Second candy
"Two pretty boys." The man in the white cloak said this, but his eyes turned back after passing by Violet.
Velvet was still dressed as a street magician, having removed the wooden box that held her props. She wore a white shirt and a brown vest. The shirt was unbuttoned, revealing two collarbones, while the vest was buttoned, framing her slender waist. The sleeves of her shirt were rolled up, revealing her long, fair hands. Her pants were simple brown trousers, and her boots, second-hand or third-hand, were worn a little at the edges, but they still accentuated Velvet's slender figure.
If they had seen someone dressed like this in the palace, the White Cloaks would have definitely disliked their slovenliness, but now in this forest, watching the man use his boots to twist the carbonized wood and extinguish the last spark.
White Cloak suddenly felt that this was a kind of unrestrainedness that she had never seen in the palace. Coupled with the ease in the other party's every gesture, this unrestrainedness not only did not seem embarrassing, but made him look more relaxed.
More unbridled than the noble royal family, yet more reserved than the mercenaries living on the edge of a knife.
The woman in the white cloak's gaze was so unrestrained that even wood could be brought to life by her stare.
Evelyn noticed the first time the White Cloak's gaze fell on Violet. Her face turned cold, and she took a step forward to block Violet, looking at the White Cloak with a warning look.
The woman in the white cloak stared back without dodging. She was used to being spoiled and acted like, "I'm just looking, what can you do to me?"
Before White Mantle could make further provocation, the mercenary captain stepped in front of her, interrupting the unfriendly eye contact between White Mantle and Evelyn. "Miss, the tent has been set up. You can go and rest."
White Mantle wanted to say something, but she glanced at the mercenary captain's serious face and shifted her gaze. The mercenaries moved quickly. After setting up tent after tent, they began to build a fire and prepare food. White Mantle scoffed, but she didn't respond. She walked straight to the center tent and shouted at the timid maid outside, "Go make my bed!"
"Yes...Miss." The maid bowed slightly, laid out a cushion for her to sit on, and then leaned into the tent.
White Cloak was still upset, and she sat down on the cushion angrily.
The mercenaries on the side looked at the surprised face of the woman in white cloak, pushing each other, "Give her this food, otherwise she will make trouble again." A female mercenary raised the roasted vegetables in her hand and said.
“…”
The mercenary captain watched White Cloak bite into the vegetables silently before looking away. She walked over to Evelyn and Violet, who were packing up the tent, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, our lady is a little grumpy because she didn't sleep last night. She always acts like this, and it's not directed at you."
Evelyn and Violet were a little surprised that the mercenary captain had come to explain. Violet said, "People of noble birth all have tempers. It's understandable."
It's not that they are particularly generous, it's just that they met by chance and there will be no chance of meeting again after they part. This kind of thing is not worth taking to heart.
"Do you still want to go into the forest?" the mercenary captain continued to ask.
"Yeah." Wilt nodded.
"Us too. We are going the same way." The mercenary captain said with a smile.
Evelyn stopped what she was doing and looked at the mercenary captain scrutinizingly, then looked at the man in the white cloak from a distance.
The way the white-cloaked man looked at Violet made Evelyn feel uncomfortable. Was this mercenary captain just being polite? Or did he have other motives?
In front of the mercenary team's tent, the mercenaries gathered in groups of three or five. They all avoided the White Cloak's tent, leaving a vacuum zone there.
However, although they kept a distance, for safety reasons, the tents were not far apart and everyone's voices could be heard clearly.
"Boss, why did you have to talk to these two people?" The mercenary looked at the mercenary captain and said with a hint of contempt, "Are you trying to recruit them? A magician whose strength is unknown, and an ordinary person.
"Forget about magicians, but aren't ordinary people afraid of being held back?"
Mercenaries travel around all year round and have their own skills in observing people.
"You know the boss well. Once he sees a woman with some ability, he wants to make friends with her. Besides, those two people live in the same tent. It may not be possible to recruit only one of them." said a swordsman.
"Oh - wait until they join the team, I have to go and get closer to them and ask them how to make the magician obey my orders."
"Come on, you could do it if you had a good face," the swordsman scoffed.
woman?
After finishing her vegetables, the woman in white cloak felt that her cloak was troublesome, so she asked the maid to help her take off the cloak and put it in the tent. She muttered these two words, gave half of the food to the maid, and then turned to look at Evelyn through the gap in the tent.
After observing him this way, the man in white cloak did see something - the other person had no Adam's apple, his hair was slightly curled at the ends, his hands were clean and had no calluses, and the whole body outline was softer.
And on her… White Cloak's gaze stopped at Evelin's waist. She wore a space bag around her waist. The pattern on the bag… White Cloak frowned, thinking carefully. The pattern seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before. However, the patterns she could remember were all from the nobility.
