"I refuse."

Facing Ilva's words, Ellie decisively refused. They were willing to help Lord Galen before because he provided them with identification, and in return they came to investigate the child trafficking incident. For Ellie, the most important thing at the moment is to conquer the seven mazes, and now there are only five left... but there is no time to waste here.

“…”

Hearing Ellie's answer, Ilva's expression stiffened slightly, and then he coughed.

"Is this a good idea? You know, those nobles who died had a lot of influence in the kingdom. If this matter gets out, it will not be good for you."

"This matter has nothing to do with us, or do you have evidence to prove it?"

Of course Ellie wouldn't give in.

"But then again, the great Forth is not only a commercial center, but it is also engaged in child trafficking. If this matter gets out, it will be a problem for you."

"Well……"

Hearing this, Ilva was speechless. As Ellie said, there were reports of children being abducted and missing throughout the Kingdom of Balbagia, and some nobles were involved. If they knew that Foss was the center of this matter, then... it would be a big problem!

By the way, in fact, what Ai Li said just now was already a confession, but both sides knew it very well, so the verbal confrontation was simply used to gain an advantage for themselves. Originally, Ilva hoped to do Ai Li and others a favor and hope that they would do him a favor, but he didn't expect Ai Li to be unmoved. It's no wonder, they are not from this world, and Ai Li's only goal at present is to open the channel to the core of the imaginary tree to cause trouble, and she has no mood to care about the lives of people in this world.

Although Ilva's previous words implied that the Adventurer's Guild could help Ellie resist the malice from the nobles, Ellie didn't care about it at all. Come on if you are not afraid of death, let's see who is afraid of who?

In fact, it is Foss that is passive in this matter, because Foss is a neutral commercial city, and what it fears most is that someone will use an excuse to interfere in its jurisdiction. However, once the news that there is a secret organization trafficking children in the entire kingdom spreads, both the royal family and the local nobles will try their best to intervene. At that time, Foss's neutral status will be in jeopardy, and in the worst case, even its autonomy will be taken away...

"I see."

It was not until this time that Ilva realized the gap in strength between the two sides and had to bow his head.

"Well, since you have nothing to do with this matter, I am being rude... I will try my best to investigate and restore the truth of the incident as much as possible and find out the cause."

"I hope you can resolve this issue."

Ellie stood up with a smile on her face.

"We also hope to get a satisfactory outcome."

Only when Ellie's figure disappeared from behind the door did Ilva sigh and lean back in his chair.

"What a difficult person..."

Ilva shook his head while muttering to himself.

When he met Ellie, Ilva was thinking about taking advantage of her. In his opinion, even if this little girl was extremely powerful, she couldn't have much knowledge. In fact, after seeing the wreckage of the explosion site yesterday, Ilva also thought so. In his opinion, this group of adventurers must have seen children being trafficked and were angry to do this. They were naive and simple.

In this way, as long as Ilva states the pros and cons and then uses some means, he should be able to tie him together with others, or at least bring them closer together.

However, what Ilva did not expect was that the girl named Ellie who led them was not as easy to deal with as he imagined. Not only did she have a clear understanding of the current situation, she had even calculated the status and political losses of Foss himself. What made Ilva even more headache was that the other party seemed to be indifferent and lawless.

Combined with the fact that they have successfully conquered the 65th floor of the Great Maze, it can be confirmed that these girls know exactly what they are doing, and do not care about the drawbacks that may arise from it. They also have enough strength and confidence to face all troubles.

In this case, Ilva's prepared luring and threats were useless, not to mention that the other party was not without the ability to fight back. As Ellie said, there were frequent kidnappings of children in the Kingdom of Barbagia. Once the other party spread this matter, it would mean that Foss's status as a neutral commercial trade city would be in jeopardy...

So in the end, Ilva had no choice but to bow his head and admit defeat, signing an unsigned armistice agreement with the other party. Not only that, he also had to work hard to clean up the mess...

But no matter what, at least the purpose of the communication was achieved. The other party was an adventurer with legendary strength that had never appeared before. As long as they still had this identity, it would be a great profit for the Adventurer's Guild. Thinking of this, Ilva sighed and stopped talking.

I hope they won't cause any more trouble here.

After a cordial and friendly conversation with President Ilva, Ellie returned to the hotel. When she walked into the room, the first thing she saw was the Sea People girl who was playing with Nana.

“Ah, Sister Ellie!!”

Seeing Ai Li coming back, the girl from the Sea People tribe smiled happily, stretched out her hand, ran towards Ai Li, and threw herself into Ai Li's arms.

"I'm back. Is Myuu behaving well?"

Looking at the girl in her arms, Ai Li smiled and reached out her hand, gently touching her little head. The latter also closed her eyes and enjoyed Ai Li's touch.

"Well, Myuu has always been obedient."

"Yes, Sister Ai Li, Xiao Miao is very obedient."

