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2 Engage
Elder
El Search Party tracked Banthus who ran off with the El to Elder El Search Party members were all
baffled at Elder’s bustling streets that was incomparable to Ruben’s
“Wow that castle is huge…”
“MsRena! May I go buy some drinks?”
“Yea sure, do you want some too Eve?”
“I’m not particularly interested”
“Cherry aid is fine right?”
“…I’ll request lemonade please”
El Search Party ed conversations as they walked through the
bustling streets Only Add was not st them
Hiscame into his eyes…
“Ah, cold!”
Add got startled and stepped back as he felt sudden chill on his cheek
Rena had brought a juice towards Add’s cheek and wassmile
“Here, take this It’s a cherry aid You didn’t say anything so I chose what to get”
“Who said I wanted to drink?”
“Then would you like e it for a different flavor?”
Add couldn’t resist any Rena hold out the cup towards him with
sociable s about this for a while…Rena was always treating him like a kid
she had to take care of
Of course, Rena paid attention to the other members as well But it was certain that she was extra
attentive towards Add Well, it was probably because Add kept trying to keep himself in the
outskirts of the group
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Add took a glance at the other three with a straw in his
their juices while sitting and talking to each other harmoniously
Elsword and Eve had been traveling together so it was obvious they got along But Ara was quite
sociable as well so she had a decent relationshi+p with the other members
“Sigh…”
Add let out a sigh as he looked at the three of them, particularly Elsword
Other rowth
Elsword, 15 years old He was participating in the El Search Party as Velder Kingdoht
“Kukukuk”
Tihtlessly had caused such a drastic change It was actually quite
frightening He couldn’t tell what ain
El Search Party’s total battle strength did go up because of Elsword’s growth But there was no
certainty that changes that will happen next were positive
Add had thought he could erase all unfavorable events by using time travel until now…
“As I thought, it’s not so you can use carelessly”
Although Eun detere undesirable change could
happen if he continued like this As he thought, he should refrain fro time travel much as
possible…
Grab!
Add was deep in thought while drinking his juice when he felt his body suddenly getting pulled Add
turned around in surprise to see that Rena was s with her arm tied around Add’s neck
“Why are you loomy face?”
“G, Get off!”
Add got startled by the soft sensation of her breasts on his back and quickly tried to pull his body
out But Add’s physical abilities were that of a normal boy There was no way he could escape the
grasp of Rena as an Elf warrior
It stuck closer the led
“You should just go talk to theether”
“Who said I wanted to play!? Don’t stick so close to me!!”
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““G, Get off!”
Add got startled by the soft sensation of her breasts on his back and
quickly tried to pull his body out”
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Add got flustered as he abruptly turned his head around He could sood aroma
from Rena…his head started to feel dizzy
It see on in Add’s head and continued to ask while
sticking close to Add’s back
“Hize well yesterday?”
“…It’s all done You can go check if you’re doubtful”
“I was asking if you were able to ease your mind”
Rena finally let go her aranized his crumpled
clothes then noticed Rena’s gaze as he frowned
For hi like this; it felt displeasing because it felt like he had
shown signs of weakness to her
“So do you have some business with me?”
“Uood job of watching over the kids for me
will you?”
Rena was trying to hand over the coroup to Add Well, Add was the most
trustworthy one aroup when Rena wasn’t here
Eve was fine in every respect but wasn’t knowledgeable about worldly affairs, Ara tried her best in
everything she did but was unreliable because she was clu the
group
In Add’s case, his weakness was that he was bad with personal relations… But Rena thought
highly of his unexpectedly sensible thought process and ability to improvise
It was a selection Rena had put various thoughts into But against Rena’s expectations, Add didn’t
accept the leader role and,
“Wait a moment”
did not decline it either
“If you’re going to o too”
“Hmm?”
Rena glanced at hi Add had decided on beforehand
“I have soo too”
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And knowing Rena’s personality, she won’t deliberately refuse this Add resolved himself as he
waited for her reply
I’ll change the future
And I’ll do anything in order to do so
In the end, Rena and Add headed to Hoff the command of the other
members to Eve
“MrHoffman will meet you soon”
A servant guided the two to the guest roo away
Add fidgeting his fingers then stole a glance at Rena Rena noticed Add’s gaze and smiled
benevolently in return
“What’s wrong?”
