noveltune Chapter 488 Alice's Great Victory in Identity
Chapter 488 Alice's Great Victory in Identity
Chapter 488 Alice's Great Victory in Identity
"Is anyone there? I'm the captain of the village's guard. I have some things I'd like to discuss with you."
Paul Grealat stood in front of the thick wooden door, somewhat doubting that the door was blocking his knocking, so he shouted loudly towards the window that was open a bit high.
"Click..."
After a while, the sturdy wooden door made a sound, and some light shone through the crack in the door.
It wasn't the pale yellow light from an oil lamp or fireplace, but rather a bright light closer to the color of the daytime sky.
[The Magic Lamp.]
Paul Greirat, who himself came from an aristocratic family, easily made the judgment.
After making this judgment, Paul's heart sank.
He came here to negotiate with the outsiders because he was asked by Mrs. Ett and others.
Regarding the incident in the afternoon where his family beat up another family's child, if the other family is wealthy and powerful, the negotiation might not be as smooth as he had imagined before he came.
The man took a deep breath, hoping that his Grerat surname would make some difference as the door slowly opened.
However, upon seeing the giant thunder—no, I mean giant dog girl—that appeared behind the open door, the man's serious expression froze.
"Gilead, what are you doing here?"
"I live here, isn't it normal for me to live here? But you, Paul, ran away with the team's last mission reward, saying you were going to marry Senis and wanted to find a place to settle down. I never expected you to be living in seclusion in this village."
"Uh, um..."
Paul was a little embarrassed, because he had insisted on accepting gifts from his own teammates.
"So, what are you here for?"
Kyrie Irvine didn't react strangely and asked the question directly.
She wanted to go back to the dining table to eat as soon as possible.
"Aren't you going to invite me in to talk?"
"You can come in, but you can't freeload a meal."
The big dog looked at him warily and said.
"I'm not going to freeload. Senis has already made dinner. I'll go back after I've finished dealing with things here."
Paul was somewhat speechless, but Gilead's attitude made him relax a little.
"Gilead, who's this?"
When Alice saw Gilead enter with a man, she asked him a question as she was gnawing on a chicken leg.
"He was the captain of my old adventurer team, named Paul, and he seemed to have something to say."
"What are you saying, at mealtime?"
Luo Qixi found it strange.
"That's how it is, Miss Luo Qixi..."
Because of his interactions with the villagers, Paul had met this demon girl several times.
So he got straight to the point and told some villagers who had come to him hoping he could help them get an explanation for the beating their children had received.
"This is really interesting. We didn't even have to go looking for them, but they came to us instead?"
Broly put down his chopsticks and said something.
"I've seen the children's injuries; they're not badly hurt. Miss Loki, do you think it's reasonable to treat a group of children so brutally?"
Aside from Kyrie Irwin, the only other person present who looked relatively old was Loki. Paul instinctively assumed the demon girl was the one who had attacked him.
"That makes sense, I think it makes perfect sense!"
But before Loki could reply, little Alice started yelling.
"If that's the case, then I have to demand justice from you on behalf of the villagers."
Paul looked at the demon girl who hadn't objected and said...
"Do you want to take action?"
Kyrie Irvine was referring to making a move on Alice by putting her hand on the man's shoulder.
"If you want to take action, even if you were my former teammate, I won't be polite to you."
Big Dog Girl is giving a warning.
"Gilead, I know you are very powerful, but I have a reason not to back down. As a father myself, I know how precious children are to their parents."
"Perhaps I'll get a really bad beating from you, but I'll fight you for my current position."
Just as the situation was becoming tense, Loki finally spoke up: "Mr. Paul, shouldn't you try to understand the situation first?"
"No matter what the circumstances, you shouldn't have used such harsh methods on a group of children."
This is a man's attitude before he understands the whole story.
"I'm sorry, I was a bit prejudiced. But was this lesson a little too harsh?"
These were Paul's words after he learned the whole story and bowed deeply in apology.
He and Rolz were acquainted, but he never expected that the incident would start because Sylphie was being bullied.
"Alice, did you hit me too hard?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Qixi looked at Alice and asked.
"I just taught those guys a lesson with a cane and my fists."
Alice didn't think she had gone too far.
