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Feita

It was a s Elder This city built on an open

terrain was quieter and less populous than Elder

“Wow, look! Msbutterfly is flying around!”

“Stoparound so much Ara Haan”

“Yan, I’ry”

Rena alked in front of the group

able to rest in a proper inn for days since they’ve left Elder

“Alright, I’ll go to MrLento and listen to their current situation so…”

While talking to the other members as the leader of the party, Rena stopped her words in middle of

her sentence and stared at Add with a profound gaze Add tried to ignore it…but couldn’t

withstand the pressure when Rena continued to stare at him

“…I’ll look after the kids so go ahead”

“Alright, I’ll leave it to you”

Rena srinded his teeth as he saw Rena

disappear into the crowds of people

Back in Elder, ever since he fell fast asleep after lending his hand to Eve…… Rena was acting like

this ever since she witnessed that scene Add for some reason couldn’t help but to be obedient even

though all she did was just s

“Such nonsense”

Add could retort if she said soht back if she provoked him But he didn’t kno to

react when she kept gently s able to disobey Rena before long

No, it didn’t end with just that…he ended up responding according to Rena’s wishes just like what

happened now Add sighed and looked behind him

“Wo……!!”

Ara was looking up in wonder at the butterfly that sat on tip of her spear

“It’s a small city”

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Eve was sitting on her gears looking around at Feita’s inner town and Elsword had his sword against

his back while tapping the ground with his feet

“Woa, Waaah!!!”

Ara let out a disappointed shout as the butterfly left her spear Then for some reason she stretched

out her spear towards the butterfly It wasn’t actually Ara si out her spear The sound

of wind tearing showed how much force was in her stab

“It’s dangerous Big sister Ara”

Elsword quickly swung his sword to hit the shaft of Ara’s spear The spear’s trajectory was changed

thanks to this interference and the butterfly was safe

Ara whose face had turned deathly pale even though she was the one who had stabbed with the

spear let out a sigh of relief after seeing the butterfly flutter away safely

“Thank you, MrElsword”

“It’s nothing By the way, do we have to wait here?”

“I already spoke with Rena beforehand Let’s go to the inn…”

Add was looking over the group then started to ly He was in the end just

an unwilling leader

“Phew…”

After letting out a sigh, Add took a slight glance towards Eve alked behind hiht

Eve either didn’t notice his gaze or was ignoring it Regardless, she walked silently

When they started off from Elder, Rena had already made a very detailed travel plan and even

reserved an inn beforehand The reason Add knew this was because Rena mentioned this to him as

if he should remember this

Guys and girls got separate roo a room with Elsword This happened so

many times now that Add didn’t have any desire to protest anymore

After letting down his bag on the bed, Elsword looked out at the Feita’s streets through the

“When should we eat? Aren’t you hungry?”

“Big brother Add, isn’t this place a bit strange?”

A sudden question But regardless of how Add disliked Elword, Elsword never brought up anything

that was baseless

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“What is? Places where people live all tend to be alike”

“That’s what’s strange This place looks same as any other towns”

Elsword turned his head around from theand stared at Add seriously

“Didn’t we come here because we heard that Feita was invaded by Demons? Then why is it so

quiet?”

“…”

Elsword’s indication was correct There were urgent reports co in from all over the continent

that De mayhem The reason the El

Search Party left Elder was because they got an urgent call for reinforcements from Feita

“I’ns of fear or fatigue on the people’s faces Streets

are also extre them off on their own”

“They could have gone to another city”

“I don’t know toothat doesn’t

open too easily?”

For Demons to appear in Elrios continent they needed to create a portal called Dimension Gate and

this consu very scarce so Demons couldn’t use it

carelessly This hat Eun told Add before

“They took the effort to invade Feita then went soe? Isn’t

that strange?”

“You’re right…”

Add’s face turned grim too Other El Search Party members were all very surprised at the news that

De the Elrios continent But Add wasn’t particularly surprised It was a rather an

expected event for Add

‘Thinking about it now… conal flare for the Demon invasion’

Demons had decided for unknown reason to destroy Eve the Queen of Nasods before they

properly started their invasion of the Elrios continent That’s why they deployed Demons to where

Eve was

In this timeline, the El Search Party was able to prevent Eve’s destruction thanks to Add’s directions

Did the Deo ahead with their

invasion first?

