Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

Now that so much time has passed, she has changed from a priest to a witch, and she is still in charge of these...

It really makes people feel complicated.

Lacie thought about it and suddenly had an idea.

She pushed herself up with her arms, then crept up behind Charles and patted him on the shoulder.

"oi!"

She used to scare Charles like this before. After all, Charles was so focused when he ate, as if the dry food and water in his hand were his whole world. So every time he would eat the dry food cleanly without leaving any, even if the residue accidentally fell on his clothes, he would pick it up and put it in his mouth.

Charles was so easy to scare at this time. In the past, Lacie would always scare him to jump.

"You are a veteran warrior, but you can't stand the fear at all. It's really embarrassing."

——She had already thought about it. She would definitely tease Charles like this later.

But contrary to her expectations, Charles did not react at all to her sudden attack.

He was not frightened, as if he had already sensed her approaching and had anticipated it.

The hero simply turned his head, glanced at her, and asked in confusion:

"What's the matter with you?"

"..."

Lacey was embarrassed.

She wondered why this guy didn't follow the script, and then she made up an excuse.

"What are you eating?" she said dryly, "Give...give me a bite too!"

"..."

Ciel's expression became even more confused.

But despite his doubts, he finally obediently broke off a small piece of dry food and handed it to Lacier:

"Give."

It had come to this point, and Lacie was in a dilemma, so she had no choice but to take the piece of dry food, put it in her mouth, and start chewing it.

Dry food that was created for easy transportation and storage usually did not pay much attention to texture and taste. Lacee even felt like she was chewing sawdust. Although it had a distinct sweetness, it was hard and astringent. It took her a lot of effort to finally chew the dry food into pieces and swallow it.

"Water..." Lacie said incoherently after swallowing the dry food and choking, "Give me some water..."

Charles quickly picked up another water bag that he had never used and handed it to Lacie.

Lacie hurriedly took the water bag and took several big gulps of it, only then did she escape the dilemma of being choked to death by the dry food.

At this moment, she heard Charles say:

"When eating dry food, you must have water at hand, otherwise it is easy to choke."

Lacey thought to herself, you bastard, why didn’t you tell your buddies earlier!

Then she felt confused again - she could have scared Ciel before, but why was she doing this now...

If you don't understand, just ask. Laciel didn't understand, so she simply asked Charles:

"Did you just notice me approaching?"

Charles was stunned for a moment, then answered honestly:

"Well, I noticed it."

“…When did it start?”

“From the moment you start moving.”

"..."

Lacey stopped talking.

She thought to herself, yes, how could Charles not notice her movements? Charles is a brave man, and after countless battles, he has already developed an insight that is almost intuitive.

So when Charles used the warp spell in the bushes in front of her house, he was the first to notice the fluctuation of magic power and immediately rushed to the scene to arrest her.

But here comes the problem——

Why did Charles have such keen insight? As a pastor, she could always sneak up behind Charles without anyone noticing and scare him so much that he wanted to jump up?

Maybe the answer is simple.

But she had never thought about it before.

So, now that she finally understood everything, Lacie suddenly snorted coldly, then gritted her teeth and glared at Charles.

Oh my god, what a cunning hero!

she thinks.

[To be continued]

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1. Intruder

The cunning hero and the sinister witch finally left the outermost part of the Sea of ​​Forest and were about to reach Lentiheim, a place they were not loyal to.

"Although Lentiheim is basically included in the unit of the Sea of ​​Forests, and in a sense it is my neighbor, I have never visited this city."

Lacie, no longer in spirit form and being dragged around like a kite by Charles, regained her true nature as a witch and talked as she walked.

Then, she asked knowingly:

"And you, Charles, have you ever been to Lentiheim?"

She had been there once, but it was Lao Deng who took her there, and that was a long time ago. Lao Deng took her directly to the city of Lentiheim.

She only vaguely remembered that it seemed to be a city built on trees.

Charles shook his head when he heard this:

"No."

Once the deceased priest lady is mentioned, the hero's state becomes quite unstable, but under normal circumstances, he is still quite reliable.

He even provided Rachel with some very important information:

"But I heard that the elves have never liked others to visit their city. Only a very few people are lucky enough to receive their invitation to enter Lentiheim, so the outside world hardly knows much about that city."

