Quadruple split

"Let's just say..."

Cole, who was leaning against the window, crossed his arms and looked down at the figures of Hermes and others filing out of the bungalow. He asked with a subtle expression: "Were you a little too tough in what you just said?"

"certainly."

Logically, he should leave the bungalow with everyone, but after several others went downstairs, he returned here, sat back in his seat, smiled, and said softly: "Can you please help me make a cup of tea?" ”

Cole did not answer 'yes' or 'no', but walked briskly to the opposite side of the girl, smiled and took out a mini heating stove and a crystal clear small teapot from the space wrist wheel, while moving quickly Prepare fruit tea that suits the other person's current appetite and mental state, while teasing: "You seem to like to boss me around today."

Xiao Ai immediately shook his head and said seriously: "I didn't ask you to do anything. I'm obviously asking you kindly!"

"Amiable is a condescending way to describe it."

Although he seemed to be complaining, the corner of Cole's mouth turned up with a smile that was not hidden: "So, I remember that you should not be so tough."

Xiao Ai supported his chin with his folded hands, looking expectantly at the small tea set in front of Cole, and said nonchalantly: "That can only mean that the me in your impression is different from the real Ai... Vanye himself is so far apart that it breaks my heart.”

Cole nodded slightly and said in a brisk tone: "Oh, then just bear with me."

"You..."

Xiao Ai couldn't help but roll her eyes at the other party, pouted and said, "Aren't you afraid that I will complain to Luo Na after she 'comes back'?"

Cole casually threw two sugar balls into Cholera's birthday gift to Xiao Ai, and looked with concern at the beautiful amber drink in the small teapot: "I have become a lot bolder recently, so Not very scared."

"You, just show off with your words. Obviously, if someone looks at you one more time, you can't even walk."

Xiao Ai chuckled and teased: "I still remember, Luo Na and I just came out of the classroom and saw you..."

"Shhh."

As a result, Cole put his index finger up to his lips and made a silent gesture. While squinting his eyes and staring at the flames in the mini heating furnace, he said softly: "Quiet, Master Cole Shuren's wonderful fruit tea." At a critical moment——"

Xiao Ai obediently closed her mouth, and then continued to look expectantly at the 'wonderful fruit tea' that was bubbling with small bubbles in the small teapot.

Just like that, after two extremely quiet minutes——

"Please use it, ma'am."

Pouring the drink into the cup in a gorgeous, handsome and useless posture that he had learned from Yu Ying before, Cole tapped the rim of the cup, allowing the fragrant fruit tea to slide accurately to the girl. In front of him, he leaned slightly: "Few people can witness such gorgeous skills as Lord Cole Shuren——"

So, Xiao Ai picked up the cup of fruit tea in front of her that looked quite ordinary. After taking a sip, her face flushed because the temperature of the drink was quite high and she said, "It just tastes ordinary."

"Just plain."

Cole shrugged, spread his hands and said: "You also know that I have never been talented in this area. My husband often says that the coffee I make for him is like a disaster."

"It's okay, I don't think sir would mind any kind of disaster."

Xiao Ai said this with a smile, and then took another sip of the cup of fruit tea in her hand that was brewed by someone with no talent and had a very ordinary taste, and said with a smile: "It tastes good."

While Cole was cooling down the heating furnace that had completed its task, he reminded: "You just said it was ordinary."

"Well, it's very common."

Xiao Ai nodded vigorously and smiled: "But the ordinary one is still delicious."

"It's an honor."

Cole put away the heating stove, took out a second cup and poured himself an ordinary and delicious drink. He toasted to the girl in front of him: "To Mr. Fan, to Ms. Ai Vanye."

Xiao Ai also raised the cup with a smile and said in a brisk tone: "Mr., here's to Master Cole Schulun's wonderful fruit tea."

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, as if they were back in the past that was less than a year ago but seemed like centuries had passed.

