I like traveling the most

Aisi wanted to call Xiao Lin to stop.

But there happened to be a strange sound coming from behind, which seemed to be a group of yelling and scolding.

At the same time, a passerby hurried over and stopped him. Only then did he learn that a monster appeared on the street.

"Monster?!"

The blonde girl was suddenly shocked.

The appearance of monsters in the streets reminded her of the monster festival. The monsters wreaking havoc on the streets often bring trouble to the town.

The girl subconsciously looked at the intersection behind her, but the man and woman were no longer there.

"Could it be..."

Ais frowned slightly and signaled passers-by to leave first and seek refuge, while she rushed to the center of the block non-stop, trying to stop the monster that was causing great damage to the town.

She ran toward the center of the commotion.

————

That happened an hour ago.

Bell and others returned from the dungeon with a lot of worries, but they still forced a stiff smile when greeted by Winnie. The good old Bell couldn't bear the lovely dragon girl's request and played hide and seek with her.

The dragon girl secretly hid in Bell's room and huddled herself into a ball, making her already petite body even harder to be discovered.

Hold your breath and wait for Bell to arrive.

But I felt the breath unintentionally.

There are four.

They walked down the long corridor on the fourth floor and filed into the next door, a room that was currently unoccupied.

Suddenly heard this sentence.

"I didn't expect that besides Winnie, there would be so many talking monsters."

——! ! !

The dragon girl's amber eyes widened.

The long green hair shook, and the Bielf's crooked and sharp ears kept shaking. His already keen hearing was at its maximum power at this moment, picking up the voices in the next room word for word.

When she came back to her senses, Winnie had already put her ears against the wall, not making any sound.

In the next room.

Hestia couldn't help but asked in shock when she heard the report from her family: "Is this true, Zolf?!"

"Yes, it's on the 20th floor."

"We were even entertained by monsters."

"I was honestly scared to death."

Zolf and others complained incessantly. After all, they were surrounded by a group of powerful monsters and they could already burn incense without being given snacks on the spot.

The atmosphere became solid.

Winnie's breathing slowed down.

After a long time, Hestia asked again: "Those monsters...how do they make you feel?"

"At least I think they are more intellectual than Winnie. Although some of them are clumsy or unable to speak at all, there are also those who can speak fluently... and then they seem to know something."

The High God of the Familia took a deep breath.

She couldn't imagine that monsters could be as intelligent, thinking, and talking as humans, and would even invite humans to the banquet. But the goddess who trusted her relatives unconditionally chose to refresh her prejudices.

Winnie, who was eavesdropping, covered her mouth in surprise. She never expected that there would be someone like her.

A tense atmosphere formed in the room.

At this time, Lily, who had remained silent, said: "Lily thinks that we should no longer protect Lord Winnie.

Um? ? ?

This statement left everyone stunned.

The one who reacted the fastest was Ming. She shouted slightly louder: "Your Excellency Lily, what do you mean?"

"Lily made it clear. We have stepped into very suspicious problems. Even the gods are not aware of the direction. There are even other groups tracking the talking monster."

Lily explained the situation very impressively based on the information she had collected so far.

They are caught up in a major trend.

Ming said anxiously: "But! What will Master Winnie do if she says she won't protect her anymore? If we abandon her, she will...!"

"I didn't say abandonment." Lily said: "Since the monsters all live on the 20th floor, then we should send her back to the monster lair, where she should stay."

"Your Excellency Lily!"

"Then Lily asks you. What can you do if you continue to protect the girl?"

"!"

"Do you really believe that we can remain unnoticed? Do you want her to shut up and hide her face forever? Do you think you can hide it? If the gods take notice, they will definitely come and mess with her. It’s fun for us. When the time comes, no one can protect us!”

Lily was uncharacteristically eloquent, but her life filled with righteous indignation was silenced by the violence of correct speech, and the rest of the people were silent.

Because Lily is right, they are also conscious.

There is currently no way to break through the current situation, and the best and most priority option is to send Winnie to her companions.

Lily seemed to understand why Fels let the monsters entertain them.

In order to achieve her goal, her words were even more excessive and extreme: "She is like a bomb now. Even if nothing happens now, one day she will put the family in crisis... It is useless to talk to the good-hearted Mr. Bell, even if he can recruit Even if someone hates us, we must make a decision to protect him.”

Bell's status in these people's hearts is self-evident.

But he also understood the character of the leader of his family clan, so he held this meeting behind his back. In order to implement it accurately, they must cut through the mess quickly!

"——Humans and monsters cannot coexist!"

Lily's words penetrated the walls of the room, pierced Winnie's ears, and penetrated into her mind to disrupt her thoughts.

