Lia continued to stand there as she watched the human turning around and walking away in a fury. She was so shocked after hearing those words that she couldn't react for a moment. Indeed, more than half of the words he spoke were true, and she didn't want to admit this. She had never imagined someone would come and scold her like this with so many harsh words.

After a long time, she parted her lips and closed them as if wanting to say something but didn't know what. But she couldn't help it. Her hatred for the elves was deep-rooted, and no one could change how she thought about them. To her, the elves had caused her the highest misery to the point that she couldn't forgive them.

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After a long time, she gathered her emotions and sneered as she looked toward the door. It was opened ever since Zion left her room and went out to who knows where. She took a deep breath and muttered under her breath. "I should see what that human servant's been upto. If he dies, all my effort will go to vain!"

Then she instantly took her silver-colored sword, hung it at her waist, and walked out with a darkened expression on her face.

Even though she didn't know where her servant had gone, she could try looking for him at a few places and stalk him all day and night! If he ended up falling victim to the elves' schemes, then he shouldn't blame her for dragging him out of here!

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On the other side, Zion was regretting whatever he said to the princess. He knew that it was difficult to make him so irritated that he ended up speaking nonsense, and when he did, he had no control over his mouth. It was almost as if his auto speaking mode was turned on, and whatever the first thought he encountered in his mind, he would end up uttering those words without any reservations.

He pursed his lips as he remembered what he said at the end. He really didn't mean to seek death by being mean to Lia, but what else could he do? She made him so frustrated by her actions and words that he didn't have a choice but to go all out.

She wouldn't kill him, right?

He pursed his lips and didn't think about it anymore. It didn't matter anyway. Even if she were dead set on killing him, he would hide first and wait for the system's arrival. After that, he would change his identity to hide from her.

But the reason why he wanted her to get involved was for the sake of simplifying things here. Now that he saw her reaction to the elves, he grew more curious about Lia's and the elves' past.

To be honest, his first and foremost goal after coming into this world had always been survival. Even though he had hypocritically thought that he would be indifferent to death, when faced with a choice, he had instead chosen to kill his morals and live on. Even though he had been saying all about saving people, deep in his heart, he still wanted to survive, and he wouldn't hesitate to abandon everything else for the sake of living.

Who wouldn't want to live? He had already gotten a second chance at living with all of his memories intact. Of course, he was worried that he would end up repeating the same mistakes that he had made in the first case. He didn't want to be the reason behind the deaths of millions of people, but this was also for the sake of his survival.

He didn't want to fall into situations that could lead to his demise. He knew well that if he were to be the reason for the destruction of the entire kingdom again, he wouldn't be able to escape the royals the next time. And ever since he arrived in this world, his luck had been far from good. Plus, the black-cloaked man was still out there, and he didn't even know whether that guy only wanted the Dhampir kingdom. So he had a hunch that he should take every step carefully in the future.

That was why he needed to be on his guard, not letting a single opportunity to live slip away from his palms.

Before he could continue to think on this topic, he reached the place he wanted the most: The village chief's house. The two guards from before were still standing on either side of the main gate to stop anyone from entering. After seeing that, Zion ignored the entrance and walked behind the house to look for a backdoor. Surprisingly, this house didn't have a single backdoor that could open from the kitchen.

Maybe he would have to enter the house from the window.

After thinking like this, he climbed at the boundary wall and instantly jumped down without making any noise. What he didn't know was that a certain princess found him quickly since she knew what he planned to do. She had assumed that he would come marching down at the doors of the village chief. So when she arrived, she found this human walking to the backside of the village chief's house. She pursed her lips and followed him.

When they reached inside, she heard a few people talking about the murder in the village.

"The chief is going to have a meeting today." Both Zion and Lia heard this sentence, and they turned toward a soldier walking down the garden. At this time, they both had just jumped down from the boundary wall and hid in the shrubs. The detective was unaware of Lia's presence. He looked at the soldiers still talking. "Two officials from the royal court are going to arrive since things have gotten out of hand. This time, the murderer has increased the number of children he killed again, so everyone is worried."

"Of course, they'll be," another elf soldier said and shook his head. "You don't know what it's like to lose your child in the blink of an eye. The residents are on the verge of collapse, especially after hearing how the murderer kidnapped those twins from their homes. They're all frightened." A trace of sympathy flashed in the soldier's eyes. "I pity the village chief. The responsibility on his shoulders suddenly increased."

"And we still have to follow that Dhampir girl and her human servant." The first soldier spoke with a hint of irritation in his voice. "There's no evidence. Who knows why the chief wants to stalk them."

"He's just desperate." The second soldier defended the village chief. "He could have doubted even an elf traveler who was acting all high and mighty like her."

Zion stopped focusing on those two soldiers after that. Their conversation topic changed to girls and marriage. But here, the detective had a frown on his forehead. Although he had expected the village chief to be suspicious of him and Lia, he still felt uncomfortable after hearing it from the soldiers' mouths.

It seemed his future in this place was going to be difficult.