Subsequently, Saifei'er and Ailiya went to find the village chief, a middle-aged man who looked to be around forty years old.
He pondered for a moment, then pointed in a direction and said, "Go five houses down this way, you can ask her to stay for the night."
It wasn't uncommon for passing Adventurers to ask for lodging; in fact, the village chief would sometimes intentionally introduce these Adventurers to more impoverished villagers' homes, to help those villagers earn some extra money.
Saifei'er and Ailiya followed the village chief's direction and arrived at the fifth house.
They gently knocked on the door, and soon, a girl with severe dark circles under her eyes and messy hair opened the wooden door.
"Hello, the village chief introduced us to stay here..."
Before Ailiya could finish her sentence, the girl nodded slightly, "Oh, come in."
Agreeing so easily made Saifei'er feel a bit strange; what about the price? Shouldn't they discuss it?
With a hint of doubt, she and Ailiya entered the house.
It was clearly a 'two bedrooms, one living room, one bathroom' layout.
The dark-eyed girl pointed to the bedroom on the left and said, "There's no one here, you can just stay here."
Upon hearing this, Saifei'er went to the bedroom on the left and took a look.
It was neatly tidied and very clean.
A double bed occupied most of the room's space, with a wardrobe and a desk in the remaining area.
An empty room, but so clean?
Saifei'er asked doubtfully, "What's the price? How much do we need to pay you to stay here?"
The dark-eyed girl was silent for a moment, then said, "No need, you can just stay, you don't need to pay me."
This answer made Saifei'er frown slightly; it was even stranger now.
A clean, unoccupied room, and no charge?
Could this dark-eyed girl have some evil plan to sacrifice outsiders to achieve some goal?
In the various anime and movies from her previous life, there were often similar plot devices: tricking innocent outsiders in to kill them.
However, Ailiya clearly wouldn't think so much.
Instead, she took out some money, walked over, and forcibly put it into the other person's hand, "How can this be!? Since we're staying here, we definitely have to pay you!"
"No, really, no need!"
The dark-eyed girl still refused, but her strength was clearly no match for Ailiya's, and she was eventually forced to accept it.
"But... but..." The dark-eyed girl still wanted to say something, but Ailiya just smiled, "No buts! Well then, we'll be bothering you tonight~!"
Seeing this, the dark-eyed girl's hands, holding the money, trembled slightly.
However, by then, Ailiya had already turned around and pulled Saifei'er into the bedroom on the left.
Regrettably, there were no bathing facilities here; no wooden tub and no hot water.
Left with no choice, Ailiya could only take off her clothes and tear open the scroll Fei had given her.
Although it was just paper, the scroll, upon being torn, transformed directly into a blue light and vanished into thin air.
And the same light flashed over Ailiya's removed clothes; soon, the bloodstained leather armor became as clean as if it had just come from the factory.
"How amazing~!" Seeing this, Saifei'er couldn't help but exclaim.
However, she didn't plan to use that cleaning spell scroll yet, intending to wait.
Anyway, her current clothes weren't very dirty, so there was no rush.
After a simple wash-up, Saifei'er took off her clothes and got into bed.
Because this room only had one large bed, she and Ailiya were naturally sharing the bed.
However, unlike her initial shyness at the Adventurers' Guild, she now felt little emotional fluctuation.
'I feel like I've pretty much adapted to being a girl now, is my adaptability too strong?' While muttering to herself, Saifei'er instinctively extended her right hand, anticipating Ailiya's move, and pressed it against Ailiya's cheek, who was about to lean over, then pushed her away.
During these past few days of escort missions, she had always slept in the same tent as Ailiya.
The tent space was smaller, and the two were closer.
It was fine when Ailiya was awake, but once she fell asleep, she would instinctively lean over and stick to Saifei'er, even attempting to hug her.
She was completely treating Saifei'er like a body pillow.
One morning, Saifei'er woke up to find Ailiya clinging to her like an octopus, and she couldn't describe how desperate she felt at that moment.
"Sigh, this girl's sleeping posture is really not honest..." Saifei'er couldn't help but sigh, then pushed away Ailiya, who was attempting to lean over for the second time.
Perhaps because it was her first time seeing a bloody corpse today, she wasn't feeling sleepy at all.
Saifei'er lay on her side on the bed, her tail passing between her legs and extending to her chest.
She gently held the tip of her tail with her right hand, stroking it back and forth.
Since she was bored, it was like petting a cat, stroking her own tail; it was fluffy and felt very nice.
Finally, just as Saifei'er was also gradually feeling a little sleepy and about to fall asleep, a soft sound suddenly came from next door, and her ears instantly perked up.
Out of curiosity and doubt, she had been deliberately listening to the sounds from the dark-eyed girl's side.
However, before this, the other person seemed to have just fallen asleep normally on the bed, with no extra sounds, until now, accompanied by rapid breathing, the girl seemed to have woken up.
Immediately following was an extremely soft sobbing sound.
Saifei'er couldn't help but be startled, 'Is she... crying?'
Subsequently, the girl seemed to get up and go to the washroom, washed her face, and then went back to sleep.
But less than half an hour later, she woke up again, her rapid breathing exceptionally clear.
Until the latter half of the night, was it the fourth or fifth time?
Saifei'er herself was extremely sleepy, but every time she was about to fall asleep, she would be woken up by the rapid breathing from next door.
This time, the girl, while sobbing, softly muttered, "I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry, Mommy..."
Then, there was the sound of bare feet walking on the floor; she seemed to have gone to the living room to pick up something.
Saifei'er quickly sat up and nudged Ailiya beside her, "Wake up, wake up!"
However, Ailiya only smacked her lips, seemingly eating something delicious in her dream, and rolled over to continue sleeping.
Saifei'er looked helpless, then pinched both sides of Ailiya's cheeks with both hands and kneaded them forcefully a few times.
Only then did Ailiya wake up with blurry eyes, "Mmm... Why does this dish hit me in the mouth..."
Then, she saw Saifei'er sitting beside her, and those eyes that emitted a faint glow, like two beautiful gems.
Isn't it common knowledge that cat's eyes glow at night?
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