Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild-Chapter 466 - 248: Meimei’s Training (Part 2)

Farina approached and said, "Should she call me big sister or aunt?"

"What do you mean?" Li Ang sighed.

"Isn’t she nine times out of ten your daughter with Meluna? Tell me, what else don’t I know? What’s the issue between you two?"

"You all have wild imaginations and understand that woman through your speculations. I don’t feel like explaining. When you actually meet her, you’ll understand."

"That child is very spiritual, but clearly lacks companionship. You should spend more time with her."

"Stop it. Do you even know if she has parents?"

Li Ang was helpless, even though he didn’t understand why Meimei was so calm towards him. But her cautiousness towards outsiders was clearly due to the village’s isolation. Without the need for communication, her parents didn’t understand these things either, so it wasn’t related to lack of companionship.

"Some magic can confuse people’s perceptions. Does your girlfriend understand this? Could she have chosen two villagers—"

"I think she wouldn’t even think of putting the child in an orphanage for this reason. Stop overthinking it. I’ve seen Meimei’s parents; they look similar."

If it were as Farina guessed, Li Ang and Otto wouldn’t have been puzzled for so long.

This Dragon Witch clearly has high expectations for the concept of "Li Ang’s daughter" and doesn’t care about the logic of the situation.

On the other hand, Meimei finished watching Otto’s demonstration.

The girl reached her small hand toward the Zen Heart Flowing: "Can I borrow this sword, Grandpa Otto?"

The young girl’s eyes shimmered with a watery light, and she seemed to have completely sensed the rhythm of water within the blade.

"This is Li Ang’s sword," Otto said.

After the battle ended, Li Ang didn’t immediately reclaim the sword as he was wary of any follow-up actions from the Empire.

Now it seems it’s completely safe for the moment.

And just now, Otto had proactively told him that this sword is special and wanted to study it for a while, so Li Ang didn’t immediately take it back.

Meimei turned to Li Ang: "Big brother, can I play with your sword for a bit?"

"No problem, just don’t overdo it and hurt yourself."

Li Ang agreed, and Otto handed the Zen Heart Flowing sword hilt to the girl.

The girl placed the Moon Concealing Rabbit on the table beside her, gripped the sword hilt, and gracefully took a step back, lifting the long sword with both hands and swinging it a few times.

These few swings seemed like child’s play, but as a Swordsman, Li Ang immediately saw that since she lacked strength, she couldn’t swing the sword well, so she had to hold it with both hands and swing forcefully.

These movements certainly couldn’t be used in actual combat but were able to properly harness magic power.

With the support of Zen Heart Flowing, Meimei’s few swings immediately slashed a few water waves in the air.

These water waves weren’t just water created by gathering Water Elements; they truly contained magic-powered Elemental Attacks.

As they scattered and were about to hit the courtyard walls, Li Ang cast a spell to dispel the spirituality, disordering the internal magic power, causing the gathered Elements to disperse and transform into ordinary water that fell.

"Don’t go destroying your grandpa’s courtyard," Li Ang said with a smile.

"Oh."

Meimei obediently lowered the sword tip: "Then I’ll practice outside in the future."

Otto said, "You should digest the techniques and practice exerting force as I’ve taught you. Li Ang and I will discuss other matters."

The young girl stuck out her pink tongue: "Huh? Practice strength again? Grandpa, can’t I just use magic power? I think it’s enough for me."

"No way. The body is the foundation for bearing and manifesting power. If the body can’t bear it, any technique is just a showy display that will still collapse at the first hit."

Meimei walked away in response, but it seemed she wasn’t very attentive to the elder’s words.

This really just looks like a child who hasn’t grown up yet. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Li Ang even felt that what he was seeing might be similar to Meluna’s situation when she was young. Did that woman really train properly from the start? It was hard to imagine. Meimei definitely has a bit of her vibe.

And Meimei seemed well-taught and willing to take things seriously, whereas Meluna seemed like nobody taught or managed her, leading to her overly self-centered personality.

