Shopping

The Dragon Saintess’s calm reply greatly astonished Selina, who was prepared to accept her punishment. She looked at Aurelia, her dark eyes filled with confusion.

“If I’m not mistaken, this accident happened because you and I were in the same state earlier, right?”

Aurelia wasn’t a fool.

While her dragon blood was surging, she hadn’t paid close attention to these details, but after calming down and recalling her memories, it was clear that Selina had also been in a state of abnormal consciousness at the time.

“Indeed…”

Caught in the act, the girl scratched her head helplessly, looking a little embarrassed.

“You had a fever, I had a fever. Your consciousness was blurry, and so was mine. It’s too much of a coincidence that two people in the same condition mistakenly entered the same dormitory. Such a huge coincidence must mean someone is manipulating things.”

Aurelia, now fully conscious, began to ponder the truth behind the incident.

She always believed in one principle: there aren’t that many coincidences in the world; if there are too many, it’s just because someone behind the scenes wants it that way.

“I think so too.”

Selina nodded, agreeing with her assessment.

“Anyone who isn’t foolish would know that they’ve been targeted, but who is the one targeting us? How were we targeted? And why were we targeted? These questions are all unclear.”

“By the way, did you eat anything special today?”

“Since your body showed symptoms, we should first look at the food you consumed. The most straightforward way to induce estrus is to add aphrodisiacs to food.”

“No, I didn’t eat breakfast because I woke up too late. For lunch, I had a plate of vegetable salad and some fresh fruit.”

Selina answered truthfully.

“Is that all?”

Aurelia frowned.

It wasn’t that she found anything wrong with those specific foods, but rather that the girl’s diet seemed problematic. No breakfast, and lunch consisting entirely of vegetables and fruit. Even if a girl wanted to maintain her figure, as a mage, she would need a certain amount of protein and meat daily to support her magic power consumption.

“That’s right…”

Selina spread her hands, a helpless expression on her face.

What could she do? Her race was Elves, after all. Elves had extremely keen taste buds; even cooked meat would have a distinct bloody taste to them. Her unique digestive system and sense of taste meant she was now a complete vegetarian.

“If that’s the case, the food we ate shouldn’t have any commonality.”

“Could it be some kind of volatile alchemical drug?”

Selina suggested.

Both of them had fallen victim unknowingly. If the main cause wasn’t the food they ate, could it be some sort of silent, colorless, odorless gas?

“Impossible. If it were a similar alchemical drug, I would have noticed it immediately.”

Aurelia immediately denied it.

The Dragon Tribe’s control over their bodies was unparalleled by other races.

To achieve absolute combat perfection, even in their dragon form, every member of the Dragon Tribe could precisely control every muscle and bone in their body.

With such fine perception and control, if any abnormal gas entered her nose, she would definitely detect it at once, rather than waiting for the drug to take effect without any clues.

Next, the two girls discussed various possibilities for a long time, but all were rejected.

In the end, they didn’t come up with many strong possibilities. Selina glanced out the window at the gradually darkening sky and slowly stood up.

“Let’s leave it at that for today. If there are any other surprises, we’ll contact each other. And also…”

The girl turned to look at the messy bathroom they had made a mess of.

“Regarding this incident, I still need to make some compensation. Since Senior Aurelia is unwilling to accept it, then consider it a favor I owe. In the future, within my capabilities, I will grant Senior Aurelia one request.”

With that, Selina began gathering her things, preparing to leave.

Aurelia looked at the girl’s serious profile and suddenly spoke.

“Then accompany me shopping.”

“Eh?!”

Selina’s astonished movements froze in place.

“I need to buy new clothes anyway, and Norin is busy these few days. How about you, Junior, accompany me shopping for a few clothes as compensation?”

Aurelia’s expression was serious, her tone devoid of any pretense.

“Just that, is enough?”

“Mhm.”

Selina actually didn’t want to interact too much with the Dragon Saintess. After all, being recognized by that old hag last time was still fresh in her mind, and she dared not gamble on the stealth of this current appearance.

However, if accompanying her to buy clothes could solve the problem, she was quite willing.

“Then… when?”

“Tomorrow is Saturday, let’s make it tomorrow. I’ll come to your dorm to find you then.”

“Alright.”

The matter was settled just like that.

Aurelia watched the girl leave the dormitory. As the door closed, she slowly exhaled a sigh of relief. At the same time, the indifferent emotions in her brilliant golden eyes faded, replaced by a hint of confusion.

‘Was it her imagination?’

The two looked nothing alike, yet she always saw the shadow of that man in this girl named Selina.

But a feeling was just a feeling. In fact, there were no concrete clues or evidence to match. First, there was the gender; they had both seen each other naked in the bathroom earlier, and Aurelia was certain Selina was a girl.

Conde was a man, so that point could quickly be dismissed.

During the days she spent with Conde, Aurelia knew him as someone who loved meat, and his daily dinner was either dried meat from his backpack or a freshly hunted wild boar. But Selina’s main diet for a day was almost entirely vegetarian, which also didn’t match up.

Yet, reality also proved that too many coincidences were no coincidence at all.

Aurelia still believed that this girl, Selina, was definitely connected to Conde in some way, and it was precisely for this reason that she proposed the shopping trip for tomorrow.

She didn’t have enough clues yet to determine the other party’s true identity, but she already had some conjectures in her mind. How could it be? The two shared commonalities, yet had different individual characteristics.

Both the girl and Conde had the most obvious black hair and black eyes, plus habits seemingly inherited through their bloodline.

The possibility of Selina being Conde’s daughter was high, but this was also what Aurelia was most reluctant to believe.

She always believed that a man of Conde’s personality and professional characteristics would find it difficult to settle down. Even if he did start a family, having a child would not be a wise choice for a thief with bounties all over him; an additional family member could very well become a fatal weakness for him.

She had interacted with Conde and understood him.

He was a very rational man. He had a clear understanding of himself and the world, and a very clear boundary for what should and should not be done.

After all, she herself was a good case in point back then. A lonely, helpless white dragon girl stood before you, begging you not to abandon her. What would an ordinary person choose to do?

Most likely, they wouldn’t refuse. A white dragon girl, not yet fully grown but already developing into a budding youth, held a fatal attraction for normal males. After all, what man could refuse the sense of achievement and pleasure of conquering a dragon?

Even if it wasn’t for the so-called sense of accomplishment or lust, if an infant white dragon were sold on the black market, the gold coins obtained would absolutely make an ordinary person rich overnight.

But he didn’t do that. He simply let her go quietly, and in the end, left her with a hair tie and a unique name that she would remember for a lifetime.

No matter what, she absolutely had to find him, and right now, Selina might be the key breakthrough point!