After leaving the team, the adventurer ladies regretted it deeply

Chapter 503: 379, Are they all masters?!

Lia still hadn’t figured out why Anna had been so kind.

According to Anna, immersing oneself in bitter regret was supposed to help her perceive the magic element and transform from an ordinary person into an adventurer.

Which was something Lia hadn’t told Aiko, or she would have realized that people like Anna were called “victims.”

They were thrilled only when they saw their treasured “wheelchair” treated like trash, ridden with sparks flying and thunder crashing, over thousands of miles until the wheels burst…

Utterly defiant of heaven.

But leaving Anna’s twisted behavior aside,

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Lia was now filled with immense regret.

She shouldn’t have listened to her advice. After dressing up, not only did Lin Da remain unimpressed, he looked at her as if she were a joker, taunting her so much that she couldn’t raise her head.

Were those beautiful clothes really so strange on her? Thinking about how long she had fussed the day before, only to be treated like a clown, a surge of grievance filled Lia’s heart.

She sniffed and pushed the tiny pearls back into her eyes.

“Indeed, very strange.”

Lin Da continued his assault from behind, “It’s like a serious adventurer suddenly wearing exaggerated leather and dyeing their hair yellow, walking into the villa arm-in-arm with a dropout beastman, rapping and laughing… Everyone would surely find it strange, right?”

“Is, is it that exaggerated?” Lia nearly fainted from awkwardness.

“Well, your image was always the dumb country girl, wasn’t it? How did you suddenly get a clue?” Lin Da pondered, resting his chin in his hand. “So it does seem strange and out of place. But… it’s not unlikable I guess, your shoes and cap are pretty cool.”

Lin Da was just being straightforward, expressing his thoughts.

“Is, is that so? Pretty cool, huh?” Lia stammered.

Lin Da spread his hands: “So what exactly are you here for? Just to show me your ‘new skin’?”

“What new skin… Didn’t the Phoenix Tail Flower team clear level 14 yesterday? Congratulations.”

“Yeah, thanks. Is that what you came to say?”

“Can’t I come over if there’s no issue?”

Lia looked at Lin Da with a persistent gaze.

Lin Da was at a loss for words.

In the past, whenever Lia sought him out, it was always for a reason, forming a pattern of thought.

“Not really.”

“Let’s go to Auntie’s Cake Shop,”

Lia mustered her courage and said, “It’s been over two years since we’ve been there. Want to join me?”

The mention of that long-lost shop name moved Lin Da.

Was it the Auntie’s Cake Shop located on Willow Leaf Street in Sparrow District?

He used to pass by there every evening when he had a part-time job at the library.

“I do have some things to do today…”

Lin Da intended to politely decline, but he paused mid-sentence.

He realized he was rejecting Lia’s invitation again.

Right then, there was no news of any contract from the Light Mage, and even if he was anxious, he couldn’t head to the 16th level yet.

On the other hand, the 15th level of the Great Mystic Continent was about to open.

There was a regional boss there, marked by Lin Da as his designated prey.

He needed the power of Snow Goose and Ice Flower.

Emotionally and logically, it didn’t make sense to reject Lia’s invitation here.

Lin Da looked at Lia, who was pursing her lips with a hopeful expression, and his heart gradually softened.

Visiting that old place wouldn’t be so bad…

He wondered if Auntie’s daughter had found a job yet.

He remembered she liked to party with the black-skinned orcs at the bar and wouldn’t come home at night.

Auntie had once asked him to confront that orc, but at the time he was only level 3 and didn’t dare offend the level 9 gorilla.

Was Uncle Geo’s son ever healed from his trauma of a failed adventure or is he still relying on his parents?

A multitude of old faces, nearly forgotten and hidden deep in memory, emerged and appeared before Lin Da.

“If you still have things to do, then…”

Lia felt a heavy weight in her heart, but still wanted to stubbornly say, “Forget it, maybe some other time.”

“Go on, I’m off today anyway,” Lin Da said, changing his tone and nodding.

Lia looked at him incredulously, the words “maybe some other time” that had reached her lips were forcefully swallowed back. Her mouth twisted awkwardly, and she spoke incoherently, “Then, then, let’s, let’s go.”

Lin Da: “Wait a minute, I need to leave a note for Lulu and the others.”

At least to tell the team where he was going so they wouldn’t worry.

[I’m going out with a friend to talk about some things.]

He left the note on the table in the living room.

…

The temperature was quite low on this winter morning. Lin Da, preserving his habits from when he was a common man, put on a brown fluffy coat, quietly closed the door, and went outside.

Looking at the girl whose small hand clutched the strap of a white sling bag, giving off an air of unease, Lin Da said, “Let’s go.”

“Yes!”

Under the golden dawn of the east, two figures—one tall and one short—walked side by side after a long time.

Lin Da glanced at Lia by his side, feeling she was in a particularly good mood, almost smiling with her eyes, and smelling delightful.

The instant the thought that a silent Lia was quite cute crossed his mind, Lin Da was startled by himself.

He must be really hungry!

With four uniquely beautiful girls in the Phoenix Tail Flower Team, and yet he was having unfavorable thoughts about Lia!

It seemed that having anything “white” inside him didn’t bode well; it affected his brain, and even made him consider the intellectually challenged, violent female gorilla…

Lin Da concluded he’d ask Tasya for some medical treatment tonight.

After the two had walked a distance,

the sound of a camera shutter clicking came from within a holly bush.

Click, click, click!

“Woo-hoo! Staking out around Luanwei Flower Villa was indeed the right choice! The latest intelligence is once again in the hands of me, Kami, the grand!”

Kami, wearing overalls and a ponytail, poked her head out from the holly bush.

She followed them stealthily, camera in hand, like a spy infiltrating a demons’ castle.

“Damn it, I didn’t expect a second person; they almost stepped on my foot! No wonder Lia was so secretive; turns out she’s really playing the field… It’s infuriating!”

Aiko, dressed in a black robe and biting her finger out of jealousy, slowly walked out of the holly bush.

She needed to see what stage Lin Da and Lia had reached.

If those two were headed to a lovers’ hotel, she would expose that she had been following them and intervene!

Following at a close second, Aiko also proceeded.

“Young Lady, doesn’t this kind of behavior border on stalking?”

Shortly after Aiko’s disappearance, from the third holly bush, the Minotaur Ferdy and the girl in a black dress, Anna, emerged.

Anna said with a cheerful smile, “You are mistaken; this is normal behavior for a fan.”

Ferdy was a bit dazed.

Normal?

Does normal mean peeking at someone’s date from within a holly bush?

If the Young Lady liked Lin Da, why then assist Lia?

It was as if she was eager for Lin Da to open a large harem and revel night after night.

Ferdy had been a Minotaur all his life, yet had never seen such a peculiar young lady as Anna.