“Can you eat a little more gracefully?” Mo Li looked at the girl sitting across from him, devouring her food without any manners, with a head full of black lines.
“It’s good, so good… a hundred times better than mountain wax flowers!” The cloaked girl mumbled with her mouth full of food.
“Mountain wax flowers?” Mo Li raised an eyebrow.
It seemed to be a type of wildflower that could be eaten raw and was widely distributed.
Although edible, it was only used as a last-resort food with low nutritional value and a taste like chewing wax, hence the name mountain wax flowers.
Due to its cheapness and strange taste, eating mountain wax flowers was colloquially known as eating dirt.
Did this girl really eat mountain wax flowers all the way here? He only resorted to eating that stuff when he was truly desperate and starving, as the taste was really unpalatable unless one was extremely hungry.
Why does this silly girl eat like she’s been starved to death? Mo Li, who was internally complaining endlessly, didn’t seem to realize that his own eating habits weren’t much better to criticize others.
“Are you full? How do you feel?” Mo Li leaned back on the bench, expressionless, watching the girl who had just swept the table clean of roast goose and marinated dishes like a whirlwind.
“It’s delicious! So delicious it could explode, I’ve never eaten anything so good… ahem~ well, it’s okay, another half a piece of strawberry cake and I think I’ll be good.” Realizing her gaffe, Limdis quickly changed her words, coughing twice to cover her embarrassment.
“Do all foxes have such big appetites?” Mo Li glanced at the empty plate, cleaner than his face, and frowned slightly.
“Don’t you gain weight?”
“Let me correct you, I am not of the same race as the Saintess, I am a retainer of the Divine Fox, not the Divine Fox itself.”
“Retainer?” Mo Li furrowed his brow.
“Are you a beast under Aurevigia?”
“Oh, oh, you are really interesting, knowing my master’s surname, not many humans like you are seen.
Along the way, I have preached my master’s holiness to the human race several times, yet everyone dismissed it as a scam, humph, truly a bunch of blind and hopeless mortals.” Feeling full and satisfied, the chuunibyou girl Limdis stood proudly with her hands on her hips.
“If I remember correctly, your Saintess told you not to reveal your identity, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then may I ask, Miss Limdis, why have you been promoting your Saintess to everyone you meet along the way, and during fights, you can’t stop mentioning the Divine Fox? Do you think your identity isn’t sensitive or obvious enough?” Mo Li raised an eyebrow.
“Eh, is there a direct connection between promoting the Divine Fox and revealing my identity?” Limdis rubbed her chin, seemingly unable to understand the mystery.
Mo Li was speechless.
If he were that Saintess, he would probably want to beat this silly girl up.
“Oh, stranger traveler, thank you for generously paying to relieve my predicament temporarily.
The one favored by the Divine Fox will not forget your kindness, kind young man, may the Divine Fox bless your future, and the ancestor of the Divine Fox will forever sing of your supreme virtue at the world’s end.”
“You’re welcome, but Miss Ludewell, who told you this meal was on me?” Mo Li looked at Limdis with a strange expression.
“Huh, huh?!” Limdis was stunned, then her face changed dramatically, her cute and pretty face quickly turning red with embarrassment.
“Wait, wait! Didn’t you bring me here to eat?!”
“Don’t talk nonsense, I didn’t force you to come, you misunderstood and insisted on following… and I have no obligation to pay for you, right, Miss Ludewell? Or do you think you’re so charming that you easily got a free meal ticket?” Mo Li looked at Limdis with amusement.
“Ugh, ugh…” Limdis’s hands twisted together in shame, her head lowered, staring at her knees, the embarrassment of misunderstanding making her want to disappear.
“Does Miss Ludewell think there’s such a thing as a free lunch in this world?”
“…Clearly, mountain wax flowers can be picked and eaten freely.”
“This isn’t as simple as mountain wax flowers, in the human kingdom, eating these foods prepared by chefs requires paying a processing fee.” Mo Li tossed a bill to Limdis.
“This is your bill, see how much you spent on this meal.”
“Uh uh…” A string of dizzying numbers with the total amount written below.
“Three hundred and fifty copper coins?…”
“A total of three silver coins plus fifty copper coins.” Mo Li said calmly.
“So, Miss Limdis, pay up.”
“I didn’t eat a bite of this meal, I watched the whole time, so it’s all on you, pay up, the owner is getting impatient, and by the way, this place doesn’t allow credit, if you don’t pay, you’ll be taken as a laborer.”
“Ugh, ugh…” Limdis shed tears of regret, but it was to no avail.
“What to do? Being detained as a laborer will definitely delay the competition, right?… How about this, I’ll pay for you, but this money will count as your debt to me, understand?” Mo Li showed a triumphant smile and continued.
“Since you owe me, you have to repay it, in the future, whatever I ask you to do, or whatever I want to do to you, you can’t complain, got it?”
“Miss Limdis is a good girl~ You don’t need me to teach you the simple principle of repaying debts, right? Besides, if your Saintess finds out you ate for free and didn’t pay your debts, she might start to dislike you.”
“Ugh ugh…!” A barrage of words left Limdis defenseless, hitting her right in the heart.
Yes, what she valued most was undoubtedly her Saintess, if the Saintess really despised her for this, she would be so desperate she’d want to die.
“I, I understand…” The girl pleaded softly, like a bullied child.
“Then first, take off your clothes.” Mo Li said with a calm face.
“Eh, eh eh?!”
“What are you surprised about? Didn’t I just say, whatever I do to you, you can’t resist.” Mo Li said with a wicked smile.
“Ugh, but, but…”
“This is my order, it’s what you owe me, isn’t it?”
“Ugh, but this is really embarrassing…”
“Take it off.” Mo Li urged coldly.
“But, there are so many people here…”
“Isn’t that even better?” Mo Li’s lips curled slightly.
“Show yourself off in front of everyone.”
“Come on, take it off, this is part of repaying your debt.”
“…Damn it, making me do this kind of thing…” Limdis’s eyes filled with tears, looking at Mo Li with disappointment.
“I thought you were someone I could talk to…”
“What, regretting it?”
“…Regretting.”
“Realizing you’ve been fooled?”
“…You’re a bad person.”
“That’s right.” Mo Li sat up straight.
“If you had gone with those two men today, they would have used similar despicable means against you, understand?”
“Eh?” Limdis was stunned, then looked up.
At this moment, Mo Li’s face no longer had a trace of the previous mischievous smile, returning to the earlier coldness.
