Who Says I’m Not a Legitimate Adventurer?

“Nia?”

Lance was left somewhat dazed by this sudden rough action.

He looked at Nia in surprise, only to meet a pair of eyes brimming with aggrieved tears.

Nia simply raised her head slightly and stared at him stubbornly, her eye rims red.

At this moment, she looked exactly like a little animal that had suffered tremendous grievances outside yet had nowhere to vent them.

“I rushed all the way here early this morning without even bothering to change clothes…”

The girl’s voice carried a heart-wrenching bitterness.

That choked tone finally made the slow-witted Lance realize the seriousness of the situation.

“My head was completely filled with whether or not you were hurt. The whole way here, I was terrified and worried.”

“But what about you?”

“I’m standing right here in front of you alive and well, yet all you can think about is what birthday gift to buy for another girl and how you’re going to visit her!”

That accusation completely stunned Lance on the spot.

He opened his mouth slightly, only to realize he could not even come up with a remotely reasonable explanation right now.

Because he really had ignored the feelings of the girl who had rushed here for him.

“Lance Lott, you’re an utterly hopeless idiot!”

Nia tightened her grip on his collar even more.

An unprecedented panic pounded wildly inside her chest.

That instinct unique to women was frantically sounding alarms within her. She felt that if she did not do something substantial right now—

Then the heart of the boy in front of her would completely lean toward that Half-Elf girl.

At this moment, impulse burst forth like a collapsing flood, utterly defeating all of her reason and restraint.

Nia suddenly stood on tiptoe with force.

Under Lance’s astonished gaze, the girl tightly shut her eyes and directly pressed her tear-streaked face forward.

Smack.

A warm and soft sensation unexpectedly landed on the edge of Lance’s lips.

Time itself seemed to stop flowing at that instant.

Lance was completely dumbfounded.

That kiss instantly wiped his mind blank like a sheet of white paper.

His hands were as stiff as two wooden sticks, completely unsure where they should go.

This inexperienced kiss was like a dragonfly skimming across water, separating the moment it touched.

Nia abruptly stepped back half a step, releasing the hands gripping his collar as though she had been electrocuted.

At this moment, the girl’s slender neck and the ears hidden beneath her hair had already turned as red as a cooked shrimp.

Maybe it was just an illusion.

Lance even felt like he could see steaming heat rising from above her head from excessive embarrassment.

Nia’s chest rose and fell violently, and even her usual breathing rhythm was in complete disarray.

But this time, she did not shy away from his gaze.

Even though she was so embarrassed she was about to faint on the spot, she still stubbornly raised her smooth chin.

Those beautiful eyes veiled with mist stared fixedly at the absentminded boy before her.

“Now…”

Although the girl’s voice trembled, it carried a stubborn persistence.

“Can you finally pull your thoughts back from all that nonsense and properly look at me?”

Faced with the girl’s straightforward questioning that was practically enough to ignite the entire atmosphere of the living room—

Lance felt as though his heart had been struck heavily by a giant hammer.

He felt that the girl before him had gathered such tremendous courage because she was seeking a clear answer from him.

Lance took a deep breath and had just opened his mouth, wanting to say something to break this ambiguous silence—

“Ahhhhhhh! Don’t look at me!”

The courage Nia had barely managed to muster completely collapsed in less than three seconds.

The girl suddenly let out a shame-filled cry.

She abruptly raised both hands to cover her burning cheeks, then turned and dashed out the door like a startled rabbit without looking back.

Bang!

The heavy wooden door slammed shut behind the fleeing girl.

Lance stood alone in the empty living room in a daze.

Somewhat stiffly, he raised a hand and lightly touched the corner of his lips.

That spot still seemed to retain the soft warmth of the girl’s lips.

Could it be that the world he had transmigrated into was actually some romantic youth comedy anime set in another world?

Standing there, Lance felt a ridiculous sense of delayed realization.

After knowing each other for seven or eight months, only now did he finally confirm that Nia liked him…

Nia’s carefree personality had given him far too many misconceptions before.

So many that he had begun to suspect whether the values of girls in this other world were somewhat different from the girls he had known on Earth in his previous life.

But at that time, Lance had not even figured out his own future in this world, much less considered such matters.

Those originally obvious intimate signals had gradually been interpreted by him as natural gestures of friendship.

For a very long time, he had not even suspected anymore whether she liked him in that way.

But now, feeling the lingering warmth at the corner of his lips—

How could this possibly be something ordinary good friends would do?

She had clearly been coveting his body for a long time already.

Lance stroked his chin. He truly did not know exactly when she had started liking him.

Scenes of all the things he and Nia had experienced together rapidly flashed through his mind like a movie.

Only now did he suddenly realize—

That he and Nia had unknowingly spent so many moments together in this border town.

Ever since they first met during that cold winter.

The group of them throwing snowballs together in the plaza, building snowmen in the courtyard, and warming themselves around the fireplace.

Then later attending the lively Ash Festival together, welcoming the Spring Snowmelt Festival, and that dazzling lantern parade.

All the way up to the recent Spring Celebration barbecue gathering.

So it turned out that their group really had witnessed so many sights together already.

Lance pressed a hand against his chest. During their countless interactions, he seemed to have unknowingly developed a sense of dependence and affection toward Nia as well.

Now the situation had become extremely troublesome.

Inside his mind, the Half-Elf girl Cecilia stood on the left, while the town girl Nia stood on the right.

The phantoms of the two girls seemed to circle around his head, as though forcing him to immediately make an either-or choice.

But this annoying moral dilemma lasted for less than two seconds.

The very next moment—

The two troublesome options simultaneously vanished from his mind.

Because a wise idea suddenly popped into his head.

This other world had nobles and royalty…

It seemed there were no restrictions on how many wives someone could have, right…

Since he was a transmigrator, then he absolutely had to respect the local customs and properly adapt to the local culture!