"I know this sounds ridiculous, but now I can really feel the negative emotions in other people's hearts, anger, fear, jealousy, despair, and even deception, probably because the demons have been feeding on these in the first place, Maria can clearly feel the fluctuations in her heart when she talked to me just now, although I can't fully decipher it yet, but at least I can be sure that she didn't lie to us..."

"Actually, I'm not questioning your ability, it's just that this matter is too big, and I don't want to take any risks..."

"Of course, I don't want to..."

"Come on, you kid didn't take any risks all the way, didn't he? It's easy to get hot-headed when things happen, and if you don't change this problem, we'll die at your hands sooner or later!?" Antonla counted me down like an elder, in fact, it didn't mean anything else, but I suddenly thought of the loss of control in the camp before, until now I can't forget my reflection in the puddle, crazy, evil, twisted... If it weren't for the little black elf's fearful expression at the time, I didn't even realize the change in myself, and God knows if this would ever happen again, and would I have come to my senses in time before I made a big mistake? At that moment I fell into a fear that I had never experienced before...

"Hey, what's wrong with you kid?" I don't know how long it took me to be pulled back to reality by Anton La's call.

"Oh, nothing, I just thought about something." I said vaguely.

"Thoughts? You're not going to take any risks from us, are you?"

"How is that possible?"

"No, it's better..."Antona sighed.

"I don't care, but those girls don't care about you in general, and if you make a mistake, it will break their hearts..."

"I know, I'm not going to allow this to happen, I'm not going to let that happen..."

"I hope so," Antonla said, looking at me incessantly, looking like she wanted to say something...

After that, we continued to travel east according to the plan, and there were no obstacles along the way, which only exacerbated our uneasiness, after the last fiasco, the Holy See will never rest on its laurels, God knows if they are weaving some huge conspiracy at this time, in addition to those careerists who covet the "power of the Demon King" will not be indifferent after getting the news, from a certain point of view, these guys are even more difficult to deal with than the Holy See, after all, the former is in the light, the latter is in the dark, The whole situation forced us to make the next decision as soon as possible, so Anton pulled them to urge me for the past few days, and my answer has always been "Wait..."

"When we're all wiped out by the Holy See?" Anton La has never been a good-natured master, and when it comes to it, he will inevitably make sarcastic remarks.

"I'm waiting for Maria's reply..."

"Come on, how many days has it been!? I don't understand, why do you trust that little girl so much? What if she keeps dragging her feet and doesn't speak? What if she deliberately put out false information? Let's just say that I pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, please use your brain, okay?" Anton pulled a hard count.

"Probably not, with her character, she is not going to play this kind of trick, after all, once she chooses to cooperate with us, it means betraying the Holy See, betraying her long-standing faith, and of course it will take time to make such a major decision..."

"I'll go, you're really understanding!" The second half of Antonla's words deliberately accentuated his tone, and the mockery was overflowing.

At this time, the princess on the side stood up, only to see that she first patted the other party's shoulder to signal her calmness, and at the same time turned to me and said: "Kane, we trust your judgment, but now that the situation is in front of us, we can't delay any longer, you must give me a clear time..."

"It's... Three days."

"No, three days is too long, I'll give you one day at most!" Hearing this, Anton La immediately vetoed the plan.

"One day!? It's too short..."

"Is that too short? Do you know what it means to have a lot of dreams at night!? Every time we delay now, we could end up killing ourselves. “

I couldn't help frowning when I heard it, it is true that what Anton La said is not alarmist, there is really not much time left for us to make a decision, but I am really not sure that I can persuade Maria to open her mouth in one day, through this period of contact I have gradually figured out the character of this girl, different from the pure and lovely on the outside, she is resolute and strong on the inside, and there is no external pressure to make her succumb, on the contrary, the tighter you press, the greater the rebound, all I can do now is to know with affection and reason, I believe she is a person with independent judgment and knows what to do right, and now I can't guarantee that a sudden change of strategy will have the opposite effect, and my efforts over the past few days have been completely undone.

"Having trouble?" Seeing that I had a sad face, Princess Yun couldn't help but ask.

"Nope... I smiled awkwardly.

The princess who was born and died together for so long had already figured out my temper, and when she saw this, she immediately sighed and said, "Give you two days, this is also for everyone... “

"Thank you." I looked at the princess gratefully, and there were only a few of them who could still trust me so much at this moment....

At dinner I sat down next to Maria again, and delivering her food has become almost a regular task for me these days, but we haven't talked much since the first time, sometimes even talking very little, at most asking her what she wants to eat the next day. Unlike most people in the Holy See today, Maria retains some of the simple qualities of an ancient practitioner, which is extremely obvious in her diet, she is almost never picky about food, sometimes watching such a beautiful woman can only chew wild vegetables, nibbling on black bread as hard as a stone, even I feel a little unbearable, but Maria herself is calm about all this, giving people the feeling that she has experienced too many hardships, and this little suffering seems to be not worth mentioning.

"Good luck today, I had grilled fish." I greeted warmly.

"Oh, that's a bit of a bigger buy?" Maria sneered and said, if ordinary people were imprisoned for so many days, they would have already been depressed, but Maria always seemed calm and relaxed, and even occasionally joked with me, from this it is not difficult to see how strong this girl's will is.

"How is it possible, if that is the case, I will let them make you roast dragon meat. Be careful of scalding." As I spoke, I handed Maria the grilled fish on a bamboo skewer.

"If that's the case, I'll confess right away." Maria laughed, I really don't understand where such a big grudge came from between this girl and Antonla?

Usually people don't look very elegant when eating, or because the act of eating is close to that of animals, and of course it is not without exceptions, such as Scarlett, who is by far the most elegant eating action I have ever seen, not about the red tape of the world, not pretentious, but more like an innate natural outpouring. And at this moment Maria's performance can be said to be second only to the former, of course, I know it sounds a little ridiculous, how graceful can a person with his hands tied and can only nibble directly with his mouth like an animal? But the problem is that Maria does it, she usually chews very slowly, and barely makes a sound, and sometimes I even think it's a pleasure to just sit quietly and watch her eat...