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In the city of Yani, the airship went back and forth again, carrying back new supplies and a new governor.

This time, Sirius did not greet him in person, but only asked Hill to go there on his behalf and take the governor to the governor's mansion.

But after the airship landed, Hill was surprised to see a person who should not appear on the airship—Floyd, the branch president of the Yalong Magic Association.He seemed to have come in modest clothes. He didn't even wear a magic robe. He only wore a baron's regular attire. The people around him were also dressed as ordinary people. At first glance, he looked like the governor's retinue.

Hill didn't come forward to recognize each other, but just stared at Floyd, hoping to attract his attention.

Floyd also quickly noticed Hill's gaze, nodded slightly to him with a smile, and then shook his head quietly. Hill immediately returned a smile knowingly, and continued to entertain the new governor as if he didn't know him.

It wasn't until after the new governor was sent to the carriage that Hill called a familiar knight and asked him to pay attention to the movements of Freud and the Magic Association.But the final result made Hill even more surprised. Floyd and his party did not enter the communication tower at all, and they left Yani City shortly after arriving, whereabouts are unknown.

After hearing the news, Hill did not report directly to Sirius, but got up and went to the contact tower, requesting to meet Amir.As if to confirm Hill's suspicion, the left-behind magician of the contact tower rejected Hill's request and told him that the magician Amir was out due to a private matter and was not currently in the contact tower.

—Did something happen to Keech?

Hilton suddenly had a bad premonition, but then his rationality told him that if Kiki was the one who had the accident, he could definitely lure Amir away, but he would definitely not bring in Floyd along with him.Keech is just an intermediate magician, even if Chimera's bloodline is exposed, it's not worth Freud's visit.

—I'm afraid it's Tina's fault.

Hill quickly came to a conclusion, left the contact tower, returned to the governor's mansion, and reported the matter to Sirius.

Hearing Hill finished talking about Floyd's arrival quietly, Sirius didn't speak immediately, raised his finger and tapped on the table, pondered for a moment before opening his mouth and said, "What do you think will happen to Magician Tina?"

"It's hard to judge, but looking at the appearance of the great magician Floyd, he doesn't seem to be in a hurry, so I don't think it's a matter of life at least." Hill replied.

"Since this is the case, we don't have to act rashly. Everything will continue as planned." Sirius said indifferently.

Hill couldn't help hesitating. Although he judged that Freud's arrival should be for Tina, he still couldn't help worrying that Kiki would be affected. It's just that he didn't have the power to snoop on the news, and he couldn't put this worry to rest. Show it in front of Sirius.

"Maybe it's better to pay attention to it, so as not to be caught off guard." Hill suggested.

Sirius tapped the table again and nodded quickly, "Alright, I'll let Sean handle it. If something special happens, I'll let him notify you as soon as possible."

"Okay, Your Highness." Hill bowed slightly and exited Sirius' room.

This incident was like a small stone thrown into the lake, although it caused some waves, but soon there was no trace.Until Sirius and his party boarded the airship and headed to Miranda County, Hill did not wait for news from Sean, and Amir and Freud did not return to Yani City.

—what happened?

Seeing the scenery below the airship getting smaller and smaller, Hill's heart became more and more erratic.

What Hill didn't know was that shortly after the airship took off, two carriages carried Amir, Floyd and others into the city of Yani. He was also in the carriage, as well as Keech, whom he was worried about. With Tina, and a knight he hadn't thought of at all.

On the day he arrived in Yani by airship, Freud took people to Sunderland to visit the terrified Tina, and conducted a rigorous search around the town.But the search lasted for several days but found nothing. Floyd could only accept Barosch's opinion, believing that this was a premeditated attack. The real mastermind behind the scenes had already fled, and he had never even been to Sunderland. town.

For safety reasons, Floyd took Tina and the "injured" Kiki back to the communication tower in Yani City, and assigned an intermediate magician to stay and assist Calvin and Barosh to continue their protective work .Amir also left Sandra Town with Floyd and others because he was going back to Yani City to preside over the disaster relief in Yanila Province.

