Chapter 21: A world for two! A visit from the Khaenri'ah delegation!

Recalling the past of traveling across the land with old friends with whom he had spent long years, it even felt like it was only yesterday.

"Understood, I will let you know before I depart."

Seeing Hearing Luo Li readily agree, Ei nodded, intending to turn and leave.

It seemed she had come just to say this one sentence.

For something that could clearly be entrusted to someone else to say, why come in person?

So Hearing Luo Li asked her to stay: "Since you're already here, stay with me for a while longer."

Ei's turning motion stopped, as if she were somewhat hesitant.

"I still have to handle the Shogunate's affairs."

In a place where she couldn't see, Hearing Luo Li rolled his eyes; this excuse was truly too low-level.

If there were really urgent matters, why waste time running over here?

"It won't take up too much time."

"Then... alright."

The moment she agreed, Ei's mind flashed back to the mischievous look her sister had revealed when asking her to come and notify him before she left, saying things like "If you can't bear to return, staying a while longer is also fine, but you can't stay overnight..."

She didn't hear clearly what Makoto said afterward, because she had already run out in a panic with a red face, accompanied by her sister's deliberately restrained laughter.

"I wanted to leave, I was just persuaded to stay, I had no choice but to..."

Finding excuses for herself internally, as she moved her purple-black high heels, a flush spread across her earlobes.

Hearing Luo Li didn't know that the cold and noble woman before him had so much inner monologue, and took the initiative to pull her into the depths of the shrine.

The moment her hand was held, Ei couldn't control herself and followed his footsteps.

As the noisy sounds of the pilgrims in the front yard disappeared, the world instantly became quiet, and Ei's body, which had been somewhat stiff, relaxed completely.

In this tiny world of only two, enjoying the scattering of cherry blossoms blowing across the sky, it seemed even the breeze became gentle, and even the air released an ambiguity that made one's face blush and heart race.

With her hair, which was like purple silk, flying, Ei enjoyed this rare peace.

Ever since she and her sister established the Shogunate to protect Inazuma with one civil and one martial approach, she had always been rushing to the battlefield.

She once killed the Archon Orobashi with a single blade, her majestic thunder sweeping across all directions, destroying Watatsumi Island's ambition of aggression; the only regret was the death of her friend Sasayuri.

Afterward, she killed the Thunderbird that was poisoning the people of Seirai; the giant rock currently floating above Seirai Island was the battlefield left behind, manifesting the peerless martial power of the Almighty Shogun.

After that, it was the appearance of this man of unknown origin in her field of vision.

Scene after scene of the past played in her mind like a movie, and Ei couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing Luo Li turned to the side, looking at the noble woman who was inexplicably carrying sadness, and teased her deliberately. ===== CHAPTER 23 =====