novelraw Chapter 117
Chapter 117
117~ (The Title Girl Got Eaten by Kitty!)
"Miss? Miss?"
"Mm? Hmm?"
Coming back to her senses, the little Princess only then realized that everyone had been staring at her for quite some time. After snapping out of it, she hurriedly responded.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just that we saw you spacing out the whole time, Miss, and wanted to ask if you've encountered some troubling matter? For example, during the inspection just now..."
Nina lowered her voice and inquired softly.
"...Red Leaf recognized me, but she didn't detain me. Instead, she let me go."
Red Leaf's actions couldn't help but make her suspect, was all of this a trap the Empress had set for her? What accident that let her escape, in reality it was completely orchestrated by the Empress, and Red Leaf letting her go was also personally authorized by the Empress.
She really didn't believe that Red Leaf, who was utterly loyal to the Empress, would privately let her go. All of this was definitely another one of the Empress's conspiracies! That's right! It must be like this!
She wouldn't believe that Red Leaf just had a sudden attack of kindness and let her go. Where in reality would there be so many big-hearted saints with sudden bursts of kindness? Especially someone like Red Leaf who viewed the Empress's orders as more important than her own life.
"Then are you alright now, Miss?"
"Should be fine... I think?"
She wasn't too certain either. For the Empress to dare let her leave Scarlet City, there must be another scheme. It absolutely couldn't be that she'd let her leave for no reason. Just looking at the Empress's almost pathological possessiveness, this matter was simply impossible!
"I think you don't need to worry too much, Miss. Since you've come out, as long as you reach Glaze Nation there won't be any problems. After all, don't you have the final say, Miss?"
In Glaze Nation, she indeed had the final say for nearly half of matters, but if her Father the King didn't agree, then her authority would be instantly withdrawn.
On the Empress's side, if she really used Glaze Nation's survival as a bargaining chip, perhaps her Father the King would personally send her back himself.
After all, as a nation's ruler, no matter how much he doted on his daughter, it would be impossible to use the lives of tens of millions of citizens throughout the entire nation to protect his own daughter.
She very much understood her Father the King on this point. If her Father the King exchanged those tens of millions of lives for her one life, then she would definitely also think her Father the King had gone mad.
Even for herself, to exchange those tens of millions of lives for her own freedom? Her own conscience wouldn't be able to bear it. She was still a person, still retained the values and mindset from her previous life. She showed no mercy to those who would put her in danger, but she also didn't want to see innocent people implicated because of her own reasons, causing those innocent people to lose their lives.
However, thinking about all this now seemed a bit too early. She hadn't even reached Glaze Nation yet and was already wildly speculating here...
The little Princess shook her head, throwing all these messy thoughts out of her mind.
"Ahem... May I ask, are you all really going to Glaze Nation to do business?"
"Of course. We're traveling together with Miss, so naturally we're going to Glaze Nation to do business. Do you have any other questions?"
"No more."
"Well then, from now on we'll entrust Miss's and our safety to you all, yes?"
Although the hired adventurers weren't entirely trustworthy, they could still be trusted before encountering dangers that even this group of adventurers couldn't handle.
When they hired the adventurers, they set the employment fee extremely high, a full 1,000 Gold Coins. Although escort commissions themselves didn't require such a high employment fee, in order to get this adventurer team to put forth their utmost effort in the escort, the little Princess still proposed such a high employment fee and took out the majority of the Gold Coins from her Magic Space Ring as a deposit.
On one hand, it was spending money to avoid disaster; on the other hand, it could better ensure her own life safety.
"That, boss, I still think these three people are somewhat suspicious..."
Their adventurer team's full name was the White Wolf Team. Even among all adventurer teams, they had quite senior experience. This was their first time seeing an escort mission that could offer such a high employment fee, and they couldn't help but feel suspicious about it.
That was a full 1,000 Gold Coins! Already enough for several people to spend their entire lifetimes! Even if it were young masters and misses from noble families spending money like this, they'd inevitably get a leg broken by their own old man, right?
"Enough, Hughes. Don't discuss these things in front of the employers. Since they're willing to pay, just do the job well."
"Alright..."
Having his thoughts dismissed, Hughes could only obediently listen to his boss's words and say no more. But in his heart he still couldn't help wondering, why would someone be willing to spend 1,000 Gold Coins just to hire them for an escort? This was already astronomical! He'd never imagined that one day he could earn this much money.
Even if this reward was split evenly, he could still get nearly 100 Gold Coins!
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"Your Majesty the Empress, Princess Mo has already left."
"Left? You let her leave?"
"Yes, Red Leaf took it upon herself. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
Fei: "..."
The Empress was silent for a while, then waved her hand to let Red Leaf withdraw first.
As for punishing Red Leaf, that was of course impossible. Although she hadn't authorized Red Leaf to let the little Princess leave Scarlet City, she herself had this thought as well.
Actually, she still didn't really want to let the little Princess leave, but her own situation was truly not optimistic. "That kind" of symptom had been occurring repeatedly recently. Continuing to keep the little Princess by her side would only make the relationship between the two of them increasingly worse.
"Ling."
"Please command, Your Majesty."
"Prepare for this. Push back the time for the visit to Glaze Nation a bit."
In any case, her Mo was in Glaze Nation and couldn't run anywhere. What did it matter if she went over a bit later?
"Understood."
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"Giao... How come we're more than halfway through the journey and haven't encountered any problems?"
A member of the White Wolf Adventurer Team couldn't help but complain.
This was really strange. Looking at how magnificent and luxurious this carriage was, weren't there any bandits eyeing it?
Along the entire journey, forget about bandits, they hadn't even seen a single aggressive wild beast. There was simply no opportunity for them to make a move!
"Isn't this good? Not having to do anything, just accompanying the employer to the destination and we can rake in a huge sum of money. Isn't this good?"
"Taking these 1,000 Gold Coins like this doesn't feel right!"
Getting 1,000 Gold Coins without doing anything was good and all, but they hadn't done a single thing along the way. Even the meals were already prepared and they didn't need to hunt. Taking this reward of 1,000 Gold Coins like this felt uneasy in their hearts.
However, seeing that the employer had no objections either, he had nothing more to say.
Unlike the lively and complex psychology of the White Wolf Adventurer Team outside, the little Princess on the carriage was extremely at ease.
They hadn't encountered any trouble or danger the entire journey. If only it could continue being this safe and sound all the way to Glaze City. Although the hope was slim, she still couldn't help but anticipate it.
People were like this, always developing expectations for certain things.