Bang!

There was a sound of the door opening in the next room.

The solemn atmosphere in the room made everyone's minds as heavy as lead, fatally slowing down their actions. It wasn't until I heard the clatter of someone running that I suddenly came back to my senses. I opened the door and looked around, but there was no one in the long corridor.

At this time, Bell came up from another staircase and asked after seeing everyone: "Everyone, I don't know if you have seen Winnie. I can't find her."

"Could it be that...!"

Everyone was shocked and had a bad premonition.

————

"Ha ha……!"

Winnie ran.

She walked through the corridor, rushed down the stairs, opened the courtyard door, ran out of the house in an instant after missing Bell's route, and rushed out of the back door onto the street.

The overheard words were still confusing his thoughts.

——We must make a decision.

——We can't be together.

——She is a monster.

Lily's words were like a terrible knife, stabbing into her heart with a deep curse. For the first time, the monster (Dragon Girl) felt her heart hurt so much.

The pain of twitching, the pain of crushing, and the pain of beating.

The beautiful blue and silver hair was flying, the ruby ​​on her forehead kept shining as if she was shouting, and her amber eyes were filled with transparent tears.

Why?

Why is this happening?

If I can't live with everyone, will it bring danger to Bell?

don't want!

Absolutely not!

If it brings danger to Bell, if it troubles that person, if that's the case...

I want to get out of here!

The monster girl lowered her hood and wandered down one of the streets.

She had never seen so many pedestrians, and the sheer number of them frightened her.

The shouts of the vendors around her, the beautiful tunes coming from the store, the carriages racing on the road, and even the innocent laughter of the children all scared her shoulders.

The cold touch from the soles of her feet without shoes continued to erode her heart.

She covered her whole body with long-distance running, fearing that someone might stab her with a knife at any time, while walking on street corners to avoid attracting attention.

Then, when she peeked around, she saw that scene.

At the corner of the road a dray was parked in front of the store. First I heard the horses neighing, and then there was a shaking. The goods piled high were about to collapse like building blocks.

I don’t know if the ropes were tied too loosely, but the fact is that the loaded goods gradually tipped over. And underneath it, there was a young girl who didn't notice anything.

Winnie's eyes widened.

A few people around noticed it and took a breath, preparing for the screams that were about to swell.

The horrifying amount of goods and wooden boxes were about to fall on the little girl.

→

Not good!

Will get hurt!

That one will definitely hurt!

——I have to save her!

Seeing the young girl's stiff expression when she noticed that the goods were about to hit her, she thought of herself who was unable to move in the face of the attack, and of the young man who saved her from being surrounded by villains.

This will seems to have become an inducement.

Winnie's body moved.

Her back bulged, and then there was a strange sound of flesh, breaking through the blue-white skin and gray robe, and the single wings with green-silver skeleton and gray membrane spread out.

Hearing only the dull sound of feet stepping on the stone slab, Winnie rushed out like an arrow. To those around him, it was like teleporting and arriving in front of the young girl in the blink of an eye.

"...Huh?"

The young girl murmured to herself and was swallowed up by the goods that kept falling to the ground, but all the boxes that fell were spread out by the wide dragon wings, and the protected young girl was not injured.

But after the fierce noise subsided.

The people who could not move stared ahead in shock.

In the middle of the grains, fruits and numerous sundries, the young girl fell to the ground, her eyes wide open and she looked in horror at the monster (Winnie) that covered her with its broad dragon wings.

"You're okay..."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!"

Winnie's concerned words were drowned out by the screams, and what was reflected in her eyes were gleaming amber eyes and inhuman wings. The frightened little girl ran away from the startled Winnie.

Then——

"It's a demon...!"

“Monster ahhhhhhh!!!

In the blink of an eye, the screams overlapped one after another.

The young girl's shout seemed to be a switch, and the street that was silent for a moment suddenly erupted into earth-shattering shouts, and the entire street was completely out of control.

All the people seemed to be ebbing away from Winnie. Even the cargo carriage parked nearby fled far away because the horses went crazy.

The crowd almost fell into a state of madness, footsteps kept ringing, screams continued, and the streets were enveloped in a huge wave of panic in the evening.

But there were also some adventurers who drew their weapons, and they protected the crowd behind them.

Winnie shivered in fear when she saw the steel blade coming out of its sheath.

However, the people around her looked at her with more fear and an extension of fear and disgust, and this emotion continued to heat up.

"Go to hell, monster!"

The next moment, an elf woman threw a stone and hit Winnie.

This seemed to be the introduction.

The fear and fear of the crowd turned into anger derived from hatred. They picked up the stones at their feet and threw them at the timid monster in the center.

