Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

"Isn't it right to do this? I see Dad often helping Mom pull the chair, and then they say something I don't understand and laugh happily." said the girl.

"Your parents are very loving."

"Yes, they often do everything together. I can't understand what they say, but they seem very happy."

Having said this, Zoe lowered her head slightly again.

"I don't understand a lot of things, so I don't know why they just left on their own and didn't take me with them. Why did they say they would come back but didn't come back?"

Zoe curled up her legs and hugged them with her hands, burying her face between her legs, her shoulders shaking slightly.

15. Unfulfilled Promises

"I'm sorry," the girl sobbed, "Today, I just... I didn't understand why I shouldn't fight. My father told me not to cause trouble for others, but this is what it means to cause trouble. I didn't know it was like this.

"I knew nothing. I couldn't understand what the villagers said. I was short and thin, and I had no friends. When I went to the mountains, they said I was doing something bad and that I was an unwanted child.

"I really don't know, I'm sorry, wuwu..."

The girl's emotions suddenly collapsed.

Li Ang took a look at the dinner she had carefully prepared, finished the fruit in his hand, wiped his hands, stood up, grabbed a chair with one hand and gently placed it in front of her, then sat down closer to her.

He lowered his voice and said, "I had a problem today too. I got impatient. Normally, I would explain things clearly."

"I know, it's because I don't understand anything, and I don't understand what you're saying, so you... Woo, I did something wrong, and I deserve to be beaten."

"not like this."

Li Ang gently patted her trembling shoulders.

"I'm anxious because you're so good."

"..."

The girl's trembling subsided a little, and she asked in a small voice, "Really?"

"Of course it's true. You've never been outside. There's no way a kid from outside the various airspaces at your age would know such swordsmanship."

In fact, there are still a few children with extremely abnormal talents, but what Li Ang said is basically true.

"I haven't fought anyone of your strength before. You don't know that using your power carelessly might hurt others. I'm a little worried that you've taken the wrong path."

Li Ang sighed in his heart. For ten years, he had thought about the truth and hypocrisy of this world more than once.

Everything you see before your eyes is real, otherwise there is no way to explain the ten years of effort and passion.

But if this is a false world, why is it presented to him? Even things that the game designers may not understand have been completed.

Now, this question comes to my mind again.

Zoe, in "Newbis Fantasy", was originally intended to be the heroine controlled by the player, and she was not supposed to have any personality.

But in this real world, she is a complete person. Her being without a father or a mother may be for the convenience of the game setting, but it has become her past and shaped her present.

She grew up to be the girl in front of Li Ang, energetic, kind-hearted, lacking common sense, like a blank sheet of paper and a rough diamond.

He hadn't made up his mind to invite her to join a group—not to mention that he wasn't sure she would accept—but he had to admit that the positive side of her personality had quite an impact on him.

Li Ang admitted that he was worried that this unpolished jade would be contaminated by filth, so he would rather play the bad guy to her and tell her what was wrong.

"I know now, and I won't do it again."

The girl's voice came from between her legs: "Besides, I know the way. I know how to get everywhere on the island."

Li Ang laughed: "Going down the wrong path means doing the wrong thing and becoming a bad person."

"I made a mistake again."

"It's okay. You don't have to keep admitting your mistakes. No one taught you before. It's not your fault. Everyone makes mistakes from time to time."

Zoe finally raised her head, her face was covered with tears and her eyes were red with tears. For the first time, Leon saw her liveliness fade away and her temperament became more delicate.

It was at this moment that I realized how slender her body was, and that I could hug her whole body. This might not be a developmental problem, but a natural one.

"If I do something wrong again, will you still blame me?"

"No, but—"

Hearing that he wouldn't, the girl was about to smile, but was scared back by the second half of Li Ang's sentence.

"Don't be afraid. I just want to say, ask before you do anything. I also hope you remember that if you don't do something wrong on purpose, don't take it to heart and just correct it in time."

"Okay."

Zoe suddenly felt much more relaxed.

She put her feet back on the ground, clenched her fists and pressed them on her smooth and soft legs, her shoulders slightly hunched, not yet completely relaxed.

"Besides," Li Ang told her the truth, "You are not short and thin. A petite body is actually very cute."

"Really?" Zoe looked at him eagerly with hope.

"I will never lie to you."

"Then you won't want me?"

Where is this?

"You can't say that." Li Ang said quickly: "We haven't even met for three days. We can't call it a relationship, but at most we're friends."

“Friends are people you hang out with, right?” Zoe asked.

"Correct."

"I want to play with you, are you still willing to play with me?"

Seeing her expectant yet fragile expression, Li Ang nodded.

Wiping the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, the girl put on a smile again.

"Hey, friend."

She clasped her hands together, a silly smile on her delicate face.

As if she remembered something, she quickly looked up.

"Will friends just leave and never come back? Can you please not leave?"

"..."

After leaving, Leon certainly didn't think he would come back to Satus Island.

