In order to prevent the two of them from arguing over her again, Eileen simply closed her eyes and began to pretend to sleep.
Yet even so, Mia still couldn’t stay quiet.
“Atia… how long have you known Eileen?”
“If the person who fell into the water today hadn’t been me, would she still have gone to save them?”
“Does Eileen have a lover? Or someone who’s more than a friend but not yet a lover?”
…
Seeing that Eileen was pretending to sleep, Mia directly turned her guns on Atia, asking questions until Atia began to doubt her own existence.
To be honest, her understanding of Eileen was also extremely limited. After all, she hadn’t known Eileen for long, and there were many things she didn’t know.
For example, why Eileen knew such an important figure as Kate, or why Viscountess Cassandra also seemed very familiar with her, and so on…
Yet Atia chose not to press further.
Everyone had a few secrets of their own, and she believed that as long as her relationship with Eileen reached the right point one day, Eileen would take the initiative to tell her.
Mia didn’t manage to dig out much information about Eileen from Atia’s mouth, but the relationship between the two of them had grown considerably closer than before.
Did lolis attract each other too?
Eileen wasn’t sure, but if the two of them could get along peacefully, nothing could be better.
At least during this trip, she shouldn’t have to worry about falling into a love triangle…
By the time they arrived at Mordin City, the sky had already darkened completely.
“Lady Mia, we have arrived at Mordin City…”
The coachman reminded them from the front.
Mia detected a hint of concern in the coachman’s tone. “Since we’ve arrived, just enter the city directly. Don’t tell me you lost the pass His Grace the Duke gave you.”
“Lady Mia, I have always kept the pass close to my person and would never lose it. It’s just that I feel Mordin City looks a little strange…”
“Strange?”
Mia came to the window and looked at Mordin City not far away.
By now the sky had completely darkened, yet Mordin City didn’t show even half a point of light. The entire city seemed hidden within the darkness, like a lifeless dead city.
Seeing this scene, even Mia couldn’t help frowning.
It was one thing for there to be no lights inside the city at all. Why were there none on the city walls either?
There were many possible reasons for there being no lights inside a city.
For example, the city official had implemented a curfew and felt there was no need to light lamps at night, or there was a shortage of fuel and they could only use this method to conserve it, and so on…
But if there wasn’t even a single spark of fire visible on the city walls, that was far too unreasonable.
Humans weren’t dark elves or cat beastmen. Without illumination, how could they see the dangers hidden in the night?
If this kind of situation occurred in the Royal Capital, the entire Knight Order responsible for nighttime vigilance would all have to go to the gallows.
“Enter the city first and take a look at the situation.”
Mia ordered.
The situation in Mordin City was indeed a little eerie. Had a high-rank magical beast already conquered the entire city?
But why was there not the slightest trace of battle inside the city?
“Miss Eileen, i-it seems a little scary…”
Atia looked out the window at Mordin City, which resembled a dead city, and trembled.
Mordin City was about the same scale as Crisel and was similarly located on the border of the Principality, yet the appearance of the two cities was as different as heaven and earth.
Crisel’s population wasn’t particularly large, yet at night it was still brightly lit. The taverns near the Adventurer’s Guild stayed open all night without rest. How could it be as gloomy as Mordin City?
“It’s fine. Trust Mia. If anything unexpected happens she will definitely save us.”
Originally Eileen had only wanted to say that Mia specialized in teleportation magic, so even if they encountered any danger she could take them out of the dangerous situation at the first opportunity.
Yet when these words reached Mia’s ears, they carried an entirely different meaning.
Eileen… trusts me this much?
Even though she nearly drowned just from fetching water earlier, she is still willing to trust me unconditionally?
[Mia Lees has sensed your affirmation and trust. Favorability has risen to 80. Close Friend relationship has been automatically unlocked.]
Eileen: “?”
Hold on. This raises favorability too?
Since when did capturing female characters in this game become this easy?
First it was Atia, and now it was Mia again…
One had to know that in the first playthrough, the time she spent capturing a single female character generally took around one or two days. Not only did she have to complete all sorts of character quests, she also had to give gifts that matched the character’s preferences. When she ran into a hard bone to chew like Kate, it had taken an entire week to take her down.
Now look at this. She had casually said two sentences and favorability had shot up…
Once favorability reached eighty, Mia’s relationship with her was no longer something as simple as ordinary friends. They were close friends who could entrust their lives and entire fortunes to each other.
Any higher, and it would be lovers.
“Rest assured, Eileen. You saved me today, so today even if I have to throw away this life of mine I will not allow the two of you to suffer any harm.”
“With those words from you, I can rest easy.”
Eileen didn’t say much more. She simply expressed a simple thanks.
She was truly afraid that if she said two more words, Mia’s favorability would rise again.
Having Atia, whose favorability toward her was already at ninety, by her side was already enough of a headache. If she added a Mia with ninety favorability on top of that, one moment of carelessness and she might just die…
The coachman drove the Ignis toward the city gates, yet the closer they got, the more they could sense that something was wrong with Mordin City.
No matter how small Mordin City was, it was still a city. Trade from the surrounding villages and towns was almost all concentrated here.
Even if one couldn’t say the city was particularly prosperous, being this desolate was truly abnormal.
Fortunately, things did not develop in the direction they had imagined.
When they were still several hundred meters from the city gates, they finally saw a few sparks of firelight.
Looking carefully, there were quite a few fully armed soldiers at the city gates, and the one leading them was a noble dressed in luxurious clothing.
That was probably the city official of Mordin City.
The two carriages arrived one after the other before the city gates. The soldiers proactively made way, while that city official walked toward the luxurious carriage at the rear.
The coachman immediately dismounted and opened the carriage door.
“Respected Lady Mia, as well as the two adventurer ladies who have graced our city with your presence for this investigation, please allow me to make a simple self-introduction.”
The city official bowed in salute. “I am the city official of this city, Owen Lawson. You may simply call me Lawson.”
Owen Lawson looked to be a little over fifty. His back was straight as a blade ready to leave its sheath at any moment.
A faint smile hung on his face, yet the smile only circled around the corners of his lips and never reached his eyes.
When he spoke, his gaze swept across each person’s throat in turn, as if measuring something, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.
“City Official Lawson, could you tell me why not even a single lamp is lit inside Mordin City?”
Mia went straight to the point.
Even if the city was under a curfew, it wasn’t as if they wouldn’t leave even a single lamp.
“Lady Mia, there is something you do not know.”
Lawson explained, “The reason we do not dare light even a single lamp at night is actually to guard against that terrifying magical beast…”