Chapter 552 Candy for One Gold Coin

The sparring session with Emily was as tortured as ever. This time, I didn't collapse on the ground, but weakly held the Odachi and sat cross-legged.

Emily stepped forward and said calmly without any expression: "You have made rapid progress, and your strength has improved significantly."

The voice of Odachi rang in my mind: "Don't listen to that girl's nonsense. You brat's current strength is just a piece of salted fish. You have nothing to be proud of!"

I decisively threw the Odachi aside. After a few breaths, I said, "Thank you for your compliment."

"Nothing," Emily said, "I'm telling the truth."

"By the way." She took a step away from me, sitting on the floor like a lady, and asked: "Are those black mist your combat skills?"

"Yes," I said, "It's just that I can't grasp it yet."

"Oh, that's right." She lowered her head, thought for a moment, and said, "Remember when I first met you, you seemed to have a dispute with the staff of the Adventurer Base because of some combat skills issue?"

"Hahahaha, do you still remember?" I scratched my head, feeling a little embarrassed and said, "Yes, I was at a low level at the time, and I had just become an adventurer not long ago. I was thinking about buying a few combat skills books and going back to practice them, but I found that none of them were as good as me. I won the prize and wanted to return it. The staff member who received me at that time took away my combat skills book and refused to return the money to me. And I was extremely poor and had to live on the money, so I had no choice but to Licking his face, he refused to leave."

"Oh." After hearing this, she was silent, and she didn't know what she was thinking. After a while, she said: "Ai Ruicheng is very messy, and I don't like it."

"Actually, I don't like it either." I tilted my head and said, "That's why I moved my family and friends to Moonlight City, thinking about settling here."

"If you do this, won't you miss Airei City?" Emily suddenly asked: "Isn't that your hometown?"

"My hometown is not there, but"

Subconsciously, I shut up and swallowed the second half of the words.

I can't tell her that I am actually not from Zephyr Continent, but an out-and-out Earthling.

By the way, even if I say this, she may not understand what I am talking about.

Emily's emerald-like eyes stared at me doubtfully. For a while, she seemed to realize, and said: "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know your hometown is no longer there."

Ah?

Hometown is gone?

Was she imagining some very scary scenario?

However, since she has already figured it out on her own, there is no need for me to explain any more. I can just follow the steps she has figured out, which will save a lot of unnecessary trouble.

So, I pretended to sigh and put on a melancholy expression: "It doesn't matter, it's all in the past."

Then, she and I looked at each other speechless, and the conversation ended there.

When I returned to the cafe, I found that the door was locked. Maybe they had gone shopping. With a tired body, I returned home, opened the door, and found that everyone was busy in the hall, some preparing the oven. Some are preparing vegetables and meat, and some are putting vegetables and meat on some iron drills.

Barbara, who was washing vegetables, was the first to see me. She smiled and said, "Xiao Yi is back!"

"Yeah." I nodded, entered the room with a dull look on my face, and said, "I said, you are..."

"Have a party!" Cagalli said, "Don't we often do this in Airei City?"

"oh"

I calmed down a little and thought about it carefully. In Airui City, there really is a party every now and then, and everyone is having a good time.

"Xiao Yi, help me cut the meat." Florence put a few large pieces of beef on the chopping board and said, "The meat is a bit old, I'm afraid it won't be cut well."

"Eh?" I was confused: "Why do you want to buy old beef? Isn't tenderer beef better?"

"Who would buy old ones when they can buy tender ones?" Florence complained: "Moonlight City is good everywhere, but it attaches too much importance to the equality of life. You have to wait for pigs, cattle, sheep, etc. to die of old age naturally before you are willing to give them away." The meat is sold, really."

Lilea snorted in dissatisfaction.

I hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "It's okay. I am strong as an old beef and can practice my teeth. Let me tell you, when I was young."

"You're not old now," Susan interjected with a smile.

"Okay, you are right. Let me correct you. When I was young, the poor guy in my family could only eat old beef every day. As a result, I developed a good set of teeth. Take a look, now my teeth are good enough. The white is bright enough and strong enough!”

As I said that, I bared my teeth.

Billy chuckled and said, "Come on, come on, come on, Xiaoyi, show me my swords and see if your teeth are strong or my swords are sharper!"

I rolled my eyes at him, showing deep contempt.

After cutting the beef, I scanned the room and didn't see Lily and Lizzy, so I asked: "Where did Lily and Lizzy go? Why didn't I see them? By the way, there's also Luo Li. Where’s Ji?”

"Oh, them." Barbara touched the water droplets on her face and said, "The three of them went to the Elf Forest to catch white fish. They may be back soon."

Half an hour passed and I still didn’t see the three people back. I got a little anxious and asked, “How long have they been gone?”

Phoenix thought for a while: "It's been two hours."

"You haven't come back after so long?" I frowned slightly: "Are you lost?"

Cagalli comforted me and said, "Don't worry, the three of them probably had so much fun that they forgot about time."

"Yeah." After thinking about it, I stood up and said, "You guys get busy first, I'll go get them back."

"Yes." Cagalli nodded and said, "Go back quickly."

After leaving the door, walking towards the Elf Forest, however, before walking a hundred meters, they saw Lily and Lizzy standing motionless in front of a candy store.

Not far behind them, there was Loki, who was dozing against the outer wall of the shop opposite.

Hey, what are these three people doing?

I stepped forward in confusion and said, "Hey, what are you three doing?"

The voice was not loud, but not quiet either. Lizi turned her head first, and then hid behind Lily. Lily also turned her head and saw me. She didn't hide from me, but took small steps. He ran over and said, "Brother Xiaoyi!"

"Well" I nodded and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Brother Xiaoyi, do you know?" Lily said innocently: "I saw a very beautiful candy, and it smells good!"

Li Zi nodded desperately behind her.

"But Loki didn't bring any money." Lily pursed her lips and said, "Lily and I also put all our money in the piggy and didn't take it out. So..."

The piggy is Lily and Lizzy's piggy bank. It is usually placed on the table in their room when nothing happens. On this trip, they seemed to have not brought it with them.

Thinking of this, I asked: "How much does it cost to buy that very beautiful candy?"

"Uh." Lily thought for a while, then whispered to Li Zi, and then said, "It's one gold coin each."