"I never knew you were one of the sages, I swear! It was never my intention to…"
Seeing the panic rapidly rising on the saintess face, I felt something stir deep down in my soul.
"Hey, stop!" I quickly closed the distance and grabbed Selia by her shoulders before pulling her out of the bow. "I have no idea what sort of a misconception or cultural conditioning you are showing me here, but I'm not sure what's going on nor comfortable with such a sudden change!"
"But…!" By the time I managed to pull Selia up, her face was frozen with fear and anxiety, the kind I would expect to see on the face of someone who freely ranted in a company cafeteria about the job only to then learn the person he was ranting to was actually the company's laidback CEO.
'Wait, that explains a lot, actually,' I thought, only to then shake my head and dismiss the thought.
