The Hero in Exile

"What have I done to Moran?"

Lingyu, who had just woken up, looked confused. She didn't care that her clothes were messy due to her bad sleeping posture, and tapped Moran's back twice with her jade feet.

Moran didn't care about Lingyu's alluring appearance, he just lowered his head and looked at the map back and forth to confirm.

As for why even Lingyu, who has a poor sense of direction, found the problem, it was because the destination was the Forest of Elves, and now there was not even a tree on the roadside, let alone a forest.

"I did follow the map that Rory gave me. According to it, we should be close to the outskirts of the Elf Forest."

At this time, there was a signpost on the roadside ahead, which confused Moran.

"Even if an elf is stupid, he wouldn't write a signpost specifically for this."

After approaching the signpost, the direction it indicated was that there was a small village ten kilometers ahead.

Lingyu felt that things were becoming more and more unreliable, thinking that maybe he just took the map upside down. However, Moran was not such a careless person. On the contrary, she was often careless and needed Moran to remind her of everything.

"Moran, give me the map."

"Look for yourself, I really didn't go wrong."

What Moran said was that the journey ahead was completely in line with the map, but it started to deviate from the map at this point.

"Hey, is there any ash?"

When Lingyu held a corner of the map in her right hand, a lot of dust stuck to her thumb. After pressing it, she found that there seemed to be something on the dusty part of the map.

"call!"

After blowing through it, the words appeared and Moran curiously moved closer to take a look. Since there was no one on the road, he was not afraid of any problems.

(Don’t learn to drive like this. Even though it’s a horse-drawn carriage, if you don’t drive properly, your loved ones will cry.)

There was a date clearly written on it, which was exactly thirty years ago, which seemed to be the time when Rory Reed rescued the elves.

The two were speechless. They were not wrong to blame Moran. It turned out that there was something wrong with the map.

Moran put the map aside. Anyway, this place has changed and it doesn't matter with or without it. He didn't know if he would really get lost just looking at it.

……

After just a short while, I saw smoke rising in the sky opposite. According to the time, it was noon and people should be cooking or something. It had been such a long time since there were people around.

"Lingyu, it's time to wake up."

Moran gently shook Lingyu who was leaning on his shoulder.

Lingyu opened her eyes drowsily, but soon leaned weakly on Moran again, looking like she had fallen asleep again.

Moran knew that Lingyu had actually woken up but was just too tired and needed to rest.

This was not Lingyu's fault. After all, the battle with the devil forced him to overdraw his physical strength in exchange for a longer period of time in the Judgement state. Moran felt distressed and wished he could have helped at that time.

So we should quickly remove the curse to avoid this happening.

Although this village is very close to the Elf Forest, it looks no different from other villages. The only difference is that there seem to be more adventurers here than in other places?

Although Lingyu hasn't fallen asleep yet, her spirit of fighting against sleepiness is still hazy. She feels like she wants to sleep in class but doesn't dare to do so, so she has to lower her head.

"Lingyu, wake up. I've already booked a room for you to rest in. I'll be back later."

"Uh…oh."

He responded twice in a daze and then said nothing else, still sitting there shaking his head.

Moran walked up to Lingyu and hugged her legs, and Lingyu subconsciously put her arms around Moran, and was simply carried away.

What Moran didn't know was that the girl behind him sniffed the scent carefully before lowering her head with peace of mind.

After placing Lingyu on the bed, he carefully covered her with the quilt, making sure that it would not get messy due to the girl's moving around before leaving with peace of mind.

When I was going downstairs, I felt a chill on my back. I pulled my clothes over and saw a small watermark. Then I remembered the girl's head buried in my back and smiled helplessly.