Volume 1 Chapter 2 Part2 (2/2)

“I’m fine, just a little surprised I don’t ?”

Fin answered while perplexed so Leena was relieved and gave a wide grin

“You Because, you’re ver~y pretty”

“……………………”

Because her words were so unexpected, Fin crouched down right away, drained of strength He couldn’t even afford to generate enough strength to endure it

“Ah, huh? Uain, didn’t I? What should I do?”

He heard her anxious voice again, coht “At this rate, I won’t be able to stand up again”, he looked up at Leena in relief

“A word like ‘pretty’, is usually used for girls like you, you know”

“Eh?”

Suddenly, Leena stared in wonder and blushed To Fin, he thought he was si an objective fact, not a coain, has taken it toelse She rapidly turned redder and redder, beco hotter from her ears to her neck

“Wait, uhhh…Leena? I was talking ”

“App, appearance? Ah, you mean exterior Re, really? Oh, I see Of course, I can’t be seen by people Ahah, that’s surprised me”

“……I was also surprised”

He didn’t think talking to soh and soed to stand up

“You wanted to say that soht? It probably isn’t my appearance”

Concerning his own looks, Fin knew that no matter how et are words like “masculine” He didn’t often look at eneral standard of beauty, his face is……how to say, a bit sharp and too rigid It’s to the extent that he’s accepted that Nellis calls hie it

In his life, there was only one other time he was called “pretty”; that hen the priestess Fianera peered into his eyes and commented that they were the same color as sea near Nanais

However, as Leena’s sense naturally differs from humans, she tilted her head and stared at Fin as she asked

“I don’t really understand human’s standards, but I think that Fin’s exterior is also pretty But…what I meant before was, Fin’s interior!”

She raised her hand and touched her index finger on Fin’s chest The area near his heart At the same ti him

“Humans, to us, their interiors are splendid, we can see the parts that come out I can sense pretty people’s in particular from afar That’s why I accidentally stumbled here to see it…”

“Wait a sec So, you’re saying that you can see people’s hearts?”

“Yes, the part that the person shows If I want to look at a person’s true nature, then I have to enter inside But, without going that far, I can understand pretty people”

“Really…?” Fin h “I’m not a person with that “pretty” of a heart Well, if you say that you want to look, then I don’tat this kind of person until you’re satisfied”

Saying that, he casually looked up at the sky

“But, you should return while the moon’s still out I don’t knohere your hoht left, I don’t think I can protect you from the Beasts of Darkness And they’ll definitely come”

Although he didn’t know if the Beasts of Darkness attack spirits, the spirits did take part alongside the hureat war, so the Beasts irl will torn apart too quickly by them

However, it didn’t seem like Leena had the same worries as Fin She wasn’t scared at all and with her head titled, she asked

“Are you, fighting the Followers of Darkness?”

“If I could avoid fighting, I would But it is them that hate humans Since the Empire is all shaky now, the arer hold back the Beasts of Darkness as before That’s why, you can be assaulted anywhere at night”

Fin talked rapidly He didn’t know if she would fully understand what he said, but he remembered that this isn’t the ti This side of the barn is fine, but there’s the possibility that the Beasts are lurking in the shadows, drawing closer to the other side Though he couldn’t heard the creaking, a sound that he’s become too familiar with……

“They won’t coht”

Leena said so casually that it seemed like she personally knew theirl in wonderment

“How do you know?”

She saw his surprise and was surprised herself that he didn’t know that

“I ht out Fro else calling theht fire, nor human desire”

“But now there’s me, my family and comrade”

“Yes But, since the powers of Master Audia and Master Neena are hiding you, they won’t know Besides, you aren’t planning on staying here for long, right?”

“Well, that’s true, but…”

“It’s all right They won’t come If you’re worried, I’ll stay here until dawn You can rest easy”

Lenna softly touched Fin’s forehead with her hand Suddenly, he was overcoered

“No, for such a reason…”

“It’s alright Rest I will be watching”

Her gentle whisper surrounded his consciousness The suspicion that she was definitely a ical creature that deceived him popped in his head, but he also sensed an instinctive security somewhere deep in his consciousness

Leena held Fin who had collapsed and gently laid hiround, he felt neither the fir when he was a child, lying down and looking at the sky, and i on top of the clouds

Fin vaguely sensed that his head rested on Leena’s lap right before he fell asleep, deep in the dreams of his happy past