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

Perhaps this is a bad thing for this witch's family...

"Who dares to bully me? I'm the youngest person in the academy to reach the Great Swordsman level the fastest." Sally said to her mother with pride, her demeanor and tone completely different from before at the academy.

"Hehehe, my daughter is the child of the Sword Saint, naturally she's not comparable to those ordinary mortals!" The witch mother chuckled as she picked up some toast. "When you become even more powerful, you'll beat up all those kids who used to bully you in the neighborhood! If you marry into a rich and powerful family, you'll drive them all away! Those who bullied us, mother and daughter, will be taught a lesson they won't forget!"

This laughter really is the kind of laughter unique to witches.

Is the laughter the main reason why fortune tellers are disliked? Lorenwei grimaced as she listened.

The old witch is very resentful. Could it be that being bullied is a serious matter for this family?

At this moment, Lorenwei noticed that Sally's gaze kept glancing furtively at the witch mother, as if she hesitated and was uneasy about asking a question.

After a long while, when the witch mother brought out the whole-grain bread, Sally asked seemingly casually, "Mom, you told the academy about my identity before, but it wasn't accepted. Shouldn't we think of another way?"

The witch's mother retorted firmly, "What method are you trying to devise? The item is genuine! Although I've seen a lot in the world, no one else could possibly forge this kind of craftsmanship!"

"Hey Mom, if Dad gave it to you himself, why didn't you take it out sooner? Why did you have to wait until I started school to take it out? And why did you only tell me when I was fourteen?"

“I told you too early. If you keep spreading rumors, you’ll only get bullied more as a child!” the witch said confidently. “I never intended to make a living from this, but my genius daughter is entering the academy and should definitely receive special attention! That’s why I brought it out.”

Sally responded with an "oh," clearly expecting this answer, and took a few bites of the hot but still stiff bread, chewing it vigorously.

Her pretty face was stuffed with bread, making her cheeks bulge out, which made her look adorable and cute.

Sylph glanced at Lorenve, who was peeking at her without blinking, and then reached out and pulled her down to squat down again.

"What are you doing?" Lorenwei looked at Sylph with a puzzled expression.

I'm annoyed by your staring! Of course, Sylph wouldn't express it that way; she just gestured with her finger towards her eyes, indicating that peeking through the window would still make her easily seen.

That was true, and Lorenwei stopped peeking out. The two of them simply listened from under the window.

In fact, Sally, who was at home where she usually felt most at ease, never imagined that someone would be peeping through her window.

“When we enrolled, we showed that item to the school administration. Now that I'm familiar with the school, I've discovered there's a chapel belonging to the Holy Church, and one of the priests there is also one of our teachers—a renowned appraisal priest,” Sally said. “I've learned that this chapel has an altar for relics; perhaps we can ask him to appraise it again!”

"Does it cost money?" the witch asked first.

Sally quickly replied, "I've saved up some money, enough to cover it."

"Then keep an eye out. This thing may not be valuable, but we can't let ourselves be swindled!"

Sally was taken aback: "Isn't this a token of your and Dad's affection? Why are you talking about it like it's just merchandise?"

"Hehe, Mom's afraid you'll get scammed."

There was a rustling sound inside the room, and someone was rummaging through things from some hidden spot.

Lorenwei and Sylph couldn't help but peek inside.

At a glance, Lorenwei immediately recognized what the witch had just taken out as the hero's token: a portable hard drive enclosure!

It was an empty external hard drive enclosure that I brought with me when I traveled through time, without a 2.5-inch hard drive inside!

"Huh?" Just then, Sally finally caught a glimpse of the strange thing at the back window out of the corner of her eye.

Chapter 229 So you were that witch from back then...

It was discovered!

Lorenve and Sylph panicked and immediately tried to run away.

"Lorenve? Ah... Sylph?" Sally's surprised voice came from inside the house, which made their escape pointless.

Lorenve's hair color was too obvious, and Sylph was someone I had just seen. One was blue and the other was green, and they were easily noticed if you paid a little attention.

How embarrassing! Lorenwei stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Sylph.

