I don't want to be a heroic spirit

After submitting the commission, Nero returned to Huihui and the others, and then heard the quarrel between Huihui and Yunyun.

"This, this, this... and this!"

“Stop it! Huihui! Why did you order so many dishes?!”

"Shut up, Youyou! If you interrupt my meal, even you will be unforgivable! Do you know how I've been getting by since I gave all my money to someone else? It's so hard for someone to treat me to a meal, how could I not order more!"

"Are you ordering too much? Or rather, can we finish all the dishes you ordered?!"

"Don't look down on someone who has been hungry for three days!"

It seemed that because Nero said he would treat them, Huihui let go of her nature when ordering food.

Just as Yunyun and Huihui were fighting over the menu, Alice suddenly spoke.

"Miss Youyou, it's okay. Nero and I defeated many powerful monsters today and earned a lot of Eris, so don't worry about us."

Alice continued with a healing smile, "Besides, a friend of a friend is also a friend. Since Miss Huihui is your friend, Miss Youyou, then you can say that Miss Huihui is also our friend. Isn't it normal to treat a friend to a meal? Or rather, I have always wanted to treat my friends to a meal, but I never had the chance..."

Yunyun, who was originally fighting for the menu, suddenly let go, and Huihui, who had been wrestling with her, naturally fell out, while Yunyun's eyes glowed red and she entered a state of excitement.

"Friend! Miss Iris said I'm her friend...!"

Yunyun, unable to control the corners of her mouth that curled up, nodded and said, "Yes... yes, I've become friends with Miss Iris and Miss Nero, and Huihui as well..."

"I'm not Yoyo's friend, and I don't want to be friends with this guy."

"Why!"

Alice was watching the interaction between Huihui and Yunyun with some envy, when Nero came over.

"Have you finished ordering?"

"Yes, we've ordered everything. Would you like to see it, Sister Nero?"

"Yes, um! Are there any mushrooms?"

…………

Exquisite dishes were served one after another, including a combination of meat and vegetables and soup, and there were quite a few of them.

Huihui said that she would eat this meal as if she would not have anything to eat for the next three days.

Alice picked up a piece of cabbage with her chopsticks and said, "The cabbage is very fresh today."

By the way, to judge whether the vegetables in this world are fresh or not, you don’t use your eyes or your mouth to taste them, but to see how hard they resist you when you try to eat them.

Following Alice's example, Nero also picked up a piece of cabbage. To be honest, it was a bit difficult to adapt to the sight of the living cabbage swaying back and forth, as if it was refusing to be eaten.

"Miss Youyou, this is delicious. You should try it too."

After hearing what Alice said, Youyou suddenly felt like crying.

Like this, sitting together with friends and having a lively meal... She had dreamed of it countless times.

But every time, when I wake up in the morning, I realize with disappointment that it was just a dream.

"Goddess...thank you for your blessings."

Raising his arm to wipe the slightly moist corners of his eyes, Youyou nodded vigorously.

"Ok!"

Following Alice's recommendation, Youyou also reached out her chopsticks towards the plate of cabbage... but ended up picking up nothing.

The plate of cabbage flew away from Youyou's chopsticks as if it had seen something terrifying.

The smile on Youyou's face suddenly froze.

After trying several times, Youyou got nothing. Once, she finally picked up a leaf, but the leaf suddenly made a strange sound after being picked up. Then she saw the leaf break into two halves and fall back into the plate.

"Woo..."

Youyou let out a whimper of frustration.

"Um... Miss Youyou, let me pick up a slice for you."

The considerate Alice picked up a piece of vegetable leaf and put it in Youyou's bowl. This heartwarming gesture deeply touched Youyou.

"Wow... Thank you, Iris..."

Not only can she dine with her friends, but she can also enjoy the treatment of her friends picking food for her... Youyou felt like she was about to die of happiness.

She was just about to pick up the vegetable leaves that Iris had picked for her in the bowl and eat them... but before she could extend her chopsticks halfway, the vegetable leaf suddenly grabbed the edge of the bowl, turned over nimbly and jumped onto the table, ran for a distance, and then jumped decisively into Huihui's bowl.

It turned around and walked away, as if it had made some determination.

Huihui was also startled, but her personality was that whatever went into her bowl was hers, so she ate the leaf without saying a word. Even after she finished eating it, Youyou next to her still had her chopsticks half-extended and didn't seem to react.

“Wow! Megumin! That piece of cabbage is mine! Iris gave it to me!”

"What proof do you have that it's yours? I just saw it jump into my bowl on its own initiative, so it's mine, just like if I saw the person in front of me drop their purse and I picked it up, then the purse belongs to me!"

"It's too much!"

"Hey! What are you doing?! Don't grab me! My magic power hasn't fully recovered yet... Don't squeeze me with your water-filled breasts! Believe it or not, I'll crush you to pieces!"

Chapter 265 Identity Exposed? !

"Hey, Miss Nero, Miss Iris, you two shouldn't be... ordinary people, right?"

After finishing their meal, Huihui suddenly looked serious and said something that Nero and Alice couldn't ignore.

Youyou had an expression as if she couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

“Megumin, what are you going crazy about? Although your breasts are a bit disappointing, you still have room for growth… Yeah!”

Infuriated, Huihui slapped Youyou's chest.

Youyou sat aside, covering her chest and shedding her little pearls. If she wasn't outside, she would have wanted to take off her clothes to check.

Huihui really didn't hold back. Youyou felt that there must be red marks where Huihui had slapped her.

"I'm certainly not an ordinary citizen."

The person who spoke was Nero. She hugged her arms to support her plump body and proudly raised her slender neck like a white swan.

"I am the Emperor of Rome!"

