The hero's gender is yet to be determined after rebirth.

"I...I feel...I'm already very content with you..."

“…” Sylph was stunned, and a blush quickly crept up her cheeks.

"I used to think you had a flat chest, but now you've developed so much and you're so beautiful. I'm really satisfied."

Sylph's face flushed and steamed, and she unconsciously tried to let go of Lorenve...

"Wait! You used to complain that I had a flat chest?!" Sylph suddenly realized what she meant.

“Uh…” Lorenwei wanted to deny it, but hesitated for a moment.

No need for an answer; this reaction says it all. Siluf slammed Lorenve to the ground and turned to leave: "Go find Kurara! Her breasts are bigger than mine! Go find her!"

"Hey, let me explain, that's not what I meant. I just wanted to say that I'm already very content to have you by my side..." Lorenwei quickly followed up with Sylph, continuing to explain.

"I won't listen! I won't listen! I won't listen!" Sylph ignored her explanations the whole way.

The two argued as they headed back.

Hmph! Sylph thought to herself, this idiot is really a jerk, she won't listen to reason, she only calmed down after getting angry with her.

Back at the villa, they ran into Melanie leaning against the Slime King at the entrance. The Slime King was dozing off.

"Oh dear, where did you all go? Where's Kurara?" Melan asked.

Lorenwei's expression darkened.

Sylph pouted and said, "She had to return to the Grand Duchy first."

"Hey? So rushed? Didn't you even tell me? When are you coming back?"

Sylph rolled her eyes at Lorenvi: "You'll have to ask Lorenvi about that."

Meilan looked at Lorenwei.

"Maybe soon, maybe a long time." Lorenwei looked very tired as she followed Sylph into the little house.

"You must be exhausted from running around. Why does Lorenwei sound so weak?" Meilan said as she came in. "Come and have some food."

"Oh, did you eat the meal I prepared earlier?" Lorenwei forced herself to speak.

"I've been waiting for you guys. But Puyo was hungry, so I fed it all the ingredients."

Lorenwei nodded: "I'll heat up the leftovers and make some more."

She went to the kitchen, put her apron back on, started heating up the dishes, and added some stir-fried eggs and greens.

The hot food was served, but unlike usual, there were only three people at the table.

"..." Lorenwei looked at the empty seat that had been set out but was now unoccupied, and for a moment she couldn't even pick up her knife and fork.

Sylph looked at her but didn't say anything.

"Dinner's ready!" Meilan was starving and started digging into the roast pork with her fork. "Delicious! Lorenwei, your cooking is really good!"

"Eat! Don't think about the past." Seeing that Lorenwei still hadn't eaten, Sylph took out a piece of egg with her fork and gave it to Lorenwei.

Lorenwei said "oh" and ate, chewing mechanically. After a few bites, she swallowed, her expression still one of utter despair.

Seeing that she wasn't eating anymore, Sylph snorted, "You little rascal, do you really need to be fed?"

Despite her initial snort, she still gave Lorenwei some more vegetables.

Lorenwei ate it mechanically again, her expression unchanged.

Meilan suddenly cried out in surprise, spitting out some scraps of scrambled eggs. Her pink tongue trembled as she exclaimed, "Wow! The eggs are so salty! They're so salty they're almost bitter!"

"Huh?" Sylph was surprised. This had never happened before when Lorenve cooked.

She quickly used her fork to take some and taste it. Yes, it was terribly salty!

Let's try some other dishes. The taste seems fine... Wait, this stir-fried greens is cloyingly sweet. Do you put this much sugar in stir-fried greens? Although Silph is a cooking killer, that's a natural debuff. At least the taste isn't a big problem.

Look at the scrambled eggs and stir-fried vegetables; it seems that Lorenwei made them later, while the dishes that were made earlier and then reheated were perfectly fine...

Sylph glanced at Lorenwei, who was apologizing to Melanie, and gently scolded her, "Focus on cooking! What are you thinking about...?"

There's really no need to complain. What is Lorenwei thinking? No, who is she thinking about? Sylph knows very well.

Lorenve had already eaten both dishes, yet showed no reaction whatsoever. Sylph wanted to say something sarcastic, but found herself unable to speak…

"That idiot!" Sylph cursed silently in her heart.

After the meal, Siruf and Melan cleaned up.

Lorenwei staggered from the first floor to the second floor, then back down to the first floor, seemingly seeing phantom images of Kurara everywhere she looked...

Finally, she sat listlessly in the study, staring blankly at the bookshelf.

At this moment, she noticed that the spines of two books on the bookshelf were protruding, presumably because they had been flipped through. Upon closer inspection, she found they were "Knitting Techniques" and "Tips for Making Your Own Hairbands".

Flipping through both books, it was clear that someone had read them multiple times recently, and there were even several bookmarks. However, the book about knitting had been read relatively less, while the book about making hairbands had been read many times.

In the book "Hairband DIY Tips", there is a chapter that not only has a bookmark but also very obvious scratches from a girl's fingernails, indicating that it has been studied in detail.

This section explains how to make a love ribbon that a girl can give to a boy. Interestingly, besides showing how to hand-wrap the ribbon with thread, it also mentions that winding strands of the girl's hair into the ribbon carries the blessing of long-lasting love and companionship, and even creates a magical effect of lovers finally getting together.

"Hmph, what a load of nonsense." Lorenwei scoffed at the claim that having strands of hair wrapped around the headband would bring lovers together.

However, Kurara has been reading in the study lately, hasn't she? She thought for a moment, then went back upstairs to her bedroom and looked for the drawers and cabinets where Kurara usually kept her clothes.

