When I stepped into the Angel's House, the paladins surrounding the area stared at me bluntly. Strangely enough, they didn’t seem to have any interest in Lisbon, but I could feel all kinds of vigilance and hostility towards me from their gaze.

This feeling was very similar to how the paladin looked at me when I was with Hillis at the casino. Haha, there’s no way someone at the level of a saintess is in such a shabby place...

"Huh! Den?"

...There was. Hillis, sitting with an open children’s book among the kids, looked at me and waved with a delighted look.

"Do you know each other?” Lisbon looked at me curiously.

"Yes, she’s a friend."

The moment I said she was a friend, I felt as if the gaze of the paladins watching from outside the window were burning fiercely. Even though her position made it impossible to escape from, I still felt sorry for Hillis having to deal with being surrounded by such overprotective paladins.

"Long time no see. I didn't expect I would meet you in a place like this."

Hillis smiled like a rascal and said, "Ayy, you don’t have to speak formally between friends; speak informally. You spoke informally to me when we parted last...