Chapter 8: Could you be less fake?

Hearing Merylu scream out of nowhere, Fei Fei and the crowd of guards were shaken to the core, almost fainting. Even Virgil, who was standing about 5 meters away, almost caught the sword due to the shock.

She walked up to him with furious steps and pointed to his nose.

"Is that what you meant by leaving it to you? Are you here to ask for help or to play?"

To be able to make such a happy and excited girl so angry, should he feel proud of it?

He shrank his head before the cocked Lulu, he tried to laugh with a bright smile.

"Maa, wasn't I just making the mood better?"

"You... you are beyond saving..." She fell as she stated that she was tired of this guy.

"Hey, don't say it like that, wasn't I okay?…"

At this point, Fei Fei and the guards can't seem to piece together any clues.

From this interaction, it seems that this man gets along very well with her, and since they are so close, why didn't they greet each other?

And Fei Fei is reading a lot more into this, as her personal guardian, she knows that Lulu doesn't have any male friends, even her female friends weren't that many to begin with.

Where he came from? Also, why didn't she hear from this friend when they first became friends? Why wasn't she aware of this? And from the looks of it she's trying to cover up their relationship, what's going on?

Looking at them facing each other, her questions were starting to increase.

"Erm… May I know who you are?…" She thought it would be better if she asked first.

Still in turmoil, the two were startled when they heard her question. It was at that moment that Lulu realized.

"Oh yes, what's your name? It seems I haven't heard your name yet."

Inside him, something clicked, this kind of clumsy girl, why does it seem like she only realized that she didn't know his name now?

And this made Fei Fei even more curious, weren't they being friendly now? What's the point in not knowing someone's name if they're already so friendly?

Helplessly, he can only shake his head and wave at Fei Fei while smiling.

"My name is Virgil, nice to meet you, beautiful woman."

"Ah, so you're Virgil…" A certain Lulu said.

"Mister Virgil, greetings, my name is Fei Fei." Seeing that he doesn't seem like a villain, she decided to let it go, but her doubts still remained.

"May I ask how you met Lulu?"

Upon hearing this, the two looked at each other. After a brief silence, the two said in unison.

"I don't know him/her."

Trying not to laugh at how in sync your eyebrows are.

"Oh-..Oh, so that's the case, isn't it? So, your purpose for coming here…"

It seems she assumed he was here to look for Lulu.

Disturbed, he scratched his head, how should he say? Should he say it's because he didn't know the way out of this forest and that he's here to ask for directions? This seems…embarrassing…

If Lulu had listened, she would have replied that he is already very embarrassing...

Helplessly, he shrugged his shoulders.

"Actually, I was simply observing…"

"…."

Speechless, logically speaking, if he doesn't want to tell the truth, there isn't much she can do, if he is a person of untrustworthy character, then one can simply ignore him, but no matter how he looks at it, he He is very good friends with Lulu. Before long, he made the competent Fei Fei unsure of what to do.

The crowd of guards also looked at each other.

If he was a typical busybody, they would have dispatched him in a hurry, but under these circumstances, they don't have much ground to stand on.

Besides, after that performance of his, they no longer want to have anything to do with him.

The atmosphere became a little awkward and he could only let out a few dry laughs. He can't help since he's a stranger.

"Well, what is Mr. Virgil planning to do next?" Fei Fei questioned after thinking for a while.

"Well… actually, you see…"

"In fact, he is lost and wants us to get him out of this forest!"

Not giving him the chance to screw up again, she got straight to the point, revealing her shameful 'secret'.

Frozen in a state of smiling, he understood, this is her returning him for sure...

Looking at Fei Fei's perplexed look, he felt like crying.

Even the guard can't help but roll his eyes at all this crap and it turns out he's just lost...

Of course, that's what they did after seeing him all friendly with his master. If not, and a random idiot came and bothered them, that idiot would probably end up like the corpses of the demonic beasts placed next to them…

Wait a minute, they said they didn't know each other, right? Then why would the young miss know that he is lost?

Fei Fei also felt like commenting: 'Could you guys be less fake?'

Massaging his facial muscles, he can only wave his hands.

"Maa, so it's like this, when is Miss Fei Fei planning to leave the giant beast forest and could you take me along too?"

Meditating as she looked at his face, she laughed while covering her mouth.

"So it's like this, since we're planning to leave the forest, why don't you follow us!"

"Yes! Amazing! We can finally get out of this stupid forest!"

Lulu shouted after hearing her. Evidently, this forest harmed her too little and too much.

Virgil is not much different, even though he is a residential security guard, this miserable forest is not one where he wants to work as such.

"It's awake! Let's go! Back home!" Waving her arms very vigorously, she ran away.

