The magician from the time of peace

Without waiting for Merris to invite, Lamb spoke up by himself: "May I come in and sit for a while?"

"Please come in." Merris didn't know why he came to him at night, but invited him in anyway.

Lamb sat on the only chair, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said: "That... do you not believe in God?"

"Hmm." Merris guessed that he wanted to tell about Goddess Vera's letter, and out of a little guilt for not stopping him from reading the letter, he decided to listen to his bitterness.

Lamb looked at the magic book spread out on the table, and said in a muffled voice, "Is it because you read a lot of books that you don't believe in things other than books?"

"..." Why did you say such strange words at the beginning, Merris thought about it and said, "I don't believe in anything other than books, and look at Foster and Agnes, they must have read books no less than mine capacity, but they also believe in goddesses, which shows that they do have extraordinary charm."

Although he felt that Agnes's way of belief was subtly different from the two of them.

"If you don't have someone to believe in, who should you thank when you eat every day, when you encounter good things, and when you achieve achievements? Who should you pray to when you encounter difficulties that are difficult to break through?" Lamb didn't get entangled in a certain topic, he just wants to pour out all his doubts now.

"Why do we have to thank and pray?" Merris felt a deep gap in his thoughts, and after hearing the words, Lamb's shocked expression made him more sure of this: "Uh...we usually pray to ourselves? If this is also It's a prayer."

"Do you think it's possible that those letters were forged by that bastard Nell to smear the goddess Vera?" Lamb ignored the topic and began to diverge his thoughts.

Impossible, Merris thought, but with a smile on his face: "Maybe, after all, this was found in Nell's temple."

Even if he got the expected answer, Lamb couldn't continue the same topic, and he asked again: "If the goddess is really just that...that, how do the priests obtain the power of God and perform magic? "

Merris frowned: "Even if you ask me that, I haven't seen the priest use magic... If you mean the healing effect, is it possible that it is the magic of the water element?"

Lamb stared with a face of refusal to admit it, so Merris had no choice but to change his words: "However, the level of healing magic is very high, and the possibility is very small. I guess the goddesses have some tricks that we don't know about. Perhaps this is the so-called power of God."

Lamb nodded thoughtfully: "Well, I think so too. I thought about it for a long time just now, and I always felt that many things were wrong. Now, after hearing what you said, I finally straightened it out!" He was furious Standing up, she clenched her fists and said, "All of this is Nell's conspiracy! She must be coveting the status and believers of the goddess Vera, so she made such a sinister framing, trying to make a pious person like me lose his trust in the goddess. But I have seen through all of this! How could I not believe in the Goddess, heh heh, stupid Nell, I never thought that among the Goddess' believers there are such loyal and pious people as me."

By the end, the voice is already full of self-indulgence.

Merris sat silently, looking kindly at Lamb, who was self-adjusting at the speed of light, with only one thought in his heart: Hehe, as long as you are happy.

After laughing a few times, Lamb suddenly lowered his head, the toes of his shoes hit the ground, and he grabbed the hem of his clothes with one hand, his eyes drifted away.

"What's the matter, what's the problem?" Merris asked.

Lamb suddenly raised his head, his handsome face was slightly flushed, and he stammered, "Also, there is one more question!"

"Huh?" Merris was inexplicably yelled at: "Please tell me."

"I've always cared about it!" Lamb raised his voice as if using volume to embolden him: "Are you and that Felix really friends?"

"Why did you add 'that' before Phil's name?" Merris smiled, then frowned: "Don't we look like friends? Everyone I met before said we have a good relationship .”

"No, no, no, I can see that you have a good relationship, that's not what I want to ask," Lamb hastily corrected, his face was already flushed, but he still insisted: "I mean, You...look so close, and...you can still kiss, is it really just friends?"

Merris nodded suspiciously: "Well, they are friends. Why do you ask such a question, don't you want to get close to your friends like this?"

"Of course not!" Lamb blurted out. When he mentioned friends, he could only think of a group of shirtless muscular men, getting close to something, and just thinking about it made his hair stand on end.

And what about friends? The person I want to be close to is clearly right in front of me... Lamb turned his head and coughed: "Well, Merris, do you think we are friends?"

Merris smiled: "Of course, you have helped me a lot, and I have always been grateful to you."

Lamb never expected to hear this answer. He thought he was just a "hostage", or a good cook and a clown who was ridiculed. As a result, Merris had already defined him as a friend.

He was on the verge of tears, wishing he could kneel before the magician and offer him the loyalty of a knight—he seemed to have forgotten that his loyalty had long been dedicated to the goddess and the king.

Merris knew nothing about the throbbing in Lamb's heart, but felt a little uneasy about his long silence—could it be said that he actually came to slaughter the heretics tonight, and his being too friendly made him embarrassed ?Merris was running wild in her head.

Lamb finally moved. He stretched out his hand hesitantly and tremblingly, and put it tentatively on Merris' shoulder. The latter looked at him in confusion, really not understanding what he was going to do.

Lamb hesitated for a long time, and finally spit out a sentence: "Then, that... are all friends... May I kiss you?"

Merris said without hesitation, "No."

Lamb: "..."

Merris: "..."

"Cough, cough, cough." Lamb withdrew his hand silently, using a few fake coughs to cover up his embarrassment.

Merris asked directly without hesitation: "Why do you have such a strange idea?"

Is it weird?Lamb burst into tears, but now he is willing to go all out. He said angrily: "Why are you and that Felix able to kiss, but not with, with, and me?"

Merris asked suspiciously: "Do you have to do the same thing as every friend? I will still discuss magic with Felix, but are you willing to talk about it with me?"

Lamb: "..." In fact, as long as he can talk, he is willing to talk about anything, even though he knows nothing about magic and has nothing to talk about.

