"That's right, but the group of people in the Holy See are not stupid, and at the critical moment, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not put aside the contradictions and unite with the outside world." The princess worried.

"Well, that's a high probability that you're talking about, after all, they're probably more disgusted with me than Malthus..."

"To correct it, it's not disgust, it's fear." Before I could finish speaking, the princess hurriedly corrected her, and Anton La and the others couldn't help but laugh when they heard it.

"Uh... Well, whether it's disgust or fear, in short, as the princess said, at a critical moment, the group of people in the Holy See will undoubtedly still stand on the opposite side of us, but it doesn't matter, as long as Malthus's identity is revealed, it will have a certain impact on the original layout of the Holy See, so that our side will undoubtedly have an opportunity to take advantage of."

The princess lowered her head and pondered for a while, then said, "Well, even if your statement is true, what about the other advantage?"

"Don't we have another hostage on hand?" As I spoke, I glanced up at Maria in the distance, and for some reason, I subconsciously let her go when I released the "Soul Devourer", and then the scene was too chaotic when the Holy See retreated, resulting in this person being left behind. Originally, the intention of the group was to execute her on the spot to avenge the black elves who died, but I discussed it with Antonla and the others, and thought that it might be useful to keep her, so this became a prisoner of our group and went on the road with the group.

"She? You don't want to use her to blackmail the Holy See, do you? Everyone saw the events of that day very clearly, and the Holy See didn't care whether she lived or died." Princess Road.

"I'm certainly not that naïve, I mean, we might be able to get some information about the Holy See from her."

"That's even more impossible, you don't know this girl? Stubborn by nature, you don't want to force anything even if you put a knife on her neck."

"Not necessarily, I've been observing her for the past few days, and I think this girl may not be a monolith in her heart, we can try it."

"I said—" At this time, Antonla on the side suddenly spoke, looking at it with a wicked smile on his face, and his intuition told me that this old dragon must have no good words in the future.

"You're not going to like this girl, are you?"

"Let's get down to business, I said, can you stop joking?" I gave Anton a blank look and said.

"How can this be a joke? I'm just kindly reminding you that if you really like this girl, I'm afraid you're going to have to suffer..."Antona looked at Maria in the distance, and said half-truthfully. To tell the truth, Maria's beauty is not under the princess and others, and the cold temperament that is diametrically opposed to the appearance adds a different kind of charm to it, as a man to say that I have not been moved by this at all is pure nonsense, but everything is pure so, not to mention that we have always been hostile positions, not to mention that I have to face a princess at the moment, half-heartedness is not a quality worthy of recognition, although Anton La's words are mostly jokes, but it also reminded me, In the future, we need to pay more attention to this aspect.

"Don't worry, I'm in control." Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile at Antonla.

"I hope so—" Antona looked at me, a little worry flashing in her eyes.

That evening we found a place to set up camp, and when it was time to eat, I took the initiative to get some food and sat down next to Maria.

"Hungry, aren't you?" As I spoke, I handed a slice of freshly baked bread to her, and even I could smell the enticing aroma of the bread as the breeze blew.

"Declare in advance, this set is useless..."Originally, I thought that Maria would probably scoff at this action, and even scold, but unexpectedly, she actually took the bread in her mouth without hesitation and ate it, and said coldly to me after the incident. There was no embarrassment or hesitation in the whole process.

"What did you say?" I wondered.

"No matter what means you take, don't try to get any information out of my mouth..."Maria opened her mouth and took a bite of bread as she spoke, that attitude was really a bit of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, but unlike Anton La's pure scoundrel style, Maria felt more like she had put life and death out of her mind at the moment, so she seemed to care about nothing, what kind of experience could train a girl who had just turned twenty years old to be like this, and at that moment a slight chill rose in my heart.

"Then you're not afraid that we'll do our hands in the bread?" I said half-jokingly.

"No, you can't do such a thing," said Maria, swallowing the rest of the bread as if to test her own judgment, without the slightest hesitation.

At that moment, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed, although Maria's words sounded like she was complimenting me, but for some reason there always seemed to be a taste of contempt in it, as if I could easily be seen through...

"I advise you not to be too confident, the human heart is very complicated..."

"That's true, but it's easy to read your mind. Let's take a bite of soup..."Maria said as she snuggled her chin at the bowl of soup in my left hand, as if she had taken it upon herself that I would never do her any harm... Come on, this is a bit deceitful, isn't it, I'm also the incarnation of a demon king? At that time, I really wanted to deliberately scare and scare her, but after thinking about it, I felt that this was too childish, so I had to smile bitterly and feed Maria a sip of soup. At that moment, even I felt like I was weak.

"Then you should know that I don't want to hurt you..."

"Hmm—" Maria nodded as she chewed something, not even bothering to say anything this time.

"Is it possible for us to reconcile with each other for a while?"

"Nope." Maria replied without hesitation.

"Why!?" I was a little surprised.

"Whether you have malicious intentions or not, as long as you are the incarnation of the Demon King, you will still be my enemy."

"But that's not my intention, I'm a victim in this case!?" I heard this and hurriedly argued.

"It doesn't matter, I just know that as long as you're alive, as long as you still have that power, you're going to be a threat to this world, so we have to destroy you." Maria couldn't help but look up at me with determination in her eyes.

"We? But the Holy See in the camp has obviously abandoned you before, right?"

"That's out of desperation, if you want to get rid of the demons, you have to make sacrifices." Maria said these words in a calm tone, as if she were recounting an extraordinary event, and I couldn't help but be a little hairy when I saw it.

"You hate demons?" I asked.

Maria didn't speak, but a sneer appeared on her face, and from that smile you could clearly feel the resentment in her heart.

"Because of what?" I hesitated for a moment, but finally had the courage to ask.

"I'm full." Instead of answering me directly, Maria leaned back and stopped talking, and the conversation suddenly reached an impasse...