Quadruple split

Game time AM08:03

Academy City Central District, [Dano Military Academy] main building, 6F, a certain classroom

"sorry!"

With a soft cry, Teresa Tarossa, who was out of breath from the 'sprint' just now, ran into the room, knelt on the ground and apologized to the two people who had been waiting in the room for a long time: "Senior Foster, Senior Ren, I'm late!"

The two of them, who were smiling bitterly, exchanged glances and did not comment on Teresa's swooping way of entering the door two seconds ago. After all, they had known each other for four years, so it was not because of this 'daily' thing. And act fussy.

"It's just three minutes late, it's okay."

Lian, who was leaning against the window, stepped forward and pulled the girl up. While leaning over and patting the dust on her skirt, she asked with a smile: "Have you seen Pastor Hei Fan?"

Teresa was immediately startled, but she did not ask Lian why she guessed the reason for her being late. After all, looking back now, the reason why she came here at this time was really a little bit small. In addition, in order not to be singled out by those single Changing her hair style in order to be recognized by an "acquaintance" is not something that requires guessing at all.

At least for the two people in the classroom who knew the ins and outs of the matter, it was not easy to understand.

"The quality of that bottle of [Compound Liquid Potion] is quite good. The effect can last for about eight hours, which is enough for you to use my identity to fight from thirty-two to sixteen."

Foster Ward, who was rarely seen wearing casual clothes and sitting behind the podium, did not cast his eyes on Teresa. He just casually flipped through the information sent by the law enforcement team and said calmly: "As in As we agreed before, Teresa, I will find a way to put you and Black Van Priest together, and you must lose to him relatively naturally in the game. This is my only request."

Teresa nodded nervously and said loudly: "Okay, senior!"

"There is no need to control the process, no need to care about public opinion, and no need to worry about causing trouble for me. As long as you don't lose too suddenly, you can ignore all other details."

Foster stood up, put the information aside and walked slowly to Theresa, smiling: "Of course, if you come to the conclusion during the game that 'Priest Black Van is not as strong as Foster' Conclusion, then I can allow you to win."

Teresa didn't speak, but shook her head disapprovingly. This seemingly hurtful reaction did not hit Foster. After all, for the latter, the so-called 'command skills' can not only make him smooth There is absolutely no meaning beyond graduation and it is not in my life plan.

As for the Black Van Priest, since he was able to gain both Lamoroch's approval and Teresa's favor, it was only natural that he be better than himself.

"Until the potion loses its effect, Lian will always be by your side. Considering that we usually spend a long time together, this will not attract others' attention. Well, that's all for now."

After saying this, Foster turned to Lian, nodded slightly, and said with a slightly heavy expression: "Come on."

"Haha, there's no need to look so serious."

Lian covered her mouth and chuckled, then passed Foster, took Teresa's arm, and asked the latter with a smile: "Have you had the first sip?"

"Yeah, I drank it right after I got up."

Teresa nodded super obediently.

"lotus……"

Foster pushed up his glasses helplessly, turned around and urged: "Hurry up?"

Lian turned to look at Foster, who looked a little nervous, and asked curiously: "Why is it faster?"

"hair."

Foster took a deep breath and frowned: "You need to use my hair as a medium, don't you know, and it must be freshly pulled out within half an hour?"

"Already got it~"

Lian smiled, raised her hand like the guy next to her who was always inexplicably nervous about her hair, showing off the silver-white hair that she held between her fingers, and couldn't help laughing: "You only look special at times like this." So cute.”

Foster pinched his eyebrows and murmured: "One of my grandfathers was bald when he was very young. I'm worried that this problem will be inherited..."

"Then how much hair does your father have?"

"It's also possible to pass generations."

Foster rubbed his back cautiously, then stood up and walked towards the door, saying without looking back: "Hurry up, I'll guard the door. Ten minutes should be enough, right?"

Lian, who seemed to be very familiar with [Compound Water Potion], smiled and said, "That's enough."

Teresa, who tremblingly took out the bottle of potion, was obviously nervous and seemed speechless.

…

ten minutes later

Foster, who had determined the time, knocked on the door gently. Hearing Lian's gentle 'come in', he breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the classroom again.

Sure enough, the petite, beautiful and delicate girl just now was gone, replaced by a tall, handsome dark elf man with slicked back hair, rimless glasses and a college uniform. Except that he didn't look very calm. Apart from that, it can be said to be completely consistent with Foster Ward.

Lian, on the other hand, stood less than half a meter behind 'Foster' with a smile, looking at the latter with a rather doting look.

【Um--】

For less than a hundredth of a second, Foster suddenly felt something he had never felt before, which was to let the man who could make Lian naturally stand behind him and quietly watch his every move disappear. .

Of course, this emotion that was easily judged as 'jealousy' by Foster himself dissipated in just a moment.

"very perfect."

He walked up to 'Foster' who looked exactly like him and had a subtle smile on his face, straightened his collar, nodded and said, "Foster Ward doesn't have any important work today. , the league affairs have been dealt with long ago, and there should be no one from the law enforcement team to come, so... stay quietly where you should be, talk less, even if there is any emergency, Lian will help your."

Teresa, who had barely adapted to her new image, nodded vigorously and replied obediently: "Okay, Senior Foster."

"Ha ha……"

Foster burst into laughter, shook his head and said, "It always feels weird to talk to 'myself' face to face like this."

Lian, who was standing next to Teresa, showed a calm smile and smiled: "How cute."

"Calm down."

