The Adventure Story of the Devil, the Maid, and the Hero

"Wait..." The gray-haired girl rubbed her forehead with her hand, as if she wanted to say something, but she gave up when the blond-haired red-eyed vampire pressed her index finger to her lips.

"Oh~" the vampire pretended to be enlightened and exclaimed, "So you want to take this child away from me."

"That's not okay, this child is my precious treasure. Unless..." After a pause, she smiled playfully, "Which lovely lady among you is willing to exchange it with yourself."

As she spoke, she glanced at the five people one by one, and narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.

April responded with a cleansing light spell.

This blow was like a signal, and almost at the same time, Giulia finished singing, and the light blue defensive magic shield opened; Iluna let go of the hand holding the bowstring, and the arrow flew out; After opening his eyes again, strange colors flashed in them; only Shirpasha stood still.

But when the light faded, the vampire was unscathed.

All the attacks were blocked by a layer of golden light before they touched him, and disappeared after a while.

Until then, Shirpasha spoke slowly:

"Really, why is it such a troublesome thing again, I really hope that it can be resolved quickly and then I can go back quickly."

Everyone: "...?"

"Don't use that unreliable mind-reading technique at this time!" Yulia became furious, "And why is the target being me? Isn't the target random!"

It was only after Giulia finished speaking that she noticed the subtle eyes of the crowd gathered on her, and reacted with an "... ah" and covered her mouth in regret.

"...Pfft!" The vampire laughed out of embarrassment, and even continued to bend over and laugh non-stop, "Hahahahahaha, ho...haha, haha..."

The gray-haired girl whose arm was being held by her looked at her worriedly, and hesitated to speak.

Giulia, who was being ridiculed, was unable to pay attention to her, and just looked at Shirpasha who had no shame.

After a while, the vampire, who had finally had enough laughing, stood up and cleared his throat:

"What I said before was a joke. How vulgar is it to deal with such barbarians by force? How about we negotiate peacefully?"

"Luna thinks that you just feel that there is a huge disparity in strength between one-to-five."

Iluna broke the stage.

"Heh." The vampire raised his head and said proudly, "Is that so, you can try as you see fit."

Iluna narrowed her eyes: "Then..."

Shirpasha clasped her hand that was stretched out towards the arrow, and after confirming that the other party had given up, she released it neatly, took a step forward, and faced the vampire who had been staring at her side from beginning to end:

"As a matter of sincerity, at least the name should be reported first, right?"

"The name...it's just an insignificant address." As if recalling a memory fragment from a long time ago, the red pupils flickered with light, "My current name is Elena."

—In other words, it’s not her real name.

Shirpasha nodded, looked at the gray-haired girl caught by her, and said bluntly: "How can I let her go?"

"Well," the vampire——Eileen tilted her head and thought for a moment, "If you answer one of my questions correctly, I'll hand her over to you, how about it?"

After finishing speaking, Elena looked at the people who looked at her suspiciously, and clarified very "kindly": "Don't get me wrong, I don't want to give you my precious treasure at all."

——I always feel that there is some kind of conspiracy, but let's listen to it for the time being.

The five exchanged their gazes for a while, Shirpasha nodded and replied:

"go ahead."

"Then," Eileen put her arms around the gray-haired girl, and said with a smile, "you can guess whether I will give this child to you or not."

Giulia looked at the picture in front of her, and always felt that something was wrong, as if there was some inexplicable sense of disobedience somewhere, but before she could think about it, she was interrupted by Iluna's voice.

"It goes without saying, of course you'll hand her over to Luna, right?"

Iluna smiled so brightly that it made people shiver down the back.

It's a pity that Bailing Bailing's trick in the past didn't work on the person in front of him... Ah, no, the person in front of him is not human at all, maybe that's why it didn't work.

"Unfortunately, I got the wrong answer."

Elena who is not human also replied with a bright smile.

"Wait a minute," April said, "If that's the case, isn't there no solution to this problem?"

If they answer "no," the question becomes a fundamentally unsolvable paradox.

It seems that just like what Elena said, she never wanted to return Ollie to them from the very beginning.

"Oh," Elena carelessly stroked her long blond hair, and said casually, "Then just change it."

She didn't think long before asking: "Suppose there are two people, A is very clean, and B is very dirty. If you ask them to take a bath, which one of them will be able to wash?"

"Isn't this the same nature as the one just now?" Julia said blackly.

"Then change to another..."

"That's enough," April interrupted Elena's words, and said bluntly, "You never thought of handing her over to us from the beginning, right?"

"Of course." The vampire rested his head on the shoulder of the girl in his arms, with an inexplicably proud expression on his face, "Didn't I say it from the beginning, I don't want to hand over my lovely Rita to you at all?" You wait."

"Then why on earth did you make such a proposal?" Fuono said weakly.

The rest of the people were stunned for a moment and then asked in unison: "... Rita?"

"What?" Elena said.

"Isn't she Oli?" Iluna asked in shock.

"Who is Oli?" Elena looked at the people in front of her who were surprised to varying degrees, and asked in confusion.

"Ah!" Fuono finally came to his senses, looking at the gray-haired girl in front of him and exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be that she isn't Miss Oli we are looking for?"

The vampire's question was not answered, so he could only turn his eyes to the person in his arms and asked doubtfully, "Does Rita know that person named Ollie?"

"No." The gray-haired girl called Rita shook her head, "I don't know anyone named Ollie."

"I don't know each other either." Elena said, looking at Shirpasha and the others at random, "Then, who is that Miss Ollie, and why did you come here to find her?"

"……what."

A certain thought crossed her mind, and Giulia finally realized that something was wrong.

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①A crocodile stole a baby crocodile from the mother crocodile. It told the mother crocodile, if you guessed correctly whether I would return the baby crocodile, I would return the baby crocodile to you. If the mother crocodile said: "You Will return the baby to me." Then everything is easy to say, the mother crocodile will chase her baby back.The question is, what if the mother crocodile replies, "You won't give me back the baby"?

If the crocodile returns the baby crocodile, it has broken its original promise, because the mother crocodile did not guess correctly; however, if the crocodile does not return the baby crocodile, it also violated its promise, because the mother crocodile guessed correctly.

At this time, the crocodile fell into a paradox. No matter what the crocodile did, it could not fulfill its promise.

②The paradox about bathing

The teacher asked the students: There are two people, A and B, A is very clean, and B is very dirty.If they were asked to take a bath, who among them would do it?

There are four possibilities here, one is that A washes because he has the habit of loving cleanliness; the second is that B washes because he needs it; the third is that both wash, one is because of habit and the other is because of need; the fourth is that two people wash I didn't wash it, because dirty people don't have the habit of taking a bath, and clean people don't need to wash.These four possibilities are contradictory to each other. No matter what the students answer, the teacher can refute it, because he does not need to have an objective standard.

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By the way, I would like to add here, happy new year meow~