Travelers

"Where did you start listening?"

The atmosphere was very awkward for a while, but Gullea confirmed the most important thing.

As the last family of magical girls, it was necessary to maintain the absolute purity of the magical girls' bloodline, which is why the ancestors of the Wang Millio family created this heirloom spell of unknown significance.

If it turned out that the Wang Millio family had such a spell, then all the roots and honor of the Wang Millio family would be questioned.

Perhaps in the world of magical girls, the surname Van Millio would be forever condemned to social death.

And Rhea, because of whom everything went wrong, can be subjected to a punishment more terrible than death.

If everything collapsed..., Leia already had pieces of solidified space ready in her palm, and depending on the situation, she would just use the solidified space to throw the girl along with the apple cage into the dimension crevices.

"I only used this gentleman's car to escape, and I wasn't going to eavesdrop... your singing voice, but your aria was so ... masterful that it woke even a stupid mortal like me from a nap. "

The young woman laughed wildly, looking around as if looking for a man who should have been sitting in the driver's seat.

"But I clearly remember that I got into the cart when the gentleman was asleep, and you were not in the bucket at that time, so may I ask if you are a lady thief? Or a robber?"

The girl waved away her intrusion into the apple cage, and then began to ask Rhea a rhetorical question.

Rhea was immediately going to get receipts for the purchase of a carriage and horses to prove her innocence, but stopped in the middle of the movement.

The bills of exchange, the merchant's certificates-everything was in the name of Fente.

"I bought the carriage and all the goods, and now they are, of course, mine, because it happened so unexpectedly that the government was not informed about it, but I really paid for it."

In response, Rhea could only lie, which was obvious at first glance.

"That's impressive, the sister is a child from a rich family, right, I remember it was Wang Millio?".

"Well...hmm."

"The same Noel who was a collector of copper coins and the original banker? Lady Van Millio's family!"

Before the girl could finish, Rhea closed her mouth, looking around nervously.

Fortunately, her cheap mother didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere....

The reason Rhea's heart was hanging in the air was not because she was afraid that her mother would break her promise to take her home early to inherit the family business if she suddenly showed up, but because of how Rhea looked now.

How could it happen that after only four years of absence, she succumbed to loneliness and now happily pretends to be a girl? ..... Mom would be so happy to laugh at Rhea.

No, that's not what's important right now," Rhea shook her head, shaking melancholy out of her head and edifying at the same time.

"That name shouldn't be spoken!"

"The right word, if you call her by name, you will end up in an eternity of mining and minting in hell, where there is only copper... sorry sorry sorry sorry."

The girl also closed her mouth to show that she would never do it again.

"Returning to the topic, what is your name, are you a local resident? Fugitive or whatever, in any case, you will be the first to get out of my apple pile."

The girl reluctantly pulled away, her cheap, coarse clothes were covered with burn marks, all dirty and emitting a strange stench.

She was far from Rhea, who could reflect light even in the moonlight, and her body was full of elegance.

"My name is Gloria, I am an alchemist student at the Kalailis Academy of Alchemy. I specialize in the preparation of various tonics and some aggressive and sharply energetic organic substances in fragile tin cans."

"Speak humanly."

"I specialize in rubbing potions and bombs."

Kalailis is the northernmost city of the kingdom of Aarvgard.

It is located 3,700 kilometers from the southern kingdom.

I realized that being sold to the south to become an apprentice alchemist of earth bombs, such a vicious thing is better left to the Order, the witch should simply be responsible for cheating with food and emptying the public purse.

"It so happens that I'm going to Karafrog, how about handing you over to the Knights of the Order there, and they will take you home by train back to school."

Gloria shook her head and hurriedly grabbed Rhea's shirt.

"Those who kidnapped me here are the teachers of the academy, they take students whose parents have died in the name of charity and sell them to the needy after learning basic knowledge of alchemy."

The so-called needy people were naturally all sorts of gangs and thieves.

"So what do you want to do in the future?".

"Get a job as a pharmacist in a place like Karaflog, right? I ran away anyway, but it's warm in the south, and in winter snow falls only at the end of November."

"Don't you want revenge?"

A rare, rather cheerful Gloria did not answer.

An alchemist's apprentice is usually twelve or thirteen years old, and extrapolating that age, she would have been abducted five years ago.

For five years she was surrounded by her own will, then escaped while chaos reigned...

Rhea admired such determination and bravery.

She was ashamed of him when she thought about the depression he had fallen into because he had no one to keep him company.

To hide her shame, Rhea led Gloria to the platform of the wagon, stuffed her with two wolf skins to warm her, and started the horse galloping again.

Even on official roads, few people drove at night, unless they had a good reason for it.

In the jolting carriage, Ray suddenly felt like she had made a decision before she even said it.

"They don't take alchemist apprentices, if you're an alchemist's apprentice, you have to be at least a full alchemist. There is a lot of pressure on employment these days."

Gloria's head sank lower and lower with every implacable word Leia said.

"Then how about traveling with me, I'm a traveling merchant."

Perhaps it was because she had been looking at the horses' asses for too long, and Rhea was as overcome by loneliness as Fante; or perhaps it was because she admired the irresistible courage and wisdom of the young girl, and Rhea's ghost said so.

"A traveling merchant?"

"Well, someone who wanders from south to north, buying goods and then selling them according to the needs of their customers."

"But I can't do business."

"Just imagine that you are traveling with me as a companion... No, that won't do."

"Well, it won't work, we met in person, and it's really nice of you to give me a ride, Rhea, but I can't follow you like this."

Gloria's will to escape from bandits and thieves was strong enough to make her refuse to hug the knees of a rich woman, which was an extremely cheap way to live.

Or maybe she didn't really trust Rhea yet?

However, none of this mattered: the fact that someone was sitting next to her after a long absence made her pick up the whip and feel completely new.

The driver's seat, which had seemed somewhat spacious for one person, was now too cramped for two.

However, it was no worse, as they huddled together to keep warm from the cold.

Even if it was only before Karafrog, feeling Gloria's breath next to her, Rhea leaned a little closer to her.