A Changed World

Puji House.

By afternoon, the customers had finally thinned out.

Little shop assistant Bianka leaned her arm on the counter, the foot behind her tapping the floor again and again.

"Boss, boss! After we close today, do you want to come to my house for dinner? Mom went out first thing this morning to buy ingredients to celebrate us moving into a new home, so she's definitely making lots of delicious food. Come with me, Boss!"

Relying on the wages she earned from Dylan, Bianka had finally bought a place to live in Mushroom Capital, and she and her mother no longer had to squeeze into that shabby little hut in the Resettlement Zone.

The new home was not big, but its advantage was that it was close to Puji House. Before Bianka went out today, her mother had even specially told her to invite Dylan over and properly thank him.

"Of course," Dylan replied with a smile.

"Great!" Bianka cheered, grabbed a brush, and slipped into the backyard early to start washing the Puji for the day.

After Bianka left, the Imperial spy who had been drinking alone in the corner all this time, the Shapeshifter Clolo, finally came over to Dylan and revealed a piece of news he had just obtained: there was finally news again of the Hero, who had been impossible to trace!

The moment he heard the word "Hero," Dylan, who had not been paying much attention, instantly grew excited.

Boss had said that his daughter Bella was on the ship suspected to belong to the Hero.

At first, he had been relatively at ease. After all, the Hero had not gotten involved in the Human-Demon War, which meant Bella was still safe too.

However, as the great war ended and time passed, there had