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While thawing two robbers in the basement of the Balotelli home, Keech performed a lengthy incantation and stole a sneaky look at the two men standing behind Hill's father.Although they were wearing the servant costumes of the Balotelli family, judging from the performance of the elements in their bodies, they were all powerful warriors, even more powerful than the Joey they saw a few days ago.

Hill's father is a very ordinary guy, not thin but not strong, and he has no magic talent or other abilities, just like Hill.

After restoring the water elements in the bodies of the two robbers to their normal state, Keech didn't leave immediately. He stood beside Hill and watched the two men dressed as servants strip off the clothes of the two kidnappers and searched for them. their bodies.But it seems that they found nothing, at least, as far as Kidge saw with his naked eyes, except for two pieces of clothes related to the Balotelli family, the two hijackers had nothing on them that could identify them, and they were not even equipped with weapons. .

——Did you underestimate me and Hill too much?

Keech thought gloomily, and then remembered that he had found rare light elements in them.However, he would not even tell Hill about this kind of thing, let alone Hill's father.

But Angel came over on his own initiative and questioned Keech and Hill in detail about what happened.

Kiki closed his mouth tightly as if he didn't hear it, and Hill didn't answer honestly, but smiled but didn't cooperate. He only talked about the result and didn't explain the details.

At this moment, another man dressed as a servant walked into the basement, whispered in Angel's ear and started talking.

Keech mobilized the wind element boredly, and transmitted the man's voice into his and Hill's ears at the same time.

Because of this, Hill glanced at Keech in surprise, and then listened intently.

But that person just came to inform Angel that a senior magician had come to visit Hill Balotelli.

"Hill, there is a magician asking to see you at this...strange time." Angel turned to Hill and said.

"Kiki's mentor should have sent him to protect him." Hill replied, "If you allow, I will accompany Kiki to meet him."

"Of course, my dear son." Angel smiled and raised his hand, "If this Mr. Magician has enough time, you might as well ask him to stay and have dinner with us."

"I will convey your invitation to him." Hill bowed slightly and led Keech out of the basement.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and candles and lamps were lit everywhere in Balotelli's house. Although it was not as bright as daylight in every room like the magic lamps in the Magic Association, it still illuminated the main places. It is very transparent.

Hill took Kiki, and quickly came to the front hall where the magician was, and was surprised to find that the person who came was actually Amir who was supposed to be a guard in the palace.

"Dear Kiki baby, I'm glad to see you are safe and sound." Amir smiled and opened his arms, as if waiting for Kiki to pounce on him and act like a baby.

But Keech just twitched the corner of his mouth and stopped.

"Your Excellency Amir." Hill bowed to Amir, "I didn't expect you to come here in person."

"I can rest assured only when I see that Kiki is safe and sound with my own eyes!" Amir smiled slightly, "Master Hill, can you provide me with a place where I can spend time with baby Kiki alone? I have a lot to ask He, as well, confirmed that he was really safe and sound, so as to relieve Magician Tina from worrying about him."

"Please follow me." Hill turned and led the way, leading Amir and Kiki to his bedroom.

"This is the best place I know to talk." Hill smiled. "If you are not satisfied here, then I can only ask you to set up a magic circle to avoid accidents."

"Is that so, Kiki?" Amir asked Kiki, turning his head.

"Well, there are no wiretapping pipes, no magic circles, only thick enough stone bricks and plaster." Keech nodded indifferently, and he had already checked this room when he was left alone in this room.

"Very good." Amir nodded in satisfaction, but then changed his voice, "Then, it's your turn now, Young Master Hill."

"Of course." Hill didn't expect Amir to keep him here to listen, and immediately bowed slightly, ready to go to the living room outside to wait for the conversation between the two to end.But when he straightened up, Hill noticed that Keech made an indecent ear-picking movement.Startled for a moment, Hill immediately understood what Keech meant, smiled back at him with a knowing smile, turned and left the bedroom, and closed the door.

Seeing Hill noticed his hint, Kiki immediately retracted his finger from the ear hole, turned around, and waited for Amir's scolding.

As Keech expected, as soon as Hill left, Amir immediately put away his smiling face and asked coldly, "What's going on?"

"It's nothing, it's just that someone wanted to hijack Hill's carriage, and then I killed him." Keech briefly described the incident to Amir.

After hearing Kiki's words, Amir immediately raised his eyebrows, "Do you think those two people came after Hill?"

"Isn't it?" Keech wondered.

"You are really unconscious." Amir sneered mockingly, "Believe me, my dear, your value can be much greater than that noble boy."

Kiki stared at Amir suspiciously, waiting for him to continue, but Amir changed the subject and asked, "What did the Balotelli family find out?"

"As far as I know, there is nothing, but..." Keech remembered that Hill was eavesdropping outside at his own behest, and couldn't help hesitating, "Those two robbers may be priests or believers."

"reason?"

"They have light elements on them, so they can't be light magicians, right?"

Amir fell silent, as if he was thinking about something, and he spoke again after a while, but the topic changed, "Where is the thing Tina wants?"

"Next door." Keech replied blankly.

"Take me to get it." Amir said indifferently.

Kiki looked at Amir suspiciously, turned and opened the door, and led Amir back to the living room next door.The moment he opened the door, Keech was not surprised to see Hill quickly taking something out of his ear and stuffing it into his pocket.

Seeing Kiki and Amir coming out, Hill immediately stood up from his chair.

Amir didn't talk to Hill as he expected, until Kiki took out the box and handed it to Amir, then he glanced at Hill coldly and said indifferently, "These days, both of you Don't run around, just stay here and wait for my news."