Unfortunately, this trance-like and wonderful atmosphere only lasted for less than half a minute. Xiao Ai gently put down the teacup and took the lead back to the second floor of the bungalow located at No. 0 Bella Street, Nightless District, Freedom City.

"The answer to the question just now is actually very simple."

Xiao Ai blinked. Rather than hearing the answer, her friend who wanted her to think about it later smiled and said: "I hope to put some pressure on Granny Imelda and Father Lorenzo, and simply test their bottom line. After all, people with a discerning eye It can be seen that the Kevos family has become the voice of the Bella Street Street Committee, but if we want to claim this status, we need the absolute support of those two people. "

Cole sighed silently, and then followed the rhythm and said: "I personally think that Ms. Imelda will not be too careful. After all, sir, he went to see her alone once before."

"At least in terms of conclusion, I agree with your point of view."

Xiao Ai did not comment too much on Cole's thinking, and said softly: "So this toughness is entirely for the sake of Father Lorenzo in [Black Curtain]."

"Father Lorenzo..."

Cole touched his chin and said hesitantly: "At least on the surface, he is not the kind of character who needs to be beaten."

Xiao Ai smiled and said calmly: "You are right, but the problem is that things that can be seen on the surface are often worthless in this city, and Father Lorenzo's [Black Curtain] Church , is the only organization that we have not been able to infiltrate through any means.”

Cole was taken aback for a moment and followed Xiao Ai's train of thought and asked, "You mean, in addition to the condition of 'apostate', there are other more stringent screening mechanisms there?"

"I don't know, but my intuition tells me that the old priest is probably not a simple person."

Xiao Ai lowered his eyes and stared at his reflection in the cup, and said calmly: "I even tried to use the power of the Wanderer Hotel, but the boss Junwu did not obtain any effective information in his first investigation, although he said that he could investigate carefully again. Check it out,' but since he specifically mentioned it to me instead of directly helping with the investigation, it is enough to prove his attitude. "

Cole pursed his lips and carefully recalled the old priest whose presence was not strong and whose aura was far less powerful than Hermes, Elma and others. He directly used Xiao Ai's suspicion as the underlying logic and sighed: "It's still... It’s really hidden.”

"No, if it is 'deeply hidden', we may still be able to find something, instead of finding nothing like now."

Xiao Ai shook his head and said seriously: "In my opinion, Father Lorenzo probably did not deliberately conceal the specialness of [Black Curtain] from the beginning, but in this city where everyone hides secrets , there is nothing to hide, people who live as openly as Mr. Hermes are the exceptions.”

Although Mo Tan thought that he had no talent in strategy, but after staying with 'Tan Mo' and Xiao Ai for a long time, Cole almost immediately found the blind spot: "For [Imelda Chamber of Commerce], [Roman Abyss] For this kind of force, it is difficult to find out the bottom of [Black Piercing Screen], an organization of the same level, which is completely normal, but even with the Junwu boss having intervened to a certain extent, nothing can be found. This..."

"Strength is unknown. When strong, you will become stronger."

Xiao Ai casually said an alien rhyme he heard from someone, leaned back in his chair and smiled at Cole: "But these are not the point. I don't care how many secrets Father Lorenzo has. I have no intention to explore the true strength of the [Black Curtain] church. All I need is an attitude, a positive or negative signal, and the 'toughness' just now, although I personally don't like it, is a necessary link and means."

As a result, Cole shook his head, stared at Xiao Ai very seriously and said, "I still don't think it's right, although the logic makes perfect sense, but..."

"But what?"

Xiao Ai blinked and looked at Cole, who was frowning slightly, with interest, a soft expectation flashing in his eyes.

"But you wouldn't want to do that."

Cole took a deep breath and said solemnly: "In other words, if you had other choices, you would definitely not do this."

Xiao Ai covered her mouth and chuckled, curiously asking: "Because in your heart, I have always been a soft-tempered person who can't be tough?"

"You are one of the strongest people I have ever met in my life."

Cole leaned forward slightly and looked at Xiao Ai's smiling but inexplicably evasive eyes: "Actually, I don't know why I think this, but I still insist that this is not what you would do under normal circumstances. What would be done under the circumstances.”

