A man and a woman... ah no, two women, sitting in a small street shop in Star Maple King City.

This is a cake shop dedicated to the leisure consumption of people above the middle class, offering some drinks and exquisite pastries.

There is a clear difference between a cake shop and a bakery. Compared with the simple bread that is the staple food, cakes with a lot of cream, fruit and sugar are obviously things that only rich people can afford.

Livia still looks like that. Let's not talk about anything else. Just talking about her appearance, she is indeed very heroic, with a straight back, a slender and tight figure, and she wears armor or men's clothes most of the time. She is sassy and handsome.

She didn't order any gorgeous pastries, she just sat on the street with a cup of black coffee, watching the bustling crowds of people on the street. She was wearing a suit-like outfit at the moment, which was tightly wrapped, but made her legs look very long.

This is the only thing about her that is more feminine.

Sid next to him was just the opposite.

Although both of them are imperial knights by profession, Sid's temperament is almost completely different. She is half elf blood, more feminine and gentle, and she also wears a skirt, a long skirt with a very elf style.

The Silver Leaf tribe is a typical forest elf. Forest elves like to wear long hollow skirts with tulle. It is said that it is because it is too hot in the forest.

Sid seemed a little anxious, but also very embarrassed. She was planning to come to see Livia, and she had thought of a lot of things to say before she came, but after arriving, she found that she couldn't say anything.

But Livia didn't seem to be in a hurry, looking as cold as ever.

After holding it in for a long time, the orange juice in her hand was almost finished. Sid finally said: "...it was the king of monsters who asked me to come."

"I guess so, otherwise why would you come to me? I have lied to you for a long time. I always thought that you should use the knife like last time when you saw me." Livia seemed very relaxed:

"But thanks to you, if you hadn't used your status to intimidate the nobles here, I wouldn't have the time or leverage to push forward the progress here. You see, this city is much better now than before, isn't it?"

"...Yeah, it's much better than before." Sid replied, a little absent-mindedly.

"So, thank you." Livia suddenly thanked Sid, and then she continued: "You may be here to seek revenge. After all, I have done many wrong things, but no matter what you want to do,

I will try my best to satisfy you."

She seemed very serious.

Yes, she did a lot of wrong things for her father's rebirth. Her character was prone to going to extremes, so she killed many people.

Do you regret it?

Impossible. When she did those things, she had already realized something. She was not an innocent child, and she would not take chances and say that everyone might be happy.

When she did it, she already knew the outcome. Many people would die and many people would be hurt.

But what does it matter? My father came back alive, and that was enough.

He is her only relative, and she still remembers the way her father held her when she was a child.

She will feel guilty, ashamed, and self-blame for those who died and those she hurt, but she will not regret it.

If someone comes to seek revenge, she will bear it. If someone comes to seek revenge, she will take it. If someone wants compensation, she will resist it completely, but it is impossible for her to regret it.

So when she saw Sid coming back, her first reaction was that he was here to seek revenge.

It is indeed possible. After all, Sid Walder was once miserably deceived by her. With her help, Livia got in touch with the upper-class nobles of the empire, and successfully leveraged the empire's choices, allowing the empire to shift its internal conflicts, and

The original target of consuming the strength of the kingdoms and principalities was changed from the barbarians to the Demon King's Castle.

From the beginning to the end, Livia is a standard bad woman, with only purpose and deception, deceiving innocent girls, and without any sincerity, and even throws it away after using it in the end.

If she hadn't been a woman, Sid would have been pregnant with the child.

Sid was choked.

She seemed to sense what Livia wanted to express, so she didn't know how to answer.

After a while, she ate the remaining cake and cream in one gulp, looked up at the sky, and sighed deeply: "Actually, I don't know why I came to you, but I'm definitely not here to seek revenge."

"Isn't it? That's great." Livia replied, finished her coffee and stood up.

Sid quickly stood up.

"Want to go to my house?" Livia asked.

Sid took a deep breath and his face became firm: "Go!"

"Then let's go, but I don't have a servant there, so you might not be used to it."

"I have long been accustomed to life without servants."

The two people talked and walked forward.

"By the way, I know you are helping my father. I won't find out what you are doing. Anyway, I just need to cooperate. So I arranged for someone to go there before. Is that okay?" Livia returned to her capable and crisp expression.

Tone.

"No problem, that's what I'm doing now." Sid replied with a nod.

The two started chatting, talking about all kinds of things. Livia herself was hundreds of years old. As an immortal, her life span and experience were not comparable to that of Sid.

