"Miss deia has returned!" a villager announced to the others as she and the twins appeared in front of the gate, right in front of Nico’s impenetrable shield, even with teleportation.
Naomi imdiately ran to the gate. "Hey, why didn’t you co back for two days? We thought sothing bad happened to you and we planned to catch up with you!"
deia waved her hand. "It’s a long story. Let us co inside first."
Nico gave them the way through the gate. As they stepped inside, deia noticed the unusual activity within the base. There were more people than usual bustling around the base.
"Is it just my imagination, or is the base getting more crowded?" asked deia, glancing at Naomi.
Naomi pointed to a group of unfamiliar faces standing near the tents. "They’re from Junk Garden. After making a deal with you and Lucian, they wanted to see the site before planning the construction."
deia narrowed her eyes. "So you just let strangers into the base?"
Naomi quickly raised her hands in defense. "No, of course not! They gave a Junk Garden token first, and Matilda confird that they were indeed from the Junk Garden."
"Good." deia’s expression softened. "I almost hit you in the head for letting strangers in."
"Co on, I wasn’t born yesterday." She nudged deia’s arms. "I didn’t know Lucian and the leader of Junk Garden were cousins. He’s so handso, but how can his cousin look like an old mop?"
deia furrowed her brow. "Who said Richard looked like an old mop?"
"Matilda and the girls call him that."
Poor Richard.
His bad reputation had been so deeply engraved in everyone’s hearts that they all imagined him to be a disgusting, perverted old man.
"I think he’s a good mop." deia patted Naomi on the shoulder, then went into the base. "How’s the crop?"
Naomi got excited after deia asked her about the crops. She pulled deai’s hands and led her to the farm. "Co on, you have to see for yourself."
deia waved to Tian and Ren before following Naomi. She had only been away from the base for two days, but so new things had suddenly appeared there.
As deia followed Naomi to the farm, her eyes caught sight of a modest building near the center of the base. It was a temporary church, hastily constructed from old wood and tal.
"When was this built?" deia asked, pointing to the church.
Naomi looked at the building. "Oh, that’s Sister Jeanne’s doing. She said the people wanted a place to pray again, so she asked them to build it together while you were gone. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s nice to have a church again."
"We can go there after." Naomi smiled. "Sister Jeanne is open to hearing our confessions, too."
"I’ll pass." deia shrugged. "Not a fan of religion."
The last ti she woke up in a church, a spider monster destroyed it imdiately. If she went into another one, who knew what bad things would happen?
"Here we are." Naomi spread her arms wide and showed off the farm. Rows of green sprouted from the ground, thriving under the makeshift irrigation system. "I found a lot of old books about farming in the base, so I tried a lot of thods to plant the seeds."
She had collected seeds from fruits and vegetables. "So didn’t seem to sprout, and others died as soon as they grew. However, I learned to improve the soil with compost and to water them just enough without drowning them."
The quality of the seeds was no better than the packaged seeds deia had given her, but with her skill and patience, Naomi managed to make them grow.
Her explanation convinced deia that she should buy the good quality seeds from the system again for the junk garden.
The system was indeed a jerk.
It deliberately made the packaged seeds easier to plant than the seeds taken from the growing plants and fruits.
deia bent down to touch the green sprouts. "You’ve done a good job here."
The farm only lacked dicinal herbs. The dry dicinal herbs she found in the base could no longer grow, and they also needed permafrost soil to grow.
Perhaps deia could collect so of the dicinal herbs after she t Lucian.
"So what happened?" Naomi crouched down beside her as well. "What have you been doing the last two days? And where are Simon and Harry?"
Chief Eldric was surely interrogating Tian to find out his son’s whereabouts.
"In short, a bad guy sent Ren to a dangerous place, so I, Tian, and Lucian have to rescue him. While Harry and Simon stay at the Warstock." deia continued, "Oh, the Warstock is under our command now because Lucian has put the leader in jail."
Naomi raised her eyebrows, feeling overwheld with so much information in one explanation. "H-how did that happen?"
deia rolled her eyes. "He tried to kill my future husband, so of course he deserves to be in prison forever." She said, "I almost forgot sothing, from now on I’m the leader of the Red Star Alliance."
"Wait, what?" Naomi looked at her in disbelief. "Are we already discussing that role?"
"Discussing what?" deia patted her pants before standing up. "If it weren’t for and Lucian, none of you would have the luxury of living in this heaven. Why should I give that role to others?"
Except for Lucian, no one had the right to be the leader of the Red Star Alliance.
Naomi also thought she was right about that part. Therefore, she would support deia with all her heart.
"Well, I have to go now," deia said as she walked away.
Naomi, "What are you going to do? Shouldn’t you rest first?"
"A leader is not soone who can sleep every day."
That was what she did in Hell.
Even though a demon didn’t need to sleep, the Demon Queen also needed ti to relax for even a minute. Unfortunately, humans were becoming more rotten each day, so the demons in Hell had to work hard.
deia sighed. She truly hoped to be reborn in the body of a spoiled young lady who didn’t have to work to earn money and could read romance novels every day.
Well, a dream was just a dream after all.
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