"Sister Lily, I'm hungry, and my butt hurts." Ed complained with a sad face, "Shall we rest for a while? Just for a while, wait until the sun goes down a little..."
"It's not necessary." Lily looked up at the sky and refused mercilessly, "Originally, at this time, we should have been at the edge of the Weir Forest." She spread the parchment map on her knees and gestured with her hands.
Distance, "And now we're only two-thirds of the way there, do you know why?"
"Hey, listen to me, Lily, don't be like this." Bell came over and patted Lily's shoulder hard with a big slap, "He's just a child, you have to be a little more tolerant."
"But we are not adults yet!" Lily glared at Bell and growled in a low voice, "Especially... Elena is the same, no one has caused so many accidents?" She said to herself with a sullen face,
"So, taking him with you was a fool's errand from the beginning—"
"Lilinono, be happy." Alphonse grabbed one of her hands, "Being angry is using other people's mistakes to punish yourself. This is what the book says." It has watched a lot of Yuffie these days.
He brought books and notes and was obviously learning quickly.
"That's right, I'm hungry too, very tired, and my whole body hurts." Bell showed an expression of approval. Lily felt that he didn't understand Al's words at all. "Everyone needs to replenish their energy. We just had a fight.
The Belon people need it especially."
"That's enough." Lily sighed and instructed Alphonse to park the carriage aside. "We'll be out in an hour. Did you hear that, Ed?" She emphasized the pronunciation of the boy's name, "Otherwise we'll kill you
A man is left here to feed the wild wolves!"
——Since her release, Lily’s worries have quickly become a reality.
Kamal people usually regard the age of twenty as adulthood. From that moment on, they will break away from the supervision of their parents and work on their own livelihood. This standard is not absolute, and children of noble families usually learn at home that they have the ability to
The children of poor families are often sent to work as apprentices to craftsmen in their teens.
As for the unclaimed orphans, St. Leon's Church has adopted most of them; those with 'talent' will be recruited by some 'non-public' organizations and trained from an early age to become their loyal members; the remaining ones who are lucky enough to survive to grow up
, most of them have had the experience of being a beggar or a gangster. People like Lily who have been hunting for a living since they were teenagers can usually only appear among the northern barbarians - the dangerous environment around the Kurk Desert forces them to face the challenges of survival earlier.
pressure.
None of that is important. The boy from the Harris family is basically just a young boy who is full of energy but has not yet grown up. Moreover, his ability to get into trouble is so high that even if two Bells were stacked together, he would still be far behind.
The beginning of the journey was relatively peaceful. Ed lay lying on the window of the carriage, curiously looking at the scenery on the roadside. But it seemed that he soon got tired of the unchanging scenery. So he turned back and started tossing around.
.
"Wow, this sword is made entirely of stone, it must be very heavy."
"Tin Man! Alphonse, have you found your heart?"
"What's that painted on Brother Bell's arm? It looks like a pig." "It's not a pig! It's a bear. Look carefully for me -"
"Driving looks like fun! Can you teach me a lesson?" "Okay, I'll tell you..." "Bell, shut up!"
The whole morning was spent in a commotion. Lily had to look back from time to time to make sure that the two bears, Ed and Belle - a naughty child and a bear brain - would not dismantle her carriage. Belle took off the leather bag from her waist.
, poured a few mouthfuls into her mouth, and her voice was twice as loud as usual. She heard Bell talking about how he bravely chopped off the head of the ogre, and planned to take out the machete to actually do it - Che
There's Yuffie here too!
So she stopped the carriage, dragged Bell out of the carriage, and demonstrated the group leader's "teaching methods" to the other three people. The two rolled into a ball on the ground, but Lily quickly gained the upper hand, and she twisted Bell's limbs.
He reached a strange angle and sat down on him.
"Listen carefully to us." She yelled in Bell's ear, completely ignoring the other person's wailing. "I'm warning you, never wield weapons in the car! Next time something like this happens again, we will
You've been hanging under the car like this all day!"
The carriage continued to move forward. The boy calmed down for a while and found that Yuffie was concentrating on reading a thick book with a large number of strange graphics and symbols drawn on it. He approached carefully.
"Sister, is this a magic book? Can you show it to me? I also want to learn magic."
Lily turned her head uneasily, just in time to see Ed leaning next to Yuffie, trying to read the words on the book.
"Elu...Flash...Hey, the pages of the book...are lighting up...?!"
The open pages of the book glowed red, and a scorching flame missile roared out, opening a large hole in the roof of the car. The wood at the hole crackled and burned. Yuffie jumped to the back of the carriage and drew symbols in the air with her fingers.
Wen. Several gallons of water fell out of thin air, dousing Ed while extinguishing the flames.
"Fortunately, I learned some magic." She said easily, while using magic to patch up the hole in the roof of the car. "Ed's talent for arcane magic is quite good. As long as he studies hard for a while, he will definitely become an excellent wizard.
.”
The matter was far from over. After leaving the town, the road quickly became bumpy. The cushioning performance of the wooden axles was extremely poor, and the seats were also made of hard boards. Sitting for a long time would naturally cause backache. Originally, the only person complaining was Bell.
Now that they have become a couple, the effect is completely different.
The mercenary group had to stop for lunch. Lily tried her best to relax. She felt that her current team was full of problem members. Bell who was reckless, Yuffie who had her own way of doing things, and Ed who only got into trouble... Sure enough, they still had problems.
Al is the cutest, serious and obedient, and strong enough. She hugged the tall machine man from behind and rubbed her head gently, earning a somewhat confused response from him.
The journey in the afternoon was also not smooth. Not long after the trip, the originally sunny sky darkened, and thunderstorms quickly followed. The heavy rain turned the soft land into a muddy pond, making traveling and camping difficult. Lily gave up.
Instead of going straight through the forest, they instead walked around the outside of the forest. It was not until nightfall that they walked half of the original distance.
The mercenary group camped on a slightly dry hill. Alphonse and Bell took out dry firewood from the bottom of the car and lit a bonfire. Lily walked into the forest and came back soon with two rabbits. She skillfully put them on the river
Peel and wash them, skewer them with branches, and roast them over the campfire.
The summer night in the southern part of the empire was not cold. Everyone gathered around the bonfire to dry their clothes that were soaked by the rain. Bell took care of a rabbit alone, while Lily and Ed shared the remaining one equally. The boy's face was reflected red by the bonfire,
He nibbled on the food and looked at Lily hesitantly.
"Sister Lily..." Ed put down the food and asked in a low voice, "Did I... cause you any trouble?"
"Yes." Lily replied mercilessly, remembering what the agent had just said, and softened her voice slightly. "Al told us that everyone will make mistakes at the beginning. Your curiosity may make you an excellent person.
Explorer, or wizard, but neither one is child's play." She took a bite of the rabbit leg, chewed it, and then swallowed it, "If you wish, we can regard you as a member of the Lilinono group until you decide
Until you leave."
Uncharacteristically, the boy did not answer immediately. After finishing her food in two or two bites, Lily stood up and left when she heard the boy's voice from behind.