He couldn't make any promises.

He knew what the girl meant was "I want to spend more time with you", and he also understood that she had been following him around these days, including provoking and playing around, which was actually just a desire to communicate with others in her loneliness.

Seeing him pause, Zoe became anxious and her eyes widened.

"Is there something wrong with me? Mom and Dad said they would not come back, and you did not agree to it."

"Did your parents say they would come back?"

"Yes, it has been two years since the agreed time."

It turns out that the time was agreed upon.

According to the villagers, Zoe's family had been on the island for ten years, and they had lived together for two years before her parents left. So, they had originally planned to come back after six years.

Li Ang looked around at the small house that had been built with such care and thought, and said to the girl, "What do they look like? Perhaps I will recognize them."

He wasn't simply changing the subject. Since this couple could travel back and forth in the clouds, it meant that their thinking was different from that of the Sky Island residents. They were most likely adventurers, or registered Sky Knights.

Leon has been a member of the group for a long time. If it is a Sky Knight with certain strength, he may have seen it.

"Really? I'll take you to see it."

Zoe trotted to the room on the right side of the door, opened the door, stepped halfway in, then turned around and waved to Leon.

"Come, come here."

He followed and found that it was the girl's room.

But there was nothing in here that would make people blush or get excited, because she didn't have many items, many of which were worn out, and some were even so damaged that they were no longer useful.

There are all kinds of small stones and shells in many places, which are her only hobbies.

In the corner, there is a height ruler and a weight scale, the latter of which was obviously bought from the industrially developed Sky Island.

What surprised Leon was that in addition to the whitish set of supplies on her bed, there was also a large piece of blanket made of grass leaves. It was a bit tattered, but because it was well dried at the beginning, it was not rotten, just worn out.

This is my bedding. It turns out that this little girl brought it here.

Zoe didn't notice his gaze as she took a picture frame from a handmade shelf and handed it to him.

Li Ang took it and saw the trademark on the photo frame at first glance. It belonged to a boutique store in Saint-Vitask.

The photo is of a man and a woman. The man is very tall and the woman is petite. It seems that my daughter takes after her.

Due to the long time, the photo turned pale yellow and the faces of the two people were blurred. Leon glanced at the beautiful Zoe next to him, and the two people in the photo must not be ugly.

Li Ang could recognize the place where they took the photo, which was the main entrance of the Holy City.

Under the towering dome of the Holy City's Glorious Gate, there is a fountain consisting of multiple bronze statues and intricate decorations. It is one of the most famous sights in the Holy City, and many tourists are recommended by merchants to take photos there.

The attire of these two people is also the common attire of Sky Knights.

"Maybe I can really find them, or at least find out where they went," said Li Ang.

Zoe ran out the door lightly and reached the door of the other room in an instant. The sound came from across the corridor.

"Leon, come and take a look at their room."

16. Elemental Swordsman

Zoe's parents' house is also simply furnished, but they have a lot more things than hers.

There are bookshelves, wardrobes, storage racks, a set of tables and chairs, and a mirror. Li Ang suspects that the bottles and jars on them are cosmetics.

The wardrobe and storage shelves were basically empty, with no obvious signs of use. It seemed that they didn't take all the things away, but simply didn't bring much with them when they came to the island.

There are actually quite a few books on the bookshelf.

Leon saw Newbis's famous fairy tale "The Adventure of the Sword King" at a glance.

Noticing Leon's gaze on the bookshelf, Zoe walked over and pointed at the spine of one of the books: "I learned those words from this book."

Li Ang took out the book, and his brows furrowed instantly.

"The Secret of My Mansion in the Forest with the Rebellious Lolita Girl".

He flipped through it casually, and then felt that his expression at the moment might look like "the old man's phone on the subway."

Although there is no direct and extreme description, this has already fallen into the category of erotic novels.

I put the book back on the bookshelf and found a series of similar reading materials next to it. I wonder if there are any really banned books among them.

"These are Mom's," Zoe said.

Your mother is really...

"You didn't read it all, did you?" Li Ang asked.

"No, I only read the book you brought, but I didn't quite understand it. Today you even said I misunderstood its meaning."

"Yes, don't read them in the future. These books will teach you the wrong lesson."

Perhaps because the language is obscure, Zoe, who grew up alone since she was a first-grade elementary school student, does not have the reading ability to fully understand the content.

"Then what is right? Teach me."

Eh? I teach?

The three days since arriving on Satus Island have been just as headache-inducing as planning tactics in the group.

"Let's not talk about this anymore."

Li Ang looked at other shelves and found some books on geography, maps, and ancient legends.

These are Daddy’s books,” Zoe explained.

If her parents were Sky Knights, it seemed her father was the one who steered the direction of the adventure.

Among a row of books, one with the keyword "sword" caught Leon's attention. He pulled it out and saw the title "The Secret of Elements and Swordsmanship".

"My father asked me to learn this, and I have been practicing according to it." said the girl.

Is that so?