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Kirsten stood where she was and waited for Mirabelle. She closed her eyes and slowly injected her mana into the explosive arrows. She did that in order to better focus on her hearing.

“They’re coming…”

Thanks to her acute hearing, Kirsten opened her eyes when she heard the sound of footsteps. She looked right at Mirabelle, who was running straight towards her.

To Kirsten, Mirabelle’s speed was incredibly slow, but the tree demons were even slower than Mirabelle. It could be said that Mirabelle was slightly faster than the tree demons.

“Kirsten! Prepare yourself!”

Mirabelle shouted loudly at her while soon arriving by Kirsten’s side. She anxiously told Kirsten, “Hurry, shoot them now! Otherwise, both of us will die…”

“…”

Kirsten listened to Mirabelle and instantly released the explosive arrow at the five tree demons. The explosive arrow accurately hit the tree demon in the middle and produced an incomparably large explosion.

The explosion ignited the flammable wood and rapidly reduced the tree demons’ HP.

The tree demons then hurriedly rushed towards the lake out of fear. However, the tree demons were slow and their levels were low, so before the flames could be put out by the lake water, the tree demons’ HP stats reached zero in midair as they jumped.

This was beyond Mirabelle’s expectations.

“They were killed so easily? That’s really surprising. I originally thought that we would need to give them some more arrows while they were messing around in the water…”
“Mirabelle is amazing. You can calculate their deaths just like a genius would. By the way, how did you find them with such precision?”
“There’s no need for you to think about that. We’ll destroy one more wave of tree demons, since creating blue maple paper needs that amount of wood as well. We still have blinding arrows, so even if we meet an S rank magical beast, we can use those arrows to blind it…”
“Is that so? No worries, I will continue…”

Kirsten placed the dead tree demons, which would be used as source material for making blue maple paper, into her hunting bag which had a magical seal etched into it that would automatically reduce the size of anything placed into it.

-This was a seal that Mirabelle had made last night in order to maximize the benefits of hunting magical beasts. Sometimes, they would even need to treat magical beast corpses as valuable meat. This hunting bag would be any hunter’s treasure.

Kirsten felt that Mirabelle was really a genius to be able to make such a thing. This hunting bag would help the entire elf town tremendously, not only Kirsten.

However, Mirabelle told her –

“I don’t want to publicize this. If I have to serve someone, I only want to serve you…”

This was an indisputable fact.

Mirabelle didn’t want to share her creations with anyone apart from Kirsten. She felt that unfamiliar elves who were given these creations would just waste them.

Kirsten actually felt moved when Mirabelle said this. She indeed wanted to monopolize the treasures that Mirabelle made.

As Kirsten was thinking this, heavy footsteps came from the front –

It was Mirabelle. Mirabelle had returned.

Of course, the killing intent came from the five tree demons.

Not one more or one less. Mirabelle was able to precisely attract five tree demons each time.

Typically, the tree demons were in a deep sleep while camouflaged. They wouldn’t wake up unless someone attacked them directly like Mirabelle did – the tree demons then angrily followed Mirabelle.

The tree demons were annihilated just like the last time, which completed the slay 10 tree demons sidequest for Mirabelle –

Mirabelle completed her work for today and successfully reached level 40.

-Today was far more successful than Mirabelle had anticipated. She actually increased 30 levels just from two sidequests. The sidequest’s experience rewards were incredibly useful for her training period of pre-level 100.

However, the tree demon sidequest didn’t give her any gold coins as a reward.

Mirabelle didn’t mind as long as she got plenty of experience points.

“Kirsten, we’ve completed our quest for today. It’ll be enough to just kill a few more magical beasts and take their corpses with us as we go back…”
“Okay… I’ll be right there!”

As Kirsten placed the tree demon corpses into her bag and then tied the bag to her waist, a large sound suddenly came from the lake water.

Something twisted itself around Kirsten’s ankle.

“Kirsten!”

Mirabelle focused and finally noticed the magical beast hidden in the lake water –

“It’s fine, this guy is…”

Mirabelle heaved a sigh of relief when she saw the magical beast’s name and level.

However, the clear lake water suddenly tangled her feet.

The clear lake water seemed to act like an invisible tentacle that made Kirsten and Mirabelle’s clothes wet.

Their bodies were then stuck together by an invisible force.

“D… damn it… I’ll have to teach you a lesson!”

However, when Mirabelle wanted to use a bow, she discovered that neither she nor Kirsten could move their hands.

Mirabelle’s hand seemed as if it was glued to Kirsten’s back. It was the same for Kirsten’s hand.

