Chapter 2 The Children in the Orphanage

Kingdom of Liberl, Luan Region, Mewi Sea Road east of the village of Manolia.

The seaway that surrounds the Bay of Atheria is a beautiful sight, with delicate soft sand and colorful seashells everywhere along the way. According to the locals, the favorite thing for the nearby villagers to do in their spare time is to enjoy the scenery and swim in this kaido.

Of course, roses tend to be thorny. Such a beautiful untouched scenery naturally means that there is not much human influence here - in other words, nothing has been changed here except for the sea channel that has been built and the guiding lamp used to expel the monsters. Although it is safe on the main road, if you are too far from the main road, you may encounter dangers such as monsters or waves.

Therefore, the hospitable locals, while offering thirst-quenching spring water and fresh seafood soup to visitors, will also repeatedly tell them not to unconsciously run beyond the avenue because of the beautiful scenery - that means that they may be attacked by magical beasts. Several times a year, members of the Guerrilla Guild of the Luan branch were tasked with searching for missing tourists in the vicinity of the seaway – sometimes they succeeded in rescuing people at the last minute, and sometimes they could only find corpses that had been devoured and horribly devoured, and could only be identified by the remnants of clothing and jewelry.

Without exception, when the boy-girl duo from other places, Helriga and Faye, made it clear that they were interested in the beautiful scenery around the Meiwei Sea Road, and after the locals told in detail where the best place to watch the low tide and where to enjoy the most beautiful sunrise, they inevitably repeated the advice mentioned above again - although the two said that they had a certain amount of martial arts and had the ability to protect themselves, but where the adults were willing to believe the words of the two children, it was even more verbose.

In this case, Faye and Hailiga had to deal with the situation hastily, and finally persuaded the old people to stop worrying, and then embarked on the journey—there was nothing to be angry about, after all, the villagers were also thinking about their own safety. Although Fei, who has always been afraid of trouble, is already a little less interested.

Of course, when the two of them really arrived at the best viewpoint recommended by the villagers, the amazing scenery had already made the previous depression disappear-

The surging white waves of the whole day are finally tired and tired. They struggled back into the arms of Mother Ocean, waiting to gather strength and fight the reef again at sunrise the next day. A large number of shellfish and conch shellfish have been left on the shore, which is colorful and beautiful.

"Heliga." Phyye called out softly to Heliga, motioning for him to look towards the beach—and Heliga naturally saw what was going on: a few children of about ten years old, happily picking up beautiful shells.

"Crumb, this one of mine is better than yours!" The green-haired girl happily showed off to the red-haired boy next to her, who was bending over to pick up shells. The latter just muttered "hateful" and buried his head on the beach in search of something bigger and better-looking.

“…… Do you want to go too? Heiliga looked at Fei in front of him, with a wonderful glint in his eyes, and asked helplessly.

"Hmm." Faye replied almost immediately.

“…… All right. We're just ...... anyway Thirteen? Looking at the children on the beach, and thinking about the ages of the two of them, Heliga finally decided that he should not pretend to be a mature and steady adult alone, since Fei really wanted to go—and he also wanted to go—

"Ahhhh Help me! The screams of the children came from there, breaking Heiliga's thoughts. He looked up in surprise to see a snail-like beast approaching from the sand behind the reef - the boy named Crumb, one of whose feet had become entangled in the tentacles of the snail monster, and he couldn't break free. The other children were either unwilling to watch their companions being eaten, or they were so frightened that they lost the ability to escape, and they were all stunned for a moment.

"Oops!" Heliga thought to himself as he saw the snail monster reach another tentacle towards the green-haired girl. In his hand, the strips of runes had begun to converge - although he had decided not to easily display this special magical power, and in this case there was no guarantee that he would not hurt the children who were very close, but if he didn't do something, it would be too late-

"Bang!" The sound of gunfire from the other side broke the eerie silence for a second, and halted Helica's hand. Fay, who rushed further forward, had already drawn his twin blades, and a guided bullet directly pierced the tentacles that were wrapped around Crumb. The snail monster who had eaten the pain immediately turned his head, wanting to give a little color to the stranger who dared to disturb his meal—

However, if the snail monster has a mind, it will surely find itself thinking too much. Because the petite girl in front of her is not something it can handle at all. After successfully luring the snail monster away and leaving the range that might hurt the children, Faye turns on the serious mode. For a while, bullets flew around, light and shadow flowed, and the snail monster was covered in bruises in an instant, and in the end, a portable guide grenade ended its life.

Amid the children's stunned expressions, Faye just yawned lazily, then walked over to the corpse of the snail monster that had been blown to pieces and began to pick up something.

Maybe it's collecting flare wafers? Heiliga thought. The two of them also killed a lot of monsters along the way, but they basically didn't collect much of the Shining Chip - there will be a few Shining Chip crystals left on the monsters, but most of them are worthless Shining Crystal Blocks, and only a few Crystal Fragments can be exchanged for money in the guide shop, or processed into magic circuits - the two of them have done this along the way, and it is not surprising that Helriga has done so. He was about to approach the children, who were obviously still in a state of shock, and try to reassure them, but Fei didn't expect to walk here at this time—and instead of the collected shards, he was holding a large conch!

"This one is the biggest on this beach." Looking at Helika, who was a little surprised in his eyes, Fei tilted his head slightly and said.

"......" Heiliga didn't know what to say. What else could he say?

"Hey! A few of you! A very penetrating voice came, and a blue-haired woman with various weapons on her back hurried over with a worried old woman beside her, "What's going on here?" ”

"Special ...... Dean Teresa ...... Sister Karuna...... Seeing the familiar elders and reliable guerrillas, the children finally came out of their previous fearful mood, and threw themselves on them one by one, saying nothing but crying—the scene of the brush with death just now was enough to frighten them.......

The blue-haired woman, who finally broke free from the children's embrace, turned to the two calm children: "Whew...... Hearing from the people in the village that the children ran to play on the seaway, the dean went crazy...... Fortunately, nothing happened, you saved them, right? Although she didn't see what was happening, looking at the appearance of the children and the shattered corpses of the demonic beasts not far away, how could Karuna, who was a guerrilla, not understand what was going on, she stretched out her hand without hesitation, "Thank you, great help." My name is Karuna, and I'm a regular guerrilla in the Luan branch. ”

“…… Fortunately, my name is Hailiga, this is Fei, we are warriors from the Empire, and we are still practicing. Heliga stretched out his hand and shook her hand—a phrase that Heliga had already thought of, and that he had answered all the way to the interrogators.