Even goblins are dangerous in this other world!

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She let out a long sigh and slumped onto the table.

"Work is too hard, promotion is too hard. I wish Master could advance to the fifth rank, so he could advance without having to work hard..."

"Mirel, keep it up! Not working hard is not a good habit."

Leila and Tassanya walked in from outside the door, and Leila greeted them with a smile.

bass!

Milair immediately sat up straight, looking somewhat embarrassed.

"Lady Leila, what brings you here? And Tassanya too."

"The master sent Tassanya with a gift."

Leila happily handed the white cloth bag to Milair, who had already taken out her gift.

It was a long, rectangular white box. She hadn't opened it yet; she planned to look at it secretly when she got back.

Hearing that it was a gift from her master, Milair happily took the bag. Inside was a yellow box. She reached in and took it out, and a note fell out along with the yellow box.

The note must have been under the yellow box for it to be brought out.

Miler picked up the note with a puzzled look.

The above is Luo Xiu's handwriting:

【Mirel, please compile some information about the Gold Rush Casino in the inner city and send it to me these past few days.】

Milair stared blankly at the note.

Seeing Miler's expression, Leila and Tassania curiously came over. After seeing the words on the note, the two gave Miler a sympathetic look.

“Tasanya, you don’t know, Milair has been working like crazy lately.”

"Lady Leila, I saw Master writing and drawing in his notebook today. I wonder if it's related to what's written on this note. It seems... quite difficult."

Poor Milair has to work overtime.

Milair was on the verge of tears.

Disobeying Luo Xiu's orders was impossible, but the Grand Master of the Knights kept urging them on.

She quickly accepted the fact and listlessly put the note away.

“It’s alright, Milair. I can reduce some of my daily patrol time to help you. After all, my master’s affairs are more important.”

Leila's soft, sweet voice sounded like heavenly music to Milair's ears.

Miler looked up at Leila's lovely face, as if she were seeing an angel:

"Lady Layla..."

She rushed towards Leila, deeply moved.

Suddenly, her gaze fell upon Leila, and her movement to pounce on her froze instantly.

At the doorway, Galia, with her blue hair, also froze.

Is there anything worse in this world than witnessing your boss in private and being caught red-handed by him? There is, and that is when your boss's friends happen to be there.

Gallia's eyelids twitched, and his broken eyebrow trembled along with them.

"Galia, how long have you been here?"

Milair pulled back from her lunge and smiled.

Galia broke out in a cold sweat when he saw the smile on Milair's usually stern face.

"I just arrived, Lord Milair. I didn't see or hear anything."

"So what's going on?"

Milair didn't have time to worry about these things right now, and simply asked.

Seeing that Milair didn't pursue the matter, Gallia secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said seriously:

"Here's the thing, someone reported a missing person downstairs, but when we asked her where the missing person lived and what they did for a living, she couldn't say anything. We were worried that she was filing a false report, so we had to temporarily suspend the case."

"Then she suddenly said she wanted to find you, and that she had interacted with you before. I thought she might be your friend, so I came up to ask you."

"what is her name?"

Milair was taken aback; she didn't recall having any friends in Kanriel.

"Call her Nika."

"Galia spoke," said Gallia.

Nika?

Of course, this name wasn't only known to Miler; Leila and Tassanya also remembered it. It referred to the somewhat dark-skinned girl who liked to wear white dresses and who had specifically reminded her master not to go to the monster arena.

"Bring Miss Nika over here."

Milair thought for a moment and then spoke.

She knew that Nika had a sweetheart studying at Kanriel College, and the reason she was reporting the case was probably because that sweetheart had gone missing.

A short while later, Gallia led Nika into the room.

"Then I shall take my leave now. Have a good night, gentlemen."

Gallia left, and casually closed the door that Leila and the others had forgotten to close.

Inside the room, Leila and the other two looked at Nika, whose eyes were red, and for a moment they didn't know how to start a conversation.

I hadn't seen this girl for a while, and she seemed like a completely different person.

