"Miss Hotaru, are you alright?" the middle-aged man who led the escort ran to the beautiful woman's side and asked, asking with a look of concern.

"I'm fine, fortunately, a samurai-sama suddenly appeared and saved us, if it weren't for you, I guess I would have died today," the girl named Hotaru patted her huge chest with some fear, and then looked at Xia Ruo, "I don't know the name of the samurai-sama yet." ”

"Xia Ruo."

"Lord Xia Ruo's swordsmanship is really superb, I just saw it in the carriage, if you don't dislike it, just go back with us, just so I can make my father thank Lord Xia Ruo," Hotaru looked at Xia Ruo's face, suddenly blushed, lowered her head again, grabbed the corners of her clothes with both hands, and looked like a girl with a spring.

"That's not necessary, I'm just helping out," Xia Ruo rejected Hotaru's kindness, and he also noticed the girl's performance.

Could this be the plot of the legendary hero saving the beauty and then being taken by the beauty? Xia Ruo thought so.

It's not that Xia Ruo is narcissistic, but that the girl's good impression of herself is very obvious, speaking of which, the girl is really beautiful, with a faint rouge painted on her face, soft hair, and delicate face, a bit like the star of some girl groups, judging from her appearance alone, she is definitely a high-scoring beauty.

It's just that Xia Ruo has some uncomfortable feelings in the face of her.

Obviously, there were so many guards killed by youkai around them, and the bodies were not buried, but this woman seemed to have no sight at all, completely ignoring those who died.

If it's because she's timid, she's afraid to see the corpse, and it doesn't feel like it, judging from her expression, it looks like some guards are dead, and even in the Warring States Period, where people often die, her behavior is a little abnormal.

And by this time, Tsubaki had already approached.

"What just happened here?"

Tsubaki asked, looking at the corpses of youkai and humans on the ground.

"This caravan was attacked by a monster just now, and I helped get rid of the monster," Xia Ruo explained a little about what had just happened.

"Hmm," Tsubaki nodded, then looked around, and when she saw the girl Hotaru, Tsubaki's gaze paused for a moment, but then looked away.

Kikyo brought Kaede over with her, and when she saw the corpse of the monster, she found that the monsters were all fatally killed by a knife, and Kikyo couldn't help but glance at the knife in Xia Ruo's hand.

An excellent swordsman, Kikyo has another evaluation of Xia Ruo.

"Bury the dead," Tsubaki said, glancing at the corpses around her.

"Okay."

The people of the caravan were almost recovered from the fright, and began to help bury the body, Xia Ruo did not stand, but once again took on the task of digging a pit, this time, because there were many ordinary people around, afraid of scaring them, Xia Ruo did not let Tom help.

It's just that when Xia Ruo was digging a pit, Hotaru kept surrounding Xia Ruo and circled around Xia Ruo.

"Lord Xia Ruo, it's good to let them do this kind of thing."

"Lord Xia Ruo, I see that you are tired, let me wipe your sweat."

"No, no, no."

Seeing Hotaru so enthusiastic, Xia Ruo retreated again and again.

……

Tsubaki saw this scene not far away, her eyes were cold, but she didn't say a word, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"Sister, Miss Tsubaki's eyes have become scary again, so scary," Kaede happened to see Tsubaki's eyes, and secretly said to her sister with some fear.

"Really?" Kikyo also glanced back, just in time to see Tsubaki's cold eyes, "Uh, Tsubaki shouldn't make a move on ordinary people, she's a witch after all." ”

"Really?"

The first time Kaede said to her sister, there was a hint of suspicion.

But Kaede didn't understand why Miss Tsubaki looked at that beautiful sister with such a terrifying look.

It's like, looking at a dead man.

……

After the corpses were all disposed of, it was supposed to say goodbye to Hotaru, but things still changed.

Although Natsuruo did not agree to Hotaru's request to go back with her, she found Kikyo and Tsubaki, saying that his father had recently been cursed by a youkai, and that his father was now cursed and needed to ask a powerful shrine maiden to help his father lift the curse and at the same time eradicate the monster that was secretly poisoning.

After Kikyo heard this request, he agreed directly, and Tsubaki was silent for a second, and also agreed to this request.

In this case, Xia Ruo could only follow Hotaru and go home with her.

However, on the way, Xia Ruo still approached Kikyo and asked in a low voice, "Miss Kikyo, do you think there is a problem with that Hotaru." ”

"Huh?" Kikyo was a little puzzled, but he still turned his head to look in the direction of the carriage in the distance and shook his head, "I don't think there's anything wrong with her, what's wrong, have you noticed anything?" ”

Xia Ruo shook his head, he just felt that there was something wrong with that Hotaru, and there was no other evidence.

"I suspect she's a youkai, just feelings, no evidence."

"Feelings? She's a normal human being, and I can't sense it wrong," Kikyo replied, with her strength, it was impossible for a youkai to be at such a close distance and not be felt by her.

"Is that so," Xia Ruo nodded, "Then thank you, Miss Kikyo." ”

Kikyo's spiritual power is much stronger than Tsubaki's, and even Kikyo can't detect that there is a problem, so that Hotaru should be just a person who is indifferent to his subordinates, but Xia Ruo didn't completely let his guard down.

Even if it's not Hotaru, there must be abnormal people in this caravan, or abnormal places, Xia Ruo can be sure of this.

It may be that the level has reached lv2, Xia Ruo's body and perception have become more acute, just now the monster attacked the team, he always felt that something was wrong in the middle, but what was wrong, Xia Ruo couldn't find it.

Forget it, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth.

There's a bellflower, and even if a big monster comes, it won't necessarily happen.

In fact, it wasn't just Xia Ruo who noticed the abnormality, Tsubaki's eyes were also on the carriage in front of him, and his expression was a little serious.

"I did feel it just now, and an aura similar to my curse appeared on that woman's body, but it disappeared in an instant."

……

On the carriage at the front of the caravan, in a place where everyone couldn't see, the corners of the mouth of the firefly sitting in the carriage slowly hooked, and then hooked an arc that a normal person could not hook, revealing a weird smile.

……

After two hours, the caravan finally arrived at a city, which is a small city, the convoy stopped in front of the city, and at the same time, the girl Hotaru in the car also jumped down, and then walked in front of Xia Ruo with a happy face.

"Lord Xia Ruo, it's finally here, I'll take you to see my father."

"Hmm," although he agreed, Xia Ruo still deliberately distanced himself from Hotaru a little.

After arriving in this city, Xia Ruo learned that Hotaru was the daughter of the lord of this city, and she had just run out with the caravan to have fun.

And the lord of this city happened to be cursed by the monster before and fell seriously ill.