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Chapter 44 Starting a New Life

Alaria glared angrily at Grinn, wishing that the malice in her eyes would transform into a venomous snake and bite Grinn to death on the spot.

Unfortunately, Alaria's eyes couldn't transform into venomous snakes, so she could only watch as Grinn looked at "her" with a mocking expression.

Sensing the tension between the two children, Hewlett-Packard slammed his cane into the ground, telling them both to go back to sleep.

After returning home from Maria Elisa's birthday party when she transformed from Alaria into Eralia, she spent a few days packing her bags and moving to a planet that was about the same distance from the planets she had inherited.

At the moment of parting, Ankadis stood at the spaceship door, grabbed Maria Elisa's wrist, and gave her a long list of instructions. He also told Maria Elisa that if she encountered any problems, she should immediately open her personal terminal and contact him. No matter how big or small the problem was, Maria Elisa should not force herself to solve it if she could not handle it.

Maria and Elisa agreed to each request one by one. Finally, seeing that she was running out of time and Ancadis was still talking, she pulled her hand away from Ancadis's and said, "I have to go now, brother. I'll send you a present. Bye-bye~"

Seeing that Maria Elisa was in a hurry to leave, Ankadis didn't grab her hand to give her any more instructions. He simply said to the spaceship hatch, "I'll have someone send you the things you need later, Lisa. Be careful!"

"Okay." With Maria Elisa's voice, the spaceship's hatch closed.

Ankadis felt a sense of loss—Maria Elisa had moved out, and he had just inherited the business and was busy with work. Maria Elisa still needed to get used to the new place, so it seemed unlikely she would be able to come home to see him this year.

In contrast to Ancadis's sadness at parting, Maria Elisa was filled with anticipation for her life alone—it was the first time she would be living away from home for such a long time, and she was curious about everything new that was about to happen.

"After arriving on Ithana, I'll put my luggage down first, and clean the room. After that, I'll go outside and see if there are any good restaurants. I hope there are some Yila and Bandler restaurants nearby, but not Grixi cuisine—that's the worst." Maria Elisa excitedly told Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM about her upcoming itinerary in the consciousness space.

As they were talking, Lu Renkui suddenly remembered something: "System, about Pollard's romantic storyline..."

"There's a progress bar, there's a progress bar." System WQBYRZM only remembered that it hadn't looked at the progress bar in a long time after Lu Renkui reminded it.

The system (WQBYRZM) has opened the progress bar. The progress is currently at 0%.

That's right. So far, I've only helped Pollard with a few things, but I haven't helped him connect with the other male leads.

"Speaking of which, besides those few people, are there really no other people? Those men are somewhat... no longer valuing human life." Lu Renkui recalled what they had done after reading the information before. She felt that each of them should carry a book of criminal law on their shoulders, with the lightest punishment being death.

"Then you'd better meet someone who meets all their criteria first, someone who's rich, powerful, and an A." System WQBYRZM also felt that if those people were really going to be introduced as potential partners, it would be a bit too terrifying for Pollard. Besides, their personalities weren't good, and if he helped them out, he didn't know if they would hold a grudge.

"Rich, powerful, and an A-level, plus a better temper than the rest of the people." Maria Elisa rubbed her fingers, seemingly thinking of which people she knew fit this description.

“Well, a few of my classmates from military academy seem to fit these three criteria, and their tempers are a bit better than those protagonists you mentioned—but not by much.” Maria Elisa was at a loss; she had never encountered such a tricky problem before.

"Ah, I know who fits this condition! My brother can." Maria Elisa had a flash of inspiration and came up with this answer.

The space of consciousness fell silent.

"Oh, what's wrong? Is it not okay? Anx is super gentle," Maria Elisa asked curiously.

Lu Renkui and the system WQBYRZM remained silent. They both recalled several detailed descriptions in the text portraying Ankadis as a cold-blooded and ruthless person. Moreover, considering Ankadis's previous attitude towards Pollalid…

If Maria Elisa really told Ancadis about this idea, then Ancadis would definitely agree on the surface with affection, but secretly kill Pollard.

What kind of missions can we even complete then? The mission targets are all dead.

Looking at Maria Elisa in front of her, Lu Renkui thought of her younger sister. If her sister knew a guy with a messy love life—and all of them were with other guys—and treated him well, regardless of whether the guy had his reasons, she would definitely drown him in the toilet the moment she saw him.

“It seems your brother doesn’t really like him,” Lu Renkui said bluntly.

"Well, he used to think Polalid was a bad guy. It should be okay now, right? Polalid doesn't seem to have done anything substantial to me." Maria Elisa just wanted to finish the mission as soon as possible so that the two outsiders could leave her body. Also, Ancadis was being too anxious about her, so she wanted to find someone else to distract Ancadis from her attention.

"Do you feel like your brother is watching you too closely?" Lu Renkui, who has a younger brother and a younger sister, immediately saw what Maria Elisa was thinking.

"Uh, this... um... the spaceship is almost here, I'll go down and get my luggage." Maria Elisa made an excuse to leave the consciousness space.

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