About Me Being Picked Up by Tallulah for Adoption

"Be careful, Maria! They have an ambush too! And they're also the killers of the Wuzhou League—oh!"

Orson yelled at Maria, but before he finished speaking, he was aimed and shot by several bows and arrows, so he could only pull it out in embarrassment.

Maria didn't have time to sort out the situation, she could only see a pure white Kuranta girl who was not too tall, chasing in the direction where Orson was escaping.

"Now is not the time to look around."

"Wow!"

Before Maria could care about Orson's situation, she was almost shot by the plastic knight's crossbow.

"Take out the sword from your waist, is that a toy?"

"..."

Maria pulled out the practice knight sword from her waist, and confronted the plastic knight cautiously.

I have to do my best, but...

"Aha!"

Maria shouted and rushed towards the plastic knight, and swiped the big sword in her hand, but the latter avoided the attack with a slight sideways movement.

"The attack is hesitant. Do you think this is training, and you are not ready to fight at all?"

"Wow!"

The plastic knight kicked at Maria, causing the latter's center of gravity to lose balance in an instant. She tried desperately to restore the center of gravity of the lower body, but she managed to control her body so as not to fall. The butt of the plastic knight's crossbow was already facing Maria's head heavily The Ministry swung over.

Boom! !

Not even showing one-tenth of her ability during training, Maria was knocked down by the plastic knight just like that.

"It's so ruthless..."

After the Plastic Knight stuns Maria, Orson comes out of the corner.

"Do you regret it?"

"No, I mean platinum... Hiss, it's really broken."

Orson murmured under his breath as he bandaged the wound on his arm.

"Forcing against muscular instinct is very difficult. The normal aim is the head."

The platinum leader of the Wuzhou League also came out from behind Orson, with the same expression of "working overtime is so annoying and I want to fish".

"Thank you Miss Platinum for not killing me, then this is the action report that was agreed before—why do I have to write my own monitoring report..."

While complaining, Orson took out a stack of documents and handed them to Platinum.

"Well, it's okay to write. It shouldn't be revealing."

After Platinum received the 'reward' from being called over to act, his expression relaxed a lot.

"Then I'll go first, I hope you, Mr. Orson, can be conscious and don't do any suspicious behavior."

"Yes, yes, I will be a good employee who does not steal battery cars and abides by the law."

Orson waved his hand to Platinum, who turned around to leave, and stopped to look at Orson after walking a few steps.

"By the way, do you want to have a crepe together? The second one is half price."

"No, I still have things to deal with here."

"Oh--"

Platinum let out an oh, and then disappeared from Orson in an instant.

"Why did you really find someone from the Wuzhou League..."

After seeing the scene just now, the plastic knight took off his helmet and wiped his sweat.

"Well, it's hard to explain. Anyway, how is Maria?"

Orson didn't know how to describe the relationship between himself and Platinum, so he decided to skip this topic.

"Have a good foundation, but still the same sentence, she has not been able to firm up her goal, neither has the consciousness of desperately, nor has the thing to fight for, every movement is very hesitant."

"So the goal this time is to let her understand what she wants to do. People must have their own goals."

Orson looked at the unconscious Maria with an expression as if he saw a teacher who was ignorant of a student.

"What is the purpose of Mr. Serkiak's participation in the knightly competition?"

"Of course it's my child, but you, why do you do these things that don't benefit you?"

The plastic knight looked at Orson. Judging from the information he got, Orson did not have any conflicts of interest with the Linguang family. In other words, everything he did for Maria now was "meaningless." "of.

"Why... probably because I promised someone to make the world as good as possible."

Orson thought for a while, and the image of that handsome female doctor with a bit of LSP flashed in his mind.

"Then, it's time for the next stage—I'm sorry, Auntie, I didn't tell you before, but there are still follow-up steps in the plan."

Orson showed a harmless smile to the room where Zofia was staying, and the plastic knight on the side saw Orson like this, and vaguely felt that no matter what he said in the future, at least he should never provoke this guy.

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"Woo...here?"

After a short period of time, the unconscious Maria regained consciousness and found herself in a room.

"Are you awake, Maria?"

"--aunt!"

Maria noticed Zofia at the side and rushed over immediately.

"Don't call me auntie! Seriously...so you got beat by the guy with the broken plastic?"