Upon hearing this, Lacier curled her lips:

"That's normal - don't you think this fits our stereotype of elves? Those pointy-eared ones have been mysterious for a long time. I heard from... from the White Tower that the entire elf race rarely communicates with the outside world. They have always been self-sufficient."

At this point, she remembered the coffin of the Elf Mother Tree that was now placed in front of the door of her nest, and added:

"But they, for no apparent reason, gave you a coffin made of the branches of the Elven Mother Tree after your wife died. I absolutely don't believe you if you say they have no intentions towards you."

Lacele felt that those pointy-eared people were probably weasels paying New Year's greetings to the chickens with bad intentions, but Charles just didn't notice it.

So she asked:

"Do you remember what those pointed-eared people said to you after they gave you the coffin?"

Charles thought about it carefully and shook his head:

"No, the elves didn't say anything at the time."

"They didn't ask you to do anything for them?"

"should not."

"Did they show any abnormal behavior?"

Charles began to think again.

His thoughts quickly went back to three months ago, when Rachel had just passed away and he was trying to find a way to preserve Rachel's body.

At this moment, a group of elves suddenly appeared and brought him what he needed most - they brought him the coffin made of the trunk of the elven mother tree.

Ciel still remembered the leading elf.

It was a young woman - although it was difficult to guess an elf's age based on her appearance.

She was quite beautiful, with her signature pointed ears, golden hair that shone like the sun, delicate features like marble sculptures and fair skin, as elegant and noble as any bard had ever sung.

After the elf handed him the coffin, he whispered to him:

"The departed soul will turn into stars, Your Highness. Perhaps she has never left you. After the night falls, she will always be watching you."

"…So, I wish you all the best."

That was a very elven eulogy.

Apart from that, neither the leading female elf nor the other elves behind her said a single word to him.

It seemed that their only task was to deliver the coffin to him, so after completing this task, they returned directly to their country.

The elves came and went in a hurry without revealing any useful information. This was very bad news, and it made Lacie frown.

"You mean, apart from this passage, they said nothing and did nothing?"

"Ah."

"Weird..."

There shouldn't be any free lunch in this world. In the past three years, there have been many people who helped the brave team, but they all had some purpose. And now, the group of pointy ears are helping Ciel without asking for anything in return...

Lacey bit her nails.

There are only two possibilities, she thought. The first possibility is that the elves are truly kind people who do good deeds without leaving their names. The second possibility is that these pointy-eared elves have great ambitions!

Then her imagination started running wild like a wild horse.

After galloping for a while, she suddenly raised her head, looked at Charles with a strange expression, and muttered softly:

"It's broken. They don't want to lock the shared bikes, do they?"

Charles heard what Lacey said, but he didn't hear it clearly, so he subconsciously asked:

"what did you say?"

Upon hearing this, Lacier waved her hands hastily:

"Nothing, nothing, I was just wondering why those pointy-eared people wanted to give you a coffin..."

But she would not be able to come up with any result just by thinking about it. Rachel was even afraid that if she continued thinking, it would not just be a galloping horse - she suspected that it would become a galloping horse. So she stopped those wild thoughts in time and said:

"Forget it, let's stop imagining. It's useless anyway. Isn't Lentiheim right in front of us? If you want to know why those elves gave you that coffin, why don't you just ask them directly?"

Charles nodded:

"Well, you have a point."

He paused, raised his head, looked across the dense forest in the direction of Lentiheim, and said softly:

"Anyway, since they gave me the coffin, I should come to Lentiheim to thank them. Although Lentiheim doesn't seem to welcome outsiders, if I use this reason to visit Lentiheim, they probably won't refuse."

Lacey was a little surprised to hear this.

She thought this guy was actually very thoughtful.

Indeed, she really couldn't imagine what reason the pointy-eared people would use to refuse the hero's visit.

Because the brave man wants to come and thank them, and more importantly, they may need something from the brave man.

But to be honest, she was a little uncomfortable with it. When she was still in the Brave Team, Charles rarely showed this... thoughtful look. After all, there was always someone thinking for him at that time, and all he had to do was swing the sword.

So most of the time, the impression Ciel gave her was——

My head is itchy. Is it time to grow a brain? Scratch it.

It was incredible that Ciel could actually think and think clearly.

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But these are not important.

It was important to her that Charles was not there.

Laceel nodded, indicating that she agreed with Charles' idea, and then suddenly stopped.