Two seconds later, when Seryu, guided by Koro, arrived deep in the woods, she saw a... stimulating scene.
A girl, her clothes half-undone, was passionately kissing a man beneath her.
Seryu, an innocent girl who had never been in love or even seen people in love, froze completely at the shocking sight.
"Huh?!"
As if only just noticing the intrusion, Kiana looked up with an expression of pure shock.
"You... Who are you?! Why are you here?!"
"Y-y-y-you! I should be asking you that!"
Seryu stared, her brain short-circuiting.
"How can you do something so shameless in broad daylight!"
"...Phew, thank goodness. I thought you were pursuers sent by my damn old man."
As if she'd figured something out, Kiana's eyes turned icy.
"Oh, just a random passerby. You have no business here."
"I won't punish you for interrupting my darling and me on our date. You can go."
"You..."
Seryu looked suspiciously at the woman. Something felt off.
Why... this white-haired girl's every move, her whole demeanor... she seemed like a noble lady from the Imperial Capital.
"What are you still standing there for? Oh, I get it."
Kiana said this, answering her own question, her gaze toward Seryu filling with disgust.
"Tch. Your clothes look like the City Guard. If you want hush money, just take it."
She tossed out a dozen gold coins, glaring at the bewildered girl, and suddenly snapped.
"My family already forbids my darling and I from being together! Why do people like you keep showing up, even after we've run off to the forest, just to interrupt our brief moment of happiness!"
"Th-th-that..."
Seryu glanced at Kiana and Aaron's clothes and confirmed one thing.
Their clothes were indeed of much higher quality than her own.
Combined with her genuine noble-lady aura... these two... they might really be a pair of star-crossed lovers...
Seryu was a person full of justice. And right now, her own sense of justice was making her feel guilty for cornering this couple who were in love but couldn't be together openly.
They were already having such a hard time, and here I am...
"Um, Miss, I just want to ask one thing."
Completely overwhelmed by the other's aura, Seryu felt like her brain had stopped working.
"...Speak!"
"Um, have you seen any suspicious people around here..."
"The most suspicious person here is you, you idiot!"
Seeing the girl grab a nearby object and hurl it at her, Seryu yelped, "I'm sorry!" and fled in a panic.
"Phew... good thing I'm so smart. Wait, Aaron..."
Sensing a flicker of displeasure from Aaron, Kiana immediately looked down at her companion pinned beneath her.
And then—she saw Aaron, eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth, looking like he was about to pass out.
"W-what? That was my first kiss! You thought it was that disgusting?!"
Looking at Aaron, Kiana's lingering shyness instantly turned to rage.
But she knew he was badly injured and couldn't be moved... wait... badly injured...
Watching Aaron slowly regain consciousness, Kiana suddenly understood why he had passed out.
Aaron's physical condition was terrible.
And to make the act convincing, she had kissed him for a relatively long time.
Aaron, suffering from his debuff and caught completely off guard, had passed out from lack of oxygen.
Kiana had been feeling a little shy. After all, in that split second, she had only been thinking about how to trick the enemy.
It was only afterward that she realized it was her first kiss.
But now...
Looking at Aaron, whose expression clearly said "I'm alive..." and "That Tuna tried to kill me!", Kiana felt it was a little weird to be angry.
This was supposed to be a scene from a romantic drama! Why did it suddenly turn into such a goofy comedy?!
My first kiss... gone just like that...
"The enemy...?"
"She left."
"Good. Great. Excellent. But I don't know how you fooled her, but it's only a matter of time before she figures it out. So..."
Aaron pulled the motorcycle he'd bought [Kawasaki H2] from his storage space. He used the last of his strength to hypnotize himself.
A vehicle can hit people. Therefore, this is a weapon. This is a weapon. This is a weapon. This is a weapon.
As his power flowed into the motorcycle, Aaron said to Kiana, his voice faint.
"No time to explain. Get on..."
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