Freya was first dragged to a clothing store, like a dress-up doll, trying on one garment after another under Euphemia’s constant persuasion.
“This one is cute!”
“This one looks good too!”
“Hmm~ This one is also so pretty!”
After much deliberation and picking, Euphemia ended up buying all the clothes Freya had just tried on.
Seeing this, Freya said, “Won’t this be too much spending?”
Euphemia had an unbothered expression, “My allowance is still quite a lot, and I don’t have anywhere to spend it usually, it’s fine~ Frey, if you feel bad, then just wear these pretty clothes for me more in the future!”
Right after coming out of the clothing store, Freya was immediately dragged to a jewelry store.
Looking at the dazzling array of various accessories before her, she couldn’t help but show a curious expression.
Euphemia even walked directly over and picked up a pair of earrings.
However, after returning to Freya’s side, she looked left and right and discovered Freya didn’t have ear piercings.
She said, “Frey, do you mind getting your ears pierced?
It might hurt a little.”
Freya thought about it and didn’t refuse.
She definitely wasn’t afraid of this little pain.
After all, back in the early days, she could even grab a pervert’s tail while her own palm was being pierced through.
Compared to that, how much could getting her ears pierced actually hurt?
The jewelry store had a complete set of tools.
After a simple disinfection, the staff member quickly finished piercing her ears.
Normally, you can’t wear jewelry immediately after the first piercing.
Instead, you have to wait for four or five weeks until the wound completely heals, or there’s a risk of infection.
But Freya didn’t need to.
The moment the staff member set down the tools, the wounds on her ears healed at a visible speed.
As long as Freya stood barefoot on the ground, Trace Origin would continuously provide a recovery effect, and this self-healing was just a passive ability.
Of course, only the wound healed, but the pierced earholes still existed, otherwise this would be too much of a ripoff.
Seeing this, the staff member couldn’t help but show an incomprehensibly shocked expression.
Euphemia, on the other hand, looked completely unsurprised.
She walked straight to Freya’s side with the earrings in hand and said, “Frey, don’t move, let me put them on for you~”
Freya stood quietly in place.
After Euphemia helped her put them on, she examined her carefully from left to right and nodded, “Mhm, as expected of something I picked, it looks so good!”
The earrings were overall teardrop-shaped, with a silver body and a small emerald embedded at the bottom of each, perfectly matching Freya’s eye color.
However, Euphemia remarked, “Though I haven’t seen you open your eyes lately.”
Because Freya had been on high-intensity patrols recently, she now spent most of her time in the Heart Sense state, and this time was no exception.
Afterward, Euphemia gave her a light blue hairpin, and Freya picked out a small silver ring with gilded patterns for herself.
However, she didn’t plan to wear this ring on her hand, but rather on her foot.
Freya crouched halfway, gently pinching the second toe of her right foot with her hand, and slipped the newly bought ring on.
The size was just right.
After putting it on, Freya’s toe couldn’t help but instinctively curl up, but it soon unfurled again as she consciously relaxed.
She looked down at her small foot.
Hmm, so sexy and beautiful!
Just like that, the two girls browsed through the jewelry store.
When they came out, it was already close to noon.
Euphemia glanced up at the sun’s position and said, “Frey, I’ll take you to eat some super authentic food, follow me!”
With Euphemia leading the way, the two left the bustling street.
The further they walked, the more secluded the area became, yet the number of pedestrians didn’t decrease; on the contrary, it actually increased.
Various cries of street vendors filled the air, and Euphemia fixed her gaze on a small stall by the roadside.
She introduced, “Minced Meat Scallion Pancake.
Don’t let its ordinary appearance fool you, it’s actually delicious, and this shop’s scallion pancake is one of the best I’ve ever had!”
“Minced Meat Scallion Pancake?” Freya also had an impression of this thing, or more accurately, the original owner’s memory had this thing.
