37 Chapter 37: Fun Town (1/2)

I wake up to the bustling noise from downstairs. Mei and the villagers are up quite early.

”Oh, good morning, QiLing!” Mei greets me.

”Good morning!”

We chatter at breakfast.

”So what's the capital like?”

”Well, there's the white palace in the middle and arrays of buildings around it. It's quite lively.”

”Haha, they must have better conditions than anywhere else in the kingdom.”

”That's not true,” I tell them seriously, ”The southport town actually is quite adept and very like the capital.”

”Oooh!”

The villagers look at me like excited kids. I play around a bit, dilly dallying, since I don't really have anything to do. I even played on a random piano. It is quite fun in this heartwarming village.

”Are you leaving now?” Mei asks me.

”Yeah, I'm going to go down to the southport to earn money,” I tell her.

I carry my meager amount of belongings and head down south. I walk for the entire afternoon, even when my legs are numb. The only thing that fills my mind is what happened and all the precious people I'm leaving behind. I'll only cause more harm by being by them.

I finally smell the fresh, salty, sea air! Ah! I take an amazing deep breath as I look at my surroundings closely. The port town sure did liven up from last time. I walk around the markets with the hustling bustling people. They look better than ever!

”Oy! Young lady!” a familiar voice calls over.

I turn around to see the leader of the bandits from last time, or should I say, mayor of this city?!