“No, it’s just…”
He already knew from past experience that Rena would listen to him even if he made an abrupt
request like this But it still felt uncomfortable
“What I’m about do to…is to not make anyone cry”
“Yea, alright”
Rena replied with a tone that said she was listening It was a light response but her voice was friendly
“So trust me…and let me take care of this”
“Yea okay”
Rena lightly nodded as if to tell Add that he didn’t need to speak any further She had entrusted Add
with this task even though he didn’t give her any further explanation
“…”
Rena will probably just kindly reply back if Add tried to nitpick at her naïve reaction right now Add
had been really confused by Rena’s naïve methods before…but he could somewhat accept it now
Let’s do what he had to do now since Rena entrusted him with this
“Welcome, I’m Hoffman”
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Finally, the door opened and a well looking ed man came inside the room Rena came to
ate Banthus’ whereabouts But Add’s purpose was different
“I caot a proposition for you”
“Proposition? Who are you people?”
“Oh, we’re the El Search Party Here’s the letter of recous”
Rena pulled out Ruben chief Hagus’ recommendation letter and handed it over to Hoffman They
had heard Hoffus This letter should have specialto
Hoffman
As expected, Hoffus’ letter
“So you’re here to get back the El that was stolen from Ruben Then…”
“We’ll put that aside for now”
Add boldly cut off Hoff on to the main topic
Hoff off his words and carefully stared at Add Rena smiled as if
nothing rong
“We, the El Search Party will help Elder’s citizens in overthrowing the tyrannical castle’s lord Wally”
“H all of a sudden?”
“Kukuk, you don’t have to play du
unreasonable taxes, he captured all of the girls in this town right? Isn’t resentst the
citizens sky high already? Didn’t you already for for an opportune moment?”
Hoffet flustered and reacted in a composed
manner It was no wonder why people of Elder trusted him
“I don’t kno you found out…but it see”
“Yes, hoe found out isn’t iuys help us in return”
Hoffestion but it seemed he was drawn by this
proposition His good friend Hagus had already approved of the El Search Party’s skills
This was a desperate ti for their revolution to overthrow Wally Each
and every help reatly There was no reason to refuse when the El Search Party was
volunteering to help
“Then how should we help?”
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“Our request is siet into Wally’s castle”
“We know about an Underground Waterway that leads into the castle…”
“That’s not it There’s absolutely no point in going that way”
Doing so will only repeat the previous events He had to aim for a different location, attack from a
cole
“We have to infiltrate deep into the castle Only then can we rescue the captive girls”
“Of course we’ll be extrerateful if you can do that…”
Hoff was impossible It seemed he had pondered every
possible rescue plans but couldn’t
But Add grinned with satisfaction
“There’s a great way to rescue them easily That is…”
“That is?”
Rena as listening also looked like she was very looking forward to Add’s answer Add couldn’t
turn things back anymore if he said this
Add gulped and revealed his secret plan
“Girls froet taken into the castle They obviously won’t
hold all the girls in separate places and keep theet captured and
cause a disturbance froirls Kukukuk, it’s a perfect plan”
“Ohhh…”
Hoffman exclaimed as he looked at Rena They couldn’t use this plan because all the girls in Elder
were captured
But if the El Search Party that had just arrived in Elder, irls in their party
pretended to be captured and then carry out the rescue from inside…
This plan orth a try
“I understand We’ll pretend to be obedient to Wally and notify the castle that we have captured
couple of traveling girls We’ll prepare this plan right away Howto
go?”
“Umm, there will be three”
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Rena also accepted this plan and answered Ara, Rena and Eve were girls so that number was
accurate but…
“There will be four”
“Huh? But Add? There are only three girls ast us”
Rena made an obvious indication…but Add continued his words while suppressing the feeling of
wanting to vo to ruin his life but he still couldn’t
afford to keep himself out of this plan
“I’ too!”
“…Add, could it be that you were a girl?”