Since the airship was borrowed by Sirius and others and flew to Miranda County, Floyd and others still had to stay in Yani City for a few days before returning to the Magic Association in Yasha City, but on the day they arrived in Yani City , Floyd reported the situation here to Fernando who was waiting in the Magic Association through the magic mirror in the contact tower.

Keech was not able to listen in on the call between Freud and Fernando. He only learned from Tina afterwards that Freud wanted to bring him and Tina back to the Magic Association. Keech didn't want to return to the Magic Association. Farther away from Hill, he also didn't feel compelled to follow Floyd's arrangements.

So, at lunch the next day, when Floyd announced that he would return to Yani City by airship from Miranda County the day after tomorrow, he took Keech, Tina and others to return to Yasha by airship. After joining the city's Magic Association, Keech refused without thinking.

"I won't go back." Keech said resolutely.

There was a sudden silence at the dinner table. It seemed that no one thought that an underage magician would be so outspoken in violating the decision of the branch president Freud.

Without waiting for Freud himself to express his position, Tina, another party involved, also expressed the same attitude.

"I don't want to go back either!" Tina said with a straight face, but her tone was not as firm as Kiki's. "It's just that I was attacked once. There is no need to hide back to the Magic Association like a turtle. I'm not that cowardly!"

"You must return to the Magic Association with me, this is an order." Floyd lowered his face.

Tina clenched her fist unwillingly, but she didn't say anything to resist in the end.

Kiki on the other side frowned, and asked indifferently, "Why should I obey your orders?"

As an underage person, it is very reckless and impolite to raise such a question to an elder who is much higher than oneself, but just such a sentence made the whole table quiet again, for a while , even Freud, who was the object of questioning, could not find a suitable answer.

There is no other reason. Every magician here is familiar with the "Rules of Magicians" and knows all the rules and regulations, so they are very clear that on the premise of not violating the relevant provisions of the "Rules of Magicians", every magician All enjoy equal and free power. Class and power in the secular concept are meaningless to magicians, and no magician may use his position and rank to intimidate and coerce other magicians.

Because of this, although there are six to seven hundred magicians in the Yalong Empire, only a few dozen people came to the disaster-stricken provinces and counties to participate in the rescue. Voluntary magicians can be recruited by posting tasks.

This is also what makes Floyd unable to answer Keech's question, because according to the "Wizard's Code", he really has no right to give Keech such an order, and Keech does not need to obey his orders at all.

"Master Keech, you are embarrassing me." Floyd could only express his displeasure in tone.

—What does that have to do with me?

Keech thought disapprovingly, but did not continue to contradict him, because Amir, who was sitting diagonally across from him, gave him a warning look, which made him obediently shut his mouth.

He doesn't care what Freud thinks, but he can't help but take Amir's intentions to heart.

——Why is this happening?Is it really like what Amir said, that he really cares about him?

Keech suddenly felt a little depressed.

At this moment, Amir said: "Your Excellency Freud, if you insist on doing this, I'm afraid it will embarrass us all."

"Magician Amir, do you agree with his irrational decision?" Floyd frowned. He could reprimand Kiki and Tina blatantly, but he couldn't speak to a man who was destined to enter the university. Adult magicians in the ranks of magicians take the same attitude.

"Magician Kiki's decision may be irrational, but this is the power given to him by the "Magicians' Rules". Neither you nor any of us have the right to interfere." Amir said lightly.

"Even if it puts him in danger?" Floyd asked emphatically.

"This is his decision. No matter what the result is, of course he must be responsible for it." Amir responded lightly.

Floyd didn't answer any more, and only slowly swept across Amir and Keech with meaningful eyes.

Tina next to her clearly showed a desire to speak, but after repeated hesitation and pause, she finally did not speak.For her, Floyd is not only the great magician and the branch leader, but also her uncle, her elder relatives, and it is impossible for her to disobey him recklessly like Keech.