Making full use of her RPG skills, Lorenwei found a small cloth bag in a rather hidden place in the bottom drawer of the corner cabinet.

The small cloth bag was opened to reveal a finished, golden-yellow handmade hairband.

In particular, among the dozens of hand-braided threads of the headband, several strands of golden hair can be clearly seen intertwined...

Chapter 165: One sentence was enough to get Lorenwei to chase after Kurara!

The princess made the hairband herself, did she do it secretly? Lorenwei was surprised.

This was a rare item, and Lorenwei held it in her hands, examining it closely. The handcrafting of the hairband was still clumsy, but it was clear that a lot of effort had been put into it. Looking closer, one could see traces of the silk threads being wrapped around several times and reworked multiple times in an effort to improve it.

No wonder she abandoned the book on knitting and instead focused on reading a lot about headbands. It seems that Kula realized her crafting skills were not good enough and could only specialize in making her own headbands.

However, this gold headband doesn't look like a boy's style. Because the person who braided it wasn't very skilled, the headband was uneven and didn't have the straightforward look a boy should have. Instead, it had the effect of a girl's bow.

Her mood seemed to darken further, and Lorenwei sighed with resentment. If everything had gone smoothly, she would have received this gift from Kurara soon. Perhaps Kurara would have even shyly tied it into her long hair, but now it was all for naught.

Lorenve has never been averse to long hair, perhaps because she really liked the book "Ranma 1/2" back then, in which the main character had braids, and the female character was a girl with braids.

Of course, it's also because Lorenwei herself is a long-hair enthusiast.

Lorenwei stored the undelivered gift in her spatial ring and went downstairs.

There were leftovers on the table, just two plates of eggs and green vegetables.

Lorenwei reached for the plates, intending to throw away the two that were too salty and too sweet, but Meilan, who was cleaning in the kitchen, stopped her: "Don't throw them away! Eggs can be used as pickles, and vegetables can be fed to Puyo!"

The Slime King, who was still dozing outside the door, suddenly snored and trembled all over, as if he had a nightmare...

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At this moment, in the principal's first office.

bang bang bang-

Sitting in his office chair, Burbo banged on the table and laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Bordonna, you didn't see it! That Lorenvet guy used to be so arrogant, she dared to act all high and mighty in front of me. But just now she sat there like an idiot on the street, not moving an inch for an hour, I couldn't even pull her up!"

"..." Bordonna, leaning against the window with her arms crossed, looked at him with a gloomy expression.

"What? Feeling sorry for her? She's not your daughter, why are you feeling sorry for her?"

"..." Bordonna's face turned even uglier.

“Okay, at least he’s nominally your son, so you still feel sorry for him, right?” Bulbo shrugged. “I tried my best to persuade her, but she wouldn’t listen. On the other hand, that female elf Sylph said a few words of advice, and she ran off with him. It really makes no sense if this guy isn’t classified as male.”

Bordonna brought up old grievances: "Just a few days ago you told me that it would be a waste if she didn't define herself as a woman?"

“Okay, I did say that. But Lorenve is really strange. Sometimes I think she's a man, and sometimes she's more girlish than a girl. The Sevi people are really amazing. Was Aisas like that back then?”

Bordonna said unhappily, "Stop talking nonsense. Lorenve didn't go after Kurara? She just went back to her country?"

"Of course, why don't we go and try to persuade them?"

Bordonna thought for a moment: "...Tell me how you persuaded him back then? And what else do you know?"

Bourb roughly recounted the situation at the time, from the moment he heard that someone from the Grand Duchy had sent a letter until Lorenve and Sylph returned to the small villa.

“No wonder you couldn’t persuade her; you had to come to Sylph. Humph, you men really don’t know how to persuade, and you can’t get to the point!” Bordonna looked at her father with disdain and said proudly, “I don’t even need to go there. I just need to write a sentence, and Lorenve will immediately go after Kurara.”

"Huh? Just one sentence? You don't even need to go over there?" Bulbo thought for a moment, but he couldn't think of anything to say. Should he use the past experiences of Aisser and the others to coerce or entice them? But that's not something that can be explained in just a few words.

Bordonna waved her hand, signaling Bourbo to give up his seat. She then sat down at her desk, quickly wrote a sentence on a piece of white paper, and began folding it.

She folded the paper into the shape of a paper crane and then put it in an envelope.

Bordonna sent her trusted female attendant over to deliver the letter to the small villa, reminding her, "Oh, right, there's a letter from Kurara that hasn't been given to Lorenwei yet. Take it with you."

Watching the female eunuch leave, Bulpo hesitated and asked, "Will it work?"

“As long as Lorenwei has even the slightest desire to be a man, this trick will definitely work!” Bordonna said confidently.

Polpo disagreed: "What if she doesn't want to be a man anymore after this setback? Wouldn't it be better if she just wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world, no, the most beautiful woman on the continent?"

Bordonna's high heels were placed on the desk again: "Hmph, how could that be?"

"...Daughter, where does your confidence come from?"

Bordonna, with an air of "I don't know her too well," wagged her finger and said, "Do you see any guys around Lorenwei? She snagged three beautiful girls to live with as soon as she entered school!"

"That makes sense..."

Bordonna smiled proudly, but then remembered something and summoned another female guard.

"Prepare a carriage, no, send my unicorn descendant carriage to the villa. Remove the protective armor from the carriage, and prioritize lightness and speed. Put some state gifts under the seats. Get ready quickly and go immediately."

"Yes, I understand!" the female guard replied and left.

"Girl, you're really thoughtful!" said Burbo.

Bordonna shrugged: "I'll treat her like a godson and go after my future daughter-in-law."

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Small Western-style building.