"Who are you??"

Ten years after the outbreak of the war, Deklaas spent the night in the official workshops, as he had done for the past ten years, and then walked down the dark roads towards his empty home.

However, there were a few more people at his door today, not the long-awaited Messena and others, but a few people who were dressed in tatters and shivering in the night.

"Hello, our exiles from Shengyao, we have to come here as a last resort. Please give me something to eat. One of the men stepped out and said with some fear.

Deklaas noticed that he was not speaking the language of the orcs, but the human language of the Empire of Saint Yao. But this does not prevent him from having a little kindness, after all, ten years of loneliness must always be made up for with other things. Like, kind almsgiving.

"I've got some bread here, and some old clothes, you wait. Deklaas smiled slightly, and then replied to the outcast, also in the language of the Holy Yao Empire, and went to open the door, intending to get them some bread and old clothes.

But as soon as Deklaas took out the key, a young and strong man among the homeless people, with a wooden stick, secretly came behind Deklaas, intending to stun Deklaas in one fell swoop and rob him of all the valuable things in his house!!

It's a pity that he or they had the wrong idea, and Deklaas wasn't some stupid ordinary person. In the past ten years, he had spent half a year visiting the place where Itaried had made the box dead. Relying on the death qi that was so thick that there could be no living creatures, and even the dragon species would die instantly as soon as they entered, Deklaas advanced to a sixteenth-order great lich!!

Although there was still a lot of death qi and death energy there, he was worried that Meisina would suddenly return, so he didn't stay there until he advanced to the holy level. However, a big lich still smacks of bullying when dealing with a few ordinary homeless people.

"Boy, this is not begging. Do I send you and your companions to the guard station, or am I tearing you to pieces??" dodged the homeless man's wooden stick attack and choked the other man's neck. While staring into the other's eyes with gray silver-white eyes, he asked with a chuckle but very dangerous.

Almost no one among the homeless people interceded with the young and strong man, and they were all afraid that they would die because of this guy. However, there are exceptions.

"Forgive him, he's just faint from hunger. Please, please, forgive him!!" The person who pleaded for mercy was a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, who looked very cute and looked very much like Pamia at the beginning. Of course, the homeless people can't see it, because she is so dirty that she can't see her face at all.

"If I want to let him go, it's okay, but you're mine. "I don't know if it's ten years of loneliness, or if that little girl looks too much like Pamia when she was a child. Decraas couldn't help but have a little evil thought.

"What... What—" The little girl had no idea that Deklaas would have such an idea, and for a moment, she stammered.

"Okay!!Okay!!As long as you let us go, she's yours!!" Unfortunately, the outcasts did not hesitate to sell the little girl to Deklaas in order to survive or not, regardless of whether she stammered or not.

"Hehe, now you're mine. Deklaas threw the homeless man aside, slowly pinched the little girl's chin, lifted her up with a panicked face, and said with a smile.

Then he ignored the fleeing homeless people, and dragged the little girl into his empty home.

"I think you're hungry, there's bread and sausages in the kitchen, I'm going to heat it up. However, before eating, you better go take a shower and change your clothes. And, you need to learn the language of the orcs. When he got home, he turned on the magic lamp and said seriously. Then he went to the kitchen and warmed up the bread and sausages for the little girl.

When she saw Deklaas go into the kitchen, the little girl tried to run away, but as soon as she took a step, she heard Deklaas say in the kitchen, "Don't you want to run away!!

"Yes... I know—" The little girl replied with intense fear, and it was clear that she knew what the Great Lich was. Running away, at this time, is not a good choice.

"Since you are coming to my house for the first time, you will live here in the future. So come with me and I'll take you to the bathroom for a shower. At this moment, Deklaas came out of the kitchen again, grabbed the little girl's hand, and forcibly dragged her into the bathroom. After putting some hot water on her at just the right temperature, she left, as she looked at her in surprise.

After about ten minutes, the little girl who had finished the bath came to the living room, wearing a set of clothes that Deklaas had placed outside the bathroom door. Here she saw that Deklaas had already warmed up some bread and sausages, and, moreover, prepared some vegetable salad.

"I don't know what you like to eat, so I prepared some casually. Oh yes, that dress is my daughter's, you're wearing a little big, I'll buy you a new one tomorrow. Looking at the little girl with her sleeves and trouser legs rolled up, Deklaas, who was sitting at the table, couldn't help laughing.

“... You don't want to touch me, do you??" The little girl sensed something from the respect that Deklaas had shown before. I couldn't help but ask with some trepidation.

"Don't worry, you're mine. Besides, didn't I already run into you??" Deklaas gestured to the chair on the other side of the table and motioned for the little girl to sit down. Then he chuckled.

"You know what I mean. Are you trying to possess me, or are you trying to torture me??" seemed to be annoyed by Deklaas's teasing. The little girl grew bold and yelled at Deklaas.

"Hahaha!!!!!!" Deklaas laughed slowly, as if he had heard something funny. After a while, his gray silver-white eyes narrowed slightly, and in a very arrogant tone, he said to the little girl: "Do you know? You're right, I'm trying to possess you. But that's just one of the many reasons I've taken you in!!You look a lot like I used to be when I was a child, and I don't want to let me be the only ghost in a home that hasn't had anyone else for ten years!!, so resign yourself to your fate, little girl. From the moment you opened your mouth to plead on behalf of the outcast who dared to offend me, your fate was sealed!!"