Hearing that, how could Kureia not understand what Fang Li meant?
This man wanted to keep Alice here.
Finding the Hero was merely an excuse.
"Impossible!"
Without a moment's hesitation, Kureia flatly refused.
"Kureia..."
Alice, who had only just shaken off the disappointment and loneliness in her heart, looked at Kureia with immense sorrow, as though she had been struck.
"Ah, Lady Alice, please don't look at me like that. It hurts my heart..."
Kureia wavered as well.
However, this noble young lady clearly had no intention of backing down.
"Don't you want to find that Hero?" Fang Li said in an uninterested tone. "That's someone who can defeat the Demon Lord, dismantle the Demon Lord's Army, and save the world, you know?"
His tone made it sound as though he were talking about someone else's business, leaving even Darkness hesitating to speak.
Yet this argument was also the most effective one.
As a senior figure in a nation that opposed the Demon Lord's Army, who wouldn't want to find the Hero capable of defeating the Demon Lord?
Just as Fang Li had said, that was someone who could save the kingdom and the world.
Naturally, Kureia wanted to find that person too.
"But there's no reason for Lady Alice to personally search here." Kureia declared righteously. "Now that we've confirmed the Hero is in this town, let the Royal Knights..."
Before she could finish, Fang Li cut her off directly.
"Have the Royal Knights turn Axel upside down in their search? Never mind whether that would work. Even if it did, such a large-scale operation would practically be telling the Demon Lord's Army that there's something important here. It would only draw their attention to this place." Fang Li countered aggressively. "If the Demon Lord's Army sends people here