Why can't humans do it too?

"...Is there something you need?", avoiding the question, Su Er took a slight breath and asked in return.

This forest elf is really ruthless; he's sure his calf will be bruised tomorrow.

"Don't worry~"

"……what?"

"I mean, Mr. Monkey, you really don't need to be so troubled!"

Xin Ke's voice was light and airy, as if she were singing. She picked a cluster of bubbles that had gathered on her body and gently blew them into her palm. The forest elf with light golden hair comforted Su Er in this way.

Puzzled.

"I will definitely end this great war."

The voice was more resolute than ever before. Xin Ke turned halfway to look at Su Er behind her. Snow-white foam slid off her fair skin, and her six-pointed pupils shone with a determined light.

"After all, I'm a genius~~", Xin Ke's serious expression suddenly shattered like snowflakes falling. She smiled gently, a smile full of confidence. Her smooth, long golden hair cascaded down her shoulders, revealing her fair collarbones.

"A genius is someone who can ignore annoying realities and achieve their goals directly. Whether it's a great war or a god of war, I will wipe them all out—because I'm a genius!"

Even the last syllable of her words seemed to float on the air, and Xin Ke's smile grew even brighter.

“…”, Su’er’s throat moved slightly, she wanted to express her gratitude but couldn’t say it, “…Don’t move around, it hasn’t been flushed yet.”

A slight smile involuntarily crept onto his lips.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk," Jibril couldn't help but grin and make a strange sound as she sat up from the water with a subtle expression. "...You really haven't mated?"

For a dignified Skywing race to utter such vulgar language, this pink-haired person showed no shame whatsoever.

“There’s absolutely no need to hide it, okay? I know you’re very reserved, Suer~, but the desire for reproduction in a race is really very normal, okay? Please don’t suppress it!!” The pink-haired winged girl said with her arms outstretched in a sacred manner.

She really is like a sex-obsessed warrior now.

"Cough cough cough cough, normal my ass! Can't you be normal for once?" Caught off guard by these words, Su Er almost choked on his own saliva. Rolling his eyes in annoyance, Su Er continued, "If there's anything, there's no need to hide it, is there?"

"As you can see—"

“As you can see, it’s just a show of ordinary slaves serving their masters,” Xinke said, raising her voice and speeding up her speech before Suer could finish.

Xin Ke grabbed a wooden basin floating on the water and scooped up some lake water, then handed the basin to Su Er, indicating that he should rinse her back again.

"What are you still doing?"

"My...slave?"

Chapter 162 A Lack of Martial Morality

"...This is a rapid decline in status," Su'er muttered listlessly, knowing that Xin Ke was just joking. He then took the wooden basin from her.

Warm lake water poured down Xinke's shoulders, and the refreshing sensation of the warm, moist water sliding over her skin made the forest elf hum softly.

"Taking a bath was quite comfortable~"

Then he uttered a profound sigh.

"If you know it's comfortable, then take the initiative to take a shower!! I always have to urge you, you can't even shower by yourself, you're so useless!" Su Er said, glaring with dead fish eyes.

It would be a miracle if Xin Ke listened to that.

"Yes, yes, you can't even cleanse your own body, yet you're shouting about ending the war and even destroying my master. That's just too presumptuous. You're really shameless to waste time with such big talk." Jibril scoffed, the pink-haired winged being unable to bear the thought of her god being belittled.

"Ah~, it is indeed a difficult thing for a mediocre brain like yours to understand the thoughts of a genius~, Miss Monster, you don't need to force yourself to keep up with me. Just fill in the elves when you can... and only such a simple job is most suitable for you~~", not willing to be at a disadvantage, Xin Ke easily retorted sarcastically.

Even after two years, the war between the Forest Elves and the Skywings seems to have no end in sight. Usually, it ends with the Skywings being no match for the Forest Elves. However, this time Jibril did not seem to be in a hurry to retaliate. Her face showed a sense of ease that she was already in an invincible position.

Suer remained calm, and even quite enjoyed watching these skit-like banter. Life was too boring, so it was normal to have some fun. These two clever people had also managed to keep their argument at the verbal level, preventing it from escalating into a real fight, so there was no need to worry too much.

“Ah~ right, right~, that’s exactly the tone of voice you’re using~” Jibril grinned and raised her hand, drawing circles in the air. “I felt like I’d heard that somewhere before, it was so familiar, always using the word ‘genius’ on their lips. I used to think all weeds were like that, but after spending a little time investigating recently, I found out that’s not the case…”

As Jibril spoke in a deliberately suspenseful manner, her hand reached out and grasped at the air as if by magic, and in the next moment she pulled out a notebook that looked somewhat damaged from thin air.

!!!

Xin Ke's eyes widened noticeably.

She recognized what it was!

Although decades have passed and her appearance has become dilapidated, her memory is still sharp enough not to forget something so familiar to her.

And this premonition was confirmed when Jibril pretended to open her notebook and read out the first sentence.

"Ahem! So, let's begin with the opening act~", Jibril deliberately cleared her throat, mimicking the operatic introduction style that Sue had once described and which the two of them had recreated, and spoke in an aria as if reciting a poem: "Genius~ ah~ genius! Why was such a perfect genius like me born~! How unfortunate it must be for those ordinary beings?"

"……puff."

I'm sorry, but Suer couldn't help but laugh in the end.

He understands completely!

So this is Xin Ke's teenage chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) speech? Where did you get this Skywing species? Didn't the people searching this city thoroughly before?

Although Xinke was still spouting self-praise about her genius, Jibril's solemn recitation at this moment clearly had a stronger flavor.

Through years of close interaction with a certain forest elf, Suer also discovered some of Xinke's little-known hobbies, such as... acting.

