Chapter 204.1


    <strong>Exnation and ns</strong>


    Natasha, who was getting a little worked up when Kuti cornered her, seemed to have regained herposure .


    Kuti’s expression of cold anger, which she rarely shows, was very encouraging .


    But if this expression was turned on me, I would be more sad than scared .


    “Quickly! Apologize to Lily!”


    “I, I am sorry...”


    “I didn’t hear you!”


    “I’m sorry! I will do anything so please forgive me!”


    “You heard her, Lily . What will it be?”


    N? What was that about...


    Anyhow, Natasha seemed to be apologizing to me as Kuti’s younger sister, not as the perfect Queen .


    I mean, she was teary-eyed and she looked very immature .


    She is apparently over two thousand years old . She has the same face as Kuti, so she looked super cute .


    “Err, it’s okay, Kuti . I have you, after all . You will protect me, right?”


    “Of course! Do you understand, Natasha!”


    “Uu... yes...”


    “Nownow, let’s wipe off the tears since you understand . I’m not scary~ it’s your Oneechan~ I’m very kind~”


    “Kuti is acting as a big sister...”


    Realizing that I was feeling okay, Kuti started taking care of Natasha .


    Kuti, who wasforting Natasha who somehow regressed to a little child, looked like a proper big sister .


    This is another sight that I have never seen before .


    This sight alone was so fascinating that it made me d to be in the Forest next to the world .


    Kuti Oneechan... how nice!


    “Natasha has a lot of piled up stress in her, too . With that serious nature of hers, she must find it difficult to let it out . Sorry about that, Lily . ”


    “No, it’s fine . I mean, she’s Kuti’s little sister . She’s like a little sister to me, too . ”


    “... I wonder about that?”


    Kuti soothed Natasha in a hurry .


    Feelingpletely like an outsider, Sani Sensei decided to watch over the two warmly from distance .


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    Some time passed and it was time for lunch, so Scarlet and Mira came over to deliver lunch or something .


    The dish they made was made with ingredients brought from Auriol, but thanks to Scarlet’s leadership, it was made with a deeper vor than the usual light vor .


    However, it was still thin in vor, due to the fact that there were fewer kinds of seasoningspared to the meals in our past lives .


    Well, I’ve been eating like this for six years now, so I don’t think I’d be able to eat it if I were to suddenly go back to the seasonings I had back then .


    Especially nowadays, my taste buds are very sensitive and I would be surprised if I was served deeper vors .


    Maybe that’s why Scarlet’s seasoning didn’t surprise my stomach, and I was able to ept it easily .


    It’s scary to get used to it . Lighter vors are the norm nowadays, so deeper vors feel fresh .


    But it was very good, and I’d like to ask Scarlet to promote this method of cooking when I return back .


    I can’t enter the kitchen just yet, after all .


    “Ahem, I’m sorry about the umm, showing you something so unsightly . ”


    “No, I don’t mind it, please don’t worry about it . ”


    “I am d to hear that . ”


    The time we spent at lunch allowed Natasha to get back to normal, so we resumed our discussion .


    I’m not sure if it’s good that I saw her embarrassed or not, but I feel like I got much closer to Natasha .


    It seems that it was the same for her, and the atmosphere was much softer than it was at first .


    After all, as Sani Sensei said, she was probably suffering from a lot of heartaches due to her duties as the queen .


    And so, if her biggest heartache is going to be resolved, her tension would surely rise in a rush .


    Well, I think you have to keep your cool in such situations, but no one can do it perfectly .


    Especially, since there were only the people she was close with in the room, except me of course .


    I guess she just couldn’t hold it back anymore .


    “I have ns after this, but I will exin it againter today . I think I would like you to personally observe the state of the darkness tomorrow . ”


    “State of the darkness?”


    “Yes . The invasion of the darkness is very slow . There is no danger of it attacking this side, so there’s no issue with safety . We will be using a vehicle that can travel at high speeds just in case, you can rest assured . ”


    State of the darkness...


    It’s true that I’ve only heard the stories and seen the 3D images, so I don’t think I have enough of a sense of urgency .


    In fact, it feelspletely like another person’s problem when they say the world is in the crisis of destruction .


    Besides, what I am asked to do is not to do something about the darkness, but to establish a way to safely cross the dimensions .


    Frankly, it’s impossible to repair a that is about to copse, as was shown in the 3D projection .


    That’s why I don’t see the point in seeing the state of the darkness directly with my own eyes—through my Contact Lenses, that is .