Chapter 485: Little Alice and Little Sherry's First Meeting

"Grandpa, can I go to Buena Village?"

"Why go to a place like that?"

"Broly and Teacher Roxy are going there."

"That brat..."

Before Sauros could finish his complaint, little Alice shook his arm and began acting spoiled: "Grandpa, just let me go, I've never been to the countryside before!"

【You're not going to the countryside at all, you just want to stick to that brat!】

Sauros felt somewhat indignant; the boy's status in his granddaughter's heart seemed to be getting higher and higher.

However, seeing his granddaughter holding his hand and acting spoiled, he couldn't bring himself to refuse.

"You can go, but Ghislaine must go with you; she must protect your safety."

"Great, Ghislaine, let's go!"

Hearing Grandpa agree, little Alice decisively let go of his hand and instead grabbed Ghislaine's palm—rough and calloused from years of swordsmanship training—and pulled her out in a hurry.

She was so excited she didn't even turn back to look at her own grandpa behind her.

"Master Sauros..."

Alphonse called out to the lord beside him, whose complexion wasn't looking too good.

"Forget it; finding someone with good character to be with is always better than finding someone with bad character later."

Sauros sighed.

"If they make it to the end, then I've fulfilled what I wanted to give him before; but if they don't make it to the end, then it's just giving Alice some life experience."

As a noble of the Asura Kingdom whose circle was quite chaotic, Sauros viewed things more openly; the only thing he needed to worry about was that the boy might make a move on his granddaughter too early.

And with his granddaughter Alice being carefree and simple-minded, she'd probably be tricked by any random deception and crawl into someone's quilt.

"Alphonse, have Hilda pay attention; it's time to teach Alice about girls' matters."

"Ah, Master, Miss Alice is only five years old; isn't that a bit early?"

"It's not early; a few years ago, Baron Kurt's seven-year-old son didn't he get Knight Bern's nine-year-old daughter pregnant?"

"I don't want a few years from now some bastard kid adding a generation to my family; having children will have to wait until Alice is eleven or twelve."

"Yes."

Little Alice didn't know about the conversation between her grandpa and the butler in the room; she excitedly boarded the family carriage and, together with Ghislaine, returned to the front door of the small home Broly and Roxy had bought in Roa City.

"Grandpa already agreed to let me go to Buena Village; we can set off now."

Little Alice sat on the carriage and urged Broly and Roxy to get on quickly.

"We're taking a carriage?"

"Otherwise, can we walk? The distance between Roa City and Buena Village takes a full day even by carriage."

Ghislaine had walked it before and now remembered clearly.

"No, Miss Ghislaine, Broly means we can get there by a faster method."

Roxy explained.

"What method, riding horses? Without a carriage, that's indeed faster, but..."

Ghislaine turned to look at Alice.

"The jolting of a galloping horse isn't something a child can endure."

"No, we'll fly."

"Fly?"

"Just like this."

Broly came before Roxy and floated up.

Roxy put her arms around his neck, and both feet left the ground.

"Huh?!"

Ghislaine widened her eyes, quickly jumped off the carriage, and circled around the two floating people, suspecting it was some kind of trick.

"Ah, Broly, you can actually fly; I want to fly too, come down quickly, take me with you!"

Little Alice didn't think so much; she jumped off the carriage and jumped up, trying to grab the boy's hanging tail.

"Don't pull my tail, I'll roll you up."

Broly said a sentence; after little Alice settled down, he landed and wrapped his tail around her waist once, then lifted her up into the air together with him.

"Hurry, let's hurry!"

After her feet left the ground, little Alice shouted excitedly.

"Wait, I have to go too; Master Sauros ordered me to protect Miss Alice well."

Ghislaine said quickly, afraid Broly would directly fly away with the girl.

Broly scratched his head and spread his arms: "I only have room in front."

"Then I'll just stay in front."

Ghislaine nodded, spread her arms, and wanted to mount Broly, this Saiyan human flight tool.

