23. Can you introduce me to your new woman?
The black robe billowed in the wind, her long black hair cascading down. Yilu, who now made me look again, was no longer weak but filled with madness and cold beauty. Her eyes seemed to shine with fire, fixed on me.
Everything around us—the elves, Aidefu, even Kfeier, whom Yilu had just wanted to kill in the script—seemed to fade away, as if she was looking only at me, and nothing else! Clearly, there was no script about “killing me,” yet the pressure I felt was more unbearable than if I had been killed hundreds of times.
All of this suddenly reminded me of Yilu’s previous attitude toward me!
[Yilu cares deeply about O’Keefe!]
I knew, but… how was I to know it would develop like this!?
[Yilu wants to kill Kfeier.]
The emergence of this abnormal script left me no time to think further, and I immediately reached out to block Yilu’s path.
“Yilu, I advise you not to entertain any ill thoughts, especially toward Kfeier.”
Otherwise, even if I read through all the scripts and knew I was just a weakling, I would never let you off the hook.
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I know that the threat from someone like me sounds ridiculous, but Nilu tilted her head seriously and asked with confusion.
“But she has never protected you even once?”
“My actions do not require your speculation and evaluation!”
Kefier is the only true protagonist in the script; she is the one who can change the script by herself; she is the only one who can use the protagonist’s aura to keep me alive! How many times have I relied on Kefier to change the deadlocks in the script? Nilu doesn’t need to understand this, nor do I need her to!
And now, it’s no longer about whether Kefier is the protagonist or whether Nilu looks like she has “thicker thighs.” The choice has already been made; what do you want me to do, fall in love with someone else?
“I knew you would say that.”
Nilu’s gaze passed through me, looking at Kefier behind me.
In an instant, it became icy cold.
“So, I will continue to prove to you: the things she can do, I can do for you as well. And those incompetent things of hers that put you in danger but cannot protect you, I can… protect you.”
“Nilu, you…”
“One day you will understand through my repeated proofs, Mr. O’Keefe, please… be patient.”
Taking a step back, the fire in Nilu’s eyes flared up once again!
“Jias!”
Then, in a wave of dizziness, my consciousness was drawn into chaos.
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A few days later.
Waking up in a room that wasn’t exactly luxurious, I felt a strange and slightly guilty sensation, as if I had “dreamed some strange dreams while sleeping, and in those dreams, I saw ‘other women’ besides Kefier.”
Then, I immediately experienced a “heavenly feeling,” after all, when I opened my eyes, I saw the warmth left behind by the owner of the bed beside me, who had just left not long ago. Looking up, accompanied by a fragrance Wafting from nearby, a flawlessly beautiful white-haired girl was tying her long braid and wearing an apron while cooking for me.
At the moment she turned around and saw that I was awake, the panic in her eyes immediately revealed her shyness and nervousness, and she hurriedly changed the subject to avoid my gaze lingering on her.
“I’m sorry, my cooking skills are not good!”
“Not at all, Kefier.”
Don’t mention it, your cooking has already brought enough aroma; even if you made a pot of charcoal, I could still swallow it down! This is heaven!
To avoid seeming like a useless pretty boy who only eats what his wife makes, I quickly changed my clothes and went to Kefier’s side. Although everything felt like a “honeymoon in a foreign land,” I couldn’t help but voice my confusion after that “strange dream.”
“Kefier, speaking of which… what have we been doing these past few days?”
Of course, I knew what we had done: this is the Kingdom of Pluris inhabited by elves, and I had been accidentally targeted by the King of Pluris—a peculiar S-type elf loli named Adiv, who had a strange obsession, and was forced into a marriage.
I definitely did not agree to this forced marriage, but while I was waiting for Kefier to negotiate the artifacts of the Pluris Kingdom, I was looking for an excuse to withdraw when, by coincidence, Adiv discovered my relationship with Kefier. In the end, she helped me escape the wedding, and now we are staying in the capital of the Pluris Kingdom, enjoying a tense yet thrilling honeymoon life.
Everything seemed fine, but I always felt like something was “disconnected.”
“What are you talking about? Don’t you remember better than I do?”
Kefier, holding a spoon, blinked at me in confusion. Kefier is truly amazing!
I didn’t think there was any “problem,” but some situations in the script made it impossible for me to ignore. According to the situation, it should have been Kefier who helped me escape the wedding and ran away with me, but that was not the case in the script. Rather, a strange name appeared!
[Nilu Saved Oujilide.]
Hiss…
“Who is that Nilu?”
“You got yourself into trouble and caught the attention of Aidefu. I brought you to escape, so don’t think about any artifacts or whatever.”
Just as I was explaining, Kefier suddenly frowned, striking a spoon against the pot, starting me into a shiver.
“And who is that Miss Nilu you just mentioned? Which elven beauty is she? Can you introduce me, Oujilide?”
Uh? Kefier doesn’t know her either? It seems I really didn’t misremember.
“This, this is your misunderstanding, Kefier. Actually, I didn’t say anything just now. Can we just eat, okay~?”
“Sure~ not a chance!”
Kefier pinched my ear directly. “You had Aidefu leave, and now Nilu shows up? What is her identity!?”
I want to know too, big shot! I don’t know her either, but this script suddenly introduced a Nilu who saved me, instead of you saving me, and I’m still at a loss! The only one who should be able to save me is Kefier, not to mention that I don’t know any elves here in the Kingdom of Pluris.
The next moment, just as I was about to explain, familiar voices drifted in from outside the small house Kefier and I were temporarily renting.
“Open up! Checking the water meter!”
I quickly signaled Kefier to stop pinching me, and then, with her fuming yet helpless expression, I let out a long sigh, immensely grateful to the guy checking the water meter, and hurried to open the door.
In the end…
At the moment I turned the lock, the door was forcefully slammed open from the outside, hitting me right on the forehead!
The next moment, a short figure burst in, accompanied by a group of elves wielding short swords, “Checking the water meter.”
“Quite clever at hiding, it took me two days to find you.”
“Oujilide, Kefier, how’s your honeymoon going!?”
A familiar figure…
The King of the Kingdom of Pluris, Aidefu, looked over with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.
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