The Night Before Departure

Will it hurt?

"No, it's just a tiny bit of blood drawn from the tip of your finger, like being pinched by an ant."

"Hmm... then just once!" Ye Yan indicated that she was afraid of pain, so she was only willing to undergo the test once.

"No problem," Xia Li said before walking into the house.

After Suika and Ye Yan sat down on a stool, Suika walked towards the door.

"I'll be going now!"

"Bye-bye!" Ye Yan, sitting on the stool with her legs crossed, waved and watched Suika walk out of the room.

Arranging for Ye Yan and Xia Li to meet beforehand was a well-thought-out decision by Suika.

After all, there were too many coincidences in the original work, and Red, was also involved.

But now that the Reunion Movement won't follow the old path from the original story, many people's fates will be changed as a result.

The two biggest ones should be Pink Piggy and Ye Yan.

So, in order to prevent the two people's fate from getting worse because of her, Suika decided to go all out and bring the group together ahead of time.

Suika then happily explored the city.

Four days later, in the afternoon, Suika received a call from Xia Li saying that everything was arranged and she could go over to meet the children.

Upon arriving at the bar, the main door opened automatically as soon as I reached the entrance.

"Welcome, meow!" a warm voice came from inside.

Suika peeked inside and saw Ye Yan walking over, dressed in a maid outfit.

After taking a closer look, Ye Yan's maid outfit, though seemingly proper, was made even more alluring by the shackles on her hands.

Compared to the Pink Kitty not far away, also dressed in a maid outfit, she looked like a sweet little cutie. Although equally lovable, she mostly evoked a "father-daughter" feeling.

Upon seeing Suika, Xia Li pointed to the three children inside the house and said...

"These three are the ones you're responsible for protecting and escorting to Rhodes Island."

Leite, you know them? These two boys are called Mograine, and the girl is called Whitemane... Why did you spit all over me?

Just as Xia Li was introducing the three people, Suika, who had just taken a sip of the water that Ye Yan had brought over, couldn't help but spit it out when she heard those two names.

Good heavens, she never expected to encounter the infamous Scarlet Couple in Terra.

Looking at the two, the boy had brilliant blond hair. Although he didn't look very strong due to his age, he stood in front of the girl when Suika appeared, and only moved aside after seeing that she was a girl.

Whitemane had beautiful silver hair and looked charming and lovely; he was indeed very lovable, no wonder the boy looked at everyone as a bad guy.

"Sorry, sorry!" Suika waved her hand, and the spilled water droplets gathered back into a water ball in her hand. Then she flicked her fingertip, and the water ball bounced and fell into the water tank in the distance.

"Are you sure she's in charge of our safety?" Even after witnessing Suika's impressive acrobatic skills, the Mograine still looked at Suika with suspicion.

After all, she didn't look much older than him. The wilderness was so dangerous. When their group came here from outside, nearly a hundred people set out, but only eighty or so survived.

Four "children" venturing into the wilderness—isn't that just providing easy food for wild animals?

"Suika is no ordinary person; she has extensive experience in wilderness survival."

"He walked all the way from the Great Yan alone; with that kind of skill, wouldn't you say he's very strong?"

Before Suika could speak, Xia Li smiled and patted the child's head.

"No, don't touch my head... it'll stunt my growth..." the boy said, his face flushed.

Okay, Suika turned her head to look to the side. It turned out that this little guy was still a proud jerk.

"Sister, did you really come all the way from the Great Yan alone?" Whitemane looked at Suika with a little heart in his eyes.

Children who have experienced life in the wilderness know how terrible it is. If Mograine hadn't been holding her back the whole way, she would have been left behind by the crowd and become food for the hounds following behind.

So how could she not admire this older sister who looked only two or three years older than them after hearing that Suika had come all the way from a far away place?

"That's true. I started from Lungmen in the Great Yan Dynasty, headed west, passed through Kazdel, got lost and ended up in Ursus. I spent the whole winter there, and only set off again after spring. I traveled south from Ursus through Leithanien and arrived here."

Suika honestly said that this experience would seem unbelievable to an adult, but the children just thought it was amazing.

After all, they had never even heard of the places she mentioned.

"You've been to Ursus? And in winter?" Xia Li only knew that Suika came from Great Yan, but she didn't expect that she had such a rich experience before coming to Victoria.

"Indeed, but we found a group of kind people and stayed with them during the winter; otherwise, given the conditions in Ursus, one person couldn't have survived..."

Chapter 130 The Night Before Departure

After hearing what Suika said, everyone realized it made sense.

After all, the temperature in northern Victoria is so low in winter that it can freeze people to death, Ursus is even colder than northern Victoria.

Spending a winter alone there is obviously an exaggeration, because it's simply impossible for a normal person to do it.

"I see. But Ursus is so cold, it's amazing that you could stay here all winter!"

Xia Li sighed.

At this moment, Suika looked at Whitemane standing beside her and reached out to poke the tender little buds on his head.

"Caprinae?"

