Even when facing a Level 5 First Class Adventurer.
As long as the opponent didn't deliberately activate a wide-range perception skill.
It should have been impossible to accurately capture her presence from dozens of meters away while she was hidden in an absolute blind spot.
Furthermore.
The position she was in just now.
Was a blind spot where even moonlight couldn't reach, completely swallowed by the shadows of two buildings!
Thinking of this.
Ryu didn't dare to be careless.
She quickly identified her orientation.
This was the high-end residential area of North Street; the terrain was open, making it difficult to shake off a pursuer.
She had to head southeast.
Toward Daedalus Street.
The slums there had complex terrain with crisscrossing alleys like a labyrinth; it was the place she was most familiar with.
As long as she entered that area.
Even a Level 5 Adventurer wouldn't find it easy to catch her.
Having made up her mind.
Ryu quickened her pace.
Ahead was a complex intersection.
A left turn would lead to the slums of Daedalus Street.
As long as she got in there...
However.
Ryu pushed off with her toes, forcibly pivoting her body to the left.
"?!"
But when she saw the figure ahead clearly.
Ryu's pupils shrank violently.
...
She forcibly twisted her waist to retreat, quickly assuming a defensive stance.
Because at the entrance of the alley ahead.
A slender figure was already leaning against the wall, holding a silver spear in his hand.
—Heimdall.
It was as if he had been waiting there for a long time.
Even his breathing wasn't the slightest bit disturbed.
"How is this possible..."
Ryu's voice was somewhat dry.
She was confident that her speed just now hadn't slowed down at all.
And she was the one most familiar with this route.
How did this deity do it?
"Are you surprised?"
Heimdall seemed to see through Ryu's thoughts; he straightened up with his spear, tapped the tip lightly on the ground, and spoke with a light chuckle.
"When I first descended to the Lower World, I was so bored that I would occasionally spend some time wandering around the streets and alleys of this city."
"Which ways are dead ends, where the shortcuts are, where is suitable for an ambush, where is good for an escape..."
"I know it all very clearly."
"Especially if one wants to shake off a tail without alerting the patrol squads."
"This place is a mandatory passage."
"So I took a small path ahead of time and arrived here."
"Since Miss Elf's chosen route was exactly as I guessed."
"Then let us have a talk."
After saying that.
Heimdall stood tall, twirled the spear beautifully in his hand, and then pointed the tip diagonally toward the ground.
That originally lazy temperament suddenly became slightly sharper.
"I am quite curious."
"Miss Elf."
"From the moment the others and I left the pub."
"Your deliberately hidden gaze seems to have never left me."
"And the emotions contained in that gaze are very complex."
Heimdall's voice carried a hint of inquiry as he stopped five paces away from Ryu.
This distance.
Could be said to be neither too close nor too far.
One step further would trigger Ryu's guard.
It was a sort of warning line.
"If it were just simple malice or greed, I would probably have treated Miss Elf as trash to be disposed of."
"But..."
Heimdall tilted his head, his deep eyes seemingly able to penetrate the disguise on Ryu's face and look directly into her soul.
"What makes me feel strange is that the feeling Miss Elf gives me is more like a kind of anxiety?"
"There is even an urgency to confirm something."
"I consider myself to have only been in the Lower World for a month, and I haven't had time to provoke anyone."
"Furthermore, this should be the first time Miss Elf and I have met, right?"
"So."
"Could Miss Elf tell me the reason?"
"What is it that Miss Elf so urgently wants to confirm from me?"
Heimdall naturally knew who Ryu was concerned about, but he asked despite knowing.
However.
It was better for this question to be asked by him personally.
"..."
As for the reason?
Ryu's breath hitched.
Was she supposed to tell him that it was because Syr showed unusual concern for him, so she followed like a startled bird to confirm if he was a dangerous element?
That absolutely wouldn't do.
Once she said it, it would actually involve Syr in this.
If this deity really had no malice, what if he became interested in Syr because she pointed it out?
She had to find an excuse.
Thinking of this, Ryu's mind raced.
She needed a reasonable excuse that could keep Syr out of it.
"I..."
"Stop—"
However.
Before Ryu could voice a suitable excuse.
Heimdall interrupted her in advance.
"Miss Elf."
"Do not lie in front of a god."
"Although I will not use Arcanum to bring Divine Punishment upon you."
"As a god, even without using Arcanum, it is still very simple to distinguish the clumsy lies of the children of the Lower World."
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