Would he have heard this news if he remained in the timeline where Eve was destroyed?

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‘I don’t knohy they came after Eve but…’

Seeing how Eve looked surprised as well by the De

any secrets

Add was deep in thought when Elsword’s stare brought him to his senses

“…Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Since Big brother Add is s”

A cally e

“I’m not too sure either But…”

Why were Dee scale? Well, you could roughly make

the pieces fit by saying it’s to obtain the El or by saying Des in the first place

but these theories were somewhat doubtful

The key to this ansas Eve Just why did they go out of their way to send assassins to such far

off place like Elder? And also…

‘He said D…’

The one that ordered Dark Count Ran to destroy Eve You could say that Shadow Master was sent

by the saainst Eve now?

“I’ll have to observe a bit more”

“Tell ”

Elsword finished lightly then headed to the door after putting away his sword

“Then let’s eat first Let’s bring Eve and Big sister Ara and eat together”

“I’m fine”

Sitting and eating together with everyone was uncomfortable

“Big brother Add is too skinny You don’t each that row any

taller like that”

“I’h”

“Eve is also going to eat with us You should eat together with us too”

Why did he mention Eve here? Add frowned at the unexpected words but Elsword left the room as

if it was decided

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“Then I’ll go get everyone”

“Wait…”

Elsword disappeared without listening to Add trying to stop hiue annoyed at

the meal table that was decided without his consent

Add didn’t like socializing with others in the first place Moreover, his personality didn’t fit with rest

of the El Search Party members

Ara who lost her le butterfly, Elsho nobly covered for Ara’s mistake and

Rena who overindulged those kids…They were all opposite of Add’s personality

If needed to, Add could tear apart soh out loud No, he could do it

even if he didn’t need to

“Hmph…”

Add sat on the bed and exa maintenances

whenever possible but he never had the time to do a feature expansion

“I’d like to make the short distance space warp more fluent”

The most important feature of the Dynamo was time travel That is, its battle capabilities were more

like extra features

Of course, Add was extre with just those extra features Now that he can use Double, he

was confident that he could defeat even Shadow Master in a 1 on 1 battle

“So field is the problem after all? I’ll need to improve the features affiliated with space Warp…”

Die mode and so on, the Dynamo had so far put an

ehts that will continue on from now, he felt

the need to enhance the offensive features Double took too much toll on his body

As hethe Dynamo, Add suddenly pondered about the future After the

Demon invasion of the continent started, the El Search Party that were successful in defeating the

Deh they had actually come for Eve) received a lot of attention So

they ended up being deployed to Feita

If they achieved ood chance that they’d get dragged into

somewhere else

“Finding the El won’t be important anymore Kukuk”

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Other members’ opinions was that they couldn’t leave alone De over the

Elrios Continent(Ara agreed especially) Eve who shouldn’t have much to do with this also didn’t

look like she had any discontents

“Of course…”

Was it because Elsword had decided to join the fight?

Elsword and Eve had been traveling together before and it looked like they will continue to do so

“Hmph”

Add stood up feeling dissatisfied Why did he care?

Fights with Deoal during the fight

When Eve’s eyes turn not towards Elsword but toward Add himself…Add will take Eve’s Core

without any hesitation

“Kukukuk, that’s right Good, it’s great”

There was possibility that Deain In that case, he’ll just use the

experience he gained froain

“Kahahaha!!”

Add felt delighted and let out a refreshi+ng laugh with his arms wide open His head that was clouded

with many unknown information before was clear now

“…”

Add laughed enjoyably for a while then slowly shut his aze

towards hi on the doorsill

Why didn’t you tell ?

Add was frozen and couldn’t move, Eve composedly stated her business as if she hadn’t seen

anything

“Meal is ready Come downstairs”

“…Okay”

Add answered with a feeling of his throat drying up Eve left right away as if she had no more

business here now

“Why is she acting like that?”