Whitemane jumped behind Mograine like a startled rabbit, blushing as he peeked out and shyly nodded at Suika.

"Sister, you have such beautiful long horns!"

Mograine looked at Suika warily, giving her a look that seemed to say, "Are you perhaps a demon?"

"Little guy, you have good eyesight, but without strength, that look will only bring you danger in front of bad guys."

But you're lucky, I'm not a bad person.

Your ears... Victoria must have taken a lot of Feline!

Suika sized up the boy, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a condescending tone.

"I am not Feline, I am the noble Aslan!"

Mograine said, his face flushed.

Suika tilted her head and scanned the area, but she really couldn't find any difference between these so-called Aslan and Feline.

"Noble" Aslan?

How noble?

Is it the 'nobility' of being hanged on the throne by a high-ranking nobleman?

Suika thought of the fate of Alistair, the father of King Push and the previous King Victoria, and couldn't help but complain.

Upon hearing Suika's words, the boy's redness intensified.

"Traitors pay the price!" Mograine argued.

"The price? The price is that without the king's restraint, the grand dukes' power is growing, and their military strength is also increasing."

Leaving aside distant examples, let's talk about Gaodoting.

If His Majesty were still alive, he would surely have condemned some of the policies implemented by this duke here as usurpations.

They claimed that he had ulterior motives.

But now,

In the Gaodoting Territory, the Duke of Gaodoting's word is law.

Although he doesn't hold the title of king, who dares to say that the Duke of Gaodoting isn't the de facto king of Gaodoting here?

So little guy, race is no reason for you to be proud.

Moreover, you cannot shoulder the responsibilities that Aslan represents.

All you need to do is protect the lambs behind you, and don't think about anything else.

Suika finished speaking, Mograine straightened his chest.

"I'm not much younger than you; I'm an adult too..."

Seeing that the stubborn young man wouldn't admit defeat, Suika grinned mischievously, then picked up a wine glass from the side and, under everyone's watchful eyes, poured a glass of dark green wine from the Ibuki Gourd and handed it to the boy.

"Then, Lord Mograine, would you dare to take a sip?"

Don't worry about not being able to get back, I'll find you a designated driver.

"What is a designated driver?" Mograine swallowed hard, staring at the green liquid that reeked of alcohol.

"Everything!"

When Suika said those words, she felt like Wu Yanzu tricked a certain swordsman into drinking demon blood.

"What kind of child would drink alcohol..." Just as Xia Li was about to stop Suika's bad intentions, Mograine grabbed the wine glass and gulped down the wine in one go.

After finishing his drink, he looked at Suika with a flushed face.

"It's just alcohol, no big deal..."

Suika calmly raised her hand. "Three, two, one... Down!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mograine's eyes rolled back and he collapsed.

Xia Li caught the unconscious Mograine, and after realizing he was just drunk, she speechlessly looked at Suika was drinking and celebrating beside her.

"Why are you arguing with a child...?"

"This is to teach him a lesson about the wickedness of the world, hehehe..."

Suika let out a laugh that sounded like that of an elder from the Soul Hall.

"We'll be departing tomorrow morning. I've prepared supplies for you along the way. Here's a map, and I've marked the towns and villages we'll be passing through."

Remember to be careful.

After helping Mograine to rest inside, Xia Li came out, pointed to several backpacks nearby, and handed a map to Suika.

After taking the map, she didn't open it immediately, but put it in her handbag, and then walked over to her luggage and mentioned it.

"Isn't this too heavy? With just a few kids, carrying something this heavy all the way, I'm afraid they'll collapse from exhaustion before we even get there."

Hearing Suika's words, Xia Li walked over and picked up a piece of clothing, instantly realizing that she had prepared the supplies according to the adults' needs.

We added more people because the group consisted mostly of children.

If the group consists of several strong and healthy adults, then these bags are not heavy.

But these are several children.

For them, even the basic luggage was already overweight; with more added items, they could barely walk while carrying it.

But traveling far is definitely out of the question.

"It was my oversight. Please tell me which of these things we don't need to bring."

Xia Li is not one to deny her mistakes. After realizing what she had done, she opened her backpack and took out the contents.

There's no need to bring so much food.

Just one can of this food in a backpack is enough; it's for emergencies.

There are plenty of wild animals outside now, we can just hunt them...

After looking at it, Suika threw away all the heaviest food items, but kept half of the others, such as the first aid spray.

This reduced the backpack's weight by almost half.

Even several eleven or twelve-year-old children wouldn't find it too strenuous to carry it.

"Isn't that a little too little?"

Watching Suika throw out a huge pile of food and other things, Ye Yan couldn't help but ask.

"That's enough. If you really want to add more, bring more seasonings; this stuff is light."

It's summer now, and the wilderness is teeming with wild animals; there's no shortage of food."

Suika clapped her hands, quite satisfied with her arrangements.

"Alright, you're the team leader, so you're in charge."

Xia Li felt that since she had entrusted this task to Suika, she had to trust her.