Volume 4, Chapter 8 – Let’s Stay Here For Now

“Xiaoyin… actually… the teleportation array to Inferno actually stopped working a few months ago…”

The Elf girl in front of her spoke in an unusually regretful tone, telling Tianyin something that was very hard for her to accept.

“Wait… what are you saying? The teleportation array has stopped working?”

“I don’t want to lie to you, Xiaoyin… so about the teleportation array failing, that really is the truth…”

“How… How could this happen?”

Tianyin had never even considered the possibility of such an unexpected accident as the teleportation array failing.

But speaking of which…

The last time she had planned to head from the Northern Fortress to the Kingdom’s interior, Storm City, she had been intending to use the teleportation array in the Northern Fortress. In the end, because of an accident, she had not managed to catch the teleportation.

And now… she was trying to use a teleportation array to go to Inferno, and again, because of some reason, the teleportation array could not operate…

Wait…

Could she be the kind of person who somehow just never manages to catch a teleportation array?!

Instead of thinking about why the teleportation array had failed, Tianyin subconsciously linked it to the things she had experienced before. Then, very naturally, she pushed all the reasons onto herself.

Of course, that kind of thinking was not the right way to look at it.

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「Xiaoyin… I don’t really understand why the teleportation array has stopped functioning, but it should still be possible to repair it, right? Ask Seles and see whether the teleportation array can be repaired or something…」

『Right… right, if it has stopped working then there has to be a way to restore it!』

Just when Tianyin was starting to doubt everything, in her mind, Samael very timely offered her own opinion.

Of course, that viewpoint also reminded Tianyin that there was still a possible solution to the problem of the teleportation array.

“Um…”

Holding on to the thought that the teleportation array might still be fixable, Tianyin raised a question to Seles in front of her.

“Since the teleportation array can break, then can it be repaired? Sister Seles, even if it is damaged, there has to be a way to repair it, right?”

“Mm… as a member of the Ruling Council, I do know a little about the situation with the teleportation array, and today I went out exactly to confirm that situation…”

Seles paused for a second at Tianyin’s question, then answered smoothly.

“However, since we still don’t know for now exactly why the teleportation array lost its ability to operate, at the current stage, repairing the teleportation array and such is a bit difficult…”

“Eh? Really? That means it will not be repaired in a short time, right?”

If the teleportation array could not be repaired right away, that meant her trip to Inferno would be postponed indefinitely.

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But… indefinite postponement… from the bottom of her heart, Tianyin really did not want to just sit here and wait.

Perhaps seeing the unhappiness in Tianyin’s heart, Seles continued.

“Well… but even if we cannot repair the teleportation array right away, we should be able to find out the reason it broke in the next couple of days. So Xiaoyin does not need to be too anxious. Once we figure out the cause of the damage, solving the problem will be very quick~”

“Eh? Really really?”

Hearing that, Tianyin’s gloomy mood brightened again.

“Really. After all, I knew Xiaoyin seemed to really want to go to Inferno… So today I specially went to learn more about things related to the teleportation array and managed to investigate this news~ So, although the teleportation array being damaged is a fact, in reality… Xiaoyin just has to wait for a while~”

“Mm…”

Tianyin had to admit, just hearing that Seles had realized she wanted to go to Inferno and had then deliberately paid attention to the matter of the teleportation array for her sake was enough to move her deeply.

“Sister Seles… you really are such a good person~”

“Eh…”

Tianyin’s sudden Good Person Card made the Elf girl’s cheeks turn bright red.

“G-Good… good person and stuff… you do not need to say it like that. I just, I just wanted to help Xiaoyin, that is all~”

“Mm, mm… it is exactly because I know Sister Seles has done so much for me that I am calling you a good person, Sister Seles~”

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Tianyin praised Seles with total conviction.

“And someone like Sister Seles who is so pretty and so kind inside, among the people I know there are not many like you~”

“I… is that so… T-Then there is no need to say it like that either. All of this was only a small effort on my part…”

In Tianyin’s line of sight, the Elf girl lowered her face shyly, and she lowered it so much that she could almost bury it in those exaggeratedly majestic curves on her chest…

“Well… just now I was thinking that since the teleportation array was broken, I would spend some time searching for another teleportation array somewhere else… but since it sounds like this teleportation array can be repaired soon, I guess I will just wait a few days~”

“Mm? Xiaoyin, you mean?”

“Mm-hm… Sister Seles, of course I still need to ask for your opinion on this. After all, I am thinking that during these next few days before the teleportation array is repaired, I will temporarily stay at your house…”

“Eh?… Xiaoyin, were you not planning to leave?”

Seles’s eyes were full of surprise and delight.

“That’s right~ Well… if Sister Seles does not want to, you do not have to force yourself~”

“I do, I do, if Xiaoyin can live at my house I am a hundred times willing! I will definitely take very good care of Xiaoyin these days!”

“Pff… what is that… no need to exaggerate it so much. I am only staying for a few days. Once the teleportation array is completely repaired, I will have to leave. After all, in Inferno, there are things I absolutely have to do~”

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“Things you absolutely have to do? I understand. I will personally keep watch over the progress of repairing the teleportation array. So Xiaoyin, you can just stay here without worries~”

“You don’t have to go that far. As long as it is repaired within a short time, that is enough~”

Tianyin answered with a smile.

Still, since she had decided to continue living at Seles’ house for the next few days, there was no need to say any farewells for now.

Which meant that this attempt of Tianyin’s to say goodbye had ended in total failure.

“Well… T-Then Xiaoyin, you have not finished breakfast yet, have you? How about this… I will leave for a bit. Once Xiaoyin is done eating, I will take you on a little tour around my home, how about that?”

“Wuu… that works… Come to think of it, I still have not properly looked around Sister Seles’ house. It is so big, so this time I will use the chance of staying a few days to take a good tour~”

“Mm-mhm, then it is a promise~ Then, I will not bother you for now, Xiaoyin~”

After arranging with Tianyin that she would later give Xiaoyin a tour of the whole mansion, Seles very tactfully left the room.

However, in the blind spot of Tianyin’s view, that is, when Seles had her back to Tianyin as she walked away, on the Elf girl’s face.

There appeared a smile of unclear meaning…