Sweet Wine Cheese glared and immediately showed a fierce look: "How dare you order me?!"

Ariel had an indifferent attitude: "This may still be within the territory of the Hunter Empire. If you call me a maid or something like that, I can't guarantee that the Hunters won't arrest you immediately after seeing us."

Get up. By then, it’s not my life that’s in question, but both of our lives.”

Sweet Cheese glared at her fiercely, then spat and said, "The name is just a name, but it's just the name of a doll. How great does it think it is?"

This sentence stung Ariel's heart slightly, but she still held back her temper, turned her head and said: "There is a village at the foot of the mountain. I don't know what the situation is there. But now the sky is dark.

According to the rules of adventurers, it is best to rest in place now and wait until dawn before taking action. But Sweet Cheese, you are the one to decide here. Do you think we are crossing this mountain forest where monsters may be hidden?

Should I forcefully go down the mountain when my vision is poor? Or should I wait here overnight and then go down the mountain during the day tomorrow?"

Sweet Cheese waved his fist and shouted: "I'm hungry now! I need to eat! I encountered too many messy and troublesome things today. If you can't help me solve it, I will kill you immediately. Believe it or not."

!”

This princess has a really irritable personality!

Ariel really wants to go up and slap her ears right now. Well, if possible~~

But in this way, Ariel decided to no longer treat this princess as a princess, but as an adventurer with fighting capabilities. Then she nodded and said: "In that case, you have to follow closely.

The road is not short."

After looking at the sky again and determining the direction, Ariel broke off a branch and held it in her hand as a pathfinding cane, and began to walk slowly towards the direction of the village.

Of course, Sweet Cheese didn't dare to stop. She turned her head and glanced at the dark cave behind her, then looked at the dark forest around her. She panicked and immediately followed forward. After thinking about it, she even stretched out her hand.

On Ariel's shoulders, she hunched her neck and walked together cautiously.

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Of course, the road in the mountains is not as gentle as on the plains.

Sometimes it is normal to reach cliffs or impassable roads, so sometimes Ariel even has to go around in circles, and of course her progress is very slow.

Fortunately, it is winter now, and the gaps between the trees are large, so we can clearly see the stars in the sky and determine our direction.

But it was also because it was winter, and the clothes on the two girls were too thin. Even if they kept moving, they couldn't stop the cold from intruding.

"ha……"

Sweet Wine Cheese exhaled a breath of white air and rubbed her hands. The further she walked, the more frightened she became, and her expression naturally became more and more panicked.

Feeling the trembling of the palm on her shoulder, Ariel thought for a moment and then said, "Did Dark do it to your face?"

At the mention of Duck, Sweet Cheese was shocked! His fingers that were trembling just now stopped trembling immediately: "Who told you? Mr. Duck?!"

Ariel shook her head and said slowly: "He didn't say anything. He said this was a secret between you and him. He would never say a word without your permission."

Sweet Cheese was stunned for a moment. But then, she reacted immediately and reached out to touch her face. After confirming that the piece of cloth used to cover her face had been broken into pieces, and that the viscount in front of her had completely seen her face.

, the princess couldn't help but tighten her fingers a little harder, pinching Ariel's shoulders.

"You...you saw my face! I'm going to kill you!"

"You really need to change your temper! Even if it's...for Dark!"

Anyway, whenever she gets emotional, she mentions Dake. In the short term, this is a way to calm her down.

As the pain on her shoulder disappeared, Ariel secretly exhaled and continued walking forward, saying: "Since you don't want to say it, forget it. But rummy, what I just said is sincere. I really

I admire you very much, you are so good at fighting. How old are you this year? I remember you are sixteen years old, right? Even in Lao Teng Shu's martial arts faction, people with your strength, let alone women, even

Even those trainee soldiers can't compare to you."

If Rumplestiltskin was usually praised, it more or less meant being flattered by others, and she was more or less tired of hearing it.

But after the experience of just repelling a monster, Ariel's appropriate praise and flattery gave Sweet Cheese a different taste in his heart. This kind of praise was very helpful and warm. Compared with

It is much better to receive unwarranted flattery from others.

At that moment, Sweet Wine Cheese turned away and snorted: "I am the woman who is going to be Mr. Duck's wife. I don't have any fighting ability. How can I be honest?"

Ariel breathed out, and taking advantage of her good mood, she continued to say a few more words: "Comparing you and Alice, who is better? Back then, Alice was one of the best women in the martial arts department of Lao Teng Shu!"

"She? That vase? Ha!"

Sweet Cheese's mouth spoke in a proud and confident tone——

"I don't deny that the second brother's wife used to be quite strong. She seems to be able to attack with the sword with the second brother, right? But~~~ The second brother's own strength is not that good. Compared with fighting, he is more

I like music and art. And after marrying my second brother, I haven’t seen that vase practice swordsmanship for a day. If you fight me now, how can you beat me?"

Ariel nodded, and suddenly, she grabbed the hand of Sweet Cheese from behind and said loudly: "Great! There is a hunter's cabin in front! We have a place to stay tonight! Sweet Cheese, hurry up, let's hurry up

go!"

This is really very lucky, but I am not grateful for the blessing of fate, but I am grateful that I often communicate with my guild members.

After hurriedly entering the hunter's cabin halfway up the mountain, Ariel fetched firewood and a firewood and lit the fireplace. The heat in the room finally dispelled the coldness of the two women.

