The hero's gender is yet to be determined after rebirth.

"Bullshit! All you're thinking about is demoting me!"

The two thieves cursed at each other, but finally decided to take action against the hot spring village.

After wandering around the walls of the hot spring town for a while, the two finally found a gap in the building that they could use as a foothold. They struggled to climb over the wall and, supporting each other, made their way into the courtyard.

As a result, just as they jumped off the wall and before they could even get their feet on the ground, they saw a red-haired little girl coming towards them.

"Huh? Who are you?" Meilan looked curiously at the two people who had climbed over the wall.

She happened to see the two people climb over the wall and came in, and she became somewhat suspicious.

"Ah, we, we're here to collect vegetables!" The bearded thief was quick-witted and made up an excuse as soon as he saw people in front of him.

Meilan asked in confusion, "Then why did you use a VPN?"

“Isn’t climbing over the wall the shortest way? We’re lazy, hahaha!” The bald thief was quick to react as well.

“That makes sense!” Meilan nodded vigorously. “By the way, my Puyo isn’t feeling well. She ate something bad. Do you know where the landlady is? I’ll ask her for a room for Puyo to rest.”

Meilan was very honest and felt that she should definitely say something if she was taking up an extra room.

"I don't know, but we can help you look for it." The bearded thief thought the child was easy to fool.

The bald thief asked in confusion, "By the way, what's this 'puyo' you're talking about?"

“Puyo is Puyo, umm, you’ll see it if you turn around.” Melan didn’t mention the Slime King, she just pointed ahead.

"Let's go there together."

"Perhaps we can help."

Could it be some kind of magical pet? The two thieves exchanged a glance, a knowing look on their faces. This dim-witted little girl might be able to get us even more loot.

"This way." Meilan led the two around to the area near the kitchen, where the Slime King had gotten a stomachache from eating something bad.

"Why are there so many slimes here?"

"Oh my god! What's a slime doing at the hot spring resort inn?"

“This is my Puyo.” Melan shrugged.

The two thieves were greatly disappointed. They hadn't expected their so-called magical companion to be nothing more than a worthless slime.

"Are you feeling better?" Meilan picked up a slime and held it in her arms, gently rubbing it.

By this time, the Slime King had gradually recovered much of its strength. Through their contractual bond, Meilan could also sense its approximate condition.

"Still feeling a bit nauseous? How about we eat something else?" Meilan asked the slime in her arms. "Like these two bad guys?"

"Hey?"

"what?"

The two thieves were startled.

Did she know we were bad guys? Was she just putting on an act for us?

But the two of them soon laughed again.

"Girl, why are you talking like that?"

"Did you misunderstand something?"

A little girl, plus a pile of slimes on the ground, stacked together, make at most a hundred or so soft creatures. What can they do to the two of us?

"Huh? You still prefer vegetarian food? What a pity." Melan completely ignored the two of them and said to the slime, "How about this, I'll let them experience your pain too."

The slime in her arms stirred slightly, seemingly quite interested in the suggestion.

Meilan looked at the two thieves: "You two bring the rice soup pot from the kitchen, drink all the rice soup in it, and I'll let you go."

Having grown up in a poor mountain village, she was simple and honest, but she had seen her share of bad people. From the moment these two men jumped over the wall, Meilan knew they were thieves and wasn't fooled by their lies at all.

Putting aside their unfriendly appearance and secretive behavior, the fact that there are only three people in the hot spring inn—a mother and two daughters—makes it impossible for you two to climb over the wall and get in, even if you were just taking a shortcut to work.

Meilan had encountered burglars like this more than once. In impoverished and harsh places, there are often unruly people, and besides teaching her some old-fashioned knowledge, her grandparents naturally also taught her how to guard against the evil forces of the world.

The two thieves looked at Meilan, and the bearded thief first burst into laughter: "What are you saying, little girl?!"

The bald thief remained silent, pulled a short stick from his waist, and struck Meilan on the head.

Meilan frowned deeply.

They not only committed petty theft, but they also physically assaulted people!

The moment the bald thief lunged at her, Meilan kicked him aside.

"This little girl is quite something!" The bearded thief actually pulled out a short blade and brandished it threateningly.

Meilan's gaze grew even colder.

"Puyo—!" The slime in Meilan's arms cried out in anger and jumped out of Meilan's embrace.

Hundreds of slimes gathered around and merged together to form a giant pink magical slime king.

This is a Warcraft, after all, and it's an A-rank one at that!

As the Slime King leaped forward, landing with a thud, and approached the two thieves, they were so startled that they dropped their knives and sticks.

"Puyo—Puyo—Puyo!!!" Puyo bounced a few steps and suddenly sprayed out a large glob of viscous liquid.

"what--!"

Wow! What is this?