At this moment, Nana also came over and happily touched the hair of the seaman girl named Myu. After yesterday's auction, although the other children were sent to the Adventurer's Association, only Myu was brought back by Ai Li. The reason was simple. Myu was a seaman, and the discrimination against subhumans in this world was deeply rooted. In addition, the seaman seemed to be a very rare species among subhumans, so even if she was handed over to the other party, she might be captured again.

In addition, after asking Mu, Ai Li learned that the city where Mu lived was located overseas, just on the blue sea east of Ordana. As long as she returned to Wanhua Valley, she could send her back directly, so Ai Li brought her here directly.

As for Miu, she seemed to be very close to Ai Li and didn't want to be separated from her. Of course, the other three girls also liked her very much, especially Nana, who almost regarded Miu as a sister. As for Yue... She wanted Miu to call her mom, but Miu said that she already had a mom, which shocked Yue.

Of course, the happiest person is Nana, because Xiao Miao is so cute, well-behaved and obedient, she simply treats Xiao Miao as her own sister. This is no wonder, after all, although Nana and Meng Meng are sisters, but because of the latter's dark side, Nana can hardly hold her head up in front of Meng Meng, not to mention that Meng Meng's figure is much better than Nana's, and she often uses this to mock Nana.

In comparison, Xiao Miao is well-behaved, obedient and cute... Nana even thought about replacing her sister with Xiao Miao.

Of course, if Mengmeng knew about this idea of ​​hers, Nana would be dead.

"Get ready, let's go."

"Want to leave here?"

"Well, the matter has been resolved, and the Great Labyrinth has been conquered. Let's send Xiao Miao back to her mother first, and then go back to the Valley of Flowers to check on the situation. As for Lord John, I have left a letter for him at the Adventurer's Guild, so it should be fine."

After making sure everything was ready, Ellie led everyone directly out of the hotel and flew into the sky.

Everyone was having a great time along the way. If I had to say something, Yue was a little unhappy. Because of little Miao, Yue had to give up her own seat. Now the three of them were sitting on the broom as if they were sitting on a bicycle. Yue, who was originally curled up in Ai Li's arms, had to sit in the back and put his arms around Ai Li's waist, while Miao sat in the front in Ai Li's arms, stretched out his hands to tightly grasp Ai Li's clothes, while he widened his eyes in surprise, looking at the scenery around him and shouting non-stop.

For the sea people who live in the sea, it was the first time for Xiao Miao to fly so high in the sky, so he was naturally very excited. He pointed here and there from time to time and asked others.

"Sister Ellie, what is that?"

“That’s the river.”

"Eh? It looks as thin as a thread, is that a mountain? Myuu used to think that mountains were very high, but I didn't expect them to be so low... Ah, the human town looks like a toy house...!"

Seeing the excited look of Miu in their arms, Ai Li and Nana both breathed a sigh of relief. They were originally worried that she would have some psychological trauma if she was captured by humans and sold as a slave, but now it seems that there is no big problem.

At this moment, Miao reached out his hand curiously again.

"Sister Ellie, what is that?"

"Oh, what is that...?"

Looking in the direction of Mu's finger, Ai Li was about to answer casually, but after seeing the situation over there clearly, she was also stunned for a moment.

Looking ahead, not far below, a fire was rising into the sky, and thick smoke was billowing. Looking closely, a large group of wriggling monsters could be seen moving forward. In front of them was a town.

Monsters attacking the city?

This is really unexpected.

Looking at the large number of monsters below, Ellie thought for a while and finally decided... to go over and take a look at the situation.

But at this moment, outside the town, the scene was completely different.

"Why! Why is this happening! Shimizu-san!!"

Standing on the high wall of the town, looking at the army of monsters surrounding the town, a short woman clenched her fists and shouted loudly. Her name is Hatayama Aiko, a teacher and one of the messengers sent to this world by the gods. At that time, Aiko was teaching students, and then the whole class was transferred to this world. Even after listening to the Pope's words, she did not want her students to fight in this other world.

This time she came here to look for her missing student. Originally, Hatayama Aiko thought that her student had met with an accident, but she didn't expect that when they met again, it would turn out like this - her student controlled thousands of monsters, appeared here in a domineering manner, and tried to destroy the town.

"Why did you do this? Whatever the reason is, can you tell the teacher?"

"Huh? Why would I do something like this?"

Standing on the black dragon's head behind the group of monsters, a young man covered in a black robe had a distorted face and stared gloomily at Hatayama Aiko and others on the city wall.

"Is this even necessary? Because you never take me seriously!"

"……Why?"

"We have traveled to a different world, a different world! Logically speaking, shouldn't it be the time for me, the most insignificant person in the class, to become a hero? But why is it still him, still Guanghui!"

The boy waved his hands angrily and yelled loudly, while Hatayama Aiko and the students around her were stunned, not knowing what to say.

