Wildness and Masks

"Maggie, aren't you going to introduce this little sister to me?" Eve asked with a hint of amusement.

She had heard about Macal carrying Ogre back.

The interaction between these two seemed to go beyond the usual relationship between colleagues, didn't it?

She even inquired about Macal from the stable hands—her beloved brother Macal almost got into a fight over this girl.

‘I need to see what kind of spell you've cast on Brother Macal that even Maggie is so protective of you.’ Eve clenched the hem of her clothes tightly behind her back.

She no longer saw this young girl as 'harmless.'

"Oh, you mean Geling... wait, where is she?"

Maggie turned her head to find that Ogre had somehow hidden behind her.

She turned around and caught the girl trying to avoid them.

"You know each other? Since when..."

Maggie looked at Ogre's behavior, then at Eve, who seemed a bit off, and connected the dots.

In an instant, Maggie's mind filled in the entire story—she had a knack for this kind of thing.

‘No way...’ Maggie turned to look at Eve again, realizing what had happened.

Though the truth might not match exactly, Maggie felt it wouldn't be far off.

She hadn't expected that Eve, whom her cousin had openly acknowledged as a 'brother,' would have such thoughts.

"Brother Macal introduced us," Eve said with an unchanged smile.

"Uh-huh..." Ogre nodded.