A few days later.

In the bustling streets of the capital of the Caesar Empire.

A black-haired girl dressed as a maid, with a troubled expression, looked at the handsome young man in front of her. The young man had a wild and unrestrained expression on his face as he looked at the maid, with a confident smile on his lips.

"If ten gold coins are not enough, how about fifty gold coins?"

"Well... I have something urgent to attend to, so..."

"Tsk, tsk. What's so urgent that you can't have a meal with me? Since I'm offering fifty gold coins, Miss should at least give me some face, right?"

The young man became displeased as the maid rejected him once again.

The young man, named Bogna, had outstanding talent at a young age and believed that he was unmatched among his peers. After hearing about the Magic Martial Arts Tournament, he quickly rushed to the Caesar Empire. However, before he could meet the princess, he spotted a cute maid on the roadside. He thought he could easily conquer her with money, but to his surprise, the maid was not moved by money at all.

This made Bogna feel annoyed. Suddenly, his expression changed and he impatiently shouted, "Who do you think you are, acting so high and mighty as a maid? Just have a meal with me, is that too much to ask for, without losing face?"

As the passersby heard Bogna's loud voice, many eyes turned towards them, but no one stepped forward to defuse the situation, because in the Caesar Empire, strength was the ultimate authority.

Bogna was extremely arrogant at that time. He came here full of confidence, even considering the princess as his future wife, because in his eyes, he was definitely going to be the winner of the Magic Martial Arts Tournament.

But just as he was feeling triumphant, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head.

"Who's attacking me?"

Bogna's first reaction was that someone was attacking him, so he quickly looked behind him and saw two suspicious figures.

One of them was dressed in a white cloak, with his entire face covered by a hood. It seemed like the hood had some kind of magic that prevented Bogna from seeing the person's face clearly.

The other person wore a strange monkey mask. Judging from his physique, he was probably around the same age as Bogna.

In an instant, Bogna frowned. He looked at the person wearing the monkey mask and felt extremely displeased because the masked man was playing with a stone in his hand, and upon closer observation, it was not hard to notice a faint white light enveloping the stone.

"Who are you?"

"Yuleia Fallist."

The owner of the voice answered Bogna's question calmly, then suddenly threw the stone towards Bogna's abdomen, causing him to scream in pain and clutch his stomach.

"You... What did you do to me?"

Bogna gritted his teeth and asked Yuleia, his face expressing an indescribable mix of emotions, but if one had to put it into words, it would probably be the look of someone who had just experienced something disgusting.

"Are you alright?"

The maid lightly nodded in response to the person wearing the monkey mask, "I'm fine, thank you."

"I was just passing by."

After speaking, the person tried to leave.

But it was at this moment that Bogna felt the pain in his abdomen disappear. However, his first reaction was not to quickly leave the scene, but rather a daring idea came to his mind.

He looked at the back of Yuleia and a sinister smile appeared on his face. Then, he suddenly shouted, "Wait! Stop right there! This is not what we agreed on! You said you would lightly hit me, but now you're using such heavy force on me! I'm not going to tolerate this anymore!"

As soon as Bogna spoke, the people around them started to discuss among themselves, and the expression of the maid froze for a moment before she immediately understood what was happening. She looked at Yuleia with a look of blatant disgust in her eyes.

"So, it was your plan all along... Ugh, disgusting!"

Leaving behind these words full of disdain, the maid immediately walked away, and Bogna made no attempt to stop her. Instead, he smiled victoriously at Yuleia's back.At this point, passersby also understood the ins and outs of the matter. It was obvious that the masked person wanted to play the hero and save the beauty, but the internal conflict between the two led to this result.

Discussions ensued.

"Yulia's" figure remained frozen in place.

Underneath the mask, Green was extremely speechless at the moment.

After Green and Mio arrived here, Green pretended to be Yulia because they needed to obtain a gift similar to proof from here. Originally, Green was just passing by and wanted to help someone out of a predicament, but he didn't expect it to turn out like this.

Suddenly, the expression hidden under Green's mask became gloomy.

He didn't succeed in doing a good deed and was misunderstood as a bad person instead?

It must be said that this person really is quite clever.

