I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

While carrying his groaning companion on his shoulders, the man looked back at Ella in panic, as if he was afraid that Ella would suddenly change her mind, and finally disappeared at the end of the alley.

"Huh—I thought it was someone sent by that prince."

"Prince? Is that the prince from a fairy tale?"

After putting the giant sickle back into the storage item, Angeline looked at Ella, her clear blue eyes full of curiosity.

Ella waved her hand as if shooing away a fly.

"Not at all. That guy must have crawled out of hell."

"Wow, to make Ella-chan say he crawled out of hell, he must be a pretty extraordinary person."

"Well, if that prince comes causing trouble again, I'll definitely punch him away."

Ella couldn't help but think of the women in the Colosseum who waved and cheered for the prince—they must have been deceived by his appearance.

[And by the way, let's make sure that guy doesn't cheat on girls anymore. No, no, no, how could he even think of such a vicious thing...]

After patting her cheeks with a crisp sound, Ella turned around and waved to Jinghua who was still hiding behind the wall.

"If you don't come out, we'll have to go back?"

“I-I understand!”

Jinghua quickly ran to Ella, looked at the breakfast and gastric juice that the man vomited on the ground, swallowed his saliva and murmured softly.

"Ella is so violent..."

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"Excuse me, are you Lady Ella?"

"Yes, Lord Minorino."

Not long after the three of them returned to the inn, the mayor of Minorino, whom the man mentioned, came downstairs with dozens of soldiers. Probably because they had cleared out the place in advance, the only person left on the first floor was the proprietress who was in charge of serving tea, and even the servants had disappeared.

Because she was worried that Lord Minorino was looking for trouble with her, and in order not to affect her companions, Ella asked the others to stay in the room, leaving only Camisia and Mitis beside them. Now the two sides were standing face to face across the table. Of course, it was not that Ella did not want to sit down, but Lord Minorino had no intention of sitting down at all, so she was embarrassed to sit down.

"Excuse me, Lord Minorino, what can I do for you?"

The mayor of Minorino, who looked like a middle-aged man with a rather plump build, kept looking behind Ella, his nervousness evident in his eyes, as if he was afraid of something.

"Because the guards are disliked by you, Master Ella..."

"Eh?"

She had clearly just wanted to tell Lord Minorino not to send anyone to protect - or monitor - her, but she didn't expect Lord Minorino to come in person. For a moment, Ella couldn't help but have the illusion that Lord Minorino was really sending people to protect her.

Before Ella could ask a question, the Lord of Minorino took the initiative to speak, wiping the sweat from his forehead in the middle.

"The commander of the demon army that passed through here earlier—General Lingran—instructed me to treat a blond demon named Ella with favors and to treat Lady Ella as someone more noble than General Lingran. That's why I sent someone to protect you. However, you seem a little different from what the demon soldiers who passed by here described..."

Chapter 23: Traces of Chocolate and the Alchemy Workshop

Lord Minorino looked very embarrassed, as if wondering whether Ella was the person Linglan mentioned. But at this point, Ella also understood why Lord Minorino sent people to protect her - it was entirely Linglan who worried too much.

"If I say no here, he'll be embarrassed, like he came here in person and recognized the wrong person or something like that. 】

"I am an envoy sent by Count Kakarit to the Kingdom of Dacia in the southeast. I met Lingran when I met him on the way."

After searching in the warehouse for a while, Ella handed out the bowls and plates inlaid with the family crest of Count Kakarit. These were props that were accidentally stored in the warehouse when she attended the wedding of the nobles. As a demon king, it was a bit inappropriate to return the bowls and plates to others, so Ella hid it in the warehouse.

As for why Count Kakarit is mentioned here, it is because the territory of Kakarit happens to be located on the border of the demon clan. In other words, it is less than a few dozen kilometers away from Bahanla Town. The Lord of Minorino would definitely not be so ignorant as to not even recognize the family crest of Count Kakarit's family.

As expected, just as Ella imagined, after the Lord of Minorino confirmed the engraved family crest, his expression froze for a moment, and his face gradually turned purple.

"So, you're an envoy sent by Lord Kakarit. You're addressing Commander Lingran by his first name, which means you and Lord Lingran are close friends."