Both their bodies were tied in midair close to the ground as their bodies were smushed tightly together.

“Hey, Mirabelle, what should we do now?”
“For right now, I can only think of two methods.”
“Really? That’s great!”

Something bad would happen if this suggestive pose was seen by the elves in town.

At that time, the entire town would spread rumors about them-

Not only were Kirsten and Mirabelle living together, but such a suggestive pose would also make others think that they were sexually flirting with each other.

“What’s the method?”
“Use a weapon to slice through the sticky fluid binding our feet. This guy is just a sticky ball of fluid, and it’s basically harmless…”
“Harmless? Are you for real?”
“Yes, it’s harmless. We can get down any time that we have a weapon…”
“W… weapon, I have one…”
“Really? Where?”
“It’s… it’s…”

Kirsten’s face was bright red as she couldn’t even look Mirabelle in the eyes out of embarrassment.

“We can get down as long as we have a weapon. Where is it?”
“It’s tied to my butt…”
“I see. Let’s hurry and get down then.”
“But, I can’t reach it, because my hand is stuck in the sticky fluid, so I can only ask you…”
“You… what did you just say?”
“I said that I can’t reach it, so I’ll have to ask you. Please, Mirabelle…”
“Are you being serious?”
“Serious… if you want to get down, then touch as you please. I… I won’t mind… since Mirabelle is also a girl…”

Mirabelle took a deep breath as she thought about this. She used her right hand to tightly grasp Kirsten’s waist.

“It’s fine, don’t be afraid, I won’t do anything disrespectful. If I accidentally touch you somewhere, I… I’ll take responsibility…”

Mirabelle’s eyes were filled with resolution as she said this.

She then reached out towards Kirsten’s back –

It would be a lie to say that Mirabelle wasn’t tempted.

Mirabelle had basically zero resistance against such a cute girl who also had such a mature chest.

Not to mention, the weapon was currently attached to Kirsten’s butt. Since Mirabelle couldn’t see the weapon, she could only randomly touch around Kirsten’s waist –

However, Mirabelle accidentally touched a certain part on Kirsten that caused her face to instantly flush bright red.

“S… sorry…”
“It’s alright, it’s fine if it’s Mirabelle…”

However, Kirsten didn’t dare to look at Mirabelle anymore.

Mirabelle was also really embarrassed as she kept thinking, ‘I originally wanted to leave here right after finishing the quest, but I didn’t expect to meet something as troublesome as the Sticky Slime.’

Mirabelle finally felt something that was leather as she gradually moved her hand upwards. Mirabelle then finally pulled out the hunting knife that Kirsten carried with her.

Mirabelle first sliced off the sticky fluid on her hands. She and Kirsten both fell onto the ground without the sticky fluid to support them.

Since they were only slightly above ground, the two of them were uninjured by the fall.

Still, Mirabelle supported Kirsten whose face was still red as she asked, “Are… are you alright?”

“I’m completely fine. However, we need to hurry and wash off the stuff on our bodies…”

Kirsten continued to avoid looking at Mirabelle-

“I suppose you’re right. Since we’re at the lakeside anyways, let’s hurry and wash it off, and then go back…”

Mirabelle also felt awkward looking at Kirsten, so she looked at the lake instead.

“Yeah…”

Kirsten didn’t have the courage to speak at all right now. Every time that she saw Mirabelle’s face, her cheeks would feel hot-

Neither of the two spoke a word as they cleaned the sticky fluid off themselves.

This was a really fresh experience for Kirsten to have such intimate contact with someone else.

“For you…”

Mirabelle handed her handkerchief over. She had prepared two handkerchiefs, as if she expected that something awkward like this would happen today.

“Thank you…”

Kirsten didn’t hesitate to take the handkerchief and wipe the water away from her face.

As she wiped, she told Mirabelle, “Don’t tell anyone about what happened today… it will be a secret between us two…”

“A secret?”

Mirabelle looked at her with curiosity.

“Yes, a secret, you absolutely can’t tell anyone else…”
“I understand that you have your worries. It must be humiliating for your reputation to be with an elf like me?”
“N… no, I was actually worried about your reputation. Do you really think that you’d be able to leave this island if others discovered what happened between us?”
“Eh?”

Mirabelle asked out of curiosity, while Kirsten turned her head to say, “What’s with that eh? If you’re discovered, you’ll have to marry me, and you’ll never be able to leave this island in your life. That’s why you absolutely can’t say it, understand!? Otherwise, the others will force us to be together…”
“I understand…”

Mirabelle nodded in response as she washed sticky fluid off herself.