“I’ve never heard of Rome.” Huihui’s eyes grew stern. “Besides, why would a real emperor come to Axel as an adventurer?”

"Although you two are trying your best to cover it up, the intelligence of the Crimson Demons is very high, and I am a genius among the Crimson Demons. You can't hide it from my pair of insightful eyes!"

Huihui raised her right hand to cover her eyes and posed with a smug smile on her face, as if she had seen through the truth.

Nero's expression remained calm, but Alice wasn't so calm anymore. Her hands under the table tightly grasped the hem of her skirt.

As if to satisfy her desire to perform, Huihui explained her reasoning process.

"I felt something was wrong in front of the fruit and vegetable shop. You two seemed to lack common sense, like the fact that bananas are in water."

Ah...so that's it?

"Also, Iris is particularly attentive to many things around her. Even children's toys can catch her eye. It's like a country person entering the city... or a city person entering the countryside. She only shows that expression when she sees a lot of unfamiliar and novel things."

Upon hearing this, Alice lowered her head, her golden hair covering her face, making her expression unclear.

"Besides that, your words and actions are so polite and well-mannered! It makes me always nervous when I am with you."

Nero frowned tightly, and Alice buried her head even deeper... They had never thought that they had so many loopholes.

"Then... is the most important clue."

Huihui raised her index finger, like a boxer about to deliver a decisive blow.

"Your people have already contacted me and asked me to search for a noble girl with golden hair and elegant manners in this town. If I can find you, I will receive a large commission!"

As she spoke, Megumin’s eyes suddenly lit up with the same color as the gold coins.

"In this country, blonde hair and blue eyes are symbols of pure-blooded nobility. The color of your hair is the greatest proof!"

Nero thought about it in his mind, and finally sighed helplessly.

Alice bit her lips lightly with her teeth, with a look of unwillingness in her eyes.

Nero knew that he couldn't continue to run away with Alice as an adventurer.

The people in the castle will not stop looking for Alice, and it is only a matter of time before she is found.

So, Nero wants Alice to have as much fun as possible before she is found and brought back to the castle.

It was only a matter of time before his identity was exposed, but... Nero didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Moreover, she expected that the person most likely to expose their identities would be Darkness, not Megumin.

According to Huihui, the people who were looking for Alice were able to confirm that Alice was in Axel, so they asked Huihui to come.

"I underestimated the capabilities of this country. This was my mistake."

Claire and the others must have hated Nero for taking Alice out of the palace without his permission, but Nero was not worried about his own situation.

She didn't regret the decision she had made, nor was she afraid of what the people in the palace would do to her...but she was worried about Alice.

Nero glanced sideways at Alice, who lowered her head.

The dream-like life has just begun, and Alice still has so many things to look forward to that she hasn't had time to do.

Do you want to continue running away?

It seems that there is no need for that. If Claire and the others can find us so easily even if we escape to Axel, then going to other places will not be of much use.

Moreover, there is Youyou...

If she ran away with Alice, wouldn't that be a betrayal of Youyou?

Nero's mind was full of mixed thoughts.

Silence is like a drop of ink dropped into a pool, gradually spreading.

“Meihui, what are you talking about?”

Youyou spoke with a confused look on her face.

“Weren’t you there then?” Huihui glanced at Yunyun and said, “That day, an old man in a tuxedo said he was looking for someone. His eldest daughter ran away from home because she hated blind dates, and he wanted us to help him find her.”

"Oh! I remember now. It seems that person claimed to be from the Dastyness family..."

Youyou showed an expression of belated realization, then turned to look at Alice, who had a dazed expression, and said in shock: "Alice! Are you actually the daughter of the Dustinis family?!"

"No...I actually..."

"Even Youyou doesn't know your true identities? You seem very serious, but in my opinion, you are full of loopholes!"

Huihui continued to talk. “Even though you guys helped me, please don’t blame me. After all, I already agreed to someone’s request. That’s right, if I’ve been asked, I absolutely must do it with style! I definitely didn’t do this for the big pay!”

In the end it's all about money...

How offensive, to mistake me for some perverted female knight.

"You guessed wrong. We are not the daughters of the Dustinis family."

"Still quibbling?! Your identity has been completely exposed, yet you're still making feeble excuses?! Don't you think this face is extremely ugly?"

Huihui was very excited, but was stopped by Youyou.

“Hey Megumin! If Miss Nero and Miss Iris are really the daughters of the Dustiness family, then your attitude is truly an insult to the nobility! This is a serious crime! If you don’t handle it well, you’ll be hanged!”

Nero quietly watched the two people quarreling with each other, thinking about how to deal with this misunderstanding. At this moment, she suddenly felt her sleeve being pulled.

Lowering his head, Nero met Alice's eyes.

"Ms. Huihui just said... the daughter of the Dustinis family ran away from home because she hated blind dates." Alice whispered in a voice that only Nero could hear. "It seems she's talking about Lalatina... So, we haven't been exposed yet? This is just a misunderstanding?"

"Hmm! So that's what's going on..." Nero nodded. "It seems Claire and the others haven't found this place yet. Your previous worries were unnecessary. If we can resolve this misunderstanding, our adventurous life can continue... So let me think about it carefully."

"Ah."

Nero's words made Alice breathe a sigh of relief... It was as if she had seen the sun after parting the thick clouds, and a bright smile appeared on her face again.

Chapter 266 The Rabbit with Horns

In fact, the solution to the misunderstanding is not difficult. All we need to do is let Nero meet with the old butler of the Dustinis family who asked Huihui and Yunyun to help find someone.

However, the only person who could meet the old gentleman was Nero, and he could not be allowed to see Alice. After all, it was not certain whether the old gentleman who served the Dastinis family knew the princess of this country.