Chapter 192: Treated as a Thief

The Red Demon Clan was very enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that by the riverbank they hard-controlled Broly's group of four for half an hour.

During this time, Red Demons came up one by one to introduce themselves, their speaking format roughly being: "I am XXX, a Red Demon of XXX, a Grand Mage who commands Advanced XX Magic."

And if they were young Red Demons, they might add at the end: "In the future I will become the most powerful XX person of the XX profession."

"So the legendary Red Demons, upon encountering outsiders, all hard-drag people like this to make self-introductions?"

Darkness asked.

"About the same. When I first came to this village, it was actually the same situation. However, when I came here again later, there was no longer this treatment of being dragged around to listen to various self-introductions."

"That works."

"Right, where are we going now?"

Aqua asked.

Her mood was not bad, mainly because there were comparatively more people here who could play the straight man.

While being surrounded for introductions, she showed off a talent performance and won praise from a crowd.

Titles like "World's Best Performer" were thrown at Aqua as if they cost nothing, making her very happy.

"I'm preparing to go find the Magic Tool Artisan I used to often collaborate with here. Hmm, I remember their home should be around here..."

Wiz led the way, occasionally asking for directions, and soon walked out of the bustling village, arriving at the village edge near the forest.

"It's right there."

On the slope, Wiz pointed at a somewhat shabby large wooden house below the slope and said to the few people beside her.

"Eh, the Magic Tool Artisan you're looking for does have quite the hermit master vibe, unexpectedly not living inside the bustling village but coming to reside in this kind of place."

Aqua was a bit surprised.

"It's not like that. Mr. Piao Sanlang is simply comparatively poor, so he couldn't settle in the village. Last time I came to their home as a guest, I saw their family picking wild vegetables in the forest."

Wiz hurriedly shattered Aqua's fantasy of a hermit master, matter-of-factly stating the concrete manifestations of another family's poverty.

"Ah, a Magic Tool Artisan this poor — are the magic tools they make really reliable?"

Darkness asked. The others thought of the unsold goods situation in Wiz's shop and suddenly all lost confidence in the person Wiz was looking for.

"Rest assured. Among the Magic Tool Artisans I've seen, their craftsmanship in making magic tools absolutely counts as top-tier."

Wiz spoke reassuring words and also arrived at the front door of the large wooden house, knocking on the wooden door that had wooden board patches and looked somewhat ready to collapse.

The dong-dong-dong knocking sounded, and Wiz also inquired: "Excuse me, Mr. Piao Sanlang, are you home?"

"Someone's come."

Broly suddenly said.

In just three or four seconds, dada-da footsteps rang out from inside the house.

"Who's outside? Could it be someone wanting to invade my home, a thief coming in to steal things?"

A childish voice rang out from inside.

"We're not thieves. We're guests come to visit Mr. Piao Sanlang.

Right, you're Mr. Piao Sanlang's daughter, right? Please open the door."

"Outsider thieves, don't think you can deceive me. I, Xiaomi, am the Red Demon Clan's number one smartest house-guarding kid. So I'll tell you: besides leftover rice, my home has nothing at all. Even if you break in, there's nothing valuable in my home that can be stolen by you!"

At the entrance, a small girl draped in a patched black robe, holding a wooden stick, shouted this at her own shabby front gate.

"Ah, a home with only leftover rice — sounds so pitiful."

Darkness could hear that the person speaking inside was a not-too-old child, and couldn't help feeling pity.

"Meow~"

And without waiting for Wiz to say anything more, a cat meow suddenly rang out from inside.

Immediately after, the somewhat swaying wooden door was pried open with a gap from underneath by a black cat.

The black cat looked at the few people outside, squeezed out from the door crack, and directly ran away.

"Ah, Xiaomi's emergency rations!"

The wooden door was pulled open from inside. The Red Demon Clan's number one house-guarding kid, a girl even smaller than Broly, directly chased after the black cat and ran off. The opened house door wasn't even closed again.

"What to do now?"

Aqua asked. "Or should we just wait here?"

Wiz was also a bit at a loss.

"No no no, we should chase after her. That child looks so small. What if she encounters a wild beast in the forest? What to do then?"

Darkness did have knight spirit.

"Then Broly, Wiz, and I will go inside to see if there are any adults from her family. Darkness, you'll be responsible for bringing that runaway child back."

Aqua spoke and entered. Her lazy lifestyle had caused her constitution to decrease somewhat. Walking this much road from morning to now, she wanted to rest a bit.

In the forest, Xiaomi ran following the cat's footprints on the ground.

But soon, she lost traces of her own cat.

Clearly, that black cat wasn't walking on the ground anymore.

"Xiaohei, where are you? Come back quick. I guarantee I won't put you in the pot."

The girl shouted, and soon arrived at the Sealed Land said to have sealed a certain Great Evil God.

And on the stone pedestal here, a demon with gray-blue skin was sitting.

"Xiaomi, oh no, little ghost, you coming here — is the Sealing Orb assembled?"

The demon named Houste, seeing the small girl run over, directly asked.

"Not yet. I'm here to find my family's Xiaohei."

Xiaomi replied.

"Xiaohei?"

"That's a black cat, Xiaomi's emergency rations. Just now it took advantage of when a thief came to my home and secretly ran out."

Although that's what she said, the truth was the small girl wanted an extra dish and put the black cat into the pot in the house.

It just so happened that Wiz knocked on the door at that time, so she ran to the front door and started a dialogue with Wiz.

And the black cat took the opportunity to jump out of the pot, likewise came to the entrance, pried open the door, and slipped away.

"Ah, a thief came to your home, are you okay? Any injuries?"

Host became somewhat nervous and pursued the question toward the small girl.

"No problem, I ran very fast, and also ran out of the house in one go. It's just that I can't find Xiaohei now."

Xiaomi was somewhat disappointed; Xiaohei was, after all, her family's important emergency rations.

"Demon, get away from that child!"

Just then, Darkness ran out from the forest. Upon seeing the demon on this side, she used Taunt toward this side and shouted loudly.

"Ah, that's one of the thieves who came to knock on my door."

Xiaomi pointed at the female knight running over and said to the demon beside her.

Hearing this, Host got serious, used his claws to lift the girl behind him, and actively went to meet the female knight running over to find the small girl.

The two didn't even have time for dialogue; with the sound of the great sword and demon claws colliding, an encounter battle was directly ignited.

The battle was quite normal at the start, but slowly it became somewhat strange.

"You think you can harm that child? I absolutely will stop you!"

"No, I have no intention of harming her. Hmm, are you really a thief? You don't feel much like one. Let's stop for a moment and talk things clear first."

"Cut the crap, demon. Use your claws and hurt me hard. I won't be afraid."

"Damn it, who the hell are you?"

At close range, Host, as a Superior Devil, suddenly discovered he was hard-controlled by the other party, utterly unable to break free from her Taunt skill.

"Go, my familiar! Defeat the thief!"

Xiaomi shouted from the side.

(Chapter End)