“Ye Lian, the party no longer needs you for now. This is your severance pay.”
A platinum-haired beauty with a slender waist and a sword at her hip tossed a large pouch of silver coins at the fox-tribe boy before her.
Ye Lian was dumbfounded.
He looked at the girl wearily, his voice trembling.
“Ai Sha, why are you abandoning me at a time like this?”
The room fell silent.
The priestess Xierweiya leaned against the wall, her barely contained breasts nearly bursting her nun’s habit. She lowered her head and remained silent.
The mage Kate pushed up her round glasses, her porcelain-white thighs rubbing together anxiously, and chose to turn away.
The hero Ai Sha’s eyes flickered as she looked at the rain outside the window.
After a long moment, she explained in a cold tone.
“You’re too weak. You have no combat ability at all. You can only do some… chores and cooking as support work.”
Ye Lian said quickly,
“I’ll continue to work hard on everyone’s daily needs and all the logistical issues in the party… Oh! If you don’t like the recent meals, I’ll find a way to improve them…”
“Enough, Ye Lian. Take the silver coins in the pouch and go.”
“This money is enough for you to live comfortably in this city for half a year.”
Ai Sha gave up her crossed-legs posture, put away her long legs clad in black stockings, stood up, and interrupted.
Her expression was full of disdain.
Ye Lian’s eyes were full of disbelief.
It had been two years since his soul transmigrated into this game world called “Titan War Chronicle: Continuation”…
In his previous life, he was a top chef. He fell asleep from improper handling of blowfish while craving its delicacy.
When he came to, he had become a fox-tribe adventurer.
Then Ye Lian met her at the Adventurer’s Guild—the ice queen before him.
Ai Sha Parisio, a genius of the noble Parisio family, honorary knights of the imperial capital.
She was also the God’s Chosen, the current Hero, and the most popular romanceable female lead top1 in the game.
Back then, her fair and handsome face looked at the beast-tribe youth, her emerald eyes showing delight.
“My party needs an attendant to handle chores. Ye Lian, the dishes you make are no less than the skills of the royal palace chefs~ Will you join us?”
After that, the 「Golden Lion Holy Alliance」 party became Ye Lian’s home.
Watching this valiant high-unreachable flower always wielding the Holy Sword and charging at the front, he couldn’t help but feel admiration.
The mage girl often shouldered the heavy responsibility of rear spell support in battle; the priestess even provided timely healing to party members, offering a safety net for the team.
After winning battles, the three girls would taste the delicious food Ye Lian made with smiles on their faces—those were the happiest times in this world for him.
To help them, Ye Lian spared no effort in taking on all the trivial matters, dirty work, and tiring tasks in the team.
Even if he couldn’t fight, he believed he could use his past life’s experience to contribute to the party.
Until recently, Ai Sha and the other teammates suddenly started having fewer conversations with Ye Lian.
Even when their eyes accidentally met, they would turn away deliberately to avoid looking at him.
Now they were even driving him away.
He must have been hated.
Ye Lian let out a long sigh.
He had never thought of ingratiating himself with these beautiful girls; he was just doing his own job.
Sure enough, the good times he had with them were nothing but illusions.
Giving without expecting anything in return would get you no reward…
“I’m sorry, everyone of the 「Golden Lion Holy Alliance」. I’ve been holding you back. I’ll leave now.”
“Wah wah wah, Sister Ai Sha, isn’t that overacting…”
Watching Ye Lian quickly leave the room, Xierweiya hesitated to speak.
But under the pressure of Ai Sha and Kate’s stares, she had to swallow the words back.
“We’ve already arrived at the border city Antar. Ahead is the Demon Territory. From now on, we’ll probably encounter experts at the Demon General level…”
Ai Sha wiped her beloved sword while sighing softly.
“With Ye Lian’s personality, no matter how we persuade him, he would choose to live and die with us. For safety reasons, we had no choice but to resort to this.”
“That Ye Lian leaving like this… I’m a bit reluctant to let him go…” the mage Kate pouted.
“Sister Kate, we all miss him. I’m afraid the party’s meal expenses will skyrocket lately…”
Xierweiya followed up on Kate’s words, her brows slightly furrowed as she mumbled.
“Oh my, Kate, what degree of reluctance is this? Do tell?” Ai Sha sensed gossip and pressed further.
“Ai Sha, you jerk! Ye Lian, he, hehe, when he turns into his little fox form, the feel of petting him is really great, don’t you think?!” As Kate thought of this, she pointed at Ai Sha, her cheeks slightly red as she started panting.
“And you, Xierweiya! You need to go on a moderate diet lately. In our party, you always eat the most!”
“Wuwuwu, Sister Kate is picking on people again…”
Ai Sha watched the two girls playfully bickering in the room. She felt delighted for a moment, but then looked at the heavy rain pouring outside, and an inexplicable worry gripped her heart.
With her back to them, preventing them from seeing her expression, she said,
“After we deal with the Demon King, we’ll start a fair competition for Ye Lian’s ownership rights.”
“Hmph, Ai Sha, I won’t give him up to you!”
“Yeah, yeah! Ye Lian definitely has to marry me!”