"This Elf… was never being taken away by those guys, but was being taken back."
The other three were slightly shocked by Elric's words. His casual statement had made it almost seem like another of the usual jokes, but the two now knew better.
If he told Erika to throw chocolate at a bat again, she wouldn't. Spending a short time with him made it possible to distinguish his intent.
And his intent was completely serious right here.
"Taking her… back?"
"How does that make sense?"
"Right," Elric nodded "You can't get it that easy. She clearly hid information and created a narrative in our own heads"
"A narrative that she was being taken away?" Claude asked.
"Now that you mention it, she never said those words by herself, we just assumed it."
As anyone would have without knowing the events that went on with the two robed men and the elf village.
