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Chapter 53: I Like You the Most

Reiner came home in the evening.

He pushed the door open and saw Daisy cleaning the house with a rag.

Ever since he purchased her, the house had been spotless, and the backyard had been planted with many sprouting vegetables.

When she saw Reiner return, she trotted over and bowed deeply, saying, “Master, you’re back, you worked hard again today, and the bathwater is ready.”

“Stop calling me Master; just call me Reiner.”

Daisy hesitated for a moment, then nodded firmly.

“You’ve worked hard as well; go take care of your own things, I’m going to take a bath.”

Reiner set his staff aside and slipped into the small stall to soak.

This truly was the most relaxing time of the day.

Just then, Reiner heard Martina’s slightly demonic laughter, but he thought nothing of it, covered his face with a hot towel, and continued soaking.

After finishing his bath, he came out and found Martina sitting at the table, still holding back laughter.

“What’s up with you?”

Martina shook her head and whispered, “Nothing…”

The moment she finished speaking, her inner voice drifted over: (Nora is so weak; if it were me, I’d definitely make Reiner beg for mercy!)

Reiner turned and looked at Nora.

She looked guilty, lowered her head, and snuck quick glances at Reiner.

Her face was as red as an apple.

(I shouldn’t have told Martina! What’s so funny about it?)

Meanwhile Daisy stood nearby, smiling as she stroked Nora’s beast ears.

(Silly child, you’re still young now; in a few years you’ll understand how to enjoy it. As for children, you won’t have them anytime soon; after all, we’re demi-humans and Reiner is human…)

After eavesdropping on their thoughts, Reiner more or less understood what was going on.

Most likely Nora lacked experience and had tried to bring it up so everyone could answer her questions.

Instead, Martina had mocked her mercilessly.

A world without Baidu was truly inconvenient.

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At night, just as Reiner lay down, the door cracked open.

Reiner thought it was Nora.

Instead, it was Breath of the Red Dragon.

It poked its huge fire magic stone out from behind the door.

???

“What are you doing?” Reiner asked in confusion.

Breath of the Red Dragon floated to the bed and suddenly slipped under the covers.

Its shaft, made of pure adamantite, felt like an ice block in the winter air.

It chilled Reiner so much that he jumped up.

He kicked Breath of the Red Dragon out of the blankets. “It’s freezing… what do you want? Why is a staff crawling into my bed?”

Breath of the Red Dragon suddenly acted coy.

An odd kink was fine, but a depraved one was not.

He had absolutely no interest in a staff; after all, the thing wasn’t even human.

Reiner picked up Breath of the Red Dragon, set it on the rack in the living room, and returned to his room.

After a while, the bedroom door opened again.

This time it was the right person.

Nora stood timidly at the door, her cheeks bright red.

She wore very little, apparently only a layer of linen.

Before Reiner could speak, she explained, “Martina has occupied my room, and one bed can hold at most 2 people. It’s cold now, and sleeping alone can cause a cold, so I came to see Master. It’s not because I wanted to come!”

???

He had not even used a basic attack.

Did he really bait out an ultimate just by moving?

(What rotten idea did Martina come up with? And I actually listened! Aaaaah!)

Nora felt frantic inside.

Reiner teased, “Listen to yourself. Did you forget what you promised me this morning? Even if you don’t want to come, you still have to.”

He knew Nora was stubborn, so he gave her a way out.

“Mm.” Nora slipped into the quilt with a flushed face, then touched Reiner’s shoulder with her cold little hand and muttered softly, “So warm.”

“Give me your hands; I’ll warm them for you.”

“N-no… that’s okay.” She struggled lightly.

“Why be polite?” Reiner grabbed her and pulled her into his arms.

Nora squirmed for a while, then gave in and began to let her thoughts wander.

Restlessness grew inside her.

At last she murmured, “Master, you’re so good to me.”

“Warming your hands counts as being good to you?”

“It’s more than that.” Nora gave Reiner a gentle bite, paused, and whispered, “I like you the most anyway.”

Although he had heard Nora say such things in her heart many times, this was the first time she said it out loud, and it still moved him a little.

Nora gently blew out the candle…

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The next morning, Reiner went to the Adventurers’ Guild as usual to look for Junice.

As soon as he walked in, he saw a group of adventurers talking at the counter; their expressions were grave, as though something serious had happened.

When they saw Reiner enter, they greeted him and then continued their discussion.

Reiner meant to eavesdrop, but when he spotted Junice in the corner he forgot all about it.

She had not gone anywhere today; she simply sat in the corner gnawing on a piece of black bread.

Seeing Reiner arrive, she waved enthusiastically.

“I thought you’d run outside the city on your own again today.”

“I was going to,” she said mysteriously, “but after overhearing the other adventurers’ conversation, I decided to wait here for you.”

“What happened?”

“This morning, while training outside the city, the militia accidentally discovered that at the southern ruins a number of undead had been teleported out of the site. They are now active in the southern sector but have not yet attacked civilians, although they have already frightened the nearby villages.”

Reiner asked suspiciously, “Necromancer?”

Junice nodded vigorously. “Right, I had the same thought. I heard the lord plans to scour the area first and then send the army into the ruins to wipe out the rampant skeletons.”

Reiner rubbed his forehead. “They’re going to die miserably…”

That place was full of traps.

The cave demon spiders would be overjoyed, doing nothing in their lairs while armored tin cans inexplicably rained down from above.

A site like that was only suitable for small-scale exploration.

The larger the group, the more blind spots there were, and a single misstep would cost lives.

Besides, the ruins contained the spirit corruption debuff.

One person would go mad and drag the rest down, and the chain reaction would shatter the whole team…

Junice blinked and looked at Reiner with a hint of admiration. “Reiner, our thoughts are always astonishingly alike. Skeletons aren’t hard to handle, honestly weaker than goblins, but there are so many of them, and the ruins also hold ghouls and cave demon spiders; this mission is definitely no easier than Dawn Forest.”

Reiner yawned. “So are we joining?”

“I was going to ask you; aren’t you our leader?”

“What leader? How did I become leader?” Reiner looked utterly baffled.

Junice answered earnestly, “You’re the one who makes the decisions, right? I’m just following you.”

Reiner shook his head. “I don’t really want to join.”

Even though he had a job to do, he didn’t want to take on a mission with such a high risk factor.

For now, they weren’t short of money anyway.

Just then, the sound of hoofbeats came from outside the guild…

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