Those two Adventurers actually tricked her! What was that about the last luxurious hotel on Street No. 3? Wasn't that where she and Ainz stayed?
No wonder she felt a sense of incongruity when she first heard that Adventurer mention the place! To think she was fooled by such a lie!
She'd remember those two! She would never give them free healing again! Uh... speaking of which, what did those two look like just now?
Anger aside, things still needed to be done. It wasn't Elizabeth's style to give up just because she hit a wall at the very beginning! So, on and on!
So Iri adjusted her mood and went to 'scout' for her next target.
Uh... that young man over there! Iri spotted another guy dressed as an Adventurer and was about to go say hello when she was bumped into by a group of guys dressed as soldiers coming around the corner.
"Who's the clumsy one?!" One of the guys, not knowing his place, glared at Iri, saw that it was a child wearing a mask who had bumped into him, cursed, and then walked away.
Patience... patience! She was in disguise now, she couldn't cause trouble! She couldn't 'expose' herself! Iri told herself, forcefully suppressing her anger.
"How unlucky, to run into a stinky brat."
"Be careful, check if anything's missing. The public order here hasn't been very good lately." Endure... endure...
"Forget about that kid just now, didn't she have a good figure? What do kids these days eat to grow up? She's that tall and already has such a 'voluptuous' figure?" Uh... okay, I forgive you.
"The only thing worth looking at is her figure, right? Otherwise, why cover her face? Maybe there's an ugly face under the mask! Hahahaha." Death sentence!!
Iri turned around, calculated the distance, and planned to directly freeze these guys into ice sculptures, except for the one who praised her. But since she had her back to them just now, she didn't know who praised her, so with a 'better safe than sorry' attitude, she'd freeze all of them into ice sculptures!
However, before Iri could act, several unknown Adventurers who had followed her from the side directly went over and beat those soldiers to the ground.
This? What's going on? Iri was a bit bewildered.
"You scoundrels dare to insult Lady Iri, are you tired of living?!" One of the Adventurers punched the one who had led the insults against Iri several times.
"Lady Iri... Lady Iri? Could it be the Saint of E-Rantel... Ugh!" The soldier didn't finish his sentence before he was kicked again.
"Since you know, then hurry up and apologize to Lady Iri!" said the Adventurer who kicked the soldier.
Oh my goodness?? Iri was even more 'bewildered'. What was going on??
Then the beaten soldiers scurried over to apologize to Iri.
Since something had happened, the attention of passersby was all focused on Iri, and they were all talking about the soldiers' wrongdoings. There were even some aunties and grandmas who came over to ask Iri if she was hurt, saying things like 'don't take what those scoundrels said to heart', all coming over to comfort Iri, which made Iri extremely awkward.
Finally, Iri could only bow her head and thank everyone, then, in front of a crowd of people, she said she forgave the soldiers, and the crowd gradually dispersed.
What's going on! Wasn't her disguise perfect!! How did so many people recognize her?
Is the Evil-Crushing Lolita mask transparent? Iri quickly took off the mask she borrowed from Evil-Crushing Lolita and looked at it carefully... Uh... no problem?
What's going on??
"Um, Lady Iri, what are you doing dressed like this?" The Adventurer who had helped her just now asked curiously.
"Hey! Lady Iri must have a reason for dressing like this! Don't ask too many questions. So, Lady Iri, we'll be going now. You go about your business." The other Adventurers tried to pull that Adventurer away, leaving Iri alone and 'confused' on the street.
Iri was extremely depressed. She put the mask on again, then turned her head. An elderly woman passing by, pulling a child, immediately greeted Iri.
"Lady Iri, good day."
Eh?? Even a passing grandma recognized her?
"Sister Iri, hello!" The child also greeted Iri.
Eh eh? Even a child recognized her?
"Um, little sister, can you tell big sister how you recognized big sister?" Iri asked very curiously. At a time like this, the answer from a child would be more accurate than asking the grandma!
"Beautiful clothes." The child replied. Iri looked down at her attire... Darn, it was the pure white outfit with gold trim that she usually wore. Oh no... She only focused on hiding her face and hair, but she didn't think about changing her clothes!
"And..." The little sister thought for a moment and continued, 'And' what??
"What else?" Iri was so embarrassed she could die. There was more?
"Very big!" The little sister pointed to Iri's chest and said.
Uh... this was truly a case of being careful about everything but overlooking one crucial detail. She actually made such a basic mistake, Iri thought.
"Sister Iri, why are you wearing a mask out?" The little sister seemed very interested in Iri's mask and directly asked about it.
This was... hard to answer. She couldn't just say she was hiding her identity to investigate the Saint of E-Rantel, could she? Iri looked up at the grandma who was pulling the little sister. The grandma also looked at Iri with a very curious expression; she probably wanted to know too!
This wouldn't be easy to gloss over. She had to think of an excuse... Ah! She got it! It's still easy to fool kids.
"Big sister is imitating Irubyue of Blue Rose," Iri said.
"Blue Rose? Is that the Adventurer team made up entirely of amazing big sisters? Wow..." The little sister looked very happy. It seemed Blue Rose was quite famous in E-Rantel, even such a small child knew about them?
"Do you think big sister imitates her well? Cough... cough... I am Irubyue of Blue Rose, and this old lady is a Steel Rank Adventurer, you know!" Iri lowered her voice and imitated Irubyue's tone.
"Not at all! And I wouldn't say 'this old lady' either!"
A familiar voice came from behind Iri. Iri didn't need to turn around to know who it was. It couldn't be such a coincidence, could it? She originally just wanted to use her as a shield and make a joke or something, but she didn't expect to run into the real person...
"Yo! Irubyue." Iri awkwardly turned around and greeted Evil-Crushing Lolita Irubyue.
"I was wondering what you wanted to do by borrowing my mask..." Irubyue's voice was so cold, so cold. She probably already misunderstood that Iri wanted to impersonate her and do something bad!
"Uh... there's a reason for that." Iri was about to explain when she was interrupted by the little sister.
"Lady Iri and Lady Irubyue aren't alike at all, Lady Iri is very big, Lady Irubyue has nothing at all." The little sister said.
"..." Irubyue froze, and the atmosphere immediately became awkward.
"..." Iri also froze. Kids these days are too honest!
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