A moment for a certain white-haired girl.

  “It’s exhausting…”

  Herlin dropping her shoulder, showing how exhausted she is.

  “Ahahaha. Don’t be so disheartened, little cutie. It’ll ruin your cuteness.”

  A cheerful middle age woman appears from behind, caught the white little girl into her embrace.

  “Ugh! I don’t want being cute anymore!”

  “Ahahaha! You’re so cuuttteeee!”

  “Eeeeee! Please, stop toying me already!”

  “But I have prepared these cute clothes for you. I want look at your cute self and your cutest moment! Don’t you all agree?”

  Said the middle age woman toward boy and girls across the room.

  “Yeah. I want to see, but–”

  “I think so too, it just–”

  “Please be gentle with her.”

  Arc, Misha, and Raina nodding with complicated expression.

  “See! They also want your cute self.”

  “Ugh…”

  Herlin give out slight grimace. Shocked by betrayal from her family.

  The three of them avoid her gazes.

  “Since your family approved, let’s see which clothes was cutest for you!”

  “Noooooo!”

  Herlin’s scream and the middle age woman’s laughter resounding thorough out the shop, as the former become dressing doll for the latter.

  “““…”””

  The passerby outside continuing their activity as usual, ignore commotion inside as they didn’t want to get dragged into mess.

  “Noooo!!”

  *****

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  “Aahhh… escape…I’m escape!”

  Herlin yell out, the first thing she do after released from being dressing doll.

  “You being exaggerated, Herlin.”

  “Yeah, personally, you looked really cute in that dress.”

  “It’s well matched with you, Lady Herlin.”

  Commented Arc, Misha, and Raina.

  “Uuuu… you all…”

  Herlin teared slightly, finding not even her family was comforting her.

  She observing the dress.

  The middle age woman, Mrs. Carona, decided to release Herlin after managed to picked cutest dress for her. The dress was a black dress with lot frill known as gothic. The dress was very well matched with her white hair and small stature. Mrs. Carona squealed in delight when she saw Herlin wear it. Herlin trembling in shame remembering her teacher expression.

  However, she’d to admit. When she saw herself over the mirror, she also thought herself was good with Carona choice.

  ‘If only her personality normal…’

  Herlin thought.

  ‘Hmm??’

  Now that she thinks of that.

  Beside her teacher, Mrs. Rona who’re Raina’s teacher and Mr. Rift who’re Arc’s teacher also having problem with their personality.

  Aren’t there too many people with weird personality in this village?

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  Arc might already one since he’s been infected by his teacher.

  “Hmm? Herlin, is it just me or do you think something rude?”

  “No…”

  ‘You sharp as always, big brother’

  Thinking about it, it seems most people in Crestia was eccentric in their profession. Poison food, weird potion, daybright child kidnaping, building demolition, etc. Troublesome matters seem appear almost every day in this village.

  More overs, Herlin remember how shocked her first couple months she stayed here. She wondering since when she got used with this weird village.

  *Boom!*

  As Herlin was in daze, an explosion occurred no far from her position. Her eyes caught an old man in underwear fighting a giant carnivore plant that grown out a house and crowd gathered cheering him.

  “………This village really weird…”

  “““……Yeah…”””

  Arc, Misha, Raina nodding in agreement as they watching the spectacle in daze.

  At least she and her family were united in this moment.

  *****

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  “Aiden! Slyph!”

  “Oh, you all!”

  “You are here.”

  As Arc group decided to see what happening, they saw familiar red and silver hair among the crowd.

  “What happened here?”

  Misha asked them.

  “Don’t know.”

  “We’re just here.”

  Aiden and Slyph also clueless about the situation.

  “It’s rare to see you together.”

  “Oh, Arc. I just meet this miss elf on my way.”

  “We just about to part when this happened.”

  “I see.”

  Arc nodded at Aiden and Slyph explanation.

  Although Arc befriend with both of them and being close, it isn’t for them. They might friendly enough as friend but they tend not relating other in their circumstance.

  The girls’ eyes fell on Herlin.

  “U-um? Something wrong?”

  “Ah, no. just wondering what are you wearing.”

  “That’s right. You’re cute in that dress.”

  “Umm, thanks!”

  Herlin blushed hearing their compliment.

  “Why you wearing it anyway?”

  Aiden asked.

  “That…it’s Mrs. Carona gift.”

  “Oh…”

  Aiden looking at Herlin with pitying gaze.

  Herlin receive a critical hit.

  “““OOHHHH!!!”””

  Suddenly, the crowd roared.

  “What happened!?”

