How should I survive in a different world as a reincarnated villain?

"Speaking of which, it's just the two of you, where did Mr. Jacob and Miss Daphne go?"

After sitting down, I was the first to ask this question.

"Don't you need to order one for them?"

Erin, who was sitting next to me, turned cold all of a sudden.

"Don't mention them, it's annoying."

I find it strange that the relationship between Irene and Daphne was not good before, but there was no such obvious disgust. Could it be that something happened just now?

Alec was not in a good mood either. He sighed and said, "They have already left."

I paused, "Leaving means..."

"It means that our team has disbanded." Irene said sullenly lying on the table, "I thought we got along well, even if it was a temporary team, it's time for us to show our feelings after so long. They are fine, they say they want to leave as soon as they get the money, it's really... so heartless!!"

This development was within my expectations, but I still made a surprised expression.

"Are they leaving Fergus?"

"Who knows." Irene said in a muffled voice, "Even if you want to leave, you don't have to break up. Alec and I don't live here anymore. It doesn't matter where the Adventurer's Guild is."

Alec touched her head, "I think they might have gone home."

Irene replied subconsciously: "Go back to my hometown to get married?"

Alec nodded and said noncommittally, "It's not impossible."

Thinking about it this way, Irene's mood suddenly improved a lot, and she changed her words in a good manner: "Oh, it's really disrespectful to not invite us to such a big happy event!"

If it was still a condemnation, the tone was much lighter than before.

Anyway, everyone was gone, and Irene didn't want to spend too much time on them, so she asked about my situation instead.

"I took a few missions to gather herbs, and I'm going to rest for a night and leave the city tomorrow morning."

"Hey, are you in such a hurry?" Irene's eyes widened, as if she didn't understand my decision, "You just arrived in Fergus, are you going to work soon?"

I smiled helplessly, and half-truthfully said, "If I don't work hard to make money, I won't be able to support Phil."

By the way, the tavern prohibits large monsters from entering, but there is a place in the backyard for mounts and beasts to rest. Fenrir is there now, so naturally he can't hear me.

"It's true, Phil's appetite is so big, if he doesn't make money, he will be eaten and bankrupt very easily." Irene sighed.

"Phil usually finds prey by himself, and it doesn't cost me much." I joked, "If I really want to say it, I'm more afraid that it will accidentally damage something, and then I have to pay compensation .”

Irene also laughed, "After all, she is so big, it's inevitable that she will bump into bumps while walking on the street, and there's nothing she can do about it."

In the afternoon, the three of us went to the biggest market in Fergus, Alec went shopping, and Irene accompanied me to buy necessities.

"I'm still wondering why you always wear this black cloak and don't accompany you at all. It turns out that you have no other clothes."

When it was just us two girls, Eileen spoke more freely.

"Before I met you, I had a little accident, and most of my luggage was lost... But fortunately, I didn't lose my purse, otherwise I would really have to sleep on the street."

Irene nodded understandingly, "We have encountered this kind of thing before. At that time, Alec and I just came out of the village, probably because we were alone, and dared to block the road and rob in broad daylight. In the end, everything was brought back, and I got a bonus after handing in the people.”

After a pause, she said again: "Actually, I originally wanted to invite you, Ai Er, to join our team."

"Me?" I was a little surprised, "We've only known each other for a day, aren't you worried that I have problems?"

Irene waved her hand, with a nonchalant expression on her face, "I still believe in my own vision, Ai Er, you are definitely not a bad person."

"yes..."

This is not necessarily the case.

I thought.

I'm afraid Irene will be disappointed if she knows what I've done before.

As a superior person, there are always times when I can’t help myself. I am not only a nobleman, but also a duke who owns several territories. It is very unrealistic for me to handle all the work alone, let alone have agents in those territories. Lord, most of the work is handled by them, and the only thing sent to me in the end is the income and expenditure statement of the territory for the current month. I don't have the energy to check the facts.

In this way, there will be a problem. Those side branches who do not accept me as the head of the family are likely to tamper with the income and expenditure table.

That's fine, some brave people will secretly raise taxes behind my back, or do things that bully men and women, and it's not uncommon for people to get killed.

I am not ignorant of these tragedies, but I was young when I was promoted to the position of Patriarch, and I didn’t have any useful people at hand. When I finally cultivated loyal subordinates, those offshoots had already occupied the territory. As a king, I have also cultivated my own power, even if I want to take back the territory, there is no way.

