Chapter 565: Is there such a thing like ’sugar aunty’?
"Valen!"
Three days after Heraz gave us the news that the Hero and his companions had finished their mission, two disguised humans arrived in the Lord Castle. Wearing cloaks and earrings that made them look like your regular demons.
The moment they saw me, however, they threw their cloak aside and basically jumped at me with enough excitement to fill the many months we hadn’t seen each other. Was it eight months? Wow, how time flew...
And they exuded the kind of energy someone coming back from a vacation would have--instead of a mission.
"Valen--oh, my Goddess...what is this?" Aina only had her attention on me for one second before shifting to the device connecting to me. They arrived right when I had my transfusion--which we decided I would have every time my mana fell below fifty percent--and so I had to receive them while having my mana filled in the living room.
Naturally, my little inventor friend immediately gasped and looked at the device with wide, round eyes. "Transfusion? Blo--mana? Mana transfusion?"
Meanwhile, my old partner in hospital-ward-runaway squeezed my cheeks first thing. "Valen, my hunny bunny!" Zarfa tilted her head and frowned slightly. "Are you alright? You look a bit pale..."
"I’m fine, my mana is rather low, that’s all."
"Oh, I thought you were forgetting your skincare routine or something," she let out a relieved sigh while pinching my cheeks as if testing their elasticity.
Wow, talk about priority. "...I never used skincare."
"Fuck you and your druid gene."