Who Says I’m Not a Legitimate Adventurer?

Judith helplessly stated that her current strength had already been completely exhausted.

If they wanted to forcibly separate her, they would at least have to wait until Nia successfully advanced into a professional class.

She herself actually had no idea why she had specifically appeared inside an ordinary person like Nia who was not even a professional.

She only remembered that within her fragmented memories, there had always been a mission engraved there.

That was that she had to help the person who successfully awakened her step onto the Stairway to Godhood at all costs.

After that.

Following the end of that conversation, Judith seemed to have exhausted the very last trace of energy she possessed and completely lost her voice.

No matter how anxiously Nia called out to her in her mind afterward, that mark gave no response at all.

Faced with this unshakable clingy nuisance, she could only helplessly choose to accept her fate.

At the very least, the other party had painted her a hopeful picture—so long as she advanced into a professional class, there would finally be a chance to completely separate.

Fortunately, the other person was also a girl, so it did not make Nia feel especially uncomfortable. She simply treated it as carrying around a talking accessory by her side.

Until last night, when things changed.

At the time, Nia had been lying on her bed, repeatedly replaying the scenes inside the panoramic card with the help of a tool.

Judith suddenly spoke again inside her mind.

In a lighthearted tone, she told Nia that after sleeping for the past few days, she had finally accumulated just enough energy to maintain consciousness and could now communicate normally again.

The first reaction of this mysterious spirit upon waking was immediately to assure Nia in an extremely sincere tone—

As long as she recovered her strength, she would definitely think of every possible way to leave her body as quickly as possible, so that Nia could be completely at ease.

She said that although she had been too weak to speak during the past few days, she had actually been sensing everything happening outside the entire time.

Then.

Using a teasing, spectator-like tone, she dropped a bombshell on Nia.

She confidently told Nia that the mysterious girl wrapped in a cloak following behind Lance during the day was absolutely a rare Half-Elf.

Moreover, that little girl was currently in the extremely special “Flowering Period” unique to the Elven race!

Afraid that Nia, a small-town girl who had never seen the world, would not understand, Judith even thoughtfully gave her an extremely explicit explanation of what the Flowering Period actually was.

Those scandalous late-night words directly caused Nia to toss and turn restlessly in bed the entire night.

Early in the morning, as if possessed, she climbed out of bed and went to the kitchen to knead dough and make pastries.

Then she hurriedly carried the basket over to find Lance.

And thus came the current scene of her standing outside someone else’s house in hesitation.

But only after truly standing in front of this door and being blown by the wind did Nia’s overheated brain gradually cool down.

She suddenly realized an extremely awkward problem—she had no idea whether Lance was even home right now.

With Lance’s usual personality of desperately trying to earn money, could he have already gone to the guild early in the morning to accept commissions and left town?

She had foolishly run over carrying a basket without even figuring out the situation first, like some brainless idiot.

Just as Nia bit her lip and lowered her head while hesitating at the doorway over whether she should knock—

Lance’s familiar voice suddenly rang out from the street behind her.

“Nia?”

The sudden voice startled Nia so badly that her whole body jolted. She quickly turned around.

She saw Lance striding briskly toward her.

Under the sunlight.

Once Lance got closer, he immediately noticed a conspicuous little smear of white flour still stuck on the tip of Nia’s nose.

“You didn’t go to the guild to accept missions today?”

Nia tried to calm her racing heartbeat and asked her question in as steady a tone as possible.

Hearing the question and looking at the flour on the girl’s nose, Lance could not help but laugh a little.

“No. The battle intensity these past two days has been a bit high, so I’m planning to rest properly at home for a while.”

In truth, he had barely slept at all last night.

After killing Buck, he had rushed overnight to the patrol office to deal with the aftermath regarding the corpse.

After all, since someone had died inside his yard, according to the town’s public security regulations, he still had to go through the reporting procedures.

Fortunately, the patrol office had long since figured out Buck’s filthy background, and they had also confirmed that he was the one who planted the bomb last night. After taking a look at the scene, they did not make things difficult for him and merely reminded Lance to be more careful in the future or move into a safer house before letting him leave.

By the time he came out of the patrol office, dawn was already approaching.

That morning, Lance had immediately rushed over to White Oak Manor, and only now had he finally returned from there.

At this moment, seeing Lance, Nia’s face could not help but redden slightly.

She had the feeling that her little thoughts had been caught red-handed.

Without another word, the girl directly stepped forward and stuffed the heavy wicker basket into Lance’s arms.

“Here! This is a return gift for that Starry Journey Commemorative Album!”

Turning her face away, Nia explained at rapid speed.

“Auntie kneaded extra dough in the kitchen yesterday, and since I had nothing to do this morning, I casually baked a few extra loaves of bread.”

“You’d better not overthink it or anything. Hurry up and eat them while they’re hot!”

Yesterday?

Lance’s gaze paused once more on that fresh little smear of flour for a brief moment.

But he was a sensible adult and did not choose to expose the girl’s clumsy lie.

Smiling, he lifted the checkered cloth and directly took out a still-steaming herb pork cutlet bread, taking a huge bite in front of Nia without any hesitation.

“It really tastes delicious. Thank you, Nia.”

Lance sincerely praised her while chewing.

“This afternoon I still need to go to the market with Cecilia to buy the supplies we need. Once I get back inside, I’ll still have to spend time making a detailed materials list.”

“You delivered these breads at the perfect time. You’ve directly saved me a ton of time I would’ve spent making lunch.”

Originally, upon hearing Lance praise the bread as delicious, Nia’s face had already uncontrollably revealed a happy smile.

But the moment the name “Cecilia” entered her ears—

The smile on the girl’s face visibly stiffened a little.

That sour feeling in her chest surged up again.

She took a deep breath.

Then suddenly took an unusually bold step forward, instantly closing the distance between the two of them.

Raising her delicate little face, she stared into Lance’s eyes and instructed him with an exceptionally bright and radiant smile:

“Then when you two go shopping at the market this afternoon, you absolutely have to choose carefully. Don’t let those merchants trick you.”

At that point, she paused briefly.

Then the girl extended a slender finger and lightly poked the edge of the wicker basket, her tone becoming serious.

“And also, every single bread in this basket was specially made according to your usual tastes.”

“You have to finish all of them yourself. You’re absolutely not allowed to share them with anyone else.”

After saying that, she stepped back and waved her hand stylishly.

“I still have things to handle at the guild, so I’m leaving first. Bye-bye.”

“Mhm, bye-bye. Be careful on the way.”