Volume 4, Chapter 15 – You Don’t Actually Like Me At All, Do You?

Tianyin woke up from her sleep.

Her head felt heavy and groggy, and at this moment her consciousness was still in complete confusion.

So even though Tianyin had woken up now, given the current situation, she still had not realized what she had just gone through, or what kind of state she was in right now.

As time slowly passed, the memories she had lost because of fainting also began to surface bit by bit.

Before she passed out… she had been attending a banquet…

In her mind, the scene of herself eating delicious desserts clearly appeared.

But what Tianyin could not quite understand was why she now could not recall anything beyond that.

Feeling a little confused, Tianyin tried to sit up and look around.

Only then did Tianyin realize in shock that her hands and feet had been locked in place by hard and icy shackles.

“Wu… what… what is this… what on earth happened…”

Panic and disbelief.

That was exactly how Tianyin felt at this moment.

Since she could not sit up, Tianyin could only see the damp, moss-covered ceiling above her. The only thing she could be sure of was that for now her movements were just being restricted…

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「Xiaoyin… you finally woke up.」

Just when Tianyin could not accept the environment she was in, Samael’s voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

「So, how is it, do you feel anything strange in your body?」

『Mm? Strange? Speaking of which, Samael, what happened to me? Why do I feel like I suddenly got captured or something?』

Having her body restrained felt extremely uncomfortable. Even though she seemed to still be lying on a soft bed, her hands and feet would not move at all… that was really unbearable.

Besides, Tianyin was still rather puzzled about why she had woken up in such an unfamiliar place.

「Mm? You cannot remember?… Well, it is actually quite straightforward. Xiaoyin, you were knocked out by Seles with a potion, and then Seles easily captured you just like that.」

Samael’s voice echoed faintly in her mind.

「To be honest, I originally had quite a good impression of Seles too. I thought she was a very polite Dark Elf who knew proper manners… but for her to suddenly drug you and knock you out… even I didn’t see that coming.」

『Wait… Sister Seles… that is impossible…』

Her memory only went as far as happily eating desserts at the banquet. Even though she did not really want to believe Samael’s words, after thinking it over carefully, Tianyin also realized that Samael had no reason to lie to her.

『Ah… whatever… I should break free from these chains first…』

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Thinking that, Tianyin planned to activate her semi-fusion state first and free herself from the restraints.

After all, she could use the Seven Original Sins as well, and that would also let her break out of the restraints, but there was a time limit on using the Seven Original Sins. Once that time was used up, Tianyin would not even be able to use semi-fusion…

So, to be on the safe side, Tianyin chose to use her semi-fusion state first.

Her pitch-black eyes turned into a strange purple, and once Tianyin had activated her semi-fusion state, she began trying to break out of the shackles binding her.

However…

To Tianyin’s surprise, even though she should have been able to easily break ordinary shackles in semi-fusion, right now, even using all her strength, she could not break them at all.

“This is bad, these shackles are pretty sturdy. Looks like I really will have to use the true power of the Seven Original Sins…”

For Tianyin, under the current circumstances, she could only directly draw on the power of the Seven Original Sins.

It was a little frustrating, but the fact that she could not break the shackles in semi-fusion was something she could not deny. Since semi-fusion could not solve the problem, if she brought out her true Throne-tier strength, she should be able to break them, right?

Thinking that, Tianyin was about to communicate with Samael to directly activate the Seven Original Sins’ strongest form.

But just then, the door of the room used to imprison Tianyin suddenly swung open.

With a screech screech, after the door let out that sharp and grating sound, a voice that sounded incomparably pleasant to the ear, a girl’s voice, rang out in the room.

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“Xiaoyin… there is no need to struggle anymore~ These shackles were specially designed by me to imprison powerful Legendary-tier beings. So only a powerful Throne-tier can break them. Right now, even if you Xiaoyin use every bit of strength you have, there is no way you will break free~”

What Seles said was clearly meant to tell Tianyin that resisting was useless and that she should just give up.

However, in reality, after Seles said this, Tianyin’s earlier panic completely settled down.

Because Seles had said that only a Throne-tier could break them.

And she herself could actually bring out Throne-tier strength.

So… Now that Tianyin understood the limit of the shackles, her mood calmed.

With that calm came a different feeling in her heart.

It was confusion.

The confusion about why Seles was imprisoning her at all.

So, in order to ask why more clearly, Tianyin put the matter of breaking the shackles aside and decided to ask Seles her question while remaining in this “bound” state.

“Why? Sister Seles, I want to know why you suddenly did this?”

“Ah… I knew it, I knew that once you realized you could not break free, Xiaoyin, you would definitely ask that kind of question.”

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Seles did not appear within Tianyin’s field of vision, but with the perception from semi-fusion, Tianyin could feel that Seles was actually standing right by her side.

“Xiaoyin… if anyone else asked me that kind of question, I honestly would not answer. But if the one asking me is you, Xiaoyin, then of course I will tell you everything.”

“And as for the reason… it is actually quite simple, Xiaoyin… I like you, I want to have you, and the very first moment I saw you, my heart was already completely filled with your image~”

The girl’s words sounded as if she were just honestly expressing her love, but for some reason, they made Tianyin feel a chill run down her spine.

“You… you fell in love with me?”

She could hardly imagine it…

That the elf girl who had only met her for the first time had already fallen in love with her?

“That’s right, I like Xiaoyin, and it is a kind of liking that is completely out of control. I like you so much that I want you to become mine, I like you so much that I want you to become my personal possession, I like you so much that I want you to stay here from now on and never go anywhere else again.”

The elf girl stated her feelings for Tianyin very directly, but in Tianyin’s view, this feeling was a twisted emotion pushed to the extreme, something so warped she could not even call it liking.

Even though she felt a faint sense of fear toward the feelings Seles was showing, when it came to emotions, Tianyin would never acknowledge this kind of twisted feeling as love.

“After saying all that, Sister Seles, the truth is, you don’t actually like me at all, do you?”