This is not the date I wanted.

Shortly after Alan left, the automatic door of the office opened again, and a tall, black-haired, white-collar beauty who looked to be about twenty years old walked in.

She was a newcomer to DEM who was recently recruited by Westcott from abroad... No, strictly speaking, she was a magician of Adept3 in the Second Executive Division - Ai Wulian.

"What's wrong, boss? I just received the order from Sister Allen to go to the battle. If I delay too long and miss the gathering, I will be scolded."

There was no sense of politeness in her tone. Ai Wulian looked at Westcott helplessly, signaling him to get to the point.

"Don't worry, it won't take much time."

Westcott was not angry about Ai Wulian's attitude. He sat on the office chair, crossed his legs, looked at Wulian with a smile on his face and asked.

"What do you think of Alan now?"

"...very strong." After thinking for a moment, Wu Lian answered her opinion truthfully, "Sister Allen was also very strong before. But before that, after your Demon King awakened the wound in the previous world line, her whole aura changed a lot. Although not as aggressive as before, it is sharper."

"throat……"

Westcott was not in a hurry to comment on Wu Lian's words, but looked at her meaningfully and continued to ask,

"So, if Allen and Liang Yi Meng Yue fought again now, who do you think would win?"

"Of course it's Miss Mengyue!"

With a bright and moving smile on her face, Wu Lian said without hesitation.

"What's the reason?"

"Because she's my favorite person, that's the best reason."

"That's it~"

In response to Ai Wulian's answer, which was not even an explanation, Westcott nodded as if he was convinced.

"In that case, please support Alan in the battle later and don't let the one you love the most win."

"Whatever means are acceptable?"

With her brows slightly raised, Wu Lian confirmed with Westcott.

"Of course, any means will do."

Westcott nodded readily.

"If someone objects to your proposal, you can just say I allow it. Of course, it doesn't matter if you achieve your goal right there."

"Understood. Thank you, boss."

Hearing this, Wu Lian smiled happily, saluted, then turned and walked out of the office.

"Oh, by the way, Boss." Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, Ai Wulian stopped and turned back to ask Westcott, "Have you told Sister Allen about the other operation?"

"No, if I tell her, she will definitely come to stop me with an angry look on her face." Shrugging helplessly, Westcott showed a sly smile, "Are you going to stop me?"

"How is that possible~ How could I interfere with my boss's decision? You are here to catch up with an old friend, right? Have a nice chat, boss."

"Thank you for your kind words."

Watching this clever subordinate leave, Westcott leaned back, pressed his entire body weight on the back of the chair, looked up at the black book floating in the air, and a faint smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

"I want Alan to bring a lot of things, but after not seeing him for a long time, he can't avoid being covered in blood, right? Woodman."

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"How is Sister Mengyue doing now?"

"Report, heart rate and favorability are both at normal levels, emotion is 76% of the normal value, and there is no abnormality in the circulation of Shidao's spiritual energy channel. No spiritual energy backflow has been observed so far."

"It would be better if I didn't..."

After hearing the crew's report, Kotori, who was sitting in the command seat, breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, judging from the momentum of the quarrel just now, even if Mengyue's spiritual power went against the flow and started making a big fuss after leaving here, Qinli would not find it strange.

Thanks to Mengyue's stable and mature character, if it were any other elf, and they had a fight like that with Shidao, Kotori would definitely put Rokuko's problem aside and concentrate on solving the elf's out-of-control problem.

(No, if it was Tohka and the others, the quarrel just now would not have happened at all, right?)

Thinking of this, Qinli couldn't help but smile bitterly.

[Next, I will not only give up supporting Shidao's strategy for attacking the elves, but I will even try to stop him depending on the situation.]

It was last September, after the Miku incident, Mengyue privately found Kotori and made the announcement. Since it was several months ago, Kotori didn't take it to heart.

Looking back now, Kotori realized that Mengyue had never once gone back on her words.

During the incident with Nanasin, Mengyue helped them because they took the initiative to cause trouble for Shidao and wanted to destroy him in a social sense.

In the case of Origami, it was the other party who took the initiative to kidnap Shidou and had obvious murderous intentions towards Tohka and others, so Mengyue took the initiative to fight against Origami.

Even during the incident with Erya, Mengyue only agreed to help conquer Erya because the other party clearly asked for help.

The original intention of Liang Yi Meng Yue's actions was completely different from Ratatoskr's action concept from the very beginning.

The former is to protect the family, and the latter is to save the elves. The reason why there is no problem is simply because there is no contradiction in the direction of the two.

Maybe Mengyue had already guessed that such a situation would happen, which was why she issued an ultimatum to herself at that time.

"Where is Sister Mengyue now?"

Kotori continued to confirm with the crew members.

"Just now, we confirmed that Meng Yue returned to her room in the Elf Apartment. From the external camera, it seems that she has no intention of leaving the house."

"Stuck in your room? Never mind. This is fine. Send guards to patrol the perimeter of the apartment. If anything goes wrong, notify me immediately."

"learn."

Mengyue's question came to an end for the time being. Kotori let out a long breath and turned her gaze to Shidou who had been silent since a while ago.

"What's up Shidou? Does Mengyue's slap still hurt?"