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Eve’s attitude was like that ever since he had fallen asleep while holding her hand It didn’t look too

different since she was cold towards Add before…but he could feel a strange wall between them

now

“I thought I understood but I can’t”

Well, that’s why she spurred on his desire for research in the first place

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st floor of the inn Add, Eve, Elsword and Ara sat around the round table located in the corner of

the floor and started to eat

Four of their food preferences differed greatly Elsword and Ara ate meat, Eve’s foods were

coetarian and Add had a small appetite so he only ate appetizers

“Why do you only eat vegetables MsEve? Meat is tasty too”

“I heard that vegetarian diet is good for your health”

Eve replied calmly then added as if she just remembered

“Although Nasods don’t need to worry about health”

“Vegetables are expensive, they are way too expensive…”

“That’s why I used etables Was there a problem with that

Elsword?”

Eve’s voice turned slightly cold Elsas too focused with eating meat that he didn’t realize this

change and continued his complaints

“Eating ht”

“That’s true I also ate a lot of meat since I was little!”

“Nutritional unbalance ruins the balance of your body Didn’t I warn you before?”

Elsword took a bite out of the e sigh

They see before

“What do you think Big brother Add? What’s better to eat in order to fight?”

At this sudden question, Add stopped his hand that was scooping up soup with a spoon Elsword’s

tone felt like he asked without ht but Ara and Eve were now very attentive

“Meat co of the Haan family”

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“I also researched quite a bit into this It’s better to reject careless consumption of meat and

prioritize in vegetarian diet”

Ara thought seriously at Eve’s response then shook her head

“But strength is i vegetables”

“Fighting isn’t done only through strength”

Eve answered then looked vacantly at Add That gaze see him to hurry up and back

her up

“…Well, it’s true that fighting isn’t done only through strength”

“Ah?! Then will it be better for etables after all?”

Ara becaly looked down at the meat on her

plate seerets

“You don’t haveyou kno to do is using strength so just

eat whatever you want”

“Ah, thank you for your advice MrAdd I’ll do just that”

Ara sently and continued her meal Add had meant that as a taunt but it felt aard now

because he got way too fresh of a response back

Eve stared at Add coldly then continued to eat her vegetables quietly Elshose hand had

stopped for a ain Only Add’s hands remained stopped

from this oddly formed silence

What was this odd atmosphere?

Could it be that they are calling into question how he h Ara herself was

continuing to eat withon his mind

Was it too harsh to say that all she had was strength after all? Ara was a girl too He just had

forgotten because he got teased by Eun so eously

in the front lines

“A…”

When Add opened his azes focused on hiot

startled by this unexpectedly heated reaction

“Actually…”

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How should he apologize? No, did he really need to apologize? Add tried to buy tiht

of various solutions in hisa word

This is why I hate eating together with everyone

Let’s just get it over with Just when Add was about to continue his words in a flat tone,

“Actually what I said before was too muc…”

“Were you guys eating?”

Rena approached and spoke to the chair

“Did everything go well, Rena?”

“Umm, that’s…”

Rena didn’t sit on the open chair and trailed her words When the other aze fixed on her

as well, Rena took a slight glance behind her A young man politely bowed his head towards the El

Search Party

“I think it would be better for you to listen to what MrLento here says”

“Nice to meet you, I’m the captain of the Feita’s temple deployment unit Lento Thank you for

accepting our call for help”

“No, I just did what I had to as a martial artist”

Ara answered brightly but Lentos expression was dark Shouldn’t he be rejoiced that reinforcements

had arrived?

Add noticed this and asked in a low voice

“I thought you requested for help because Demons had invaded…But it seems you have a different

problem What is it?”

Add ht away He looked at Rena once then

looked at the El Search Partyto eat

“Actually…It looks like the Demons have been defeated”

“Kukukuk That’s a very peculiar way of saying it”

Add accepted Lento’s words while laughing But Add’s eyes were shi+ning sharply Judging by how

Lento had said it, it wasn’t him or anyone he knew that had defeated the Demons

Then who did?

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“Spit it all out since you called us all the way out here Don’t stall for time”

“Umm, Add?”