"If needed, I can go and help with the treatment, but the parents of those children must make a corresponding guarantee to prevent their children from bullying Sylphie again."
Paul did not give a definite answer. Instead, he decided to act as a mediator, bringing together the bullies and the bullied, the beaten and the bullies, to clarify things face to face.
Loki agreed, but Alice was puzzled. After Paul left, she asked, "Teacher Loki, why did you treat those bad guys who bullied Sylphie?"
"I'm resolving the conflict because we can't eliminate the other person just because of this, can we?"
As Loki said this, she looked at Broly with some concern. She had no doubt that her young husband might do something like get rid of someone if necessary.
However, Broly did not express his opinion; most of the time now, he was on Loki's side.
After dinner, Broly and the others went out and arrived at the village center, the square where they had agreed to meet Paul, to dry the rice.
Accompanying them were Hilfi's parents, who had only just learned that their daughter had been bullied by other children in the village that afternoon.
Those who came here included not only the families of the group of unruly children who were beaten in the afternoon, but also other villagers from Buyena village.
To be precise, this was no longer a meeting between a few families, but a small village meeting.
The topic to be discussed at the village meeting is the bullying of the Roltz family's daughter and the severe beating of the bullying child.
"Before I came to Buena Village to become the captain of the guard, the village's defense was handled by Roltz, and no one can argue with that, right?"
"Yes, no doubt about it. If it weren't for Roltz, many people might have died when the village was attacked by monsters a few years ago."
The villagers nodded.
"His daughter may have had green hair since birth, but she's definitely not a demon, everyone knows that, right?"
"Yes, we take good care of Silphie. If we see other children bullying her, we will stop them."
Roltz nodded in agreement with these words.
The adults in Buena Village are all good people. In other villages, a daughter with green hair might have been kicked out of the village.
"Even if we do that, we can't stop some kids from bullying the Roltz family's daughters when we adults can't see them."
Paul's words brought tears to Hilfi's mother's eyes, and some villagers looked at him with a mixture of helplessness and guilt.
"etc!"
Just then, Mrs. Ait spoke up.
"My son did bully someone, but at most he just threw mud at that kid. But look at the injuries he's got now. He got beaten up like this just for bullying someone, right?"
The village woman did not deny that her son had bullied others, but she brought up his injuries. Little Fatty Somar was pulled out by his mother, his face bruised and swollen, with many bloody whip marks from the vines, and his front teeth were broken, leaving him completely exposed.
Luo Qixi: "..."
After seeing the boy who had been beaten, I suddenly understood why Paul had come to my door.
Seeing this, the other villagers also changed their attitude. They were not unreasonable and knew that the ones who had done wrong were those few rascals, but it was too much to beat the children like this just because it was a conflict between them.
"I can make my son apologize to the Roltz family's daughter, but shouldn't the guy who beat my son up like this also apologize to my son?"
"What? You want me to apologize? I didn't do anything wrong, why should I apologize to him?"
Upon hearing this, Alice flew into a rage and immediately started yelling.
The other villagers also looked over at this time. When they saw Alice, they realized that the one who had beaten those rascals into such a miserable state was a young girl.
Immediately, the villagers' expressions became somewhat strange. After all, it was quite embarrassing to say that a few little boys couldn't beat a little girl in the countryside.
"Look at her attitude! She beat our child like this and she still thinks she's right?"
Just because someone is from the city, does that mean they can bully us country folk at will?
However, Mrs. Att was a feisty woman and immediately started yelling and screaming.
"Yeah yeah!"
The villagers were incited and joined in, while the old village chief was sweating profusely.
"Shut up, all of you!"
He stepped forward and roared.
"Village chief, why are you siding with outsiders? Could it be that you've accepted bribes from them?"
Seeing that the village chief seemed to be on the other side, Mrs. Aite couldn't help but become sarcastic.
"You shrew?!"
The old village chief of Buena couldn't hold back any longer and stepped forward to slap Mrs. Ait twice.
"You actually hit me?"
The village woman who was beaten was stunned at first. After she realized what was happening, she wanted to fight back against the village chief, but she was stopped by others.
"You deserved to be hit, you ungrateful brat. This is the daughter of the Boreas family, the most beloved granddaughter of our lord, Lord Sauros."
