"This should be fine, right?" Felyn muttered to the mirror in his bedroom.

Because Daiyi was still waiting downstairs, Felyn sped up the process of changing his clothes.

"Are you also struggling with what to wear?"

Felyn was startled by the voice behind him. He turned to see Bernice, one hand on the window, flipping into the room from outside.

The bubble socks were a perfect match for her legs, like cream on a white chocolate stick.

"Bernice, don't just barge into my room," Felyn said, glancing up at the window. There was clearly nothing outside, and he couldn't figure out where Bernice had come from.

"Your girlfriend is downstairs, so I can only flip through the window to have a private meeting with you. If Daiyi finds out, she'll get angry."

Bernice leaned against the desk, her arms crossed.

Felyn glanced at her. "Since it's a private meeting, why aren't you wearing padded bras? It seems you don't like me that much... Ouch, ouch, ouch!"

His foot was stomped on hard by Bernice, the short, black-and-red-haired girl's expression was terrible.

"I came to talk about the contract." Seeing Felyn already begging for mercy in pain, Bernice finally lifted her chin and released her foot.

"Contract?"

"Have you forgotten about my contract with you? I haven't seen you make any intimate moves on Daiyi recently."

The content of the contract Bernice and Felyn had signed was to act as lovers with Daiyi at all times.

It was just that recently, Felyn and Daiyi still hadn't made any progress, and Bernice was getting a little anxious.

"Can't be helped." Felyn sat on a chair, rubbing the foot Bernice had just stomped on. "I usually provide the service after receiving payment. You haven't taught me any divine arts or sigils, so naturally, I'm a bit lazy. Why don't you teach me one now?"

Bernice said irritably, "The divine statue inside you only became clear after you slept with the princess. Before that, you didn't meet the conditions to learn divine arts, so I couldn't teach you."

"I didn't sleep with Dorothy. Could you please not slander our lovely imperial princess?"

Felyn, who had retorted casually, realized what he had just said and wanted to take it back.

Dorothy was no longer lovely.

She had become terrifying.

"Today is a good opportunity. After your date with Miss Daiyi ends, I will teach you a divine art." Hearing Daiyi's footsteps on the stairs, Bernice turned and jumped onto the windowsill.

"Also..." Bernice's eyes lowered slightly, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the window frame.

Her legs, pressed together, outlined a long, firm line in the sunlight.

"Is... small... really no good?"

Her voice was so light it almost melted into the wind, the tips of her ears turning a faint rose color.

Felyn almost didn't understand what Bernice was talking about.

After it registered, he then showed a standard professional smile. Of course, he had to be polite to his boss.

"Small is also very cute. At least, I like it a lot."

That pair of eyes, sparkling like morning stars, glared at Felyn. Then Bernice turned her face away, letting the wind scatter her short hair and stir her heartstrings.

"Today, Miss Daiyi is..."

"I know, I'll work hard today," Felyn said to Bernice.

A knock came from the bedroom door.

"Is Bernice in there? I thought I heard her voice. She didn't say anything out of line, did she?"

"No, she's not here."

Felyn lied to Daiyi, but he didn't lie to Bernice.

Small was indeed quite cute.

When they reached the entryway, Felyn searched all over but couldn't find the key.

"It might be in the pocket of the clothes you wore yesterday. I'll go look."

It was Daiyi who had put Felyn's clothes in the laundry basket yesterday.

She bent down, her feet with their wine-red nail polish slowly slipping out of her high heels, and then walked into the room.

Felyn was diligent about doing laundry, so there weren't many clothes in the basket.

Daiyi squatted down, her fair legs faintly visible through the slit of her dress, her knees a pale pink.

"Found it."

Daiyi found the key in the pocket of Felyn's shirt.

Just as she was about to stand up, she noticed that the hand she had just used to touch Felyn's clothes was covered in some sparkling powder.

"What is this?"

She moved closer to look, then placed her hand in the sunlight.

The powder, containing purple magic power, looked beautiful in the sun, like a miniature nebula held in her palm.

Starglimmer Dust.

Daiyi naturally recognized what it was. She also knew it was something left behind when a Crystalwing Moth cast an illusion.

She only knew that Felyn had gone to the dungeon yesterday, but not what he had done there.

But the residue on his clothes indicated that he had at least fought a Crystalwing Moth.

However, the Starglimmer Dust on Felyn's clothes was not ordinary.

Even after a day had passed, it still carried a large amount of pure magical aura.

As the daughter of a Church Elder, Daiyi knew this was no ordinary magical aura.

Only high-level magical beasts possessed such pure magic.

But there was no way Felyn and Zervanie could have defeated such a high-level magical beast.

"Did you find it, Daiyi?" Felyn came to find Daiyi when he saw she had been gone for so long.

"Yes, I found it." Daiyi showed Felyn the key in her palm. "Did you fight a Crystalwing Moth yesterday? There's Starglimmer Dust on your clothes."

"Oh, not really. We encountered a high-level magical beast, but luckily she didn't harm us."

Felyn didn't know that the illusion had been transmitted to the young ladies by Eitani, so he didn't think there was anything to hide.

"Was it an illusion?"

"Yes. Both Zervanie and I were caught in an illusion. You know, that magical beast's illusion was quite immersive. Everything around us felt real."

Daiyi's hand tightly gripped Felyn's shirt from yesterday as she squatted on the ground, looking up at his face.

Could it be...

A rather bold idea appeared in Daiyi's mind.

Could the dream from last night have been the illusion Felyn was in?

But Daiyi couldn't figure out why she would dream about it.

Was there magic that could transmit illusions?

Daiyi thought about it, and there actually was.

Arch-magic.

This type of magic, which transcended the laws of nature, required an extremely large amount of magic power to activate each time.

If it was arch-magic, then nothing was impossible.

The pure magical aura left on Felyn's body was also exactly what a high-level magical beast capable of casting arch-magic would leave behind.

"Is that so." Daiyi suppressed the emotions in her heart and slowly stood up, steadying herself against the wall.

She stared intently into Felyn's eyes, trying to find the answer to her next question on his face.

"So what illusion were you in?"

"It was very ordinary. Just having breakfast at home. I thought it was quite lively."

Felyn saw Daiyi's eyebrows raise, her dark green eyes widening suddenly.

"What's wrong?"

"Then... did you see me?" Daiyi didn't even notice that after she said this, her body had taken a step closer to Felyn.

"Yes, I saw you."

"On the sofa? Let me guess, was Viloti there too?" Daiyi's fingertips unconsciously curled, searching for the answer in Felyn's eyes.

"No."

Felyn was too embarrassed to tell her what happened in the illusion.

Before realizing he was in an illusion, everything Felyn did with the young ladies was fake; it didn't represent his true inner thoughts, so he didn't care.

But the things he said to Daiyi in the illusion were said after Felyn had become clear-headed.

Felyn lied, but standing in front of him was Daiyi.

The Daiyi who could perceive his subtle expressions, who had been observing him for a long time.

Felyn's lies could deceive Dorothy, they could deceive Zervanie, but they couldn't deceive Daiyi.

Daiyi's lips trembled, but in the end, she didn't say the words.

You're lying, Felyn.

(End of Chapter)