Rena asked earnestly and Hoffman also carefully scanned Add Aard reactions continued but
Add just spoke the words he had to
He leapt through ti in order to save Eve from the Demons He
couldn’t back out just because it was shameful
“I’ll beco from now!!”
…Although it felt like he’ll kick in his sleep later
Elder’s Inn
Rena gathered the El Search Party hthearted voice
“Okay then, now I’ll explain the plan”
Other members who didn’t know the situation listened carefully to Rena’s explanation But Add had
his face facing towards the ground with a sour taste in his mouth It felt so shameful that he didn’t
want to be sitting in this conversation…But he had to supplement Rena’s explanation whenever
they weren’t enough
Everyone had to work in unison in order for this plan that Eun had suggested to work properly
“That’s all Is there any questions?”
“Big sister Rena? What about Banthus?”
Elsword asked an obvious question They had come to Elder in order to find Banthus But now they
were putting aside Banthus and were trying to overthrow castle’s lord Wally Of course he wouldn’t
be able to understand
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“No, if MrCastle’s lord is really a pervert that likes to throw obscene parties with captured girls then
I cannot forgive him no matter what!”
“I agree with that too… But doesn’t finding the El come first?”
The two’s opinions seemed to clash so Add explained instead of Rena
“The El Banthus stole has already gone into Wally’s hands”
“What? Really?”
“Banthus was hired by Wally in the first place Didn’t you think that it was strange how such a small
fry was co all the girls by force They
see hands with the demons We cannot let this be”
Add’s explanation made sense but there was a hole
“How do you know all this?”
Eve didn’t miss that hole and asked quietly
It would obviously look suspicious if Add acted like he knew everything that was going on in Elder
when it hasn’t even been a day since they’ve arrived here
“I had bad relations with de various things
about them”
“…”
Eve didn’t look satisfied with this explanation Well, it should still be
her he knew because he was ti
“Hht? Let’s help Elder’s citizens”
Everyone nodded when RenaBanthus aside
felt like the orders got flipped, but everyone accepted because Rena had said so
“Then what should we do? Shall we go right now?”
“I’ll lead the way!”
Ara grabbed her spear and got up i
Wally’s evil deeds and was now raring to go
“I’ll help too We need to get the El back after all”
“Wait, I have a plan”
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It was good that everyone illing But charging in like this will only end with the same result
from last time
Add repeated the sa Rena asa
bitter smile
“That’s a great plan! I’ll do it too!”
“I don’t mind as well…but why is there 4 people?”
Eve spoke questioningly
“T, That’s because…”
Add quicklyher laughter while
trying to reveal the truth
He’d rather say it himself than let someone else say it!
“I’irl”
“…”
“…”
Eve coldly, and Ara confusingly stared at Add After staring at Add’s chest for a while, Ara asked in
a tone as if she couldn’t understand at all
“But MrAdd doesn’t have breasts Were you a girl?”
“…”
Eve’s face seenore that Add suppressed the feeling of
wanting to burrow into the ground and forced out his words
“I, I’ll disguise ether”
“Ah, so you’re disguising yourself like a girl!”
Ara clapped her hand andreaction; I’m
going to die from embarrassment
“…Big brother Add, will you be okay?”
Elsword asked with the eyes that were looking at a pitiable person Add nodded with his teeth
clenched tightly Add started to feel increasingly more wretched the more he talked
“Okay… I just have to stand ready outside with the ht?”
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Elsword finished up the conversation with a tone that meant he won’t talk about this anymore
Right now, this kind of reaction was rateful for Add
“What should we do to irl?”
“C, Can’t we just put some r,ribbons on his head? Pfft”
“You look like you’re having fun, Rena”
Three girls started to have an in-depth discussion about the sudden topic of dressing Add up like a
girl Their at this… Add hoped this was just his iination
“I don’t knowbut I’ll do my best!”
“I’ive it a try”
“I, I’ll… Make you pretty too Pfft”
Just laugh out loud if you want to laugh Add irl converse in
front of him
“We should give hi breasts Since he’s pretty tall”
“It would be best if we gave hiht?”
