lord and his dragon

Negrim did not restrict where Abel could go, but only told him not to appear in front of him again. The child stood there in the lobby for a long time, and finally went to the study in a daze.

That was where he and the Negrim spent the longest time together other than the bedroom.

There are no curtains in the study room, and it is morning, the white and dazzling sunlight pours in unobstructed, the desk in front of the window is empty, and the room is completely silent.

The child blinked, and saw Negrim sitting on the seat with an expressionless face but a gentle light in his eyes.

He blinked again, and the Negrim was gone.

The sun was too dazzling, the child rubbed his eyes, turned around and closed the door, he walked to the edge of the seat next to the desk, squatted down slowly, and finally curled up on the cold floor, he hugged himself tightly , seems to be able to absorb some of the body temperature that belongs to the owner in the memory.

After a while, he fell asleep with tears that were about to dry up in the corners of his eyes.

And after Abel locked himself in his study, word spread in the castle that the lord had punished his most beloved slave. Neither Negrim nor Abel stopped going out, and the unattended servants seemed to be It was as if they had received a pardon, and they were frantically spreading true or false information. The only thing that remained unchanged was their excited attitude as if they were watching a good show.

The butler who was not present that day never expected that he would miss such a good show. He was dubious at first, until the servants told him that Abel not only scalded the lord, but also soiled his ring. Believe it.

In this way, it makes sense. From the housekeeper's point of view, with Negrim's moody personality, just scalding him is enough to make this surly lord kill someone, not to mention dirtying such an important power ring. The lord just locked up the little slave instead of hanging him immediately, which has proved his love for the slave.

From the servants' point of view, it was really a happy thing for the annoying lord to have a conflict with his most loyal dog, but soon they found that the situation did not seem to be as good as they imagined-the loss of Ai... With Bull's company, the first change Negrim had to make was that he had to go downstairs to eat every day. Not only that, but he needed other people to take care of him in his daily life.

Without Abel's company, the lord became more irritable every day. No one wanted to bump into him at this juncture, but they had no excuse to refuse. They could only bite the bullet and serve him according to the schedule. Of course, considerate service will not make people feel comfortable, but the lord is not in the mood to care about these, he has more troubles.

Not long after they separated, Negrim found that he would unconsciously look for the figure of the child around, and when he lost his sight, he would remember that the child had locked himself in the study, and he was the one who made it. Order.

At this time, there is often a feeling of emptiness that Negrim does not want to admit. Most of the time, he will tell himself that all this is necessary, and Abel cannot be by his side during this time. But on rare occasions, he couldn't help but wonder if there might be a way to protect the child without driving him away.

Given what he was about to do, the answer was no, so his mind went back to the first situation.

In addition to the mood swings that are completely out of his control, the quality of sleep that bothers Negrim the most is probably the quality of his sleep. Without Abel, he is lying in the quilt alone like a piece of ice, trying in vain. Wrapped up, Negrim could not warm himself anyway, his legs ached more and more, and he began to lose sleep all night, which made him irritable and thinking more difficult.

Negrim didn't expect this to be the case at all. At least when he made this plan, he thought he could easily survive the time away from Abel, but now he found that he would be familiar with the warm people again. Throwing it back into the cold, he barely survived three days.

And on the third day when Negrim was about to lose his hold, the housekeeper who hadn't been in front of him for a while suddenly appeared at breakfast.

When the butler appeared, Negrim was sitting alone in his seat with a livid face. He was drowsy, his face was ugly like a dead man, and the table knife for cutting bacon was knocking frequently due to the slight tremors in his hands. On the plate, there was a screeching noise.

The butler glanced at him, recalling the haughty face when Negrim poured milk on him back then, he couldn't help showing a schadenfreude smug smile.

"What are you laughing at?" Negrim said without looking up, staring at his plate, "Are you happy to see me like this?"

The butler stood behind Negrim, startled by his sudden words, and he was not relieved until he was sure that Negrim had not looked back at him since he entered the living room, and smirked. Said: "How dare I...My lord, it's just that the messenger of the mayor of Ross came just now, and he wants to invite you to visit the town of Harlan after your birthday."

Hearing this, Negrim's hands stopped immediately, he sat up slowly, turned his head sideways and asked, "What did you say?"

Only then did the steward see Negrim's face head-on. He was startled by the bloodshot eyes of the other party. Negrim's current state looks very strange. There is no doubt that whether it is his face or his His body was frantically complaining about his exhaustion and irritability. The housekeeper almost thought that this person would collapse in the next second, but his dark eyes were different from his appearance. The light, which made him look refreshed again, and gave the housekeeper another illusion that he couldn't disturb his thoughts at all.

"What did you just say?" Negrim asked again, slowly.

The butler looked at him in amazement for a while, only to find that the light in his eyes had disappeared again. He suddenly realized that the behavior of Negrim just now might just be due to new information entering his mind, and he subconsciously wanted to Going to think, that's why he looks a little bit bright. In his current state, the housekeeper really doesn't believe how this annoying lord can cause him trouble.

So he smiled and repeated: "Mayor Ross invites you to visit the town."

Negrim's condition was indeed not good. He sat in his seat and reacted for a long time before showing a reluctant expression on his face.

The steward had already prepared words of persuasion, and he said softly, "I know you don't like to go out in such weather, but Mayor Harun told me that you made a promise to the people on your birthday, whether it can be fulfilled or not, Now is the time to make some kind of gesture? Your lord, the townspeople will love you."

He spoke sincerely, but upon hearing this, Negrim would have to move no matter how reluctant he was. He pursed his lips, still looking sluggish.

The butler took the opportunity to say: "The chief guard is out on mission, and your slave made a mistake again... Although there is no danger nearby, I can't let you go out alone. Let me choose the guards to accompany you?"

Negrim closed his eyes half-closed, his brows were tightly frowned, he didn't seem to care about what the butler said at all, he just nodded casually, then stood up from his chair in a blunt manner, pointed at a servant, and said : "You, come and help me change my clothes."

The servant was startled, and quickly looked at the housekeeper. The latter gave him a wink, and then went to the training ground without saying a word.