"I was just sealed away by two detestable Mages." Obvious resentment filled the Frog Prince's eyes as he spoke. "I was living perfectly well on my own, but they insisted I do good deeds their way. When I refused, they forced me into this form. Isn't that disgusting?"
Zhao Xun narrowed his eyes slightly. "So you're a villain?"
The Frog Prince apparently had no intention of hiding his true nature. He said quite frankly, "I hadn't even had a chance to do anything evil yet. Surely that doesn't make me a villain?"
Although he refused to admit he was bad, he made no attempt to hide his intention to do evil.
Zhao Xun felt nothing about this and offered no comment.
Instead, he asked, "Where can you move around?"
The Frog Prince shifted on the towel and pointed into the distance. "See that big rock beside the river? The one that looks like a crouching frog?"
"Yes," Zhao Xun replied.
"I can only move around inside the area enclosed by those Frog Stones." The Frog Prince turned back and looked up at Zhao Xun, his wide mouth opening and closing. "Look at how tall the mountains around us are, how vast the sky is, yet I'm stuck in this tiny patch of land. Isn't that infuriating?"
Zhao Xun took a look.
He did indeed see four large frog-shaped rocks. One Frog Stone stood on this side of the stream, while another stood on the opposite bank.
That included a short stretch of the stream within the Frog Prince's range.
Of the remaining two, one stood near the cave entrance, and the other was embedded above it.
These four Frog Stones enclosed an area like four boundary pillars, covering less than a third of the meadow.
Just as the Frog Prince