He rembered their sorrowful looks.
He rembered their pensive expressions.
"...We must stop this."
Genom had this thought the mont he realized what was happening.
Because of this, Genom spent all of yesterday indirectly probing, attempting to learn about rica’s beloved from various aspects.
Under Genom’s questioning, rica had personally admitted that her relationship with that male from an Alien Race was nothing more than that of ordinary adventuring partners.
Thus, Genom decided that while things seed like they could still be salvaged, he would observe Shane and rica quietly to see how far their relationship had developed.
Today, Genom saw Shane and rica staring intently at each other.
He didn’t know what Shane and rica had been talking about that led to such an intense exchange of gazes, or why there was such a strange atmosphere between the two.
But sothing inside Genom was telling him that he couldn’t let things continue this way.
So, Genom couldn’t help but step forward.
"What was that about just now?"
Genom confronted rica.
"This..."
As rica recalled the recent events, her head felt like it was boiling over, turning completely red and even steaming.
Clearly, rica was so embarrassed that she was about to faint.
She didn’t even dare to look in Shane’s direction anymore, and she felt an urge to run away.
However, because of rica’s reaction, Genom beca even angrier.
"Seriously, just because you went out for a year or two, you’ve beco so strange. If I’d known this would happen, I would never have let you go," Genom scolded, grabbing rica in an undeniable tone: "Co on, we’re going back."
With that, Genom attempted to take rica away.
"Wait... wait a minute! Genom!" rica snapped back to reality and quickly said, "I still have to entertain Mr. Xi’en and the others!"
"Entertain?" Genom imdiately said, "That sort of thing can be done by the Elf Corps, there’s no need for you to do it."
"How can you say that?" rica exclaid, "I invited them, they are all my friends, it’s only right that I should be the one to entertain everyone."
"I’m telling you there’s no need!" Genom certainly understood the principle but insisted forcefully, "In any case, you just need to co back with !"
After Genom finished speaking, he started pulling on rica’s hand forcefully, tugging her towards himself.
"Ah!"
rica let out a small cry of alarm as her body leaned towards Genom and she was involuntarily pulled over.
Just as rica was about to be pulled to Genom’s side, suddenly, a hand reached out.
"Snap!"
The sound was crisp as soone grabbed hold of rica’s other hand.
"Huh?"
Genom was stunned there.
"Sh... Mr. Xi’en?"
rica let out another cry of surprise.
Luoqi, Lasha, Lilith, and Milu all turned their gaze to the side.
There, Shane had extended his hand, holding onto rica, with a half-smiling expression on his face.
"Miss Genom, right?" Shane greeted nonchalantly, "Nice to et you."
His leisurely greeting nearly left rica without a response and caused Genom’s beautiful face to darken, her complexion turning sowhat ugly.
"I’m not fine!" Genom glared at Shane and said in a low voice, "Let go of her!"
Genom, glancing at Shane holding onto rica’s hand, felt an inexplicable sense of sothing being taken from her, fueling her anger.
However, Shane was undisturbed.
"I believe that’s my line, right?" Shane squinted his eyes, his half-smile still present on his face, saying, "You co out of nowhere and cause a scene, then without a word, try to take our person away. That’s not acceptable, is it?"
Faced with Shane’s words, Genom didn’t think twice before retorting.
"Who’s your person!?" Genom stared at Shane as if looking at a culprit and raised her voice, "rica isn’t your person!"
The tone in which Genom spoke was filled with obsession.
Her manner seed truly as if she was fervently protecting sothing important.
"Is that so?" Shane raised an eyebrow and said, "If she’s not our person, is she perhaps yours?"
"Of course!" Genom stood tall and said with absolute certainty, "We’ve been childhood friends for well over a hundred years, never once being apart!"
The implication was that under this bond and affection, they were inseparable.
Thus, naturally, rica belonged to her.
Shane had sothing to say about this.
"So, you’re just childhood friends, right?" Shane looked at Genom and shrugged, "Since you’re just rica’s childhood friend, not her mom, I honestly can’t agree with you taking her away without a word."
"You...!" Genom was imdiately infuriated.
It was then that rica finally realized what was happening.
"Why are you guys fighting?" rica hurriedly intervened, "Calm down! Mr. Xi’en! Genom!"
Neither Shane nor Genom paid any attention to rica’s words.
At this point, the two of them were glaring at each other, their gazes fiercely rubbing together, sparks seeming to fly from their colliding eyes, vividly expressing their irreconcilable differences.
Undoubtedly, Shane and Genom’s relationship had plumted to negative figures at their very first eting.
Genom viewed Shane as a bad guy endangering rica, an enemy to be wary of.
Shane, for his part, was exceptionally annoyed at the elf girl for rudely interrupting his conversation with rica, and for planning to take her away regardless of everyone else’s presence.
This set the two of them at odds with each other, in a way that seed impossible to reconcile.
"Let go!"
Genom warned.
"No!"
Shane was naturally not about to show weakness.
"Are you going to let go?"
Magic Power was already emanating from Genom.
"Not going to."
Shane just cracked a smile, his grin relaxed and unruffled.
"..."
Genom fell silent.
"..."
Shane also fell quiet.
But, as if by so agreent, they both started pulling on rica’s hands forcefully.
"Ah!"
rica let out another cry of alarm.
Shane and Genom simultaneously yanked on rica’s hands, each trying to pull her to his own side.
"Wait... wait! Mr. Xi’en! Genom!"
rica, caught between them, hung suspended in mid-air, like a doll being tugged back and forth.
The pain was absent, at most just a little bit.
Shane and Genom had enough sense not to exert force enough to cause rica pain.
Nevertheless, within the allowable range of force, neither was willing to compromise, silently pulling rica towards themselves.
This left rica sowhat disheveled and at a loss, utterly unaware of what to do.
On the side, Luoqi and the others watched the scene, all at a loss for words.
"?"
"Are they playing?"
Lilith and Milu both cocked their heads, looking utterly perplexed.
"This guy, always has to compete with little girls."
Luoqi sighed.
"That’s Mr. Xi’en for you."
Lasha comnted indifferently.
Everyone could only stand by and watch, unsure whether to intervene, which made the scene sowhat awkward.
Looking at Genom, as he was pulling on rica, he suddenly realized sothing.
(rica doesn’t resist touch from an Alien Race male...?)
Genom stared intently at the hand Shane was holding rica’s with, observing her puzzled yet completely unresisting deanor, and finally a sense of crisis bubbled up inside him.
Considering the elves’ sanctity and their emphasis on purity, they would feel uncomfortable even if a mber of the opposite sex ca near, let alone touched them.
But not only was rica not resisting, but she also seed to be used to it.
What did this imply?
Before he could figure it out, Genom was enraged.
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