“I’m going to the Elves to find Laura and get some more Life Spring Water… Didn’t you say that stuff is very useful?” Elia spread her hands helplessly.
“Besides, the doctor said you need one month to fully recover… but with Life Spring Water, it could be shortened to one week.”
Kiz opened her mouth and said, “But… that thing is a sacred relic of the Elves. It’s not something we can just take whenever we want…”
“I’ll figure something out about that. For now, you just need to tell me whether you need it or not. You don’t have to worry about anything else.”
“Um… I need it,” Kiz finally whispered.
“Good, then I’ll head out tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? So soon?” Hearing this, Kiz suddenly stood up.
“Huh? Is it fast? I thought it was pretty slow,” Elia said, tilting her head.
Kiz bit her lip, even drawing blood.
Truthfully, she… didn’t want Elia to leave her.
Even if Elia might only be gone for a few days, or maybe not even that long.
What’s more, Elia was going to get Life Spring Water for her… but she just didn’t want Elia to go.
This thought was indeed too selfish, and she knew it.
But she just couldn’t control her emotions… so she said, “I’ll go with you.”
Elia looked at her with some surprise and said, “Your body hasn’t recovered yet.”
“I’m fine now. The doctor said I can move around normally.”
“But…”
“No buts! I’m going with you!” Kiz interrupted Elia’s words with a rare tone of determination.
“Besides, I’m not comfortable with you going to the Other Races alone! Have you forgotten that people are watching you everywhere outside?”
‘Ugh… even though that was the case, Elia had almost traveled across the entire Dream Spirit Continent when Kiz was poisoned. A few guys who were looking for death had also been dealt with by her… mainly because she had the [Fury] buff at the time.’
And she hadn’t told Kiz about this.
Still, Elia said with a smile, “Fine, then we’ll go together.”
Hearing this, Kiz finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down in her chair.
Only then did she realize her palms were sweaty from nervousness.
Then Elia looked at her with gentle eyes and said, “Kiz, did you just not want me to go? You didn’t want me to leave you? Hmm?”
“N-No! Absolutely! Absolutely not!” Kiz shook her head vigorously.
“Really?”
“…Really!”
“Is it really real?”
“It’s really real!”
At this, Elia stopped talking and just stared at her.
Kiz felt uncomfortable under her gaze, quickly turned her head away, and asked, “W-What are you looking at…”
“Looking at you lying is really adorable!” Elia said with a laugh.
“I’m not lying!” Kiz shouted with a red face.
“Then why don’t you dare look at me?”
“I…” The Little Princess lowered her head and fiddled with the hem of her skirt.
Then Elia called out, “Kiz.”
However, Kiz still kept her head down and wouldn’t look at her.
“Look at me.” Elia reached out and gently lifted her chin.
Kiz could only meet her gaze now.
How should she put it… the Saint’s eyes looked exceptionally soft under the candlelight, like a deep blue lake, yet calm and waveless.
“If you don’t want me to go, just tell me directly. You don’t need to lie in front of me,” Elia said softly.
Then, Kiz’s nose felt a bit sore, and she whispered, “I don’t want you to go…”
At this point, her voice even carried a hint of a wronged sob.
“Alright, then we’ll just stay in the Vampire Castle,” Elia nodded.
“But… the Life Spring Water…”
“Let Laura send someone to deliver it. Didn’t she say back then that I could ask her for anything? This is the time for her to be of use.”
“So I’m not leaving now. Satisfied?”
Kiz didn’t speak, but the corners of her mouth quietly curled up.
Looking at her expression, Elia really couldn’t help herself.
So she reached out and pinched her cheek, saying, “Clearly you can’t bear for me to leave, yet you’re still being so stubborn.”
“I’m not!”
“You are.”
“I’m not!”
“You are~”
Then Kiz entered her staring-down mode again.
‘If looks could kill, Elia would probably have died ten thousand times… though a certain someone would never allow such a thing to happen.’
Elia was quite happy to be glared at by the Little Princess; truly, she found she liked seeing Kiz angry more and more.
That expression of being deathly angry yet unable to do anything about her… she could never get tired of looking at it.
“I say, Elia, do you really like seeing me angry?” Right then, Kiz suddenly asked this question.
‘Wait, girl, do you have mind-reading powers? Huh? How do you know everything!’
“Why do you ask?” Elia countered.
“Because every time I’m angry, you’re very happy, and the number of times you deliberately provoke me is increasing.”
After a few seconds of silence, Elia’s laughter followed.
“Hehehe, you caught me… fine, I admit, I really do like seeing you angry.” Elia raised her hands in a mock gesture of surrender.
Kiz glared at her and said, “Pervert.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
“I wasn’t complimenting you!”
“Oh.”
Kiz took a deep breath, deciding not to argue with this pervert anymore.
Even so, a few minutes later, the Little Princess still gently grabbed the hand of the Little Saintess beside her.
The moonlight shining in from the window fell onto their intertwined hands.
Those two pairs of hands, both with black nail polish, were tightly held together.
The next day, Elia, who had just woken up, sat up and rubbed her eyes. Then she saw Kiz standing by the window, doing who knows what.
Elia walked over and asked, “So early? What are you thinking about?”
“It’s nothing, I just simply can’t sleep,” Kiz said.
“Can’t sleep? Then I’ll hold you while you sleep!”
“Huh? Is there any connection between those two things?”
However, Elia pulled Kiz into her arms once again. This time she directly princess-carried Kiz and threw her onto the bed.
Then she climbed onto the bed herself and said, “There’s nothing to do today anyway. Stay in bed with me.”
After saying that, Elia hugged Kiz, who was still in the same position she had been thrown in.
“I… forget it, hug me however you want… just don’t bite me.” The Little Princess gave up; after all, her struggling was useless.
Besides, this Elia’s embrace was truly comfortable.
Within the Saint’s warm embrace, Kiz actually felt drowsy.
In the end, she crossed into the Land of Dreams.
An anonymous secret letter was brought into the Vampire Castle by a crow.
There was only one line of text on the letter, which read: “The Holy Grail has been activated; the Saint should return.”
The crow stayed on the windowsill for a few seconds, then flapped its wings and flew away.