"It is fine, right, Nina?" Kafka asked as he gently used the tips of his fingers to hold the elongated part of her ear, which made them flicker around a bit. "There's no rule in your variant clan that says that no one other than the person you're married to forever is allowed to touch your ears, right?"
He simply asked this as a joke, as he had read in a few fantasy novels that elves who had similar ears to Nina treated their ears like sensitive parts that only their loved ones could lay their hands upon and wanted to see if it was true here as well.
But out of his expectation, Nina had a rather bizarre outrage at his silly question, which took him by surprise.
"No, Kafka. There's no such rule in my clan...And even if there was, I wouldn't abide by it and would let you touch my ears however you want, since it's my wish to let anyone else lay their hands on my body and no one else's!" Nina harumphed as her rebellious spirit came out when she heard the possibility of someone trying to chain her up and make her lose her freedom.
She then looked at Kafka, who was tenderly stroking the edge of her ears, and said with an indignant look on her face, "...So, do whatever you want, Kafka. Let's see who tries to stop you!"
"C-Calm down, Nina...You don't have to get so worked up over some dumb doubt I had." Kafka was caught off guard by her sudden protest and softly patted her smooth back to help her calm down, which had an immediate effect as Nina quickly simmered down and felt embarrassed about getting so worked up in front of a junior.
He then continued saying, "I'm pretty sure that no one out there is dumb enough to try and control a woman like you, Nina, who can beat up three men so effortlessly, so you really have no reason to get so angry about someone trying to pluck away your choice, as you are the last person I see that happening to."
Nina's ears twitched in a bashful manner when she realised that she was showing her fiesty side once again to Kafka, when she was actually doing the opposite and trying her best to show her feminine side to him so that he didn't look down on her as a woman.
"N-No Kafka, it's not like I'm getting angry for no reason!" Nina looked up at Kafka and quickly explained her actions so that he didn't misunderstand and think that she was a woman who was violent at all times.
She was even more surprised that she wasn't repulsed by it one bit, like she would've been if any other man had ordered her to follow something he said and was willing to comply with it, even before he said what he wanted her to do.
And after realising how open she was to his suggestion, she decided to be honest with her thoughts and said to him in a rather coy manner, like she was embarrassed that she was admitting to this,
"...A-Actually Kafka, if any other man were to tell me to do something that deprived me of my freedom, I would've sent them off with a slap."
"But for some reason, when you do the same, I don't really mind at all and am willing to do anything you say, even though it means that I'm letting another man step over me, which is something that I hate the most."
She then affirmed her thoughts and regained her posture as she continued to say in a cheerful manner,
"It's probably because I think of you as a little brother that can do no harm to his older sister, and I trust that whatever you do is only for the good of me that I suddenly seem so open-minded in this matter~"
Nina let out an innocent chuckle, like she couldn't believe that a boy she met today could make her change so much.
She then looked at Kafka with a warm look in her eyes and asked,
"So, what do you want me to do, Kafka?...Tell your big sister here, and she'll surely fulfil it."