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Not long after sitting in the lounge, Kiki realized that he, Tina, and Avella were not enough to have an exclusive room in the palace.The door was opened again soon, and the great magician Fernando, whom he had seen at the reception a few days ago, walked in with a red-haired blue-robed female magician on his arm, led by his attendants.

"Father, mother!" Tina immediately got up and greeted them, and greeted them affectionately.

The female magician immediately spread her arms with a smile on her face, and embraced Tina.She looks about the same age as Hill's father Angel, and her temperament is somewhat similar to that of Hill's mother. Considering that female magicians are usually better at maintenance than ladies, her actual age may be older than she looks , but in any case, compared with Fernando beside her, she was young, and too young.

Kiki was watching blankly, but Avella next to him pulled his magic robe vigorously and pulled him up from the chair.It was only then that Kiki remembered that he was the president of the Magic Association, and he had to show enough "respect".

Tina also turned around at this time and introduced Keech to her mother, Angelina.

"Hello, little magician Kiki, I'm Angelina, Tina's mother." Angelina greeted Kiki with a smile.

"Hello." As soon as Keech said that, he realized that he forgot to use honorifics again.

But Angelina didn't care about it. She smiled at Kiki and turned to talk to Avella next to her. She asked about her recent situation like a family member, and she was obviously very familiar with her.Tina also interjected from time to time, especially when Angelina blamed her for always making Avella too hard, she even acted coquettishly on a rare occasion, which made Kiki couldn't help but give birth to "so she can also be like a girl." Talking the same" surprise.

Seeing that the three were chatting very enthusiastically, Kiki consciously moved a few steps to the side, making way for the three to "communicate" to their heart's content.

Fernando, who was "neglected" like him, walked over with a smile, patted him on the shoulder, and motioned him to sit down on the sofa next to him.

"Women always have a lot to say when they are together." Fernando opened the topic with the three women next to him as an opening remark, but unfortunately, this topic that has been tried and tested by other men and boys has hit a wall here. Keech just glanced at him blankly, neither answering the question nor having the slightest intention to continue the topic.

Fernando couldn't help touching the white beard on his chin, grinned, and changed his smile to the topic of magic.

This time, Keech answered every question.It’s just that after the double training of Amir and Hill, Keech now understands the truth that too many words will lead to mistakes, and he has become more vigilant against Fernando’s small talk, and kept it as “answering questions” as possible. If you don't say a word, you will never respond to those who can be dealt with by silence.

Keech's obvious lack of enthusiasm aroused Fernando's interest, and he chatted with him like teasing, but before Fernando could enjoy himself, the door of the lounge was knocked again, and it was the great magician Floyd who opened it. De led two blue-robed magicians in.

Seeing Floyd coming, Fernando had no choice but to abandon Kitsch and get up to meet him.

Angelina and Tina also stopped chattering, stepped forward to greet Freud with an intimate kiss, and greeted the other two magicians behind him.

Since Avella was not by his side, and the seat under him was in a corner of the room, Kiki didn't get up lazily, and looked at the other people in the room with the same background.The others seemed to really regard him as the background, neither came to greet him, nor pursued his rudeness.

A group of people were still exchanging greetings when another purple figure appeared at the door of the lounge.

—Amir?

Keech froze for a moment.

Amir also noticed Kiki's existence when he walked into the lounge, but his eyes only stopped on Kiki's face for a moment, then turned to Fernando and others at the door, after bowing to a mage , stretched out his arm to Tina.

Tina blushed immediately, but she walked up to Amir happily, took his arm, and formally introduced him to her parents.

Based on Keech’s experience, it’s hard to tell whether Fernando and Angelina are satisfied with their son-in-law-to-be, but the atmosphere at the scene was very harmonious. Everyone had smiles on their faces, and their tone of voice seemed to be full of joy. It couldn't be more harmonious with the atmosphere of the celebration day.

--except him.

Kiki also tried to force a smile, but felt so silly.To this day, he still doesn't know how to integrate into this strange atmosphere, and he has no desire to blend in at all.He couldn't be like Avella, even though others didn't put her in "eyes", she still stood beside them with a smile, as if she was really one of them.

——He still wanted to be alone with Hill more than here.

Keech drooped his eyelids, and felt sullen again.

Hill was also thinking about Kidge at this time, but before finding out about Kidge's inexplicable estrangement, he had other things he had to do, such as lobbying Joey.

Although he was entrusted by Prince Siris, Hill did not immediately start to act.Joey is now a resident of the Knights and rarely goes home. Although Hill is not unable to go to the Knights' residence, it will inevitably attract the attention of interested people, and he seems too eager-although he has chosen his own However, he was not in a hurry to express his loyalty—the owner of the Balotelli family was still the grandfather, and he hadn't even touched the edge of the chair.

Whenever Hill thinks of this matter, Hill worships his father Angel very much. Although he is not valued by his grandfather, he has a group of people under his command. master.Grandfather may not know about this, but even if he knew, he would be helpless.

—How did the father get all this?

Of course Hill was curious and even asked, but his father just smiled and said nothing.

Hill was distracted thinking that the court attendants had led him to the knights' lounge, and Joey had also received the news of his visit, so he waited at the door ahead of time.

Seeing that Joey was not wearing armor, but also changed into a noble dress, Hill couldn't help raising his eyebrows and asked, "Not on duty today?"

"In the evening, I will attend the dinner on behalf of my father." Joey replied, dismissing the attendant who led Hill over, and then led Hill to the other side of the corridor. The visitor stopped at the corner, turned around and asked, "Why did you choose such a weird time to come here, is there something wrong?"

"Yeah, someone asked me to be a lobbyist." Hill shrugged with a smile.

"Which one?" Joey scowled.

