“Lady Kate, why did you suddenly run off? Did you find that A-rank magical beast…”
Frank led a group of B-rank and C-rank adventurers from the guild as they caught up.
For someone as important as Kate to personally go on an expedition, Frank, as the guild master of Crisel, naturally had to follow the entire way and even bring along a large group of people to act as support.
Even if Kate could handle everything alone, he still had to show proper attitude. If word got out that “the guild master of Crisel’s Adventurer’s Guild was putting on airs and actually let an S-rank adventurer go alone to subjugate a dangerous magical beast,” then his position as guild master would basically be over.
However, before he could finish speaking, he saw the shocking scene in front of him. The adventurers behind him also froze in place, their brains working frantically as they tried to process what they were seeing.
What were they looking at?
The strongest S-rank adventurer in the Navora Principality was currently kissing an unknown girl?
Had they been hit by an illusion?
But there had never been any magical beasts capable of causing hallucinations discovered around Crisel…
That meant what they were seeing was real?
But that didn’t make sense either!
Wasn’t it said that after being deceived by a scumbag, Kate had sealed her heart in cement?
Who were the people who had pursued her before?
Noble young masters, royal princes, legendary adventurers who were also S-rank like her…
She had rejected all of them. Yet now she was acting so boldly with an unknown girl. It was hard not to let people’s thoughts wander.
“Could it be… that Miss Kate likes women?”
Someone voiced their speculation.
Powerful individuals always had some quirks that ordinary people couldn’t understand. Liking women was actually quite tame compared to other S-rank adventurers.
“But hasn’t Miss Kate been looking for the person who deceived her feelings all this time?”
“Then is there a possibility that she is the person Miss Kate has been searching for?”
“It’s possible. But didn’t Miss Kate say she hated that person so much she wanted to grind their bones to dust…?”
“Tsk tsk tsk, what are you grown men guessing about here? What do you understand about a young girl’s heart? No wonder you’ve all been single.”
“Hey, wait, what do you mean by that?”
……
The adventurers quietly discussed among themselves, but not a single one of them dared to interrupt the two people’s intimate moment.
It was fine to gossip behind their backs. But if someone actually went up there right now, weren’t they afraid of being skewered by Kate like a kebab?
It was only after a long while that Kate finally released Eileen.
At this moment, Eileen’s face was already flushed red, her eyes unfocused.
Kate’s love was very straightforward, and also very heavy.
Just like her personality, it had almost suffocated her…
“What are you looking at? Hurry up and go deal with the magical beast’s corpse!”
At that moment, Kate suddenly turned to look at the adventurers who were watching the show. They were so startled that their bodies jolted.
It was precisely because of Kate’s words that they finally noticed the Minotauros corpse not far away. They all sucked in a cold breath.
It was true that the Minotauros was an A-rank magical beast, but their combat strength was generally infinitely close to that of S-rank magical beasts. Some special individuals were even far more dangerous than S-rank ones.
Crisel was just a small city. Historically, the strongest magical beast that had ever appeared here was only a bottom-tier A-rank Griffin. This was the first time a powerful A-rank magical beast like the Minotauros had appeared.
What shocked them even more was that even a being as strong as the Minotauros had still been slain by Kate with just one move. There had been no delay whatsoever, and there weren’t even any traces of battle at the scene.
“Y-Yes, we’ll go right away!”
Under Kate’s command, the adventurers quickly took out their knives and began dismantling the Minotauros corpse.
A magical beast’s body contained powerful magic power. After death, this magic power would leak out from the corpse and attract large numbers of magical beasts.
If the corpse was in a remote area far from human settlements, it could be left there without worry.
But the location where Kate had slain this Minotauros was only about twenty to thirty kilometers from Crisel, and there were some villages and towns nearby. Therefore, it had to be transported to a safe location.
As the guild master, Frank didn’t need to do such dirty work. Instead, he carefully walked toward Kate.
“Miss Kate, thank you for solving a major problem for all the citizens of Crisel. May I ask who this young lady is…”
Frank was very curious right now. Just what kind of woman could catch the eye of this strongest adventurer in the principality, whose standards were higher than the heavens?
Earlier, from far away, he hadn’t been able to see clearly. But now that he had gotten closer, he felt that the girl in Kate’s arms looked somewhat familiar.
If he remembered correctly, she seemed to be an E-rank adventurer from the guild?
Frank never bothered to remember these bottom-tier E-rank adventurers. The reason he had some impression of Eileen was because a few days ago, members of the Light Society had come to the guild asking about her and demanding repayment of her debt.
“She is my fiancée.”
Kate said it without the slightest hesitation. “She is the person I’ve been looking for these past five years.”
“Huh? Her?”
Frank was instantly dumbfounded.
Right now, the most widespread rumor about the scumbag who had deceived Kate was that she had encouraged Kate, who had been stuck at A-rank back then. That was what allowed Kate to make up her mind to break through layer after layer of obstacles, even slaying an S-rank magical beast alone and thus being exceptionally promoted to S-rank.
Logically speaking, that person should have been at least A-rank five years ago, right?
How could an E-rank adventurer like Eileen have possibly gotten together with Kate five years ago?
The gap between A-rank and E-rank was, to put it bluntly, even greater than the gap between humans and dogs. It was basically impossible for them to end up together.
Frank truly suspected that Kate had mistaken her for someone else, but he didn’t dare say it out loud…
“Do you have an objection?”
“N-No, no objections at all…”
Frank shook his head like a rattle drum. Then he pulled out the small knife at his waist. “Miss Kate, I’ll go help process the magical beast corpse too. It should take some time to fully dismantle such a large magical beast. You two take your time chatting…”
He had a feeling that if he stayed here any longer as a third wheel, he would probably also end up skewered by Kate’s spear like a kebab.
“No need. Go call the carriage over. She and I are returning to the city first.”
“Got it! Please wait a moment!”
Frank hurriedly ran off to call the coachman. Kate’s gaze also returned to Eileen, her eyes filled with doting affection for her beloved.
To put it simply…
Her eyes had turned into the shape of hearts.
“Eileen, do you know how I spent these five years without you? Tonight, I will settle all the accounts from these five years with you, one by one.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Eileen’s delicate body trembled.
The bill you’re planning to settle… is it serious?
“Kate, listen to me. I can explain…”
“But I don’t want to listen.”
While speaking, Kate took out a rope flowing with magic power from her armor and skillfully tied Eileen’s hands behind her back. “This is an item that can suppress magic power. Don’t think about using a teleportation array to escape like you did five years ago.”
“Uh… You’re overthinking it. I’m just an E-rank adventurer now…”
If she could still use teleportation arrays, would she have needed to walk all the way to the neighboring city?