No, it's not that there is no way at all, but doing so will bring me a lot of trouble, and it is completely thankless. After thinking about it, I gave up my plan to stand up for the common people in the territory and continue to be that The lofty, innocent and carefree princess-to-be.

In the end, I still don't want to get into trouble, maybe they are right, I am a hard-hearted person, nothing can move me.

"It's just that now that Daphne and the others have left, there's nothing I can do to get you into the group."

"Why?" I asked.

"Don't you know, Ai Er?" Irene turned her head to look at me, "If you want to register a team, you need at least five members including the captain. Originally, you and we were exactly five people, but now it's good. After a lot of trouble, the first There are five people, but two people are missing all of a sudden.”

Then she murmured in a low voice: "I would like to invite two more people to make up the numbers, but now the newcomers want to go to the Grand Guild, and the old people look down on a freshman group like ours. If it is not for familiar people, no one would join. "

She said with a long sigh, "Forget it, anyway, we shouldn't be staying in Fergus for a long time anyway, we were supposed to escort the merchants here, and when we arrived, we were entrusted with a new task by that person , The employment fee is quite high, otherwise we would have left half a month ago, and we would not have met you, Ai Er."

If I hadn't met them, I wouldn't have been able to enter Fergus so easily.

Irene may not have noticed, but I have noticed since entering the city. The security in the city is as strict as God's. It is not like the specifications required by a small remote city.

Moreover, I haven't seen any city gate that requires a magician site.

Every time I enter a person, the magician will use detection magic on that person, which makes me very nervous the whole time, for fear that Fenrir's identity will be discovered. Fortunately, that magician is not a powerful character, or It's Fenrir's disguise, we didn't get exposed.

What makes me feel strange is that Irene and Alec's magic talents are not very good, so it's normal not to find out, but since Daphne is a magician, she must have discovered it, but she didn't say it for some reason.

Like me, I noticed it the moment that person activated the detection magic. The strange feeling of being spied on made me feel uncomfortable all over, and I always felt like I was stripped naked and standing in front of everyone.

If the feeling didn't come and go quickly, I really couldn't guarantee that I would still be able to stay calm.

Soon I knew what the anomalies in this city were for.

At this time, I had been in Fergus for four days. Eileen said that she needed to take a good rest after working for more than half a month. She pestered me all day and forced to go with me.

I figured that I wasn't resting all the time, and I was busy picking herbs when I went out, but seeing Irene enjoying it, I didn't say anything.

Afterwards, Alec told me why Irene was so excited. It turned out that in their hometown, Irene was the kind of child who wandered outside the group.

Strictly speaking, she was excluded by other peers.

This kind of thing happened because Irene was different from ordinary people.

Let's put it this way, Alec is working hard with the goal of joining the Knights, and he has put in a lot of sweat for this. He gets up before dawn to exercise every day, and before going to bed, he will practice physical skills facing the moon. The piles are full of traces left by him.

But Irene can easily do what he spent several years to accomplish.

At that time, he was considered a celebrity in the village. His father was the only adventurer in the village. He was good at swordsmanship and helped the villagers repel the monsters coming down from the mountain several times.

With such a heroic father, other children want to play with him. Usually, when he is exercising, there will be children peeking behind the fence. Occasionally, his father will let a few children who are interested in gymnastics and swordsmanship join him practise.

Little Alec was not very happy about this. He didn't want other children to divert his father's attention, so he practiced harder.

One day his father went hunting with other villagers. He came to the backyard to practice as usual, but accidentally saw three boys bullying a girl through the fence.

Just as she was about to stop the exit, she saw the girl accurately grabbing the stone thrown by the leading boy and smashing it to the other side.

The seemingly random throw made the stone deeply embedded in the wall.

"Next time I won't throw it crookedly."

Little Alec stared blankly, and the three boys were also frightened and ran away yelling at the monster.

The girl cut, kicked the stones by her feet and left.

After regaining his senses, little Alec's first reaction was that the wall must be fake, or there was a stone there originally, and the one thrown by the girl flew somewhere, maybe she didn't throw it out at all Pass.

All in all, he didn't believe that such a petite girl could have so much strength.

Having said that, he still couldn't help his interest in girls.