This was a relatively famous folk snack in the Tarapaca Kingdom, and the original owner had also eaten it a few times, it tasted good and the price was affordable.
Euphemia walked over excitedly and said, “Boss, I want two!”
Then she looked at Freya, “Frey, how about you?”
Freya smiled gently, “I only need one.”
“Alright~ please wait a moment, you two~!” The Boss immediately started making them on the spot.
During this time, the Boss saw that Freya never opened her eyes and couldn’t help but say, “Sigh, what a pretty young girl, but so young and already…”
“Uh…” Euphemia quickly interrupted, “No, she has other reasons.”
The Boss looked confused, “Other reasons?”
Euphemia didn’t continue explaining but directly changed the subject, “By the way, Boss, the scallion pancakes I bought elsewhere before, that boss seemed to have added some extra sugar to them.
To be honest, I felt the taste was a bit strange.”
Perhaps this topic was too attractive, and the Boss’s attention was immediately diverted, “What?
Adding sugar!
This is simply an insult to scallion pancakes!
I’ve been making scallion pancakes for twenty years, and I’ve never heard of such a method!
It’s no wonder it tastes bad!”
Just as the two were discussing the matter of adding sugar, another person came to the stall.
Before this person could speak, the Boss spoke first, “Here again, eh?
Still three scallion pancakes this time, with larger pieces of meat, right!”
“Hmm.” This person nodded and replied with a full voice.
It was completely normal for other customers to come and buy things.
After Freya ‘looked’ at it, she didn’t pay much attention.
She just stood there quietly on the side, just like a doll.
But suddenly, in her field of vision, she noticed Euphemia freeze up completely.
After about two or three seconds, Euphemia suddenly looked at Freya and said, “Oh no, I think I forgot my money?
Frey, could you cover for me for now?”
Freya tilted her head slightly, her snow-white hair falling from beside her ear.
The earrings she had just put on not long ago also swayed gently due to gravity.
Forgot her money?
But how was that possible?
After all, Euphemia had bought her so many things before this.
And now, at this very cheap street food stall, she just happened to be out of money?
Although she didn’t know what had happened, Freya still cooperatively nodded her little head and said, “Then use mine for now.”
She took some money from her person.
After paying, Euphemia took the three scallion pancakes handed over by the Boss and pulled Freya’s small hand as she walked away.
At the same time, she also said, “Anyway, sorry, I’ll go back and get the money to pay you back right away.”
This unusual scene made Freya even more confused, but she still replied very cooperatively, “It’s okay, it’s just a little bit of money, no need to pay it back.”
It wasn’t until they had walked a certain distance and the stall they had just left was completely out of sight that Euphemia let out a sudden sigh of relief.
Her tone changed completely from before as she said seriously, “Frey, in your [Eye], what did that new customer look like?”
“Don’t look at him!
Recall his appearance!”
“Hmm…” Since she had only just seen him, she naturally had an impression.
Freya said, “He didn’t seem particularly special.
Just an ordinary person wearing a baseball cap?”
Euphemia asked again, “What color was his hair?”
Freya replied, “Of course it was black.”
In the Tarapaca Kingdom, the vast majority of people had black or light brown hair close to black.
There was nothing strange about that.
But Euphemia said, “That guy wore a hat that covered most of his hair, only a small part was exposed, but there’s no mistake.
It was definitely red!”
Freya: “?”
No one would pay special attention to a complete stranger on the street.
If that customer hadn’t been wearing a hat and had a head of rare red hair, he might have been quite conspicuous, but if he wore a hat and only a small part of his hair was exposed, then the vast majority of people would definitely not have noticed.
But Euphemia was different.
Her ability to notice details was very strong.
These habits ingrained in one’s bones are very hard to conceal.
He definitely has been trained, and there’s a high probability he is a soldier!”
“Red hair, a soldier…” It was hard not to think of something.
Freya said, “You mean, he’s the Obsidian boss behind the scenes, that Rank 5 General!?”
Euphemia nodded.
