Chapter 11

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Harlen still only opened that half eye.

He watched as the uncles in front of him gradually walked towards him.

Harlen stretched leisurely, letting out a yawn.

Then…

Harlen patted Mary gently on the forehead, who was still drooling in her sleep on his lap.

“Mary, Mary?”

“Wake up.”

Harlen did not speak a single word thus far, all he was using was his mental waves to communicate telepathically with Mary.

The light slap on Mary’s forehead was actually the magic activation spell.

He cast a mental communication spell and a teleportation spell on Mary.

“Mary?”

“Mary?”

In her sleep, Mary kept hearing Harlen’s voice in her head.

Slowly, Mary got up lazily.

She stretched and yawned.

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and was about to greet Brother Harlen.

He was stopped by Harlen’s telepathic communication.

“Don’t speak, Mary!”

Mary, who was already sleepy, was startled by Harlen’s sudden raised voice.

Her sleepiness instantly vanished.

Completely sober, Mary looked at Harlen.

Then she looked at where Harlen was looking.

She saw a few burly uncles standing around her.

The uncles were all staring at Harlen and herself.

When Mary first saw these uncles, she immediately burrowed into Harlen’s bosom.

From the moment she saw these uncles, Mary felt uncomfortable all over.

“Brother Harlen, what happened? What’s this?”

Mary listened to Brother Harlen, not speaking out loud.

However, she did not know how to use her thoughts to communicate, so she could only just think of the words in her head.

“Nothing much.”

“It’s just that these uncles wanted to invite me to their shop to sit.”

Harlen watched as the uncles walked toward him.

As he stroked Mary’s head, he spoke gently.

“Mary, why don’t you go back to the hotel first?”

“Go back and watch some TV.”

“There are some washed fruits on the table.”

“If you’re hungry, eat something first.”

Harlen looked down at Mary attentively.

Mary, too, turned and looked up at Harlen.

“What about you, Brother Harlen? Are you going with the uncles?”

“They give Mary a bad feeling, they don’t seem like good people.”

“Mary is afraid you’ll be in danger.”

Mary looked worriedly at Harlen.

Her small hands gripped Harlen’s shirt.

Seeing Mary so worried about him, Harlen reassured her.

“It’s alright. The uncles just want to chat with me. They don’t have any bad intentions. There won’t be any danger.”

Harlen reassured again.

“All right Mary, now I’m going to get you back to the hotel.”

“Stay at home and don’t run around. Don’t open the door for anyone.”

“You can eat some fruit in the meantime if you’re hungry.”

Seeing that Harlen was so determined to go with the uncles, Mary said nothing more.

“Is Mary going to walk back by herself?”

“Mary doesn’t know the way.”

Harlen certainly wasn’t going to let Mary walk back alone.

The road was too far, and furthermore there were many people on the road.

The roads were often not paved properly as well, which made it very unsafe.

“Of course you don’t have to walk back by yourself.”

“You just need to close my eyes and count to two. You’ll reach the hotel by then.”

Mary closed her eyes at that.

She silently counted up.

“1.”

“2.”

When Mary opened her eyes again, she found she was no longer under the trees.

She was instead sitting on a huge sofa.

“Brother Harlen, where is this?”

Mary still said nothing.

She simply thought to herself.

“You should be home now.”

“I used teleportation magic to teleport you directly to the hotel.”

Harlen’s voice sounded in Mary’s mind.

“Wow ~”

Mary gasped at Brother Harlen’s answer.

“It’s so convenient to know magic.”

It was also Mary’s first time being the target of teleportation magic.

Although she did not feel anything during the teleportation process, reality proved that she had indeed been teleported.

This aroused Mary’s interest in learning magic.

“Oh right.”

Harlen’s voice sounded in his mind again.

“I left three little bats in the house in advance.”

“They’ll keep you safe.”

As he spoke.

A series of clicking sounds could be heard from the corner of the living room.

The three little bats flapped their little wings and flew towards Mary.

Then the three little ones landed on either side of Mary’s shoulders and above her head.

“Be good and wait for me at home.”

“I’ll buy you another stick of candied hawthorn when I get back.”

Mary was delighted to hear that.

“Okay, I’ll be good.”

But this time, instead of thinking, Mary spoke with her mouth.

“Eh? Where’s my hat?”

Seeing that the hat was gone, Mary began to look around the living room.

…

On the other side, under a tree on the street.

A few middle-aged men stood dumbfounded in front of a young man.

Just now.

The little girl disappeared before their eyes.

“Where is she?”

“Where’s the little girl?”

“Why did she suddenly disappear?”

From the time Mary was woken from her sleep, to the time Harlen teleported her back…

The entire process only took 10s.

“Teleportation spell?”

“It’s teleportation magic!”

“How do you know advanced space magic?”

“You! Who exactly are you?!”

The uncles in front of him were already panicking.

When Harlen activated the teleportation spell, he was especially careful not to let any pedestrians notice.

Although the uncles in front of him saw it, Harlen didn’t care.

Towards a group of people who were about to die, what did it matter if they saw it?

Harlen stood up and dusted off the leaves and dirt attached to his shirt and pants.

He said in a measured tone neither too fast nor slow.

“I’m just a civilian who knows a little about spatial magic.”

“Remember this.”

While Harlen cleaned the leaves and dirt from his body.

He came across the black hat on the ground.

“Aiya!”

“Why wasn’t the hat teleported over?”

“This is awkward.”

Harlen picked up the black hat on the floor.

He shook out the dust, patted it, and blew on it, before putting it on his own head.

After tidying his clothes, he bowed towards the men in front of him.

With an attitude of “I am the Lord and you are the guest”, he said,

“So…”

“Please lead the way, uncles.”

“Let’s go to the shop and have a chat.”

The middle-aged man was overjoyed to see this.

They didn’t care about the little girl who suddenly disappeared.

A little girl, and furthermore so thin, was unimportant.

After all, his original target was this black-clothed youth.

The uncles stepped back to make way.

He made a “please” gesture.

However, at this moment, no one noticed Harlen, who had bowed his head in a curtsey.

His black eyes turned scarlet several times.

And at his mouth…

He revealed a sinister smile that was like a crescent moon..