But Green couldn't be bothered to argue with this person. If he was misunderstood, so be it. It wasn't a big deal anyway. Instead, it would be better to spend the time explaining by going shopping with the lovely Mio.

Green never had a good impression of people like Borgna, so he naturally didn't want to waste too much time on him.

With that in mind, Green left with Mio directly.

Borgna didn't continue to push his luck and bother them after seeing Green leave. Instead, he smirked, thinking he had won.

After leaving the scene of the incident, Green calmly took off his mask, which always seemed a bit silly when he wore it.

Although Green hadn't been here for long, he found that the overall atmosphere of the Caesar Empire was indeed more irritable compared to other countries he had been to before. He had already witnessed at least three street fights on the way.

What's even more amazing was that there were no guards to stop them.

It was said that this was because the emperor of the Caesar Empire was very powerful and advocated for violence, which led to this situation. In comparison, Green couldn't help but feel that Mio's grandfather from Farst was much weaker.

"By the way, Mio, is there anything you want to eat?"

"Um... I prefer..."

Mio held her finger to her lips, pondering for a moment, but couldn't think of the name of any food.

"Anything is fine, as long as it's the same as what Green wants."

"Mio, you do have a little bit of opinion, huh..."

"Then... let's have ice cream!"

Ice cream, such a delicacy, existed even in this alternate world. In terms of taste and other aspects, it was just as good as the ice cream Green used to have in his original world.

Because the basic currency was universal, consumption was not a problem.

The two soon sat down with two large portions of ice cream.

It must be said that a cute beauty is pleasing to the eye no matter how you look at it. Especially Mio, with her innocent and lovely appearance, her face under the sun was filled with a smile that seemed to melt the ice cream completely.

"Why aren't you eating, Green?"

"Oh, right, let me eat now."

Inadvertently, Green had been looking for too long, and when he looked at his own ice cream, there were already traces of melting.

But Mio seemed to have noticed this too. She gently asked in a gentle tone,

"Do you want me to freeze it for you?"

"Oh... please go ahead, then."

Speaking of which, because there was ice magic, the cost of ice cream was quite low.

With Mio's help, Green's ice cream returned to its original state. This kind of low-temperature control using magic was much more powerful than a refrigerator or anything else.

However, when Green took a bite, he found that the ice cream seemed to be a bit hard...

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, doesn't matter."

Although it was a bit hard, it wasn't a big deal. But then Green noticed that Mio suddenly leaned towards him, and while he was still confused, she took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the corner of Green's mouth.

"You got some on you."

"Ah? Oh... by the way, Mio, don't you think this kind of thing is a bit wasteful?"

"Huh?!"

Mio's body, which had just settled down, suddenly stiffened. She exclaimed, and then blinked her innocent eyes. After a moment, a blush suddenly spread across her white face.

"Green, are you suggesting that I... use my mouth... to... to get rid of it?""Ha..."

When Green heard Mio's words and saw her embarrassed expression, his brain momentarily froze. He never expected such words to come out of Mio's mouth. However, he did manage to guess Green's thoughts...

Green blushed and didn't know how to respond for a moment. He could only awkwardly chuckle at Mio.

"Let's finish eating quickly, and then... let's go somewhere else, haha..."

The two of them remained silent with flushed faces until they finished all the ice cream. Green didn't even taste the ice cream, only remembering that it seemed sweet, but maybe not.

There were indeed many places worth visiting in Caesar Empire, but they shouldn't get too carried away with having fun. After wandering around for a while, Green was ready to help Eulia with her business.

Considering the time, it was almost time for the opening ceremony of the Magic Martial Arts Tournament.

According to the invitation, even if one is eliminated after registering to participate in the tournament, they would still receive a participation prize, which could be used as proof of having been here.

So Green planned to secretly get himself eliminated while the referee wasn't paying attention. As for the princess, Green really had no interest, as he didn't know her and certainly didn't aim to win.

In comparison, Green would rather talk to the current emperor.

During their time in Fhalcyst, Green had researched a lot of information. Although there wasn't much useful stuff, Green learned from the records that one of the Seven Sins Knights, Karkin, was originally a resident of Caesar Empire.

If he could obtain useful information, he must find a way to remove the curse from Mio.