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After resting in the mage tower for a few more days, Amir called his warrior coachman and the humble four-wheeled carriage, and drove him and Kiki to Asshai.

The two of them didn't go into the city, but went directly to Rose Manor outside the city.In order not to be too eye-catching, neither of them wore magic robes, and only pinned their own magic badges on the collars, which vaguely showed their identities.

It was still Xia Na who came forward to greet them. Although he had only met them once, he recognized Keech after a little sizing, and then looked at the badges on the necklines of the two, immediately changed into a more respectful tone, and led the two of them. into the manor.

It was already November at this time, the season of grape harvest was long past, and the New Year was approaching. The Rose Manor was very deserted, and even the servants were much less.Amir and Kiki were very satisfied with the atmosphere, and chose the most secluded room among the many empty rooms to live in.

After Kiki settled down, Amir didn't leave immediately, and planned to take Kiki to walk all the roads in the manor first, and asked him to mark the places that should be marked.Because of this, after choosing the room, Amir asked Shana to send a servant to take them around the manor.

Due to the season, there is actually nothing worth seeing in the Rose Manor at this time. The leaves have fallen off long ago, and the vines are also bare. Only the sky garden on the top floor still has some green plants cultivated by the greenhouse.

However, the guest's request should always be satisfied as much as possible. Shana didn't ask any advice, let alone ask, and directly sent an elderly manservant to guide Amir and Kiki.

Under the guidance of the servant, Amir and Kiki visited the entire Rose Hill Villa thoroughly.When passing by the wine cellar, Amir asked to go in and take a look, but the servant politely refused on the grounds that "the new wine has just entered the cellar and is being sealed and fermented, so it cannot be opened".Amir didn't insist, and just gave Kiki a look, signaling him to make a mark with his elemental pen.

After wandering around boredly, seeing that Kiki had marked the critical path, Amir stopped looking for reasons to continue wandering, turned around, and prepared to go back to the main house of the manor for lunch.

But on the way back, Amir suddenly raised his head and said to himself, "It seems that we are not the only guests."

Kiki was startled slightly, followed Amir's gaze upwards, and was startled by the bright red color.

On the roof of the top floor of the main building of Rose Manor, where the sky garden is located, a man and a woman are sitting face to face, the two hands on the table are clasped together intimately, fingers intertwined, smiling and whispering as if telling each other their hearts .

If it was just a couple who came here to enjoy the world of two, Kiki would not be surprised. The problem is that woman, her red hair is so familiar to Kiki. Tina is here too, having an affair behind Amir's back.

But after a closer look, Kiki realized that although the woman's appearance and hair were very similar to Tina's, she was much older than Tina, and she could never be Tina herself.

After thinking for a while, Kiki remembered the identity of this woman—she was not Tina, she was Tina's mother, the wife of Fernando, the president of the Magic Association, and her name... seemed to be Angelina?

But the man sitting opposite her could never be Fernando. Not only did he look different, he was also too young, younger than Angelina, and he was not a magician.

Thinking of this, Kiki noticed that Angelina was not wearing a magic robe, she was dressed like a lady, elegant and luxurious.

--How is this going?Tina's mother is having an affair? !

Kiki opened his mouth wide in surprise, and turned to look at Amir.

Amir returned Kiki's calm eyes, made a curious look, and asked the manservant who was guiding them about the two guests on the rooftop, and expressed his desire to pay a visit.

The manservant told Amir with a look of embarrassment that the two guests specifically asked to decline all disturbances when they checked in, so he could not introduce him to them, but then the manservant revealed the identity of the man, The second son of a certain earl, a nobleman who lives in the city of Asshai.

Amir smiled, took out a gold coin, and threw it into the servant's hand.

The servant took it with a smile, bowed and thanked Amir.

Perhaps because he didn't want to meet Tina's mother, Amir didn't take Kiki to the restaurant for dinner, but ordered two set menus, which were delivered directly to their rooms by the servants in the manor.

After the male servant who led them closed the door and turned to the kitchen to pass on Amir's request, Kiki finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Is the woman on the roof Tina's mother?"

"I'd love to tell you no, but sadly, she is." Amir shrugged.

"The man who was with her...shouldn't be Fernando?" Kiki's mouth became more and more dry.

"Of course, no." Amir sat down on the chair with a smile, raised his hand and called Kiki to his side, grabbed his hand, and said soothingly, "Relax, it's embarrassing to encounter such a thing, but it's no big deal The fact that Angelina has a lover, Fernando the magician already knew, and Tina also knew—think about it, you have been to Source Island twice, but have you seen Angelina there?"

