The Hero in Exile

I felt like I had been walking for a long time, and my legs kept hurting. I felt like my whole body was going to fall apart. I had only been living in the city for a few days, but now I had to suffer again. Looking at my thin arms and legs, it was really like I had been cursed and sealed, and my physical strength was about the same as a girl's.

"Just keep going this way, we should be there soon."

Moran pointed to the non-existent road ahead.

"This is the seventh time you've said that."

Lingyu found a larger boulder nearby and sat cross-legged on it to rest.

"It's true this time. I can clearly feel that the aura ahead is very strong." Moran was very sure this time, and his expression became serious, not as if he was joking.

Although I often don't want to move when I feel lazy, and I am really tired now, I still support myself with both hands on the boulder and look into the distance.

"It's so annoying. I still see everything."

Lingyu tried to look ahead of Moran, but the dense trees made visibility very low, and it was almost impossible to see far away. However, Lingyu still jumped down and chose to trust Moran again.

"I'll trust you once more. If you can't wait, you have to carry me back."

"Oh, you really don't have any motivation at all."

Moran sighed helplessly.

Motivation? What is that for?

Coming to this different world to fight the devil means you will just be eating and waiting to die.

As the saying goes, if you can sit, don't stand; if you can lie down, don't sit.

But now, I am living a life of hiding from the church with the Demon King and looking for someone to unlock the seal. If I could do it again, maybe I would really accept Shadow's request.

But despite what she thought, Lingyu still urged her legs to hurry up and follow Moran.

Moran was too lazy to care about Lingyu's thoughts and continued to rely on perception to confirm the direction. He didn't know how much time this guy had wasted on the road, and he couldn't see where the sun was above his head and didn't know the time, so he could only speed up.

"arrive."

Moran walked to a cluster of wooden jars and instinctively sensed that the place he was looking for was behind it.

"Where is it?"

A head popped out from behind Moran and looked ahead curiously, but in the end he saw nothing.

"I know you don't want to carry me back, but you can't lie to me like this." The flame of passion that the girl had just ignited was extinguished.

"Can't you just calm down a bit?" Moran glared at Lingyu with his dead fish eyes.

"Hey." Lingyu shrank back embarrassedly.

ah~

Moran sighed again inwardly. What was this? Taking the kids out for a picnic? No, the kids couldn't make as much noise as she did. She was a hero, right?

"What are you doing?"

I saw Lingyu facing the tree with her back to me, half squatting as if she was looking at something under the tree.

When I walked to Lingyu's side, I saw Lingyu holding a brightly colored flower with almost all the colors I could think of. The most important thing was that Lingyu was about to put it into her mouth in front of me.

"Hey, if you want to die, just say so. Don't be so depressed."

Moran kicked the mushroom out of Lingyu's hand.

"Ah? That hurts."

Lingyu felt pain in her hand from the sudden kick, and she blew on it to cool down her red hand.

"What are you doing! Your hands are numb from kicking, ow." Lingyu said aggrievedly, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes as they were about to fall.

"I should be talking about you. If you eat mushrooms like this, you will go straight to see the Goddess of Light." Moran said unhappily.

"What mushrooms?"

"It's that thing. You wanted to put it in your mouth just now." Moran pointed to the lump on the ground.

"Really?" Lingyu thought about it carefully and didn't do it. "I think you just want to find a chance to take revenge for what happened before."

"How could I be this kind of demon? Think about whether you have come into contact with it or not."

No matter how Lingyu thought about it, she felt that it was not her problem. Who would want to eat the mushroom that looked so suspicious? At most, she would just look at it for a few seconds. However, it seemed that she did pick it and look at it for a few seconds.

"kindness."

"I'm really impressed by you. What are you thinking? Are you really an orangutan?"

Lingyu was left speechless. She squatted under the tree, pouting and looking at Moran with dissatisfaction, making strange noises from time to time to vent her dissatisfaction.

It seems like I've said too much.

Seeing Lingyu feeling so aggrieved, I felt embarrassed to continue talking.

"Forget it, it's good that you're okay. Be more careful next time." Moran comforted Lingyu in the tone of an old father.

"Yeah." Lingyu nodded woodenly.

After comforting herself, Lingyu got up and continued on her way. When they came to the bushes, Moran used the magic sword to cut off the obstacles in front of him.

"That's it." Moran muttered.

Lingyu walked out from behind Moran.

There is a huge cave here. There are obvious signs of people staying around the entrance, an extinguished campfire, and fish hanging on the drying rack.

Now I think about it, the location where the bushes appeared just now was intentional, and it was obvious that they wanted to hide this place.

"Why didn't I see that demon?"

I looked around but couldn't find anyone.

"Maybe in the cave."

Moran was not very sure. Maybe they had already moved their position or something else might have happened.

"Can't you confirm his location?"

"He has lived here for a while, so the demonic energy is strong, so I can sense it. If I were only allowed to sense one person..."

"Then go in and see if he's in there."

Lingyu interrupted what Moran was about to say, and there was a clear sense of uneasiness in his tone.