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

When Texas saw this scene, his face wrinkled slightly and he subconsciously put his hand on the weapon.

Others also noticed Texas's vigilance and became agitated.

Just when everyone was about to make a move, Maria spoke coldly.

"Two seats."

"..."

"..."

Everyone was stunned.

Fortunately, the waiter, who was dressed in standard attire of a white shirt and black jacket, was quick-witted. After a few steps, he gave the two customers a business smile.

"Are you two... here to spend money?"

"Ah."

"I understand... please come this way."

The waiter was a blond man with animal ears. He stood straight and looked very handsome... Of course, he was a little restrained in front of Maria, who was 1.8 meters tall.

Maria nodded and followed.

Texas also slowly put down his hand at this time, nodded slightly to a few familiar people around him, and then followed Maria away.

The atmosphere in the cafe seemed to have returned to normal.

After they sat down, the waiter politely handed Maria a menu, indicated that they could call him after they had ordered, and then left.

The steps were a little hurried.

Maria glanced at him silently, then turned her head and looked at Texas in front of her.

"You order it first."

"..."

Maria wanted to be polite. After all, she was the one who invited the other party, so she should let the other party choose first.

But Texas became nervous.

"OK……"

As she spoke, she stretched out her hands, respectfully took the menu from Maria's hands, and then began to choose carefully.

Maria turned her head and looked at the crowd around her silently.

Everyone here is wearing the same black suit, and everyone has a serious look on their face, as if they are preparing something.

This made Maria realize that the place might have been booked out.

Perhaps he and Texas shouldn't be here.

But...the waiter didn't ask me to leave...

Why is this again?

Chapter 36 A Strange Relationship

The ordering process went by quickly.

After the waiter took the order, he quietly left, leaving the space for Maria and Texas.

The two of them stared at each other across a wooden table without saying a word.

And in this silence, Maria clearly had the upper hand.

Silence has become a common thing for her. As far as she can remember, the longest time she went without speaking was about a year... Of course, this is just her physical perception of the time. She has nothing to prove the specific time.

So the quietness now was something she was used to...but Texas clearly wasn't used to it.

After hesitating for a long time, Texas gritted his teeth and raised his head to face Maria.

"Ms. Maria!"

"Ok?"

Maria raised her head, her cold eyes staring silently at the emotionally unstable Texas in front of her.

"..."

Texas, who was originally excited, was stared at in this way. He immediately collapsed in frustration and lowered his head silently.

"Ugh."

Maria sighed, knowing that it was not a good idea to remain silent, so she paused for a few seconds and silently took a sip of boiled water.

"So... Miss Texas, you don't like the atmosphere here?"

“…Not really.”

"Then why are you so entangled..."

"...I don't know how to face you."

Texas is very honest, or rather, she dares not be dishonest in front of Maria.

"Don't know how to face me?"

Maria frowned slightly.

and many more……

I felt a little strange before.

The way this Texas treated him was obviously not that of a stranger he had just met... Instead, it was as if the two of them had met a long time ago.

Is it possible...

She stared at the well-behaved girl in front of her, thought for a while, and then frowned.

"puppy?"

"Ok?"

"…Nothing, just a little weird."

Maria leaned back in her chair and shook her head silently.

She thought the person in front of her was the puppy girl she met in the forest... but judging from her reaction, it seemed that was not the case.

Indeed, if Maria remembered correctly, the puppy girl had brown hair, while Texas in front of her undoubtedly had black hair.

From this point of view, it means that the other party should not be the silly little dog in his memory.

Well... in that case...

Maria was silent for a while, then she let out a breath.

"Miss Texas...you, know me?"

"Ah."

"That's interesting."

Maria didn't say anything, but silently put down the water in her hand and lowered her head.

"As far as I can remember, I don't think I knew you...at least not before."

"...Because, I was just a child at that time, right?"

When Texas heard Maria say that she didn't know him, he looked a little ashamed and lost, and his ears drooped weakly.

But Maria quickly interrupted her emo.

"You may not have understood what I meant, Miss Texas. If your memory serves me correctly, you must have met me in your hometown, Syracuse, right?"

"Is such that……"

"But as far as I can remember, I've never been to Syracuse..." Maria said silently, "And, for some special reasons, I'm sure I've never been to Syracuse before. Maybe you've got the wrong person."

Maria looked at the reserved girl in front of her with a calm expression.

"Did you recognize the wrong person?" Texas hesitated.

"But...you are Maria?"

"Maria is not a rare name..."

Maria shook her head again and expressed her opinion, but at the same time, she also quietly asked her system.

"What's happening here?"

"Hmm?" A small regret popped up in Maria's mind, "What's wrong?"

"Texas seems to have met me before...but as far as I can remember, I've never been to a place called Syracuse..."

"Well~" Xiao Baohan tilted his head, "Maybe...we've predicted something in the future, and this child is involved in that event?"

"...Don't you know?"

"Even I'm not sure about what we haven't done yet."

I feel a little regretful and aggrieved.

But Maria probably understood.

After a few moments of silence, she raised her head and looked at Texas, who was a little confused in front of her.

"Although I don't know what happened, I can be sure that the person you saw... was probably not me."

Maria refuses to acknowledge the version of herself that Texas remembers.

"what……"

Texas panicked when he heard Maria's question.

Maria used her calm and steady tone to ease the other person's emotions little by little.

"Relax..."

"You don't have to be so nervous..."

"I am not the Maria you remember... Perhaps many aspects of me remind you of that person."

"But those are things of the past... If you don't mind, can you tell me about it?"

Maria looked at the girl in front of her who was gradually calming down, and tried to test her a little bit.

Although she was probably certain that she would deduce a story about Texas in the future, she didn't want her actions, which she didn't know about yet, to affect what she was doing now.

So she wanted to hear Texas's perspective.

She wanted to know what she had done to make Texas treat her like this.

“Maybe there are many unbelievable things in your story, but at least, at this moment, you can relax and tell it.”

"Don't be nervous or afraid... A lot of things are like this. When you choose to hide them, they are filled with countless fears and nightmares, but if you are willing to talk about them, then all of this is just a story of the past."

"I've seen many people look upon the past as a scourge, and I've seen countless people weep bitterly at night."

"But…trust me, trust me Miss Texas."

"There's nothing to be afraid of."

"We live in the present and should not be defeated by the past..."

Maria's voice was very soft... like a devilish voice tempting people to fall into the abyss, lingering in Texas' ears little by little.

The cold gray eyes just stared silently at the girl in front of him, the slightly pale lips moved, and Texas felt like someone was touching his brain directly through his skin.

A feeling of comfort and peace of mind surged through my body.

She could feel every strong beat of her heart and see the indifferent smile of the person in front of her.

Incredible strength surged from her body, and she felt like a dandelion that had found a home in the storm, and in an instant she gained unimaginable courage.

"Gulu..."

She swallowed silently and stared blankly at the woman in front of her.

I am still like when I was a child, unable to see the other person's complete face.

But... feelings don't lie.