  Misha surprised by the sudden commotion.

  “Lady, look.”

  Raina simply pointing ahead.

  When Misha looks up, her eyes widened, almost to the point of hurt.

  The number of giant carnivore plant somehow increases by four and the old man’s underwear was half dissolved, making him practically just from one inch for being an exhibition.

  “Argh!”

  “KyaaH!”

  Aiden and Slyph quickly close their eyes upon see that.

  “What!?”

  “Herlin, don’t look that!”

  “UH!?”

  Before Herlin’d saw it, Misha swiftly went behind Herlin, close her eyes tightly with her hand.

  Herlin confused.

  “Wow, that something.”

  “Yeah.”

  Only left Arc and Raina calmly watching the fighting.

  “Hyaa! Take this you home wrecker!”

  “Graah!”

  The old man slashed the plant.

  When the plant was cut, yellow liquid sprayed from its wound to old man, further melted old man’s leftover underwear almost to nothing. By this time, it’s safe to say the old man now was naked.

  “Seems like that yellow liquid the reason old man Gryph naked.”

  “You’re right master.”

  “Kyaaahh!!”

  A girl’s scream sounded from the crowd

  When they take a look, the crowd slightly parted, revealing a blond girl in nun uniform running toward their direction. It seems she got sprayed by plant liquid as her uniform half dissolved.

  Arc took out a sheet of cloth out of nowhere, cover the young nun with it when she passing them.

  For a moment, the young nun was confused, then calmed down upon seeing Arc and others.

  “You all!”

  “Hello Anna.”

  Arc greeted.

  Anna adjusting the sheet to cover her before replying him.

  “Thanks for the cover, Arc.”

  “No problem. It’s nothing as long helping a friend.”

  Arc’s replies with gentle smile.

  For some reason, Anna averted her face from him.

  Arc tilted by her reaction.

  “Anna, why are you here?”

  Misha asked, still covering Herlin’s eyes.

  “I was training under Priest Gryph.”

  “Priest…?”

  Misha’s gaze shifted toward the old man who fighting naked.

  “Ah, I forget that perverted old man was a priest.”

  “Nevermind Misha. Even I still not believe he’s a priest.”

  “Please, don’t mention it…”

  Anna blushed because comment from Misha and Arc.

  She bowed her head in shame upon mentioning about old man Gryph being a priest.

  “However, Misha, how’d you forgot he’s priest when you also study under him.”

  “Can you blame me. Where can you find a priest that’d forced a little girl doing 1000 push-up and run marathon in full-plate heavy armor?”

  “…………There’s none…”

  Anna evading Misha’s blank resentful gaze.

  Not only Anna, Misha also Gryph’s apprentice. However, different from Anna that taught somewhat normally, most training Misha undergo from him was perverted and didn’t have any connection with priesthood.

  ‘Can there a priest swimming in river with full-plate heavy armor!?’

  Recalling those perverted trainings, Misha’s hand itching to smash that old man’s head with her hammer.

  “Do you know what happened there?”

  Slyph asked.

  Anna shows a bitter smile as she answering.

  Apparently, while Anna was training, Granny Root, the village elder and a botanist, came visiting the old man. She didn’t know the detail of the situation since she didn’t pay attention. However, it seems those old men fighting over something, then Root throw something into Gryph’s water glass. By the time she pays attention, a huge plant grown and fight broke out.

  “““““……”””””

  Everyone silenced after heard the story.

  “So…this is their usual feud?”

  “Umm, apparently so…”

  Arc and Misha dismayed.

  Everyone in village know Gryph and Root has long feuding history. Their quarrel often escalated almost to fight, but never happening. It’s first time they saw those two were fight for real.

  *GROOHHH!!*

  *BOOM!!*

  The commotion continues to escalate as they speaking.

  Now, there more than ten carnivora plants and, without anyone noticing, Gryph switch his sword with his favorite hammer.

  His hammer smash flat the plant, causing yellow liquid spraying like small rain to surrounding.

  Arc got a very bad feeling.

  As thought answering him, another commotion broke out among the crowd.

  “Kyaaa!!”

  “My cloth!”

  “My beautiful dress!”

  “What!? How dare you, Old Cot!”

  The teens flabbergasted by the show before them.

  For this moment, Arc have to admit the sight of old men and women were strip naked was a real sore of eyes!

  As he watching up, he saw yellow rain gradually approaching their position.

  “““!!!”””

  Arc and the girls feel a great crisis.

  “Get out here!”

  “““““YES!”””””

  With real panic in their face, the teens choose to escape from battlefield immediately.