Sylph looked at her and smiled wryly, also feeling a little surprised: Is Lorenve a habitual voyeur?

The moment she was discovered, Lorenwei ran incredibly fast! Even the agile elf was left far behind. In the blink of an eye, she had run from under the window to the backyard wall, ready to scale it with a flick of her wrist.

“Since we’ve been discovered, let’s go inside and meet them.” Lorenwei readily agreed, though she also had some questions she wanted to ask.

The two turned to the doorway, where Sally was just coming out: "Ah...it really is you..."

"I'm sorry, this time I'm the one who needs to apologize," Lorenwei said humbly.

Sylph quickly apologized as well.

She would be scolded and beaten, chased and scolded and beaten in all sorts of ways. Sylph imagined all sorts of consequences for being discovered peeping.

Who wants to be secretly followed and watched through a window? Putting herself in Sylph's shoes, she blushed with shame and prepared herself for Sally's harsh scolding and even a beating.

"...There's nothing worth seeing at home, so I don't really mind." Her face was slightly flushed, whether from being found at home or from worrying that she had been seen changing clothes earlier, it was hard to tell.

Huh? Just that one sentence? Sylph looked at Sally, somewhat incredulous.

Lorenve saw you change into your outer garments. Of course, she might not know, but I'd better not say anything. What if she gets attached to Lorenve because of this? While thanking Lady Sally for her generosity, Sylph remained vigilant.

"Not too bothered means she still does mind, but it's understandable," Lorenwei thought to herself. She was already showing good temper by not yelling at him on the spot. As for the lack of anything worth seeing at home, that wouldn't be right; there was something really good to see just now, wasn't there?

However, since you didn't pursue the matter of prying open the window, I consider myself to owe you a small favor. Although Lorenwei is shameless, she still repays kindness.

It's about truly repaying kindness, not about repaying favors in a bad way. Good kids won't misunderstand...

"Who is it? Were they just prying through our window?" The witch's mother also came to the door, her face full of displeasure.

She was slow to react and didn't notice that Sally had sensed someone spying on her. By the time she looked over, Lorenve and Sylph had already ducked away.

“No, they are my classmates,” Sally said, changing the subject without naming the two peeping tom.

But Sylph's face was already completely red.

Lorenwei remained calm and composed, showing no sign of shame whatsoever. Instead, she said to Sally, "May we go inside and sit for a while?"

"Ah, of course... it's just that my home is rather simple..."

"It's alright." Lorenwei just kept walking inside.

With lightning speed, Lorenwei took a gift from the ring.

Within the ring, Aisser prepared various fighting tools to ensure Lorenwei's safety. She also prepared a variety of gifts to cater to her interests.

Last time the ring got wet, Lorenwei cleaned a batch of things, and also brought some Bohemian specialties. This time, she brought fresh fruit and gifts.

"Oh dear, why are you taking things? This is so embarrassing." The witch's mother's expression changed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, she put on a smiling face. Although she spoke politely, her hands had already taken the things very quickly. "I didn't expect such a beautiful girl to be able to do magic tricks. She's quite capable."

"Mom, that's a space ring," Sally whispered, nodding slightly to Lorenwei in apology.

The witch's mother exclaimed, "A spatial ring? Only wealthy families can afford that. No wonder she's so beautiful, she's definitely from a wealthy family."

She naturally couldn't distinguish between wealthy families and the mainland's elite. Space rings were something only high-ranking individuals could possess; ordinary wealthy families didn't have them.

“Other classmates might bully our Sally, but I believe you two won’t. Because you’re no less beautiful than our Sally, especially this Miss Lorenve,” the witch mother muttered to herself, as she began to examine the gifts.

“Mom, Lorenve…” Sally wanted to explain that Lorenve was not a young lady, but it was a long story and she didn’t know how to explain it.

The witch mother was busy looking through the gifts.

According to local custom, it's appropriate to open the gift on the spot to express your appreciation and gratitude. However, that's mostly for birthday gifts, and not really suitable for this kind of casual visit.

