Guild Boss's Ambition

Bai Ye stroked the sleeping Xiao Ban and smiled sweetly: "I feel that God is not so lacking in creativity. If the same form of misfortune happens to the same person repeatedly, then the script would be too boring, wouldn't it?"

Following Bai Ye's caress, Xiao Ban turned over on his belly comfortably and woke up comfortably──

Woo? Woo!

After seeing clearly who was touching it, the stupid dog immediately revealed an expression of fear, and fell under the bed, then rushed out of the room with a whimpering sound.

Seeing this, Bai Ye chuckled: "You ran away as soon as you saw me. Do I look very scary?"

I didn't complain about Bai Ye's questioning despite knowing the answer. Instead, I was curious about a certain detail: "By the way, how did Xiao Ban recognize you? At that time, half of your body was bitten by Xiao Ban when he saw through it at first sight──"

Bai Ye yawned and replied in a gentle tone, "Soul contract. The soul contract between Xiao Ban and I has different contents. In addition to not having a rigid slavery effect, I also installed a built-in sensing magic for him, so that he can find the direction of me, his master, anytime and anywhere. The original intention is to prevent him from getting lost."

At the end of her words, she reached out and gently combed my messy hair, her expression very gentle.

I couldn't help being surprised by her strange tenderness.

I asked hopefully, "Why does Bai Ye seem so gentle today?"

Bai Ye was stunned at first, then smiled and asked, "Am I not always gentle?"

How to describe it?

I thought about it and said, "I feel that your gentleness has become more direct now, Bai Ye."

Bai Ye glanced down and said jokingly, "Do you use the size of your breasts to measure your definition of gentleness?"

Smelling the fragrance on Bai Ye's body, my face heated up, and I refuted seriously: "I think your soul has been damaged, Bai Ye, which indirectly affects your usual words and deeds? You always smell like a deal!"

"What do you mean by always smelling like a deal? You'd better explain that to me!"

When he heard the verb "trade", Bai Ye immediately looked ferocious and pulled my cheek.

However, Bai Ye with an angry face is not scary at all, but rather a little cute.

I decisively didn't give any explanation and changed the topic to what happened yesterday.

"That's right, Bai Ye. What did you discuss yesterday? Can I still save my life?"

"You can still laugh, do you really understand what kind of thing is targeting you?"

"Isn't that you, Bai Ye?"

Hearing my question, Bai Ye cast a complicated look at me and smiled faintly: "Yes, it's me. Everything is my own fault. If it weren't for me, everyone in the Stone House wouldn't have to work so hard to protect you. If I wasn't so selfish, my fate wouldn't be like this."

Why, I always feel that there is something else behind Bai Ye’s words.

I asked in confusion: "Bai Ye, what are you talking about?"

Bai Ye touched my hair lovingly and said softly, "If you cherish the friends around you, then don't put yourself in any dangerous places, because there are many people who love you, and everyone will do their best to protect you. The more dangerous you are, the more price the people who love you will pay, until the dangerous pit is completely filled and you are safe."

Listening to Bai Ye's words, I couldn't help but laugh.

"Why would someone go out of their way to commit suicide when they have nothing better to do than to eat?"

"There's such a fool right in front of me."

Bai Yeyi smiled and put the skull pendant on my chest into my clothes. He reminded me, "Keep the pendant I gave you. Don't let anyone see the totem on your back. Ehad and I will go out together for a while. Miss Raftan will be responsible for protecting you. Remember not to run around. Listen to her arrangements and try not to leave this stone house."

I looked at the necromancer with a maternal look in silence and complained, "Are you my mother? Miss Bai Ye?"

Bai Ye was not afraid of my teasing. She put down the magic book in her hand and asked with a smile, while making a preparatory move to take off her nightgown: "I'm going to change clothes and go out. Do you want to stay and watch?"

"No thanks."

I was so overwhelmed by this that I quickly turned my head away, got up and went into the bathroom in the room.

Just as I was carefully cleaning each of my teeth with a toothbrush, I heard a brief sound of the bathroom door opening. Feeling that someone was in or out, I walked out with a toothbrush in my mouth and looked around. Finally, I found that the day night had disappeared, and the entire spacious room was left with only the early morning birdsong and me.

"Where did you say you would protect me? Why is there no one here?"

I couldn't help feeling a little lonely when I realized that the place was empty.

