Volume 4, Chapter 9 – I Can’t Bear To Let You Go

After Tianyin decided to stay at Seles’ house, time slowly flowed forward.

One day, two days.

Without Tianyin really noticing, a whole week had passed.

A week was neither very long nor very short.

For Tianyin, a week was just enough time to eat her way through every kind of dessert that pair of Elf maids could make.

Of course… Even while enjoying the treat of endless sweets, Tianyin still did not forget Samael’s reminder and kept an eye on the situation with the teleportation array.

However…

What left Tianyin a bit helpless was that every time she asked Seles, who was personally in charge of this matter, Seles would always answer her doubts with the same thing… that it would be ready very soon, in just these next few days.

But…

Time went by day after day, and Tianyin’s patience also had its limits.

She had thought about whether Seles was doing this on purpose, but as long as she thought about how Seles really had no reason to do that, that line of reasoning fell apart and Tianyin simply could not bring herself to suspect Seles.

Even so… the fact that the teleportation array still had not been repaired was also real… and that reality left Tianyin feeling very anxious.

So…

Once again, Tianyin began to feel the urge to leave this underground city and head to other underground cities to search for a way to reach Inferno.

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Well… after all, there were so many underground cities in the entire Underground World. The number of cities with teleportation arrays to Inferno might not be a thousand, but there had to be at least eight hundred, right? If she wanted to find a teleportation array, it really should not be that hard.

So…

With that in mind, Tianyin went alone to the study in this mansion that Seles often spent time in.

However, before Tianyin could push open the door, she heard from inside the study a faint and intermittent strange laugh.

Mixed into it… was also…

“This is… the leftovers… hehehe…”

That kind of strange sound.

Of course, for Tianyin who did not really understand much about such things, this type of strange sound was not something she needed to pay much attention to. The urgent matter was still to tell Seles that she wanted to leave and go look for other teleportation arrays.

She knocked on the door, and inside the room Seles’ voice, which already sounded a bit strange, vanished in an instant.

“Who!?”

It sounded unusually alert. Although Tianyin did not understand why Seles would be that on guard, in her view, that weird sound just now was probably something that could not bear the light of day, a private hobby that would be unbearably embarrassing the moment it was exposed…

So, being a bit wary would be normal too…

Thinking this to herself, Tianyin spoke up.

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“I… it is me.”

“Eh… X-Xiaoyin? When did you… wait, wait a moment…”

Just as Tianyin had expected, Seles inside the room sounded extremely flustered, and after a flurry of noisy scrambling around to tidy up, the door finally opened bit by bit before Tianyin’s eyes.

What appeared in Tianyin’s sight was a Dark Elf girl wearing a dress of a different style but the same pitch-black color as before, her features still exquisitely beautiful beyond compare. It was Seles.

“Well… Xiaoyin… Xiaoyin, when did you get here… so suddenly, that really surprised me…

“When I came? Of course… I was already outside when I heard some strange sounds from inside the room…”

“Eh… how could this happen… I have no face to meet people anymore…”

The Elf girl in front of her shyly covered her little face.

“Well… well, it is fine. Everyone has their own little secrets. If Sister Seles feels it is hard to talk about, I will not pry~”

Looking at this Elf girl who seemed shy to the point of wanting to disappear, Tianyin could not help but sigh. Sometimes Seles’ behavior really was like that of a child who had not grown up.

“X-Xiaoyin, you are so nice~… ah, right, Xiaoyin came to find me and I actually kept you blocked outside the door. That will not do. Xiaoyin, hurry and come in~”

As Seles spoke, she turned her body to the side and gestured for Tianyin to come in.

However, in response to Seles’ invitation, Tianyin very straightforwardly shook her head.

“No need, Sister Seles. I came here to say goodbye~”

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“Eh?”

Tianyin’s sudden words clearly caught Seles completely off guard.

“X-Xiaoyin, are you planning to leave?”

Surprise, confusion, puzzlement.

And once again, it was that same look Tianyin had seen before, like a little kitten that had been abandoned, pitiful and lost.

“I am not planning to leave. I am already getting ready to leave~”

“Eh, eh? Why, why do you suddenly want to leave? Xiaoyin, is my place not good enough? There are clearly so many delicious foods that you really love to eat, and clearly you have been very happy these past few days… Xiaoyin, why are you still planning to leave?”

“Well… I really like your hospitality, Sister Seles… but, no matter how very very much I like it, I still have to go to Inferno now~ Because I already said it, right, that I have reasons I cannot ignore for going to Inferno~”

“Reasons… then, can you tell me why you have to go to Inferno? There are many dangerous demons in Inferno, and most people who go there are unable to come back…”

“I know… but even if Inferno is like that, I still plan to go. Because, I am going to save someone who gave her life for my sake. Of course… that person is also very important, so, no matter what reason it is, I have to go to Inferno!”

As she said this, Tianyin’s gaze became incredibly firm.

After all… the fact that Yeluo had given her life for Tianyin’s victory was real.

And after giving up her life, although Yeluo was not dead yet right now, according to what the System had said, Yeluo was actually not far from death…

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While Yeluo was still alive, Tianyin had to find… find that Fallen Angel Lucifer the System had mentioned who could save Yeluo’s life, then think of every possible way and bring her back…

“So that is how it is… you want to save someone. If that is your reason, then I can understand…”

After hearing the reason Tianyin gave, a deeply lost expression appeared on Seles’ face.

“If it really is in order to save someone else… then no matter what I say, I cannot, and should not, keep you here, Xiaoyin… but… but Xiaoyin, I really, really, truly cannot bear to let you go…”

“Eh…”

That helpless and bewildered expression on the Elf girl’s face even made Tianyin pause for a moment.

“You cannot bear to part with me… well… I cannot bear to part with you either, Sister Seles… but I said it before, did I not? All banquets must come to an end, and partings are something that will happen sooner or later~”

“B-But…”

Seles’ expression was unbearably bitter.

“I really cannot bear to part with you, Xiaoyin… after all… you are… you are the first person I have ever met who is willing to treat me as a good friend… a person like that…”

“Mm, I know, it is alright, Sister Seles. If fate allows, we will definitely, for sure, meet again~”

Looking at Seles with her mood so unusually low, although Tianyin could not help feeling bad, all she could do was comfort her like this.