"Stop!"

Just as the scene was about to present a strange picture of female-male-female with a small one wrapped below, Roxy called a stop.

"Don't we have rope at home? You can hold the rope, let Miss Ghislaine hold the rope you're pulling, and then take her flying together."

"Oh, that works too."

Given the rope, Broly, carrying the weight of three people, took off.

"Broly, do you like big ones?"

After they reached the sky, Roxy leaned to his ear and asked in a small voice.

"What?"

Broly didn't quite understand.

"Ghislaine, did you see that? I can fly!"

Little Alice was very excited, just like Roxy when she first experienced flight.

"This isn't flying; we're being carried through the air..."

As for Ghislaine, she was gripping the rope on her body tightly.

Before getting up, she hadn't felt anything.

But after getting up, she felt a sense of crisis that her life's safety was no longer under her own control.

The fur on her body had even stood on end.

"Broly, fly higher and faster, I want higher and faster~"

Little Alice urged from below.

It was only then that Broly understood the meaning of the question Roxy behind him had been asking.

"No matter the size, I like them all."

Broly answered the girl behind him with a sentence, then lowered his head to speak to the little one on his tail.

"If you fly too fast, you won't be able to breathe."

After explaining why he couldn't fly fast, Broly lifted the rope in his hand.

"Miss Ghislaine, you seem a bit nervous. What's wrong?"

He asked.

"I was just thinking, if I fell from here, would I still be able to survive?"

Ghislaine honestly stated the reason for her nervousness.

"Don't worry, even if the rope on your body breaks, I'll catch you in time before you fall and turn into a meat patty."

"Is that so? Then thank you very much for your guarantee!"

"You're welcome."

"Miss Ghislaine, why do I feel like your hand gripping the rope has tightened even more?"

"Illusion."

It turned out that Broly and this Sword God Style senior from another loop, even though they had known each other until now in this loop, were still just ordinary colleagues, and had not reached the point where this Sword King could entrust her life and death to him.

But this was only natural; Broly and Little Alice's relationship had only improved not long ago, and before that, this Big Dog Girl Sword King had harbored hostility toward him because of Little Alice's hostility toward him, and also harbored a faint hostility toward him.

An aerial human-powered journey from Roa City to Buena Village ended with Little Alice's loud commands to fly and Ghislaine nervously gripping the rope, worrying she might fall to her death, in a rural village where the horizon could be seen.

At the house on the small slope south of Buena Village, a boy practicing Water Ball Technique on the second floor just happened to see people flying in the sky.

He rubbed his eyes, made an OK gesture with his two small hands, and condensed small waterballs capable of forming a telescope within the OK circle.

When he looked again, the figures flying at the horizon had disappeared without a trace.

Rudeus scratched his head, thinking he had probably overused his magic power practicing Water Ball Technique, causing his eyes to blur.

Otherwise, how could he possibly see someone flying in the sky?

He pinched his brow, and the boy didn't take the matter to heart.

He decided to rest for a while and ran downstairs.

Sitting on the ground, he watched the maid working hard inside the house.

"Heh heh, the view from a child looking up is truly great—the snow-white chest wrapped in a summer-cool maid outfit. Though I can't see it myself, Miss Lilya's well-groomed hairless armpits are truly attractive."

As Rudeus thought this, his lewd gaze was discovered by the person herself.

Lilya quickly covered her armpit, glared at the boy sitting on the ground who had noticed her noticing him and then avoided his gaze, and said nothing.

Paul's child had been strange since birth, not crying or fussing, only occasionally showing the lewd gaze of a greasy adult male.

This made her very suspicious that the other might be possessed by something evil, but unfortunately there was no evidence to prove it.

At the same time.

"Sorry, Sylphy, did I keep you waiting?"

At the entrance of Buena Village, Broly, having landed, tickled the armpit of the little one running over here, lifted the green-haired little one up, spun around twice, and asked.