However, just as I was staring at the door in a daze, the door was opened.

"Hello, Miss Blue?"

Miss Raftan, who came to protect me, looked at me with a strange expression.

I glanced at the toothbrush handle in my mouth, and immediately felt embarrassed and ashamed.

"Isn't this very rude of Raftan?"

I nodded to her quickly, then hurried back to the bathroom to finish my grooming as a lady should.

In order to restore my image in Miss Paladin's eyes, I checked the mirror once more before leaving the bathroom. In the mirror was a delicate girl with black hair and red eyes. Whether it was her energetic look or her wrinkle-free uniform, she clearly reflected her strong passion for work.

Without a doubt!

This is a cute loli who is serious about her work!

I nodded in satisfaction at the mirror, and then I felt another stomachache.

"Why do I always feel like I'm getting further and further away from being a man—"

“Well…”

"In fact, whether it's a man or a woman, the most important thing is a person's character, isn't it?"

I convinced myself with this reason, then stepped out of the bathroom and formally greeted Miss Paladin.

"Good morning, Miss Raftan. I'm really sorry to ask you to come here to protect me alone."

At this time, the Paladin lady has entered a full state of combat readiness. Except for the helmet, she is wearing heavy protective gear all over her body. As long as Lila appears, she will be able to transform a cross sword and a giant tower shield from the space ring to make immediate counterattack and guard actions. She looks very reliable.

After hearing my polite words, Ms. Raftan suddenly became serious.

She said seriously, "Please don't say that. It is our duty to help those in need when seeing injustice. Moreover, you, me and Miss Bai Ye have been through life and death together during the journey of the Marching Wolves. If it weren't for you, Miss Lan Nong, who defeated the strong with your weakness, I alone might not be able to bring the unconscious Miss Bai Ye out of danger."

"I see. When I think about it, I'm actually pretty good!"

After Laftan said this, I realized that I had actually performed above my level at that time.

"But—"

However, just as I was feeling complacent, Raftan also said something that shattered my self-confidence: "If you encounter any enemy in the future, I hope Miss Lannong will never face them alone. If you can escape, then try to escape. If you can't escape, try to delay as much as possible. Unless it is necessary, don't risk attacking the enemy."

"I guess in your eyes I am just a first-class protected animal that can only act cute..."

"If you think so, I won't deny it."

"Please deny it!"

In the face of my indignant roar, Miss Raftan looked away and asked, "Excuse me, Miss Lannong, do you have any special plans today? If it is not an important matter, I hope Miss Lannong can stay in the stone house as much as possible."

Due to the war, Ebi's mission assessment service has been completely suspended.

Therefore, my schedule is basically blank, and every day is full of flexibility.

"No, I don't have anything special to deal with personally today," I said.

Hearing this, Miss Laftan's eyes immediately lit up, and then she asked actively: "Then Miss Lannong, is it convenient for you to meet my sister now? Recently, I heard Sophie say that she has a business idea that bothers her, but Miss Lannong, you also know that I know nothing about business, so -"

In principle, I should charge for any business consultation.

However, for Raftan's sake, I can only provide them with some advice for free.

I smiled and said, "I want to go see Lian'er and the others first, and then come back to find your sister, okay?"

Raftan held my hands tightly and said, "Then I'll leave it to you!"

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44. 368th Year of the Alliance of Light (Sophie)

(Sophie Fritz)

"Nobles are born for struggle."

"Without struggle, there would be no need for the nobility to exist."

"Because people need strong leaders to face the cruel war, that's why nobles appear."

My biological father always taught us sisters like this. He was a typical follower of the old-fashioned Lorraine aristocracy theory. He always said that we nobles had the obligation to bring happiness to the people. Under his teachings, we became a pair of sisters just like him, and seemed to be abandoned one after another in this era that no longer needed nobility.

In this era, what people need is freedom.

Even if I die, I want the freedom to die in my own hands.

In the first year we came to Mopolis, the wrath of nature occurred in the cold winter with falling snow. According to the city lord Surut, after the yellow plum blossoms bloomed, it meant that spring had arrived. However, judging by the military's response over the past month, the high elves who took advantage of the error in the flowering period to raid the border could not gain any advantage at all.

This can't help but make people suspect that the Alliance military actually knew that the wrath of nature would come early.

People advocate freedom, but in the final analysis, everyone is still tied up with chains.

