Blooming Tower of the West Wind

For her first infraction, Hipper didn't even know what to do.

And when she reiterated the importance of being on time, Theron cut her off with an impatient look for the first time.

"You said it, I know, I know, I'll catch up."

Hipper knew that this was not the sticking point between them, Theron no longer had the old attachment to her, and she really wanted to maintain the balance that Theron chased her a little harder, but she politely refused.

...She used to enjoy this kind of fake love pursuit, but after losing it, she naturally felt dissatisfied.

No, the core thing is that although she said she would give Theron a choice, when Theron made a choice she was not satisfied with, she was so unbalanced that she wanted to take some measures.

However, this cannot be the case.

After another bad breakup, they barely spoke for about two weeks, avoiding each other's sight.Hipper would go back to the library after dinner, and Theron would simply go to his room.

There is no one else here, only the constant wind and her.

And of course a slick water lord.

"Sometimes I almost suspect that you are not made of water, but oil or something."

"There is no element of that."

Theron shrugged his shoulders and sighed lying on the bed, his back looked very lonely and depressed.

"I guess you must have changed your mind."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Theron suddenly raised his head from the bed, and she grabbed the tentacles with five sense organs protruding from the water lord's huge body.

"Oh, don't choke me. I'm just telling the truth. Will I be punished if I tell the truth? You have obviously forgotten your original intention. Do you still remember that you once said that you want to be a little kid who amuses His Majesty? Pets?"

"But she," Theron couldn't help sniffling, "don't want me."

"Since you have said so, then I think your ultimate goal is not to amuse His Majesty, but to make her love you more. This is a purposeful exchange."

That's right, Theron lowered his head and said sullenly, "Isn't it obvious?"

"The 17-year-old elemental king will eventually grow to be 40 years old, and she can't come out of your imagination. You probably fell in love with some illusion!"

"I do not have."

"Think rationally first, you don't care about the mood of the Archmage anymore."

"It's all your big water ball. Since she rejected the witchcraft research last time, her attitude towards me has gone from bad to worse. It's all your fault!"

"How can you blame me! You escaped into fantasy yourself! You should have discussed the progress with the archmage! But you missed two discussion days!"

Theron suddenly let go of her hand and said in a low voice: "...But, I hope to get along with her like that..." As she imagined, they would go to the school library for self-study together, and discuss some things that are difficult to discuss with others. The question, if it was her, would she understand?Let's eat delicious food together, and climb the roof of Falcon Castle together.

"But you're actually having a cold war with her?"

"……Um."

"So you should figure out how to fix things like this so that things go the way you want them to?"

"Yes……"

"How about starting by discussing the existing achievements? You can't delay any longer. And she is your teacher, you should use this opportunity to approach her and please her. Why did you abandon it?"

"But she is so cold to me, I can feel that she is different from before."

"It's all because you made her unhappy. You have to solve it yourself. It's useless to count on others. If there is no external force to intervene, things will only develop in a worse direction."

The last sentence was absolutely true, and Theron fell down again in discouragement.

She is really nostalgic for getting along with Hipper in the past, but of course the imaginary Hipper is cuter. At least the 17-year-old archmage will not always hint that she will be kicked out of the Mage Tower. She has no such right, and she will not hate it casually. Theron, and he will not urge her to work every day, it is more likely to pull her to read some interesting books, study some interesting phenomena, and some interesting spells.

Or do something...fun.

If she wasn't a teacher, would she still avoid me?

However, she still obeyed the words of the water lord and made an appointment with Hipper to report the progress in the afternoon.In order to arouse Hipper's interest, she specially answered the various questions written by Hipper in his notes in chapters.

She expected Hipper's reaction, but Hipper's reaction disappointed her-no response.

She didn't even show a gentle smile, but kept a scrutinizing gaze, sweeping harshly across her face, and only occasionally nodded to express a limited agreement.

"I... I'm done."

Hipper nodded, her eyes retracted, she lowered her head and swept across the table, as if she was thinking about her words, but her tightly locked brows did not open.

"Theron, you repeated the experiment I did. It's very good. It's very necessary. You shouldn't believe me blindly. It's right. And your results are basically the same as mine."

"Yes."

"But I want you to do more than that, and I see you've done a lot, a lot of work, and you're 'intent' to take another small step where I've broken off, but it's not enough."

