In Terra, she is a hunter and a bad woman.

Both of them were stunned for a moment.

Lappland had the biggest reaction. She looked at Texas with almost disbelief, an expression of betrayal on her face.

No... didn't you say that Ms. Maria was wanton?

So I have been suppressing my thoughts and not getting too close to Ms. Maria.

But the result...

Don’t you remember this?

But, although it was shocked, Texas was actually no less frightened than Lapland.

She just acted rather reserved, staring blankly at the gentle woman in front of her.

It was not until the slightly cool fingers left her face that she came back to her senses. She stared blankly at Maria's back as she turned and left, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.

She reached out and subconsciously touched her face.

After hesitating for a long time, he looked up in disbelief.

"Ms. Maria... do you remember us?"

"You expect me not to remember you?"

Maria asked back.

"No...that's not what I meant..."

Texas was a little reserved.

But Lappland on the side couldn't help it.

She thought for a moment, then stepped forward decisively.

"Ms. Maria?"

"Um……"

"Hey hehe~"

The smiling girl raised her head and looked at Maria expectantly.

Maria did as she wished, reached out and rubbed her little head.

"Are you satisfied?"

"Just a little longer~"

Lappland began to act coquettishly towards Maria.

The familiar touch made her realize that Maria was back!

In the process of training Lappland and Texas, Maria's greatest characteristic, besides the rigorous training, is that she is always fair.

She wouldn't praise someone specifically... When two people were present, her scolding and praise were directed at both of them together.

Such absolute fairness may not be the best training method, but it is indeed the training method that can make everyone most satisfied.

No one will have any extreme negative emotions.

Likewise, it was this action that made Lapland completely certain that Maria really had not forgotten them...

As for why I didn't meet them directly before... well...

Ms. Maria certainly has her own ideas!

As a loyal hunter of Ms. Maria, I don't need to think about too much else.

Just follow along!

……

The meeting at the bathhouse didn't last too long... Although Maria knew that some places did have a bathhouse culture, and various people would talk in the bathhouse, Maria didn't really like it.

The main thing was that the girls' reserved looks made her feel too strange.

So they just rested for a while, then got up and went to the reception room.

The docile puppet prepared some snacks and red wine for each of them.

A comfortable fire was burning slowly on the side. Maria, wearing a simple white shirt, sat on the sofa, looking at the two little ones in front of her face to face.

"How is Syracuse doing now?"

she asked.

"Syracuse?" Lapland and Texas looked at each other with subtle expressions.

But after a moment, they spoke.

"After you left, Lady Sicily began a large-scale crackdown on the family... Due to the widespread destruction of the family, only Saluzzo and Texas can still be called families."

"And it is also based on this that the family, the Gray Hall, and the court have now become the three pillars of Syracuse... However, we heard that Lady Sicily intends to merge these three in the future and expand recruitment to fill vacancies in Syracuse's various industries..."

"You know I don't get involved in these... girls." Maria seemed to be thinking about something after hearing these words, but this was not what she really cared about.

She doesn't like to get involved in political activities.

The girls were stunned for a moment after hearing Maria's words, and then they realized what Maria wanted to know.

"Mrs. Sicily is still in good health. At least we have been exchanging letters with her over the years."

"As for the Texas family, Cellinina foolishly exposed what her father had done... and then took full responsibility. She and the rest of the family staged an internal purge, exiling herself..."

"Saluzzo is still the same. It's not great, but it's not bad either. I'm too lazy to inherit the family's things. Also, I'm bored by myself, so I ran away in the past few years."

"As for Lavinia, I heard she just graduated two years ago and is now serving as a temporary judge in Volsiny..."

Everyone sat around the small table, bit by bit filling in for Maria what she had not known in the past few years.

After saying everything, Lappland couldn't help but raise his head and look at Maria with some curiosity.

"Speaking of which, what have you been doing these years?"

"me?"

Maria tilted her head, shook the wine glass, and took a sip silently.

"I'm the same as before..."

"Same?"