When he first met her, her appearance didn’t look like she had grown up well either.

Otto asked, "What do you think?"

So now Li Ang thinks the most likely scenario is that Meluna is the bloodline lost from Huanwo Village, who just so happens to closely resemble Meimei, showing a similar situation.

"Why do you keep asking my opinion? Go find the places outside the village where that woman might be."

Li Ang scratched his head, and the way the group members were looking at him, especially Farina with her loving gaze, put quite a bit of pressure on him.

As the three seemed ready to leave, Meimei ran over and said, "Are you leaving again?"

Otto said, "We have some matters to attend to."

"Let me go with you, okay?"

The girl’s words somewhat surprised the elder Sword Hero, but she quickly explained herself.

"Last night’s noises and tremors were terrifying, and there were black things exploding in the village too."

She was referring to the impact of the Annihilator on Mengze Island, and the latter part likely referred to the Dark Elemental disturbances when the Annihilator transported the Empire captives away.

"The rabbit suddenly ran away, and I know Grandpa and Big Brother were fighting those bad guys causing a big commotion with the Demons, but I couldn’t do anything. I want to do something too..."

Her words made Otto have a look of sudden realization on his face.

No wonder she was diligently practicing sword in the yard early in the morning.

From the few words exchanged earlier, she seemed very lively and without any intent to pursue power.

Otto seemed to ponder something and, after a moment of contemplation, said: "Then come with us."

Farina thought of it as taking a daughter to find her mother and looked at Li Ang with a mischievous smile, making him feel truly helpless.

The two adults, one elder, and one child, sat on the carriage pulled by the Sea Thorn Dragon, heading out of the village.

Sitting on the grassy sledge, Li Ang thought about himself.

To become stronger, Meimei’s words had reminded him.

After crossing worlds and experiencing hardships, he began to strive forward. During the journey, he faced manipulation of magic power that wasn’t smooth, and his physical fitness wasn’t as good as the local residents, encountering these setbacks, finally making progress in Curse Art.

This profession, though much despised, was at least a choice that allowed him to keep up with the majority; otherwise, he’d just be a person powerless to do anything when disasters struck.

A series of events followed, and he now has a system with many Professional Tiers unlocked, but the recent busyness hadn’t allowed him to focus on improving any particular profession.

After building a ship, no, it might as well be said that even during the waiting period for the ship to be completed, it was an opportunity for special training.

Both he and the girls in the group could utilize this time to focus on their training.

However, the burning sensation on his arm again reminded him that the Demon Curse was still a sword hanging over his head.

This forced him to solve it as soon as possible.

This meant temporarily putting the girls aside to complete the Curse Art inheritance completion quest by himself.

The location given by the system—the Sanctuary of All Spirits—was off-limits to them, and they didn’t satisfy the requirements to board the island.

Moreover, he didn’t know what situations would arise in this quest line, but he felt that if there were indeed danger, it would be too much for them to handle. So, to be cautious, he would need to call upon strong allies from the Excellence Realm or above to assist him.

Akuya jumped onto Li Ang’s shoulder, stretched its rabbit head over, and softly said, "Your spirituality is acting up; have you fought with the Demon?"

This rabbit hid its true identity, so as not to let Meimei hear its words, and its voice was very soft, requiring the perception of magic power fluctuations to hear clearly.

"Do you know them?"

Li Ang asked and immediately understood. How could a Dragon God, existing since this world’s inception, not know about the Crimson Demon?

"Are you looking down on me?"

Sure enough, this rabbit began to get difficult.

"No, Lord Water Dragon, I just didn’t anticipate the breadth of your wisdom."

Because this guy was so unpredictable, Li Ang nearly forgot that it was the best information source. When it comes to the world’s secrets and whatnot, it must know a lot, right?

So he immediately lowered his stance.

"Do you know where they come from? What exactly are they? What is their relation to Nebis?"