There are many kinds of chains, but the one that binds most people is the original sin called greed.

Through this chain, the military not only controlled the adventurers' actions, but also the media's opinion. Almost every newspaper narrated the losses on the battlefield in extremely repressed and mild words, and almost every report publicized the glory of the victory on the front line. However, the enemy was approaching us step by step and was about to arrive at the city.

Because of the war, market prices also fluctuated.

Some people said that the city of Mopolis would soon be surrounded by the enemy, and the food supply would be cut off from outside in the near future, so the prices of grains and groceries skyrocketed, and a large number of merchants began to hoard food. They prayed day and night that the war would last as long as possible, so that as long as the food reserves of the people in the city were all eaten up, they could make a fortune and turn rice into their gold coins.

Although the transaction is consensual, these are undoubtedly extremely unethical transactions.

There is a huge information asymmetry between the public and businessmen.

The connections that merchants have built up over a long period of time will be enough for them to obtain hundreds of times more intelligence than ordinary civilians in a short period of time. They will know where to purchase food earlier and will be more familiar with the specific meaning behind each rise and fall in prices. In other words, they started buying all imported food the moment the Lord of Surut announced the start of the war.

Even though food has been continuously shipped in from the south in the past month, the total amount of food in the city may not be enough for the soldiers and civilians in the city to survive the six months of nature's wrath. However, that group of merchants took advantage of their accumulated wealth and the people's hesitation about the high-priced imported food to purchase all the food in advance. If the siege began within this month and lasted for more than two months, then their evil plan would succeed, and they would most likely join forces to set a sky-high price for food.

In order to protect the Stone House from being harmed by them, Mr. Stallone from the kitchen had already entrusted me to buy six months' worth of food for 800 people when the price was the cheapest. As for the other common people, I had only a few thousand gold coins in my pocket and was completely helpless. I could only watch them worry about the increasingly scarce and expensive food.

"Sophie-chan──"

Just when I was worrying about the country and the people, a crazy-sounding voice floated in from afar.

That's my idiot sister.

In addition to her, there was also a wild blue farmer lady following behind her.

"It's really embarrassing."

Without thinking, I raised my hand and punched the nymphomaniac who was rushing towards me in the face.

The barbarian's natural brute strength allowed me to successfully knock her aside.

Dang Dang Dang.

The sound of the knight's heavy armor hitting the ground continued on the third floor.

Fortunately, because the task appraisal service has been temporarily suspended, the number of people on the third floor of the Stone House has decreased a lot, and probably only a single-digit number of passers-by saw this scene that brought disgrace to the family.

"How should I put it? This is such a familiar scene—"

Seeing this rude scene, Miss Lan Nong, who was traveling with her sister, immediately sighed.

I heard that she was attacked by Bai Ye yesterday, so my sister is responsible for protecting her closely today.

I asked curiously, "What familiar scene?"

She blinked cutely, pointed at her sister who had fallen to the ground and said with a smile: "Look! Don't you think that Sister Raftan now looks a lot like President Ehard? Could it be that every sister-con knight needs the power of fists to confirm their intimacy with each other?"

Looking at Sister Raftan who was stroking her cheek and smiling foolishly, I suddenly got goose bumps.

"What the hell is that? It feels so gross."

"Ms. Sophie is really dishonest. She obviously likes this kind of contact very much."

"Who likes to punch someone?"

Facing Miss Lannon's teasing, I immediately complained loudly, but my fierce denial did not get her acknowledgement at all. Her two deep red eyes were immediately filled with mischief, which made me want to catch her, pinch, twist, slap her and teach her a lesson, so that she would know what the dignity of aristocracy and the bearing of an earl are!

However, fantasy is beautiful, but the reality is that I dare not even touch a hair of hers.

I was counting on her to give me advice and discuss business with me!

"By the way! Miss Lannong, why did you suddenly think of coming to see me?" I asked Miss Lannong.

"I asked her to come and give you some advice." The resurrected sister said as if she was presenting a treasure.

Miss Lan Nong smiled slightly, looked around in my shop, and said playfully: "It seems that your recycling business has gradually got on track, right? Why do you still look so sad? If you frown all day long, you won't be liked by gold coins. Remember to keep smiling! The most important thing in the service industry is a smile! A smile is worth a thousand gold!"

Indeed, my business has been picking up recently.