Her original white tank top was now replaced by a tattered linen shirt. Her already thin body became even thinner. Her hair was dry, yellow, and messy, looking like it hadn't been washed for several days. There were also many obvious bruises and wounds on her limbs and face, and her eyes were somewhat evasive.

I don't know what caused that stubborn and cheerful girl to become like this.

The three of them remained silent, and Nika did not speak either, but her eyes grew increasingly red.

"Miss Nika."

Finally, Leila spoke up. She took a step toward Nika, wanting to get closer to her, but Nika instinctively shrank back.

Leila was deeply moved by this scene. Having been a slave herself, she knew that this action was a reaction that only occurred when someone was frequently beaten.

“Miss Nika, don’t be afraid. It’s safe here now. If anything happens to you, you can tell us. Our master told us that if we run into any old friends in Kanriel, it’s always okay to help them out.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Nika could no longer hold back. Tears streamed down her face and gradually turned into a wail.

"Oh dear—yes, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry to have troubled you all, so sorry..."

Nika cried and kept apologizing.

Tassanya and Miler didn't offer any words of comfort, but Leila stepped forward, gently hugged Nika, and whispered:

"It's okay to cry it out, it'll all be alright once you've cried it out..."

After crying for a while, Nika gradually calmed down and recounted how she came to Kanril.

It turned out that after entering Kanriel, she went straight to the Adventurers' Academy, hoping to find her sweetheart. However, as a commoner with no status, the people in charge of the academy ignored her. She had to ask each student one by one.

This pace was far too slow, and the expenses in Kanriel were enormous. The money she carried was running out, so she had no choice but to sell the alchemical potions she made herself in an attempt to make ends meet.

However, as a first-tier alchemist, the potions she painstakingly concocted had no market in Kanriel and no source of income. No matter how much she tried to save money, she could only watch her savings dwindle away.

It was at this time that someone approached her and offered to introduce her to a job.

In her desperation, she followed that person, only to find herself working as a scrap metal alchemist on the Waste Gold Road.

"Scrap alchemist?"

Leila felt like she had heard the word before while patrolling the streets, but she hadn't looked into it at the time.

"It's about purifying alchemical waste."

Milair replied, a hint of pity in her eyes as she looked at Nika:

"Scrap Gold Road is the place with the most alchemical waste on the outskirts of Kanriel. It is full of illegal workshops that specialize in collecting alchemical waste and extracting the remaining alchemical materials for recycling."

"This purification process is very harmful to the body. The crucible is filled with highly polluting waste, which is devastating to both the mind and body."

"People who work as scrap alchemists for a long time either go insane or die from illness in the end."

"But at least you were taken to Scrap Gold Street instead of Rum Street. Rum Street is the real deal..."

Milair didn't finish speaking.

Rum Street is a place where you have to sell your ass and your soul to survive, or if you're lucky, you can just sell your ass.

“When I was in the scrap metal street, some people thought about selling me to Rum Street, but in the end they said I was too thin and ugly, so they didn’t do anything to me.”

As Nika spoke, a smile appeared on her face, which had been covered in tears. This was the luckiest thing that had happened to her in a long time.

"So, Miss Nika, how did you know your sweetheart was missing?"

Seeing that Nika had calmed down, Leila asked.

She remembered Nika's sweetheart, whose name was... Tree?

"Because I found him later."

Nika's eyes filled with tears again:

"But then he disappeared again."

Hearing this, Leila and the others exchanged glances. Finally, Miler was pushed forward by Leila and forced to speak:

“Miss Nika, perhaps we can look at it on the bright side. Maybe that gentleman isn’t missing. Maybe he’s just… just…”

"They just ran away."

Tassanya spoke coldly.

Actually, this isn't hard to understand. Although Nika always praised her crush and it was clear that she had deep feelings for him, her narration didn't really convey that the boy named Tree had deep feelings for her.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been gone for so long and never contacted each other again.

It's difficult for Kanriel to enter the city, but it's quite easy to leave.

Unless there's some real hidden reason, they've most likely run away.

Although none of them were normal women, they could still sense that.