She stood up, walked to Theron's seat, picked up the notebook, and said, "This is my 17, not yours."

She raised her head, looked at Theron standing in front of the table, and said sincerely and seriously: "I saw you wandering in front of every possible breakthrough and kept missing. Theron, what have you been doing all this time? Where did your sharpness go?"

"Me? What's wrong with me?" Theron asked in a low voice.

"I can feel that your attention is not complete, or even most of it is not on your work. For such a long time, you have made almost no progress at all. You are just repeating the work I have done. Are you doing your own work? Research, or are you replicating my results? Tell yourself frankly, how much of this work did you complete between last night and noon today?"

Theron looked at Hipper in bewilderment and shock, wondering what it was that made her so displeased (even though she had stayed up all night doing the work).

The archmage stretched out a hand, as if to touch her face, but stopped halfway, pinched it tightly and then let go, and finally pointed to his eyes as if a little resigned.

"Dark circles can't deceive people. Theron, I don't want to accuse you, and I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm, but you have pretended in your heart, what a mess! Where is your heart?"

I said it.The archmage closed his eyes, shook his head gently, and thought painfully: What am I talking about?

Facing these accusations, Theron felt extremely wronged, and looked at her in disbelief, opening and closing his mouth repeatedly, as if he wanted to explain, but also as if he wanted to cry.

"Where is my heart? On the things you don't want me to do!" She doesn't feel that her progress is really slow. She is working every day during working hours, and is carefully verifying the test results , She has successfully read the relevant research carefully, but she can't see the "breakthroughs" that Hipper said, and even suspects that they don't exist, and they are just an excuse for the teacher to dislike her.Because if the breach does exist, why doesn't Hipper move forward with the work himself?

Yes, that was the point. Hipper had never been like this before, first suddenly not allowing her to do the research she wanted to do most, and then starting to criticize her work.At the beginning, I clearly said that these things were not in a hurry, but now why do I keep finding faults because the progress has been slightly slowed down?

If she wants to give me the freedom of what she says, she shouldn't interfere with me to this extent.If she likes meddling with me, she shouldn't be talking about freedom...

No, there is another possibility between the two, that is, Hipper is much more anxious than she is about the progress of graduation.

"... Theron, we, we should separate and calm down."

Theron was about to cry almost immediately because of this, which is almost the same as "get off my tower"!She had a sore nose, and although she had expended a lot of effort, tears still fell out without disappointment.

It's too embarrassing, but Hipper has already turned around and walked into the depths of the library. It seems that what she said "separate and calm down" is that she wants to go out.

Theron rushed forward, grabbed Hipper's wrist, and was thrown away without any surprise. Theron was not willing to let go, grabbed the archmage and rushed forward, saying: "You don't need to leave, you If you want me to go so much, then I will go."

"Where are you going?"

"Starsong Castle!" Theron didn't dare to look back, fearing that Hipper would see the tears on her face, so he simply ran all the way to the portal and rushed into the phantom in the ring, tears dripping all the way, but out of For the same reason, she didn't even dare to wipe it.

Hipper couldn't help but chased after two steps, but reason told her that the two of them really needed to separate and calm down. She wanted to go out just now, but now that Theron has left, the one who went out had to be replaced by Seymour. Long, she sighed, and she didn't want to stay in the library either. After closing the library door, she leaned against the door and let out a heavy breath, feeling very tired.

The quarrel itself does not make her tired. A researcher is always confronted with questions from all directions. Argument and sarcasm have almost become her instinct.The main reason for her fatigue is her deep sense of powerlessness in her current relationship with Theron.

Now she was the only one in this tower again, and the constant wind whistled with almost no change. At this moment, she suddenly felt a slight vibration of the tower body.

earthquake?

No, it's not an earthquake, an earthquake doesn't just shake once.She waited for a while, and suddenly heard a strange noise, coming from above her head, and then, a strange shadow flew out from the shadow cast by the tower on the ground.

This is... what is this?She ran to the window, trying to see more clearly, but the strange shape was blurred in the sun, and Hipper couldn't figure out what it was.

Is it for the tower?

She went downstairs into the living room, using the sun stone on the wall, using the light mirror technique that she hadn't used for a long time, this time she finally saw the strange creature in the sky clearly.

The author has something to say: Alright, alright, let's start the fight, hit the kiss.