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

CH.9 The Eve of Departure

The same place, the same members, the same sunlight temperature, the only difference is that the cold drink in front of Iluna changed from a chocolate milkshake to a three-color fruit ice cream, and a day and night passed by.

"Then I announce that the first battle meeting of the adventure team will be held here!"

Lord Demon King knocked on the table and announced after swallowing the pudding in his mouth.

"Oh~"

Iluna shouted and applauded in unison.

"Oh!"

Fuono, who had already been ready to attack, shouted waiting for an opportunity.

"……Oh."

Giulia swallowed the tea with her mouth in her mouth, and made a perfunctory sound, and by the way complained in her heart that Shirpasha's level of prefix name was as low as ever.

"What are you doing?"

April looked at everyone with surprised eyes, and asked puzzledly.

"This is a practice to stir up the atmosphere," Iluna explained energetically, "it's a convention!"

"It's obviously the first time, where did the convention come from?"

April obviously didn't buy this off-kilter explanation.

"The first time just refers to the first time in the 'Adventure Team' version." Iluna said "you are so naive", "and obviously even Xiaofu knows it, so it is a routine."

"So, what exactly are we going to discuss?"

Based on past experience, April wisely gave up on continuing to entangle in such an insignificant matter, and asked instead.

"The topic this time is: to determine the upcoming destination."

Shilpasha cleared her throat and said in as serious a tone as possible.

"Since we have decided to meet that brave man, the destination is of course the Misty Forest." Iluna smiled happily, "But..."

"Even so, we still have to decide which misty forest to go to."

Julia continued.

As I said before, there are not just one foggy forest, but dozens of them. This is basically common sense.

"From the current point of view, there are three options for the relatively short distance: one is to go northeast and reach a misty forest on the southeastern border of the neighboring country; Mori; the third is to go to the Kerim Oasis in the Fire Desert in the southwest."

According to the intelligence collected mainly in the previous day, Shirpasha concluded.

"I have a question," April raised her hand solemnly, and said after getting Shirpasha's signal, "The distance is short, why don't we go directly to the foggy forest in the north."

"Does that matter?" Iluna said first, "Of course it's because I've already been there."

"Already been there?"

April looked at her childhood sweetheart with a questioning look, and the latter nodded awkwardly without looking away.

"Little Luna is right. We did go to that forest before the prophecy was announced, but that's just one of them," Shirpasha took the conversation and explained, "The second is that it's barely close to the forest." The border area is remote in Nofeyd, and it is definitely not the first choice for the best destination. If we wait here for the brave to come to our door, it is almost tantamount to waiting for a rabbit."

"Well, then I'm inclined to go to Kaisam Oasis."

Hearing this, April said after pondering for a while.

"May I ask why?"

Shirpasha looked at her and said.

"It's just a personal preference."

April gave such an answer that was not considered an answer, obviously she didn't want to say more, or maybe she had nothing to say at all.

Giulia thought of the previous stack of papers, and felt that she might know why she said that.

The stack of parchment that April gave her that night was indeed something similar to a diary, and the writer of it was, no surprise, the demon who was inexplicably killed by Shirpasha.She had already translated the first part of it and showed it to April, and a woman was mentioned more than once in it, and it was very likely that it was the former Demon Lord who the demons had followed.

——The Kaisam Oasis in the desert of flames is the place where the former demon king descended.

Thinking of this, she swallowed the tea in her mouth, and said with the flow:

"Then I'll choose Kaisam Oasis too."

"I agree with both Ellie and Giulia when they said that."

Fuono held the teacup, lowered her head and said softly.

"Then it's decided."

Shirpasha covered her mouth and yawned a little, then nodded.

"Hey, Luna actually wants to go to the Red Leaf Forest." Iluna looked like she didn't expect everyone to make a decision so quickly, and then she remembered something, and said instead, "Actually Kai Sam's oasis is also good, oasis, Luna said that she hasn't been to the desert yet, and she heard that there are horses with two big bales on their backs."

"That's called a camel."

Giulia couldn't help correcting her.

"This kind of details don't matter." Although Iluna said this, she still whispered this word several times silently, and carefully memorized it.

"Then, now that the destination has been decided, let's determine the specific itinerary and route."

Seeing that the topic tended to deviate again, Shirpasha hurriedly said, taking out a map and spreading it out on the empty space on the table in front of her, and then took out a few quills and a small notebook.

"There is a store in the west town that has delicious donuts, why don't you stop by and try them."

As Iluna spoke, she picked up a blue pen and drew a short and thin line on the map, from where they are currently to the town she mentioned.

"It's not a lot of stops. I don't advocate the behavior of delaying the trip for a little appetite."

April said righteously, and at the same time picked up a pen and casually observed the runes on it.

——Inner ink storage type, not like a cheap product.

"What?" Iluna puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction, "Xiao Ai, do you dare to say that there is no place you want to go at all?"

"I didn't..." April was about to refute, but suddenly she remembered something and interrupted her words, she fell into silence, her eyes wavered for a moment, she glanced at Fuono at the side, and then changed her words, "If you go west first , because the Fountain of Wishing in Saill City has been famous for a long time, if it is convenient, it would be great to see it.”

"Hoohoo."

Iluna clasped her hands in front of her chest, and immediately smiled smugly, with a look of "I'll just say it".

"Ah, I can do both."

Fuono said lightly.

"In this case, I..." Giulia hesitated for a while, and then said, "Is there any place Tifa wants to go?"

"Don't worry about me," Shirpasha smiled at her, "Don't get me wrong, it's not that there are no places I want to go, but there are so many that I don't know how to choose, so I leave it to you."

"So, is the summer festival okay?" Giulia asked a little embarrassedly, "I heard from Luna before that it seemed lively, and Tifa seems to have said that she was interested, right?"

"...When the time comes, can we go and have a look together?"

In the end, her voice had become very thin unknowingly.

"You still remember," Shirpasha smiled nostalgicly, "Okay, let's go together then."

"Hey, there are summer festivals in many towns, right?" Iluna said it was not worth it, "It's hard to get a chance, why don't you change it to a rarer one?"

"No, that's fine."

Giulia smiled.

——In this way, it is enough.

The author has something to say:

Timon☆Return Meow~

Because it has been too long, I re-read the previous article and found many small bugs such as typos that were ignored at the beginning.

——So I changed everything again, I really hope I didn’t miss it this time (crap).

Also, Timon's geography is basically returned to the teacher. If there is anything wrong with this chapter... Fortunately, the background is a fantasy world.

Go to sleep, good night meow.