Hill was startled, and wanted to say that his grandfather and uncle's family would arrive in the imperial capital soon, and it would be inappropriate for Kiki to live here, but Amir didn't give him a chance to speak, took the box and walked out, letting Hill couldn't even pass on his father's dinner invitation.

After sending Amir away, Hill and Kiki were all depressed.Hill agonizes over how to keep Keech away from his grandfather, but Keech worries he's hurting Hill.

Back in the room, the two said at the same time, "I..."

"You go first." Hill said immediately.

"I think it's better for me to go back to the Magic Association." Kiki said in a low voice, "You heard it too, what happened today may be aimed at me."

Hill was taken aback for a moment, then quickly shook his head, "I don't think so."

Keech tilted his head suspiciously.

"I admit that in terms of 'value', you are indeed better than me." Hill smiled self-deprecatingly, "but today's incident is definitely against me—or, more precisely, against Balotelli. family."

Kitsch opened his mouth, but stopped talking.

"Kiki, don't forget, they were wearing Balotelli's clothes. When you told me that my coachman, Finn, was dead, they spoke to me in Finn's voice." Hill Reminding, "This is a long-planned attack, Keech, everything is under their control, except you."

Keech stared at Hill hesitantly, half believing what he said.

"However, I don't think you should stay here for a long time." Hill continued, "My grandfather and uncle's family will arrive in the imperial capital the day after tomorrow at the latest. I'm worried...you might not like getting along with them."

"So, shall we go back to the hotel?" Keech asked.

"I'm afraid this is not a good idea." Hill shook his head with a wry smile, "Forget it, just follow the instructions of His Excellency Amir and stay here."

——When things make us feel powerless, we just let nature take its course.

Hill sighed heavily.

That night, Hill resignedly had a room arranged for Keech.As much as he wanted to continue living with Keech, in his own home, under his father's watchful eye, he had to hold back.

Keech didn't like this arrangement either, but seeing Hill's embarrassed face, he had no choice but to accept it.

But at night, Keech lay on a strange bed, looked at a strange room, couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and was about to take out the microphone to talk to Hill, but another communicator vibrated first.

—Haven’t you learned enough during the day?

Thinking that Amir was going to say something to him again, Kiki turned on the communicator depressedly, but it was Tina's voice that came from inside.

"It doesn't sound like I was woken up! Why, are you too scared to sleep?" Hearing Kiki's response, Tina said happily.

"I'm used to going to bed late," Keech argued.After experiencing the so-called "ancient tomb" full of monsters and corpses, he didn't think there was anything in the world that could scare him.

"That's right, you were still dealing with corpses a month ago." Tina joked again, and then got down to business.She has received the box from Amir, but she disagrees with Keech continuing to live in Hill's house, so she packs up a room for Kich in her temporary place, and prepares him to move there.

"The place is not big, it may be a bit inconvenient, but it is definitely more comfortable than you living in someone else's house." Tina said, "However, I am not sure when I will be able to spare time to pick you up, so you may have to stay in the Hill Stay there for a few days."

"I can go there by myself..."

"Forget it! I don't want to waste any more manpower looking for you." Tina immediately interrupted.

"I just got lost in that palace once..."

"It was lost once in the palace, once on the ground, and once in the town where we were stationed! Although there is only one time in each place, it is many times together! And I don't want to See you next time!" Tina snorted coldly, "Stay honestly with Hill, little Kiki, don't be too fussy, don't talk too much, if the Balotelli family thinks this incident is planned against Hill, Just let them think that and don't take it upon yourself."

"...I understand." Kiki responded.

"Very well, that's all I have to ask. Now, turn off the communicator and go to sleep."

"Good night."

"Hey, Kiki, don't worry me."

"Ah."

Kiki turned off the contact, and suddenly felt a very complicated emotion in his heart, perhaps, it could be called mixed feelings, but after thinking about it, it was more like everyone around him tied a rope to him, intentionally or unintentionally. dragging him toward them.

—You all want me to do this and not to do that, but why don't you ask me what I want to do?

Keech bit his lip, and reached out to pick up the microphone that was in one-way communication with Hill.

"Kiki?" Hill's voice quickly came from the microphone, and it was obvious that he hadn't fallen asleep either.

Kitsch opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

"What's the matter, Keech?" Hill immediately became nervous, "Speak, don't worry me."

It was only then that Keech remembered that he had just encountered an accident today. Although he didn't feel anything, Hill was not as calm as he seemed on the surface, and hurriedly said, "I'm fine, but... I don't know what to say."

"Say you miss me." Hill smiled relieved, "Because I miss you too."

"Well...are you scared?" Kitsch couldn't help asking.

"To be honest, it's really a little bit." Hill laughed, "After all, this is the first time I've seen a corpse."

"You're so lucky, I've been dealing with corpses for several months." Mentioning the corpse, Kiki couldn't help complaining immediately, "Tina and the others thought they had dug an ancient tomb, only to find that there were people living in it." A mad lich and a bunch of rotting monsters."

"Ah, isn't that very dangerous?" Hill hurriedly asked.

"I don't think it's dangerous. Those guys' brains are rotten. They're just like idiots who can only be beaten. After a few magic spells, they will be completely turned into mud." Kiki said depressingly, "But Tina insisted on collecting them. The magic weapon on our body forced us to clean up the bones..."

"That must be disgusting," Hill said quickly.

"It's not just disgusting. As long as those ghost things don't break into powder, they will continue to move. One apprentice was picked up by a fleshy hand bone and grabbed his thigh. He was almost scared to death." Kidge said vividly describe it.

"Oh no, Keech, stop talking!"

"No, I've been holding back these things for a long time! I must tell them all today!"

"Kiki, please."

"It's not just this one, listen to me, there are more exciting things..."

"Kiki-"