Lacey slowly raised her head, tears still glistening in the corners of her eyes.

"Then...would you be willing to come back with me?"

"I don't want to."

She lowered her head again, and her sobs grew louder.

Lia, standing to the side, cupped her hands to her chest and asked the question that had always puzzled her.

"So, why don't you want to go back?"

Koko sat atop a cloud, spreading his hands in a somewhat helpless manner:

"Do you really enjoy staying in one tree all the time, watching a bunch of elves offer you sacrifices every day, and not being allowed to leave whenever you want?"

Lia thought for a moment, then continued:

"But all you do all day is sleep. What's wrong with just sleeping in that tree all the time?"

"But! But I get bored when I wake up too!"

"Tsk, that makes sense."

Lia rolled her eyes, her voice tinged with disdain.

"Then your Elf Queen doesn't seem to be very useful. She just stays in that broken tree all day."

"It's not some broken tree. We elves all grow in nature, you know that, right?"

Kokot sat to the side and explained:

"However, this kind of gestation ritual requires a designated spirit to stay in the sacred tree so that the sacred tree can give birth to a spirit."

She pointed to herself and said with a grin:

"In other words, if I don't go back, the Tree of Adrien will not give birth to any more elves."

"Um?"

Lia blinked.

I have a feeling that I heard something that seems very serious.

But Kokot didn't care about any of that and still had the leisure to ask questions.

"Oh right, where did Viktor go?"

“I still have some things I want to tell him. Why did he go out as soon as he got back?”

You mean Victor?

Lia turned around, looked around, and then said with absolute certainty.

"Let's wait a bit."

"At this time, he should be demolishing someone else's house."