She suddenly looked very sad.
"……Feel sorry."
Fortunately, the female knight seemed to recover quickly: "Oh, that's all in the past. Your business is the most important thing now."
Sensing the lingering, slightly unstable fluctuations in my senses, I nodded as instructed, letting the ruby in my hand slowly approach, nodding its head little by little, like a little creature starting to get sleepy.
"Good boy, go to bed now."
I coaxed gently, letting my right thumb pat the pale red feathers.
The little guy, with its bright, obsidian-like eyes, glanced at me, let out a soft chirp, closed its eyes again, nuzzled its head against the four fingers beside it, and hopped a few times, touching the surface of the red gemstone.
Red smoke emanated from its body, forming patches of color. These varying shades of red, mixed with a small amount of gold, resembled bird-shaped flames. Almost instantly, they were absorbed by the nearby ruby and vanished from my palm.
In contrast, the weight of the ruby that I had been holding in my left hand had increased slightly. After a brief comparison, I could tell that the increased weight was exactly the weight of the little thing that had been curled up in my palm.
"They actually managed to get their hands on a phoenix chick... I know Hui went to the Crimson Flame Land before, but how exactly did they manage to get one..."
The female knight exclaimed in surprise again, and then I glared at her fiercely.
However, putting everything else aside, I am also curious about how Lena actually got her hands on this cub.
"I'll make you a chain later, it's too inconvenient to carry it like this."
The rabbit naturally took the gem from my hand, half-raised it, and stared at it in the light.
As the light changes, one can vaguely perceive a curled-up, golden-red bird-shaped creature taking a short nap.
"Instead of thinking about all sorts of things, how about we give this child a name?"
Alice offered her suggestion again.
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