Surrounded by about a dozen of elven women, Moriyana and the rest of her party were for once, tired of being complimented while being forcefully dolled up in all kinds of elven attires and jewelry. Had it not been to gain their trust in them, Moriyana would've simply taken off the lustrous earring and clothes before throwing it all out the treehouse window.
'What the hell is happening? I didn't expect them to be clingy!' Getting dressed by the elves in a white dress with artist's floral patterns of green, Margarette felt crushed under the weight of the fifth heavy dress she was being forced to wear.
"Ahhh…You look so pretty!"
"I didn't know human women were so beautiful!"
"Now I wanna go out into human cities!"
Showering her with compliments once more, they kept staring at Margarette with their gleaming like excited children. Not being able to help themselves they even picked up makeup and began puffing up the alleged humans of the group.
"For once I'm glad, we're not human," watching it all unfold from the couch, Athena felt grateful that she didn't have to deal with all this.
"Y-yeah…Honestly, I just wanna go back to Master now," Alice added, feeling extremely homesick already.
Storming in through the front door, Laura came clapping her hands loudly to get everyone's attention. Once all eyes turned to her, she stood in front of the door with a sour expression and her hands resting on her hips.
"Everyone out, I need to talk to my friends alone," she ordered the elves to leave, however, none of them seemed willing to just walk out because she said so.
Pitching in to break the stalemate, Margarette hinted to Laura with her eyes to get away from the door. The moment, she took a step to the side, Margarette held her hand forward and caught all the elves with holy chain binds.
"Goodbye, talk to you guys later," with that said, she had the chains drag them all out before Laura shut the door once they were gone.
Letting out an exhausted sigh, Laura moved closer to the group while Margarette and Moriyana tried to take off all the heavy clothes they were being weighed by. Turning to the demi-cats who were only given a pair of gowns to hide their bodies, Laura felt as though even her village elves had some discriminatory values against the demi-humans.
'Nevermind.' Shaking her head, she pushed those thoughts away.
"We looked around in the forest and it doesn't seem like the mercenaries know we're here. Still, just as a precaution, the rest of my party are hiding around the cave's entrance in case anyone tries to come in," with that explanation, she relaxes her shoulders and moves beside the demi-cats to sit down as well. "You still haven't told me why those guys were attacking us though."
"We were trying to scam that nobleman for access to the library, that's why. Why else would they attack us?" Moriyana replied without a second's delay.
None of Haruki's servants wanted to give anyone an ounce more information than what was necessary, especially since turning people into demons to take control over them was not a real option anymore, at least not for a while.
Shooting a suspicious gaze at Moriyana, Laura didn't seem convinced at all. In her mind, she knew that getting the gold needed to be her priority rather than question this person who has taken them on a trip through another world of which she barely remembered anything.
"Sure, if you say so…" Laura let the matter go.
'Our village is gonna need more funds for repairs soon, maybe I should ask for some funds already?' contemplating the thought while the two changed clothes, Laura didn't feel as though she deserved to ask for more gold yet since they hadn't found anything. 'Maybe I ought to wait a bit more before ask-'
Interrupting her chain of thought, the sounds of screams from outside made her jump high up from the sofa. In an instant, everyone was on guard as the sound of screaming elves trailed into their ears.
"What the?" Getting off the sofa, Laura was the first to head for the door.
But the moment she opened it up and peered out, her steps quickly retreated inward as though scared for her life. Moving past the scared elf, Margarette and Moriyana stuck their heads out through the doorway to get a look at what kind of horror Laura had witnessed.
"Oh lord, it's just her…" Unimpressed by the sight of a fire dragon sitting atop the tallest tree in the village, Margarette knew exactly who it was.
"What the hell is she doing up there?" Walking out the door, Moriyana whispered to herself.
Baffled by the casual tone in their voice, Laura carefully followed them out the doorway with Alice and Athena in tow. Peering up again, she saw the dragoness in her entirety with her wings spread wide as if to intimate the inhabitants of the village.
"Laura, can you ask you folks to stop freaking out?" Asked Moriyana, watching as a few elven guards readied their bows to attack the dragoness.
"Y-you guys know who that is?!" Freaking out of her mind, Laura couldn't believe her ears.
"She's a friend," Alice answered, reassuring Laura by placing a hand on her shoulder.
Before Laura could ask them to put their weapons down, however, the guards shot their first volley of arrows at the single-handed dragoness. Thankfully, before the arrow even made it to her scales, they burned down by the heat of her body alone.
"Do not…" Huffing out a scoff, Rose drew her limbs inwards and had her body slowly turned into that of a human. After shrinking her flesh for a while, the scales were gone from her body and only her dragonic armor was left behind on her human body.
The elven guards, although shivering and astonished by the feat, drew their arrows back on the commander's demands.
"Stop!"
"Rose whip!"
"Holy chain binds!"
In the end, they had to be forcefully apprehended by the two demons so that they don't end up getting burned alive by an angry dragoness.
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