"How could that be?" Helen shook her head in disbelief.
The man sitting opposite her quickly said, "I'm telling the truth. They saw that wandering knight knock a commoner to the ground right on the street. He said his name was Gavin. If the training team hadn't stopped him, he might have..."
The man's voice grew softer, and he subtly motioned to Helen with his eyes behind her.
"Are you Helen?" A female voice came from behind her.
Julia glanced at the commoner opposite Helen. The man quickly stood up, sensibly gave up his seat, and before leaving, he threw a helpless look at Helen.
Helen watched as the female wandering knight sat down opposite her. "You are..."
Julia looked Helen up and down with an examining gaze. "You're quite good - looking, but a bit inferior to me."
"Good - looking" couldn't really describe her appearance. Helen was particularly confident about her looks. But just from the skin visible outside Julia's mask, she could tell that Julia was a beauty.
Helen asked, "Did you come to comment on my appearance?"
Julia casually scattered a few gold coins on the table. "No, I'm here to ask questions. If you answer my questions sincerely, these are yours."
Helen immediately put on an expression determined to get the gold coins. "Ask away."
She nodded slightly. "How did you and Ron meet?"
Helen had expected that the other party would come to ask about Ron, but she still didn't quite understand what Julia's purpose was in asking these questions.
"The first time I saw him was in the wilderness. I was attacked by three ferocious hyenas, and then he just showed up. Now that I think about it... it seems like it happened yesterday."
Julia watched the woman in front of her lost in memory. "But you two separated."
Helen smiled faintly. "In fact, it was quite natural for us to be together. It helped us survive better in this dangerous world. In the Blood Plain, who has the time to think about their true feelings? If we hadn't come to Innocent Town, it would have been extremely difficult for us to survive, and we wouldn't have realized that we actually never loved each other. Fortunately, since there was no love between us, Ron and I are still friends. Miss Knight, you don't mean to harm him, do you?"
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Julia said casually, "I'm just curious."
Originally, she had expected that after she "saved" Ron, he would immediately fall into adoration and love for her. But the development of the situation was beyond her expectations.
Ron had behaved quite ordinarily. Now that she thought about it, this was actually the normal reaction of an ordinary commoner. The awe of knights made it impossible for him to have any intense emotions.
And Julia's expectation of a grand and romantic story in her heart had dissipated.
After all, reality was not the same as the novels she had read. There was no possibility between commoners and nobles. Fear, like a high wall, had shut out all possibilities.
Now, there was only a faint fondness for this handsome man left in her heart - mostly due to his appearance, a slight curiosity about the thoughts of ordinary people, and... deep disappointment.
There was still nothing.
"Helen, what kind of person do you think Ron is?" Julia asked gracefully, propping her cheek with her right hand.
Helen counter - asked, "If you really want to know, why not spend some time with him, patiently feel Ron's inner world? I believe you're more likely to get the answer that way than by asking me. In my eyes, he has always been the man who came to my rescue. My impression of him has remained the same since then."
Julia asked, a bit puzzled, "What do you mean by that?"
Helen looked straight at her. "You suddenly appeared and barged into his life, like the protagonist in some story. But is it real? This is just my intuition, without any basis, but I think you don't regard him as an equal to communicate with. Instead, you're looking down on him with the eyes of a knight looking at a commoner. Before coming to Innocent Town, I often saw that kind of look. They looked at me as if I wasn't a flesh - and - blood being, but something inferior to them. If you want to see clearly or experience something, at least temporarily forget your superior status, even if it's a lie, it's better than the truth. Otherwise, you won't get anything because you haven't given anything."
Helen looked at Julia, who was slightly stunned.
She was right.
Julia knew this very well. After all, knowing that the entire Innocent Town was their stage, it was difficult for her to regard Ron as a real - life being.
Moreover, outside of Innocent Town, she had never interacted with commoners like this.
But Helen's words that hit the mark in her heart instantly brought her in front of this girl, making her vaguely realize that in terms of mentality, the townspeople here were actually no different from herself.
Helen was a living girl with her own thoughts, and she might even be smarter than her. If she were also a noble, she would probably be the most dazzling one in their social circle.
What Innocent Town really offered them was not a simple and cliched script, nor a group of puppets that could be manipulated at will, but these flesh - and - blood commoners with their own thoughts, joys, and sorrows, who didn't know the truth.
This was a corner of the real world, and this was the beauty of this place.
But when realizing the infinite possibilities contained here, Julia suddenly felt a strange emotion towards the woman in front of her and Ron, who was still unaware at the moment. She suddenly thought...
They were pitiful.
If she were like them, living in an illusory world built by lies, how terrifying and sad that would be.
The only lucky thing for them might be that they didn't know the truth.
"You're right," she agreed. "Thank you for driving away some unrealistic thoughts. I suddenly know what I should do."
For nobles who had paid enough "superior blood" to come here, as long as they didn't expose the truth on a large scale, they wouldn't be punished for doing anything.
At this moment, a crazy idea came to her mind.
According to her previous thoughts, at most, she could experience a thrilling and touching romantic story here.
But now...
Julia stood up. "These coins are all yours."
Helen casually put away the gold coins and looked up at her. "You're welcome."
This way, she could be considered to have completed her task excellently. She was supposed to encounter Julia in a more appropriate way at a more suitable time, but she didn't expect Julia to come to her on her own initiative.
But before she could get up and leave, there was a commotion on the street, even mixed with the voices of knights calming down the townspeople.
Voices filled with fear