Chapter 24 - Captive to Delicious Food

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The person behind her laughed, but her tone was fierce. “If you’re not dead, then I’ll bring your head back! Our teacher hates disobedient children the most!”

Mary asked, “Wendy, are you here to kill me?”

Wendy chuckled. “What do you think?”

“You can’t do it.”

“Hmph, how would you know? I hate you the most. You fight with me over everything!”

“You don’t have a chance.”

“Is that so?”

A calm voice sounded from behind. “Of course.”

Wendy turned around and saw a well-dressed man standing behind her. He was holding a crossbow in his hand that was pointed at her. She froze!

Mary said, “Wendy, have you forgotten? My alertness is much higher than yours.”

Wendy snorted. “So you’ve already noticed me?”

“Of course. Otherwise, how could you have snuck in?”

Wendy was not convinced. “No matter how fast the arrow is, I can still kill you before it can.”

Mary turned around. She ignored the dagger in Wendy’s hand and slowly wiped her hair with the towel. “Wendy, did our teacher give you a kill order?”

A hint of frustration flashed in Wendy’s eyes. Mary was not afraid at all! However, she really could not bring herself to do it!

She could only put away the dagger and reply, “Yes, you ignored the rules and ran out. You even broke into the gnome’s camp and killed many gnomes. Moreover, that gnome tribe happened to have someone working in the imperial city. That person reported you to the king, and the king got angry. As a result, our teacher was furious and was prepared to kill you.”

Lin Tian put away the crossbow in his hand and carefully looked at the fox-eared lady in front of him.

When the fox-eared lady barged into the tribe and peered into Lin Tian’s castle, Mary had already discovered her. Just like how she, as a cat lady, was good at detecting abnormal movements in her surrounding environment, Wendy, a fox lady, was very good at hiding. Mary had no way to locate her, so she conspired with Lin Tian to set up this trap. As expected, Wendy had fallen for their trap.

Lin Tian looked between Mary and Wendy and felt that their relationship was not ordinary. In short, they were probably in a love-hate relationship with each other. There might have been a lot of fights in the past. On the surface, they looked like enemies, but in secret, they were very close. Perhaps it was because of this that their teacher sent Wendy to kill Mary.

When Mary heard Wendy’s words, she was not worried at all. She asked, “Did our teacher send you to arrest me because she knew that you couldn’t do it?”

Wendy was stunned. “Of course not! The teacher was very angry!”

Mary’s gaze softened. “Wendy, do you know that these days have been the best days of my life?”

Wendy could not understand.

Mary continued, “I can sleep until I wake up naturally every day. I don’t have to think about all kinds of ways to kill people. I don’t have to be afraid. I am free. Compared to my current life, my past life is like a nightmare.”

Wendy said, “Why do you say that? At least in the past, you didn’t have to be like the other beastmen who couldn’t get enough to eat!”

Mary smiled. “I no longer need to starve myself.”

She thought of the delicious food that Lin Tian had given her. She walked to the cupboard and took out a bag of potato chips. “Here, try this.”

Wendy leaned over curiously. “What’s this?”

Mary took out a potato chip from the bag and handed it to her. “Potato chips.”

Wendy took it and looked at it carefully. She did not eat them.

Mary did not care and began to eat happily.

At this moment, Jenny walked over. “Sister, where did you get the potato chip from?”

Mary looked at Lin Tian. This potato chip was a reward from Lin Tian for her contribution to the battle. Jenny had eaten it before, but Lin Tian did not buy anymore for her because he was worried that she would get fat from eating it.

When Jenny saw the potato chip, her eyes immediately turned into stars. Then, she turned around and looked at Lin Tian pitifully. Lin Tian coughed and said, “You can have some, but not too much.”

Jenny immediately walked to Mary’s side, grabbed a handful of potato chips, and started to eat them.

Wendy looked left and right, and finally, put the potato chips into her mouth.

Crack!

A crisp sound was heard. Wendy started to chew slowly, and her eyes gradually widened. She had never eaten such delicious food!

After she finished eating, she immediately asked, “Do you have more?”

She had completely forgotten her mission and only had potato chips in her mind.

“Here.” Mary grabbed another handful for her.

Wendy’s eyes lit up as she took it and began to eat happily.

“Wendy, you’re too mean! You didn’t tell me earlier that there was such delicious food!”

Lin Tian was suddenly confused. The scene had changed too quickly! Two cat-eared ladies and a fox-eared lady were actually gluttonous foodies!

“Oh, it’s so delicious!” The fox-eared lady exclaimed happily as she ate.

She looked like she was only in her teens, and her appearance was not similar to the cat-eared lady. The cat-eared lady was cute and gentle. Although she was cute, it was very likely that she would mature into a charming lady. However, they were all very good-looking.

Lin Tian thought of what she had said before and felt that their training was probably to carry out some assassination missions for the king of the Beastmen Kingdom. Compared to the Human Kingdom, the Beastmen Kingdom was very chaotic. They had a tribal system and each tribe was independent and would occasionally fight each other. The tribe that the king of the Beastmen Kingdom belonged to was the largest tribe.

Jenny had told him all this. Jenny was gentle, so she would tell him a lot of relevant information. However, Mary was very cold and aloof. She rarely spoke but this was probably molded by her training over the past ten years.

After all, when carrying out an assassination mission, most of the time, one would act alone and would even need to be in the hiding for a long time. Nonsense was the most useless thing. Of course, if Lin Tian took the initiative to ask, Mary would still say what she needed to say.

Soon, the three of them finished all the potato chips. Wendy asked eagerly, “Mary, do you have any more?”

To Wendy, the chips were extremely delicious! If it was not for her image, she would have licked her fingers.

Mary replied, “No more. We can’t eat too much potato chips.”

Wendy let out an “Oh” in disappointment.

She had already begun to miss the taste of potato chips! It was too plain to describe this taste as delicious. Once, after she had successfully completed a mission, the king had rewarded her with a delicacy that was said to only be eaten by the king. Compared to potato chips, it was much inferior! It was simply the most delicious food in the world!

“Mary, where did you get the potato chips?”

Jenny replied, “Master gave them to us.”

“Master?” Wendy turned her head outside and pointed at Lin Tian. “Is it him?”

Lin Tian was sitting on a chair in the hall drinking hot tea.

Jenny nodded. “Yes, he is our master.”

“Oh,” Wendy answered in a low voice. Although the potato chips were delicious, she was not familiar with Lin Tian.

At this time, the mission popped up in her mind again. She sighed and said, “It seems that I’ll be failing this mission. I wonder how teacher will punish me..”