Although it is a bit shabby, this heroic spirit is super strong

【According to Wen Jielin…】

(Even if you ask me, I can't explain it right away. But that girl is the daughter of the older neighbor you can't remember. So...)

[Hey! Stop talking...]

(Pfft! What's there to be shy about? All boys do that kind of thing.)

「You... But I feel like something is wrong...」

(It’s really hard to believe that your first love suddenly has such a big daughter, hehe.)

Xiao listened to Yi Wenjielin's explicit statement and stopped cleaning up the battlefield in embarrassment.

"Can you not be so blunt? It's really uncomfortable!"

(The story of that mother and daughter is not an interesting one though...)

Seeing that Yiwen Jielin had suddenly gone offline and was silent, Xiao smacked his lips in displeasure.

"How come this girl is also a riddle person!"

Not long after, Xiao stopped what he was doing again. Thinking of Hina's appearance for a while, he felt extremely irritated and uneasy.

[We still have to go to Ouroboros to find the answer... Looks like Reg and the others' requests will have to be handled a little faster.]

*

"Ah, Miss Marianne, you're awake."

When Yuliana entered the room with the hot porridge, Marian, who had regained consciousness, was already sitting on the bed.

"You are…"

"Yuliana, you can just call me Yuli."

"Are you the Princess Elvira?"

"Yeah, but princess is just a title now."

Yuliana gave a self-deprecating smile and unfolded a small bedside table for Marianne.

"Can you eat it by yourself?"

"Um, no... sorry..."

Marianne found that her hands were shaking and she couldn't hold the spoon at all.

"It's okay, I'll feed you."

"It's an honor to trouble you so much."

"I feel like there's a big difference between you and Xiao."

Hearing Xiao's name, Marian's body began to tremble violently with fear.

Although many people died because of her, Marianne never killed anyone herself.

The only time I saw someone die was when my beloved grandmother passed away.

When Xiao threatened her, she just pretended to be calm and strong, so she felt very scared now.

"Are you okay?"

"No, nothing."

Yuliana did not ask any further questions. She served the hot porridge, cooled it down, and fed it to Marian.

"It feels like Miss Yuri does this kind of thing all the time."

"I have a sick sister and I often take care of her."

"Is that so...Excuse me, where is this place now?"

Seeing Juliana's sad expression, Marianne immediately changed the subject.

"Bees City. Because Helen Else is in chaos right now, Xiao brought you here to settle down."

Unlike Pier-El and Nosti, Bis is a very small city.

The floor space is only slightly larger than Helen Ayers.

The reason why it is called a city is because Wyatt's lord's mansion is here and a strong city wall was built here, so people call it a city.

"W-Why would he do this?"

"Hmm? It's convenient for protecting you."

Yuliana didn't know what happened between Marianne and Xiao, so her answer was completely irrelevant to the question.

Marianne noticed this and tried to ask in a different way.

"Protect me? Why would he do that?"

"Mr. Owen's request. He seems to have some kind of deal with Akatsuki."

Marian was very surprised and relieved to hear Owen's name.

Once, when Marian was drugged by her mother and abused by her father and wanted to commit suicide, it was this brother who was considered incompetent who secretly accompanied her.

When she couldn't see Owen, Marian became very worried.

"Where is he now?!"

"He was just called out by Xiao and hasn't come back yet."

"S-Sorry for scaring you."

"Don't be so respectful. I'm not a princess of the empire, and you're not a citizen of the kingdom. So we're equals here, so there's no need to be so respectful to me."

"Although this statement seems a bit strange, I understand, Your Highness."

"Marianne..."

"Pfft! Sorry, Yuri."

Seeing Yuliana's cheeks puffed up in anger, Marian couldn't help laughing.

"Ah. Why are you like this too..."

"also?"

Before Yuliana could answer, Akatsuki entered the room.

"Oh, you're awake after all. Good morning, Miss Sleeping Beauty."