"Well, then, would you kiss other friends, other friends who can talk about magic?" Lamb didn't give up, thinking that if the answer was yes, then he would have to memorize a magic book even though he was self-contained. I haven't read a book other than a popular novel after two years.

"No." Merris replied naturally, and at the same time wondered: "Why do you care so much about this matter?"

It's not that I care, it's that everyone except you two cares!Lamb roared silently, but spoke embarrassingly: "Then... are you only kissing and hugging each other...so intimate?"

Merris nodded with a smile: "Well, only one best friend is enough."

Lamb couldn't help but yelled out: "...This is a lover at all! Where is the definition of a best friend!!!"

"Really?" Merris tilted her head: "But don't lovers want a man and a woman?"

"There's never been such a rule!" Lamb couldn't help getting excited, as if speaking for himself: "Love transcends identity and gender!"

"Is that so..." Merris nodded as if she was listening carefully, as if she had learned something new.

"That's right! And holding hands and kissing in bed is totally not something that friends would do!" Lamb said bluntly.

"Me and Philly didn't have sex."

"You don't need to tell me this kind of thing!" Lamb roared angrily, he was not interested in such a thing at all—no, if that Felix was removed, he would still be very interested.

"Sorry to let you hear something you don't want to hear." Merris apologized politely, but before Lamb answered, he questioned: "But my mentor will kiss his friends."

Lamb: "..."

He seemed to understand who the culprit was.

Seeing Lamb's froze, Merris kindly explained: "I saw them kissing in the library once, and the tutor took the initiative to talk to me and told me about him and his friend. I think their relationship is very similar to my relationship with Philly, they are very good friends—”

"Don't say the word friend anymore!!" Lamb broke down.

"Sorry, I won't say any more. Hmm...you seem to be a little emotionally unstable, do you want me to pour you a cup of tea?" Merris asked with concern.

Lamb slumped on the chair and waved his hands weakly: "I'm fine, you can continue talking..."

"Okay," Merris rolled his eyes and smiled, and continued: "So I talked to my mentor about this issue, and he told me that facing good friends—sorry, I will pay attention next time—faces relationship is very good For people, it is normal to have the desire to kiss. There is nothing embarrassing about it, as long as you follow your heart to do it. So after that, Philly and I also discussed this issue and conducted a little The experiment, we both felt very comfortable with each other, so it went on and on.”

He smiled embarrassedly: "However, every time I do this in public, it will attract everyone's attention and greatly affect work efficiency, so I usually ask Philip to do it in private."

Lamb: "..." He didn't know where to answer the conversation.

"How is it? Do you think my mentor's words make sense?" Merris asked again when Lamb was silent.

There is a truth to the fart.Lamb ignored the subject, keenly grasping the point: "You and that Felix have tried it and felt comfortable doing it all the time, haven't you?"

Merris nodded: "Well, that's right."

"That, that, that," Lamb stammered, pointing at himself tremblingly: "Would you like to try it with me... Anyway, it's all, yes, that, friends! Haha, hey hey-hey……"

"Uh..." Merris hesitated for a moment. He didn't have any special feelings for the knight in front of him at all, but something was really wrong with Lamb tonight. Could it be that the letter from the goddess hit him too hard?He pulled his beautiful eyebrows, thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, if you don't try it, you just think that this feeling is not good, it's not fair to you."

Just like doing an experiment, you can't deny the possibility of a substance becoming a magic item just by guessing.He compares.

"What?" Lamb couldn't believe his ears. In fact, he didn't have any expectations at all, but he didn't want to give up so easily that he would regret it in retrospect.

Merris repeated with a smile, "I mean, we can try."

Seeing Lamb sitting motionless on the chair, he had no choice but to stand up from the bed and walk in front of him.

Lamb was unprepared, as if he was facing a big enemy, he was so nervous that he couldn't move a finger, and his whole body was stiff—he was not so nervous when he was a centurion for the first time, when he called for papers in front of 100 people!

Merris pressed one hand on the back of the chair, and the other hand brushed away Lamb's obstructive hair, and held his cheek. Lamb blushed blushingly, and before he had time to react, he stared blankly. Watching Merris' exquisite smiling face getting closer and closer to him, he was so frightened that he quickly closed his eyes, waiting for their first and probably last kiss.

But after a few seconds, nothing extra touched his lips.

Lamb opened one eye to observe the situation secretly, and found that Merris, who had been bending over just now and was close to him, was standing upright now, with one hand touching his chin, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"Why, what's the matter?" Lamb asked stammeringly.

Merris withdrew his hand from Lamb's face, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said bluntly, "I'm very sorry, Lamb, but for now, I just want to try it with Philip alone."

"Oh... um..." Lamb didn't know why, a little disappointed, but also a little expected indifference.

Instead, Merris had an unexpected experience: "I think what you said earlier makes sense. If these things can be done with friends, then I probably won't reject trying them with you—like although you can't hear I understand, but I don't mind talking to you about the discreteness of the fire element and the influence function of the power of different levels of fire magic—so I probably don't want to be friends with Felix, but lovers."

Lamb thought peacefully: I really don't understand what you're talking about.

"About this matter, I hope that someone will think about it again. Thank you for telling me this tonight." Merris sent off the guest tactfully.

Lamb also left with insight: "Then I'll go first, you should rest early, and don't miss the departure time tomorrow morning."

"Thank you for your reminder," Merris said goodbye to him with a smile, using all the theological knowledge to say: "May the goddess be with you."

Lamb laughed a few times: "It's hard for you to say this to me, thank you so much."

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Lamb closed the door, and after walking a few steps, his eyes became hot. He quickly covered his eyes with his hands, and ran away quickly.