Chapter 548

Chapter 555: This Fairy Isn’t Very Smart (Please Subscribe!)

Izay’s expression became slightly complicated as he grasped the implications in Goddess’ words.

Isn’t there something off about a scenario where a husband wants to flirt with young girls while his wife helps him strategize?

So much cognitive dissonance~

But wait a second…

Did Lady Artemis approve of my harem?

Then it’s all good~!

Is this what they call the magnanimity of the main queen?

Love it, love it!

As Izay’s thoughts ran wild, he shifted his attention to Laentoluca and Kodoli.

In front of him, their conversation remained fruitless.

To summarize, Laentoluca was at a loss.

The little one didn’t know how to explain her relationship with Kodoli.

Should she just say, “I’m your mom”?

Isn’t that too direct?

Even with her young mental age, Laentoluca understood the implications of saying such things to someone meeting for the first time.

Who would believe that?!

Yet, it was the truth…

Looking at the two having no progress in their talk, Izay glanced up at the sky.

“Lord Artemis, do you wish to continue wandering here?”

“Hmm?”

Artemis slightly turned her gaze: “I do have such an idea… but even if I give it up, it’s fine… we might as well check out the fairy house.”

Anyway, since we’re in another world, visiting anywhere is the same.

“Is that so~? Then why don’t we let this seemingly not-so-smart fairy guide us? What do you think?”

Upon hearing this, Izay nodded and then suggested to Kodoli with a stare.

“Seems like a not-so-smart fairy?”

Since there was no attempt to hide it, Kodoli easily heard Izay’s description of her.

Kodoli had something to say about that!

“Do you have a problem?” Izay feigned surprise in his counter-question.

Kodoli got upset, her twin tails on both sides of her head shaking in protest: “Of course there’s a problem! What do you mean by ‘seems not-so-smart’? You’re looking down on me!”

While getting upset, the girl also noticed something.

That was – Izay’s words implied – their destination seemed to be the fairy house!

This raised Kodoli’s alertness.

Why were these people going to the fairy house?

They wouldn’t be coming to “dispose” of them, would they?

When weapons lose their use, they are discarded – that’s common sense. The upper echelons of the floating continent group doing this wouldn’t be surprising.

Kodoli knew they were truly capable of such actions.

Unfortunately, Izay couldn’t hear her inner voice, or else he would definitely exclaim: Girl, your imagination is spot on, completely fitting the facts.

At the very least, without Izay’s intervention, saving Laentoluca, and healing Black Candle Lord, the destruction of the Gold Fairy by the Guardian Army was only a matter of time.

“Hmm… wait a moment, let me calculate~”

Izay stopped Kodoli’s rebuttal and suddenly started counting on his fingers.

“Sneaking around us and being discovered, trying to escape but falling right in front of us, still not understanding the situation until now… Is this me looking down on you?”

It’s you making me look down on you~ girl.

“I…”

Kodoli fell silent.

Her pink lips opened and closed, realizing she couldn’t refute Izay’s words.

“Probably you’re worried about what we intend to do at the fairy house. For that, I can straightforwardly tell you, it’s not anything bad.”

Without much calculation, Izay guessed the pure-hearted girl’s thoughts and made a declaration for them.

On this basis, he didn’t bother to explain further.

After all, once they met Laentoluca and Nafude, Kodoli’s doubts would naturally be resolved.

Izay was too lazy to waste more words.

Then Kodoli glanced at Black Candle Lord, the pitch-black skeleton, and puffed her cheeks slightly.

“Bad guys usually don’t admit they’re bad…”

Subtle innuendo~

“Say whatever you want, but even if you don’t guide us, finding the fairy house will just take us a bit more time.”

Izay spread his hands, displaying an attitude of “you can’t do anything about me.”

Quietly pulling her arms behind her back, Kodoli clenched her fists.

(I really want to hit him…)

Thoughts are thoughts, but Kodoli didn’t voice them.

Because in this short time, she already realized she couldn’t argue with this person.

So Kodoli decided not to cause herself unnecessary distress.

The fairy girl took a deep breath: “Guide you, right? Fine! I’ll do it!”

Kodoli thought, rather than letting them make a surprise attack on the fairy house unprepared,

She’d rather lead them there herself.

At least then she wouldn’t be caught off guard and could think of a strategy in the meantime.

“Kodoli…”

When the fairy made her decision, Laentoluca pulled her hand from behind her back, lifting her small face full of seriousness, and said: “Although I don’t know how to explain our relationship to you, rest assured, I just want you all to live better!”

I won’t harm you! Laentoluca emphasized this point.

There seemed to be some kind of magical power in her voice, making Kodoli want to believe her against her will.

However, regarding this, the fairy didn’t know how to respond, only dumbly nodding.

“…Yeah.”

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On the west side of the island, there was a vast forest, which was the largest among all the forests on the islands.

And deep within this forest preserving the natural landscape of the past surface, there was a path leading to a secret place.

Not paved with convenient bricks, it was simply a trail formed by human footsteps. At most, there was a considerate sign at the forest entrance, with four characters written on it: No Passage.

Kodoli ignored the sign at the forest entrance and skillfully followed the small road into the forest.

Under her guidance, Izay’s group followed closely behind.

Along the way, the smell of damp earth and wind mingled in the air, a unique treat of the dense forest depths.

Ordinarily, vast forests inevitably housed some wild animals like wolves or bears.

Encountering them was an unavoidable challenge when traversing the forest.

Even fairies couldn’t avoid it.

Kodoli naturally wasn’t encountering forest wildlife for the first time.

But wolves and bears appearing together, bringing food to present before her, this was the first time.

“Why are the animals voluntarily bringing food to us? And they’re even queuing up!? ”

This touched upon Kodoli’s knowledge blind spot.

The girl looked towards Artemis’ direction, her expression replaced with astonishment.

“If I must explain… it’s part of her duties, naturally a portion of Lady Artemis’ divine powers.”

Izay glanced at the magnificent scene over there, unfazed.

Though a goddess of chastity, Artemis held multiple and complex divine roles.

Goddess of hunting, goddess of nature, goddess of bow and archery, goddess of chastity, goddess of the moon, goddess of fertility and conception… these were all her titles.

The number of her divine roles ranked high even among the Olympian myths!

“Divine power? What’s that?”

“Now you focus on guiding us, and we’ll explain in detail after we reach the fairy house~”

Since Izay didn’t want to explain the same thing twice, he chose to be lazy.

But from a general rational perspective,

His behavior of speaking half-truths and deliberately teasing was quite annoying!

Kodoli’s gaze towards him was already filled with a few shades of resentment.