"Do not lose heart." Adrien murmured, as if sensing her distress.
Emily managed a faint smile. "T...thank you...for trying to help me..."
Adrien chuckled. "It is the very least I can do, considering everything that you have already done for me. And all that you will do for...everyone else, in Verilonia..."
A light pink dusted his pale features and he cleared his throat, averting his gaze.
Merwyn pursed his lips and shook his head. "Well. I suppose we can have you kiss every person in the crowd!"
"Guh-?!"
...What!?
No.
Just - No.
She would rather not-
She definitely didn't want to do that.
Not at all!
Merwyn had to have been kidding!
He did it just to tease her!!
But-
Unfortunately. It was the best, most surefire method to detect the keys.
It was absurdly impossible to kiss every person in the world to find the seven keys, but in this case they'd already narrowed it down to the group of about thirty people in the courtyard.
