Wear nice and clean clothes, sleep in a soft and comfortable bed, and eat warm and delicious food...... Life in the town is really very good, but there are also some inconvenient places.

Once you are in the crowd, you have to restrain yourself and make yourself like everyone else, such as a girl of Loria's age, who should not be on the street late at night.

Situated on a small hill, surrounded by hills and forests, with only one path leading to it, Loria wandered listlessly around the outskirts of town with an umbrella on a dry, sunny winter day—she forced herself to sleep at night in order not to look strange, and the consequences of a long period of going against her nature were that she could not sleep at night, could not wake up during the day, and was dazed every day.

Just this morning, she+-, ≡ans↙→m even wore her clothes backwards, and if it weren't for the waitress of the inn where she lived, she would have been a joke at the table for a long time, if she had already attracted the attention of the residents because she was an outsider, young and wealthy.

She had already tried to keep a low profile, and in order not to get into trouble, she even drew a lot of golden eyes on her skirt - even the townspeople who were isolated in the forest could easily recognize them and know what they meant...... No one who is lonely or unheard of will fail to recognize the Violet Eye.

Although the territory of the Republic of Dalaran is the smallest among the Seven Kingdoms, its strength is unquestionable, and more importantly, people who are accustomed to decorating their clothes with the Eye of Violet often have some special abilities...... Like turning a nasty person into a sheep or something.

From late autumn to early winter, the profits from trading on the lake were enough to allow her to live a leisurely life without any worries, and the abundance of books from some hapless mage provided her with a way to pass the time, the only fly in the ointment was that Alice never appeared.

It's been a month, and Loria frustrates herself by kicking a pebble off her feet and sticking a missing person notice to a bulletin board outside the town as usual. The first half of the notice is addressed to all travelers, telling them that if they see a silver-haired girl aged six or seven who is dead fish-eyed, they must inform Miss Loria, who lives in the hotel, that they will be paid heavily, while the second half of the notice is written directly to Alice...... Loria wanted to paint a picture to increase the chance that Alice would see the notice at a glance, but she really didn't have any talent for painting, so she had to write down the sentence 'I'm waiting for you'.

The small advertisements on the bulletin boards scrambled to cover each other at a rate of refresh once a day, and it was not without travelers that Loria had been approached during this time. But most of the information they provided was useless, and some strange people brought her some young girls as old as six or seven years old, as if they wanted to sell them to her......

Covering the notice on a small loan shark advertisement, Loria rubbed her eyes and yawned back to the peaceful town.

Alice, where did he go?

……

Looking at the rather rude expression of the young girl, Augustus was somewhat angry, and he knocked off the fangs on the orc's corpse with the hilt of his sword, intending to leave like this. But after several hesitations, he caught up with the impolite little girl.

"Where are you going? The forest is dangerous, and there are monsters like that everywhere. ”

Although he wanted to leave her alone, the thought of such a child being killed by orcs or some other beast made Augustus unbearable, and by some shrewd instinct, he kept a distance from Alice, and began to chatter and persuade her. "Are you separated from your family? Why don't you go to town with me, your family will definitely go there if they can't find you." ”

"Town?"

In Alice is getting impatient. When I started to think about whether to keep him shut up forever, I suddenly got information that seemed good...... Before the power of time went berserk, the distance between her and Loria was not too far, it was only a day's journey...... Alice thought for a moment and guessed that Loria would most likely go there.

"yes, a town in the forest. It's called Seberchel, and I'm going there to get my reward. Augustus breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the little girl, who was extremely difficult to get along with, finally showed interest, and he continued: "The garrison has issued a bounty for killing an orc. If you use their fangs as proof, you can get a bounty of ten gold coins, and you can make a lot of money by killing a few orcs...... I'm from farther north, but when I was a kid I used to go to the forest, have you ever been to Seberchel? My grandmother used to live there...... The orcs are fierce, but when they reach the forest, they are no match for us......"

Augustus babbles on about his slightly stupid orc hunting plan, and his self-proclaimed forest ranger amuses Alice, who would have been killed if she hadn't helped...... Although I don't like people who talk a lot, it's actually quite convenient for a silver-haired young girl who is suspected of having a communication disorder to find that she doesn't need to ask anything, and the other party will report a lot of information.

Alice knew the time she was in...... Reflecting the boring human history that Loria told her in her memory, now is the time when the orcs destroyed the Storm Kingdom and began to attack the continent of Lordaeron north, and the orcs they met before were probably scouts who broke into the Silver Pine Forest.

Let's hope Loria doesn't be unlucky enough to run into an entire horde of orcs...... Alice didn't pray sincerely, although the aesthetics were different, but who knew what the orcs would do to her?

……

Praise to peace, praise to King Terenus, praise to an alliance that never fades.

After buying a loaf of bread and hearing a lot of praise for this and that, Loria finally felt that this news of the closed forest town made her uncomfortable, of course she liked peace, but she hated idleness, after reading many magic books, she desperately wanted to find a place to practice, but in order not to hurt the innocent, she couldn't do it in the town...... It's not just a matter of personality for a mage to live in isolation and hide in a tall magic tower, but like engineering, magic is always accompanied by a lot of 'unexpected' situations.

It's better to go back to Dalaran...... It's not bad to go to the north either...... Well, a lonely person goes on a trip or something...... It's a little romantic when you think about it.

I don't know what strange switch was poked, Miss Loria's girlish heart was suddenly activated, and she did what she thought, she packed up her few belongings, quit the hotel room, and left the town alone in the cold and dead night of winter when everything was resting.

As for Alice?

Loria had been waiting for three months, and she thought to herself that she might have been abandoned. (To be continued......)

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