In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

She blinked and stared at the man in front of her silently.

After staring at him uncomfortably, Maria slowly spoke.

"How is your relationship?"

"pretty good."

Hearing Maria asking about his family, Ji seemed to relax, spoke slowly, and his expression softened a little.

"Although we've been apart for a while due to various things, we all care about each other. If we have the chance, we'll meet up and talk about what's happened to us..."

As he spoke, Ji couldn't help but sigh.

They brothers and sisters have not been able to see each other for many years. Although they each have their own things to do, the intervention of Simaitai is also inevitable.

Dayan is very wary of every meeting between them and will even intervene!

It can be said that if there were no Simuitai, although they would be together less often than apart, at least they would not be like now, where they only see each other for one or two days in several years.

"But I don't care about that... I just want to accompany my sister."

Ji let out a breath.

Although it was terrible, fortunately, he could still be with his sister... This was happiness enough for him.

After saying this, he looked at Maria.

Although he looks well-behaved, he is not really stupid and knows nothing.

He could feel Maria's kindness towards him at this moment...

Judging from the performance of the man from Simuitai and Maria's current condition, he can be sure that the person in front of him must be the general who conquered evil spirits hundreds of years ago!

In other words, the other party exists from the same era as himself and others.

I don't know what happened at the beginning.

But he could see that Maria's attitude towards them was also complicated.

There must be various pasts and histories involved, and there must be many stories.

But as far as performance is concerned, he really doesn't care about these.

He would rather live in the present.

"Is that so...? Fine."

Maria nodded slightly and said nothing more.

After a long while, after Shu had dealt with the people from Simuitai, he slowly walked back to the room and looked at Maria with complicated eyes.

"Ugh……"

She sighed, but was not shy and sat down in front of the two of them.

"elder sister."

Ji seemed to like his sister very much. When he saw her sit down, he immediately stood up and sat down next to her.

Shu nodded slightly and looked back at Maria.

After a moment's silence, he slowly spoke.

"Are you...really the General who conquers evil spirits?"

Although her own lifespan could be said to be infinite, she was still somewhat surprised to see a being whose appearance remained unchanged after at least seven hundred years.

You know, they also grew up listening to Maria's stories.

There is a strange sense of dislocation, as if someone has walked out of a fairy tale book.

Maria was silent for a while and then nodded slightly.

There is nothing to hide.

"If you mean the demon-slaying general who fights demons and evil spirits... then it must be me."

"should?"

"If Yan Nation had not launched its second campaign against demons and evil spirits."

Maria's tone was so calm that the two young men in front of her hesitated.

After hesitating for a long time, Shu clenched his fists slightly.

"If that's the case, then why did you come back now?"

She looked at Maria, her tone somewhat uneasy.

Ji, who was standing next to him, was also looking at his sister worriedly.

He could feel that there was something wrong with Shu's tone.

Shouldn't it?

My sister is usually a very talkative person, right?

"...I just came back to take a look."

Maria keenly sensed that the other party's attitude was wrong, but she did not point it out directly. Instead, she spoke softly.

"Does this bother you?"

"...a little bit."

Maria's words were so calm, but Shu could only smile bitterly and shake his head.

She did feel uneasy.

You know, in the legend, General Zhengsui was a man who killed beasts without blinking an eye.

Although they felt that they had long since separated from the behemoths, this did not prevent them from knowing that they actually belonged to the category of behemoths.

Therefore, after realizing Maria's identity, Shu's mood became panicked at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But fortunately, Maria did not come back with malicious intentions.

Even if it is, this malice will not be directed at Shu and the others.

After taking another deep breath, Shu rubbed his face, looked at Ji who was frowning and worried, and patted his head gently.

"You go back and rest first, I'll talk to her."

"elder sister……"

Ji still looked worried.

Although his instinct told him that there was no need to worry about what was happening now...Maria was someone he could trust.

But the fact is that the current situation is not good.

They also don't remember what happened in the first place.

But they knew that General Zhengsui was from the Yan State.

As for the Yan Kingdom, to say nothing of being friendly towards these giant beasts... it was at least wary and hostile.

If possible, these people would definitely choose to take them all down.

"It's fine."

Shu smiled and rubbed the other person's head again. After watching him return to his room while looking back every few steps, he looked at Maria.

"I feel like I have a lot to say and ask, but..."

Shu paused for a few seconds before looking up. "You probably have more to ask me, right?"

"……is a bit."

Maria did not deny her thoughts. She just blinked and looked at the girl in front of her silently.

After noticing the other person's slightly uneasy look, he leaned back slightly in his chair.

"I originally wanted to ask you what's going on with this land, but compared to that, I think I should ask you something first..."

Maria paused for a few seconds and looked up again.

"Are you living... happily?"

"Eh?"

Shu herself was fully prepared to deal with Maria's question, but after hearing Maria's question, she still couldn't help but be dazed.

no……

This……

Looking at the woman in front of him who was as quiet as a flower under the moon, Shu paused for a long time before shaking his head helplessly.

"I thought you were going to ask some tougher questions..."

"As for your question... I don't know how to answer, but at least, I don't hate my current life."

"that's enough."

Maria nodded and sat quietly.

And Shu's original vigilance gradually dissipated a little.

The two of them were silent for a while, and then Shu shook his head helplessly.

"That's not what you want to ask, right?"

“…I don’t know how to start.”

Maria nodded.

That wasn't what she really wanted to ask.

"That happened a long time ago..."

Shu shook his head.

Her toes landed lightly on the ground, and the faint yellow air flowed back into her body along the ground, making her brows frown involuntarily.

The stinging sensation was not pleasant; she felt as if her feet were stepping on a ground covered with steel needles...

But even so, she did not lift her feet, but silently absorbed the pain on the earth.

"I believe you should also know that once upon a time, the problem of food was an intractable problem for Yan Country..."

"Even in its heyday, it was barely enough to provide a little extra food each year."

"But if a major disaster occurs next year, this food will not be enough for Yan Country to survive..."

"The threat of famine will always catch up with Yan Country..."

As the girl spoke, her face gradually turned pale.

Maria also frowned when she saw this scene.

She stretched out her foot and tried to hook the girl's foot.

But Shu shook his head firmly.

"Later... there was a person who, in order to solve this problem, began to search everywhere for suitable seeds and food, and began to cultivate and develop..."

"She measured every inch of Yan Nation's land with her own feet, step by step. Time and again, she tried foods that ordinary people couldn't even imagine, to determine their toxicity and how to change them..."

“And she did it in the end…”

"She developed methods and improved farming techniques...created new seeds that greatly increased food production."

"But... this is not enough..."

"Simply improving technology and varieties is not enough to ensure that Yan Country can have enough food and clothing..."

"We need more varieties ... to transform more seeds."

"Then... she headed north..."

When Shu said this, his eyes dropped, as if he was reminiscing.

Maria frowned as she looked at the other person's white knuckles.

Obviously, suppressing the problems of this land is not something she can do easily.

She needs to use all her strength to deal with...