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After learning that Keech was awake, Tina called him to the fourth floor alone.

"Close the door, and then find a place to sit." Tina sat on the high-back soft chair, drinking the black tea in the cup, and pointing to the sofa bench opposite her.

Kiki closed the door obediently, walked to the bench designated by Tina, hesitated for a while, and felt that he should say something, such as greetings, greetings, etc., but how should I say it?Keech couldn't figure it out, so he just hesitated, then sat down in silence.

Tina looked at him speechlessly, intending to "teach" him well, but felt that it was meaningless to fuss with an ignorant child too much, so she just twitched the corners of her mouth and asked straight to the point: "Speak, you What did you do?"

Kitsch pursed his lips, but did not answer.Hill had already told him Tina's conjecture, so that he had sufficient mental preparation, but Hill did not teach him how to answer, but advised him not to try to lie.

"Actually, silence is enough." Hill suggested.

Keech himself couldn't think of any good explanation, so at this moment, facing Tina's questioning, Keech followed Hill's suggestion, bit his lip, and remained silent.

"Do you think the drawing pen is too troublesome, so you want to throw away the drawing pen, self-righteously trying to use your poor control to guide the elements into the papyrus?" Tina found out the "answer" by herself.

—She saw it?

Kiki was startled by Tina's words, and couldn't help tensing up, becoming nervous.

Kiki's performance was too obvious, Tina immediately raised her chin proudly, and continued: "Do you think you are a genius? Do you think that you are the only one who can think of this? You really don't know what to do! Let me tell you, this kind of thing is almost Every magician has done it!"

Tina finally found a justifiable reason to get mad, and reprimanded Kiki endlessly.

Kiki was a little confused by what she said, and after listening carefully for a while, he realized that since Hill hid the magic scroll, Tina actually didn't know what he did, let alone how far he had done it. I just thought that his magic perception was relatively high, but he didn't have the mental power to match the perception to manipulate magic elements, so that when he tried to use his mental power to make magic scrolls, a common accident called "elemental disorder" occurred.

Finally, Tina was finally satisfied with her temper, so she coughed twice, reminding Kiki, who was obviously distracted, to turn her attention back to her, and then said with a straight face: "Okay, whatever Do you understand, in short, I want to punish you for your reckless behavior - from today on, I will not let Elvira teach you the magic circle, and I will not allow you to read books on magic, including "Introduction to Alchemists" "!"

Hearing this, Kiki subconsciously clenched his fists, but before he had any more thoughts, Tina continued on her own, "Besides, you have to meditate at least once a day, Each meditation should not be less than an hour!"

"Want...to think?" Kiki asked in surprise.

"Of course, this is a compulsory course for magicians...uh..." As she spoke, Tina showed an embarrassed expression and asked awkwardly, "I seem...haven't taught you to meditate yet?"

Keech didn't answer, but the innocent expression on his face was enough to explain everything.

"Haha." Tina laughed dryly, and then stopped talking nonsense, and directly explained to Kiki what meditation is and how to do it.

In fact, Keech had seen the word "meditation" when he was reading "Magic Foundation", but in that book, meditation is like a pure word, like eating and sleeping, without any extended explanation So much so that Keech took it as another way of saying mental concentration, and didn't pay much attention at all.

However, meditation is really about relaxing the body, adjusting breathing, concentrating, and then sensing and communicating with the magic elements around the body, so as to improve the magician's control over the magic elements.

After teaching Kidge to meditate, Tina put on a straight face again and solemnly warned him not to pass on the specific steps of meditation, not only to ordinary people like Hill, but also to other magicians and magic apprentices.

"The method of meditation can only be passed on by word of mouth between mentors and apprentices, it cannot be seen in writing, and cannot be passed on to others!" Tina emphasized, "Don't ask me why, this is the rule set at the beginning of the Magic Association, although It has not been written into the "Rules of the Magician", but if you don't abide by it, believe me, your end will be worse than that of violating the "Rules of the Magician!"

Of course Keech couldn't understand the meaning of such a request, but Tina didn't care whether he understood or not at all, as long as he remembered and obeyed.

Then Tina chased Kiki downstairs.

After that day, Avella really refused to let Kiki read books related to magic, and took back all the drafting pens and the surviving blank papyrus for Kiki.

Keech inevitably felt depressed about such a result, but he didn't know how to fight for his own rights, let alone tell Tina the truth, so he had no choice but to accept it.

Fortunately, meditation is really a good way to pass the time. Kiki’s first official meditation lasted for nearly two hours, which frightened Avella into thinking that he had another accident, and then provoked Tina’s call reprimand, and a detailed instruction on meditation.

It was only then that Keech knew that although the meditation time should not be too short, because it would not be effective, it should also not be too long, because it would lead to loss of consciousness—that is, the soul would be trapped in the elemental world and could not return—to describe it in a more straightforward way , is to go crazy, or to be stupid.

Although Keech didn't take this statement seriously, what happened last time taught him a lesson, so that he didn't dare to act too recklessly.Moreover, after this incident, the relationship between him and Hill has become much closer, and when the two get along together, there will no longer be only boring studies and simple guidance.

