Where did this poor little thing come from?

“Tsk, as if you know. I’ve played farming games before,” Alice said, crossing her arms as she walked on the bluestone path, supporting her plump white chest.

“Isn’t it just about picking wild flowers and grass? Some have poisonous sap, so you can’t touch them with your hands, some need to be uprooted, and some only allow picking the flowers, right, Lao Li?”

“Tsk, you’re just playing games.”

“But isn’t that true!”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah~”

The theory was indeed correct.

Livia had also learned by borrowing encyclopedias and used the theories she encountered in modern games to gather herbs.

And she had actually managed to refine ordinary healing potions.

So, how important it was to have someone from the same place, who had experienced the same customs and education.

The communication was just too simple.

Livia rummaged through her small satchel, pulled out a crumpled, folded piece of paper, smoothed it out, and handed it to Alice to look at.

“Here, this is called Mandragora…”

Along the way, she briefly explained the basic effects and harvesting methods of various plants.

When she came to her senses, they were already standing halfway up the mountain.

It felt truly wonderful.

Like a spring outing.

‘Rustle, rustle.’

Suddenly, the bushes made a rustling sound, startling Livia, who immediately grabbed Alice’s wrist and swung out the long spear she had prepared earlier, retreating repeatedly.

“Careful!”

“Huh?”

The blonde girl frowned in confusion.

In the next instant, a white rabbit suddenly leaped out of the bushes.

The blonde girl immediately lost her composure.

“Pfffffffft~ I’m dying of laughter, Lao Li, are you that scared? It’s just a rabbit, haha, what did you think it was, a snake? What’s that called again, chasing shadows? Mistaking grass for soldiers? Hehehe~”

“Damn it, shut up, you useless trash. I was doing it for your own good!”

Livia wiped the fine sweat from her forehead.

Because of her previous experience, she was suffering from PTSD.

Who knew if what jumped out from behind the bushes was a small animal or a green-skinned monster!?

If it weren’t for the urgent need to earn money, she would never want to set foot in the forest again.

But.

Livia tilted her head up and silently gazed north.

Did escaping really help?

What she had to face.

Perhaps she still had to face it.

Even if she hadn’t died.

But those hateful goblins were also the murderers who killed her and her best friend, beings against whom she had to exact revenge!

Revenge for her own life, an irreconcilable enmity!

But all of this required sufficient funds, and now…

“Let’s go, collect herbs. Let’s develop first, and then slowly get back at them.”

Before she could investigate thoroughly and make thorough preparations, she absolutely could not act rashly.

“Sigh~ Can’t we speed up technological advancement? Speaking of which, Viya, do you know the manufacturing process for handguns? I feel like we could do that.”

“Sister, we’re high school students…”

Livia squatted down and uprooted a wild flower, “If you ask me how to smelt iron, I can still tell you. Handguns? Dream on, and get lost.”

“Slowly, slowly, at least I know how to make gunpowder. The game says it’s made from sulfur and charcoal.”

“Gunpowder…?”

Livia’s eyes sharpened, then she blinked and nodded.

“Let’s not talk about that for now. You go over there, I’ll be here. Let’s split up and let me have all the resources, thanks.”

“Tsk tsk tsk, you want to monopolize everything, don’t you~”

“Oh, right, I also have something to give you.”

Livia felt her pocket and then found the copper whistle.

Actually, she should have given it to her earlier.

If it weren’t for seeing Alice’s chest so bare, Livia would have forgotten about it.

“Haha, what a childish thing.”

Alice took it, put it in her mouth and blew on it, emitting a sharp, piercing sound, then stood up.

“Then, I’ll accept your kind gesture. Let’s see who picks more when we get back tonight~”

Alice teased, then whistled a little tune and went elsewhere with the crumpled paper. She knew that splitting up to collect was the most efficient method.

“The herbs can be sold directly for money—We’ll meet at the inn before it gets dark—!”

Towards Alice’s retreating back, Livia shouted…

‘Tap, tap, tap.’

Her feet crunched on the pile of dead leaves, the sound of them being crushed filling her ears, as if even the birdsong had vanished, adding to the tension.

The newly picked Snow Soul Grass in her herb basket still had ice crystals clinging to it. Livia brought her reddened fingertips to her lips to warm them.

“Damn it, this herb is so anti-human. You have to touch it with your bare hands, otherwise the leaves will wither… And it specifically requires a maiden’s fingers to touch directly… It’s freezing me to death.”

Livia couldn’t help but stare at the Snow Soul Grass and complain, “Luke my eye! Speak! Are you Aluminum Copper Flower!”

Suddenly, her boot kicked something soft.

“Yaah?!”

Livia almost tripped. She looked down and held her breath.

A silver-haired woman lay in the bushes. Her long hair, like silk woven from moonlight, spread across the dew-covered grass.

The woman wore a luxurious dark silver gown, like frozen moonlight, its hem emitting a faint shimmer.

Curled up in the weeds, the silver-haired older sister looked like a doll carved from ice and snow. Her face was so exquisitely beautiful it didn’t seem real, her eyelashes as long as butterfly wings, casting faint shadows on her pale skin.

“Is, is she human!?”

Rather than excitement, Livia was startled first.

Then, she cautiously approached again, crouched down, and tremblingly reached out a finger to check the woman’s breathing.

Fortunately, although weak, she was still breathing.

Haa…

Livia looked again at the stunningly beautiful woman before her.

—How can someone dance perfectly on my every xp like this!

An ice-beauty, with a delicate chest, slender waist, and long legs, she was a fairy sister!

Cough, but it seemed that the young, beautiful girl in white stockings and the loli in black stockings were also her favorites.

Okay, she was just a simple pervert.

Livia suppressed her excitement and raised her hand, preparing to help the woman up.

Her fingertips accidentally touched the woman’s cheek; the temperature was as cold as ice.

“So cold… Snow tribe? Or some kind of elf?”

Livia bit her finger, her heart pounding.

This body temperature didn’t feel like a human’s.

Humans are warm-blooded animals; even in extreme cold or arctic regions, they wouldn’t feel like this to the touch…

Since this other world had goblins and magic.

Besides humans, elves and dragons probably existed too, right?

To be able to encounter something like this? It was truly surprising…

Should she really save her?

But what if she woke up and extorted her? Or what if she was some murderous demon who would slaughter the town upon waking…

Livia felt like she was standing at a crossroads of fate.

Saving this silver-haired older sister might very well mean the end of her good days, but it might also lead to a life of wealth and nightly revelry.

Thinking this over, Livia was extremely conflicted.

Her emotions made her want to hold this ice-cold beauty tightly, but her reason made her pull back from the brink, urging her not to overlook any potential danger.

“Or, should I tie her up first?”

If her hands and feet were tied, and her mouth gagged, would she become less threatening?

Suddenly.

The unconscious woman let out a soft moan, as if dreaming. Dewdrops from her long eyelashes fell like rustling rain, interrupting Livia’s continuous thoughts.

“Hiss… You really are.”

So pathetic.

Livia then noticed the ice crystal longsword beneath her. The sword’s body already had several fine cracks, and the ice crystal gem at the tip was dull and lifeless, with something peculiar lingering within it.

“What’s inside?”

Livia leaned closer, making a move that went against her ancestral teachings, one that she would regret even thinking about later.

She gently stroked the gem.

“Eek, ah, ah, ah, ah?!”