“We need a wig”
…My heart is seriously getting torn apart listening to this
Add couldn’t handle the girls har him up anymore and returned to
the guys’ bedroo ih he was
the one that had brought it up
Add rabbing the railings The sky was
very dark and perfectly reflected his feelings right now
“Kukuk, this isn’t funny”
Seriously? cross-dressing? It was such an absurd plan Add had opposed it when he first heard it
fro to her explanation
To protect Eve, Add who knew about the situation had to be beside her Then why couldn’t they
just send only Rena and Ara to the Wally’s Castle?
That won’t be any different from the time when Ran appeared and destroyed Eve
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The back bone of Eun’s plan was that the battle occurred when much of the party members were
together as possible
Thus, it was better for Eve to get taken along with Rena and Ara…and Add had to be beside Eve as
well Thus, he had to dress up like a girl in order to do so
He extreically
“It totally feels like I’ve been fooled…”
“It’s a proper for guys to allow theirls”
Add winced at the sudden voice that came from below him Tap! Ara who jumped up from the
bottos and pulled herself into the upper floor’s balcony
It was an unbelievable physical feat But the girl who now suddenly stood beside hied when
Add gave her a surprised stare
“Even Ara can easily perform this much”
White hair that waved from the wind, fox ears that curled up and down, it was Eun, not Ara
“You’re popping up too often recently”
“I’ll switch if you have a business with Ara”
“Just tell me what you came here to say”
Eun was the one that told Add about this plan in the first place She probably came out to explain
the tomorrow’s plan in more detail
“I’ll be awaiting your pretty form tomorrow”
“Get lost, don’t ever coain”
Eun burst out laughing when Add bared his teeth and got angry
“I was joking The problem is hoe’ll fool the castle’s soldiers”
“It ork out soirls based on their appearance”
“It could be troublesouy who falls for you because you’re so beautiful”
“Go back this instant if you cae!”
Eun laughed enjoyably as Add glared at her In some sense, Eun was much more difficult to face
than Rena
“What will you do if you fail tomorrow?”
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“I won’t fail”
“Still, just in case What will you do if you were to fail?”
Add frohen Eun questioned hi to confirm
this
“I’ll find you and tiain Is there a problem with that?”
“Aren’t you afraid of…what ain?”
Add couldn’t answer ie Would Add have
decided to tie beforehand?
His tie phenoes at first, but now it
had coed a person
So even more serious could happen next
“You’ll just have to tellfull well that
Elsould change like this?”
“I said I’d help the boy I never said I’d tell hi I don’t intend to reveal ill happen
when you time travel”
“…”
“You look like you want to ask me why But I won’t answer that either”
But Add could somewhat understand Eun’s calculations
If Add heard beforehand about how so even more drastic
than Elsword’s change
“So your goal was to make me time travel”
“My goal is to resolve this situation Making boy time travel if necessary”
Eun didn’t deny Add’s guess
In the end, itEve be destroyed in front
of his eyes then repeatedly ti and just observed as all
of this happened
It honestly ht now Didn’t he already
assuenda?
“Forget it I’ll succeed for sure tomorrow”
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“If need be, I’ll also help both physically and spiritually”
Eun suard down They were cooperating for
now but as he had thought, she ay too suspicious
Eun shrugged at Add’s angry glare and grabbed the railings to throw herself doards
“Then I’ll be anticipating boy’s beautiful form tomorrow”
Eun fell down before Add could retort There was no need to check She probably landed on the
bottom floor’s balcony safely
“I don’t like this”
He was playing into that fox’s hands right now But he had no other options at the moment He’ll
just have to be patient and make this plan successful
“I don’t want to do this ever again…”
He just hoped that the girls talking so excitedly about dressing hi about
soht sky
Next day
The stars were heartless They don’t listen to people’s wishes
“It fits you”
“You look great MrAdd!”
“Hmm, you look better than I expected”
Add bit his lower lip as the three girls coine what
ht now
A skirt careed with dressing up
like a girl, he protested desperately against wearing a skirt… But his height was the problem
Add’s height was 176cirl This will obviously attract attention so they had to make this
disguise believable as possible and Rena’s opinion was that just disguising the breasts wasn’t enough
Add couldn’t logically refute her
“Is it…over?”
“Here, want to take a look in the mirror?”