However, the witch's mother glanced at the bag that Lorenwei had taken out and, seeing that the gifts were indeed quite nice, immediately beamed with joy. She carefully put down the gifts, began pouring water for Lorenwei and the others, and even asked them solicitously if they had eaten and if they wanted to eat together.

Asking someone if they want to have dinner together is obviously a way of saying you don't want to treat them to a meal.

“Mom…” Sally called out weakly, but knowing her mother’s ways, she didn’t say anything more. Instead, she glanced at the coarse grain bread on her family’s old wooden table and said, “Lorenve doesn’t like our food.”

Lorenve and Sylph didn't mind, saying they had already eaten.

What did Sally use her school coins for? Lorenwei wondered to herself. If she used them to buy school uniforms, did she use them to buy swordsman equipment?

She looked again at Sally's swordsman equipment, especially the sword at her waist, and realized that it really was money she had exchanged at the school. Had she spent all her meal money on equipment?

It's quite poignant. Back then, when I first transmigrated, unlike the arrival of the Holy Child of Light, I hadn't yet been acknowledged.

The arrival of the Holy Son of Light was accompanied by lightning and thunder; it was quite a cool moment.

Compared to his own journey through time, he was exhausted after falling into the swamp, and the horned rabbit beat him until he was almost out of breath.

Why does Lorenwei always use rabbits in her experiments? Why does she even frequently cook rabbit dishes? And why did she wipe out a whole group of male rabbits somewhere?

Of course there's a grudge!

Lorenwei recalled that when she first transmigrated, she fell into a swamp and almost drowned, and was then beaten to a pulp by horned rabbits. Not only was she kicked black and blue by the rabbits' big feet, but she also nearly suffered the rabbit's "thousand-year kill," barely managing to avoid having her anus ravaged by the rabbits' horns.

When they escaped into the city, because of their disheveled appearance and strange clothes, they were first arrested as suspects and then interrogated in various ways.

At the time, Mu Zhe only heard about the hero's identity during his time travel, but he had no proof. Some of his belongings, such as his cell phone and personal items, were lost as a result.

Of course, the phone was unusable long ago because it fell into the swamp and there was no charging equipment. The fact that it couldn't light up meant it couldn't be sold as a valuable item, and then it was taken away by prison guards, which was quite shameful.

"You call yourself a hero? Hahaha, look at your skinny arms and legs. We might believe you if you said you were a rich young master, but calling yourself a hero is just too fake!"

"This guy's out of his mind, he can't even make up a lie!"

The memory of being mocked by the prison guards years ago flashed through Lorenwei's mind. Although she couldn't recall the exact words, the disdainful expression and sarcastic tone remained etched in her mind.

Fortunately, he later encountered Jason and Aisser, who were out of the academy for training. The two were still quite clear-headed and defended Mu Zhe, even trusting him to take him to the Holy Cathedral to confirm his identity. From then on, Mu Zhe officially became a hero, and his time-traveling life finally got on track.

Perhaps it was because of the difficulties he faced in the early stages that Mu Zhe realized the importance of strength even more.

Identity is all nonsense; strength is what matters most. Because he diligently cultivated and reached the level of a Sword Saint within two or three years of transmigrating.

“Hey.” Siruf nudged her elbow.

Lorenwei didn't react for a moment.

“Why are you here?” Siruf reminded Lorenwei.

"Ah, sorry, I was a little distracted." Lorenvi snapped out of her reverie and quickly said, "Sylph and I came to find you mainly to see what the hero's relics are?"

What was Lorenwei thinking? Could it be that she really saw me changing clothes just now? Sally, on the other hand, was secretly blushing.

"Why are you asking this?" The witch's mother's face immediately tensed up.

“Mom, Lorenve’s parents are the legendary heroes, the Great Sage Jansen and Cardinal Athena,” Sally explained. “She has a way to help us accurately confirm my identity.”

The witch's mother's expression grew even more tense: "No need, no need. Everyone has seen Sally's genius; she doesn't need a token of proof."

Lorenve and Sylph both saw it and understood.

“…” Sally looked at her mother’s reaction, her thin lips moved, but she didn’t say anything more.

The light in her eyes dimmed considerably.