No wonder those mercenaries asked about "the method of abducting noble ladies and elopement."
A gigolo who lives off women?
The woman in white cloak snorted and the anger she had been holding in her heart disappeared completely. She raised her eyebrows, determined to win.
Meanwhile, the mercenary captain was still trying to get close to Evelyn and Vilt.
"Are you two here in the forest to collect something?"
"Looking for herbs," Violet replied. This was not something that needed to be hidden.
"Hmm." The mercenary captain nodded. "The deeper you go into the forest, the more dangerous it gets. It's not safe for just the two of you."
When the mercenary captain said this, Evelin guessed what he was going to say next. Sure enough, the mercenary captain continued to say to her, "Everyone is going to go into the forest. Now is a good time to meet each other and travel together." The other party smiled sincerely, "How is it?"
Evelyn didn't think much of it. Who knows what the man in the white cloak was thinking when he looked at Violet. So, Evelyn put one hand behind her back and gently pulled on Violet's sleeve.
It made no difference to Vilt whether two people or a group entered the forest. She also noticed that the mercenary captain seemed to be talking to the two of them, but in fact most of his attention was on Evelyn.
The other party intended to recruit Evelyn, the magician, and I was probably just a bonus.
After all, Evelyn's plan to go to Violet Academy and the mercenary team were different, so the mercenary captain's plan was in vain; and... Violet tilted her head slightly, and Evelyn's index finger was still hooked on her sleeve.
Violet looked away, her gaze darting towards the mercenary group's tent. She was about to refuse, but her gaze froze, and her arm moved slightly. "She's the princess of the Soleil Kingdom?"
The mercenary captain and Evelyn heard Violet's voice and looked in the direction she was looking. Violet was looking at the man in the white cloak!
The mercenary captain held her forehead helplessly. She had told Sophia to put away everything that could show her identity to avoid danger, but it was obvious that the princess ignored her words. The royal emblem of the Kingdom of Sorrero was hanging carelessly on her chest.
Her Royal Highness had no intention of concealing her identity, and the mercenary captain had nothing to hide either. She nodded and said, "Yes, we are here to find a suitable magical beast crystal for Her Royal Highness."
"The Kingdom of Soleil?" Evelyn repeated these words.
She had heard of this kingdom, which was right next door. Why would the princess of the Solelo Kingdom personally lead a mercenary team to search for the Warcraft Crystal?
Vilt didn't know what Evelin was thinking. When she heard her mention the kingdom, she said, "Well, the environment over there is not bad."
Especially the national treasury, which Violet had visited several times.
Violet, not forgetting that she hadn't yet responded to the mercenary captain's invitation, nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, I might have to trouble you on the rest of the journey."
"Welcome to join the mercenary team temporarily." The mercenary captain also laughed, "My name is Bandusli."
"White."
"Evelyn." Violet and Evelyn said the name one after another.
When Evelyn was communicating with her classmate Du Sili, she knew that her gender had been recognized by the other party.
Her disguise wasn't as good as Velvet's, and Evelyn had no intention of disguising her gender, so it was easy for her to be seen through. Furthermore, the other party had even revealed that there was a princess on the team, so Evelyn's mere reveal of her gender wasn't a big deal.
Wait a minute, Princess? Evelin's heart was filled with a sense of crisis. Why didn't she realize just now that "Princess" might not mean anything to others, but that was—
Evelyn glanced sideways at Violet, whose expression was natural and calm, and whose gaze had long since turned away from the princess.
It doesn't seem like anything special at the moment, but why did Violet agree to stay after recognizing the other person's identity?
Evelyn couldn't think of any reason other than "princess." But Violet was... Evelyn bit her lip.
"We'll probably rest for the morning and set off in the afternoon. Your tent has been packed up, so why don't you come over to our place to rest? It's a good opportunity to get to know the members of our mercenary team." Bandusli's voice brought Evelyn back to her senses.
"Okay." She heard her voice and Violet's voice overlapping, and the two of them walked towards the mercenary team together.
"You just said you wanted to find herbs. What herbs are you looking for?" Bandusli asked when they arrived in front of the mercenary team's tent.
"Bai Se Ye." said Violet.
"Baiseye?" Bandusili had heard the name of this herb. Many guilds would use this herb to make special ink to write secret letters.
"I need this for my new magic trick," Violet explained.
"Oh." Bandusli nodded. She was about to say something else when a voice suddenly rang out from behind her, interrupting her. "I didn't expect you to be a magician."
The white-cloaked princess walked up to Violet, and the contemptuous expression she had shown upon their first meeting disappeared completely. Although her expression was still a little superior, she took the initiative to extend her hand to Violet, inadvertently revealing the jewel bracelet on her wrist. "Hello, I'm Sophia."
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