied curtly.
Elise frowned at the two's current exchange because the ti when Hilde taught Loriel how to cook wasn't ntioned. "But the two of you still t up to teach Loriel how to cook, right?"
"Oh, right that." Hilde looked at Loriel with a more flirtatious smile. She grabbed the man's sleeve without any hesitation and practically leaned towards him. "You were such a good student, weren't you? Paying attention to every single word I said."
Even though the trouble started dying down in Elise's perception except for the questions in the back of her mind… this was the last straw for Elise. She frowned hard at Hilde and gave her a look.
"I am not sure if you're intentionally doing this, but don't you think that it's inappropriate to keep touching my husband?" Elise asked. "I can see that Loriel is happy with it and you're just taking advantage of his kindness."
"Elise." Hilde smiled. "You're not hearing any complaints from Loriel, right? This is just how we treat each other as friends so you don't need to be so insecure. Unless you don't trust your husband at all."
Elise stared at Hilde and sohow those words were the most offensive thing she had ever heard. "You take that back, Hilde."
Hilde blinked and then snorted. "Why are you so offended? Do you not have any friends of the opposite sex? Are you not used to the banter between them?"
"Hilde that is enough," Loriel said at last. "Apologize! You've said too much."
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