"Haha... Fortunately, it's not swollen."

Touching his cheek, Shidou couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that his emotions were much more stable than before.

Of course, Kotori had no idea whether Shidou's heart was as calm as he appeared on the outside.

"Shidou..."

"What's wrong, Kotori? Normally at this time, shouldn't you have already scolded her harshly, saying something like 'Why did you do such a stupid thing as quarreling with Meng Yuejie? What if the spiritual power flows backwards? You idiot!'"

Hearing Shidou's words, Kotori was stunned at first, then she let out a sigh of helplessness.

"If you are willing to admit that you are a hopeless masochist, I will scold you severely."

"Ah—let's forget it."

"I! I am an incurable pervert, so please Commander, be sure to thoroughly insult me, Kannozuki. The harsher the better! It would be best if you degrade me to the point where I have no human dignity..."

Kotori snapped her fingers, and several big men appeared, dragging the noisy Kanna Tsuki out of the command room.

"Well, since you still have the energy to joke, you don't have to worry. From now on, please focus on conquering Rokuko."

"……learn."

Shidou nodded with a embarrassed look on his face.

(Well, actually we are the ones who should apologize.)

Qin Li felt a little ashamed.

At the beginning, she had imagined how Mengyue would stop Shidao's strategy when she met an elf like Rokuko who was not troubled by the space shock problem and was not dissatisfied with life.

Originally, Kotori thought that Meng Yue's words meant to trip up Shidao in the process of Shidao's capture of the elves and prevent the elves from developing a good impression of Shidao. But in fact, her idea was too naive.

What she did was to subtly shake the beliefs of all Fraxinus members, including herself.

Although Kotori didn't want to admit it, at that time, she was indeed moved by Mengyue's proposal of "not saving Rokuko, but joining forces with her to destroy DEM."

As Shidou said, Hoshimiya Rokuko must have had a very tragic past, so he used an angel to lock his feelings. However, everyone present at the time, under Mengyue's suggestion, came up with the idea that "since there is a way to prevent Rokuko from attacking the earth, and the other party is indeed not dissatisfied with life, then it's okay to leave it alone."

Only Shidou, even though he was refuted by Mengyue's arguments and even though no one supported him, insisted on saving Rokuko, even at the cost of turning against Mengyue and even using an unreasonable attitude.

If it weren't for this, the command room would be carrying out a completely different mission now.

This is also the reason why no one present blamed Shidou after he and Mengyue had a quarrel.

With only an easier and more convenient path before their eyes, the crew of Fraxinus found that what they insisted on was shaken so easily.

(It’s really ugly.)

Qin Li thought with a bit of self-mockery.

Just then, Kotori suddenly noticed a booing sound coming from outside the door of the command room.

"what sound?"

Kotori opened the door with doubts. The next second, the elves who were supposed to stay in the waiting room rushed in all at once.

"Ugh!"

"Yeah..."

"Oppression. Very heavy. Yakuya, Yui thinks you should lose weight."

"This is obviously not just my weight, okay?!"

"Why are you here?"

Looking at the elves standing up from the ground one by one, Kotori asked speechlessly.

"Umm... Sorry Shidou. I didn't mean to eavesdrop."

Tohka lowered her head apologetically, but Miku put her arm around her shoulders and spoke confidently.

"Tohka-san is right! Besides, it's Darling who's making us worried that's wrong."

"Eh?"

"Just before I came here, I saw Mengyue-chan walked out without saying a word. Could it be that Shidao-kun, you and Mengyue-chan had a quarrel?"

"Uh? This..."

After hearing the truth spoken out by Shionai, Shidou was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to explain it to everyone.

"I don't know what to say...but it's better to apologize as soon as possible...Shidou-san..."

Yoshino advised with a worried look on her face.

"You misunderstood. Shidou and Mengyue-nee didn't have a quarrel. It's just that DEM might take action against the elves next. So I asked her to carry out a mission."

Seeing Shidou's embarrassed expression, Kotori sighed and tried to smooth things over for him.

"What... I see. I was worried for nothing. I thought I was going to have a stomachache."

Nanashi was visibly relieved.

"Hmm - that damned lightning priestess actually wanted to secretly show off without telling the concubine of the son of the hurricane. Does that girl take the blood contract seriously?"

"I'm not satisfied. It's not fair to assign the task to Meng Yue alone."

Looking at the resentful Yamai sisters, Kotori hesitated for a moment and then sighed.

Judging from their expressions, if they keep the matter of Rokuko secret, the consequences will probably be several times worse than the quarrel between Mengyue and Shidou.

"Well... it just so happens that I have something to ask of you. If you don't mind, please do me a favor."

"Mmm, leave it to me!"

Tohka nodded enthusiastically.

“What exactly should we do?”

Origami raises a fundamental question.

"That's true. Since the other party is in space, we have another thing to do before we set off."

"whats the matter?"

Shidou asked curiously. In response, Kotori smiled.

"If we are going to go to space, then we must get our airship back."

PS: Have you watched "Girl and the Dragon"? What do you think of it?

PS2: It seems that no one has noticed, so let me give you a reminder that the volume related to the work has updated the character design of Meng Yue’s spiritual outfit.