Foster glanced at Lian with a wry smile and reminded: "You have a heavy task today."

Lian naturally took Teresa's arm, rested her head on the latter's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm used to being with you every day over the years. I'll help little Teresa take precautions." Some trouble can still be dealt with, not to mention that most of everyone’s attention is on the game, and no one will come to trouble you, the captain of the law enforcement team, when they have nothing to do.”

"That's not what I'm talking about."

Foster shook his head and said seriously: "You should remember who Theresa is pretending to be to compete today, right?"

Lian blinked, then boldly pinched the cheek of the 'Foster' next to her, and said with a brisk smile: "Do you still need to ask?"

"Well, it seems you do remember."

Foster nodded slightly, and then continued to ask: "So, who is the person pretending to be Foster Ward to compete?"

Lian did not answer, but asked with some confusion: "What exactly do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is very simple, that is, the most difficult thing for you is not to help 'Foster' deceive others as 'Lian', but..."

Foster opened the folding fan with a swish (it read: Burn Calories) and whispered: "Be a consultant to Teresa Tarosa who is pretending to be the seed player Foster."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lian's pretty face that always had a calm smile turned pale.

It was the same as when Teresa heard that Lian wanted to catch her doing calisthenics.

"Haha~"

Foster smiled gently, then walked behind the podium and opened the book again: "Okay, the game is about to start, you go."

"Wait, Foster, you..."

"Come on~"

"Is there any compound liquid left? Or should you go and serve as ginseng for little Teresa..."

"Believe in yourself, you have always been excellent, Lian."

"This has nothing to do with whether you are excellent or not..."

"Stop complaining. After all, there are such 'cute' people around."

"You did it on purpose! Just because I said you were cute!"

"I will go and watch it live, of course, in the audience."

"Foster!"

"I won't give it away~"

After gently raising his hand and driving the two of them out of the classroom with an invisible force, Foster snapped his fingers and laid several knots with extremely strange properties centered around the classroom. world, and then... stood up with a stern face.

【Ph’n-glu-i ph’n-glu-i, Om-Sudri-stih-! 】

Noise began to echo in Foster's mind.

【s’unh-nglu-i-syha’h-uaaah…hia! Hia! hIa! hiA! HIAAAAAAA-! 】

The ethereal echo was deafening.

With no expression on his face, Foster just walked slowly to the teapot that had been left on the classroom window sill, and calmly poured the fragrant herbal tea inside into a cup, which he had just a second ago. The tea set just made out of thin air.

【ch-ch-ch-shagg-shaggoth-ch-!】

The noise that resounds deep in the mind can drive almost anyone crazy. Even a caster who has crossed the threshold of the epic level and has strong mental power may not be able to survive for three seconds under such a scale of soul impact.

But Foster didn't care. Although he could hear, feel, and even 'see' the indescribable existence to a certain extent, there was still no sign of madness.

Apart from being a little noisy, which was especially annoying when he was talking to others, those sounds had almost no impact on him.

The reason is very simple, just because I am used to it.

That was a month before Foster Ward had just arrived in Academy City and was about to enter [Phoenix Comprehensive Academy]. One night, he was involved in an accident.

No one knows what happened that night. Even the Presbyterian Church, the only information they could find was that a fifth-grade girl from [Danu Military Academy] died. Although Foster's testimony was very detailed, , but if you analyze it carefully, you can find that there is absolutely zero valuable information in it.

Either he was lying, or he was really just an innocent person who accidentally got involved in an accident.

With only these two possibilities, the Presbyterian Church conducted a detailed investigation of Foster Ward for half a year, and finally believed that this young man was undoubtedly innocent.

Their guess was not wrong, because from an objective point of view, Foster was indeed innocent, and being involved in that incident was indeed an accident.

However...he did hide a lot of things.

He has never told anyone that since that day, he has been listening to a lot of chaotic, crazy, noisy, and obscure 'noise' almost every day.

He also didn't tell anyone that he had made an agreement with someone.

All in all, after the investigation, Foster Ward gave up his admission spot to the most outstanding college in Academy City, namely [Phoenix Comprehensive College]. Although he did not leave, he chose to go to a top-notch college with The former is not comparable to the [Danu Military Academy].

Then, there is the story that people are familiar with.

And those unknown parts only emerge when Forster is alone.

The space was distorting, and black vortices that could distort light emerged silently, hovering next to Foster Ward, and the 'noise' that originally only echoed in his mind swept directly away. The classroom that was bound within the barrier was deafening.

"do not do that……"

Foster sighed softly, threw the teacup into the black vortex in front of him, and said lightly: "I just thought about it subconsciously. To be honest, those doubts may not really be related to... what we are facing. It is related to the dilemma, but it may have some heuristic value.”

The black vortices in the space that looked like two-dimensional planes, but could only be observed from the front began to tremble constantly.

"Be patient, of course I will find a way, so... be patient."

Foster murmured quietly and closed his eyes.

A second later, when he opened his eyes again, the strange and hollow whirlpools around him had completely disappeared, as if they had never appeared.

"In fact, they probably never existed~"

He chuckled softly, then opened the drawer in front of him, took out a book called "Advanced Magic Potion", and turned to the page of "Compound Liquid Potion".

"Colorless, odorless, transparent...that's right."

"Sixteen moonlight bugs that need to be cooked for seven days...that's right."

"Pinch the amber beast's horn...that's right."

"The phantom snake sheds... that's right."

"Well, the rest is wrong."

Chapter 1,296: End