The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

With the magic stone tablet damaged, the three have lost their eligibility to continue participating in the Holy Light Pilgrimage and can only wait for the church to arrive and take them away from the secret realm.

"Get out of here if you don't want to get beaten up again."

Philippa's petite figure exuded a strong sense of oppression, and the golden sword pattern on her wrist startled the three of them.

A hero? I've never heard of any heroes participating in this Holy Light Pilgrimage!

The hero is under the protection of the royal family and the Church of Holy Light, at least until his mission is accomplished.

Putting aside whether they had the ability, these three would never dare to retaliate against the hero. They could only accept their bad luck and swallow their anger, at most muttering in their hearts that he was meddling in other people's business and cursing him in their hearts.

Gray watched this scene thoughtfully.

Is this the power of a hero...?

Gray recalled the description in the diary of Gavin Mars, the former hero and bishop of the Lust and Pleasure faction of the Demon Order.

The attitudes of the nobles and the Church of Holy Light were completely different before and after the hero defeated the Demon King.

However, this situation is unlikely to occur with Philippa. Besides being a hero, she is also the only princess of the Olmec Kingdom, making her already very noble, completely different from Gavin Mars, who came from a commoner background.

Speaking of which, the King of Olmec seems to have doted on her quite a bit. Over the years, there has been no news of her being forced into a political marriage. Princesses in normal countries usually end up like that.

The neighboring elven kingdom of Saint-Ion has an example of arranging a marriage between an elven princess and the Olmec kingdom.

However, the elf princess was rebellious and simply ran away from her arranged marriage.

Gray had no idea that the elven princess was Beta. After all, the portrait of Ivy Wendy only appeared in missing person posters in Saint-Tian, ​​and he remembered that Beta said she was an orphan.

From this perspective, Philippa is quite lucky.

Compared to Grey, whose thoughts seemed to have wandered off somewhere, Leah was happy to be rescued but conflicted because the other party was a bad woman who was suspected of wanting to be her sister-in-law.

Let's just admit you passed Lia's first test. If you want to be Lia's sister-in-law, you'll have to pass at least... um... let's set it at 10,000 tests for now. If she can pass them, then we'll add tens of thousands or hundreds of millions more.

So Philippa did gain a little bit of recognition from Lia, even though Lia still seemed very unwilling. But at least she had accomplished something that even Eiota, her fiancée and official partner, hadn't done.

However, Eota never intended to work on Lia. With the engagement already arranged, what could Lia possibly change?

Her pointless protest only got Ed Brandt to drag her out.

Leah: Waaaaah... I can't do anything...

After the three swallowed their anger and left silently, Philippa had no choice but to confront Gray directly.

Recalling that painful feeling, Philippa slowly turned around and bumped into Gray's words.

"Thanks, that's a great help."

Philippa's heart pounded, her eyes darted away, and all traces of heartache vanished.

He said thank you...

Seeing Philippa's stunned expression, Sofia was so envious and jealous that she almost ground her teeth to powder. She quickly flashed over and stood between the two of them, saying in an annoyed tone, "What a coincidence, isn't it? I saved your life, so I'll kneel down and kowtow seven, eight, nine, or ten times."

Gray's lips twitched. Why did this damn woman still try to provoke him the moment they met? He had already made it clear that he wouldn't compete with her for Philippa, so why was she still so persistent?

"What are you doing? Oh dear!" Philippa quickly pulled Sofia back.

She suddenly realized that the biggest obstacle between her and Gray was not the fiancée she had never met, but this dead saint!

Seeing Philippa's expression turn unfriendly, Sofia had no choice but to retreat silently, otherwise her favorability rating would drop.

After driving Sophia away, Philippa looked at Gray with a complicated expression.

"What a coincidence, we meet again," Philippa greeted.

“Yes, thank you very much this time,” Gray nodded.

"It's nothing, we're like family," Philippa said softly, her face flushed.

Sofia, who was behind her, was so anxious that she wanted to rush up again.

No, you cried so hard the other day, but now you're acting like nothing happened, right?

"You're going to continue hunting monsters, right? We won't disturb you any longer. We'll find a place to rest and then continue our mission once we've recovered."

Philippa's body stiffened.

Although Gray was indeed thinking of them and didn't intend to cause them any further trouble.

Each team is a competitor, so getting help is already a good thing. Philippa also knows that Gray doesn't want to waste their time.

But there's always this feeling of being driven away...

Philippa glanced at Gray reluctantly, then looked back at her two waiting teammates, knowing it was time for her to go and not waste any more time.

It's okay, it'll only be a few days. We'll see each other again later.

"Okay, I'm going now. Take care of yourself!" Philippa waved goodbye.

"Oh, right." Gray suddenly called out to Philippa as she walked away.

Philippa immediately turned her head and widened her eyes, a hint of surprise showing in her beautiful eyes.

"May I ask how many points your team has right now?"

Gray's next words greatly disappointed Philippa, who silently took out the Philosopher's Stone and showed it the numbers.

.

Lia was taken aback.

Huh? So many?

Gray didn't think much of it; after all, he was a hero, and this level of skill was within his capabilities.

More than 100,000 points cannot be accumulated so quickly simply by killing low-level monsters.

In other words, they have already hunted down a fifth-tier monster.

Lia understood this as well, and suddenly realized that her points were simply not enough.

"Waaah, I suddenly feel like I need to work harder..." Lia said, sounding a little frustrated.

"Alright." Gray patted Leah's head. "She's a hero, there's no point in comparing ourselves to her. We just need to do our best."

"Mmm." Lia enjoyed the head pat that her sister gave her (in her own opinion).

Ipsilon, who had been silent all along, suddenly gave Gray a sorrowful look, gazing at him with deep affection.

"Grey, I've lived my whole life on thin ice. Do you think I can ever reach the other side?"

Lia: Huh? What's wrong with her?

Gray was speechless.

Where did you learn that? I don't recall ever teaching anything like that...

Gray understood what Ipsilon meant: he was envious of Lya's head pats and wanted them too.

How could Gray let her have her way? With Leah watching from the side, he couldn't possibly act so intimately.

"Get out of here."

Ipsilon clutched her heart, knowing what Gray was worried about.

Lia has ruined me!