"Claude?" Freymia stared at Alice, her pointed ears visibly turning red.

"Yes." Alice nodded.

"Claude Modena?" Freymia asked again, excited and shy.

"Yes." Alice nodded again.

"Twilight Bishop?!" Freymia asked almost in a scream, her cheeks already flushed. The inherent elegance and beauty of the elf made this scene very pleasing to the eye.

"That's right." Alice frowned, murmuring to herself, "Why do I feel like I've seen this scene somewhere before?"

Why do they all distrust Claude's return?

"He he he he... No way." Freymia's speech became a bit stuttered, her beautiful eyes blinking repeatedly, trying to detect any lies in Alice's words and expressions.

Of course, Freymia was very much looking forward to Claude's return.

But not at this moment, when she just expressed her love for Claude to Alice!

Ahhhh!

Freymia covered her face with both hands, the dignified Elf Empress completely ignoring her own poise, squatting down.

"What did I just say!"

Only then did Alice realize, was this Empress afraid of facing social death in front of her loved one?

She hurriedly comforted, "It's okay, Claude is probably still in a coma..."

Freymia pursed her lips, with a hint of hope, and asked, "What exactly happened to Claude?"

"He was severely injured by the War God," Alice said remorsefully, "because of me."

Doomed.

Freymia felt a dizzy spell hit her head.

It must be an act!

No matter how state Claude was in, he wouldn't be so easily tricked by mere War God.

Claude must be pretending to be unconscious, performing an act in front of this girl.

But why would he act?

Is it to encourage his daughter to break free from her father's protection?

Oh my god! Could it be that this Alice is really Claude and Vivian's daughter?

Freymia felt her mind in utter chaos, unable to find any clue.

A multitude of thoughts surged like a tide in her mind.

What to do!

What to do!

Claude heard what I said!

Will he take me as a shameless woman? Clearly, he is a married man, yet I harbored such transgressive thoughts.

Boohoo... What if I leave a bad impression in Claude's mind?

What if Claude hates me?

"Uh..." Shen Sui just stood behind Alice.

When Alice asked Freymia for treatment, Shen Sui had already appeared.

He stripped away most of his disguise. Although his presence was still undetectable to Alice and Aina, with Freymia's capability, she should be able to see Shen Sui's figure.

However, when Freymia learned that Alice came for Claude and explicitly stated Claude had returned, her emotions were all scrambled, she didn't even notice the anomaly behind Alice.

Shen Sui watched the series of Freymia's psychological activities on the dueling device, joining her in the confusion.

What on earth is this silly elf thinking?

Why, in her fantasy, do I already have a child with her?

Wait? What on earth is Vivian barging in for?

Why did merely hearing my name lead you to imagine such a melodramatic scenario!

What the hell!

How did it suddenly jump to the idea of imprisoning me for personal enjoyment?

Don't have such filthy thoughts in your mind, Freymia!

You are the Elf Empress!

Be pure!

Be reserved!

Shen Sui finally couldn't stand Freymia's stream of consciousness, planning to intervene to wake Freymia up.

However, he saw Freymia suddenly snapping back to normal.

This elf empress of a novel mind, after a brief mental journey of mere tens of seconds, suddenly grasped the core of the matter, finding a thread to escape the psychological turbulence.

It's impossible for Claude to be severely injured by the War God; even a severely weakened Claude can easily defeat the War God with one hand.

This premise is indisputable.

Therefore, Claude must be pretending to be severely injured and unconscious.

Alice can't see through this, so naturally, she follows Claude's orders.

So, what did Claude have Alice do?

He had Alice come find me....

What does this action imply....

Freymia's cheeks turned red as she placed her hands on her chest.

The more she analyzed, the more plausible it seemed.

Logical means it's correct!

Freymia's subconscious readily accepted this hypothesis.

Claude likes me too!

Shen Sui's hand twitched violently, sending a shiver through his body.

What the hell! Don't have such rich imagination! What kind of mental leaps are you making!

Although he truly liked Freymia quite a bit, after all, this elf girl, despite her somewhat impaired thought process, appearing very aloof and indifferent to strangers, is seen by outsiders as someone akin to Qishala. But her inner self is completely different from Qishala's, filled with passion and cuteness.

Once she truly falls for you, she will very frankly strip away all her superficial disguises, expressing her love passionately and undisguised, unlike Qishala's concealed madness.

Moreover, I don't remember seriously courting Freymia in my second playthrough.

Shen Sui suddenly felt a tinge of doubt.

In his second playthrough, the female characters he seriously sought affection from were only Vivian and Isabella, with the latter being a main storyline requirement.

But Freymia's behavior feels more like the Elf Empress from the first playthrough.

With a hint of curiosity, Shen Sui input commands to check Freymia's panel.

And then...

He saw a glaring Love Contract mark.

What the hell?

What the hell!

I hadn't noticed this before! I remember, in the second playthrough, only Vivian had this contract!

A drop of cold sweat seeped from his forehead.

He just realized, it seems he made an empirical error.

After seeing the story of the Twilight Bishop, he subconsciously assumed the Dawn Continent in reality was the same as his second playthrough. But he forgot something, which is that in the game's setting, no matter how many playthroughs you have, it's essentially a continuous reset and callback of the world.

Shen Sui only played the second playthrough, so this perception is not yet very strong. There's a bigshot on the game forum who played a full nine playthroughs, and in the ninth playthrough, a hidden easter egg is forcibly triggered, where all characters from the previous playthroughs gain the memories of the previous eight playthroughs, gaining elevated awareness of the player.

He can diligently assist everyone in need.

He can also act recklessly, destroying all perceived order.

He can be promiscuous, embracing every encountered female.

He can also be devoted, giving solely to one person from start to end.

He is selfish yet generous, cold-blooded yet tender-hearted, a scoundrel yet faithful...

The memories from nine complete save files will converge into the minds of those game characters, and then a grand tenth playthrough will be forcibly initiated, where everyone will retain all the memories of the player, while the character controlled by the player will, by setting, have no prior memories, making it a very intriguing playthrough.

He planned to start the third playthrough upon file deletion to pursue the ninth playthrough to trigger this easter egg.

But I haven't triggered it yet?

How come Freymia has a contract that should only appear in the first playthrough?

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