Quick Transmigration: Manual Mode [BL]

4.8 The Last Fish

"She's not worthy of our attention." Angus said decisively, waving his hand away. It was as if all the love plot was just imagination.

The only authentic information was probably the love between the saint and the Duke in the original novel. Looking at the guy keep glancing at the saint, a corner of the elf's mouth twitched, feeling like someone was coveting his daughter.

"I still have no traces of their main operation. They mainly gather at the border of the empire but their recent blatant kidnapping in the North was strange." The Duke leaned back on the chair, crossing his arms in an imposing manner.

"They are in a hurry. Maybe their goal is almost reached..." There was no more smile on Alfred's face. His eyes darkened visibly and a murderous aura emitted from his body. It meant that too many people had been sacrificed for that cult, and too many lives were lost due to the empire's 'strongest' forces' incompetence.

Aeson tightened his grip and patted the man's hand assuredly. Alfred turned around and showed a helpless smile. Lives were already lost and they could only try to prevent more from being taken.

All of a sudden, Aeson felt a strange sensation in his heart. His patting hand froze and his eyes became unfocused. That moment only took several seconds but it already caused great concern to the man next to him.

"What's wrong with you?" Alfred worriedly grabbed the little elf's shoulder and pulled him closer to his chest. His usual arrogant attitude changed into a frown.

"I-I have to go back..." The World Tree and the Elf King were calling for him. His heart of an elf was urging him to go or something terrible would happen to the elves and the world. Thankfully, he did not go too far from the village yet.

Seeing him abruptly walking out of the hidden room, everyone was flustered. Alfred immediately followed despite the confused remaining people in the room.

Liliana chased after them but to no avail, the two people she followed disappeared. She panicked, not knowing what to do at this juncture. Then a shadow loomed behind her back, looking at her fidgety appearance, Angus's usual unmoved eyes softened.

He wanted to take her with him but looking at her vigilant appearance, she would definitely guard against him. So he could only offer her some AEDs for her to stay in the inn and also chose to settle there until he had further information from the strange boy and the wizard. Thankfully, they at least left a message for Liliana to reassure her a little bit that they would come back and help her situation. Angus wanted to know more about her but he knew it would be impolite for a married man to try to question an unmarried woman so he chose to stay until they came back.

Compared to the tangled thoughts of the Duke, Alfred was having the time of his life.

"...I remember you can use teleportation?" Aeson looked at his lover with disdain.

"I have been using too much power today, cutie. Don't you remember the illusion I had to cast this morning? And then I had to use my power to track you when you tried to hide your presence." Alfred was busy listing his exploits to explain that he had no strength to use magic.

However, Aeson was not stupid, he knew that his lover was just wanting to eat his tofu. Looking at the invigorated appearance, Alfred was even carrying him in princess style while running through the forest with an invisibility spell and an acceleration spell. How could Aeson believe him? But he just let it go and decided to be a salted fish in the man's arms. With the current speed, they would arrive at the village gate at least in a day.

Regardless, Aeson could not just let an outsider enter the village without authorization so he had to convince the pouting Alfred to wait for him at a further distance. His plan was to finish collapsing the plot and elope with his lover anyway so he promised to let Alfred accompany him later. The lover of this world was more clingy and more childish compared to his previous worlds but he quite liked it, the only thing that never changed was his attentiveness to himself.