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Shortly after Hill arrived, Keech's clothes arrived, along with a small button.

"It was found in your pocket." The maid who brought the clothes explained to Hill and Keech.

"Ah, I forgot about it!" Keech suddenly clapped his hands.

"Your?" Hill picked up the button, looked at it and waved to the maid, sending her out of the room.

Seeing that he and Hill were the only ones left in the room, Kiki immediately said, "For you."

"Me?" Hill was taken aback, and carefully looked at the button, or the button-shaped little thing, but he couldn't see what it was, only felt that the material was a bit like a moonstone that had been injected with some kind of metal. , it looks milky white at first glance, but when it is slightly flipped, it will emit a light blue halo.

"It's not for viewing." Keech snatched the button-sized rock and stuffed it into Hill's ear.

Hill was startled immediately by the loud noise coming from his ears, as if a hurricane had passed by his ears, shaking his eardrums to tremble.But after concentrating for a while, Hill realized that what he heard was probably the wind outside the window, but it was amplified several times, from the original inaudible to deafening.

Keech gestured to Hill, took a few steps back, and stood in a corner of the room. Seeing that Hill's attention had shifted to himself, he raised his hands and clapped lightly.

"Slap!" Hill immediately heard the clearest clapping, just like the slap in the ear.

Keech walked back to Hill, took the button-shaped stone out of his ear, put it back in his palm, and then said, "Tina calls it the 'Whispering Stone', it can push the stone from far away. The whispers from the office came clearly to her ears, and Tina said that she could use this to eavesdrop on whether people were talking bad about you behind her back—I think you might be able to use it."

"..." Hill was speechless.

Indeed, this is a very "good" thing, and the function of eavesdropping alone is enough to make all the nobles flock to it.Moreover, if the effective distance of this thing is far enough, then the effect of applying it in the military may be even better.However, it is really impossible to simply answer yes or no to whether it can be used. Denying it is tantamount to rejecting this rare gift, but admitting it is tantamount to saying that he really cares about whether he will be gossiped about.

——It’s really confusing!

Hill thought helplessly.

"By the way, this thing reacts too much to the sound of the wind, and even a little breeze can deafen the ears." Keech continued, "So it's best to use it in a windless place, otherwise it won't be really deaf. Will be annoyed by the noise."

"Understood, I will use it carefully." Hill held the Whispering Stone, lowered his head and kissed Kiki's face, and smiled: "Thank you, I like it very much."

"Just as long as you like it." Kiki immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled happily back at Hill.

After Kiki changed his clothes and chatted with Hill in the room for a while, Shaner, the manager of Rose Manor, knocked on the door and informed them that they could go to the restaurant to have breakfast with Prince Sirius.

When they walked into the dining room, Sirius and his "male favorite" A-Dong were already sitting at the dining table, and several maids were also preparing to deliver breakfast.

"Good morning, Your Highness Sirius." Hill bowed and saluted.The royals, like the magicians, do not use surnames as titles, but the reason for doing so is to pay homage to the founder of the empire, Borgia the Great, and to distinguish the royals from the real emperor of the empire.

"You don't need to be too polite, Mr. Hill." Sirius smiled slightly, and turned his gaze to Keech who was standing stiffly aside, neither speaking nor saluting, "Is this your friend?"

"Yes." Hill replied.

"Kiki, magician." Without waiting for Hill's introduction, Kiki opened his mouth expressionlessly, and raised his right hand, gathering the water elements at his fingertips into a small light blue water polo, and then slightly Bomb to disperse it.

Sirius couldn't help raising his eyebrows, and was about to speak when A-Dong beside him was the first to sneer, "Little trick!"

"A-Dong, don't be so rude." Sirius reprimanded immediately, but his tone was full of helplessness and indulgence.

"It was he who was rude first! You are the prince, he should salute you!" A-Dong pouted.He hasn't yet reached the stage of voice change, and his voice is very soft and waxy, and it even sounds like a girl's baby voice at first glance.

—Is he so young?

Hill couldn't help being a little puzzled.As far as he knew, this A-Dong and Sirius should be about the same age, why Sirius is 17 years old, but he still looks like a child who hasn't grown up?

