Zion and Lia saw the village chief for the first time. This man seemed like a middle-aged person with a whitish beard on his face and wrinkles around his eyes. His long white hair was tied at the top of his head kept in place with the help of a crown. His entire body was covered with brown-colored ancient robes with long sleeves and a silver-colored belt on his waist. This person almost looked like someone out of a cultivation novel.

A frown crossed his forehead. Why did everyone in this world look like they were of Chinese ancestry? Even though the dhampir kingdom had a western touch, most things seemed like they belonged to ancient China. For instance, he had seen a simple vase in the Vanne kingdom that had Chinese words carved on it. Although he couldn't read the language, he could still differentiate between Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and those words were definitely in Chinese.

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He couldn't ponder over this issue more because the village chief opened his mouth and said, "So you are two of our legendary guests who like to create trouble in our kingdom."

Lia glared at the man with all the hatred in her eyes. She still remembered back then when she had come to see this person saying she would like to help solve this case, but how did this chief reply? He said he didn't care about her at all and would rather spend his 'quality time' trying to do the deed himself rather than finding professionals.

Now that he dragged her and Zion with a whole procession, she felt it was ironic in her heart. She sneered and decided to close her mouth, remembering her servant's words. Although she hated the elves to the core, she still didn't know a few things about them. For instance, who was famous other than the queen herself? Who were the people in her family? Or was there anyone that could match with the description that her servant had given to her?

She didn't know, or rather, she didn't care about it at all. How could she have time to focus on the queen's private life when she hated that girl from the depths of her heart? Even the thought of her was enough to make Lia's expressions turn dark.

But still, she controlled her anger and focused on the job at hand. Currently, she had to pretend to be a pitiful little girl who didn't know how to fight back, but for some reason, her servant told her not to immerse herself in her act too much to make herself look like a completely different person. He patiently advised her to be herself, and the only thing she had to do was to be aggressive and pitiful at the same time.

But could anyone tell her how to do that?! She could either be pitiful and aggressive! How could she be both of them? She glared at her servant secretly from the corner of her eyes.

When she had asked him about how she could be like that, her servant was silent for a while before he shook his head and told her, "Nevermind. You won't be able to do that." But at the same time, she could see a trace of blush on his earlobe, making her wonder just what was going on in this servant's head?

She didn't know that her human servant was thinking of an anime with a super cute female character whose cheeks would bulge whenever she would talk aggressively to others. Even though he rarely got time in his previous life, he would still like to watch anime and movies in his free time, so this female character was someone he liked from the anime. When he had told Lia to become aggressive and pitiful at the same time, that image suddenly popped up in front of his eyes, making his cheeks red.

But when he imagined the princess having that kind of expression, a trace of disgust rose in his heart. This girl could never act like that, not even in his imagination! Just why was he imagining such things at this time? His lips pursed and continued to listen to the village chief, who was counting the 'crimes' Lia and Zion had committed according to him.

"So you two have recently killed a few more children that night when one of the citizens of our village saw the human wandering around without her master. All this time, we thought he had sneaked outside, but now, we all think it was you, miss dhampir girl, who let him out deliberately to kill those children." The village chief paused and squinted his eyes at them. "Now tell me, why did you do this? Why kill so many children? The count has surpassed even a hundred! Have you got no shame? If you want to kill someone, just why don't you go back to your Vanne kingdom and repeat this crime? Huh? Why come to a different place for this? I even suspect that you two were living in seclusion, hiding in our village for a long time before you could appear to show that you just arrived! You two were here for a year, right?"

Zion could see that Lia's expressions were turning darker and darker with every sentence that the village chief spoke. He feared that if he didn't interrupt, she would explode and cause havoc, so he cleared his throat and said, "Where's the evidence that we killed those children? Are you the elf queen who can decide who the criminal is? Don't go on assuming things when you don't know anything."

His voice had a hint of coldness that made the village chief shiver, but when he remembered that the person who spoke just now was a human, he took a deep breath and glared at him before saying, "Boy, you have got guts. Do you know who you are speaking to? Isaac Langer himself! If you were an elf, you would know my name! I have caught multiple criminals and have a good relationship with the queen, so don't you think that you guys can escape!" Then he turned to the guards and said, "Capture these two young fellas! We will send them to the queen right now! Prepare the carriage and soldiers to escort them to the capital! She will decide what to do with these criminals!"

Lia's expressions changed in an instant.