Ivana continued to step back: "Don’t underestimate , I am a Holy Daughter!"
"But you said yourself, the Holy Daughter has no combat ability." Bai Wei pressed forward relentlessly, "For your safety, it’s better if we stay together."
"No, no need!" Ivana began to panic, "My grandmother is inside, she will protect ."
"Oh? Your grandmother lives here too?" Bai Wei stepped forward again, forcing Ivana to the door, "Isn’t that perfect? Since we’re already here, we should greet your grandmother, it’s basic etiquette. Is she inside?"
Ivana had already retreated to the front of the house, and any further retreat would be inside, so she bit her lip and firmly guarded the door.
"No, no way." Ivana raised her head to look at Bai Wei, those stubborn and cunning eyes now full of pleading, "My grandmother is ill, very seriously ill... I beg you, don’t disturb her, okay?"
Her voice was trembling.
Bai Wei didn’t buy it, his face maintained a smile that seed to see through everything, slowly raising his hand, reaching out towards Ivana’s despairing gaze.
But the hand stopped before touching Ivana.
Because Vic had grabbed Bai Wei’s hand.
"Uh, Priest Ulu." Vic scratched his head, saying, "Since the Holy Lady doesn’t want it, then let’s forget it. Anyway, we have a place to stay. Besides, the Holy Lady’s grandmother is sick; she needs peace, right?"
Ivana turned her head, looking sowhat surprised at Vic who ca to plead for her.
After listening to Vic, Bai Wei pondered for a mont before actually retracting his hand.
"Hmm... you’re right." Bai Wei said with a smile, "It’s indeed not appropriate to disturb a sick elderly. Hmm... then I’ll go check out that hut."
Having said that, Bai Wei turned around and walked towards the Hunter’s Hut prepared for them.
Seeing this, Ivana finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she heard Vic quietly say to her, "Don’t mind, Priest Ulu has no malicious intent, he just likes to tease people, but rest assured, he doesn’t like won."
"...Ah?"
A trace of dullness flashed in Ivana’s expression, and before she could figure out what it ant, Vic went to catch up with Bai Wei, waving at her, seemingly saying "See you tomorrow."
Soon, Bai Wei and Vic were both inside the Hunter’s Hut.
Only Ivana remained standing before the Holy Daughter’s Hut, not knowing what she was thinking.
After a while, she tightly pressed her lips and entered her own hut.
The room was dark, with only a faint ray of light penetrating from the window onto the wooden bed in the corner.
Under the ray of light, a thin elderly sat quietly, seemingly gazing at her.
However, half of her body was missing, with large portions of flesh and internal organs gone, making her look like slaughterhouse at.
"...Grandmother." Ivana gently said, "I have returned."
Then, Ivana stepped forward, lying down in the woman’s arms.
...
"If you say again that I don’t like won, be careful or I’ll slaughter you."
Facing Vic who had just entered, Bai Wei calmly uttered an extrely threatening remark.
Vic was a bit confused: "Isn’t this what you personally told Miss Rella?"
"In the world of adults, there are lies." Bai Wei fiddled with the fire pit before him, "You should learn to distinguish between truth and lies."
"...I don’t quite understand." Vic said, "Why bother to lie about such a matter?"
"Why bother to tell the truth about such a matter?"
Vic was even more confused.
Bai Wei smiled, not delving deeper into the topic, but instead asking: "Could you sll the scent from that house earlier?"
"Uh, yes." Vic nodded, "I slled a lot of spices."
"Why do you think that is?"
"I don’t know."
"Did you sll the scent of living people inside?"
Vic hesitated for a while, then shook his head.
"That’s it."
Bai Wei snapped a stick and tossed it into the fire pit next to him, then casually created a fireball using Rhein Magic and threw it in.
The flas licked the firewood, slowly rising, the firelight flickering in Vic’s eyes.
"I still don’t understand." Vic said, "If the Holy Lady’s grandmother is no longer alive, why wouldn’t she tell us the truth?"
Bai Wei said: "Rember the doctor in Yade Town? He had a locked room, you asked what was inside at the ti, but I didn’t answer you."
Vic nodded.
"I can tell you now, what was inside is the sa as the thing with this Holy Lady."
Vic continued to listen, waiting to hear what Bai Wei ant by "the sa."
But Bai Wei seed to have ended the topic, just leisurely burning the firewood.
Unable to resist, Vic asked: "So what exactly is the thing?"
"Hmm?" Bai Wei looked at Vic with so surprise, "Can’t you find the answer yourself?"
Vic was baffled: "You told this to let find the answer myself?"
"What else?" Bai Wei said slowly, "You’re already an adult, don’t expect others to spoon-feed you."
Though Vic had been with Bai Wei for so ti, thinking he understood Bai Wei sowhat, he was still dumbfounded by Bai Wei’s words.
But he didn’t know how to retort, and after holding back for a while, face flushed, he managed to say: "You haven’t spoon-fed ! I’ve always eaten on my own! Furthermore, all the dry food is with !"
"Ah, right, right." Bai Wei waved his hand, "Don’t mind so much, it’s already co to this, let’s eat first."
Vic, extrely frustrated, could only sit down beside Bai Wei, preparing to roast sothing to eat.
At that mont, he heard Bai Wei leisurely say another sentence.
"Not everyone can calmly accept the truth."
Vic looked up at Bai Wei: "What did you say?"
"I said." Bai Wei smiled, "Please don’t burn it."
...
After nightfall.
Ivana carefully pushed open the door, watching the distant Hunter’s Hut.
Once the light from the Hunter’s Hut completely extinguished, she carried a black parcel and quickly left the door.
After weaving through the forest for half an hour, she arrived at the entrance of a cave.
Inside the cave, a burly man sat there, raising his head only after hearing footsteps.
"Oh, Holy Lady." He said with a smile, "Does your arrival here an you’ve accomplished the task we entrusted to you?"
"...Yes." Ivana was very nervous, "I have settled them in the Hunter’s Hut, they do not suspect anything."
"Is that so? That’s good." The man nodded slightly, "You’ve done an excellent job, and I believe that you will equally be capable of fulfilling the role of Wildfire Saintess in the future."
"That doesn’t matter." Ivana said quietly, "I just need you to honor your promise."
"Of course." The man said with a smile, "Did you bring the thing?"
Ivana nodded, then handed over the parcel she was holding.
It was a piece of at.
The man took it, weighed it in his hand, then nodded: "Good, it’s almost enough."
Then another man erged from the cave, silently taking the parcel.
Ivana asked: "How much longer do I have to wait?"
"Next ti will do." The man said with a smile, "Next ti you co here, you will be greeted by your grandmother."
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