——Could it be that he took some special drugs to deliberately delay his growth?

Hill guessed maliciously.

"A magician will only bow his head to a sage." Sirius read out a famous saying by the founder of the Magic Association, Warner, the great magician, and then laughed at himself, "And I obviously can't reach this standard."

"Your Highness doesn't have to be so humble." Hill hurriedly answered.

Ke Qi and that A-Dong didn't speak, Ke Qi looked indifferent, A-Dong snorted coldly.

"Okay, sit down, I'm inviting you two over for breakfast." Sirius changed the subject with a smile, and sent Shana and the other maids out of the dining room.

"I'm honored." Hill bowed again, then pulled away the chair in front of him, motioning for Keech to sit down.

Kitsch sat down silently, but kept his gaze fixed on A-Dong, because the other party also kept looking at him, and in a very unfriendly way.

Hill also saw that A-Dong seemed to have strong hostility towards Kiki, which made him both inexplicable and helpless.He hasn't thought about joining the prince's camp yet, but he doesn't want to offend one right now.But neither A-Dong nor Kiki beside him can be controlled by him. If the two insist on turning against each other, there is really nothing he can do.

Therefore, Hill could only act as if he didn't see it, and continued to chat with Sirius on his own.

What surprised Hill secretly was that Sirius seemed to know his affairs very well, and he pointed out his recent situation in a few sentences, and then, with a straightforward attitude that no noble should have, he clearly said : "I do not agree with my father's decision to expel Marquis Balotelli."

"Thank you for your pity, Your Highness, if Grandpa knows about it, he will be flattered." Hill replied with downcast eyes.

Hearing this, Hill's first reaction was that the second prince wanted to pass him a branch called solicitation to the Balotelli family.But my grandfather has made it clear that he doesn't want to be involved in the vortex of the battle for the throne at this time. As far as he observes, his grandfather is not optimistic about this Prince Siris, but is more looking forward to Prince Kesley, who will be born by Queen Hathaway. able to grow up.

Therefore, Hill did not take this olive branch, but used vague words to hint at a certain position of his grandfather.

"I hope the Marquis won't be slumped because of this setback." Sirius raised the corner of his mouth and said meaningfully, "Although the old house needs new blood to wash it down, in my opinion, wisdom is what we live on Cornerstone."

—What is he implying?

Hill was suspicious, but his face remained calm, and he only replied with a light smile, "Your words make sense, Your Highness."

"Hey!" As soon as Hill finished speaking, A-Dong on the other side sneered disdainfully.

Hill couldn't help frowning, and was about to express his dissatisfaction moderately, but in the next moment, a huge coercion came, as if an invisible force was approaching him, which shocked Hill The heart stopped suddenly, the hairs stood on end, and even the soul in the body began to tremble involuntarily.

"Winter—" Sirius' voice sounded immediately, with a cold sternness.

Immediately afterwards, Hill found that the coercion had receded, leaving only the cold sweat on his body.

Kiki next to him was puzzled.From the moment he took his seat, the red-haired boy diagonally across from him stared at him unkindly, as if he wanted to stare at him to death.Since the other party just watched and did not take any further action, Kiki also magnanimously chose to ignore it and concentrate on dealing with the milk and bread in front of him.

But after a while, Hill, who was talking to the prince, suddenly lost his voice, and then the prince called out the name of the red-haired boy, and when he looked up again, Keech saw Hill's face was pale and his head was full. Cold sweat, almost like a serious illness.

"What's wrong?" Keeki asked in surprise.

Hill took a deep breath, tried to raise his hand, and shook Keech, hoping he would not participate.

"I'm sorry." Sirius said helplessly, "But he should be fine, and he can recover after a short rest."

"No serious problem?" Hearing these words, Kiki immediately turned cold, and squinted at Sirius, "You treat him... no, not... it's him?"

Kiki turned his gaze to the red-haired Adong next to him.

"Hmph!" A-Dong raised his chin and stared back haughtily.

