To be king and magician

9. Ta Meow, Temple, Three Days and Three Nights

the next morning.

In the playground of a middle school in Guanbuzi City.

Xia Chuanhu and Atalanta are standing at the starting point of the runway now.

"The rules are the same as the previous few times. As long as you can win, it doesn't matter what method you use, right?" Atalanta asked, "But your method of directly opening the space channel is prohibited."

"I don't need you to tell me. That would be too much to bully you."

race.

This is the [that] that Xia Chuanhu and Atalanta agreed to do last night.

Probably in the middle of last year, when Xia Chuanhu came back from a certain summer vacation, he chatted with Atalanta about the Golden Apple out of interest.

Of course, it was not the golden apple that caused the three goddesses to argue, but the three golden apples that caused Atalanta to lose the race.

During her lifetime, because of participating in many adventures including the Argonauts, Atalanta, whose reputation gradually spread throughout Greece, attracted a large number of male pursuits, and there was an endless stream of suitors who came here for her name. Her father also hoped that she could Marry a warrior.

But Atalanta had already sworn to the goddess of the moon that she would remain pure forever, and she didn't want to get married. In order to get rid of those suitors, Atalanta proposed a race to decide the outcome.

If she beats her in the race, then she will marry that person, but if she loses to her, she has to be killed—in simple terms, it is such an alternative [competition for marriage].

Needless to say the final result, with the help of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, a man named Hippomenes defeated Atalanta by relying on three golden apples, and married her as his wife.

[If someone could beat you in a race now, would you marry him? 】

When talking about this topic with Atalanta, Xia Chuanhu was interested and wanted to tease Atalanta's mind, so he asked casually. Originally, he thought that Atalanta would curse back in anger, but in the end Who would have thought that she would directly invite him to compete with her.

Because at the beginning Atalanta said that he could use any method, so in the first competition, Xia Chuanhu shamelessly pulled out a space door with the realization of fantasy, stepped to the finish line, and finally Was hunted down by Atalanta for a while before being forgiven.

And after that, it seemed that in order to wash away the shame of being defeated by despicable means, every time Xia Chuanhu came back, Atalanta would change ways to let Xia Chuanhu compete with her.

By the way, excluding the first match that doesn't count, the record between the two is—Xia Chuanhu won [-] out of [-] matches.

"Speaking of which, after so many competitions, you should know that you can't outrun me, Ta Meow, right?"

During the preparatory activities, Xia Chuanhu suddenly said: "In terms of pure physical ability, there is actually not much difference between us, but if you use magic power, it is basically the same as me opening the space door, right?"

Judging from the numerical value of the servants, both Xia Chuanhu and Atalanta's agility level is A, but the fatal thing is that Xia Chuanhu also releases such an ability with magic power. If the magic power is used, the speed will be far faster than that of Atalanta. , and even if Atalanta also uses magic power, the magic power between the two is not at the same level.

Glaring Xia Chuanhu angrily, Atalanta sighed slightly: "So? Do you think there is no need to compete with me?"

"That's not true. I'll run with you as many times as you want, but I just think that if you compare this way, don't you have to marry me a dozen times? By the way, you've already owed me a dozen times, right?"

"Well......"

Atalanta's movements suddenly paused.

[You can marry yourself if you beat yourself in the running]——Although the two of them didn't make such an agreement before the competition, they just wanted to win or lose. Of course Atalanta herself didn't mean that. But as far as the facts are concerned, it is indeed the same as what Xia Chuanhu said.

If there is reincarnation in the world, in her case, she has already owed fifteen lifetimes.

But then again...

"If you say that, is it possible that you really want to marry me?" Atalante said with a joking smile, "Indeed, with our record, even if you really want to marry me, I can't offer anything." The reason for the refusal. I lost [-] times in [-] battles, which is really an unprecedented fiasco for me.”

Except for the time when he cheated by opening the space door, in the rest of the competition, Xia Chuanhu didn't use any abnormal means at all, just as he said, he beat Atalanta in a dignified manner.

After a while of silence, Xia Chuanhu stood in front of the starting line: "Then, what do you mean? If it has nothing to do with winning or losing, do you want to marry me?"

"This... wait until you beat me this time."

.......

