Chapter 0397 – North Sea Doubts – Absolute Return

I offered, but the drunken demon refused.

“If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have gone to the Ice Palace at all. You go see your ‘beautiful heart’ first. Do you know where she is?”

“If I knew, I wouldn’t have gone. I’m worried about her, that’s why I’m going to look for her.”

“How do you find her?”

I said, looking at the sparkling river in the distance:

“Don’t worry, she …… is hard to find.”

We worked our way north, over mountains and through the wind.

When we came across an inn, we stayed in a hotel, and when there were no inns, we camped out in the wilderness.

I showed off my wilderness survival skills, I hunted wild animals, cooked gourmet food, and even made secret sauces. The Drunken Devil was full of praise for me.

While he ate the delicious roasted meat and complimented me on my cooking skills, I felt a little guilty. Because, I’ve cooked for other Demon Lords many times, and even taught my guards, how to survive in the wild.

We chatted and shared stories with each other as we hurried along.

We climbed mountains, we drank and talked, we hoofed it, and we finally made it to the North Sea.

“It’s snowing.”

It’s already spring in the Central Plains, but the North Sea is still snow-covered.

“I was feeling sorry for the lack of snow this year, but now I can see enough.”

Looking at the excited me, the drunken devil muttered in his heart:

‘Can we really come back safe and sound?’

He always felt that with me, something unexpected would happen. Maybe, it’s just his delusion.

We arrived at the town where Ian had last sent his message. This town, located on the fringe of the North Sea, is rarely visited by outsiders.

The people in the town, all wore fur hats and animal skin clothes. Many plants that are not found in the Central Plains grow here. The North Sea is, indeed, full of mystery.

‘Why would Ian come to a place like this?’

She must have her reasons for being here.

We walked through the streets of the town in our thin clothes and immediately attracted attention. Pedestrians on the road, store owners, people poking their heads out of windows, all looked at us curiously.

“Let’s go there.”

It was a tavern built in a cave.

We walked into the tavern and the patrons inside, looked at us warily.

We certainly don’t care what they look at.

We found a seat and a shopkeeper came over.

“Welcome!”

“Have some wine and food.”

“One moment, please!”

The drunken devil looked around and said:

“I’m sure I can’t get drunk here. I’m worried about those ice picks that will fall and hit me in the head.”

I looked up and saw many sharp ice picks hanging from the top of the cave.

“We can knock those ice picks off and put them in the wine so it’s cooler to drink.”

The Drunken Devil chuckled, “Good idea.”

After a while, the shopkeeper came over with the wine and food. We didn’t have to tap the ice pick because the wine glasses were already frozen.

“Drinking from this glass will be cooler.”

Even though it’s cold outside, people here, they like to drink cold wine.

“Junior.”

“What can I do for you, sir?”

“Let me ask you, have you ever seen a girl wearing a veil and carrying a sword?”

“No, I haven’t seen it.”

But I saw that his eyes flickered as he spoke. Even as sophisticated as he was, he couldn’t escape me.

“We’re her friends, we’re not bad people, just tell us.”

Drunken Devil chimed in:

“Do we look like bad guys to you?”

“Bad people, I’ve found, don’t always look like bad people. Anyway, I haven’t seen the girl you’re talking about.”

After the store assistant left, the drunken devil said:

“He knows, but why would he lie?”

He could also see that the shopkeeper was lying.

“He must have thought, that we looked like bad guys and that’s why he wanted to protect that girl.”

The drunken devil touched his face and said:

“Me? This handsome face of mine? Where does it look like a bad guy?”

The Drunken Devil is really good-looking, and everywhere he goes, he’s called “middle-aged beauty”.

If I were to go out with the Poison King, the Evil Demon, and the Drunken Demon, I would be called the “Four Beauties” or the “Four Heavenly Kings”.

“Perhaps that girl, and some of the people who can’t be told, are related.”

Most likely, otherwise, there was no need for the shopkeeper to hide it.

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We drank a few glasses of wine, and the store assistant brought a few dishes. These dishes, all unique to the North Sea, in the Central Plains, could not be eaten at all.

After the store assistant put down the food, I quietly placed an ingot of silver on his tray. The store assistant froze for a moment, this ingot of silver, it was too much, he would have to work for at least ten days to earn this much money.

He immediately understood what I meant; I was asking him, to tell me about the girl.

“Two guests, this is your first time here, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll introduce you to what’s interesting in the neighborhood.”

He introduced us to several sites.

“Five miles to the east, there is a place where snow lotus flowers bloom, and the scenery there, in the Central Plains, cannot be seen. To the south, there is a Xiu Ren Temple, which is also well worth a visit. The steps up the mountain are slippery, so you should be careful.”

He described a few more places and concluded:

“By the way, that manor to the west, you must not go there, it’s dangerous.”

That’s enough for me to know that Ian was here, and, she went to the manor.

The store assistant collected the silver and returned to the kitchen. He was smart, even if something happened later, he could say that he didn’t know anything.

We walked out of the tavern and headed west.

We followed the shopkeeper’s directions and found the manor.

The Drunken Devil walked into the manor and looked around, saying:

“That ‘beautiful heart’ you were talking about, it’s supposed to be beautiful, right?”

We saw, in the yard, a straight line.

The line, which ran from the tree, to the stone lamps on the ground, and then to the courtyard wall behind them, cut them neatly in half. The cut, smooth and even, was as if it had been measured with a ruler.

On the ground, there were still some bloodstains left. I’m sure that those things that were cut in half also shed a lot of blood.

Drunken Devil said as he wrapped his shirt around him:

“This is not a ‘beautiful heart’, it’s clearly a ‘horrible heart’.”

Love the absolute return.