Go back? There's no going back.

"Screw you!"

The door of the ward was closed just before the pillow was thrown out of the room by the angry patient.

At this point, the whole room fell silent again.

"How about I come back later?"

Looking at the girl who was still a little red on the bed, Su Wei opened his mouth uncertainly: "Your current condition... doesn't look good."

"...No, it's okay. I'm angry at my sister. I won't take it out on you."

After hearing Su Wei's words, Klina took a deep breath and began to adjust her emotions.

After a while, although her entire face was still red, the girl's condition seemed to have stabilized.

"I'm sorry, yesterday... I couldn't protect you as I promised."

Looking at Su Wei, she was silent for a moment, trying hard to force a lonely smile on her face.

"No, it's not your fault. Rather... I'm glad that the person I hired in the end was you."

"Eh?"

The unexpected response from the young man beside the bed made the girl slightly stunned.

"Although yesterday was my first time hiring a hunter, I think there aren't many hunters who can stick to their promises and not abandon their employers and run away when they can't even save themselves."

"So, thank you."

After saying this, Su Wei bowed slightly towards the girl on the hospital bed.

"...No, you're welcome. Actually... Actually, it's not as exaggerated as you say. It's mainly because of my lack of ability that you are in danger..."

As if she had never expected to receive thanks after the commission failed, the blush on the bodyguard's face, which had just faded, became obvious again, and she scratched her cheek somewhat unnaturally.

"Oh, right, according to the guild's rules, if any commission you accept fails, regardless of the reason, you must return half of the reward. I'll return it to you now."

"……it is good."

Hearing the voice, Su Wei was stunned for a moment, subconsciously fumbled around his body for a while, and took out the passbook.

Half a minute later.

"I'm telling you, I don't know how much money you have, but it's best not to show off your wealth in the guild like you did last night..."

"There are a lot of people outside. It's just that there are fewer people there recently. The hunters who stayed in the hall at that time were relatively honest. If it were before, you might have been robbed as soon as you stepped out of the guild gate."

After the refund was completed, I stuffed the passbook back into the coat folded aside. The bodyguard in front of me suddenly reminded me earnestly.

Even after staring at Su Wei's face for a while, she added: "By then, maybe even you will be sold."

"Thank you. I'll pay attention to that."

Listening quietly to the other party's teachings, Su Wei nodded quietly.

Of course he knew this.

Rather, if his intuition had not suddenly become extremely strong, making him anxious to go to the mountain to find his mother, he would not have been so flamboyant.

Next, Su Wei put away his passbook card and did not leave the ward.

Instead, he looked at the bodyguard lying on the hospital bed again with a subtle look.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Noticing the gaze, Klina looked back at Su Wei with a puzzled look.

"I, would like to ask you something about the training camp in the royal city."

Facing the other person's eyes, Su Wei scratched the back of his head, and a shy expression appeared on his face at the right time: "I want to participate in the hunter training. Can you recommend a reliable training camp for me?"

Su Wei remembered very clearly that when he was chatting with the bodyguard on the way up the mountain last night, she had said in person that in order to become stronger as quickly as possible, she practiced through participating in intensive training.

Although she is not very strong and still seems to be far behind her mother, but... she should know the inside story of the training camp better than Su Wei, an outsider.

Moreover, after this period of conversation, Su Wei was also sure that the bodyguard lady had a good heart and was someone worth asking for advice.

"You want to... participate in training?"

It seemed that she had never expected Su Wei to have such a plan. Klina was stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously looked at Su Wei up and down with a somewhat confused look: "I thought you would be a more gentle and refined academic person?"

"No, I'm super brave. I'm a real tough guy."

"You're a tough bastard."

"..."

Looking at the bodyguard in front of him who obviously didn't believe him and didn't give a clear response, Su Wei could understand her concerns.

After all, the training camp... seems to be one of the few places in the royal city where people can die.

Rapid progress and improvement are also accompanied by more extreme training intensity.

Every year there are people who collapse during training because they cannot bear the intensity of the training but cannot see clearly that they have been gritting their teeth and holding on.

I heard this number is quite a lot.

In addition, there are other risks in other aspects of training.

Given the kind nature of this bodyguard lady, she is probably worried that the person she recommended might accidentally become one of them in the future.

"...Ms. Krina, you must have had this experience too, right? That feeling of realizing your own powerlessness... of wanting to become stronger."

Realizing this, Su Wei thought for a moment, sighed softly, his eyes inadvertently became lost, he stared at her, and murmured: "Please, please don't feel any burden, just think of it as pity for me, your employer who almost died in the mountains last night-"

"I, I understand, so please don't speak in such a strange tone all of a sudden..."

As Su Wei expected, after he put on a little pretense, the bodyguard lady, who seemed easy to fool, agreed somewhat helplessly.

"I'm not particularly familiar with other training camps in the city, but the one I stayed in was... okay."

After silently rolling her eyes at Su Wei, the bodyguard turned sideways to take the note paper and pen from the bedside cabinet and wrote down a string of addresses on it.

"Although the atmosphere inside is not very good, the fees are a bit high, and there is even a serious bribery phenomenon, the teaching quality and the cultivation resources provided during the training period are obviously above the average level."

