before he was crowned king

In the endless grassland, Sean got out of the carriage and walked under the avenue of the college, with the tie-dyed sky above his head. The thinnest pointer of the bell tower of Joshua College just moved to the center of "Twelve", the thick and low bell The sound shook the dormant flock of birds.The black cat stretched out its soft body on his shoulders, and the rose-colored pupils that had been closed tightly opened lazily.

"Woke up." Sean shifted his gaze to his shoulders, "Did you recover your strength?"

"How is it possible? What's the use of sleeping? Sleeping in a coffin for ten years is not as useful as attracting a few believers." The black cat curled its lips, its transparent whiskers shaking, "And I'm not really asleep either. , My consciousness has been awake, but my body is not moving. Heh, I know, you were beaten in the shooting range and kicked out by the silver-haired boy."

"It's just leaving first. Of course, His Royal Highness Mars also has things that he doesn't want me to know about." Sean didn't take it to heart, "It's normal, even if we are as close as family members, we need independent space between each other, not to mention that he and I are monarchs and ministers." between."

"You can see it quite openly." The black cat rolled its eyes, and its tone was a little playful, "Aren't you curious? What is the silver-haired boy hiding from you?"

"You know what?" Shane slowed down.

"I don't know." The black cat said with a smirk, "But if I want to know, of course there is a way. If you humbly beg me—"

"It's not necessary." Sean said indifferently, "Since His Highness doesn't want me to know, it means that in his heart, I have no right to intervene in this matter. Whether it's good or bad, I can't change his opinion." Decide."

"Aren't you curious? It's really boring." The black cat smacked its lips.

"Speaking of business, have any clues been found in the Duke's mine?" Sean asked.

"How long has it been since it's been so easy to investigate the details of hundreds of people. However, Oscar seems to have locked in a few possible related targets, and it seems that there will be progress in a few days."

"This matter please the Duke as soon as possible."

Herrera cast his eyes on the man's perfect side face with some doubts: "It's really rare, you actually urged it on purpose?"

"The speed of dispatching troops often directly affects the outcome of the war. When we are preparing, the opposite side is also deploying troops. As the active party, if we delay for too long, we will miss the best opportunity." Sean said calmly, "His Highness has made such a big move recently, the people in the palace will not fail to notice."

"Really, I only know the old saying, 'If you act in a hurry, it's easy to make mistakes'." Halfway through the black cat's speech, its pointed ears moved slightly, because it heard the annoying barking sound, and its expression was a little displeased. Colored pupils squinted and looked to the right side of the boulevard, "It's like a dog that doesn't look at the road will fall into a pit for a reason."

Sean continued to walk forward. Although his hearing was not as sharp as Heller's, he could also faintly hear a muffled dog barking coming from the ground far away.

Recently, there seems to be a lot of construction in the college. I heard that Dean Dunbar of their Joshua College came out of the gray wall, and was crazy infatuated with the temple-like incense trees and acacia trees in other colleges, so he strongly urged the principal He created a "sacred forest" composed of banyan trees and grape trellises in the college. His reason is to create a more sacred atmosphere in the college, so that the students who are still confused in the college can feel the guidance of the God of Light more closely. .

The Imperial Academy of Magic has a long history. Except for the renovation of several buildings, the basic garden layout of the academy has not changed. It is completely formed naturally. It can be said that any tree here is an old antique, born and grown hundreds of years ago. here it is.Many people thought that the implementation of the "Sacred Forest Project" was unlikely, but no one thought that the principal would actually satisfy Dean Dunbar's request.

A few nights later, there were many deep pits for planting trees on the originally flat and beautiful green lawn of the college. Although the Magic Academy also took into account the safety of the students and laid nets on these pits, some thin animals still Easy to fall into pits.

"Ah, your brother is here." The black cat looked at the man who ran to the edge of the deep pit and lay down with interest, "Huh? Is he going to rescue the dog? He is really a good man." .”

Sean stopped in his tracks. He followed Herrell's gaze. The black-haired young man was lying on the side of the pit in embarrassment. The metal hook barely keeps it balanced.

"Is this a juggling show? Come on, come closer and have a look." The black cat had an expression of "watching a show". There were bursts of schadenfreude laughter similar to "the boy pulled the girl's braid".

Sean glanced at Heller, he understood the other party's extremely bad interests, and the misfortune of others was the source of his joy.But today was the first time he saw Herrell smiling so happily.

Perhaps the happiness of demons is simpler than that of humans.Putting aside the polite smile, Sean is not a person who loves to laugh, and he also has nothing to laugh about the scene where Alex made a fool of himself just now.

He walked to the edge of the pit expressionlessly, and when he lowered his head, he happened to be looking at the black-haired young man wrapped in a white net.

"Xi, Xien?" The black-haired young man was sitting at the bottom of the pit, holding a dirty puppy in his arms.He obviously didn't expect Sean to appear here, and he became very embarrassed in an instant.

Sean nodded, as a response to the other party's greeting.

The two were silent, Alex was trying to get rid of the protective net wrapped around his body, while Sean stood on the flat ground and watched silently.

Throwing the white net aside, Alex rolled his throat, and slowly stood up from the bottom of the pit, because he was not sure whether the other party had witnessed the whole process, so he didn't know how to speak.The quiet atmosphere made him feel even more embarrassed. He thought that if Sean really saw it, he would rather the other party laugh at him directly.

His mind was in a mess, when a clean and white hand stretched out in front of him.

Erics froze for a moment, he had no other choice, the pit was very deep, and he was still holding the injured puppy in one hand, so he could only accept help.

