Wizard of the Pendulum Forest

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It was already half an hour later when they re-emerged from the cave, Kexilia kept wiping her tears with her hands, without any regard for lady manners, but Moka stopped her: "Don't do this, don't do this..." He kept Repeat the words and look a little overwhelmed.

After they walked for a while, Moka felt a hand stretched out from behind and held his hand carefully. The young man paused and turned his head quickly, but only saw the face of Kexilia with her head down. hair top.

"I'm very happy." The girl lowered her head, unable to see her expression clearly.

"This is what I want to see." Moka smiled, and held Kecilia's hand carefully.

Unlike when they came here in a hurry, they went back very leisurely, and even sat on a rock and ate some dry food to fill their stomachs leisurely: "Well... When you grow up, have you ever thought about what you want to do?" Moka asked her .

Kexilia was grunting and nibbling dry food, when suddenly, the fiery heart in her chest fell down, causing her to be extremely painful: "I...? I... Never thought about it." , maybe it still depends on the arrangement at home."

"I haven't asked about your family's situation before, would you mind telling me about it?"

Kexilia looked up at him in panic, and before Moka realized that the emotion was wrong, she lowered her head again, and the dry food was gnawed by her: "Is it my family...Father is very good, although I am a bit stubborn, and he is usually in charge of big things; my mother has a good temper, and everyone likes her very much; I also have two older brothers, but they are often outside...working hard, and now I don’t know how they are, the last time I saw her It was four months ago."

She thought of the brothers who rode into the royal capital, followed by soldiers lined up neatly with blood on their bodies. They passed through the city gate and cheered by the people, and stopped on the square of the palace. Overcome the disputes between the most distant borders and neighboring countries, won the war, and enjoyed their own praise and glory.

"As for me, I am the youngest daughter in the family. My father and mother don't put any pressure on me. How about you?"

"My family is just like what you see. My father, my mother and I, my father is a hunter like me, and my mother works in the textile factory in the town." Moka spoke briskly with a smile on his eyes, but he found that the people around him The girl suddenly became depressed, "What, what's the matter? Although my family is relatively ordinary, I have already obtained a knight training certificate, and I can take the test for apprentice knights later. Didn't you say that your family lives in the capital? It must be richer, and it sounds better when I become a knight?"

It was obvious that Kexilia was still very excited just now, but she fell down in an instant, which made Moka a little worried, and even started to speak incoherently.

"I haven't taken the exam yet, so I'm going to call myself a knight." Kexilia pulled herself together and gave Moka a smile. She summoned up her courage and made a decision.When she was about to say something, suddenly there was a roar from the depths of the forest, which shook countless crows and birds in the forest for a while, even the ground hummed and the soil trembled.

Before Kexilia could react, the young man beside her had already stood up and held her back, his face changed greatly: "It's the roar of a bear! This is not right, the breeding season has passed for several months, how could...someone! Someone stole Hunt the bear cubs!"

Kexilia was so frightened that she could not speak. She stood up and was dragged away by the young man, who whispered in her ear: "This is the voice of an angry mother bear. According to the time, the bear cub It has indeed been born. We usually hunt around the bear’s territory, so you can’t usually see it, but now it’s a big trouble, the mother bear has her baby stolen, and she is bound to leave the territory. We have to get out of here quickly.”

They ran and began to speed up. At this time, the habit of wandering in the mountains and forests for a long time was manifested. Even a little princess born in the palace like Kexilia could jump down from the hillside without changing her expression. Then he quickly climbed over the roots of the tree: "The sound seems to be far away... Are we safe?"

After the initial shock passed, Kecilia also regained her composure, and she turned sideways to listen to the movement deep in the forest.

"Temporarily...we have to go back to the town to see who violated the agreement to capture the cub." Moka still looked very nervous, he frowned, and used the sharp eyes and ears that belonged to hunters to feel the surroundings.

They were heading towards the distant river—there was a small boat that had been placed there before. Obviously, going by water was the faster way now.However, before they could run far, Moka suddenly stopped and grabbed Kecilia who unexpectedly fell forward due to inertia.

At this time, Kexilia also heard the sound from the side, and after a while, a middle-aged hunter staggered out of the bushes with a sack and a bag on his back. The bloodstains scratched by the branches, in an instant, the skin on Kexilia's back was all taut.

"Uncle Sam," Moka slowed down his breathing, squeezed Kexilia's hand, and called out the other person's name calmly and accurately, "Why are you here?"