"Wait a moment! Rylu!"

She ran after her.

Shrugging his shoulders, he only felt the urge to respond.

{And she still says she's not a child, she looks like a brat to me.}

Turning around, he saw the crowd of macho men, which sent a shiver down his spine. Laughing stiffly, he ran to catch up with them.

….

After a whole day of traveling, they finally managed to get out of the forest of giant beasts and arrived at a small supply town.

The forest of giant beasts overlaps the lands of the three empires, in the center of them. By area alone, it is larger than any empire. Within it is a rich reserve of resources and demonic beasts, and it is the only place in this world that is habitable for demonic beasts!

It doesn't matter if it is the beast's body or the magic crystal, they are all worth money. Naturally therefore, this place attracted countless cultivators and mercenaries.

Because of this, within each empire there is a supplier city located in the area closest to the border between the empire and the forest of giant beasts.

Since he is so close to the border, he only encountered level 1 or level 2 monsters and even encountered the level 20 wolf, if he went deeper into the forest, he would have encountered a tragedy.

Fei Fei said that in the depths of the forest there are level 8 and 9 demon beasts, and in the center of this region, there is even a demigod demon beast that can transform into a human!

Through Fei Fei's explanation, he finally understood how lucky he was.

It's lucky because at the beginning, when he was transported to this world, he was placed near the outer limits of the giant beast. Otherwise, not to mention level 7,8,9 from the deeper areas, even a level 3 or 4 could have come and sent him back home.

Even Fei Fei and his group were diving just a little deeper into the outer limits of this forest, not daring to delve too deep.

According to her, he discovered that Lulu's field practice target this time was 10 level 4 demonic beasts!

Looking at those shining level 4 crystals and some unlucky beasts that approached and were 'cultivated', he couldn't help but look at the sky beyond.

The system told him that Lulu's one week's earnings were enough to equal his one month's earnings. Given, of course, that this included the bodies carried by the guards.

As he entered the small supply town, he felt strange looking at the buildings and people's clothes.

If it weren't for Lulu and company walking in front of him, he would have thought he entered the world of Fairy Tail.

"What are you looking at?" Brought back by Lulu's voice, he turned his head. Looking at the curious Lulu who was looking in the previous direction, he just rolled his eyes.

"I say, can't you control your curiosity?" God knows throughout this entire day's journey with her, he has been dragged into many things because of her curiosity, if it weren't for Fei Fei by her side, he is afraid that even the colors of her underwear would be questioned.

"I'm so curious..." She murmured, pouting like a child.

He looked helplessly at her, who was curling her lips like a cat.

"Even which street I was looking at you were curious, it seems that your curiosity is quite great huh…"

"I'm just curious what a man would normally notice, I haven't had a male friend before…" Poking her fingers, she said glumly.

Facepalming he gave a long sigh.

"If you act like this, it would be easy for other people to mistake that you are just a mountain barbarian deep in the region."

She raised her head while smiling.

"Mountain barbarian? It was not you?"

Shot, he wanted to cry, but for lack of tears, he can't.

{Alright, it was my fault calling her a mountain barbarian, why didn't I put it as royal field practice...}

Forgetting once again that a member of royalty on field practice is in fact right next to him…

"Alright, I'm the mountain barbarian. Now, my little tsundere princess, shouldn't you tell me where we're going after this?"

Moving her head to the side, she puffed out her cheeks. He really wanted to pinch his cheeks right then and there.

"Hmm… Sister Fei Fei said that we will first meet and stay in a hotel for a day before returning home tomorrow on an airship."

Stopping his step, he gave her an expressionless look.

"What did you just say? Ride what? Could you say that again?"

"Airship! Large alchemically created flying ship, using magical fuel to fly fast. It shortens a land journey by several days, super amazing, isn't it?! At the airfield in this town, just shell out some money and you can pick up the airship wherever you want. Too bad it's limited to just the Ailu empire."

"Oh really? I don't suppose it was made by a certain magical guild called Blue Pegasus?"

He actually thought he might as well go look for Natsu now...

"What is the blue pegasus magic guild? I've only heard of mercenary guild, magic guild and alchemist guild, I've never heard of Blue Pegasus, although the name sounds fabulous. Oh yeah, why are you bringing this up?"

He just laughed at that.

"Ma… don't worry about details, details are for ⑨, now, let's talk to Fei Fei and company, they are getting further and further away from us."

Seeing that she still wants to ask something, he immediately interrupted her and took big steps running away.

"What is a ⑨? Hey you! Wait for me!"

She stamped her feet angrily. Ignoring the fact that she had caught the attention of the people around her, she chased after him.

(End of chapter)

[Lulu's appearance is the same as Hestia from Danmachi]

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