Speaking a little stutteringly, Lord Minorino wiped the sweat from his face while looking around the hotel.

"It would be remiss of us to allow a lord like you to stay in such a shabby room. Please stay at my residence. While it's certainly not as good as your room in the demon clan, the environment is at least better than here—"

"No."

Ella waved her hand. Although she had anticipated that the demon nobles would be quite intimidating to the people of the Kingdom of Untermir, she had never expected that it would be to the extent that it would make a border city lord tremble in his legs. Now it seems that the concept that the demons are extremely powerful has penetrated into the hearts of the people of the Kingdom of Untermir.

"Well, you could tell from the first moment you met the villagers. His eyes lit up at the mention of the demon soldiers—oh, right, this is a good opportunity to get him to help open the city gate."

If it's just for a while, there shouldn't be any problem, Ella put her index finger against her chin.

"I'm more concerned about Lord Wood coming to town than where I live. I want to leave the city this afternoon, hoping—"

"You are free to enter and leave Bahamla Town at any time. I will handle matters concerning Lord Wood."

Before Ella could answer, the portly Lord Minorino gave a respectful reply, and then, as if remembering something, he waved to the soldiers with a serious expression, signaling them and the proprietress who was in charge of the tea to leave.

When only Ella, Camisia, Mitis and the city lord were left on the first floor of the inn, the city lord Minorino spoke nervously, as if he was afraid of being overheard.

"But please be careful not to get too close to the Kumi who are staying in the city. The Earl said in his letter that the reason he came to the town, besides for inspection, was more importantly to bring the Kumi and the treasure they carried to Prince Harry. It is said that Prince Harry's visit to the territory this time was also for the treasure hidden by the Kumi."

"Robbery... is it something so precious? As a prince, would you deliberately go to another country's territory or something? Or is it actually originally the property of the Harry Kingdom, and the Kumi people stole it from the Harry Kingdom first?"

"I'd love to answer your question, but I don't really understand the details."

The mayor of Minorino spread his hands helplessly.

"Well, it's not particularly important to me. Lord Minorino, do you have anything else to say?"

"If you don't have any instructions."

The Lord of Minorino returned the bowls and plates engraved with the family crest to Ella with both hands, bowed slightly, repeatedly said some flattering words to Ella in honorific language, and then walked out the door tremblingly, looking like a soldier who had just experienced a battle.

"If you keep doing this every day, Lord Minorino will lose weight soon."

Looking at the back of the Lord of Minorino, Mitis couldn't help but laugh.

"The status of the demons in the Untermil Kingdom is truly exaggerated. They are nobles from another country, yet they must bow their heads and perform formalities."

"Well, as long as it's convenient for us, it's fine. By the way, has the rebel issue been resolved?"

Ella looked at Camisia standing behind her, and Camisia lowered her head slightly.

"The main force of the rebels has been defeated by Lingran. Only about two thousand remnants remain, retreating towards the Harry Kingdom. According to insider information, there appear to be soldiers from the Harry Kingdom among the rebels."

"Is it the Harry Kingdom that is secretly guiding this?"

"I cannot confirm this yet, but if it is confirmed that the Harry Kingdom is responsible, I would like to obtain permission to secretly counterattack them."

As a countermeasure, it should be to punish the Harry Kingdom for causing the chaos to serve as a warning to others. Ella had no intention of asking further questions.

"Yes, I allow it."

After all, I don't understand this matter at all, and the right choice is to leave it to capable people.

Ella stretched herself and turned to walk towards the stairs.

"Since we've already made an agreement with Lord Minorino, let's prepare to leave Bahamla this afternoon. The kingdoms aren't really suitable for traveling."

"Yes, my lady."

"By the way, Mitis, do you want to go to the suburbs with me?"

"What?"

"It's Jinghua. Jinghua wants to pay tribute to her deceased friend. Then we can look for a suitable place to camp nearby."

"Eh? Just the two of us? I'm going, I'm going~"

No...actually there's also Angelica.

Although she wanted to say so, seeing how happy Mitis was, Ella had to swallow the words back and turned around to go upstairs to inform Jinghua.

"Are you okay? Did that fat pig city lord do anything inappropriate to Ella?"

