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To be honest with herself, even Noelle hadn't been aware that she was capable of defeating so many elders of the Nightingale clan all alone. In fact, she was quite certain that she definitely couldn't have done it just a couple of years back.
'My skills haven't really improved by that much since then, right? In that case… this has got to be her doing…' Noelle sighed. 'It's good to know that I haven't 'wasted' it, but…'
Somehow, it felt really embarrassing to confirm that the 'energy' of her little boss had 'nourished' her somehow. Fortunately, no outsider would ever know of the secret between them.
Of course, even if he'd known, the only conscious elder who was already foaming at the mouth in anger was a little too 'busy' to care about her embarrassment.
Luckily for him, Emilia seemed to have finally taken some pity on the 'elderly', and started actually laying down her 'conditions' for the Nightingale clan's survival.