"No, I just came over here."

Little Shilfy replied.

"A lying child gets no candy~"

Roxy said from the side.

"Uu, I've been waiting here for a while, but just a little while."

The little one lowered her head, admitting she had lied.

"Here's some candy for you."

Seeing this, Roxy smiled and handed over a piece of candy, stuffing it into Little Shilfy's mouth.

"Thank you, Sister Roxy."

Sylphy felt the sweetness in her mouth and thanked her very politely.

Her small face was red, full of joy.

In contrast, Little Alice was rather terrified.

After seeing Sylphy's appearance, she retreated several steps.

When she discovered that Broly and Roxy were both having intimate contact with her, she then asked: "Aren't you all afraid?"

"What do we have to be afraid of?"

"That guy's hair is green!"

Broly and Roxy exchanged glances and immediately realized this was another child frightened by a legend of the Spearude Tribe.

"Sylphiette isn't a demon race, nor is she of the Spearude Tribe; she won't eat people, and she won't eat children either, Alice, so you don't need to worry."

"Uwa~" Alice looked at Roxy, then at the green-haired little one who looked even younger than herself being held up by Broly, coughed twice before saying, "I actually already knew this; I'm not at all afraid."

Little Shilfy looked at the red-haired girl speaking loudly with her arms crossed and legs apart at shoulder width, and couldn't help but ask the boy holding her: "Broly, who is she?"

"Her? She's called Alice, the young lady of Lord Boreas's family, and also my very important friend, just like you, Sylphy."

Hearing Broly say she was a very important friend from the side, joy immediately appeared on Alice's cute little face.

But upon hearing Broly's following words, her originally slightly raised eyebrows twitched, very dissatisfied that the boy actually compared her to a country bumpkin little one.

However, before this young lady could voice her dissatisfaction, Little Shilfy spoke first: "So she's Big Sister Alice."

"Huh?"

"Can I call you that?"

Little Alice blinked her eyes, looking somewhat blankly at the green-haired little one who had been put down by Broly and walked up to her to ask this question.

【The other party is very polite, seems to know Broly, and her relationship with Teacher Roxy doesn't seem bad either...】

Thinking this, Alice raised her head and puffed her chest to answer: "For Broly and Teacher Roxy's sake, I can allow you to call me that."

Though she said it aloofly, being called "sister" for the first time still made Little Alice feel somewhat novel.

"Big Sister Alice, my name is Sylphiette Yett."

Little Shilfy was very polite and reintroduced her full name once more.

"Is this Beast Race big sister alright?"

After finishing the introduction, she then looked worriedly at Ghislaine beside her, whose complexion wasn't good, and asked.

"I'm fine, just a bit unaccustomed to flying in the sky; I'll be fine after a moment."

Ghislaine didn't expect the green-haired little one to mention her, and waved her hand to answer.

"So what are we going to do next?"

Little Alice had come over to Buena Village's side, but she didn't know what exactly they were going to do after coming over here.

"What are we going to do? Just like at home, we're going to practice magic together, and then play together." Broly answered Alice's question, paused, then added: "It's just that the sparring and playmate has changed from you to Little Shilfy."

"Eh!?"

Alice widened her eyes, seemingly not expecting Broly to say this.

"Such a small one, do you know how to chant the incantation?"

After reacting, she said somewhat angrily.

"Great Water Divine Protection, manifest at the place of what is sought, clear stream, appear here..."

Though the voice was tender, the words were clear.

"Waterball~"

A standard Waterball magic was cast by Little Shilfy.

With a pop, it smashed into the stone opposite.

Of course, it caused no damage to the stone.

But the splashing water was seen very clearly by Little Alice.

"Just Water Ball Technique, I know that too."

"Little Shilfy is a magic genius; when she learned the incantation for Water Ball Technique, she succeeded on her first attempt."

Roxy's praise of others made Little Alice puff her cheeks; she seemed to dislike that green-haired little one.

(Chapter End)