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Chapter 47 - The Emotionless Genius Girl Saves Soldiers on the Battlefield

On the battlefield, Adrian stared at the rare sight of a teenage girl, Ariel, with lecherous eyes. The moment he tried to touch her, his arm was deflected, and he was sent flying. She must have had a defensive spell active.

Having been embarrassed in front of his soldiers, Adrian's anger flared.

"Y, you, to a noble--!!"

"Noble?"

"That's right! A person of lowly blood like you--"

"Lowly blood? How is it different from noble blood?"

Ariel drew a dagger. He instinctively took a step back, thinking she meant to attack him. But in that instant, Ariel stabbed her own arm.

"My blood is red. Is noble blood different?"

She was expressionless. Not a hint of pain. It felt less like defiance and more like a genuine curiosity about blood. Adrian had the intuition that this girl was not right in the head.

At that moment, an attack rained down from the sky. Darius and the other knights tried to fight back, but they were caught by surprise, and many soldiers were blown away.

Ariel was covered in blood, her defensive magic breached, and her left side from the shoulder down was blown off. But she pulled a High Potion from her waist and drank it in one gulp. The moment she regenerated, she simply held out her hand and launched a barrage of explosions in the direction of the attack.

She then took out one High Potion after another from her waist. She gave them to the seriously wounded soldiers, ensuring even those who could only receive it mouth-to-mouth got the medicine. Darius, too, had suffered a fatal wound to his abdomen and was barely conscious, but when Ariel delivered a High Potion from her mouth to his, he began to heal at an astonishing rate.

Next, Ariel moved in front of Adrian and poured a High Potion into his mouth the same way. Adrian was also restored, and he could only stare at her in a daze.

Potions for those who could drink them. High Potions for the severely wounded. And mouth-to-mouth for those who couldn't drink.

She did it all dispassionately, without a single change in expression. And the area where Ariel had attacked was now a scorched wasteland. Despite having so many gravely injured soldiers, everyone except those who died instantly had been saved.

Ariel didn't even crack a smile. That cold, expressionless face captured the hearts of the soldiers in the fortress. Everyone except Darius and Adrian.


"Hey, Darius, what is she?"

"I think something is wrong. She seems to be a killing machine created by the state."

"Couldn't she destroy the country? Who raised her?" It was also too shocking to see a woman endlessly giving Potions mouth-to-mouth, even if it was to save lives. There was no shame or hesitation. Not even a desperate desire to help. It was just a task, as if her work would be done once the Potion was inside their bodies.

Still, Adrian, being a noble, asked,

"Well, she did save us. Is there anything she wants?"

"Wants??"

"Something you desire."

"...Ca...ndy."

Huh?? Adrian froze.

"I've been giving her candy since I got here. She'd never had it before. She saw candy and asked if it was a small monster." When Darius explained the situation, Adrian too showed signs of distress. Could this country not even give a child a piece of candy?

"No, Ariel is just special."

In the end, Adrian sent her a large amount of gold coins.

"Buy as much candy as you want!!"

From that day on, I found myself drawn to her. Even after the war ended, I started visiting her every day, asking to see her.

"Why every day?"

"No reason. But I want to bring you candy every day."

"Is that so? Candy, every day?"

"Every day."

She made it so I could come to her small tower home in the Tree Sea with just a single ring. She didn't even know how much candy could be bought with that ring alone. When she received the gold coins from Adrian, she asked if they were shiny and tried to melt them, so I had to stop her.

Besides candy, Darius brought her all sorts of non-monster food every day. Vegetables, normal meat and fish. He wanted her to regain even a little of her humanity.

Adrian also started coming by and teaching her about the world. She could understand difficult magic books, so her literacy was better than that of an educated noblewoman. So they began to educate her on common knowledge, like the royal family and noble society, geography, and how to use money.

He didn't want her to make enemies and be eliminated. Adrian used that as an excuse, but both he and Darius felt a sense of guilt. They had been saved by her, yet they were exploiting her life. They couldn't bear it.

But then, something even more unexpected happened.

"I bought a child." Using all the money she had received from Adrian, she had bought a child from a poor farming village who had magic.