The Bard is Fantasizing Again

Ch. 20 - Harvesting the Spoils of War

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But because of the curse she was born with.

Living in this town, Anbi had long been well aware of this.

"It's okay, Tang Qi-gege. You're not doing this for nothing. Anbi is very happy..." More than those cold stares and prejudices, what Anbi feared most was that Tang Qi would feel sad discovering he couldn't change anything. She didn't want her new friend to be unhappy because of her, just like her sister: "It doesn't matter if they don't believe Anbi. Anbi is already used to it. As long as gege and jiejie know Anbi isn't a bad child, that's enough..."

Someone who wasn't strong enough couldn't have survived safely in this environment until now.

Tang Qi just smiled and gently rubbed her fluffy ears.

Actually, he was in a good mood and hadn't been affected at all.

For him, he was simply doing what he wanted to do.

He would work hard for it, but wouldn't deliberately pursue some so-called result.

Enjoying the process with a clear conscience—as for whether the outcome was good or bad, that wasn't entirely up to him.

But he didn't say much more, and was about to follow Anbi back to the tavern.

Unexpectedly, a nervous shout from a youth stopped the two people and one... kobold in their tracks—

"An-Anbi!"

Both turned around to discover it was the David family's boy who had loudly cursed Anbi at noon for stealing and destroying his family's starberries.

The youth stood in the sunset, face flushed red, fidgeting awkwardly.

It seemed that stopping Anbi had already exhausted all his courage.

"George, what else do you want to say? I don't mind cursing you out here all day!" Anbi thought the youth was still looking for trouble, so she viciously extended her claws threateningly.

"I... I..." The youth George David closed his eyes as if resigned to his fate, his voice as faint as buzzing flies: "I'm sorry."

"What did you say?" Standing so far away, Anbi naturally couldn't hear clearly.

"I said—I'm sorry, I wrongly accused you! From now on, I'll never call you a monster again!"

After shouting this, the youth felt he'd completely lost face. If his mom and dad hadn't insisted, he never would have come over! He covered his face and ran backward without looking back, disappearing around the bend in the dirt road.

Tang Qi raised his eyebrows, looked at Anbi with a smile, and said: "Seems like clearing things up wasn't completely useless after all?"

But Anbi didn't display the smile that should come after a misunderstanding was cleared up. Quite the opposite—she froze in place, clutching Tang Qi's sleeve, trembling: "I... I..."

"What's wrong?"

"He shouldn't have apologized to me!" Anbi cried out loudly. An emotion called guilt scraped across her heart like a sharp blade, torturing her conscience: "Because, because—"

"Because you really did destroy their starberries?"

Anbi was shocked: "How did Tang Qi-gege know!?"