But although Sid is only in her twenties, she was born into a family after all. The Wald family has an incredible collection of books, and her position also allows her to have access to a lot of secret knowledge.

It is not a secret to her, it is something she would talk about when chatting with her father, but to people outside the upper echelons of the empire, it is a top secret, and it is impossible to come into contact with it even if you die.

Therefore, the conversation was relatively smooth. Both parties were able to talk about things that the other party didn't know. It was considered a very pleasant conversation.

However, Sid was obviously absent-minded. She could see that she was in a hurry, but she was suppressing her emotions.

Livia pretended not to see him. She didn't care what Sid was doing. In her opinion, she was just a little girl.

She is indeed a little girl, a half-elf in her twenties, pitiful. Compared with an old fried dough stick like her, who is three or four hundred years old, she is just a tender green onion with water leaking out of it.

This conversation continued for a while, and the two gradually walked home.

Livia's "home" is not luxurious, because she doesn't care much about material comfort, it is just an ordinary haunted house in an aristocratic area.

A truly haunted house. The family died in the coup, and their souls turned into evil spirits and took up residence here. Livia came over to clean it up, and then simply lived here.

As for that poor evil spirit...

There are only Level 5 evil spirits that can be killed with one strike. It’s not a big deal, it’s just to scare ordinary people.

Most of the rooms were empty, except for the floor where Livia lived upstairs. She would clean it, so what Sid saw was a house like a ruin.

The door is rusty and has not been painted for a long time. The garden has withered long ago and has not been taken care of for a long time. There is even a human skull under the wall! I guess no one wants to clean it!

It's even more scary when you walk inside. The whole building has three floors. The first floor is eerie like a morgue. Although the corpses have been cleaned out, there are blood stains, dust all over the floor, broken furniture covered in gray, and heavy curtains.

No sunlight can shine through.

The smell of death is everywhere, and there is even a layer of resentful dust on the ground. It is the corpse of the evil spirit after it was smashed by Livia. It is this thing that makes the atmosphere here gloomy.

It's almost the same when we get to the second floor.

Went all the way to the third floor of Livia, where we finally got a sense of life.

The third floor is the original owner's bedroom, which is smaller than the two floors below, but more exquisite.

The place was briefly cleaned by Livia. At least there was no dust around the edge of the bed. The curtains were opened and the sunlight filtered in, dispelling the original gloomy atmosphere in the house.

The bed was barely tidy, at least it was made. There was a large pile of books placed beside the bed, each with bookmarks inserted, but the arrangement was very messy.

On the dressing table to the left of the bed, there are no toiletries at all. They are all letters. The table is piled up in a mess. If you look closely, they are all reports from someone and replies from someone. Basically, they are all work news.

and replies and the like.

Livia didn't seem to be very good at organizing things. The books she couldn't throw away or the letters she needed for work were all in a mess. Except for the circle around her bed, everything was in a mess.

So, she "cleaned" it.

How to clean for people who are not good at tidying up?

That is to throw away everything that you don't need. Some of the broken furniture downstairs are the results of Livia's cleaning.

Except for the things she had to use, the whole room was empty. There was only one set of armor hanging on the shelf. Judging from the dust on it, it seemed that it had not been worn for a long time.

"...Well, you live here?" Sid looked at the state of this house in disbelief.

"Well, I'll get you a glass of water." Livia said, pulling out two cups from under the pile of letters, then washing them with the water-making technique, and then filling them with clean water.

She also has Magic 2 skills. After all, she is the daughter of the King of Monsters, so she has to learn a little bit about it.

The water produced by the water-generating technique is absolutely pure, without any impurities, it is just "water".

"Here." She handed a glass of water to Sid.

Sid took the water blankly.

She has never... seen Livia like this.

"You... don't know how to take care of yourself?" The eldest daughter of the Duke's family was shocked. How could someone live in such a place?

Not to mention people have died, many houses have had people die, but at least they should be cleaned up? Throw out the corpses and other things, sweep away the dust, replace the tattered floors, make a new set of furniture, get some housekeepers, maids, etc.

Yes, hiring a cook and a gardener is a standard feature of family life, right?

"Huh? What's wrong? Is there any problem?" Livia didn't know why. Sid was chatting well before, but now what is he suddenly talking about?

"What's wrong? You live here!? You live here and sleep here! What else did you say?" Sid stood up exaggeratedly.

"So?" Livia was even more confused: "Yes, I live here. Do you think I'm lying?"

"How do you manage four meals a day? How do you eat?" Sid asked angrily.

Four meals a day, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, are standard for aristocrats and are also Sid's eating habits.
To be continued...