Add was speaking forcefully but stopped when Rena called out his naht smile

“I kno you feel but don’t press MrLento too much He’s just as confused about this”

“…I also have ”

Lento then spoke again in a low voice

“I would like all of you to go scout what happened to the Demons”

Scouting mission

Telling us to go find out what happened without giving any proper information Add didn’t like this

at all but Rena had accepted this mission on her own

El Search Party’s leader was Rena No one else objected to her decision so they ended up taking this

mission

Add was going up to his roo Soft footsteps were following

him

“Add? Are you angry?”

“I never said anything”

Add didn’t stop his steps and headed to his room But Rena also did the same Add was about to

open the door to the boy’s bedrooht smile beside him and let

out a sigh She was about to follow him into the room if he didn’t talk

“If you have so like this recently?”

“H me what he really wants to say”

He didn’t understand what sheinside the

roos Add decided this and leaned on the

door on his back But he soon frowned after a ht

…Why do I have to worry about getting misunderstood by someone else? It didn’t matter at all for

him even if Eve misunderstood

“How are things going with Eve?”

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“…”

An abrupt topic, Add winced then forcedly let out a laugh

“Kukukuk, I don’t knohat you’re talking about”

“I’ about what Add thinks about Eve”

“…”

Add withdrew his laugh at this sudden question that was thrown straight at hiht Rena

was teasing hi calmly

“Do I have to report everything to you? And that shouldn’t have anything to do with the current

mission”

“As I thought You didn’t likemission after all”

Add turned his eyes around when Rena made a bitter smile Seriously, she wasn’t an Elf, she was a

devil Add started talking straightforwardly since his thoughts got found out anyways

“I get that they are having trouble because Demons that took over Feita’s temple suddenly stopped

But if that’s the case, they should just look into it by theo do

so so trivial?”

“Hmm, that makes sense”

“Coe scale invasion then we’re bound to get lots of

help requests from all over the place We can’t physically answer theht

of the mission before you take them”

Telling us to co us do the chores? Add didn’t like this situation at all Rena’s overly

soft-hearted decisions will becoe decisions like this in the future

Add felt ry thea troubled look

“…Just send Ara and me We’re the fastest in the party We’ll take care of this quickly so we can

leave this place”

They had already accepted this ry now He just had to

s up but Rena shook her head

“No, everyone has to go together”

“That’ll just slow things down”

Was she going to say soain? Add’s voice was filled with displeasure

but Rena spoke calmly

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“It’s because there’s soether”

“What are you hiding?”

That guy Lento was acting strangely and Rena seemed to knohy

“De Feita until two days ago

Then…the whole situation changed when a single person appeared”

Rena explained carefully

“That person headed to the Temple of Dedication alone and Demons have stopped all activities

ever since Now do you understand?”

“Who was that person?”

Add asked an obvious question Let’s try to organize this situation One person headed to the

Teered Feita Then that person wentever

since?

“MrLento didn’t tell erous”

Rena was rave expression that was rare for her Someone headed alone towards the

Deed completely after that

It was logically difficult to believe this story

“What? Did that person go do negotiations or so?”

“Well MrLento didn’t see more He must have his own situation as well”

Add nodded at the truth that Rena told hie now that he

heard about this hidden circumstance

“Could it be that…that person killed all the Demons by themselves? But if Demons had used the

place as their base then there must have been at least hundreds of them”

“Well…what you said could be true”

When Rena answered without any confidence in her voice, Add let out a short laugh

“There’s no way hu existed, it’d be a monster”

“You never know because the world is a large place And there’s nothing har careful

right?”

“Alright, then let’s all go together even though it er Tell everyone to be well

prepared”

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Someone went to the Demons’ base alone and there was no news after… It was a very interesting

story Add didn’t knohat methods that person used but it wasn’t bad if he could learn how to

fight Demons more effectively from this

Since he didn’t knohen assassins that were after Eve could appear again

“Yes I got it”

“……Then why are you following me inside?”

Add finished his words and had entered the room but was taken aback Rena stood on the doorsill

and made a cute smile

“Because I want to talk more with Add… Will that be okay?”

“We should have finished everything there was to talk about”

Add spoke stiffly to the point where it could have made the listener feel offended But Rena’s smile

didn’t falter

“Hht?”

