They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 83 "Shinnie"

It's obvious that this note came from the person who just claimed to be a magician.

That person is absolutely wicked!

One of the children angrily kicked a nearby stool, but Bart was relieved that the other party hadn't actually hurt them and had put them back unharmed.

"On the bright side, we can live freely in Grani from now on, no longer oppressed by John the Dead."

We can take our time finding jobs, save enough money, and then we can live a good life. Besides, this big house is all ours now, and we can sell the furniture we don't need to get any money.

“You make it sound so easy. Now that John’s gone, what else can we do besides steal?”

“Keep stealing,” Bart said dismissively. Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine, whirled around, and nearly collapsed to the ground in fright.

A fat man wearing a bird-beak mask and a palm-sized hat appeared behind him at some point.

The fat man was scrutinizing him, and Bart was so scared that his legs were trembling. The man chuckled and said something incomprehensible.

He said, "Kercha, you really know how to give me something to do. You took their money, so why should I have to find jobs and clean up the mess for a bunch of brats?"

James felt that Ria was the perfect fit for the "black marketeer" meme. He swindled money from others and didn't give doctors time off. He suggested that Ria find a normal job for the children so they could earn a living.

Or, he could have asked to hand the children over to the church as volunteers, saying that the nuns and monks would treat each child kindly and instill in them pure virtues.

"You said you'd find something for me to do to lose weight and get me a spot on the soccer team, but really you just don't want me to have an easy time." James had a million complaints about Ria in his mind, but he still followed his instructions step by step.

If he doesn't do that, Ria will hold a grudge and find an opportunity to report him to headquarters. Steyr might not threaten the doctor like that with his idiot meme, but Ria definitely will.

"I take back what I said before, Kelcha, you are the worst group of patients I've ever had!"

To save time, Dr. Birdbeak took the children directly to the church. Once they came of age, the house would be auctioned off, and the proceeds would be distributed to everyone.

However, this is just an ideal scenario, and no one can predict what the future holds.

"He's going to cross the Gekkoso Mountains... I hope he doesn't die."

James gazed at one side of the town, his eyes seemingly able to see the indescribable strangeness of the Gekkoso Mountains.

“That mountain range is a place that even ‘we’ are wary of.”

……

By this time, Ria had already boarded the steam train with the crowd.

He placed his cane and top hat on the table and looked around the interior of the carriage.

The environment here is not spacious, and the overall color scheme is dull gray. Neatly arranged chairs are placed in the room, with two benches and a table forming a set.

This combination continues from the front to the rear of the car, without any special modifications to the VIP seats to make them more upscale.

The train is called "Shine," and it is a locomotive that is entirely driven by a steam engine. Apart from the gray background on both sides of the carriage, the roof is white and regularly equipped with electric lights, which illuminate the dark night.

Attendants moved between the carriages, pushing metal food carts to serve food to each passenger.

The food cart stopped beside Ria: "Sir, would you like dinner? A 10-Swaal."

"Two servings, please." "The portions here are quite large, sir. Are you sure you can finish them?"

"You may not know, miss, but I have a naturally large appetite."

Lia paid and placed the two plates on the table in front of him. His carriage was sparsely populated, and the seats opposite and nearby were all empty.

For this reason, when he saw that no one was paying attention as the train attendants went to other carriages, he quietly moved a dinner to the seat inside.

Several tentacles emerged from his skin, tentatively stretching out a bit in that direction, before more and more tentacles coalesced.

Little Swarth appeared in the car seat.

"I bought this for you. Try it and see how it tastes."

"Goo!?" Little Swarth was a little incredulous. It hadn't expected that Ria would go out of her way to buy it food. Overwhelmed with joy, it couldn't wait to enjoy its dinner.

To it, these foods were just a matter of taking a bite, even if it was described as "tasting."

The train meal included boiled broccoli, baked potatoes, long bread, some chicken breast, and a bowl of soup. For the price of ten swain, it was indeed good value for money, but the taste was somewhat disappointing.

However, Ria is not picky about food and will eat anything. Little Swarth takes this trait to the extreme; if Ria hadn't noticed quickly, it would have stuffed the whole plate into its mouth.

"Goo."

It crouched on the seat, a black ball, blinking its two golden eyes as it watched its host slowly eat, cutting off a piece of chicken breast with a knife and then putting it into its mouth with a fork.

"I don't know how long it will take to get from here to Adeline City behind the mountains. Although it's estimated to be a day, we also need to take into account the weather."

Lia was worried that some extreme weather might affect the journey. After he finished his meal in about ten minutes, the flight attendant came and took away all his belongings and wiped the table clean.

She was puzzled by the dark object that had appeared on the seat.

Seeing this, Lia's expression remained unchanged: "This is a plush toy I bought for a friend."

"But just now..."

"What do you want to say?"

"No, it's nothing, sir."

The flight attendant thought she hadn't noticed the doll before, but after the flight attendant left, Little Swarth excitedly spun around in his seat, grabbed Ria's wrist with both paws and bit it, and saw the crowd of golden eyes all looking at it, making him even more excited.

"Ouch." Little Swarth showed Ria those eyes, then his neck and limbs were twisted off by the host. He could only crawl around on the seat like a fat black caterpillar, his head facing upwards as he smiled at Ria.

It opened its mouth wide, and several tracheae in its throat twisted rapidly, making a "plop plop" sound. Clearly, the mythical creature enjoyed Ria playing with it.

The reason Lia released it was simply because she was too bored on the road, and having it around could quickly regulate her emotions.

He raised his hand and looked at the eyes on it. Those eyes looked back at him and disappeared quickly with the help of self-healing. Soon, Ria's skin returned to normal.

Little Swarth fluttered its wings a few times, and whether it was an illusion or not, it seemed to have grown a bit bigger than before, and its teeth had also become much longer.

"Is this the result of swallowing the werewolf card, or can you naturally change size at will?"

(End of this chapter)