The two little ones looked at each other and gradually realized what Maria was saying.

"Are you still hunting those dangerous monsters?"

"Um……"

"Then your appearance at Longmen is also because..."

"No, appearing in Longmen was just an accident. My current goal is to go to Bolivar and find a forest."

"Looking for the forest?"

The two little ones tilted their heads, looking a little confused.

Maria nodded.

"However, I don't know where the forest is in Bolivar yet... It will probably take quite a while to find it..."

"If that's the case, I actually have an idea!"

Lappland raised his hand decisively, indicating that he had a solution.

"you know?"

Maria was curious.

Lappland nodded and continued.

"A while ago, I heard that Dos Oles, Bolivar, was planning to hold an annual water-changing ceremony... Dos Oles is Bolivar's largest and most prosperous tourist town, often attracting people from all over Bolivar. If you're looking for information, you can check it out... Their tourism festival there is actually quite famous."

"Is that right?"

After listening to Lappland's explanation, Maria seemed to be thinking about something.

She pulled out a map from the side, and the puppet kindly stepped forward to describe the current situation...

After a moment of analysis, Maria frowned slightly.

"if it is like this……"

“那… …就出发吧。”

……

Camp, by the campfire.

The Carters girl in a white cloak sat quietly by the campfire, carefully picked up the dagger in her hand, and cut the wood in front of her.

She was not good at this kind of carpentry work, and the figures she carved were distorted and weird.

But if you look carefully, you can still see clearly what it is.

It's a rabbit and a wendigo...

Looking at the strange statue in his hand, Frost Star was silent for a while, then curled his lips in boredom, threw it into the campfire, and then picked up a piece of wood from the side and slowly began to carve it.

It was a way for her to pass the time.

Since she had the entire Yeti team stationed on this strange moving platform, she had much less to do.

The biggest activity on weekdays is to take the team members to eliminate the monsters wandering on this platform.

Those monsters are not particularly powerful. If several members of the Snow Monster Team work together well, they can deal with one... However, for some special monsters, Frost Star and the others have to step in.

According to the strange woman who called herself a doll, due to some special reasons when this place was built, it is almost impossible to completely kill those monsters.

This means their work is a long-term endeavor.

But for the other members of the Snow Monster Team, this is actually acceptable.

After all, although hunting every day is a bit tiring, life is stable.

Moreover, due to the special nature of this place, they no longer worry about their Originium disease getting worse.

This allowed them to use their direct abilities more unscrupulously. As for food, although it was rationed, the food everyone received was much more delicious than what they could eat on the snowfield, and they could also eat their fill!

Such a relatively stable and good life is exactly what they have been pursuing.

But... Frost Star just couldn't be truly happy.

She always felt like something was wrong.

Thinking about it, she raised her hand slightly.

As a white rabbit, her skin looks a bit pale for many reasons...

Although her body improved at a visible speed after accepting the mysterious woman's blood, and her skin also showed some redness...but she always felt a subtle uneasiness when she saw the reddish skin.

The surging blood burned in her body like a flame.

The surging power overwhelmed her.

During the fight, the joy that came from the heart made her almost lose control of herself.

Maria, the mysterious woman, felt a terrible mutation taking place in her body after drinking the cup of black tea she was given.

Another, more powerful force flowed within her body.

She was a little scared... She was afraid that under the influence of this terrifying power, she would become unrecognizable...

Thinking of this, she slowly stopped the dagger in her hand, raised her head slightly, and looked at the bright moonlight in the sky.

To be honest, when she was wandering on the snowy plains of Ursus, she really liked the night.

Although every time they stopped, it meant that they would have to spend a terrible night in the same place, not knowing whether they would wake up.

But at least, at this time, she can get some rest.

She doesn't need to think about too many things, nor does she need to take on responsibilities that she can no longer bear. She just needs to be herself, sit quietly by the fire, and imagine that one day she and others can live peacefully in a stable world.

but……

In Yharnam, she wasn't quite happy with this kind of peace anymore.

Every time she raised her head, she couldn't help but think of that woman.