Sean used force to pull the disheveled young man up.

"Thank you, Sean." Alex looked at the hand he was holding, "Sorry for getting your hands dirty."

"It's okay." Sean patted the dust off his hands, "Are you injured?"

"I'm fine." Alex waved his hand, looked down at the furry mass in his arms, "I don't know if Nono is injured."

"nono? Your pet?"

"No, I named it nono. It should have no owner." Alex scratched the puppy's head, his brows and eyes were very gentle, "But I recognize it, and it recognizes me. At noon, it often Basking in the sun near this road, the little one lying on the grass is cute."

Probably feeling the emotion of being liked, Nono licked Alex's hand.

"Hey, don't move around, let me see if you're hurt." Alex gently put Nono on the ground, "Is it this leg? Or this one?"

Nono let out a low whine, rubbing his head against the back of Alex's hand.

"What a flattering creature." The black cat looked at Nono with a disgusted tone, perhaps because it didn't want to see this kind of scene, it flicked its tail, jumped off Sean's shoulder, and disappeared.

There may really be people in this world who can talk to animals, just like the person and dog in front of us.But Sean was not very interested in this mysterious natural phenomenon, he turned around and prepared to leave: "I'll go first."

Alex raised his hand and grabbed his clothes, stopping him: "That... Sean, can you do me a favor."

Sean turned his head to look at Erics, that handsome and outrageous face was already the same color as the sunset in the sky.He thought he probably shouldn't have brought this troublesome person up.

Sean went back to the Rose Hall, then went to the restaurant, and when he returned here, the sky had already darkened.In the night wind, a person and a dog sat alone on a bench not far away, their shadows stretched long on the ground, pitifully like refugees with nowhere to go outside the gray wall.

"What you want." Sean handed the bag to the other party.

"Thank you." Alex took the bag, his joyful eyes looked like two fine obsidian under the moonlight.

"Sean, where did you get the medical bandage?" Alex was a little surprised, he was going to help Nono bandage his lower leg with ordinary cloth.

"Professor Nick's alchemy room." Sean sat on the other side of the bench, watching Erics squatting on the ground and bandaging Nono.

"Okay, be careful next time, I'll see you tomorrow." Alex put Nono on the ground, and sat back on the bench when he saw Nono ran away.

Sean handed the meat pie rolled by the restaurant to Alex, "Eat it."

Erics froze for a moment, looked at the meaty food in front of him, and swallowed invisibly: "Xion, I've already eaten—"

Before he could finish speaking, the sound of hunger in his stomach made Erics wish to disappear immediately.

"Eat more." Sean said lightly.

"Thank you." Alex's voice was much softer, a series of silly looks made him restless, and when he really ate the pie in his hand, all the entanglements were suddenly resolved.He didn't need to be uncomfortable, Sean was different from the others, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that the other party had witnessed the embarrassing moments in his life.

Alex felt relieved, but thinking that he might have a bad impression on the other party, he couldn't help being a little depressed.

"You look very hungry." Sean looked at the young man beside him, "Have you not eaten for many days?"

"No, I just eat less every meal than before, and then... I get hungry faster when the weather is hot."

"Why do you have to eat less every meal?" Sean grasped the key question in the words.

"Because..." Eric paused, as if the reason was a bit difficult to explain, "Well, I was kicked out by my family, and when I came out, I didn't have any money with me."

"You were kicked out?" Sean frowned. Based on what he knew about Madam Mary, it was basically impossible for this kind of thing to happen.

"Or, I ran away from home." Erics smiled bitterly, "You should have heard about my family. There have been a lot of people discussing it in the capital recently."

"I heard a little bit," Sean said. "Have you had a fight with your family?"

"Well, with my mother." Alex bent his back, his arms pressed on his legs, and his expression was covered by black broken hair, "I've never had such an argument with her, and this is the first Once, she couldn't understand me, and I couldn't understand her. I don't know why, like something suddenly changed at some point, and it felt bad, really bad."

Sean looked at the shadows of overlapping branches in front of him, and listened silently. He didn't comfort Erics, nor did he say anything.

"Xion, have you ever argued with your family?" Erics suddenly stopped and asked, "Have you ever experienced such an inexplicable situation?"

"I didn't have an argument with my family," Sheehan said.

Alex lowered his head and sighed: "Is that so, don't you even know? Yes, you are smarter than me, and you will definitely not intensify the conflict to the point where I can't handle it."

"Sorry, I can't give you useful advice." Sean rarely admits that there is something he can't do. The most powerless time in his life is only when he first stepped into the Rose Manor.In order not to experience the helplessness of being helpless, he tried his best to enrich and strengthen himself, but he never studied how to maintain a relationship sincerely.

This is different from dealing with general human sophistication. His forte is to win the favor of others, not to establish relationships with others.

Erics froze for a moment, waved his hands and said, "No need to apologize, it's just... we just chatted casually. To be honest, you have helped me a lot since I met you, Sean, I still don't know what to do Thank u."

"I didn't help you." Sean whispered, this is the truth, he knew it very well.Contrary to what Alex thinks, something he does is depriving the other party of what they have.

And his behavior will not stop there, in the future he will deprive the other party of more.

"Why? You just invited me to eat a pie." Alex smiled at Sean, shaking the half of the pie in his hand, "I know, you care about me, you care about me very good."

"Are you a fool?" Sean stood up with a cold face.

"Don't be like this, Sean, I'm your best friend!" Erics shouted towards the leaving figure, a warm current poured into his heart, and his mood improved a lot, although it wasn't until he held his hand I finished eating all the pies, and I didn't wait for any response from the other party.