The content of the competition is the same as before, the whole 800-meter-long runway, whoever finishes ten laps first will win.

The eight-kilometer journey was not a problem for the two of them, and it ended quickly.The result was the same as the previous [-] times, Xia Chuanhu took the lead by three laps to win.

Sitting on a chair near the finish line with Xia Chuanhu and taking a sip of water, Atalanta said, "Xia Chuan, I am very grateful for all the things you have done to me over the years."

"It's good to help free Jack the Ripper before, and it's good to arrange my identity after that so that I can live a normal life in modern society... I am very grateful for the things you have done for me."

"The reason why I participated in the Holy Grail War two years ago was actually to repay the idea of ​​gratitude. I will provide you with some help during the Holy Grail War so that you can win it more smoothly... ..Although there is no way to fully repay the kindness, a part of it should be fine.”

That is to say, but in the Holy Grail War two years ago, Atalanta didn't feel that he helped Xia Chuanhu much. Maybe he helped some on the night he was tricked by Mei Li, and at the end he and Solomon Dealing with the demon army in the king's battle probably counts as well.

Other than that, it seemed to be gone. After all, Xia Chuanhu didn't really need her help much.

"But fortunately, both you and I have a long time in the future... to do something for you in the long time to repay your kindness, so it should be ok? In terms of nature, my thoughts and that Your Royal Highness is almost the same as the Knight King, but compared to her, I have something more for you..."

He didn't finish the sentence, but Xia Chuanhu almost knew what this "Ms. Xia Chuan" meant.

"Then you're going to move into the Camelot apartment?"

"Forget it, it's fine if I'm here, at least if you're here, except for Shi, you are mine alone." Atalanta tugged on Xia Chuanhu's collar, "From now on, every month I have to come back for a week, come back alone, do you hear me?"

"It's a bit... I'll try my best."

If he came back alone for a week, Xia Chuanhu felt that he would spend three days and three nights in bed.

10. The Mother of Guanbuzi

From Liang Yi's point of view, the work of Liang Yi's family is somewhat cumbersome.

Although as the second head of the Liangyi family, she doesn't need to do many tasks in person, she just needs to order them to go on, but maybe it's the nature preserved when she was young, she doesn't really like staying in the Liangyi family all the time In the mansion, there are at least three days in a week when he does not return home at night.

For this casual patriarch, the entire Liangyi family has always been distressed. It's not that they are dissatisfied with the patriarch's actions. It's just that in terms of some important matters, if the two ceremonies happen to be absent, it will be difficult to find them. It took a lot of effort.In order not to let himself be followed by his family members, the two ceremonies have studied how to counter-track them.

Of course, she will still do what a patriarch should do, for example——

Clean up some suspicious people who appeared on the territory of Liangyi's house.

Although it was originally a demon family, after the era entered the modern age, the Liangyi family gradually began to transform. Today, it has developed from a demon family to a black and white family in Guanbuzi City. The dark side of the city is run by a family organization that operates like a magic cave.

Therefore, maintaining the stability of Guanbuzi City has become a matter for the Liangyi family to manage. If the territory under their hands is in a mess and rumors are often spread, business on the black road will not be easy to do, so when there are suspicious When there are people or bad rumors, the Liangyi family will deal with them as soon as possible.

This shouldn't be a chore that the two ceremonies should deal with. Normally, the lower-level people in the team would handle it, but the two ceremonies wanted to take a rare walk in the alley twice, so Quan Dang solved it along the way.

"That being said, the main reason is that if someone like you is handed over to those brats, it will be somewhat inappropriate to deal with it."

Deep in the alleys of Guanbuzi City, in a corner that ordinary people would never come to.

Putting his hands in his leather jacket, he came to the innermost part of a dead alley, and the two men looked at the table in front of them and the woman in black sitting behind it: "Aren't you going to retire at this age?" ? Old woman."

"Ah la la, I thought it was someone who came, but I didn't expect it to be you, a noble person."

The old woman opened her cloudy eyes and looked at the two rituals in front of her.

"Welcome, this time is the same as before, do you want me to divination for you?"

The old woman - the mother of Guanfuzi - used to be regarded as an urban legend in Guanfuzi City.

