Elf: Chosen Ranger

"Miss Ruiko, what happened?"

The uncle holding the shovel saw Ruikou's solemn expression and immediately asked with concern.

This young lady is a long-lost big customer of Dong Ning Village. Not only does she spend a lot of money, but her stay lasts indefinitely, so she naturally needs to take a lot of care of her.

"It's nothing. Okay, let's stop asking here first. I have some things to deal with."

Ruiko glanced at the other party indifferently, put away the phone, turned and left.

The uncle scratched his head with a puzzled expression. He remembered that this young lady had a straightforward and arrogant personality, and she spoke her words directly. Why did she seem to have a different person today?

Then he picked up the shovel and prepared to walk to the warehouse. He shook his head and said, forget it, he couldn't take care of other people's affairs anyway.

"Xia Ye, do you still remember me?"

Hearing Ruiko's voice, the uncle turned his head in surprise. He had never seen this kind of attitude in more than two months. Who is this Xia Ye?

He took a closer look and saw that this was not the young man who had just settled in the village yesterday. Could it be that the two of them actually knew each other.

Speaking of which, the giant tree suddenly came to life after he came to Dong Ning Village. He was not in the village at that time. Could this matter have something to do with Xia Ye?

Thinking like this, the uncle smiled and walked towards the warehouse again. How could it be possible? I must have been overthinking it. If it were true, I might as well work part-time as a detective.

At the same time, Xia Ye, who heard the other party greeting her, responded: "Of course, Miss Ruikou."

"Great, it seems you still remember me. Speaking of which, Xia Ye, why did you come to the Crown Snowfield?"

Ruiko's tone was not as strong as Xia Ye's memory. He felt a little strange and then said the reason he had prepared long ago:

"Looking for someone, I came to Wangguan Xueyuan this time to find someone."

"Well, that's right. By the way, have you seen the changes in the giant tree today? It can really be called a miracle." Ruiko crossed his arms and looked at the giant tree in the distance.

Xia Ye also looked at the bare giant tree and complained in his heart, you can't say it happened because of me, right?

"Well, I saw it. I'm curious why this happened." Xia Ye's tone was very calm.

"It's the King of Fertility. It seems that the villagers in Dongning Village unanimously believe that it did it. After all, this is the most widely circulated legend in the village." Ruikou lifted up her long green hair and looked around, with a trace of distress in her eyes.

It's really ridiculous that this matter is the only progress despite the fact that he has been in the Crown Snowfield for two months.

However, according to the response of the detection device, the key is most likely in Xia Ye's body, and the originally stalled mission can continue.

In this case, you must have a good relationship with him. In fact, based on his previous ability to deal with the Gigantamax Pokémon, it is completely appropriate to make friends with Xia Ye.

But the master's reply was that he didn't need to pay attention. The mission was important, so I stopped paying attention to him. I didn't expect that the key to the mission would appear in Xia Ye.

Could this be the direction of fate?

"Well, maybe it was really the King of Plenty who did it." Xia Ye breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. It's good. It's good that she didn't think of me.

Then, the two of them suddenly fell into silence. Ruikou has always been proud of herself and never invited others. She was always praised for being smart and capable, but she didn't know what to do.

Xia Ye, on the other hand, didn't want to have anything to do with the changes in the giant tree. In addition, he didn't understand the woman in front of him at all, so he didn't know what to say.

In the end, Ruiko forced out a stiff smile and asked with a hint of embarrassment: "Um, um, do you want to come to my room?"

"Eh?"

Xia Ye is confused by Ruikou's speech. What's the situation now?

Seeing the other party's embarrassed expression, Ruiko also realized the error of his expression and hurriedly said:

"Don't get me wrong, I mean it's so cold, it's better to go back inside as soon as possible."

"Well, that's true, but why mention your room?"

"Ah, this, by the way, cough, I'm inviting you. Do you want to come to my room for a cup of tea? It's high-quality tea, and the taste is absolutely guaranteed!"

Suspicious, very suspicious, but Xia Ye didn't intend to refuse. He always felt that the other party had something to say.

"No problem at all."

"Great, I'll get ready right now!" Ruiko looked very happy, completely unlike the depressed look he had when he first saw him.

In Ruikou's room, Xia Ye sat on the sofa and looked at Ruikou who was making tea. Although they were both in a B&B, the decoration of Ruikou's room was obviously twice as good as that of his own room.

She seemed to have lived in this room for a long time. As soon as she entered the room, she started making tea with ease. The transparent glass jar that stored the black tea had only half of the tea leaves left. It could be seen from the traces that it was originally a full jar.

There were a lot of her personal belongings in the house, and there was a conspicuous Sonic Dragon doll on the clean bed. Speaking of which, the Pokémon she sent out at that time was Sonic Dragon.

There are several stacks of information on the desk. The map of Wang Guanxueyuan covers the entire table, with many circles drawn on it and many marks on it.

"Here, this is the best Galar black tea. It's hard for ordinary people to drink it." Ruikou, wearing a white apron, placed a cup of black tea in front of Xia Ye and sounded very proud.

Xia Ye picked up the tea cup and could smell the rich aroma of the steaming black tea. The quality of this tea was definitely not bad.

He took a sip gently. The taste was indeed mellow and fragrant, but it was worse than the black tea produced by the Horror Teapot in Sunset Forest.

"Okay, Miss Riko, do you have anything to ask me about?"

"Oh, is it so obvious?" Ruiko's expression softened, "But this is just right. I'm not someone who likes to beat around the bush, so I'll just tell the truth."

Her expression became serious, she took off her apron and hung it on the chair, and said, "Xia Ye, have you found a strange item? It is a disc composed of three parts: rock, steel, and frost."

Ruiko made it very clear. Xia Ye can be sure that she knows the existence of the Key of Choice. In this way, her purpose in coming to the Crown Snowfield is Reggie Ellechi and Reggie Drago.

It is understandable that she has not made any progress. After all, the key to choice was hidden in the stables of the Crown Temple by Snowstorm Horse. How could ordinary people think of it there.

However, the existence of these two Pokémon is not something that ordinary trainers can know. Well, Riko's identity is definitely not simple.

".No, I don't have this item."

Hearing Xia Ye's answer, Ruiko was shocked at first, then frowned. He placed one hand on the back of the chair and kept tapping, while the other hand was shaking in the air, as if looking for something furry.

"Huh, Xia Ye, I'm sure that this item is on your body. Leave it to me. I will pay you an unimaginable reward." Ruikou couldn't hold his breath and put forward the conditions with a confident expression.

"I can't imagine? Why, are you the president of some big company or a descendant of the Galar royal family?" Xia Ye shook his head and joked while drinking black tea.

The change in Ruiko's attitude is because she holds the key to choice, but the pride she shows all the time will never be indifferent to my words.