Shimizu Yukitoshi was originally just an ordinary high school student, a closed and introverted otaku. He knew that he had no outstanding qualities, so he immersed himself in novels about traveling to another world every day, especially those novels about other worlds, in which the protagonists who were originally unknown but were able to rise up and become brave and heroic after traveling through time became Shimizu Yukitoshi's favorite.

Therefore, when he was really summoned and came to this world, Shimizu Yukitoshi's first reaction was "Here it comes! My time to be in another world has come!"

Next, according to the routines of those isekai light novels that Yukitoshi Shimizu has read, he will possess special abilities that no one can rival. Even those who were once popular in the class will have to succumb to him. Countless beauties will throw themselves into his arms and form his harem... It should have been like this!

However, the reality is cruel.

Even though he was teleported to another world, the one who possessed the vocation of a hero was still the most popular classmate, Tian Zhihe Guanghui. And the others gathered around him as always, and even though he gained abilities by traveling to another world, he was still just one of the inconspicuous passers-by.

This made Shimizu Yukitoshi unable to accept it. Why? Why is it like this? It's not written like this in the novel! In the novel, shouldn't those who can't be proud in real life be the protagonists of the other world? Why, why would someone like Amanokawa Kouki become the protagonist in the other world!

This doesn't make sense at all!

That's right, this is not the reasonable other world I want. This is an unreasonable other world. I have to correct all of this and make this world what I want it to be!

With this idea in mind, Shimizu Yukitoshi got help from someone and successfully used his skill "Dark Attribute Magic" to brainwash and manipulate a large number of monsters, even the dragon succumbed to his control.

At this moment, Yukitoshi Shimizu finally regained his confidence.

That’s right, I am the protagonist. This is the treatment that a protagonist who travels to another world should have!

"But don't worry about it now, Aiko-sensei."

Staring at his teacher and former classmate standing on the city gate, Shimizu Yukitoshi smiled sinisterly.

"I will show you who is the protagonist of this world. I will also use my magic to brainwash you all and make you become my loyal servants... hehehe..."

As he spoke, Shimizu Yukitoshi stared at Aiko and the female students around her. Although Aiko, as a teacher, was already in her twenties, she looked very young, and the girls around her were all popular types in the class. When he thought that as long as he could capture this town, he could hold them all in his arms, use magic to completely brainwash them, and make them slaves at his mercy, Shimizu Yukitoshi could no longer resist the desire in his heart.

Noticing Shimizu Yukitoshi's gaze, Hatayama Aiko and the students around her also turned pale. They certainly would not ignore the malice in each other's eyes, but now...

"Teacher, let's fight him!"

The female students next to Hatayama Aiko raised their weapons and stood in front of Aiko. As a teacher, Hatayama Aiko, who traveled to another world, naturally also had abilities, but her abilities were not in combat, but in agricultural power, which made her completely unable to fight and protect herself.

"Hahahaha, you guys think you can beat me?"

Looking at this scene, Shimizu Yukitoshi laughed.

"Do you know what this is? It's a dragon! Can you defeat a dragon? Now, let me show you what kind of power a protagonist should have!"

“——!!”

As if to cooperate with Shimizu Yukitoshi's words, the black dragon opened its mouth and let out an angry roar. Just by hearing this terrifying dragon roar, the students standing next to Aiko twisted their bodies and collapsed to the ground like they were drunk.

"Hahaha, this is the power of the protagonist. You guys are there to experience what the consequences of resisting the protagonist will be!!"

Seeing this scene, Shimizu Yukitoshi burst into laughter, then he raised his hand and waved forward.

"Monsters, come at me!!!"

As Shimizu Yukitoshi spoke, the monsters roared and pounced towards the towns - then the next moment, they stopped as if they had hit an invisible wall, and each of them held their heads with their hands, shivering and curled up on the ground.

At the same time, an incomparable pressure descended from the sky.

"It seems that group wearing is not a good idea after all."

Ellie, sitting on the broom, slowly descended. She squinted her eyes and stared at Qingshui Yukiri who was standing on top of the black dragon.

"As expected, there are all kinds of birds in a big forest. If there are too many people traveling through time, will this kind of trash appear? Forget it..."

As she spoke, Ellie shook her head and raised her magic wand.

"You, who are you!"

Seeing the monsters stop in front of Ai Li, Shimizu Yukitoshi roared loudly. Ai Li just smiled softly in response to his roar.

"Guess what, aren't you the protagonist? Then guess what role will I play?"

"...You look down on me too, you all look down on me!!"

The contemptuous sneer in Ai Li's eyes completely stimulated Shimizu Yukitoshi's inner anger. At this moment, he finally completely lost his mind.

“Kill her! Black Dragon! Chop this woman into pieces!!!!”

Along with Shimizu Yukitoshi's angry roar, the next moment, the black dragon roared, spread its wings, and pounced on Ai Li.