The Adventure Story of the Devil, the Maid, and the Hero

"I should be asking this question. Why are you here, Fu Nuo, and mixed with a group of suspiciously dressed people?"

After a brief moment of stupefaction, the young magician named April came back to her senses and asked unceremoniously with a manner that was completely different from before.

But for some reason, Giulia couldn't help but think of the image of "the mother who happened to run into the child who sneaked out of the house because she was away from home" because of her current appearance.

"Is it someone Xiaofu knows?"

Keenly aware of the tendency of the atmosphere to develop in a strange direction, Iluna opened her mouth to make a rescue.

"Ah, um."

Fuono nodded with a complicated expression.

"Suspiciously dressed?"

Shirpasha's focus seems to be slightly different from theirs.

"Sorry, I'm sorry." April bowed slightly and introduced herself, "I'm Fu Nuo's childhood sweetheart."

According to April's self-introduction, her profession is a magician. She has just completed the λ-level comprehensive magic level assessment and τ-level elemental magic assessment in the capital. She originally planned to return directly to the town where she lives. She came here because she heard that There is a scholar who has a deep study of ancient magic, so I came here to ask for advice.

"Who are the three and Fu Nuo?"

"We are Xiaofu's teammates."

Iluna didn't answer unnaturally.

"I see. Thank you for taking care of Fu Nuo recently."

Sensing from April's words that it is very likely that she will be taken home if things go on like this, Fuono sent a distress message to Giulia with her gaze.

Wait a minute, why didn't Shirpasha and Iluna be chosen, but her.

Feeling deeply troubled, Giulia racked her brains to think about strategies, but she couldn't think of a way to dispel April's idea of ​​taking Fuono away, so she could only adopt the strategy of diverting the target.

"Speaking of which, this must have been left behind by April."

Giulia took off her hood, held up the purse in her hand, and interrupted April and Iluna's courteous ceremony slightly stiffly.

"Yes, thank you very much."

While thanking April, she reached out to take the purse from Giulia, and kept it close to her.

This is not enough, the other party is not a personality that will be easily led away, it is better to say that apart from being confused for a moment because of the discovery of Fuono, he has always grasped the rhythm of the conversation. When thinking about these, what is going on in Giulia's mind flashed by.

"Speaking of which, I checked the contents a little bit before to confirm the owner," she paused for a moment, and continued after the other party expressed that she didn't mind, "April wanted to visit that scholar to study the magic book. Take notes."

"Yes." April admitted, "It's a magic formula that I copied from a family heirloom, and I can't be sure about the specific function, so I want to ask someone who is proficient in it, but it's a pity The other party couldn’t be sure after looking at it.”

Because it is a transcription, there is an inexplicable sense of discord between the fonts.

"After all, it's so old that it's hard to decipher." Suppressing a trace of anxiety in her heart because she couldn't disrupt the other party's rhythm, Giulia continued, "Even the words on the title page are very profound,'Finally Giving hope' or something."

"Hey?" April finally showed surprise again, "Can you understand?"

-Success!

While feeling so grateful in her heart, Giulia asked calmly, "Is there any problem?"

"However," April still looked unacceptable, "I asked many people before, but none of them could accurately interpret that language."

"So it's not that Luna is ignorant."

Hearing this, Iluna muttered in a small voice.

"Really?" Yulia also sensed that something was wrong, "But even Fuono knows the meaning of that sentence..."

"It's a lie." April denied it, "I obviously asked Fu Nuo before."

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding air seemed to become dull in an instant, Giulia realized almost instantly that Fuono's unusual situation, so the person April asked should be "another Fuono" .

——Could it be that she doesn't know?

This doubt flashed in Julia's mind, and the most important thing right now is to find a way to confuse her.

She subconsciously turned her head to look at Shirpasha, but the other party just smiled lightly as if she could do a job with ease, drinking black tea indifferently and silently, watching the current situation with nothing.

So she had no choice but to give up asking for help and find a way by herself, after all, she was the one who started this topic.

While Giulia was desperately thinking about how to get away with it, April suddenly spoke:

"Sorry, maybe I remembered wrongly."

"Hey?"

Giulia's over-speeding head took a while to react when she heard these words, but April continued:

"You are Fu Nuo's teammates, right?"

Because the topic jumped too quickly, Giulia nodded inexplicably, and then heard words that she suspected to be hallucinations again.

"In this case, please let me join."

The person in front of him smiled and made the request.

"Is April going to join too?"

Fuono looked at April inquiringly, and then smiled.

"Welcome to say."

Iluna expressed her position indifferently.

"Then, please take care of me from now on."

Trying to show a smile, Giulia is kind and gentle.

"Please take care of me in the future."

Throwing down such a sentence lightly, Shirpasha, who had finished drinking the black tea, turned her gaze to the glutinous rice cakes on the table.

After thinking about it for a thousand times, Iluna had already changed the topic of Giulia's first topic when she came back to her senses, so she touched Shirpasha's knee secretly and asked in a low voice:

"Did you know this would happen?"

——It was the same way last time, it really felt more and more like a behind-the-scenes BOOS, could it be the professional talent of being a devil king?

Shirpasha bit the glutinous rice cake as usual, but did not answer.Giulia still asked nonchalantly:

"If I hadn't mentioned the notes, is Tifa going to do it herself?"

"I believe in you." Swallowing the glutinous rice cake in his mouth unhurriedly, Shirpasha curled the corners of his mouth, "Besides, according to calculations, there is a 90.00% chance that it will end up like this."

"That is to say, if there is a problem, it should be remedied, right?"

Shilpasha squinted her eyes, then smiled, noncommittal.

"...Is this really good?"

After hesitating for a while, Giulia finally asked.

Since the Demon Lord who was asked in this way only smiled, when Yulia thought she would not answer, words that seemed to be sighing and almost sighed came to his ears.

"If you don't move forward, you can't do it."

So she looked at the night-like deep eyes of the person in front of her, and nodded gently and firmly.

——If you can’t do it without moving forward, then let’s move on.

Regardless of whether what is waiting ahead is an unknown fate or a doomed fate, at least at this moment they have chosen to move forward.

In order to prevent the flower of hope in my heart from withering, let it bear fruit.

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