Over the next period of time, Ares, speaking strange English, wandered around the streets, gesturing as he tried to communicate with these people.
Unfortunately, perhaps his flamboyant hand gestures were too dazzling, or perhaps his Japanese-style English, which would make his English teacher want to beat him up, was too mystical. After he asked everyone on the street, not a single one of these Italians could understand him.
"Tsk, these Italians are so lazy. They don't even have one person who understands English." Clearly, it was his own fault, but Ares clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction. "Really, people shouldn't be so uneducated."
But there was no way around it. After complaining, he still had to ask these passersby, trying to glean some useful information.
"Is it because this universe is from a Japanese novel?" Ares muttered, thinking. "Should I try using Japanese?"
No sooner said than done. Although most of Ares's Japanese came from those educational films and anime, he was still full of confidence as he came to the next street.
As soon as he turned the corner, Ares noticed a girl with a white high ponytail standing by the side of the street, watching the crowds of people coming and going. She was graceful and slender, wondering what she was thinking.
This girl had a beautiful figure and face, but Ares, who spent his days with a group of goddesses, didn't think much of it. He came up behind the girl, lightly patted her on the shoulder, and then, as she turned around, he asked:
"Kou ni chrysanthemum?"
Hearing Ares's words, a look of obvious bewilderment flashed across the white-haired girl's face. She probably didn't understand why Ares, a man with clearly Western features, would greet her with such strange Japanese. However, she quickly reacted and spoke a string of Italian that Ares couldn't understand in a brisk voice.
"Cough, ahem." Ares cleared his throat, thought for a moment, and then asked again: "Can you speak Japanese?"
"Uh…" Fortunately, after Ares's barrage of questions, the white-haired girl still understood what he meant, and she even knew Japanese. So, Ares heard her ask in Japanese with an Italian accent: "Excuse me, sir, do you need my help?"
Thank goodness, finally, among Italians, there was a hardworking child who was good at foreign languages!
Ares silently wiped away a tear in his heart, and then immediately asked fluently i: "Hello, beautiful lady, I came here to ask about the time. What year, month, and day is it now?"
…
After some inquiries, Ares learned the current time from the white-haired girl, and also learned her name through her initiative to introduce herself.
Liliyana Cranichal. As soon as he heard this name, Ares instantly understood the girl's identity.
She was also one of the heroines in the God Slayers novel about this world from his previous life. Her personality was also quite likable, and she seemed to be called a genius child in the Italian local magic society, the kind with unlimited potential.
After learning the other party's identity, Ares also breathed a sigh of relief. If he had encountered the other heroine, with her arrogant personality, Ares would probably have had many unpleasant incidents with her, adding to the trouble.
Liliyana's personality was indeed very enthusiastic and kind. After learning about Ares's current predicament, she even took the initiative to say that she could take Ares to the Chinese community here. Ares also agreed to the other party's suggestion because, as it seemed now, Liliyana had not yet joined Marquis Voban, and Veleslana and Mekal should not have been killed yet.
If they hadn't been killed, Ares had to wait here, but he didn't have any cash from this era, and Ares had his own bottom line and self-respect. It was absolutely impossible to use violence to oppress ordinary people to amass wealth. Therefore, the best thing to do was to go to the Chinese community here and find a temporary job to earn some travel expenses.
"Speaking of which, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. You clearly don't understand any Italian, yet you came here. You're too bold."
Because Ares claimed to be a Greek born in Japan, Liliyana didn't suspect his strange accent. She led the way and casually said to Ares.
"What do you mean, all roads lead to Rome? Rome is already dead. There's no new dynasty or anything. Madam… in this day and age, money makes the mare go. I just don't have any money."
Ares shrugged as he walked and replied:
"But still, thank you for your kindness, madam. If it weren't for you, I would have had to sleep on the streets tonight."
After hearing Ares's words that "Rome is dead," Liliyana seemed a little unhappy. It couldn't be seen that this girl was still a pro-Roman, but her self-restraint was also excellent, and she didn't show the slightest displeasure to Ares.
She dutifully took Ares to the place and even found him a restaurant that needed to recruit temporary workers. After some communication, the Japanese boss of this seaside restaurant seemed particularly interested in Ares, a foreigner who spoke fluent hometown dialect, so he let him stay and help out in the kitchen.
After settling Ares down, Liliyana left. According to her, she still had important matters to deal with, and Ares didn't try to keep her, but just gave her a small ornament that he had hammered out himself.
Liliyana didn't notice the blessing of the God of War Ares attached to it, but Ares believed that when she faced a strong enemy in the future and this ornament came into play, she should understand what was on it. It was a pity that Ares's victory divinity had already been assigned to Athena, otherwise, he could have given her a blessing that guaranteed victory in every gamble and every battle.
This could be regarded as Ares's small reward for this girl's kindness. Anyway, he had only come to this world to freeload. There were still a lot of things in that world that he had to calculate and deal with, and he probably wouldn't have any more interaction with this little girl in the future.
After that, Ares temporarily settled down in this small seaside restaurant.
According to his calculations, Kusanagi Godou's first encounter with Veleslana should be in this small city called Cagliari, and on that day, one of Veleslana's runaway incarnations caused a small-scale natural disaster in this small city. With such obvious movements, Ares believed that as long as he stayed here, he would always find clues.
However, what he didn't expect was that the encounter with his prey would come so quickly.
One afternoon three days later, Ares had finished the peak lunch hour and was squatting on the seaside street watching the sea and taking a break when he suddenly felt something.
He turned his head, his gaze crossed the men and women walking on the seaside street, and then he successfully made eye contact with a young man.
At the moment their eyes met, Ares sensed the very powerful divinity and godhood on this young man, and it was very obvious that the other party also felt something from him, and then smiled at him.
He took a step, and in the blink of an eye, he crossed the crowd and came to Ares, greeting him politely but arrogantly, and said in divine words:
"You have a strange smell on you. It feels like you are the same kind, but there are subtle differences. Who exactly are you?"