Bound To Nobody

"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.