"Dong dong dong~"

"..."

"Please come in."

After rinsing his mouth, Yinla responded. He watched Tikkap disappear with the wooden basin, and then saw the elven girl push open the door and enter... the one he had previously snatched from Caligula's slave-catching team.

"It's you. You look like you're recovering well."

To Inra's words, the elven girl nodded and said softly, "Yes, thank you so much for meeting me back then, Inra."

Otherwise, the elf girl was well aware of what might happen to her after being sold as a commodity, so her gratitude was beyond words.

"You should definitely thank me."

Yinla nodded in agreement with the elven girl. While adjusting his clothes in front of the full-length mirror, he said, "I've never asked you before, why were you captured? Where are your companions?"

Come to think of it, I've never asked her name.

"Well, that day... my father and I went out to pick fruit..." the spirit girl said. "Elves are vegetarians and eat very little. They can survive on fruit and even dew every day, so they don't have the habit of planting."

With plenty of free time, the elves would spend their time either studying magic and reading, or finding food, killing monsters, or creating art to pass the time. They always traveled in groups.

They either set off in groups of peers or were led by elders.

"Then, I saw a newly formed golden apple on the tree, so I called my father over and went to pick it myself. Suddenly, a lot of humans appeared and started fighting with us."

The elven girl said this, and elves are actually a very powerful race. A dozen or so humans of average strength are no match for them at all... at least based on the level of the knights in the slave-catching team before, a dozen or so would not be enough.

So the "many" she mentioned probably refers to the entire slave-catching team that Ira had seen before, roughly dozens or nearly a hundred knights who had all come out in force.

"Then……"

As the elven girl spoke, her mood suddenly somber, and a somber atmosphere enveloped her... Yinla probably already guessed what had happened, and just as Yinla had guessed—

"My father was killed."

"..."

Yes, given the level of the slave-catching team, capturing an adult elf without killing them would be extremely difficult, and... although some people do have a taste for male elves, they are ultimately not as easy to sell as female elves.

So he was easily killed? Someone others cherished.

"I see. I'm sorry... perhaps I shouldn't have brought this up."

As Yinla spoke, he reached out and ruffled the elven girl's emerald green hair. Looking at the obedient elven girl with her head bowed, he said, "Do you know who caused your misfortune?"

The elven girl knew the answer to this question, and her face immediately darkened, her voice filled with hatred and anger: "The Duke of the Empire, Caligula."

As the name was mentioned, a flash of anger crossed Yinla's eyes... In fact, it is difficult for the governor to show his emotions, because the governor's feelings are very detached. Only when they explode will they be unusually terrifying because they have been suppressed.

"Yeah, that's the guy, that perverted bastard!"

Yinla cursed as he explained to the elven girl, who was not entirely clear on the details: "He is the leader of the slave trade and a supporter of the legalization of the non-human slave trade... He supports almost 90% of the slave-catching teams!"

In Inla's repertoire, Caligula is called a "pervert," and there are many reasons for this... It's difficult to describe in detail, but simply put—male elves are unpopular, but Caligula certainly welcomes male elves.

Because Caligula likes both women and men, and even androgynous people, and he is both a top and a bottom, and he also likes things that are particularly exciting but not acceptable to the average person.

If there were four peddlers in this world, this guy would definitely reach that level... Slaanesh even calls him Slaanesh.

Normal person: R18 is great.

Caligula: r18gggggg!

...

Yinla's attitude surprised the elven girl. Because of the harmonious atmosphere among elves, she had assumed that Yinla and Caligula would have been good colleagues. She asked, "So, Yinla, you don't actually care whether Caligula lives or dies?"

Don't you care?

"Of course I care. I would be very happy if that guy died."

As Yinla spoke, he clenched his fists tightly, looking like he was gritting his teeth, and said, "Finally, I have now left the Empire, so... Caligula's death day has come."

That is why Ira is so confident that her being framed and forced to leave the Empire was definitely not Caligula's doing... because Caligula is extremely clever.

Caligula knew perfectly well that once Inla left the Empire, it meant his own death was imminent. Therefore, Inla's departure from the Empire was definitely the work of that idiot's real little idiot subordinate.

He passed him without asking Caligula's opinion.

"I will kill Caligula, in the name of the Sunstrider family!"

As the elven girl said this, she was fully aware of the international disputes that would result from killing him, but... the elves were already furious with the Empire.

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