"Let's go, some things are not suitable for others to hear." Bluer glanced down at Sally and said lazily, lightly pressing his hand on a tree branch beneath him. He floated down, then lightly touched the tree and headed deeper into the square.
Sally watched Bluer's departing figure, hesitated for a moment, and then quickly followed, her toes lightly touching the bushes as she also disappeared into the woods.
"Daddy, aren't we going to bed?" Amy asked, looking at Mai Ge standing in the doorway, and yawned.
"Yes, we're going." Mai Ge looked away, opened the door, flipped the sign on the door, and picked up Amy and the Ugly Duckling, carrying them upstairs.
There's not much he can do for Sally right now. Before his strength is restored, keeping a low profile among the elves is a wise choice. So, the decision is up to Sally herself.
"Speak, what brings you here? If you're here to persuade me to return to the Wind Forest, then give up. I absolutely will not go back now." Sally stopped and looked at Bluer, who had stopped in the flower bushes, her voice cold and her expression wary.
"I've finally made it to Chaos City, and I don't want to go back so soon." Bluer turned around and looked at Sally with a lazy smile. "Engelwey got the news that you were staying at the Geya Hotel and working at the Restaurant Mai Mi, so he sent the message back to the Bebili family. Then my father sent me to Chaos City to find you. The purpose is simple: to get close to you, try to make you like me, and then continue the marriage agreement between our two families."
"Even if you know where I live, you can't stop me if I want to leave. You're just a level seven mage, and Ambassador Engelwey is also a level seven mage." Sally's expression was slightly serious. Her worst fears had been confirmed. Bluer had indeed come for her with a clear purpose, and it wasn't just a coincidence.
Moreover, the Bebili family already knows that she is here, so it is obviously unrealistic for her to continue staying at the Restaurant Mai Mi.
It's just unclear why Bluer would tell her all this information. If his goal is to get close to her, then his actions are truly perplexing.
"Don't be nervous. I don't like you and I've never thought about marrying you. Otherwise, I wouldn't have told you about this as soon as we met. Instead, I would have slowly approached you and made you fall in love with me according to their plan." Bluer looked at Sally, who was wary and even ready to make a move, and said with a smile, "Of course, I think that with my stunning good looks, I don't need to follow their plan to make any woman fall in love with me easily."
"So what do you want?" Sally frowned slightly and asked Bluer. She had heard about his narcissistic behavior back in the Wind Forest, and now it seemed that it was not just a rumor. However, what concerned her was what he had just said. If he also did not like her and was trying to resist all of this, then perhaps they could talk.
"I want many things, but you are not among them. However, if you want to stay in Chaos City or Restaurant Mai Mi, you'd better cooperate with my performance. Otherwise, even I can't guarantee that news of your presence here won't reach the Brewster family." Bluer smiled at Sally.
"Cooperate with what?" Sally then asked.
"Their purpose in sending me to Chaos City is to get close to you and create some kind of possibility between us. This possibility concerns the marriage alliance between the Bebili and Brewster families. If they know there's no possibility between us, they might use this information as leverage to gain some benefits from the Brewster family. But if they think I might be able to successfully win you over and get this marriage back on track, then they will try every means to create more time for us to spend together, and might even actively block news about you in Chaos City." Bluer looked at Sally and said seriously, "So, what you have to do is cooperate with me and pretend to be interested in me, so you can have more free time."
Sally stared at Bluer in silence for a long while before asking, "What is your purpose in doing this? What do you want from me?"
"The purpose is simple: to grant you freedom, and in return, to give myself even more freedom. Chaos City is interesting, so I want to stay a little longer. As for you, I hope you can give me a promise." Bluer said seriously, his smile fading.
"What promise?" Sally looked at Bluer with some wariness. She didn't believe that there were any benefits waiting for her in this world without a reason, especially since the other party was the fiancé of the family that was trying so hard to get her to marry into their family.
"You might not know this while you're out there alone, but this morning, Princess Irina left the Cave of Life and killed Hubert, the patriarch of the Kroll family." Bluer said instead of directly stating his conditions.
"What!" Sally was slightly startled and looked at Bluer in disbelief. Hubert was the Chief Punisher in charge of criminal law and held an extremely high position among the elves. The Kroll family's status among the elves was even higher than that of the Brewster family. How could such a thing happen?
"Engelwey just received a letter from the clan around noon…" Bluer didn't keep Sally in suspense and told her the contents of the letter directly. Looking at Sally's gradually changing expression, he said seriously, "Hubert's death was self-destructive, and Her Majesty the Queen's pardon can be considered an admission of this. Although Princess Irina was put in confinement, but compared to Hubert's death, what this punishment means is self-evident."
"Are elves who have lost their freedom no longer elves?" Sally listened to Bluer's words and felt that the education and ideas she had received since childhood had been greatly impacted.
"I agree with Her Highness the Princess's view on freedom, but the elven race is currently powerful and free. If we overthrow the current elven system, or even dismantle the major families, it will inevitably weaken the elven race, perhaps even more so than before. What will the elves do if other races invade again then? More elves will inevitably lose their freedom and suffer even more humiliation." Sally paused for a moment, then shook her head. "What we should do now is to bring more wandering elves back to the Wind Forest. Only then will the elven race become stronger."
"A hundred years ago, the elves were able to drive the demons and orcs out of the Wind Forest. Even with reforms now, the entire elven race won't disintegrate. The elves of today are far more powerful than they were back then." Bluer looked at Sally and asked seriously, "Besides, do you really think those wandering elves want to return to the Wind Forest?"