She tore off the note and handed it to Su Wei. Seeing the latter's trusting look, the bodyguard seemed to have thought of something. Her cheeks slightly flushed. She coughed lightly and whispered:

"Although I have already graduated from there, but... after you get in, if you encounter any troubles, or if there is anything you don't understand, you can report me... No, you can contact me directly."

"OK, thanks."

Under Klina's gaze, Su Wei put away the note solemnly.

"Then... you should have a good rest, and I won't disturb you for now?"

However, just as Su Wei stood up and was about to leave, he was stopped by the bodyguard behind him.

"I just suddenly remembered something... No, actually I've been wanting to ask you since you walked in, but my sister interrupted me. Can I ask you now?"

For some reason, under Su Wei's puzzled gaze, the bodyguard suddenly became quite reserved.

Su Wei nodded: "Excuse me."

Staring closely at Su Wei, she pursed her lips, and after a moment's thought, she asked in a complicated voice, "Are you...really the younger brother of that Lady Celcia?"

"what?"

……

Chapter 26: Fox Fairy

There is an open space in the waist of the Roseau Mountains.

Densely packed undead gathered together, and blood-curdling roars and chewing sounds could be heard from the crowd.

However, the central area of ​​this open space was unusually quiet.

The high-heeled boots were kicked aside casually, and a pair of slender white legs swayed gently under the black robe.

"sit."

Eve let her waist-length hair fall loose as she leaned over a pale dragon skeleton. Her slender white hands supported her cheeks as she stared expressionlessly at the "seating upright" undead in front of her.

Gradually, her eyes became colder.

I couldn’t sleep last night.

There was a hint of dark circles at the corners of her eyes. Since the healing and recovery of the Pluto body required a considerable amount of mental energy, even now she needed proper rest.

After being disturbed by the two mice, she thought it was just a trivial episode.

However, after letting the other person go, she suddenly found that... she became unable to sleep.

In her head, the distraught look of a little mouse would appear from time to time, disturbing her sleepiness.

——Shouldn’t I have let them go so easily at that time?

Quietly looking at the undead in front of her, whose posture and physique were extremely similar to the little mouse last night, Eve was silent for a long time. Finally, she sighed tiredly, waved her hand, and let the latter retreat back to the group of undead where the intensity of cannibalism was the lowest.

A dead thing that has lost its mind can never be compared with a living thing.

Although even Eve herself didn't know why a useless little mouse made her so upset.

She even had the urge to go down the mountain and catch the mice herself.

"...Oh, it seems that there are quite a lot of guests going up the mountain today."

However, at this moment, Eve suddenly realized something and turned to look at the path connecting to the left front of the open space.

The originally restless group of undead also fell into a brief silence at this moment.

boom--!

The next second, the ground beneath Eve's feet shook violently, and the magic power floating in the air around her twisted and collapsed in an instant.

Lightning flashed, flames shot up into the sky, and the violent explosion instantly rang in the ears.

Including the undead that had just retreated, the group of undead that was originally densely packed in the open space was directly torn open with a hideous gap.

"..."

Eve said nothing as her eyes swept over the evaporating undead.

Although these things were just insignificant pet food for her, it was not yet the turn of outsiders to clean them.

Squinting her eyes slightly, she stared at the figure approaching and tilted her head expressionlessly: "So, this is the answer sheet Krenna gave me?"

"Unfortunately, she is preparing to step down in the near future. As for your proposal, she has recently handed it over to me to handle."

She walked slowly closer, raised her hand, and slowly tied her long golden hair into a bun. The empire's first princess looked at the witch with cold eyes.

“Originally, I was a little hesitant.”

After a moment, she suddenly smiled and said, "But it's not necessary now."

***

The spacious ward was exceptionally quiet.

Su Wei blinked and looked at the bodyguard who said something shocking.

younger brother…?

The expression on his face became increasingly strange. It was fine that the empress of the empire had previously misunderstood that little Karami was the younger brother of the first princess, but why was this person also like this now?

"I have nothing to do with that adult."

Taking a deep breath, under the latter's gaze, Su Wei shook his head seriously.

Recently... no, it should be said that in recent years, there have been rumors that the Queen will step down. In this case, as a candidate for the next ruler, the reputation of the First Princess is very important.

Although I heard that the actual position is mainly determined by the recommendation of the imperial spirit and the previous ruler, and reputation does not have a big impact, but... it turns out that we cannot let a rat man from the slums leave a stain on the reputation of the princess.

"Huh? How is it possible..."

However, after hearing Su Wei's denial, the bodyguard in front of him seemed even more confused than he was: "It was clearly that gentleman who said it himself."

"Ah? When?"

Hearing this, Su Wei was also stunned.

"Just... not long after my sister came over. She should have been in your ward at the time. She probably came over after hearing my sister coming over. They mentioned you during their conversation."

"In fact, I have known her for a long time. When I first met her, I thought she would just show some concern for me."

As she said this, the bodyguard in front of her began to stammer for some reason: "In the end, I never expected that she would scold me as soon as she came in..."