I was expelled from the team and was recruited by the demons?

After handing over Kiryu to the Knights, Eli, who was about to leave, saw Chizuru Sakuraba waiting outside the fence for a long time.

The long black hair, which was originally gentle, was tied into a high ponytail by her.

The original shrine maiden costume was replaced by her with a wide kimono that was more conducive to movement.

Eli could feel that at this time, Chizuru's gestures showed an extremely fierce temperament.

Is it a replacement from a shrine maiden to a swordsman...

Eli looked at Chizuru's outfit, and even with this wide outfit, it was still difficult to hide her delicate figure.

Valiant...... Eli's mind had the adjective for no apparent reason.

"Uh-huh... Looks like Chizuru has also made a decision, young master.

Emma glanced at Chizuru and then turned her head and smiled.

"Decided, what decided?"

Eli was a little confused by the endless words.

Chizuru, on the other hand, hesitated for a moment, then took out a scroll-style document from the package he was carrying and handed it to Eli.

"The Adventurer's Guild—"

Eli saw the mark on the scroll at a glance, and then he opened the ribbon on it, and was shocked to find that the thing in his hand was actually the credential for the establishment of the guild.

No, didn't Chizuru say she hated adventures?

"Young Master, what happened before... I'm glad you made that choice for me, but..."

"After all, I'm a samurai, so how can I let my lord do it against his will."

Chizuru saw the confusion in Eli's eyes, and she looked at the long knife at her waist, a faint smile on her face.

Eli only felt a little big, because he could hear the sincerity of Chizuru's words.

This girl has already made a decision.

"I think you better give up, Chizuru who has entered this state can't listen to anyone's words, and this is also a decision she made after thinking about it."

Emma put her hands on her head and added

, "Besides,

it's not a good man's behavior to reject a girl's thoughts after she has made up her mind."

Eli grabbed the scroll in his hand, and finally had to silently put it in his pocket.

Seeing him like this, Chizuru slowly stepped forward, squatted down and grabbed Eli's wrist, and tied a thin knot rope to Eli's wrist.

"In my hometown, we tie knots like this for important people, meaning that we are united in the same knot."

Chizuru lowered her head, as if she didn't want Eli to see her expression at this time.

However, Emma on the side looked at the two of them lightly, obviously she knew very well what the knot meant.

"One heart and one knot..."Eli

looked at the knot on his wrist, and always felt that this thing was not so simple.

Because even the authentication function of the system cannot detect the details of this thing.

[The inventory is not entered into the system, and the identification effect cannot parse the object]

"Hmm."

Chizuru replied softly.

"Emma, this thing should... It doesn't mean anything special—"

Eli asked, tilting his head slightly, he did care about it.

After all, he didn't have that kind of idea for Chizuru, although the kid was pretty enough.

But in Eli's eyes, both she and Emma are actually closer to partners.

It can't be helped, after all, he had that experience at Morningstar before.

To be honest, he really doesn't want to have that kind of troublesome emotional entanglement with the people around him anymore.

"I don't know."

Chizuru turned her head, her words mixed with a hint of displeasure.

Because she knew that the seemingly inconspicuous red rope was attached to Chizuru's soul mark.

This means that Sakuraba Chizuru has put everything she has into Eli's hands.

Even life.

Eli scratched his head, a little confused by the attitude of the two of them.

"Young master, I will be your person in the future, so in the future, you must treat me and Emma equally, and you can't keep your distance from me anymore."

Chizuru stood up, looked at Eli in front of her, and chuckled softly.

The smile was bright and pure, and through the sunlight behind the girl, you could see her already extremely fair complexion, which was transparent like a picture scroll at this moment, and those who saw it couldn't take their eyes off it.

Eli nodded a little unnaturally, but he couldn't figure it out for a moment.

He usually doesn't mean to snub Chizuru...

The main thing is that this child is much more honest than Emma, is it really like those people say, obedient children are actually more eager for attention?

"Ugh... It's not a fool or anything..."

Emma looked at Eli's expression and knew that this person didn't treat the two of them as the opposite sex at all, and couldn't help but sigh faintly.

I've attacked him every night, and this guy still looks like he doesn't know what to do.

Could it be that something is wrong with her ways?

That's not right... The book I used to read said that men are good at this.

By the way, the books that Emma used to read when she used to learn how to get along with men and women were the kind of books that were banned from circulation by the authorities.

Emma, who became more and more angry the more she thought about it, couldn't help but kick Eli in the shin in the frustration, kicking Eli to the point that she almost stumbled to the ground.

It seems that she and Chizuru still have a long way to go in the future.

At the very least, the elm head had to realize that neither she nor Chizuru had ever been the one he needed to take care of.

"Mr. Eli!"

Just as the three of them were talking outside the door, a clear female voice came from behind them.

Eli turned around and saw Christine, with a letter in her hand, running towards them.

"Mr. Eli, Teacher, Miss Emma... My father has sent a letter to you to accept this invitation. With that

, she handed the letterhead into Eli's hand.

Eli flipped through the letterhead in his hand, and could faintly feel the magic attached to it.

The quality of the paper is good, almost as good as the old collections in the library.

"Can it be opened now?"

Eli asked, looking at Christine.

"Please."

Christine nodded repeatedly, apparently curious about what was written in the letter.

Eli tapped his finger on the letterhead, and the magic ink disappeared before his eyes, and the paper floated out on its own.

Surprisingly, there was nothing on it, it was just a blank slate.

"Secret letter?"

Eli was stunned, then raised his hand to inject his magic into it.

Then, countless golden words appeared out of thin air on the paper.

The next moment, those words turned into rising streamers, which penetrated Eli's pupils little by little.

Eli has seen this method in the game before, and it is a unique way of conveying secret messages in the Loongson Kingdom.

Encrypt the text through magic, and then the recipient drives the magic to extract the text.

"What did Duke Wins say?"

Chizuru looked at the bright light in Eli's eyes and couldn't help but ask.

"In three days' time, there will be a ballroom dance party at the Duke's Palace, and someone will see me by name, and the Duke wants me to attend—"

Eli blinked, and the light in his pupils vanished.

And the letterhead in his hand also automatically ignited a flame at this moment, and as Eli let go of his hand, the letter finally turned into flying ashes that drifted with the wind.

"Prom? My father always hated this kind of thing.

Christine frowned, she knew her father's habits.

Duke Vins, who is accustomed to galloping on the battlefield, would never hold such a large-scale social event for no reason.

"Do you want to go, young master?"

Chizuru asked, turning her head.

"It's actually not a question of whether to go or not..."

Eli looked at the system pop-up window in front of him, his face full of helplessness.

[Mission triggered: Beat up that uninvited guy!] [

Quest content: Participate in the social ball held by Duke Vins, find and catch the assassin of the Demon King Army hiding in the ball]

[Quest reward: The progress of the system update has been improved; Equipment - Feather Mask (Fine)].