The Devil Does Not Need to Be Defeated

What?”  Diere herself bunched up her brow in surprise, “You’re saying that the reason that Melika’s magic power is suddenly increasing may very well be because a constant weak flow of magic power is entering her body?”  

 

“I can’t particularly guarantee that as fact.”  Shien shook his head, “However, if you’re asking me if I have any ideas, then that’s the only thing I’ve discovered.”  

 

Diere’s kept her worried expression at that and fell silent.  

 

A while later, Diere spoke up.  

 

“Melika is an elf, and elves are life forms born from nature itself.  If magic power is indeed constantly gathering in her vicinity and even entering her body, then it wouldn’t really be strange for Melika to have increased in magic power.”  Diere spoke blandly, “Basically, this current situation isn’t all that different from the basic logic behind magic springs.”  

 

“Magic springs?”  Shien was stunned for a moment before reacting, “You’re saying that the magic power in question was the fundamental magic power of the world itself that was flowing through the air?”  

 

Magic springs were formed because the magic power of the world had gathered in one place and materialized into a liquid form.  

 

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And Melika, as an elf born from nature, is naturally close to nature and the world itself.  In that case, if the magic power in the air itself flowed into her body, then as an elf of nature, it wouldn’t be surprising if she were to absorb that magic power and grow from it.  

 

“The question is though, just why is it that the world’s magic power suddenly started to gather around Melika.”  

 

Diere brought up the question remainding.  

 

This time, even Shien had narrowed his eyes and fell silent.  

 

Shien thus didn’t discover that at that moment, Melika was currently blatantly staring at him.  

 

Looking at Shien who was deeply in thought, Melika’s own gaze wavered.  

 

If they’re talking about if there was anything unusual with her recently, then Melika could only think of one thing.  

 

And that thing had to do with Shien.  

 

(Ever since that night, I feel like the feeling of closeness to Mr.
Shien had grown even stronger)  

 

That had weakened the guarded feeling that Melika had held toward shien little by little.  

 

A bit before, the reason that Melika agreed to allow Shien to accompany her to prevent her from ever being alone was also because of this.  

 

At this point, Melika would even unconsciously want to get closer to Shien every now and then.  Her gaze would also often unconsciously move toward Shien.  There was even once that Lumia had told her that when she was asleep, her was unconsciously muttering Shien’s name, which embarrassed her to no end.  

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(Why did I suddenly become this way?)  

 

Melika was rather worried over this, and her hands unconsciously touched at her clothes.  

 

The flower crown that Shien had given Melika sat quietly nder that patch of clothes, undiscovered by anyone.  

 

Then, not even Shien himself noticed that the magic power gathering about Melika was in actuality gathered to that flower crown.  It was just that as it got closer to the flower crown, it was absorbed by Melika as an elf of nature.  

 

(Uhmn, I feel like I’m becoming more and more unlike myself.)  

 

Melika.
who didn’t know any of this, mentally cried out.  

 

In the end, Melika decided not to speak up about that particular abnormality.  She instead just claimed that she hadn’t felt anything unusual.  

 

With that, the question naturally became unanswerable.  

 

Without any other recourse, the group could only give up and continue cleaning up the battleground.  

 

Not long after, the transport team once again set off.  

 

At this point, they have already entered the Fednis ducal territory.  They’re already close to the capital.  

 

However, others have come chasing them, and those others weren’t far either.