"dawn…"

"Xiao, you didn't do anything to Marian, did you?"

Seeing Marian trembling with fear again, Juliana stood in front of her like a hen protecting her chicks.

“I did, but it wasn’t what you thought.”

"It's not what I thought it was. So what did you do?"

Yuliana blushed a little embarrassedly.

Now, whenever she heard something that could easily lead to misunderstanding, she would be reminded of the scene when she saw Xiao and Crystal doing that kind of thing in the hotel a few days ago.

"W-Why didn't you kill me?"

Chapter 131 Marianne, the Self-Destructive

"That's why you ask right away, because Owen asked me to spare your life."

"What conditions did you offer him?"

Seeing that the atmosphere between Xiao and Marian was very subtle, Yuliana listened to their conversation silently.

"Don't worry, I'm not trying to take his soul. I'm just asking him to help me get rid of Byron."

"Is that all?"

Seeing that Marian didn't believe him at all, Xiao smiled helplessly.

"That's all. What do you take me for? A man-eating demon?"

"It's not that bad actually, is it? Why did you let me go? You should know all my plans."

"Killing the men and leaving the women alone isn't something villains often do."

"I don't think I'm worth keeping you..."

"Oh, no kidding. My original reason was to cooperate with Owen. If I kill you, there's no way he'll be willing to help me."

Seeing that his joke did not ease the atmosphere, but instead made Marianne lower her head in melancholy, Xiao sat down beside Marianne's bed.

"As expected, I've caused trouble for that idiot brother again... You should just leave people like me alone."

"Being called stupid brother is a bit pitiful. If I were..."

"Ok?"

"No, nothing. That guy Owen told me everything about you."

Xiao paused and continued the previous topic.

"You, you know everything. That guy actually spread other people's affairs."

"He told me this to protect you. After all, Owen is a smart man, and he quickly realized that I'm a womanizer."

"You're still being gentle and considerate to women, but I don't feel that at all."

"Yeah... me too."

Marianne echoed Yuliana's complaints about herself, and Akatsuki laughed.

"To be honest, before I knew all this, I had been thinking about when to get rid of you.

After all, even if Irving knelt down in front of me, I would not put these things on the scale of safety of my teammates."

"Are you pitying me?"

Seeing that Marian looked a little angry, Xiao spoke very calmly.

"Pity? Not really, I'm not qualified to pity others.

I just think that if it weren't for those things, you would be a girl who is not inferior to Crystal and the others."

"Does that mean I can't beat them now?"

"Yes."

Xiao's decisive answer made Marian clench her fists.

The reason why she targeted Xiao was very simple, simply because Xiao rejected her invitation at Michel Street.

Marianne didn't believe Xiao's statement, so she wanted to prove it, wanted to make him fall into her arms and betray his lovers.

She doesn't believe there are any good men in this world.

All men are beasts who only think with their lower body, liars who are full of lies, and creatures that are not trustworthy at all.

In this way, whether it is her beastly father or her scumbag fiancé, Marianne would not be considered to have encountered misfortune, nor would she need anyone's pity or sympathy.

Although these ideas may sound ridiculous and childish to others, they are the lifeblood of this girl who has just turned 20.

"But the reason isn't what you think. What you lack is their confidence."

"Confidence? What do you mean?"

Xiao saw that he had piqued Marianne's interest, so he continued speaking in a half-joking tone.

“Even if today is bad, I can still hope for a better tomorrow. That’s probably what it feels like.”

"But I've never met you like this..."

"Hasn't he met me now? And maybe he'll meet a better man tomorrow."

Xiao smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly.

"I used to be like you, living a self-destructive life. I thought, 'Oh, it would be great if today was the end forever,' and so on."

Owen told Xiao that Marian often kidnapped young adventurers, drugged them and then spent a lot of money to throw them into the land of pleasure.

However, except for the time when he was serious enough to fight Xiao himself, he had never actually had physical relations with others.