Ignoring that creepy laughter and the chill that ran down her back for a moment, Layla immediately pushed Alice off herself, then excitedly leaned over to the green-haired elf lady and asked, “Sylvia-chan! Do you, do you know who that white-haired girl is?”
“Tell me quickly, what’s her name? Where does she live? Is she really that homewrecker cat hanging around Keti?”
“Ah, of course that’s not a problem at all…giggle giggle~ Sylvia already asked everything about that homewrecker cat clinging to little Keti. From the owner of the tavern Keti usually visits, Sister Xiasha, she got every little detail, perfectly clear…”
Indeed, during this weekend, besides Layla trying to find Keti, the elf lady hadn’t been idle either.
The only one seriously nursing an injury at their base was Alice.
However, compared to Layla’s aimless searching, Sylvia’s goal had been clear from the start—she specifically went to the places Keti frequented before, asking people if they’d seen her.
As long as Keti hadn’t left the Imperial Capital, then with his social anxiety personality, he wouldn’t purposely avoid Layla and Alice by going to unfamiliar shops…
After all, Keti-kun is the kind of guy who needs to pass by a new shop five times before he can work up the courage to enter it once…
So, the elf lady was certain Keti would be around these places.
After a few trips, sure enough, she actually found a lead about him during the daytime on Sunday at that tavern Keti often visited.
“Oh, you’re looking for Keti? Ah…he hasn’t been here recently, but Miss Lulu should know where he went. Uh…who’s Lulu? Sylvia-chan, you don’t know Miss Lulu?”
After hearing her purpose, straightforward Sister Xiasha didn’t think much of it.
Since Sylvia was also Keti’s friend and Lulu was too, she immediately introduced her:
“She’s that girl with silver-gray hair just like Keti, right? Ah, that girl is really a good person—cute, kind, and so capable~ How does that Keti guy end up surrounded by so many outstanding girls, haha…Eh, Sylvia-chan, why do you look a bit pale?”
Coming back to her senses, after sharing her experience at the tavern, Sylvia sneered and then gripped her staff tightly, “At first, I thought little Keti was just being targeted by a bad woman, but I didn’t expect… it’s already come to this. Well, there’s no other choice then…”
The elf lady, blindfolded, lowered her head, and her pupils suddenly lost their gleam.
Her mind seemed completely elsewhere, no longer part of the girls’ meeting.
Instead, a sick smile appeared as she muttered to herself: “Giggle giggle giggle, those who dare touch Keti-chan’s homewrecker cat must be punished severely. Should I blast her into pieces with a rain of magical arrows? Or turn her into a popsicle and give her to Keti-kun? Hahahahaha…”
What is this?!
Faced with the elf girl’s muttered criminal declaration, the priestess was sweating coldly.
No matter how she thought about it, Sylvia seemed way too extreme.
Although the possibility that someone might steal Keti made Layla very anxious herself, Sylvia’s behavior was practically throwing a wild party on top of the Empire’s laws!
Is this still the same green-haired elf who was previously a clueless and cute innocent?
Why does she feel like a completely different person now?!
And then she remembered how this person had secretly placed a Magic Detection Spell on Keti without anyone noticing…
Tsk—
Could this…be Sylvia-chan’s true nature?!
Nervously, Layla swallowed hard, then quickly reached out to rub Sylvia’s head, “Calm down, calm down, cough cough…um, maybe it’s not as bad as we think. That landlady might be making things up! The key is…we have to find that homewrecker cat first, right? She must know where Keti is…”
The elf girl, after being patted on the head, seemed to calm down a bit.
After a moment, she slowly lowered her head and returned to her previous calm tone, murmuring quietly: “That girl’s name is Lulu, she’s an assistant teacher at the Magic Academy.”
“There’s a student in her class named Ximon, whose father is the President of the Empire Chamber of Commerce. I asked around a bit more; Ximon is in first-year, Class 25…”
“Hmm?”
“Well done! That’s detailed enough~”
Hearing such accurate clues, Layla’s eyes lit up instantly.
Good grief, this is so precise that there’s basically no need to look for them at all!
They might as well just go block the classroom door of first-year, Class 25 at the Magic Academy to find Lulu!
With this thought, the purple-haired jellyfish-head older sister immediately stood up and excitedly suggested to the two girls beside her:
“It’s too late today, so tomorrow, let’s all go to the Magic Academy together, find this Lulu, then force her to tell us exactly where Keti-kun is hiding. Once we find out, we’ll tie Keti-kun up and…cough cough cough…continue just like before~?”
The priestess glanced at Sylvia, the green-haired elf silently nodded in agreement.
Then Layla turned to look at Alice…
However, at this moment, the blonde twin-tailed girl was still sitting on the floor, her expression dazed.
She didn’t seem very willing to respond to Layla’s proposal.
Why was it like this?
The homewrecker cat thing…was actually true?!
Originally, Layla’s words were something Alice absolutely refused to believe, but then Sylvia’s information seemed to shatter even the last bit of faith Alice had held onto.
Cross-referencing the two, everything suddenly seemed so real.
Alice’s heart was filled with overwhelming grievance, and she even felt like the one who claimed to know Keti best had become a clown.
Keti, he really did fall for another girl, and…even…slept with her?
This, this kind of thing…this kind of thing…
At last, her inner grievance turned into an uncontrollable bitterness and sadness.
A thick mist of tears clouded Alice’s eyes, and moments later, her nose tingling with acidity, she couldn’t help but start sobbing.
“W-what the hell…that guy, that stupid Keti…He promised he’d propose to me in the future, he promised he’d like me forever…Liar, big liar, my childhood friend is a big liar! Waaah—! No, I don’t want that, why, why am I crying like I was dumped…That guy, I…I never even liked him. N-never…!”