The two thieves were sprayed with this grayish-white liquid, and they were thrown backward and crashed into the courtyard wall. They were stuck to the wall and tried to struggle but could not get off.

"Oh, did you throw up?" Meilan asked with concern.

"Puyo~"

"Ah, so it's diarrhea." Meilan chuckled and took a few steps back. "Your stomach hurts, diarrhea should make you feel much better, right?"

"Puyo~"

"Mmm, you're mostly better now. Remember to get some rest." Melan stretched out her arm, and the Slime King re-entered the golden bracelet.

"Female master, spare my life!"

"Please let us go! We won't do it again!"

The two thieves kept begging for mercy.

Meilan ignored them, picked up a few stones, and aimed them at the two thieves. "It's been a long time since I've used throwing stones. I wonder if they're still accurate."

Meilan originally intended to kill the two people with a stone, but hesitated for a moment before making the move.

So she only broke the limbs of the two thieves, but they were still stuck to the wall. With their limbs broken, their screams and struggles made escape impossible.

"This slime is quite something," Melan discovered a new skill of the Slime King. Eating Sylph's poisonous food actually caused the slime to vomit or excrete a special fluid.

If Lorenwei were present, she would probably exclaim: Isn't that a spider? Could it hatch a god-level little white spider?

Meilan went to the kitchen, where there was a pot containing some leftover rice water from feeding the slime. She carefully kept the pot.

Then, she informed the landlady that two thieves had been caught.

"Ah, then we'll have to teach them a lesson!" The proprietress's eyes were sharp as knives; it seemed she was going to be ruthless.

"Can you leave it to us to handle?" Meilan asked.

"Let me see," the proprietress said to Meilan after inspecting the scene. "They are habitual offenders in this area. Someone took them into custody, but they are clearly still committing crimes. Of course, it's up to you. You're the one who caught them, so it's only right that you do it."

"Thanks a lot." Meilan looked at the two thieves and chuckled twice.

The two thieves were in excruciating pain, their bodies covered in a disgusting, sticky liquid, their limbs broken, and their wounds red and swollen.

This simple, unassuming girl had been transformed into a demon in the eyes of the two thieves. Of course, this wasn't far from the truth…

During dinner, Melanie told Kurara, Sylph, and the awakened Lorenve about the situation.

"You caught two petty thieves?" Kurara asked in surprise. After inquiring about the situation, she said, "Should we send them to the local sheriff's office for supervision?"

“But I think…” Meilan rarely expressed her opinion, “I think we should prevent them from doing evil again!”

"Never again?" Kurara and Sylph were both somewhat surprised.

Meilan nodded: "Yes, at least cripple them, right?"

"Was that too harsh?" Siruf thought that even elves wouldn't be so cruel to villains.

“I think Meilan makes a good point.” Lorenwei was still very weak and hadn’t eaten anything. And because of Kurara’s arrival, she no longer enjoyed the lap pillow. Lying in the bedding, she said weakly, “Don’t just control us, we have to treat and save lives.”

Kurara asked, "You mean, let them go to church to confess?"

Lorenwei shook her head slightly, her voice low but her words sharp: "We could go to the church, but that would just be to arrange their funeral."

Kurala was taken aback, then immediately understood Lorenwei's thoughts.

The innkeeper in the hot spring village is currently only a landlady with her two daughters. Although they are protected by magical artifacts, these two thieves, after their identities were exposed, actually tried to harm people with weapons. If the landlady fails, the consequences could be unimaginable.

Even setting aside the fact that they were executed as a warning to others, theft escalated into serious robbery. If the punishment for such a crime were determined by the nobility, no one would object to them being hanged.

After hesitating for a long time, Sylph nodded emphatically.

Although she strongly protested emotionally and felt the blame was unjust, reason told her that doing so was the right thing to do.

Sylph remained silent. Due to their racial characteristics, female elves respect life, except in the context of combat. They wouldn't comment on matters like taking a life at this moment.

Meilan, on the other hand, held Lorenwei in high regard for her decisive conclusion.

Her gaze toward Lorenwei held a hint of admiration.

"Would you like something to eat?" Siruf asked Lorenwei softly.

Before Lorenwei could answer, a commotion arose in the distance.

Soon, a woman's loud voice called out, "Who's Lorenwei? Where is she? I'll come and see! What kind of beauty could make my fiancé secretly hide so many magic scrolls?!"

Chapter 146 Your judgment is accurate; I, Lorenwei, am a bad woman.

"Where did Loren go?" Kurara angrily tried to pluck a leaf from a tree, but quickly became surprised: "Why is this tree so bald?"

If this tree could talk, it would surely say, "Nice to meet you again! Could you please pick another tree? You plucked all my leaves yesterday..."

At that moment, a woman walked towards Kurala.