"If I cooperate with you and continue playing this boring game, will you let me go?"
God knows where Hiri got the courage to say such provocative words to the demon in front of her.
This was Hiri's character. She would never bow down to anyone.
In any case, her life was already in Josh's hands, and the worst that could happen to her would be her death … Er, that did seem to be quite a bad idea.
But the problem was that Hiri had tried to get along with Josiah with a respectful attitude. Hiri could barely imitate the style of those noble bitches in the royal court who put on a cultured appearance but only thought about how to seduce men.
In exchange for her life, she realized that she couldn't do that.
Because she could not feel any threat or pressure from Josiah at all … There was no demon's contempt for humans, nor the contempt of a superior to a servant.
This was the reason why she talked nonsense when she talked to Josiah and completely exposed her true nature.
"Yes, I will set you free after this shooting."
Josiah certainly understood the principle of whip and candy. He gave her a little hope, and she would work hard for this hope.
"But let me make a correction. What we are going to do next is to shoot a movie, not to make a game."
"A demon is going to save those villagers. Isn't this just a whim to kill time?"
Hiri muttered this sentence to herself, but she did not deliberately control her voice, as if it was to let Josiah hear it.
Ciri had seen too many of these nobles who had nothing better to do. He should really throw them all into the wilderness and let them experience the life of eating tree bark to fill their stomachs. He should let them understand how precious time was.
Wait … Thinking of this, Hiri suddenly remembered that she had not eaten for almost a day.
The hunger in her stomach made her give up the idea of continuing to bicker with Josiah. She began to rummage through the small package under her magic robe.
Hiri found that there was nothing to eat except a pile of useless drawings and pens.
No, there was half a piece of tree bark under the package!
Hiri's excitement was no less than the demon hunter Geralt who found a Gwent master. She had just taken out the piece of tree bark from her package, but before she had time to take a bite, she found that Josiah was looking at her strangely.
"What? You've never seen the bark of a cocoa tree? This kind of tree is a delicacy in the human world … Um … I'm serious. "
As Hiri spoke, he couldn't continue. He was so poor that he didn't even have the money to eat in front of others. It really made Hiri feel a little embarrassed.
"What I want to ask is, did you draw this?"
Josiah was holding a piece of white paper in his hand. This piece of white paper was dropped by Hiri when she was rummaging through her package.
On the white paper was a sketch of a landscape. There was a stream, a small forest, a simple grill, and a bonfire. The black and white colors perfectly outlined the scene of a camping picnic under the night sky.
"Where did you find this! Ah, no, give it back to me! "
Hiri suddenly realized that it was dropped from her bag. She immediately walked forward and wanted to snatch the painting from Josiah's hand.
But as a magician, coupled with the negative status of hunger, the chances of Hiri snatching the painting from Josiah was basically zero.
Not only did she not get it, but because Hiri was too excited, she rushed forward too quickly, causing her body to lose balance. She was about to fall to the ground face first.
Josiah considered the problem of this poor girl's remaining breasts being destroyed by this fall. He politely reached out his hand to hold Hiri's waist, helping his body to stabilize Hiri's balance.
This hug was only a touch, but Hiri still trembled and immediately took a few steps back.
In Hiri's entire life, this was the first time a man touched such a sensitive part like her stomach! But before Hiri could pay attention to this problem, she found that the tree bark in her hand had fallen to the ground!
She quickly ran to Josiah's side and picked up the tree bark on the ground, patting it a few times.
It should be fine! Hiri once heard a famous magician say, "If food drops on the ground, pick it up within three seconds and eat it."
"I say …"
Josiah half-squatted down and looked at Hiri, already beginning to have some inexplicable sympathy for this poor magician lady.
Just how poor were they that they had to chew on tree bark every day?
"If this painting is drawn by you, I can consider treating you to some meat."
Josiah put the painting in front of her and said.
Maybe it was an illusion, but when Josiah said the words "treat you to meat", Hiri's eyes suddenly lit up, and the reluctance from before completely disappeared.
"Yes, it's drawn by me."
From Hiri's excited look, Josiah really shouldn't have promised to "set her free". He should have said "follow me from now on, and I'll guarantee you meat every day."
"You know how to sketch?"
In the beginning, Josiah did plan to release this young magician lady after the movie ended and let her return to nature.
But the painting in Josiah's hand proved that Hiri had the value of making Josiah keep her.
"Sketch? What's that? This is what I drew with charcoal. I caught a few fish in the stream that day, and the reason for drawing it … is to have a memory. "
Hiri carefully pondered for a moment and finally used this method to explain.
As a traveling magician apprentice, she wasn't the kind that was rich, and the burden of the usual casting materials left her in a state of poverty.
This kind of life allowed Hiri to practice a good skill. She was especially good at things like catching fish with lightning and catching rabbits with fire mist.
Another specialty of hers was that she could draw a little.
"Then did you learn all of this by yourself?"
"If I didn't learn it myself, who else could teach me? Just the paint used by those court painters is enough to pay for my meals for twenty years. If I were to ask them to teach me, I probably wouldn't be able to pay for my meals for fifty years."
"Very well, maybe I can officially hire you, Miss Hiri."
Josiah didn't expect this female magician to be a talent in drawing.
It was easy to learn how to sketch, but it was very difficult to master it. Hiri's drawing had undoubtedly stepped into the realm of "exquisite."
One had to know that if one wanted to learn how to draw, drawing was the most basic skill. Perhaps there were indeed some painting geniuses who skipped this stage, but when Josiah learned how to draw, it really took him ten years to sketch and five years to paint.
Considering that Josiah wanted to develop in the field of game design in the future, there was no shortage of talents who could draw.
"Hire? Hmm … Didn't you say that you would let me go after the movie was finished? "
Hiri bit the bark in her hand. She didn't seem to believe Josiah's various promises to her, including the "treat her to meat."
And the so-called hire here was synonymous with slavery!
"Whether you want to or not is up to you, but I think the price I offer will definitely satisfy you." Josiah said.
"What price?"
"Guaranteed food money for the rest of your life."
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