What's more, she knew very well that Freud was only the executor of the order, and it was actually her father, Fernando, who actually made this decision—she couldn't even disobey her father.

After that, only the sound of knives and forks colliding with porcelain plates was left on the dining table again. Floyd ended the meal first and left the restaurant, followed by other magicians. Only Kiki and Amir took care of themselves like nothing happened. Continue to chew slowly.

Tina also fell behind, but after hesitating again and again, she cast her eyes on Amir several times but got no response, she still gave up her unfinished lunch, stood up, and chased after Floyd who had already left.

Avella was not in the restaurant at the moment, and the seats in the restaurant were limited. Before eating, she took the initiative to pull two other junior magicians and stayed in the kitchen.

Kiki and Amir didn't stay in the restaurant for too long. Seeing that they were almost finished eating, Amir stood up and hooked his fingers to Kiki.

Kiki hesitated for a while, and finally stuffed the last half of the bread into his mouth, got up and followed Amir out of the restaurant.

After leading Kiki to his room, Amir closed the door and said coldly, "You are too reckless."

Kitsch bit his lip and didn't make a sound, but he didn't think so in his heart.

"Even if you don't want to go back with him, there's no need to talk back in public on that occasion." Amir sat down on a high-back chair while talking, "After all, he is the sub-guild leader of Yaron, and Tina It's his niece, no matter from which angle you look at it, you should give him some face."

"...Do you also think I should go back to Asshai with him?" Kiki asked with his lips pursed.

"Leaving has the benefits of leaving, and staying has its reasons for staying." Amir did not give a direct answer, "However, with your character and recent performance, even if you return to Yasha, you will not stay in Yasha honestly." The Magic Association, isn't it?"

Kiki didn't answer, but he had already tacitly accepted Amir's guess in his heart.

——If Amir asked him to go back, then he would definitely leave here and go directly to Hill.

Keech thought to himself.

"So, it's better to put you under your nose and stare at it, so as to save you from being caught on a whim, and you can't find yourself in the end." Amir said in conclusion, then raised his hand and reached out to Kiki, "Come here."

——What did you do in the past?

Kitsch froze for a moment, then hesitated.

"What kind of expression is this, are you scared?" Amir raised the corners of his mouth and said jokingly, "Come here, I just want to see the wound on your back."

"It's ready." Keech replied immediately.

"I want to make sure." Amir insisted, "Come here, let me see."

Kiki hesitated for a moment, but finally took a step and walked to Amir's side.

Amir stretched out his hand to hug him on his lap, Kiki instinctively wanted to struggle, but was firmly restrained by Amir.

"Be good, I just want to see the injury on your back." As Amir said, he unbuttoned Kiki's shirt and took off the left side, exposing the entire arm and half of the back.

The wound was still covered by gauze and bandages. When they were completely untied and removed, the smooth back was exposed. There was no trace on it, and it was impossible to see that it had been pierced by a crossbow arrow at all.

"The recovery is too fast." Amir touched the place where the wound should have been with his fingertips, and said with a frown, "You really can't just go back like this, otherwise, once it is discovered that you have no wound, it will easily arouse suspicion."

"Didn't you say that it doesn't matter if you are discovered?" Kiki asked sullenly, with his head buried on Amir's shoulder.The feeling of sitting on Amir made him very uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but feel whether there was something abnormal in a certain part of his body that was pressed by him.

"I don't mean your bloodline by suspicion." Amir replied, "I am worried that because they can't find any wounds on your body, they will think that this is an attack that you directed and staged, and they will kill you." The charge of performing forbidden spells is on your head."

With that, Amir took the bandages and rewrapped them around Kiki's shoulders.

— That's also because you refused to expose the real culprit.

Keech sneered secretly.

He was about to ask how Amir was going to explain to him on this matter, but there was a knock on the door, and then Tina's voice came in from outside the door.

"Amir, open the door, I want to talk to you!"