Keech didn't speak any more, narrowed his eyes, and launched revenge in an instant.But at the moment of switching worlds, Kiki unexpectedly discovered that the red-haired boy he saw in this state was not at all the elemental appearance that humans can have.

——It is simply a group of human-shaped fire elements, and the density is astonishing.

Kiki frowned in surprise, and immediately discovered that the fire element was not pure, but also mixed with other elements indispensable to life, including water.

——Then let you taste the collision game of ice and fire!

Kiki narrowed his eyes into a thin slit, and viciously gave the "condensation" command to the water element in A-Dong's body, which was so impoverished that it was almost indistinguishable, and drove the other water-type elements in the air to move towards A-Dong's position. Converge quickly.

"Ah—" The sudden chill in his body immediately made A-Dong exclaim involuntarily. At the same time, Sirius and Hill were also surprised to find that layers of frost had formed on A-Dong's body surface. It also became pale and scary.

"Please stop!" Sirius immediately realized that this might be Kiki's revenge, and hurriedly stood up from his seat. While begging Kiki to stop, he held Adong in his arms, trying to warm him with his own body temperature. his body.

Hill was surprised and ignored his still trembling body. He quickly reached out and grabbed Kiki's shoulder, coaxing him, "Don't do this, Kiki, I'm fine, I'm really fine."

Keech actually didn't intend to freeze this A-Dong to death. Given the density of the fire element in that guy's body, just freezing him completely would consume enough mental power to cast a forbidden spell.

Keech pouted, complied with Hill's request, and gave up control of the water element.

A Dong on the opposite side immediately began to drip water from head to toe like melting ice, and his finely-crafted fine silk clothes were soon wet into a pile of rags.

"I'm going to kill him!" As his body temperature rose, A-Dong's emotions also returned to heat, and he immediately became angry and wanted to get out of Sirius' embrace and take more direct revenge on Kiki on the opposite side.

"Don't mess around!" Sirius shouted angrily, holding him tighter with his arms, and at the same time turned to Hill and Keech and said, "You two, please leave for a while, let me appease this poor and hateful child."

At this moment, Hill was no longer in the mood to flirt with Sirius, and immediately stood up from the chair, bowed slightly to Sirius, then pulled Keech up, left the restaurant without saying a word, and went straight back to the restaurant. to his own room.

After closing the door, Hill turned to Keech and asked, "What did you do to him?"

"Revenge." Kitsch pouted, and then asked in confusion, "What did he do to you?"

"I don't know." Hill frowned, recalling the feeling just now, "Is there any kind of magic that can attack the human soul?"

"Yes, the dark-type insanity and the curse of the spirit all directly affect the soul." Keech nodded, but immediately said, "But this kind of magic was banned a long time ago. Learning this kind of magic Magic is tantamount to violating the "Rules of Magicians", and you will be arrested and deprived of your magic power by the forbidden spell."

"I don't know how to describe it." Hill shook his head helplessly, "But... the feeling at that moment was indeed as if the soul had been crushed."

"...Coercion?" Keech asked hesitantly.

Hill was taken aback, and quickly nodded, "Indeed, it's more accurate to use this word to describe that feeling."

"If it's coercion...then..." Keech tried to choose the most suitable words from his poor vocabulary, "it...maybe..."

"It?" Hill couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"Well, that's it." Kiki nodded, and replied affirmatively, "The one named Adong is not human."

"So, what is it?" Hill narrowed his eyes.

Keech shook his head. He had never seen a strange creature with such a density of elements and a human appearance.

"Maybe, you can ask Tina or Amir." Kiki suggested, "Coercion is a special ability that certain magical creatures have. The effect is similar to spiritual magic, but it does not belong to the category of magic."

"Don't ask." Hill stopped immediately, "I beg you, Kiki, please don't tell anyone what happened today, including Magician Tina and Lord Amir."

Keech looked at Hill in bewilderment.

"Please keep it as a secret between you and Prince Siris, and hide it." Hill held Kidge's shoulders and said word by word, "Then, I can use this as a bargaining chip to ask them Everything that happened today is being kept under wraps."

Kiki froze immediately, and only then remembered that he also used the ability.