Of course not.

The elf girl's body, which had just poked out, instantly shrank back.

The faces of the surrounding soldiers turned very strange, and Randell coughed several times beside them.

"What on earth are you thinking about?"

Princess couldn't hold back her anger any longer, and she threw a fireball spell at Lu Lin's face.

——Thus, Mercedes' hard-earned goodwill towards him vanished instantly, and the princess's dislike for him once again skyrocketed.

......

"Well, I'll take her away."

Lu Lin, with disheveled hair and dirty face, politely bid farewell to Randell. After much persuasion, the princess finally agreed to hand Mercedes over to him.

"Don't bully her! And you are not allowed to appear in front of me again! Get lost!"

The princess swore an expletive.

"Tsk." Lu Lin turned his head with a black expression, then looked at Mercedes, who was reluctantly facing away from him, and his face darkened even further.

He must be hated by Mercedes now, and very much so.

But he always lost his composure when he saw her.

Before his rebirth, and even now.

The experiences they had shared together were still fresh in his memory, and he would always forget that he had been reborn when he sensed the girl's presence.

He had seen the arrow pierce through her chest, which was why he was desperate to check if the girl had that wound.

The girl told him "I love you" before disappearing, and he felt the same way, which is why he rushed to propose to her.

But only he was reborn.

Mercedes didn't have memories of the future.

She was now just an innocent girl who had been sold as a slave.

That's why his actions were deemed abnormal.

That's why it's understandable for her to dislike him.

He sighed softly and then turned his head.

"You mentioned that you are a member of the Scarlet Sky Empire's royal family, right?" He asked.

"Yeah... Is there a problem with that?"

"Can you tell me your name?"

"I can... But don't tell anyone you know me!"

"Understood."

"Doru."

"Doru, huh... That's a nice name."

"None of your business!"

"I owe you a favor." Lu Lin said.

"Hmm?"

"Because of her, I owe you, and your empire a favor." Lu Lin repeated.

He recalled some things: before his rebirth, he met Mercedes in the ruins of the Scarlet Sky Empire five years later.

The Scarlet Sky Empire would be destroyed in five years, and he was trapped in a place of inheritance during the war. When he emerged, the war was over, and despite the shock, he had long forgotten this matter with the passage of time.

"A favor? Does this princess need your favor?" Doru didn't quite understand, but she obviously sneered at Lu Lin's words, "Just don't come crying to me that she was taken away by someone else and ask me to help you get her back. I'll save her, but I'll never give her back to you."

"Well, whatever."

Lu Lin also smiled, said nothing, and walked down the mountain with Mercedes.

"Such an arrogant guy..." Doru stuck her tongue out as she watched Lu Lin disappear into the distance.

"Proposing, owing a favor... His personality is indeed interesting." Randell jokingly remarked. In his opinion, Lu Lin was just a kid with a severe case of teenage angst.

The two groups parted ways, and the soldiers laughed at Lu Lin's proposal all the way, thinking he was just a passerby in their lives.

However, no one knew that because of a favor, in that hypocritical grand wedding five years later, he would step into the rain of blood and raging wind.Nobody knew that in the endless bloody snowstorm, the once self-proclaimed passer-by youths in life would eventually face a million imperial soldiers in the capital city, cutting through the world with their swords!