"No." Keech shook his head, but immediately frowned and asked, "Why did she do this? Isn't she married to Fernando and gave birth to Tina?"

"Maybe it's because she is a nobleman rather than a magician." Amir said lightly, "She and Freud came from a noble family, and it is normal for a nobleman to have a lover after marriage. If you don’t have an illegitimate child, no one will blame you.”

"but……"

"Yes, but Fernando is not an aristocrat. He was born as a commoner in a small country. He worked hard all his life to occupy the throne of the president of the Magic Association. How could he tolerate the beauty he bought in exchange for his benefits and then turned around after giving birth to him? Put into someone else's arms?" Amir said sarcastically, "Never set foot on the source island, never touch the core secrets and power of the Magic Association, this is the punishment Fernando gave her. If it wasn't for the pedicle she gave birth to Na is indeed Fernando's flesh and blood, and her talent is very good, Fernando may take revenge with the sub-dragon royal family who caused the crime, instead of just being alienated and neglected like now."

Kiki opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.He had to admit that Hill seemed to think the same way, and he didn't feel any conflict between marrying Lizzy and maintaining a lover relationship with him.

"Don't be so depressed." Seeing Kiki's mood was a little depressed, Amir pulled him closer, put his arms around his waist, and said with a chuckle, "They have such a habit, it doesn't mean you have to accept their habit For example, Tina, if she dares to take care of her lover behind my back like her mother did, I will let her experience how the master of a commoner's house teaches an unruly wife."

"...I don't think Tina would do that kind of thing." Kiki said with downcast eyes.

"Who knows about feelings?" Amir smiled disapprovingly, "In fact, she has a lover now."

"Who?" Keech looked up.

"Her lab!" Amir replies jokingly.

Kiki immediately understood that Amir was teasing him, and couldn't help being a little annoyed, but before he lost his temper, there was a knock on the door, and the servant who delivered lunch arrived.

Keech had no choice but to put away the depression of being teased, and sat down to have lunch.

Although Amir is not an alcoholic himself, and does not approve of Kiki's drinking as a habit, but for the purpose of their coming here, he still asks for an extra bottle of Rose's Blood.

The two didn't let the servants stay to serve them. After the lunch was served, they drove the servants out of the room. Amir opened the cork of Rose's Blood and poured the blood-red wine into the cup.

But before Amir re-examined the fine wine, which Kich thought was full of elemental essence, a change in another place attracted the attention of the two of them.The moment the wine glass was filled with rose blood, a puff of black smoke suddenly appeared from the obsidian bracelet on Kiki's right wrist, and instantly turned into a small monkey.

Judging from the origin of the monkey, it should be the familiar shadow monkey in the Abyss of Nightmare that led them into the stone tower, but looking at the appearance of the monkey, Amir and Kiki are not sure about their judgment.

The monkey in the abyss was half the size of an arm when it squatted down, but the monkey in front of it was not much bigger than a palm, and its fur was much brighter and thicker. Only a pair of eyes remained the same as before. Face, instantly changing its face from hateful to lovely.

After getting out of the bracelet, the much smaller monkey pounced on the cup without hesitation, sucked up the blood of the rose in the cup with a few sips, then picked up the wine bottle next to it, and jumped into the cup. Just jump to Keech's wrist.

However, the wine bottle containing the blood of the rose could not be brought into the bracelet by the monkey like the magic core. It only made a crisp sound before falling to the ground.

Neither the monkey nor Kiki and Amir would just watch the bottle of wine being smashed. Amir immediately released the whirlwind technique to hold the bottle, and Kiki quickly grabbed the monkey by the back of the neck, while the monkey hugged it tightly. wine bottle.

"It really likes to steal things!" Amir let go of the bottle with a smile and let the monkey hold it by itself.

Kiki didn't intend to easily let go of the monkey who had led him to the stone tower and never listened to him again. He directly trapped it with supernatural powers, making it impossible for him to give up the bottle and escape back to the bracelet.

The monkey immediately roared angrily, and once again used its skill clone.But maybe because this is not an abyss with rich elements, the monkey's avatar technique is far less realistic than in the abyss. After roaring, only a few light phantoms appeared in the room, not much deterrent, but a little more It's weird, if it's night, it might be even scarier than a successful avatar.