“…”

Yes, that talk wasn’t over But Add was sick of this topic now Add reacted coldly and glared at Rena

“You’retoo much I’ll take care of that of my own so stop it”

“Hmm, okay I’m sorry if you were offended”

Rena apologized without any signs of being hurt despite Add’s cold answer Add found it difficult

to converse anynore her

“I want to rest Leave now”

“Alright, let’s head out tomorrow at noon”

Rena s the door Finally alone by himself, Add dropped on the

bed and let out a sigh

“She meddles too much…”

Add already knew since long ago that Rena went out of her way to look after even the minor details

of the entire group He also knew that Rena especially paid attention to Add who always tried to be

an outsider

Actually, this was the first time Add had refused her so openly like this

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It was true that his heart felt at ease whenever he spoke to Rena That’s why he was very fond of

her But…

“Kukukuk”

Add was in a position where he had to strive to steal Eve’s Core in order to go back to the past He

had no reason to always match his pace with this overly soft-hearted party

It should be better for hi Eve

“So Demons became silent…?”

Add murmured as he shut his eyes He’ll soon be able to find out what happened

Temple of Dedication entrance

After preparing for the worst, El Search Party entered the temple Since they had heard this place

had been captured by De they expected to encounter here were Demons Everyone

obviously didn’t let their guard down

“…There seems to be no presences?”

They couldn’t see anything even though they moved inside pretty far Ara murmured with a troubled

voice and loosened the grip on her spear Eve also looked around and agreed with Ara

“There are no natures”

“What could have happened?”

“We’ll find out if we go further”

When Elsword tried to round things up simply, Add joined in middle of their conversation

“Moving together like this is waste of ti”

“Yes, shall we?”

“This is Deerous”

Seeing Eve object, Add didn’t reply back to her and instead stared at Rena Rena had the final say

anyways

“Let’s split up into two groups”

Eve nodded in agreeested a compromise Then the problem was no

they were going to divide the groups…But Rena decided that for herself

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“Elsword and Add go left Me, Ara and Eve will go right”

“What?”

Add asked back after hearing such an absurd order He could get information from Eun if he was

with Ara, and he could have various opportunities if moved with Eve

But in the saroup? What could Rena

possibly be thinking?

“I know Add only like girls but please ether with Elsword this time”

“Who said I only like girls…”

Add felt enraged but objecting in anger here would only look like he was trying to cover it up

because what Rena said was true Otherwith Rena without

objections

“…Alright, I’ll do that Then how about communications?”

“We can use these”

Add took the weird objects Eve held out towards him Add tilted his head The object was shaped

like a cone but he couldn’t tell their purpose

“It’s an Extreaphone We can hear each other from far away if we use this”

“Hmm, Ah-Ah……”

Add understood its functions and tried speaking lightly into the aphones It seemed to have an

extreot spread far into the temple

“This is incredible How does this work?”

“Nasods are superior This ”

Eve unexpectedly gave a friendly reaction Add was quite surprised by this fact and stared straightly

at Eve This made Eve turn her head around swiftly after a short pause

“A, anyways there will be no probleht away if you encounter any

enemies And Elsword?”

“What?”

“I’ careless because I’m not near you I won’t let you off easily

if you charge in recklessly at enemies”

“There’s no problem if I win”

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When Elsword replied bluntly, Eve’s gears suddenly jumped at Elsword Elsword instinctively

swung his sword to hit Moby away and laughed refreshi+ngly

“Heheh! So like this won’t work anymore!”

Clank! Elsas feeling confident after hitting away Reby that flew at him after Moby But at

thatElsword’s stance had gotten disturbed after

fending off Moby and Reby He didn’t have any tiain

Still, Elsword soain But…

Slap!

He couldn’t stop Eve’s palered as he dropped on the ground

Eve looked down at him coldly

“How can you say that when you can’t even block soain Don’t do

anything reckless You’ll be putting not only yourself but other people in danger as well”

“…Tch”

Elsword looked extremely dissatisfied but didn’t talk back Eve told Add stiffly

“If Elsword does soht away I’ll allow it”

Eve turned around and left without waiting for Add’s answer Ara hurriedly followed her and Rena

made a bitter smile as she stared at Elsword and Add

“Then contact us if you find so,”

Rena also left as she waved her hand There were only two of them left now Add looked down at

Elsith dissatisfied eyes Elsas sitting downto himself