Ariel clapped her hands and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the fact that Cream always brags about all kinds of life tips, I might not be able to find the hunter's hut even if I find it. Phew~~~ I really want to go back.

Thank you so much Cream.”

While talking, Ariel looked through the shelves in the hunter's cabin.

The place here is very small, only about 20 square meters. There is nothing except a bed, a fireplace, a rack for drying animal skins, a chair and a table.

Seeing that there was nothing to eat, Ariel frowned, but her eyes fell on the animal skin drying rack next to her. There were three dry rabbit skins placed on it, which had obviously been tanned.

Ariel curled her lips and held her stomach to feel it for a moment... Well, she hadn't eaten since morning until now, so she was indeed a little hungry.

At that moment, she took down the three rabbit skins, walked to the fireplace nearby, lit a fire, and placed the rabbit skins in front of the stove to bake.

During the whole process, Sweet Wine Cheese on the side always maintained a silent attitude, and at the same time curiously watched Ariel doing this and that, but the princess herself seemed to have no intention of taking action.

Okay, Ariel doesn't expect her to be of any help.

Soon, these kneaded rabbit skins were baked a little dryer. Ariel handed one of the pieces to the mulled cheese and said with a smile: "Would you like mulled cheese?"

The princess glared at Ariel and said: "I have told you many times that you are not allowed to call me by my name directly! Don't you understand the difference between superiority and inferiority?"

Is there any difference between superiority and inferiority? Ha, that’s really interesting!

It's a pity that Ariel is targeting this concept of the princess.

From before to now, Ariel has called the princess by her first name from time to time, in order to gradually destroy the concept of the disparity in status between the two in her mind.

As long as you continue to call each other by name, over time, the princess will gradually get used to calling her by her name, and she will also unconsciously begin to view this "servant" who directly calls her name from an equal perspective.

If you want to have a good conversation with this girl, you must first start by not being self-effacing and unflattering in your address.

Ariel shrugged, smiled, and said: "Never mind this, do you want to eat it? There are scissors here, I can tear it into strips for you to eat."

Sweet Cheese glanced at the piece of rabbit skin and immediately frowned. Such a frown made her already ugly face look even more terrifying and weird: "What is this? How dare you feed it to me?"

Such a thing?"

Ariel still smiled and said: "This is tanned rabbit skin. Although it can't be said to be very delicious, and it shouldn't be used for eating in essence. But the current situation is urgent, in order to allow us to conserve physical strength as much as possible

If you go down and wait for rescue, you must maintain your strength anytime and anywhere."

Obviously, the princess became angry all of a sudden. She pointed her hand directly at Ariel and shouted: "Rabbit skin? Where's the rabbit meat? Why can you only eat the skin? At least I want to eat rabbit meat too! And, you

Aren’t you always very good at cooking? Go hunt for me! Anyway, I don’t care, you can conjure food for me! Hurry up! Otherwise I will kill you!”

The eldest princess got angry.

Then after Ariel waited for her anger to come out directly, depending on the situation, she also started to get angry in an attitude that was not too excessive, but not too self-effacing: "Roddy Cheese, I hope you can figure out something."

It's a matter of fact. We are very likely still within the territory of the Orion Empire, and your identity is the eldest princess of the Blue Bay Empire and the ambassador of the embassy. What kind of treatment do you think you will receive in the enemy's empire with your identity?

"

Ariel shook off the rabbit skin in her hand and continued to say in a slightly sullen but still polite way: "Now, if we can eat, we must maintain our strength as much as possible and prepare for anything that may come in the future.

Environment. If you want to be willful, wait until you return to the Blue Bay Empire safely. Now is not the time for you to be willful."

Obviously, Princess Sweet Cheese has never had anyone get angry with her since she was a child. Even Dak, only suffered a few losses from Dak when he was young and not too familiar, but in general

All in all, things were going smoothly.

But now, as soon as she goes out, she is forced to get along with this maid who was born as a slave. She is even a waste who is completely inferior to herself in terms of combat effectiveness. She is a burden that can't even do such a little thing to protect herself! Such a waste and burden can actually

Dare you speak to yourself in such a crazy tone? This is simply outrageous!

At that moment, Sweet Wine Cheese directly raised his hand and slapped Ariel on the cheek.

Ariel was caught off guard, and without any thought of evading, she received the slap on her cheek. It was not until the slap ended that she noticed the redness and swelling on her cheek, as well as the burning sting.

"You are so brave, you dare to talk back to me? It seems that my brother really loves you too much, and thinks I don't dare to hit you, right?"

Looking at the red and swollen palm print on Ariel's cheek, Sweet Cheese once again felt the pleasure of having the upper hand.

Yes, to put it bluntly, you still have to rely on your own fighting ability when you go out! Even if she doesn't have this maid to accompany you, she believes that she can wait for the rescue team safely, and then the maid will kill or chop her as she pleases. Anyway, this is

After being attacked for the first time, no one knew that the maid was staying with him. Then he told his two brothers that it didn't matter if she died on the way.

Thinking like this, Sweet Wine Cheese felt more and more that she had taken all the initiative on the scene. After all, she was facing a humble slave with no fighting ability at all. What qualifications did she have to teach herself? Shouldn't she just let herself do whatever she wanted?

Here, a cruel and determined smile appeared on Sweet Cheese's face. She looked condescendingly at the maid in front of her, waiting for her to surrender in panic, apologize, and then pray that she, the princess, could forgive her for her rudeness.
To be continued...