Keech curled his lips, and directly used his ability to disperse these phantoms, and then asked fiercely, "What the hell are you?"

Seeing that he was under the control of Kiki, and the avatar technique couldn't scare him, the monkey immediately softened and squeaked twice, as if begging for mercy and cursing.

"Forget it, its mentality is not much stronger than that of a dog, and it can't speak, so what can you ask?" Amir interjected with a smile, "Instead of interrogating it, why not think about how to make it go away?" It is obedient and learns what a pet should do."

"I've never had a pet," Keech said gloomily.

"Let's try it little by little." Amir said lightly, "Anyway, it seems that it can only be attached to your pet ring. As long as you don't lose the pet ring, it can't escape."

Kiki pursed his lips, annoyed at having such a disobedient pet, but he was unwilling to transfer the obsidian bracelet to Amir like he gave up the stomach of the nightmare beast, so he could only hold back the use of different pets. The impulse to tear the monkey to shreds snatched the wine bottle from its hand and drove the monkey into the obsidian bracelet.

But the monkey competed with Kiki, refused to go in no matter what, and desperately wanted to grab the bottle of rose blood.

Seeing that Kitsch's patience was obviously running out, Amir had no choice but to act as a peacemaker again, took the bottle in Kitsch's hand, and comforted him while pouring wine into the glass, "Okay, okay, don't talk to me. A monkey is fighting, it just wants to drink, just let it drink, I want to see how much it can drink."

With that said, Amir pushed the full wine glass in front of Kiki and let the monkey in his hand enjoy it.

When Amir said this, Kiki also felt that he was a bit naive and ridiculous in arguing with the monkey, so he immediately let go of his hand and let the monkey pounce on the wine glass.

After just a few sips, the monkey drank the blood of the rose in the cup again, and then looked at Amir helplessly, like a puppy waiting for a bone to be rewarded by its master.

Amir filled the glass again with a smile and told the monkey to continue drinking.

Kiki next to him looked very depressed, and couldn't help but muttered: "I suddenly feel that there is no difference between you treating me and this monkey."

"Yo, are you jealous?" Amir raised the corner of his mouth, "Or do you think you are very similar to this monkey?"

"You're just like it!" Keech said angrily.

"Indeed, it's much smarter than you." Amir raised his hand with a smile, and scratched the monkey's head a few times.

Kiki returned Amir with a pair of white eyes, but didn't speak anymore, so as not to keep Amir comparing himself with the monkey.

Amir smiled, and stopped talking, and concentrated on feeding the monkey wine to see how much it could drink.

After all, the monkey didn't drink up the whole bottle of rose blood. When Amir put the last glass of wine in front of it, it just took a sip, and then jumped towards Kiki, turned into black smoke, and slipped back into the bracelet .

Looking at the rest of the wine, Amir pondered for a while before saying: "The last time it came out, it only took away a low-level fire-type magic core. Later, when we took out the magic core again, it didn't appear. Yes or no?"

"Yeah." Kiki nodded, not understanding why Amir said this.

Amir didn't explain, and took out a few magic cores from his pocket, picked out a middle-level fire magic core and a low-level fire magic core, put them on the table, and then turned to look at Kiki's bracelet .

There was no movement in the bracelet, and the monkey inside seemed to have had enough to eat and drink, and ignored the magic core outside.

Amir shrugged regretfully, but instead of putting away the magic cores, he pushed them to Kiki, "You put away these two magic cores first, take them out once a day, first take the intermediate ones, and then the primary ones. "

"Why?" Kitty asked suspiciously.

"I want to test the food and food intake of this pet." Amir said, "If I guess right, it feeds on elemental essence, but its food intake is limited. The amount of food it eats each time is only equivalent to a primary coin Magic core."

Kiki was startled for a moment, and soon realized, "You mean, the elemental essence contained in a bottle of rose blood is equivalent to a primary magic core?"

Amir nodded, but immediately added: "Of course, the premise is that the monkey's food intake can remain stable, and it will not be affected by many factors like the human appetite."

"Well, I'll remember the test." Keech nodded immediately.

"Don't worry, it's been more than half a month since this monkey snatched the magic core to eat. In other words, it's likely that it won't come out to eat again within a few weeks. It doesn't matter if you forget it." Amir looked Looking at the wine glass used by the monkey, he said instead, "Let them send another bottle of rose blood, forget it, and change the lunch too, it's already cold."

With that, Amir stood up and pulled the bell rope that summoned the servant.