Eriko blinked her eyes. Had she thought too poorly of people?
"Don't look at me; I don't intend to manage you. If you want to thank someone, go thank Little Lu and that person surnamed York. I just came over to tell you this, and incidentally explain the reason why I... why they made this decision." Letitia waved her hand, reiterating her position once again.
She couldn't be bothered with Eriko; she just wanted to stay here peacefully for a few more days. For this purpose, sending away or defusing Eriko, this ticking time bomb, was very necessary.
According to Melanie's idea, sending Eriko to a place further away was a good method.
But Letitia had an even cleaner and neater method, which was to just finish off Eriko directly.
Your Elf Race wants to find someone, right? The person is gone, and the thing on her can't be found either, so you might as well go home and find your mommy.
However, this method was really a bit ruthless and not very suitable to use at this time.
But if things really developed to that point, Letitia felt she wouldn't hesitate. She wouldn't just watch the artifact housing Flora return to the hands of the Elf Race.
You didn't guard it well yourselves, letting Eriko steal it out. Now, grabbing it back, no problem, right?
"Thank you, Miss Ohara, I understand." But Eriko had clearly overthought it; she still thought this was a method proposed by Letitia.
After all, when Yori talked about this Quinn before, the adjective she used the most was tsundere—cold on the outside, warm on the inside.
When she helped people, she would absolutely never simply extend a helping hand openly. This lady preferred to contribute silently behind the scenes, while in front of others, she would definitely mock the person she wanted to help.
Didn't this just perfectly correspond to the current situation?
At first, she said she wanted to hand her over, but in the end, what she told her was that she was going to send her to another safe place, and the reason was to protect Yori.
This reason, Eriko could understand. She also didn't want the pure and kind girl Yori to get hurt because of her.
As for whether Letitia was deceiving her? Eriko thought it was unlikely.
It would be too simple for this lady to want to harm her. Not to mention anything else, just that busty doctor by her side was Letitia's person; wouldn't poisoning her be simple?
"You seem to be overthinking it. Tsk, forget it, think whatever you want." Letitia couldn't be bothered to explain more. If Eriko wanted to overthink, let her think; anyway, she had completed the task Melanie entrusted her with.
This task was completed, but there was another, more difficult task.
To make Eriko walk out of the shadows of the past and bravely face the past.
The request from Flora was much more troublesome than Melanie's. Letitia didn't even know what this girl's shadow from the past was, so she could only force some counseling; it was really hard.
"However, I still want to ask, what did you suffer on the Elf side?"
Eriko's originally somewhat happy expression visibly darkened. She seemed unwilling to recall those past events. "Those things have already passed."
"I have already escaped them, I don't want to go back."
"But they still live in your heart. If you continue to evade like this, they will follow you for a lifetime, torturing you in your dreams." Letitia gazed into Eriko's emerald eyes, saying each word clearly. "You must learn to face the past and overcome the past. Only then can you truly be considered to have escaped the past."
"I can't do it." Eriko closed her eyes.
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"You must do it; this is my suggestion." Letitia knew this wasn't something that could be solved in a day or two, or with a few words, so she hadn't intended for Eriko to resolve her inner conflict today. "Think about it carefully, stay there obediently for these few days, and once things are resolved, that York person will come to pick you up."
Only after that would it be the time for Eriko to resolve her inner conflict.
Letitia was even considering whether to catch an Elf and throw it in front of Eriko, then have her take a knife and stab that Elf to death.
Would that count as overcoming the shadows of the past?
Anyway, her psychological trauma was caused by the Elf Race, so offing an Elf would surely make her feel a bit better.
As for whether Eriko would become an Elf hunter afterward, that was none of Letitia's business.
The more chaotic the Elf Race became, the happier she, their enemy, would be.
However, this idea was strongly rejected by Melanie.
"No." At the dining table, Melanie directly vetoed Letitia's suggestion.
"Then you come up with a good idea. She's in such a state right now that she can't listen to reason." Letitia drank her porridge with a look of dissatisfaction; she just couldn't understand why this person would come to her house to freeload meals.
Also, Kira had actually been dragged away by Yori again. Letitia really doubted whether her sister would be abducted by Yori one day.
What was the reason today... Oh, right, to meet up with her former classmates; everyone missed Little Lu.
But clearly, Kira didn't miss them.
"Take it slow; you can't eat hot tofu in a rush." Melanie used a spoon to scoop a piece of bright red tofu from the plate and stuffed it into her mouth. "A bit hot."
She proved with facts that hot tofu could indeed be eaten.
"Anyway, she's your person, so as long as you're happy." Letitia drank the remaining bit of porridge in her bowl and stood up with Luna's support. "Eat slowly; I'm going back to rest."
"Oh." Melanie nodded; she indeed needed to eat for a while longer.
This young lady's appetite hadn't noticeably decreased compared to before.
Because she had just slept with Letitia last night, Melanie wasn't as eager to get close to Letitia today.
In other words, her Letitia energy was fully charged.
Well then, she would go discuss Eriko's matter with Senpai Sani this afternoon. When facing such things, the opinion of an experienced senior was very important.
While that was Melanie's thought, Letitia started discussing with Luna how to get the artifact into her own hands without anyone noticing.
"If it is as Your Majesty says, and Miss Lin has such an important item on her, it's no wonder the Elf Race, who have always looked down on Half-Elves, would unusually send people to the Human World to hunt her down."
"As for methods, there are many, but basically, they all require taking Miss Lin's life. Does Your Majesty intend to do that?"
Letitia, of course, knew what Luna was saying. "When things reach an irreversible point, we must do something to make things develop in a direction favorable to us. Even if we have to kill Eriko at that time, it doesn't matter."
The discussion with Luna didn't yield any results. Although she was talking about getting rid of that poor child Eriko, Letitia's interest in this matter wasn't very high at the moment.
Solving it peacefully was better than having bloodshed.
Besides, she had just promised Flora to help Eriko. Turning around and killing Eriko right after just didn't feel right, and that gentle god might just get angry.
Speaking of Flora, Letitia thought of the parasol that Flora had given her in a dream that day.
Even though there was barely any light in that place, Flora still held that parasol. She didn't know if it was because of boredom or because she wanted to maintain her image—the image of a noble young lady.
"It feels quite nice to the touch." With a thought, Letitia summoned the gift Flora had given her. Essentially, this parasol wasn't a physical object but a rather special type of magic.
It consumed not mana, but mental energy. As for its function, Letitia hadn't figured it out yet.