"Are you injured, aunt? I... well, I was easily killed by Mr. Sekiak."

Maria checked Zofia's body, only to see traces of what looked like ketchup, other than that there was no injury.

"You're still too confused, Maria. You said before that your desire to participate in the knight competition is not fake, but you still haven't figured out why you want to participate in this competition."

Zofia sat aside and said with a sigh.

"I... I originally thought that it would be fine as long as I took the momentum and counted every step, because I had to protect the Linguang family."

Maria sat next to Zofia, her tone a little low.

Thinking about it carefully, the two of them have never been able to calm down and communicate in a serious manner like they are now. Zofia had always subjectively hoped that Maria would give up, and Maria wanted to participate in the knight competition no matter what.

"I can't let grandpa and the glory of our ancestors be tarnished and dissipated. My sister left Casimir, and my uncle doesn't intend to accept the invitation of the Knights Association, so only I can stand up and protect the family..."

"What exactly do you want to protect the family, Maria?"

Zofia walked up to Maria, she knelt down on one knee, gently held Maria's cheek with her hand, and stared directly at the young pony.

"Is it the past wealth of the Linguang family? Or the reputation engraved in the history of Casimir? Or something else? Protecting the [family] cannot be the goal. You must know exactly what you are fighting for. .”

"I...I don't know, but all I know is that after seeing my aunt, I really felt much more relieved, and my impatience to death before finally calmed down."

Maria looked at Zofia with a relieved smile.

"Don't call me aunt—hah, you're too naive and kind, and you're a bit stubborn. You're really not suitable for knight competitions"

Zofia rubbed Maria's hair, and it was the first time that she listened to Maria's heart so seriously.

"Hmm...Thinking about it, maybe it is true. If my behavior will threaten my family and friends, then I will not continue. Compared with the family's reputation, a prosperous life...I hope more The safety of my friends around me."

Maria rubbed her hair. After experiencing the "lost and found" experience with Zofia, the young Pegasus finally realized that even if she didn't rely on participating in the knight competition, she could still get the existence she wanted to protect. .

"Friend—by the way, Orson!"

"Don't worry about that guy, as long as you can determine your most important goals, because these are all set by that guy."

Zofia waved her hand, and after Maria confirmed her heart, she got up and walked to the room to open the door.

"Although I don't think it's good, but if you feel cheated and want to beat that guy up, I'll tie him up for you—"

Zofia didn't finish her sentence. The moment she opened the door, it wasn't Orson and the plastic knight that greeted her outside, but a few ragged strangers holding sharp knives that she had never seen before.

The group of people were dressed in torn military uniforms, with some kind of tags on their arms, and traces of active stone crystallization could be seen on the skin of several of them.

"go to hell!"

"What's going on—uh!"

Responding to the laxness of the environment was half a beat slow, which made Zofia raise her arm in a panic to block the broken long sword in the opponent's hand.

"aunt!"

Blood spattered from Zofia's right arm, and it wasn't ketchup this time.

The knight's sword was at hand, and Maria shouted and raised the long sword to charge at the enemy. This time, there was no trace of confusion in her actions.

Boom!

With a dull bang, the enemy at the door was blown away by Maria.But at the same time, several enemies rushed towards Maria.

Maria immediately closed the door, blocking the people with chairs stuck on the handle.

"Auntie, your arm—"

"It's just a flesh wound, but the problem is that now I can't use a weapon with both hands... Well, what's going on?"

Zofia frowned and thought while treating the wound. Unlike the plan, these enemies don't look like actors!

"Those people just now... I seem to have some impression of the armbands on their arms."

Maria helped Zofia bandage her arm while recalling the armbands of those people.

"The Fifth Crusade Knights Army - Thorn Knights! Those people are veterans of the Conquest Knights. It is said that they were collectively infected with ore disease during a mission, and then they were removed from the Conquest Knights."

Maria remembered the origins of these people.

"Ha, a group of infected veterans? So the target of this group of people is really me as a former competitive knight."

Zofia rubbed her eyebrows. Although she didn't know how these people found her, she was certain that their target was herself, the "betrayer of the knight class".

"You escape from behind, Maria, I'll attract the attention of this group of people."

Zofia had already thought about what to do next: she would act as a bait to protect Maria from here.

"Remember to look for Orson after you leave. Although he doesn't want to admit it, he is much better than me, and he should be able to—"