I enjoy watching other people's dramas, and I don't dislike acting myself; in fact, I find it quite enjoyable.

To satisfy Xinke's "small" request, Suer had to rack his brains to recall all the musicals and movies he had seen in his previous life. He really racked his brains, and he even felt that he had lost a lot of hair during that time. He thought that his shortened lifespan had reached its limit so quickly, which made quite a few jokes.

So what is this?

Did Xin Ke ever write any scripts or anything like that?

"Who can know the pain of a genius? No matter how much they say, it is impossible for ants to understand," Jibril continued her recitation, and the pink-haired Skywing even widened its eyes in excitement.

With a bold wipe of the drool from the corner of her mouth, Jibril was also trying hard to suppress her laughter. She had floated up from the pool without anyone noticing, and her small wings fluttered rapidly like a feline that had just come ashore, splashing all the water droplets onto the faces of Suer and Xinke beside her.

However, no one had time to complain about the unintentional act of splashing water; Suer and Xinke's attention was entirely focused on the notebook in Jibril's hand.

Her desire to perform was fully unleashed; Jibril's small body even spun in the air, as if she were holding up the sun, raising the notebook high.

"What I say will surely come true, the reality I desire will be realized, the world will revolve around me~ tsk tsk tsk~", even Jibril felt quite uncomfortable with such words, and the pink-haired winged creature clicked her tongue as if making a comment, "Ah~, now it's another part, isn't your record jumping range a bit too big?"

While grumbling, Jibril continued reading, "{It should be possible to artificially create pure elven life, right? Then how would the core will be created and defined?} Ah~, the next part is about failure... The gathered elves really exploded. It was a completely far-fetched idea, oh oh! {I'm truly a genius for surviving such a huge explosion~}"

"Pfft, hahaha! You clearly failed, yet you leave behind such a nonsensical self-praise. You're quite the weed—"

boom! ! !

It's blown up! Jibril's blown up!

Sul could no longer hear the pink-haired Skywing's next words. All he could see was her being engulfed in a crimson explosion. Even the lake water beside her was pushed outwards by the explosion. However, under Xin Ke's protective magic, Sul felt nothing at all.

Without a doubt, the one who committed such a cruel act against the young girl of the Skywing race was none other than the protagonist, Xin Ke, who was publicly executed.

Chapter 163 Saying One Thing and Meaning Another

"Hey! Calm down, you guys!!!"

The call for peace was issued immediately. Sur was panicked because this was the first time in two years that the war had been limited to words. Would these two incredibly proud guys refuse to back down and fight to the death?

Although it sounds like making a mountain out of a molehill, Suer knew that for mentally ill people, developing to that point in time didn't require much reason. They could do it just because they wanted to, with or without reason. Their pride, honor, mood, and so on could all be decisive factors, and they couldn't be fathomed by his normal way of thinking.

There is no doubt that, given that Jibril is now almost fully recovered, if things were to escalate back to an adversarial state, crushing Xin would be an incredibly easy task for her.

Suer didn't know if the forest elf who always believed in herself had come up with any countermeasures to ensure her safety in the past two years, nor did he know if those measures would be effective. He really didn't want the two of them to reach that point.

Wouldn't it be better to be friends with peace if possible?

Fortunately, this time Sull doesn't have to worry about such a terrible situation—or rather, the clever Skywing had already envisioned the possible scenario the moment he took out the prepared notebook? The Forest Elf's interesting reaction.

When the smoke from the explosion cleared, Jibril, unsurprisingly, showed no signs of injury. She even flipped over in mid-air and lay on her side, looking quite relaxed. In contrast to her cheerful demeanor, Xin Ke, still in the lake, looked rather frightening, her face expressionless as she stared at the Skywing floating above her.

“It seems something is stopping me from reading on…” Jibril deliberately slowed down her speech here, deliberately emphasizing the last syllable, observing the most subtle expression on Xin Ke’s face—she found nothing; the forest elf with light golden hair had excellent control over her expression.

"Okay~", Jibril seemed a little disappointed at not seeing anything more interesting. She let out an exaggerated long sigh, then her eyes lit up as if she had thought of something interesting. "That's right~, Sue?"

"……what?"

To be honest, Suer didn't really want to agree. His intuition kept reminding him that if he got involved in this kind of thing, he might become a punching bag caught in the middle. But if he didn't respond, he was afraid that this Skywing would have a fit of madness... It was obvious that what Jibril was about to say was not something nice!

“Since you can’t read it, then you can have this notebook,” Jibril said, surprising everyone. She leaned forward slightly and handed the tattered notebook to Sue. “Besides those boring and incomprehensible experimental records, there are quite a few interesting stories~~~, like what funny things you encountered, your daring ideas, and words you wrote down as you felt… You’ll be interested, won’t you?”

Jibril smiled broadly, the notebook in her hand swinging up and down like a sharp fishhook.

The pressure is now on Sur!

"Uh, well..." A bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead as Suer stammered.

The pressure came unmistakably from the piercing gaze beside him! Even without turning his head, Suer could feel the heat emanating from that gaze—a truly scorching stare! Was this magic?!

Why didn't you ask me this privately, Jibril?!

"Huh? What are you still hesitating about? Hesitation means you want to see it, right?" Jibril chuckled, pushing the notebook forward even further, almost poking Suer's face.

"Take it~, here~, take it~~~"

So couldn't you have messaged me privately later?!

Sul screamed inwardly, "How can this Skywinged One be so inconsiderate! Does that mean a little girl can be treated with such impunity?! Ah! Ahhh! His hand!"

To my horror, I realized that my hand had somehow already risen, and was now only a few centimeters away from the notebook that was neither too thin nor too thick!