Over Amamiya City, Japan.

This city looks no different from any other city, but for some people, it is quite special.

“Squeak…”

The heavy mechanical door opened, and then a girl in uniform and red pigtails strode in. She had a lollipop in her mouth and her eyes were sharp and serious.

"What's wrong? Lingyin? What's the matter?"

This girl who looks like a junior high school student is called Gokawa Kotori. She is the commander of the battleship "Flaxivis". This battleship belongs to an organization called "Ratatosk", which, like DEM and AST, was established to deal with those elves. However, compared with the former who tried to eliminate the elves by force, Ratatosk's purpose is more moderate. They do not advocate hostility with the elves. On the contrary, Ratatosk adopts the principle of communicating with the elves and coexisting peacefully.

Although some people might think that letting a teenage girl be a battleship commander is too frivolous, the Itsuka Kotori in front of them showed an unexpectedly serious aura.

"Ah, it's Kotori. I'm sorry to have to ask you to come during your busy schedule."

Hearing Gokawa Kotori's words, a woman turned around from her seat. She was a beautiful woman, but the dark circles under her eyes made it seem like she hadn't slept for a long time. Of course, Gokawa Kotori was obviously used to this, so she didn't pay much attention to it, but nodded to the woman in front of her named Reine.

"I rushed here as soon as I received your report. What's going on? Is there any new situation?"

“Ah, that’s how it is…”

As she spoke, Ling Yin reached out and started typing on the keyboard. Soon, lines of information began to appear on the battleship's large screen.

"Not long ago, the British DEM company updated the information about elves. I thought you might want to take a look at it."

"Information about the elves?"

Hearing this, Gokawa Kotori frowned.

"show me."

"OK."

Ling Yin nodded, then opened the information in front of her again, and soon the picture appeared on the big screen.

"This is……"

"This is the record of Hermit appearing in the UK a few days ago."

"Hermit... isn't that a very docile and timid elf?"

Looking at the magicians on the screen who were approaching their target location, Kotori Itsuka frowned and snorted.

"What happened? Could it be that these idiots from DEM have finally pissed off this most docile princess?"

"In fact, if only it were that simple."

As she spoke, Reine sighed. Noticing Reine's abnormality, Gokawa Kotori looked at her curiously, but before Gokawa Kotori could say anything else, the voice of the DEM magician in charge of recording came from the screen.

"Target discovered, ready to attack... Wait, what's going on?!"

Along with the DEM magician's surprised voice, the camera in front of her eyes quickly zoomed in to the site of the space earthquake's explosion, and the next moment, seeing the scene that appeared on the screen, Gokawa Kotori widened her eyes in surprise.

At the center of the spacequake, a petite elf codenamed "Hermit" was standing with a knight in silver-white armor, and the two seemed to be talking. Then, Gokawa Kotori saw the knight turn his head and look at the magicians, and saw the knight raised his hand as if he was going to do something, but the next moment, the magicians on the screen attacked the two enemies.

Soon, accompanied by the sound of gunfire, the figures of the knight and the hermit were shrouded in smoke and dust. Seeing this scene, Gokawa Kotori couldn't help but snort.

"DEM is still messing around like this... Really, that's why we can't make any progress..."

However, before Gokawa Kotori finished her words, suddenly, a surprising scene happened.

The next moment, the magicians who were attacking the elves on the screen suddenly trembled, and then they lost control and fell directly to the ground. The magician in charge of recording was no exception. Soon, the camera on the screen in front of him turned towards the ground and fell rapidly.

"Bang!"

“Wow…”

Hearing the falling sound coming from the screen, Kotori Itsuka couldn't help but scream.

"This is really tragic... Are they okay?"

"No."

In response to Gokawa Kotori's question, Lingyin shook her head and then pulled up another piece of information.

"The magicians who attacked were tested after being retrieved. Because they were protected by the random field, their bodies did not suffer much damage."

"That's good."

Looking at the information in front of her, Gokawa Kotori also breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't like the fighting style of those DEM Club members, she hadn't yet cursed them to death. However...

"What's going on? Who is that knight? Is it the one that attacked the magicians?"

"Based on our judgment, the other party is most likely another elf."

"Two elves appear at the same time?"

Hearing this, Kotori Itsuka was finally shocked.

"This has never happened before! Has the spiritual power fluctuation of this elf been recorded?"

"No."

Ling Yin shook her head, then opened another file. Soon, chaotic spiritual power fluctuation signals appeared in front of Gokawa Kotori.

"According to the DEM Society's records, after this elf appeared, all the spiritual power fluctuation observation devices were interfered with. Because of this, they were unable to track the whereabouts of the two elves. It was not until the interference of the spiritual power observation device disappeared that they determined that the two elves should have returned to the neighboring world."

"There are actually such elves..."

Hearing this, Gokawa Kotori also looked solemn. As a commander, she was of course very familiar with the characteristics of the elves. But it was the first time she had seen such a strange and powerful elf, not to mention that two elves appeared and disappeared at the same time... This was really strange. But then again...

"Do you know how the other party defeated those magicians?"

It was not surprising that the elves had the means to defeat the magicians. After all, even if the magicians had power beyond that of ordinary people and the army, the power of the elves was far greater than theirs. But the problem was that in the scene just now, it was not seen that there was any attack. Those magicians fainted as if they had a sudden illness, and there was no sign of external interference.

Of course, Kotori Gokawa has ruled out the possibility that this was done by the hermit, because based on the intelligence from previous times, the power controlled by the hermit should be something like ice, which would be unlikely to cause such an effect in any case.

"The current situation is unclear. According to the results of the DEM's examination, these magicians did not suffer any physical injuries, but they seemed to have suffered great mental stimulation and fear."

"Fear...? You're not telling me that those magicians fainted from fear?"

“…”

Faced with Gokawa Kotori's incredulous question, Lingyin nodded silently.

"…What's going on here? Could that spirit be able to invade other people's minds? If that's the case, then this is going to be troublesome… But then again, what's the level and codename of that spirit?"

"Codename is Knight, overall danger level A."

"Knight... Well, he is indeed a knight who lives up to the title."

Recalling the scene on the screen where the knight protected the hermit, Gokawa Kotori nodded, while Reine sighed.

"...You haven't discovered it yet, Kotori?"

"……What?"

"here."

As she spoke, Ling Yin reversed the scene back to when the two elves appeared, and then enlarged the screen.

"Didn't you notice? This elf... judging from its body shape, it should be a male."

"……Why?"

At this moment, Qin Li's expression finally froze.