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“No, no matter what”
Add spoke with a grave look He never wanted to confirht noith his own
eyes
“That won’t do Add, you have towith your own eyes”
“I changed your voice so you don’t need to worry about getting found out”
“Okay MrAdd, stand still”
When Add kicked the ground and tried to escape fro him
down by brining both of her arms from under his armpits He couldn’t move and…her breasts
were touching his back!
“Hey, hey! I’ll look! So let go! Let go of me!!”
“Eh? What’s wrong MrAdd?”
“I said I’ll look!!”
Panicked Add finallyhis body Add let out a big sigh then
looked inside the wall h he really didn’t want to
A girl he had never seen before in his life stared back at him with a frown
She was a girl anyone would look back at if they saw her passing by in the streets Even Add who
had no particular interest in girls admitted this internally
……The probleirl was him
“It was really fun to do This doesn’t look bad at all since Add was already pretty”
“It’s excellent”
“Yes, no one will be suspicious”
“Are we done now? Then contact Hoff the castle’s soldiers here”
Add notified the girls lopsidedly and got out of the roostock the
longer he stayed in there
“…This is driving me crazy”
It was so it had a different weight Add carefully
out so he didn’t step on the bottom of his skirt
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The proble captured was how they were going
to secretly bring their weapons Unlike Add who had physical abilities of a normal boy, the other
girls were quite powerful even without their weapons But you never knohat’s waiting for them
inside the castle
When others couldn’t give any particular solutions, Add solved the issue by using an area specific
optical ca then put all of the group’s weapons inside
Theninvisible
There won’t be any proble directly All preparations done
“…They are late”
Add clicked his tongue after co down to the inn’s first floor because he didn’t want to be with
the others Sidelong glances of the inn’s guests that came in and went really annoyed him Especially
how the group ofat him ide eyes
He would have blown theuised as a
frail girl in order to be captured He couldn’t cause a scene until the soldiers arrived
‘…Do girls always get these kinds of stares frouys?’
He had to withstand all of these stares until he could achieve his goal Add was busy suppressing his
boiling rage…when a young man sat across from him without any permission
Who the heck is this? The man smiled and held out his hand towards Add Add was already in an
unsatisfactory lared at the man
“Beautiful lady, may I join you?”
“…Get lost”
Let’s never cross-dress again even if this plan fails and he had to tiht as
he refused thehis teeth But the man just smiled in return
“My, it see thorns were true”
“…”
Wow that just gavehimself while
shi+vering in disgust, then the rabbed Add’s wrist
Add was now beyond shi+vering and was about to have a seizure Add got startled and tried to pull
his hand out but the o
“My, lady your wrist is beautiful too”
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Add couldn’t win in a contest of physical strength The
Sound of whistles
“Mac! Don’t treat the lady so roughly!”
“Hahaha!”
For so across the floor as if thecool There was no one
around to help Add and theto be overly fa only on
his physical strength
Couise or whatever…did he really have to take this? Wasn’t it more natural to
cause a ruckus in town and get captured instead?
“Kukukuk…”
Add stole a look at the bag that lay near his feet and at the Dynamos inside He then stretched out
his other hand and put it on top of the man’s hand
“Oh? Do you feel like talking now lady? You should tell me your name first”
“I’ll tell you If you still got a head to remember”
Just when Add smiled viciously and was about to htly
pressed on Add’s shoulder
As if to tell him to be patient
“Do you have soer sister?”
Rena was standing behind Add Theto hit on Add that he was late in
noticing Rena’s presence The man’s face turned red soon as he looked up
“Ah, that’s…”
“I’m sorry but people from the castle will come soon Could you come later if you have some
business with us?”
“F, From the castle…?”
The ot up from his spot and hurriedly left the inn The man’s friends
that had been standing still out of theirand left
quickly
Rena sat across fro this situation
“You did well in holding back, Add”
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“…I could have handled it by myself”
Rena shtly when Add muttered back
“Hmm, please try to understand those people They irls in
Elder got captured”
“Why do you always think so positively?”
Add was dumbfounded and couldn’t help but to ask He knew she was seriously soft
hearted……but wasn’t this too much?