“It’s very possible.
And from your perspective, his appearance is different from my normal one.
This means he probably has some kind of Beyonder item on him that can interfere with your perceptual abilities!
At least the War Pathway itself definitely doesn’t have this interference capability!”
Freya’s mind raced.
This meant the opponent was very familiar with the Earth Pathway’s abilities and had prepared a Beyonder item before coming to this city to cause trouble, just in case he was easily discovered by someone of the Earth Pathway.
Adding to the conversation at the Scallion Pancake stall just now, the Boss was a very talkative person.
And judging by his look, that customer definitely hadn’t come to eat Scallion Pancakes for the first time.
But Minced Meat Scallion Pancakes are a folk snack in the Tarapaca Kingdom, and only locals would frequently come to eat this stuff.
Freya said, “You mean, that Obsidian Boss, the Rank 5 General, is very likely a soldier from the Tarapaca Kingdom itself?”
Euphemia said, “It couldn’t be anyone else!
In the Tarapaca Kingdom, most of the army follows the Law Pathway.
Very, very few people follow the War Pathway, and in the army, someone with Rank 5 strength can actually hold the rank of General.”
This directly overturned Freya’s earliest guess that the Obsidian Boss might be a spy sent by a neighboring country to deliberately cause sabotage, so Freya said, “But why, as a native, would he cause a disaster on his own country’s land?”
Euphemia curled her lip, “Tch, who knows, maybe he’s just a psychopath.”
Immediately after, she said again, “Anyway, I’ll go ask my grandfather.
He can ask his army friends.
A Rank 5 War Pathway General, alone with that detail, it shouldn’t be hard to find out that guy’s true identity!”
As she spoke, Euphemia opened her satchel, took out a notebook and a pen, and wrote a letter right there on the spot.
After describing the general situation in words as concise as possible, she tore the paper from the notebook and folded it a few times randomly.
Then, Euphemia looked around, grabbed Freya, and started walking toward a nearby public restroom.
But after arriving at the entrance, Freya refused to go in no matter what.
It was too dirty.
Euphemia had no choice but to go in herself.
As a result…
before half a minute had passed, she ran back out pinching her nose.
“Forget it, let’s find somewhere else.”
She needed to use a Spirituality Crystal to draw an occult formation on the ground to summon a special Spirit World Messenger to help send the letter quickly.
But looking at the environment in the restroom, she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
In short, the two of them changed locations again and found an empty little corner.
Euphemia pinched the Spirituality Crystal with her fingers, crouched down, and began drawing on the corner of the wall.
A moment later, a complex formation with a radius of about one meter took shape under her hand, and Euphemia quickly muttered, “In my name, I summon the messenger belonging to Euphemia M.
Holmes!
Fulfill the pact and come to my side~!”
Subsequently, the entire formation emitted a faint white light.
Immediately after, a translucent white little pigeon flew out of the formation.
It flapped its wings, looked around, and then actually flew straight toward Freya, landing on her shoulder and rubbing its little head against Freya’s cheek.
Freya, “?”
Euphemia, “?”
A question mark appeared over both of their heads at the same time, but Euphemia quickly said, “It looks like…
it seems to like you a lot, maybe because you’re on the Earth Pathway?”
The Earth Pathway could be said to be the gentlest of all Pathways, especially since Freya was walking the Path of Life.
To small animals, the current her was like a little sun, warm and smelling especially good, which was just too appealing.
Helpless, Euphemia took the initiative to walk over to the “little pigeon,” handed over the letter in her hand, and said, “Anyway, this is very urgent.
Deliver this to my grandfather, please.”
The little pigeon rubbed against Freya again before reluctantly picking up the envelope with its beak, flapped its wings twice, and just like that, it vanished in front of them into thin air.
Euphemia took out the Invisibility Cloak and said, “Alright, now we just need to wait for the reply.
And this is also a perfect opportunity; we can just happen to track that General and see if we can find his other strongholds.”