That was when Xia Chuanhu temporarily left Guanbuzi City in order to be promoted to the position of sacrifice. Because he heard some rumors about Guanbuzi's mother, the two who were interested came to pay a visit.

No, it's not right to call it a visit. It should be said that it is similar to finding fault. After all, it is [rumors can accurately tell the future doom]. I am somewhat interested in the vision of the future that has been passed on as miraculous.

However, after the actual meeting, before the two ceremonies learned of their future doom, they were told some past events that she didn't really want to know. joy.

Of course, those are things in the past, and the two ceremonies are not people who stick to the past, otherwise she would have sent the old woman in front of her to the hospital long ago.

Pulling a chair and sitting down in front of Guanbuzi's mother, the two said: "Recently there have been some bad rumors in this area, saying that a suspicious person set up a fortune-telling booth here and spread some bad news. Things that make people panic."

"Ah, it seems that you came to Xingshi to inquire about the crime." Guan Buzi's mother laughed, "So you are here to drive me away?"

"If you can consciously leave, I can also save some effort. Do you want me to help you prepare a place in a nursing home? Don't cause trouble to others when you are old, and I don't want to hear that my subordinates come back here one day News that a body has been found."

"I'm only in my 50s, and I haven't reached the age to enter a nursing home. I appreciate the kindness, but I don't plan to quit this line of work. If it causes you trouble, I will restrain myself."

What a stubborn old woman.

Liang Ri sighed: "This time it's just a warning, next time I come again, I will really drive you out."

"Well, I will keep it in mind, please come here to warn me, nobleman. As a reward, do you need me to do a divination for you? Although you are weaker than before, you can still see a little bit."

Do you see the future?

Most of the future visions are fakes, and they can only get a certain degree of future prediction, or limited to a certain aspect of future prediction. In the previous two ceremonies, a similar type was cut off.

But she also knew that the future vision of the old woman in front of her was the real thing, different from the one she had chopped off.

"Come once."

"What future do you want to know?"

"It's fine to just measure points, I don't care about the future."

Casually——For the person who opened the store, the customer who said such a condition is the most troublesome, after all, he really doesn't know how to meet the customer's request.

After touching the crystal ball for display in silence for a while, Guanbuzi's mother smiled and said, "After you leave this alley, you will meet an acquaintance on the left side of the exit—is this kind of divination possible?"

acquaintance.

The two ceremonies counted the people they knew who could be called acquaintances, and most of them were not in Guanbuzi City. If possible, there was only Atalanta, and today happened to be Saturday.

"Yes. This is just advice. Don't open a store in such a dark place when you are old. It is not good for your health. There is a so-called divination street in a nearby shopping mall, and the environment there is not bad."

"Hehehe, it's not good to compete with people for business."

"That's right, then take care, old woman, I hope I can still be so energetic when I see you next time."

After saying this, the two ceremonies left the divination booth without looking back.

Seeing her fading figure, Guan Buzi's mother smiled slightly: "Compared to a few years ago, her personality seems a little gentler, Miss Liangyi, she must have met a nice person. ...It's a pity that I can't see the situation of that nice person."

Regarding the divination of the two ceremonies just now, Guan Buzi's mother did not say the whole thing. In the future she saw, the two ceremonies would indeed meet acquaintances after leaving here, but not one, but two , in addition to the cat-like lady, there is another person she can't see clearly, as if shrouded in a mist, it feels like a man.

"Can you live in peace with that Miss Liangyi so far, and make her character change a little?"

"Hehehe, there are still some advantages to getting older."

11. Mrs. Xia Chuan, please lend me your husband's

"If you want to go to Liangyi's house now, do you want to make a phone call?"

"No, I think her subordinates should have notified her."

Before the two ceremonies came out of the alley, she heard such a conversation in her ears, and the moment she heard these two voices, she understood the [acquaintances] in the prophecy that Guan Buzi's mother said earlier. 】Who is it?

Walking out of the small alley, turning his gaze to the left, Xia Chuanhu and Atalanta are walking arm in arm on the street, because they both want to look young, no different from their teens and 20s. , and the two of them were wearing regular clothes, they looked like a couple of college students who were out on a date.

The two rituals suddenly wanted to stab Xia Chuanhu in the head, the kind that would directly stab him into the brain.