"His Royal Highness Prince Siris." Hill did not tease him, and gave the answer directly, "A few days ago, at the reception held by the Magic Association, he approached me and hoped that I could help him persuade you to join his knight guard .”

"Didn't he tell you that I have already rejected the matter?"

"said."

"Then how do you convince me?" Joey's expression became more and more ugly.

"I just promised him to do my best." Hill shrugged disapprovingly, "And now, I have conveyed his 'sincerity'."

"Hello—" Joey rolled his eyes and relaxed.

"However, I really think you should accept this invitation." Hill changed his voice, raised his hand to stop Joey's interjection, and said seriously, "After all, only by accepting this invitation can you be justified leave the imperial capital as quickly as possible—before Duke Grant takes off his armor."

Joey opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just clenched his fist and smashed it against the wall next to him bitterly.

"Okay, you can think about this matter slowly, there is still one month before Prince Siris's coming-of-age ceremony, and it is impossible for him to leave the imperial capital immediately after the coming-of-age ceremony..." Hill was about to change the subject, Joe Yi shook his head and interrupted.

"In September, he will leave." Joey said, "This matter has not been announced to the public, but the people he selected already know. The time limit he gave me is until his coming-of-age ceremony."

"The person he chose?" Hill couldn't help being startled.

"Every member of his knight guard is personally selected by him." Joey replied indifferently.

"...It seems that you also understand." Hill stared into Joey's eyes and said word by word, "Obviously, our emperor has chosen his heir."

Joey twitched the corners of his mouth, smiled wryly and did not answer.

"Joy." Hill pondered for a moment, put his arms around Joey's neck, and whispered in his ear, "If you are prejudiced against Prince Siris just because he is 'good man', then , you might be happy to hear what I said next——A-Dong is not Prince Siris's male favourite."

"What do you know?" Joey glanced at Hill suspiciously.

"Not much, father is willing to reveal limited things, he only warned me to be more 'respectful' to that A-Dong." Hill shrugged, "But as far as I guess, that person's identity may be far more important than we imagined. Be noble—I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but at today’s ceremony, that person is still sitting with Prince Siris, and this matter is obviously only possible with the acquiescence of our Emperor.”

"... Who could he be?" Joey asked with a frown.

"Perhaps, you can ask Prince Siris himself." Hill patted Joey on the shoulder.

Joey snorted, raised his eyebrows and asked, "It sounds like you've already chosen someone to be loyal to?"

"The Balotelli family has always been loyal to the empire and the royal family." Hill raised the corners of his mouth with a half-smile, and changed the subject before Joey could sarcastically say, "Let's be serious, Joey, I have something to do." Need to ask you."

"Say."

"Did something happen in the palace on or before the 9th?"

"Number 9?" Joey was slightly taken aback, "What do you mean, don't it be such trivial matters as which maid is punished and which guard is absent?"

"About Prince Fillion." Hill lowered his voice a step further, "Prince Fillion didn't attend the reception held by the Magic Association on the 9th, isn't it strange?"

Joey obviously hesitated.

"Can't tell?" Hill asked.

"...Not really." Joey shook his head, but he frowned before continuing, "In the past two days, Prince Fillian seemed to have offended His Majesty De Rossi because of something, and was imprisoned by His Majesty for several days. —Why are you asking this?”

"Remember when I met you last time, I told you to be careful?" Hill smiled self-deprecatingly, "I told you to be careful, but within two days, I ran into trouble myself."

Joey was taken aback, and quickly looked at Hill carefully. Seeing that he didn't look like he was injured, he was relieved, and asked: "What's going on?"

"Two mysterious people hijacked my carriage and killed my coachman. Fortunately, Magician Kiki was also in the carriage at the time, otherwise...you might not see me today." Hill sighed.

"Do you think this matter has something to do with Prince Fillion?" Joey was not stupid, and immediately connected this matter with Hill's previous question.

"It's not what I think, but my father thinks, and His Majesty Emperor De Rossi seems to think so too." Hill replied indifferently.

"If it's really him, then he must be crazy!" Joey gasped.

"That's not necessarily the case." Hill narrowed his eyes meaningfully, but immediately reminded, "This matter comes from me, and it ends in your ears. Even if it is from the Duke of Grant, please keep it a secret for now-after all, I No evidence."

"Don't worry, I know the seriousness." Joey patted Hill's shoulder with his backhand, "I will help you pay attention to the movements of Prince Filian, and you should also be careful."

"You too." Hill smiled and punched Joey, "Okay, I should go back too, and there is still entertainment over there."

"I'll see you off." Joey said immediately.

"This is the palace, who would be so bold as to cause trouble here?" Hill refused.

"There is a saying that the more dangerous the place is, the safer it is, and vice versa." Joey said while pulling Hill back, "Just pretend I'm going to meet Earl Balotelli! By the way, Angie Aunt Lina is here too? I haven't seen her for a long time."

"Of course." Hill shrugged helplessly, and followed Joey to the lounge of the Balotelli family.

At six o'clock in the evening, the celebration dinner started on time, and guests from all over the mainland entered the banquet hall under the guidance of the court attendants.

By convention, there will be an hour of warm-up time before the banquet officially begins.During this period, the guests can walk freely in the banquet hall and introduce each other, and the attendants will also deliver delicious but not intoxicating wine for the guests to drink slowly.

After Hill followed his parents into the banquet hall, he began to look for Keech.Although there are many guests today, people wearing magic robes are still a rare species, and green magic robes are even more rare.Hill quickly spotted Kiki in the crowd. He was standing behind several black-robed magicians, slowly drinking a glass of bright red wine.

— Keech, my Keech.

Hill took a deep breath, restrained his crazy thoughts of running over to him, said hello to his mother Alicia, and then walked towards Kiki's location.