Mo Baiwei poked her head out to check the street, and after confirming she wouldn’t run into any acquaintances, she stepped through the gate.
This was her first time moving through a human city-state in an elven body.
Previously, she wouldn’t have even dared to think about it.
Thanks to the help of Phil the master alchemist, Mo Baiwei could mask her elven aura and characteristics, allowing her to move freely within Carven City.
Because she had been delayed at home for a while, it was already dark by the time she left.
The cool night breeze blew against her face, making Mo Baiwei feel quite comfortable.
She walked down the street, searching for a shop where she could eat her fill.
Pedestrians passing by were drawn to her, staring at Mo Baiwei with fixed gazes.
‘What are these people looking at?’
Mo Baiwei, who was excitedly looking for food, felt a bit dissatisfied.
She didn’t like being stared at by so many people.
“What a beautiful lady,” a passerby suddenly remarked.
Everyone who had stopped subconsciously nodded, then snapped out of it.
After realizing they had been frozen in place by Mo Baiwei’s presence along with a group of others, they blushed, coughed awkwardly twice, and quickly hurried away.
Soon, the people around Mo Baiwei dispersed.
They no longer paid her any attention and hurried off to mind their own business.
Indeed, Mo Baiwei, walking down the street, had no self-awareness at all.
She had no idea how much of a lethal impact her appearance had on passersby.
Among the crowd that had stopped, there were even a significant number of girls.
“Hey, hey, did you see that girl with the pale gold hair?”
“I saw her, I saw her! She’s so beautiful.”
“She walks there as if everything around her is invisible. She’s so cold, just like an iceberg.”
“Ah, step on me, Sister! Cold Goddess, we love you!”
Comments like these floated past Mo Baiwei, many of them spoken by girls of her own gender.
However, Mo Baiwei didn’t pay attention to any of it.
As long as it didn’t affect her, she didn’t care what these people said.
Mo Baiwei’s heart had already drifted toward the food street.
‘So hungry, so hungry, so hungry, so hungry…’
Mo Baiwei was starving.
After arriving at the food street, she looked around for a moment then walked straight into a noodle shop.
***
Mida stood before a door, thinking about how to start the conversation.
After preparing herself for a long while, she finally raised her hand and knocked.
Unusually, there was no response to the knocking this time.
It seemed the owner of the house was not at home.
Looking at the familiar door, Mida felt a sense of loss in her heart.
Hall had instructed that she must go alone this time.
No one could accompany her.
If it was discovered that Mida had brought someone, the carriage driver would not depart.
So, Mida had come here this time to say goodbye.
Although she would return, the journey from the Kingdom of Anda to the Papal State would take at least fifteen days.
Adding the time to participate in the Sacred Festival, the round trip would take at least two months.
She would spend almost these entire two months by herself.
Without anyone familiar by her side, she always felt uneasy.
‘Fine, if they aren’t here, they aren’t here. Perhaps leaving quietly is better. If I actually saw them, I might be even more reluctant to leave.’
Thinking this, Mida hung the bag in her hand on the doorknob and turned to leave.
***
“Delicious!”
Mo Baiwei ate the noodles with a happy smile on her face, giving heartfelt praise.
Perhaps because she was too hungry, Mo Baiwei ate two bowls of noodles in one go, and they felt even more delicious than the noodles she usually ate.
“Manager, the bill!”
Mo Baiwei went to the counter, slapped thirty copper coins onto the table, and after confirming the amount, walked away with style.
Walking on the street, the cool night breeze made Mo Baiwei feel incredibly comfortable.
She hummed a song as she walked toward home.
The crowd gradually increased along the way.
After all, this was the food street, and many people would come here for dinner after finishing work.
Naturally, Mo Baiwei became the object of the crowd’s attention.
“Oh my, being this beautiful is also quite a nuisance~”
Mo Baiwei felt the people’s gazes and heard some words of praise.
Her small, pointed ears twitched, and her tail wagged unconsciously.
Of course, the passersby could not see this.
In their eyes, there was only a cold, iceberg beauty.
Even though she had been a Hero for a long time, it was fine to occasionally change her identity and relax a bit.
Unknowingly, more and more people gathered around Mo Baiwei.
Some even pretended to be going the same way, while in reality, their hearts had already fallen.
They became her “paparazzi,” wishing they could accompany Mo Baiwei to the end of the world.