"Get out of here, monster!"

"This is our city!"

"Go back to the dirty maze!"

Even though some adventurers kept shouting warnings not to do this and not to stimulate it, they still refused to give up and became excited about the public enemy of the human race who had stepped into their territory.

The most recent one was the monsters wreaking havoc at the Monster Festival.

The long-standing negative emotions of the people who had been poisoned by monsters completely exploded at this moment.

"…………"

On the roof of a certain building, the blond swordswoman looked at everything below expressionlessly.

Even if the monster didn't fight back and just used its wide dragon wings to cover it, she still believed that the monster would harm humans and was a potential threat.

So we must defeat it!

The girl reached for the thin sword at her waist and fell forward, preparing to kill her with one blow from the sky.

But at this moment, a hand pressed on her shoulder, stopping her movement.

"...Xiao Lin?!"

Ais was slightly surprised.

She is a LV6 adventurer, and despite her agility expertise, her perception is also very good.

However, Xiao Lin appeared quietly behind him. Does this mean that the other party is already stronger than him?

Isn't it already LV5?

Xiao Lin did not respond to her probing eyes, but stood side by side with her and looked down.

Winnie whined slightly after being stoned. Although her newly grown wings could withstand the attacks of stones, they could not block the large number of malicious spearheads from the crowd.

Tears appeared in the eyes of the girl who shrank up.

"Bell..."

The girl called the man's name.

However, the hero who saved her was not a boy with white hair and red eyes, but an elf girl with long blond hair but less than 120 centimeters tall. She saw the opportunity to break through the crowd and quickly grabbed Winnie's hand.

She escaped with the monster between the buildings and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Those chestnut eyes were extremely familiar.

The blond girl on the roof looked at what was happening below in amazement, but Xiao Lin already knew who the hero was who rescued Winnie.

——It is Lily who can transform into magic.

The little human girl uses magic that even Kobayashi cannot see through her true identity, but if she uses her mind-reading ability, that's another story.

Seeing that they escaped successfully, Xiao Lin was also ready to leave.

"Wait, Xiaolin."

"Miss Ais..."

"That's what you just said."

The blonde girl's golden pupils are reflected in the man's eyes, and her searching eyes seem to say that she won't let you leave until you explain clearly.

However, the man did not explain.

"...I'm sorry, I also have a secret here. I'm sorry I can't tell you everything before everything settles."

After saying that, he turned around.

The girl noticed something and stretched out her hand to grab the man's hand, but she missed it. In just a moment, the man and his waiter disappeared.

She has seen this ability before.

When I was on the 59th floor, I was saved by this ability. If Xiao Lin hadn't taken action in time, she might have been hit by the hidden magic of the fallen fairy.

By the way, this shouldn't be teleportation.

Sword Girl couldn't help but think so.

Immediately afterwards, she puffed out her mouth and showed a rare unhappy expression. She looked at the place where the man was standing before, as if she was angry with him.

That expression is so cute.

And the other side.

Xiaolin followed Lily and came to the [Hestia Familia] headquarters.

——An abandoned basement.

Here he met Bell, Winnie, who was curled up in his arms, Hestia and others.

After listening to their stories about the origin and process, Xiaolin also told Bell and others about his encounter with Sword Princess Ais.

The white-haired boy's expression suddenly stiffened when he heard Sword Lady's name. What would the person he admired think if he knew that he was harboring a monster?

I became panicked for a moment.

But Hestia suddenly thought: "We might as well bring Loki and the others in. That guy likes this kind of thing the most, so he shouldn't refuse."

"No, it's impossible."

Xiao Lin simply rejected it.

Under the strange gazes of everyone, he said: "Even if Lord Loki agrees, [Brave] Finn will never agree. His wish has always been to revitalize the small human race, and the potential harm of talking monsters , is the best way to establish merit and prestige, and that man will never miss it.”

This is also the reason why Xiaolin doesn't tell Ais everything.

If she did, the girl would definitely turn around and be tricked by Finn, and then they would only be in trouble.

"how so……"

After learning that he was on the opposite side of the person he admired, the white-haired boy was dumbfounded and muttered to himself speechless.

If he had to choose someone he didn't want to be an enemy with, then that person would have to be Sword Princess Ais.

But now there was no time for him to hesitate.

Because here comes the next step of instruction.

A white owl landed on the window, and careful attention found a note tied to its foot.

After opening it, it says

——Take the dragon girl to the monster's lair.

This shows that the situation is urgent and Winnie must leave the surface and go to the monster's lair!

Bell held Winnie's hand tightly and said to everyone: "Let's go, everyone, without further ado."

"Yes!" xN

Everyone responded loudly.

This farce must end.