Chapter 573 : I'll Take You to See Lady Zervanie

Felyn was a little surprised. "Eh? Why?"

"In the future, if you have any important events, could you let me know in advance? I know this is a bit rude, but I can offer you 5,000 crowns a month as compensation."

The assistant looked at Zervanie sitting in front of the makeup mirror and couldn't help but sigh. "Every time you have something going on, Lady Zervanie makes me postpone her schedule so she can go see you. Although she gives me a bonus as compensation, it's really troublesome to always be canceling events for her."

She clasped her hands together and bowed to Felyn. "Please, Mr. Felyn. If you tell me in advance, at least I can prepare ahead of time."

"I... I understand..."

Seeing the troubled look on the assistant's face, Felyn knew she had already suffered greatly.

After the door closed, only Felyn and Zervanie were left in the room.

Zervanie looked up at the approaching Felyn. "Felyn, what were you just talking about with the assistant?"

"She was telling me that you often don't attend events on time and wanted me to persuade you."

Felyn tapped Zervanie on the head, looking at the face in the mirror that had already taken off its mask.

Under the illumination of the surrounding lights, Zervanie's face held Felyn's gaze for a long time.

"Eh? She actually went and complained to you... I'm so mad!"

"You've caused her a lot of trouble. She's probably been driven mad by you."

Zervanie's cheeks puffed out. She crossed her arms, her chin slightly raised.

"I know." Although she put on an angry look, there was no anger in her voice at all. "I'll attend my events properly in the future, but you have to tell me your schedule in advance too, Felyn. Especially your schedule with other girls."

"No can do. My schedule is top secret."

"How could you!"

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"LADY ZERVANIE!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

"AHHHHHHH!!!"

Felyn leaned against the side of the stage, watching as Zervanie's appearance triggered a tsunami-like frenzy.

The surrounding guards and security personnel pushed hard against the barriers to prevent the crazed fans from squeezing in.

Just Zervanie's appearance alone had completely ignited the surrounding emotions.

Every time Felyn saw the fans' frenzy, he felt it was a bit surreal.

Is this girl Zervanie really that popular?

Besides being very beautiful, singing very well, always smiling, being generous and not petty, and just seeing her making one feel full of vitality, and despite being a super-popular songstress of the Empire, having no airs at all, were there any other points that attracted fans?

Felyn thought about it carefully and found that all he could think of were Zervanie's good points.

This is bad, my brain has been invaded by Zervanie!

The event was in full swing, and Zervanie was already incredibly busy.

Felyn wanted to check the state of Zervanie's divine affinity, but he didn't have Daiyi's "Omniscient Insight" and couldn't probe it in real-time. He could only wait until her event was over to check.

The divine art of the Church of the Lunar Glow, "Lunar Glow Sanctuary," was extremely consuming of divine affinity. It might require accumulating half a month's worth of divine affinity to cast it once.

Yesterday, Zervanie had been unable to activate the divine art. If she could cast it after meeting her fans today, it would prove that she had indeed absorbed the power of her fans' faith.

The event would last for over an hour. Although Felyn could rest in the backstage lounge during this time, he still wanted to go out for a walk.

It had been a long time since he'd returned to Seiva, and he was actually a little nostalgic.

He walked out from backstage, passed through the frenzied crowd, and sat on a bench in the distance.

The sky-blue flags belonging to Zervanie waved ceaselessly in the air, and waves of screams came from afar.

From a distance, the sheer scale of the scene was even more shocking.

A large group of fans who couldn't get tickets could only surround the outside of the venue, trying to catch a glimpse of Lady Zervanie's face.

"Get out of the way, kid! Don't block the road."

"But... but I..."

"A little kid can't see anyway. Don't squeeze in here, you could get hurt. Go on, get going."

Felyn watched the commotion in the crowd not far away and saw a little girl being pushed out of the crowd.

She turned around, wanting to squeeze back in, but a child's body could never push past those adults.

Her shoulders slowly drooped. She took one last look at the tall crowd, then lowered her head, her hands behind her back, kicking at the stones on the ground.

People continued to rush over, pushing the little girl further and further away from Zervanie.

She walked along the cracks in the stone slabs on the ground and accidentally bumped into someone.

"S-Sorry, sir, it was an accident... Huh? Daddy?"

Felyn squatted down, holding the girl's soft hand.

"Lina, what are you doing here?"

Lina hadn't brought her stall to sell things today, nor was she wearing patched clothes.

She was wearing a faded dress, but there were no wrinkles on it.

This was probably her best outfit.

"I wanted to see Lady Zervanie too, so... so I didn't go to the station to sell things."

She threw herself into Felyn's arms, the previous gloom swept away. Her small hands curiously fiddled with the bracelet on Felyn's wrist. "Daddy, you haven't been here for so long. Why did you come today?"

"I came with Lady Zervanie," Felyn said, ruffling the girl's head in his arms and giving her a gentle smile.

"Hmph, Daddy is a liar."

"I've never lied to anyone. No, I've never lied to Lina."

Lina looked at Felyn's serious expression, her mouth unconsciously opening in surprise. "Daddy, do you really know Lady Zervanie?"

"Mhm, of course. Do you like her a lot?"

Lina's eyelashes drooped shyly. She let out a soft "mhm." "Lady Zervanie is very beautiful, and... and she's a very nice person. I wish I had a sister like her, so I wanted to see her today... but her tickets are very expensive, and I can't afford them."

"So you just wanted to catch a glimpse of her from the outside?"

"Mhm! I didn't expect to run into Daddy. Even though I couldn't see Lady Zervanie, Lina is still very happy."

Felyn patted Lina's shoulder and noticed that her clothes were already a bit small.

Looking at her carefully, he found that she had grown quite a bit in the few months he hadn't seen her.

Girls develop very quickly at this stage.

"Then would you like to meet Lady Zervanie in person?"

"Yes!!"

She jumped up and down excitedly, then looked at Felyn cautiously. "Will it be a bother for Daddy?"

"No trouble at all. I came with her in the first place."

Lina then took out all the crumpled crowns from her pocket and placed them in Felyn's palm. "It must cost a lot of money for Daddy to see Lady Zervanie once, right? This is all the money I have, I don't know if it's enough..."

Felyn glanced down; in his palm were the 23 crowns Lina had given him.

"It's hard for Daddy to earn money too, right? I often see Daddy coming to Moon Station to transfer home late after work, so..."

Felyn ruffled Lina's head. "I've earned lots and lots of money. Lina doesn't need to worry about me."

(End of Chapter)