Xiao Ai nodded and looked down at the fruit tea in front of him again: "Oh..."

However, the other party did not let her go, but asked without hesitation: "So, can you tell me the reason?"

"All right."

Xiao Ai, who only took a few seconds to make up his mind, looked up at Cole and said simply and clearly: "It's time for me to go."

The latter was immediately stunned: "Gone? Where are you going?"

"It should be in the northeast. I don't know the details, but sir will tell me soon."

Xiao Ai picked up the cup and took a sip of the still warm fruit tea, and said softly: "But the environment there should be much better than here. Didn't you also say it when we first came here? The City of Freedom is not It’s a bit too smoky for me.”

Cole, who finally realized what the word 'gone' meant in the current context, had his eyes trembled at this moment, and he said in a rare rude voice: "You want to leave?!"

"Well, I'm leaving."

Xiao Ai nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Because of this, I am anxious to settle this place before I leave, so as not to leave a messy stall for others and lose my husband's face."

Cole's eyes grew colder and he said in a deep voice, "Is someone coming to replace you?"

"Don't overthink it. This is not a cliché story about someone suddenly coming to pick peaches while you're doing the work."

Xiao Ai saw what the other party was thinking at a glance and immediately explained: "You should be very clear, right? There is a trump card in the [Harlequin Card] that has the same authority as Mr. If nothing happens, she will come over after a while." I will take charge of the work here in the City of Freedom, so by then, I can retire and do other things for my husband."

Cole pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time with a gloomy face before asking dullly: "Is this what you mean, sir?"

"That's what I meant."

Xiao Ai suddenly smiled slyly, stretched out his little hand and pulled Cole's cheek, and then said happily to the latter's forced smile: "Sir, I actually prefer that I can stay here. Yes, but I was in Violet before I had indirectly dealt with another 'Ace' when I was in the empire, and I knew very well that she was far stronger than me in every aspect, so if I insisted on staying, I'm afraid it would be a huge waste of manpower. After all, you know, I’m actually quite strong…”

However, before she could finish her words, she stopped abruptly because the other party grabbed her wrist tightly.

In this way, the girl kept pulling each other's cheeks like a mischievous gesture, and the boy kept holding the girl's wrist tightly. The two of them fell into a pause that was not actually long, and probably took less than two seconds in total.

Then--

"Ah, sorry, sorry, I'm not..."

Cole let go of the girl's slender, cold wrist as if he was being electrocuted, and frantically wanted to explain something, but couldn't explain a single word.

"..."

Xiao Ai, on the other hand, pursed her lips slightly and lowered her head, wondering what she was thinking.

"Well, I don't know."

Finally, Cole put down his waving hands with a wry smile, leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling, with an extremely tired and complicated expression and said, "I don't know what's wrong with me."

"I know."

As a result, Xiao Ai muttered something like this softly.

"You know?"

Cole looked at the other party in surprise and said confusedly: "What do you know?"

"I know you don't know what's wrong with you."

Xiao Ai sighed, and raised her pretty face with a blush that had not yet faded away, and showed the other party an extraordinarily bright smile, as dazzling as the god she believed in in the past: "So in order to prevent you from getting more and more like this." The symptoms of stupidity became more serious, so I took the initiative to ask my husband to leave here."

"What did you say..."

"Also, after I leave, you will be on your own here, so although there is still some time, you can make some mental preparations now."

"..."

"Ah, by the way, I may not be able to go back with Uncle Bayes and Ms. Ledo for their wedding, but don't worry, I will definitely prepare a good gift then!"

"Hello."

"Okay, I'll go back first. You haven't finished your tea yet, so go back later."

"I also……"

"Don't follow me!"

"..."

"Wait a while, when we meet again in the manor... we should be as good as yesterday."

"..."

"What's the answer?"

"……Um."

"Then, see you later."

"Okay, see you later."

Chapter 2414: End