"Even if she beat your child to death, let alone just beating them up, you'd still have to kneel down, kowtow, and say thank you, Miss!"
The old village chief's words silenced the room.
"Why would the young lady of the lord's family choose to live in our village?"
Some villagers raised questions, but no one answered them.
"That's right, I am my grandfather's most beloved granddaughter, Alice Boreas!"
Little Alice sensed the change in the gazes of those around her, crossed her arms, and proudly raised her head, saying...
"Ugh, you debt collector!"
Once Mrs. Aite realized what was happening, she immediately pulled her son onto her lap, pulled down his pants, and raised her hand, no longer caring about anything else, quickly slapping his snow-white buttocks.
"Oh, Mom, what are you doing?"
Somar was stunned, not understanding why his mother, who had stood up for him, had suddenly changed her mind and started hitting him.
Just as confused as him were the other mischievous children. Their parents, seeing Mrs. Ett take action, did not hesitate any longer and also started hitting their own children, who were already badly injured.
It's no wonder they act this way. In a medieval world, even with swords and magic, the social status of a lord's daughter is still far too different from that of peasants like them.
If what the old village chief said is true, then their desire to seek justice for their child and get an apology tonight could become the reason for the lord to hang them.
"Hey, what's wrong with these people? Why did they suddenly change their attitude?"
Little Alice was a little confused about the reason for the change in the situation.
"They are in awe of Lord Sauros."
Kyrie Irvine said something.
"What does this have to do with Grandpa?"
Alice still didn't understand; while everyone else could grasp the power and status, she was the only one who hadn't figured it out.
"In short, they should realize their mistake and stop now."
Luo Qixi felt a little sorry for them and spoke up to persuade the villagers' parents who were beating their children.
"Miss Alice, do you think this is alright?"
The old village chief bent down and came over to ask.
"I've already beaten them up, so it's none of my business if you beat them up now."
Alice turned her head away; she didn't care about the group of guys getting beaten up.
"I forgive you, I forgive you, please stop right now."
The old village chief quickly said.
"Heal~"
Luo Qixi stepped forward and began to use her healing magic on the badly beaten children.
"You can't bully Sylphie anymore. If you do, Alice the Red Knight will beat you up again."
"Waaaaah..."
The kids looked at Luo Qixi and felt that the gentle person speaking to them was the only savior on the scene.
"We're sorry, we know we were wrong, and we promise we won't bully Sylphie again."
Tonight, it's another big victory for Alice.
Compared to fairy tales about cannibalistic demons, adults have more respect for real powerful and wealthy people, and they all promise to keep their children in check and not bully Sylphie anymore.
Seeing this, Roltz couldn't help but sigh. The respect he received as a hunter guarding the village was not as great as the attitude shown by the lord's daughter, which was of great help to his own daughter.
"Miss Alice..."
"Sylphie, come stand behind me! I need to do knightly training to protect the princess. Broly, you play the villain!"
The next day, before little Hilfi, who had been taught by her parents at home to be respectful to the lord's daughter, could even form a pitiful, thick barrier around herself towards Alice, that barrier was crushed by Alice's passionate desire to play the role of a knight.
Early in the morning, Alice the Red Knight fought the evil black-haired Saiyan boy for three hundred rounds until she was exhausted and collapsed in the arms of the green-haired Princess Sylphie behind her, struggling to utter her last words as the knight who could no longer protect her.
then……
"Don't give up, Sister Alice! Divine power is like sweet sustenance, granting strength to those who have lost their strength to rise again!"
A healing magical light shone forth, and little Sylphie, who was almost four years old, mastered basic healing through this practice.
Lokishi's assessment of this was that little Sylphie was too naive. Although it seemed like she was just playing around, she had actually taken the perspective of a princess and hoped that the fallen Red Knight would stand up again.
As for Alice's evaluation, well, she didn't give any evaluation. The Red Knight just shouted that this was the bond between her, the knight, and Princess Sylphie, and then charged towards Broly, the big bad guy.
Although they ultimately suffered a narrow defeat at the hands of the evil Saiyan, they wore satisfied expressions and confidently declared to little Sylphie, "Next time, we'll definitely beat that big bad Broly!"
"Brother Broly isn't a bad guy."
Little Hilfi, on the other hand, earnestly corrected her words.
(End of this chapter)