Walking along the way, Mo Baiwei enjoyed the people’s praise, feeling extremely joyful in her heart.
Suddenly, she seemed to sense something and looked up in a certain direction.
In the crowd, a familiar figure was walking toward her.
It was Mida!
Mo Baiwei reacted as if she were under stress, instinctively wanting to hide.
But this street went straight to the end with almost no side paths.
If she walked normally, she would definitely run into Mida.
‘If Mida sees me, I’m finished!’
Mo Baiwei was a bit anxious, but there were people everywhere and nowhere to hide.
‘No, I’m currently in my elven state. Besides, I’m wearing the ring. Logically, Mida shouldn’t be able to recognize me.’
Mo Baiwei, who had fallen into a mental trap, calmed down now.
She stopped looking for cover and walked over openly.
She didn’t believe Mida could recognize her.
Mo Baiwei got closer and closer to Mida.
Even though she was extremely confident in her heart, she still couldn’t stop her heart from racing.
The distance between the two gradually closed.
Mo Baiwei grew increasingly nervous, as if a string were pulled taut.
Then, Mida and Mo Baiwei brushed past each other.
Mida felt a slight sense of a familiar aura passing by her side.
She wasn’t sure if it was him, but she was afraid of missing the last meeting before her departure, so she turned and called out.
“Wei Bai?”
Hearing this, Mo Baiwei’s heart skipped a beat, feeling that things were very bad.
‘Why was I still noticed even though I’m like this?! Can I only say that a woman’s sixth sense is too powerful?’
Since it had come to this, she decided to put on an act first.
What if she hadn’t actually been discovered?
The pale-gold-haired girl slowly turned her head, her emerald green eyes looking at Mida in confusion.
Seeing the girl’s appearance, Mida froze for a moment.
She had never seen such a beautiful girl.
She felt that as a woman, a part of her heart was also tightly seized by the girl, and she couldn’t stop herself from developing a good impression of her.
“Did I recognize the wrong person…”
Mida muttered to herself.
“Hello, may I ask… who are you looking for?”
Seeing that Mida had no reaction, Mo Baiwei asked nervously.
The moment her voice rang out, the surrounding followers all showed expressions of “Ah, I’m dead,” captivated by Mo Baiwei’s beautiful voice.
Even Mida’s pupils widened slightly.
Seeing Mida suddenly staring at her without speaking, Mo Baiwei’s mood sank to rock bottom.
‘As expected, I was still discovered. Otherwise, why would Mida be staring straight at me? She must have realized that this appearance is completely different from the usually mature and stable youth. She can’t accept this, so her brain has short-circuited.’
Mo Baiwei didn’t know that Mida’s brain had indeed short-circuited, but it wasn’t because her identity had been discovered.
Instead, she was marveled by the emotions that had suddenly surged in her heart, which she hadn’t even noticed before.
Mida actually developed the idea of wanting to possess Mo Baiwei.
She vaguely wanted Mo Baiwei to become her personal property, not allowing anyone else to touch her.
Mo Baiwei could only be hers.
She shook her head to dispel this strange thought.
‘I’m a girl, and I’ve already decided to only like him. How can I have such thoughts about someone else?’
‘Moreover… the other party is also a girl. Two girls being together, no matter how I think about it, it’s impossible, right?!’
Feeling the ridiculous thoughts in her mind, Mida’s face turned slightly red.
“Um, actually…”
Mo Baiwei thought for a long time and still felt that Mida had recognized her identity.
Just as she was about to tell the truth, she was excitedly interrupted by Mida.
“Sorry, I recognized the wrong person,” Mida said with a red face, then apologized to Mo Baiwei.
“Eh?”
Mo Baiwei was stunned.
She really hadn’t expected Mida to apologize, and she didn’t understand why Mida was apologizing.
‘Didn’t she discover my identity? Why did she suddenly apologize? Why?’
‘Could it be that Mida hasn’t realized I’m Wei Bai yet?’
The tense Mo Baiwei breathed a sigh of relief at this thought.
If Mida had spoken any later, she would have exposed herself, and her reputation would have been ruined.
Seeing that Mida hadn’t recognized her, Mo Baiwei smiled.
Without thinking, she reached out her hand toward Mida in front of everyone.
“It’s all right. My name is Mo Baiwei. I’m glad to meet you.”