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

"By the way, I almost forgot the business."

After clapping his palms suddenly, Shirpasha said with a smile, and then swallowed the biscuits next to his mouth in two or three bites again—is it true that you won't choke if you eat so fast?

"Well!"

This idea had just formed in Julia's mind, and it was immediately fulfilled.

Shirpasha quickly grabbed the black tea on the table and gulped it down, then accidentally choked on it because she drank it too fast.

"Careful to choke..."

Giulia subconsciously whispered a reminder, but it seemed a bit late.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"Are you okay?"

Giulia looked at her worriedly, and then realized that the cup that the other party took just now seemed to be her cup.

"Woo...you're alive again, thank you."

The Lord Demon King with tears in the corners of his eyes said weakly, and then fell limply on the table.

"..."

"... Xiao Pa, you are really careless once in a while."

Giulia was speechless for a moment, and Iluna said with a complicated expression after being stunned for a moment.

"Ah woo woo..."

Turning her head away from the teary-eyed Shirpasha, Giulia asked stiffly:

"Well, what do you mean by business?"

"Ah, in fact, the magic barrier in the foggy forest just detected that someone is approaching the territory of the Demon King's Castle."

Wiping away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, Shirpasha said seriously.

"Wait a minute, the news that this is the Demon King's stronghold hasn't been revealed yet, right?"

Hearing the serious news, Giulia couldn't help but feel worried.

It is true in the legend that the devil lives in the misty forest. This is the information shared by all the people in the whole continent.

The problem is that within the territory of Nofeyd alone, there are more than a dozen places named Misty Forest—the name is really too popular.

And most of the locations where the demon kings descended in history are also different, and some of them even have several strongholds holding the concept of the three caves of the cunning rabbit.

"It should be a coincidence, right? After all, there is still more than a month before the Moon of Light."

The tip of her tongue licked the corner of her mouth, and Iluna analyzed optimistically.

In the Moon of Light, the power of the light attribute is the strongest, and it is also the period when the power of the dark attribute is the weakest.It is the time when the legendary demon king whose main ability is the power of darkness is the weakest.When the Demon Lord appears, a large number of adventurers go to the misty forests in various places every year.

"Well, it should be a coincidence, after all, there is only one person on the other side."

Lord Demon King announced with a smile, Giulia breathed a sigh of relief:

"Huh, I was shocked."

"After all, if there is really a large group of people attacking, even Xiao Pa might not be so leisurely?"

That's right, she was careless because she was nervous for a while—as expected, she still lacks experience in dealing with such situations.

"It's impossible to say."

Lord Demon King said with a mysterious smile.

"Could it be that you were already prepared?"

This time Giulia reacted quickly.

"of course."

Shirpasha smiled mysteriously again, and smoothed the hair that fell down to her cheeks:

"Hey, do you guys still remember the trap we made a few days ago?"

"The preparation you said meant that, right?"

Giulia still remembers that Shilpasha suddenly proposed to set up a trap that day, but the unprepared three spent a whole day in the forest setting up the result—to be honest, it is estimated that there are only two or three-year-old children at most It is possible to be fooled.

"Of course it's more than that, that's just the outermost arrangement."

Giulia raised her hand to her forehead, and sighed softly:

"Please don't always say half and leave half, next time please finish it all at once!"

"You don't understand, Hagito."

"No, how could you understand, what's the matter with your disappointed expression?"

"Luna knows that this is the 'suspense' of one of the three elements of the novel."

After drinking a whole cup of black tea syrup, Iluna poured another cup of black tea, put various things that would increase the sweetness in it, and then started to stir it. It's like "come and praise me!"

"As expected of little Luna."

Shilpasha praised without hesitation, while reaching out to rub Iluna's head, the latter narrowed her eyes with enjoyment:

"Hehe, it's just a small thing for Luna."

"Wait a minute, the so-called three elements of a novel refer to the image of characters, the plot of the story, and the description of the environment."

Giulia, who was watching the warm interaction between the two, hesitated for a while and decided to correct her concept.

"Huh? Don't the three elements of a novel refer to cliché, sensationalism, suspense and divine development?"

Iluna opened her eyes and asked inexplicably.

"I haven't heard of it at all, and wouldn't it become the four elements?"

"One, two, three, four... Ah, really! Huh? So Luna was tricked by her sister!"

After waving her fingers and counting one by one, Iluna looked shocked and complained unwillingly:

"Thanks to the big plate of hot, fragrant, freshly baked cookies, Luna gave her a quarter of a whole cookie!"

"You are too picky!"

Giulia complained feebly.

Obviously, she is actually a very clever child, but sometimes she is particularly worrying - in a sense, Iluna is really elusive.

"Xiao Hagi, you don't understand, that's the secret recipe of Kairokia & the exclusive production of folk masters ~ super fluffy cookies ~ oh!"

"Well, that's understandable."

Listening to Iluna's justification, Shirpasha nodded aside.

"..."

——Those two people, are they just pure Ren?

Losing the energy to refute again, Giulia chose to remain silent.

"Hey, speaking of cookies, Kerozia's secret recipe is really the best. It's fluffy and soft, fragrant and sweet..."

Iluna was intoxicated and talked about the biscuits, while Shirpasha listened with interest, occasionally interjecting a few words to express different opinions.

Giulia quietly listened to the conversation between the two, while picking up the teapot to refill the cup of black tea in her hand.

I always feel that she seems to have forgotten something, um, what is it?Regardless, it shouldn't be an important matter anyway... right?Well, even if it's an important matter, it's not her turn to worry about it as a maid.

After she figured it out, Giulia continued to sit aside and drank black tea silently.

……

"Speaking of which, is it okay?"

After a long time, Giulia, who came to her senses, looked at Iluna and Shilpasha, who had already talked about the cookie and the festival customs of Kairokia, and completely forgot about the previous things. Chance interjected.

"No problem! Even if you splash water all over, just use fire magic to dry it."

Iluna replied almost immediately, and Shirpasha immediately added:

"Wind magic is also a good choice, little Luna."

"No, I don't mean that."

Giulia supported her forehead with a headache, and asked without hope:

"Is the previous thing okay?"

"...?"

"...??"

The two were confused.

Before, Kairokia, cookies, the three elements of the novel, suspense, traps... traps?

Thinking of this, Shirpasha clapped her hands suddenly:

"... Ah, the intruder!"

"So, Luna completely forgot to say it before."

Iluna also reacted belatedly.

"Then, is it okay to leave it alone?"

Although she doesn't like trouble, but in line with professional ethics, Yulia continued to ask.

"Well... for the time being, why don't you take a look?"

Worrying for a moment, Shirpasha came to such a conclusion.

So the three of them suspended the usual tea party and rushed to the depths of the forest—the location of the intruder detected by the magic barrier.