Treehouse Market Area.
"Xiao Ji——!" Elarwen's shout, each time, sounded like her throat was being squeezed, starting with a desperate courage and ending with a faint, altered echo.
An overwhelming sense of shame burned her cheeks and the tips of her ears, and every breath felt scorching hot.
This was the third day. She forced herself to make her voice clearer, striving to look straight ahead, deliberately ignoring the gazes cast around her.
She now somewhat regretted not looking for that area first when she was with her brother...
But thinking about Xiao Ji possibly encountering misfortune alone in the forest, she took a deep breath, suppressed her timidity, and gathered the courage to call out again.
Not far away, two attractive female elves who had been watching this way frowned. One of them, a blonde elf with a flamboyantly colored bird on her shoulder, directly turned around, her face showing undisguised annoyance.
