Loki's Renard

Arc 3 Chapter 13 - Lili's Trouble

Hey, been a while, huh? A little more than half a year to be specific.

Where have I been? What have I been doing? Why haven't I updated? All great questions. And only one answer.

Life.

Life came along, took a few things from me, gave me some more, and is going to take them again soon. It's a lot, it's been a lot, and it will be a lot. But it's what I've got.

But I've been writing this in the meantime. Keeping my mind off things, like the ever approaching end of life (I'm not dying, my new puppy is. Has a deformity with his heart.), my university work, actual work, as well as working in a firm for the job I want one day for work experience.

I kept writing, but I could never find it in me to post an update, so I just kept writing, and editing, and re-writing.

Until I finished all of Arc 3.

And so, I will be releasing it all at once, each individual chapter, the four remaining, over 20,000 words worth of chapters. I hope you all enjoy them, and forgive me for the wait, but onto the story!

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Lili hated adventurers.

They were greedy, selfish, horrible people who constantly put her under the worst conditions in order to exploit her for dirt cheap. They would beat her, steal from her, deny her food and water, anything they could to make themselves feel better or laugh at her expense. Thats just the way things were, adventurers were shit, and she was treated as such.

But...

"Lili, do you need some water? You look thirsty." said Akihide, holding out his water bottle to the pallum child.

"Lili is fine, Master Akihide." responded the child with her practiced smile. "You keep a hold onto your water, you need it more."

Akihide sighed at the girl's response. "Lili, please just drink. You need to keep up your energy and fluids." said the young boy, shaking his held out bottle.

Lili smiled and took the bottle. "Thank you, Master Akihide. Lili will be sure to repay your generosity."

Akihide smiled and rubbed the top of her head. "You're doing plenty already Lili, so don't overwork yourself. Just keep doing what you're doing." said the boy, as he left the girl to her drink and checked on Airmid.

All adventurers were shit, as far as Lili was concerned.

All but these four.

Four months, and not once had they done anything untoward to her. They never belittled her, never stole from her, they treated her with kindness and were just friendly in general. They were the complete opposite to any of the other adventurers that Lili had met.

And she didn't know how to feel about that.

She had been stealing from them ever since she joined the party, taking home between 2,000 to 7,000 valis a day from her stolen magic stones alone. Not to mention the cut she was receiving from the overall party earnings, 20% of it all, she was going great for her monetary situation.