Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

——Oh, my beloved car...the car I just got.

Sighing, I rode my Toret dejectedly, walking across the boundless Lienia Lake area.

Although it was only fun for less than a quarter of an hour, I never imagined that I would be driving a raging fire chariot around the lake area, scolding everyone I met, and even grilling a giant shrimp into an Australian lobster.

Hey ~

“…Hello, that person over there.”

——Ah~ My chariot of fire.

"Well, can you hear me?"

Hmm? It seemed like someone was calling me, and even Torrett stopped.

I looked in the direction Torrett turned his head, and saw a blonde girl looking at us from another small pavilion in the lake area.

The moment their eyes met, the girl smiled stiffly and awkwardly.

——Hey, isn’t this our lovely little Laya~

——······Uh, no, now is not the time to do Laya’s side quest. I have to find Edgar first to avoid being overtaken by Madfire Us and transform Haida into a real “Three-Fingered Witch”.

It was right to think so in my heart, but Laya actually moved the pavilion and ran directly to me.

That’s right, it was definitely not me who walked over there, but Laya who walked over with the pavilion!

"Oh, hello, hello. Nice to meet you. It's a little cold around here." Little Laya is even cuter than she looks in the game!

The thin figure was wearing a green robe with delicate and beautiful silk embroidered patterns on the collar and wrists.

She kept leaning forward and looked a bit like an old woman.

However, Laya's face was that of a young and ignorant girl, with two delicate pigtails tied into circles on both sides of her face. Her standard oval face was as white as unpolished jade, but with two blushes on her cheeks, it looked like the little girl was putting on makeup for the first time.

Especially the pair of light green eyes, looking at me eagerly, like a little puppy asking for help.

Of course, Laya was indeed asking for help: "... I was ordered by my master to travel. But I was attacked by gangsters and I'm worried... Excuse me, can I... Are you looking for something?"

"Huh? Didn't you just say it was very cold around here? This stone is something I collected during my travels. It can emit warmth. Try it." I took out a heating stone from my backpack and handed it to the other person.

Laya's eyes sparkled immediately. After feeling the warmth of the hot stone, her expression relaxed like melting ice and snow. "Woo~ So comfortable. This reminds me of when I was a child, when Lady Tanis would often bring me black and red stones to warm my hands when it was cold."

—The black and red stone? Could it be lava stone?

"Oh, no, I almost forgot something." Laya suddenly came to her senses from the warm memories, "Well, you are the Faded One, right? Can I ask you for a favor?"

"Ok?"

"The gangster I just mentioned, he took my important necklace. I would like to ask you to help me get it back..." Little Laya said this, but she didn't know if it was because her body was warm and she began to have more desire, or because when talking about the gangster, she naturally thought of the cooked prawns of the other party, her stomach began to growl softly.

Her face turned slightly red, but she wanted to pretend nothing had happened and continued: "It's just that he is a fader like you. If you don't want to..."

——Hahaha, this little glutton.

Seeing that she was hungry, I deliberately found a piece of brave meat and waved it in front of Laya.

And Laya also stared at the piece of meat very honestly, her little head turning back and forth, saliva flowing from the corners of her mouth, little lady.

"Ah~" Suddenly, Laya poked her little head out incredibly quickly, grabbed the piece of meat from my hand in an instant, then tilted her head back lightly and swallowed it down smoothly.

——Is this the natural reaction of snakes?

After eating the meat, Laya came back to her senses and her face immediately became extremely flustered: "Oh, yes, sorry, I, I did it again. Please don't steal my things, I don't have anything to steal anymore."

As she spoke, Laya subconsciously flipped out of the pavilion, and in the blink of an eye, she was about to slip into the woods beside the pavilion.

——This little girl runs quite fast!

I shouted loudly, using my voice to stop her steps: "Laya, Laya, don't be impatient. I was wrong just now. I shouldn't have seduced you on purpose. Come back quickly... Don't you want me to get the necklace?"

Upon hearing about the necklace, Laya stopped immediately, lowered her head, and walked back carefully, her face full of apology: "Oh, I'm really sorry, I made you see my rude side... Although I have a high tolerance, but I haven't eaten for a long time, so I was like that just now."

"Really?" I took out a few pieces of dried meat, and Laya's eyes immediately lit up like flashbulbs, "I'll treat you to all of this."

"Really? Is it true?" Laya couldn't believe it, but drool was flowing from the corner of her mouth.

"Well, you're welcome. These just happen to be the extras I have."

——This is a lie.

——In fact, these are my last reserves of food.

However, we still have to go find that gangster "Shrimp Brother" later, and then we can use Rune to exchange for some food.

After hearing my promise, Laya started to eat the jerky happily. She did it very quickly. She swallowed it directly into her stomach without even chewing it twice.

In the blink of an eye, she had dazzled all four or five pieces of jerky.

“······Oh, thank you, kind Fader.” Probably because she saw me staring at her, Laya’s face turned red again, “I, I don’t know how to thank you. If, if…”

"It doesn't matter. I can't eat that much jerky by myself anyway." I pretended to be generous. "By the way, just call me Ling, Laya."

"Zero... Oh, I forgot to introduce myself... Hey, have I introduced myself? Zero."

——Ah, I seem to have said her name before others introduced themselves.

——But, Laya-chan is even cuter than I thought, so...

"Didn't you tell me your name as soon as we met?" I said with a wicked smile.

"Really? It turned out that I forgot accidentally." Xiao Laya felt a little embarrassed.

——She actually believed it! ?

Suddenly I felt a little bit of guilt in my conscience.

I was about to apologize when Laya came over to me again, a little excited. "By the way, Zero, you just said that you could help me get the necklace back from that gangster? Although he is a Faded One like you, but, but...but if you don't want to fight with your compatriots, I won't force you."

——Hmm? That was a little strange, wasn't it?

——Shouldn’t it be “Although he is a Fader like you, the necklace is very important to me, so please”?

However, I still patted my chest and responded: "Well, of course no problem, I will help you get the necklace back."

"Oh, thank you, thank you so much." Laya was delighted, and her innocent face seemed to be smiling with a halo, "I am so glad to meet you, Zero."

"You're welcome, but..." I changed the subject and asked, "Laya, can you tell me why that gangster only stole your necklace?"

Speaking of hooligans, Laya's face puffed up slightly again: "I, I don't know what happened. I was traveling and smelled something delicious, and then I found a big pot with a lot of delicious food in it... I had just eaten a little, and the hooligan suddenly ran out, with his hands spread out, howling loudly, snatched my necklace, chased me away, and said..."

"What else did you say?"

Laya cleared her throat and pretended to speak in a rough voice: "Well, this should be able to sell for a good price, get out of here!"

——······So, it turned out that it was this little greedy guy who first snatched the shrimps from Mr. Shrimp and then didn’t pay after eating them, which made the other party angry.

I continued to ask: "By the way, Laya, do you know what Rune is?"

“Lune?” Little Laya tilted her head in a daze, and then suddenly realized, “Just now, that gangster kept saying this! Could it be that, you, you also…”

As she said this, she seemed to want to climb out of the pavilion and run away again.

And I sighed helplessly: "Let's go, let's go apologize together."

——There’s really nothing I can do. She is the cutest little Laya in the Elden Ring, and she’s also my future niece.