As soon as he entered the room, Jinghua ran to Ella anxiously, but since they had only known each other for one day, he did not do anything overly intimate like lifting up her clothes.

Ella couldn't help but smile.

"It's okay. I'm here to inform Jinghua that you can leave the city now."

"Eh? How did Ella get permission to leave the city?"

"Some special methods."

Although she felt a little embarrassed, Ella still blinked one eye like Angelica, to imply that she would not easily reveal the reason.

Jinghua murmured thoughtfully.

"Special measures... Oh, right, in that case, can we leave the inn and leave the city now? We won't be punished by Miss Iris, right?"

"Yes, yes, isn't Jinghua a little too neurotic?"

Ella sighed. She had only just arrived in this world, but the sense of hierarchy had already reached this level.

"Great... Let's get out of here before the fat pig city lord changes his mind, shall we?"

"Well, Jinghua and we will leave the city first, while Lotte, Camisia, Iris, and Fukama will take the carriage."

After deciding on their itinerary, Ella and her group left the inn.

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Although Mitis's hopes were dashed by the sudden appearance of Angelica, Mitis quickly recovered her mood after walking with Ella, and looked at the scenery on the street with great interest.

Because Earl Wood was about to enter the town, there were almost no pedestrians on the streets and the vendors were hurriedly packing up their stalls. Mitis asked someone at random and the answer she got was that everyone was afraid of being picked on by the nobles.

"That Earl of Wood isn't a good guy either."

An Jieni said angrily.

"It would be strange if he were a good person to have a personal relationship with that prince. The way he looked at me before made me feel disgusted."

Recalling the gaze of Earl Wood sitting in the carriage, Mitis frowned repeatedly, but her attention soon shifted to Jinghua who was making "shashasha" sounds and seemed to be catching a certain smell in the air.

"What is Jinghua doing?"

"Um...do you smell a strange sweet smell?"

"Sweet?"

"Hmm, very familiar. I must have smelled it somewhere."

Following Jinghua's example, Ella also sniffed lightly - there was indeed a very familiar smell.

"This smell... could it be chocolate? I haven't had it in ages. Is it around here? I've definitely found a treasure."

If it weren't for the light sniff, Ella would have almost forgotten what chocolate tasted like. She had also looked for traces of chocolate among the demons before, but had always returned empty-handed. Even when she tried to describe the taste to a gourmet who was rumored to have traveled all over the continent, she just shook her head in response. Because of this incident, the demons had added a special team to search for traces of chocolate.

"I remember now! It's chocolate!"

Jinghua's deep red eyes shone with light, and anyone could see the strong anticipation hidden in them.

"Chocolate? What's that?"

Mitis's question made Jinghua narrow his eyes slightly.

"It's sweet and smooth, and it melts in your mouth, completely different from regular sugar. In my old world, it was a luxury more expensive than a tomato. Back then, I spent half a month's salary to buy a palm-sized piece. I licked it every day and put it in the refrigerator, but even then, it was gone in less than six months."

Perhaps recalling the taste, Jinghua wiped the corner of his mouth, his expression filled with regret.

"If I had known I was going to die, I would never have saved money. Even if I died from eating too much chocolate, it's better than dying from writing too late."

"Lick it every day?... I always feel that Jinghua is pitiful no matter which world she is in."

"That's because Ella doesn't know how delicious chocolate is. I remember I bought the cheapest kind, and the palm-sized one alone cost me 200,000 Unified Coins."

"Two hundred thousand..."

Was it inflation? Or was it simply that expensive? She wanted to ask, but that might expose her identity. Ella turned her attention to the terrain search, entered the term "chocolate," and began searching for her target.

But unfortunately, no corresponding light spot appeared in the terrain search.

[It's probably called something different, just like a tomato is called a devil fruit. You can only find it by the smell.]

Ella patted Jinghua, who was taking deep breaths due to excitement.

"Jinghua, Angelica, and Mitis, go out of the city to worship first. I'm going to go find that food called chocolate."

"Eh? Ella isn't going?"

Mitis, who had gone out originally for Ella, suddenly felt miserable.

Ella suggested, unable to help but feel a surge of guilt.