One Strike and I'm Out

Darch shook his head and said, "Mighty messenger, don't be angry. Ellie didn't mean it that way...."

Gu Mengmeng retorted, "Then what did she mean?"

Darch turned back to look at Ellie and upon seeing how she was going to cry, his heart ached terribly so he instantly knelt in front of Gu Mengmeng and pleaded, "Mighty messenger, everything in the past was my fault. I didn't persuade Ellie properly, causing her to make that kind of decision at a moment of folly. Please, I beg you, seeing how nine of us are males from Saint Nazaire, please just make an exception once, at least.....at least Ellie's a female, no tribe will reject a female."

Gu Mengmeng turned her body and said, "Look behind me, do you think that Saint Nazaire still lacks an ungrateful and treacherous half-orc female?"

Darch glanced at the lineup behind Gu Mengmeng and was instantly dumbfounded. His entire body softened in dispirit and he hung his head in shame.