Volume 3, Chapter 48 – Because Helping Her Means Doing This

Trouble.

Even though the reality of the situation had just been suddenly pointed out by Xingyu Muxi, even though she had already vaguely understood it.

Fisiel still did not want to believe it.

After all… She had never wanted to oppose “those people.” All she had ever wanted was to be a righteous Paladin who could speak up for the people…

If she really had become the so-called “trouble”…

Then why… if they wanted to get rid of her, why would they drag so many people down with her?

“Impossible…”

Thinking this, Fisiel shook her head, her tone unusually firm.

“Even if I have become trouble in their eyes… right now, at the very least, I am still fighting for the Kingdom, am I not?”

“Fisiel…”

Seeing the knight girl unconsciously showing a shaken expression, Tianyin could not help feeling worried.

“Well… as for what the truth really is, as the one involved… you should understand it better than someone like me who is only guessing, right?”

Xingyu Muxi smiled.

“Fisiel, as a Paladin, I admit that you really are a very competent, upright, and outstanding Paladin… but you are not suited to be a ruler in a high position. So even though you understand those principles, your view of this world is still far too idealistic.”

“Is the world not supposed to be like that?”

The knight girl asked in return.

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“If there is strength, there will be weakness. If there is darkness, there will also be light. We Paladins… are we not here to drive away darkness, resist oppression, protect the weak, and spread light?”

“If this world really were as polarized as you see it, that would be nice, Paladin… But you need to remember that when something reaches an extreme, it turns into its opposite. In darkness there might be light, and in light, it is not impossible for darkness to exist as well. If you only cling to that surface layer of things… then Fisiel… even if you are not being used and abandoned right now, all of those things are bound to happen sooner or later~”

“Absurd!”

No matter how much Xingyu Muxi’s words shook her heart, Fisiel still would not acknowledge what Xingyu Muxi had said.

Everyone has something they want to hold on to.

And the Paladin’s creed was what Fisiel had held on to from the time she first understood the world up to now.

“Even if the Kingdom abandons me, so what, light might arrive late, but it will never be absent!”

“Well… if you insist on thinking that way, then I have nothing more to say. In the end, I am only saying all this for Xiaoyin’s sake. If you cannot accept it, then there is no point in continuing to talk about it…”

In the end, the topic still came to a close with Xingyu Muxi’s words.

However, even though Xingyu Muxi had acknowledged Fisiel’s stance for now, at this moment, in the heart of Fisiel, this knight girl who wanted to protect the Kingdom, that firm resolve had, without her realizing it, been split by a faint, almost invisible crack.

Perhaps in the near future, this crack would be smoothed away by time. Of course, it was also possible that this crack would grow into a rift, spreading across that once steadfast and upright heart…

“Alright… then let us return to the main topic… Fisiel, as for your Kingdom’s army wanting material supplies… I think I already have my answer.”

While Fisiel was still trying to steady her heart… Xingyu Muxi shifted the topic back to the negotiation.

And she already seemed to have reached a conclusion.

“Please go ahead…”

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Fisiel nervously pinched a corner of her skirt armor, her gaze fixed tightly on Xingyu Muxi.

And in the gaze of the knight girl, full of expectation, the answer she received was—

“No, Fisiel. When it comes to matters between the Kingdom and the Strongholds, our Eden is maintaining a neutral stance.”

“So we do not want, and are not willing, to incur the hatred of either the Strongholds or the Kingdom Faction because of this matter.”

She gave the knight girl a very direct and clear answer.

“Eh?”

Before this, it had never even occurred to Fisiel that her request might be refused.

As the commander of the army… coming here in person already showed tremendous sincerity.

As a Paladin, she also believed that someone like Xingyu Muxi, who could govern Eden so well, would certainly stand on her side.

Yet the reality was…

Rejection…

Her heartbeat stumbled for an instant, her blood stopped flowing, and the world before her eyes seemed to dim in that moment.

In that instant, Fisiel felt as if… something inside her had snapped.

That indescribable feeling, as if she could no longer see any hope…

“Wh… why…?”

After she managed to recover herself, the knight girl forced out a trembling question.

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“Did I not just say it? Fisiel… you are a qualified Paladin, but someone like you is not suited to be a ruler in a high position.”

“But… but what does that have to do with asking Eden for help?”

“It does.”

The elf girl in front of her smiled softly.

“If I were a Paladin, I could help you without asking for anything in return.”

“But I am not a Paladin, and you, Fisiel, when you ask us for support, to put it plainly, are only trying to find a way out for the two hundred thousand soldiers under your command.”

“Since you are able to think that much, you should understand this as well… if you can think for those two hundred thousand soldiers, then why should I risk the safety of the four hundred thousand citizens of Eden for two hundred thousand people who have nothing to do with us?”

That was true.

Since she could come here in person to seek help for supplies for her two hundred thousand soldiers, why would others not refuse her in order to protect the safety of their own four hundred thousand citizens?

So in the end… she really was…

Too naive, right?

Without realizing it, Fisiel had already accepted Xingyu Muxi’s words.

Because she had been turned down so directly, the knight girl’s mood had hit rock bottom.

One could say that this action she had taken with such confidence had, in the end, achieved nothing at all…

“Since I have already received an answer, I have no reason to continue staying.”

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After she finally managed to steady her mood, the knight girl showed a tired smile.

“Fisiel… are you alright…”

Tianyin looked at Fisiel with worried eyes.

In response to Tianyin’s worry, Fisiel only shook her head.

“I am fine, Xiaoyin. I am really happy that I got to meet you here, but right now I no longer have the time to linger. There are still things I have to do…”

Taking a deep breath, the faces of the Paladins of the Round Table Knights, who had always stood by her side, floated up in the girl’s mind.

“I believe that even without help, I can still hold the Northern Fortress!”

After saying this, the knight girl left straightaway.

Watching the knight girl’s figure disappear from sight, Tianyin turned a slightly angry gaze toward Xingyu Muxi.

“Sister Xiaomu, why would you not help Fisiel!?”

However, to Tianyin’s surprise, Sister Xiaomu just shook her head with a bright little smile.

“Silly Xiaoyin, I have been helping her from the very start, you know~”

“Eh? But you refused her, did you not?”

“That is right. It is because I want to help her that I refused her~”