"May the Winged Protector protect you, Miss Kahina. Just call me Li Lin."
"You can also just call me by my name, Kahina." She smiled and nodded in response.
Sona, who was standing half a step behind Kashina and looked a little shy, was holding the box containing Aika. She half-bent her knees, lowered her eyes, and also bowed to him, pursing her lips a little nervously.
Just as Li Lin was about to return the gift, a clear and ethereal girl's voice suddenly sounded in his ears...
No, to be more precise, it was in his mind that he heard: "It seems that Mr. Li is also an Ionian like me."
Li Lin looked at Sona in surprise, but the shy girl kept her eyes down and had no idea what was happening.
"Alas, when can I go back to Ionia again?"
She muttered to herself in her heart.
Barrett's deep childish eyes caught sight of Li Lin staring at Sona's expression, and thought that he thought Sona's behavior of not greeting and saluting with the wooden box in her arms was very rude, so he quickly explained;
"Sona was born with aphasia. This box contains a guqin, which has been with her since she was little, almost inseparable from her...
"If I have been disrespectful, I hope you will forgive me."
"You misunderstood, Master Barrett." Li Lin's mind raced as he quickly came up with an excuse. "Actually, I should be the one being rude... Miss Sona's ethereal demeanor and stunning beauty made me lose my mind. I'm deeply sorry."
Hearing Li Lin describe herself like this, Sona opened her cherry lips slightly, and a look of surprise appeared on her silent face.
She raised her head and glanced at Li Lin quickly, meeting his dark brown eyes. Her cheeks flushed slightly, and she quickly avoided meeting his gaze.
Upon learning that this was the reason why Li Lin was stunned, Barrett couldn't help but laugh. "Everyone loves beauty. It seems that even our hero can't resist Sona's charm!"
Sona's face turned even redder, and she shyly leaned half of her body behind Kahina.
Lestara, who was standing beside him, poked him secretly with a reproachful look, as if blaming him for his "nonsense".
"Speaking of which, our Sona is also of marriageable age, right?" Jarvan IV found Sona's shy expression amusing and asked in a cheering tone, "And Miss Kashina too."
"Instead of worrying about Sona and me, you should think about your own marriage first, Your Highness!"
Kashina folded her arms and hummed softly, drawing out her tone and verbally confronting Jarvan IV.
Because Barrett and Jarvan III are like brothers, Kashina is naturally very familiar with Jarvan IV. They often played and studied together in the palace when they were young, so there was no need to be polite.
But Jarvan IV didn't care about these things, but Lestara wasn't sure: "Kasina, you should pay attention to etiquette in public. How can you speak to His Royal Highness like that?"
There was a hint of blame in her words.
No matter how good their relationship is in private, this is the king's dinner and the prince's celebration party. Even if there is no one else around, the proper etiquette and relationship of hierarchy must be clear.
Kasina turned her head slightly, curled her lips at an angle where Lestara couldn't see, then glared at Jarvan IV who was standing opposite her and "gloating", and said nothing more.
"Father, how could you say that to me? Even His Royal Highness the Prince is like that... Sigh."
At this moment, Li Lin heard everything that echoed in Sona's heart. "I'm only 17 this year. It's still too early to talk about marriage..."
When Sona thought about getting married, her cheeks became even hotter and she looked shy.
In order to prevent Sona from having unnecessary misunderstandings, Li Lin racked his brains and finally concentrated his mind and carefully tried to use his thoughts to build a bridge to communicate with her as much as possible.
But after trying for a long time, he couldn't make Sona hear his voice.
Although Li Lin has mastered the basics of rune technology, there is no method that allows people to communicate through "magic telepathy".
It seems that this kind of "mind communication" is just an ability that Sona displayed unilaterally and inadvertently.
In desperation, Li Lin decided to temporarily give up the idea of communicating with her through his mind and wait until he had free time to apologize proactively.
But as a melody that only he could hear suddenly stirred in his heart, Sona opposite him actually looked up at him in surprise.
"Hua...actually resonated with him?"
Sona is shocked.
"What resonance? With me?"
As soon as Li Lin's idea came to mind, Sona's face behind Kahina looked even more surprised.
"You can actually hear my voice?!"
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