To help Kidge pass the time, Hill taught Kidge how to play war chess, told him continental history, myths and legends, various anecdotes from the aristocratic circle, and even revealed some secrets about the Balotelli family.Keech also reciprocated and shared some of his secrets with Hill. For example, he can put the torn paper back together and summon a small fireball at the designated location without a spell.

Keech is happy to finally be able to share his secrets with others, although there are limits to this kind of sharing.

Hill is actually aware of this, but he believes that as long as he persists in approaching, Keech will always open his heart one day.

——Don't rush, take your time, sooner or later he will trust you wholeheartedly and only you.

Every morning, Hill has to remind himself.

However, it didn't take long for Hill to realize that he didn't have much time to wait for Keech's trust.

Amir is back.

On the fourth weekend after he left, when Hill came downstairs for breakfast, he was surprised to find Amir at the table.

"Good morning, Young Master Hill." Amir greeted him with a smile.

"Long time no see, Your Excellency Amir." Hill hurriedly bowed and saluted, "When did you come back?"

"Just now, I just saw Avella preparing breakfast, so I sat here unceremoniously." Amir smiled, "Where is my little Kiki? Haven't gotten up yet?"

Hearing the phrase "my little Kiki", Hill couldn't help but feel blocked, but Amir has always liked to add modifiers before other people's names, so he didn't think much about it, and continued to maintain a moderate smile on his face, Explained to Amir, "He doesn't have the bad habit of staying in bed, and he should be going downstairs soon."

While the two were talking, Kiki walked down the stairs sleepily, and Amir, who seemed to appear suddenly, immediately opened his eyes wide in surprise.

"Why the devil's expression, Kiki baby, don't you want me back?" Amir asked pretending not to be worried.

Keech shook his head quickly, but then he didn't know what to say, and stood awkwardly on the stairs, at a loss.

"Okay, okay, I was just joking." Amir quickly changed into a smiling face, "Come down and eat, baby Kiki, don't let Avella put on this 'I'm bullying you' again Scary expression."

As soon as Amir finished speaking, Avella next to him immediately placed a plate with slices of bread heavily in front of him, pouted at the same time, and made an angry look of "you are bullying him".

Amir laughed loudly, Kiki was no longer so nervous, and quickly went downstairs and sat next to Hill.

Hill was satisfied with Kiki's closeness to him, but then remembered that Kiki had said on the day he first arrived that Amir "bought" him with a bag of gold coins.

——Has Amir discovered Kiki's talent at that time?

——Or, for some other reason?

While secretly guessing, Hill filled Kidge with milk as usual, not noticing that Amir on the opposite side was also quietly observing him and Kidge.

After breakfast, Amir and Avella went upstairs to meet Tina and brought her breakfast with them.Hill and Keech went to Keech's room as usual and started the morning text study.

At lunch, Amir didn't show up. Only Avella came down to prepare a simple meal for the two teenagers, and then hurried back to the top floor with a few sandwiches.

"Magician Tina may be doing an important experiment again." Hill guessed.

"Like the kind of lamp that won't go out?" Keech asked casually.

"That thing is actually nothing. As far as I know, Magician Tina is best at temperature control. She once made an iron box that can bake things without fire, and a cabinet that can freeze automatically. "Hill shrugged, "However, it is a pity that the production cost of these two things is very high, so she has been focusing on the research of material selection recently, so as to keep the cost of magic tools down so that ordinary people can afford them rise."

"...You seem to like Magician Tina very much." Kiki said with downcast eyes.

"It's not liking, it's admiration." Hill was amused by his appearance, raised his hand and pinched his cheek, and explained, "I admire her talent and ideas, after all, a magician who doesn't discriminate against ordinary people There are few enough, and there are very few magicians like her who are willing to waste their time and energy for ordinary people."

——Such greatness, I will never be able to imitate.

Hill sighed secretly.

After hearing Hill's explanation, Keech didn't ask any more questions, just lowered his head, and continued to eat his not-so-rich lunch in silence.

Every time Hill mentioned Tina, his beautiful emerald eyes would be uncommonly bright, shining like real gems, and the more he looked at it, the more Kitsch liked it.But when he thought that such gazes were not given to him, Kiki felt an indescribable unhappiness in his heart, as if something that should belong to him was snatched away by others.

—Aren't you my friend?Why can't you just follow me and just compliment me?

Keech thought gloomily.

Although Kiki was silent most of the time, Hill quickly noticed the abnormality in the silence, and immediately asked suspiciously, "What's the matter, Kiki, what's on your mind?"

Kitsch bit his lip, but didn't respond.

Hill, who already knew him quite well, immediately interpreted this silence as tacit consent, and asked, "Is there anything on your mind that you can't share with me? Could it be related to His Excellency Amir?"

Keech shook his head, opened his mouth, and hesitated to speak.

"Kiki, I'm not a magician who can read minds, and I can't understand you just by guessing." Hill said seriously, "Tell me, what's wrong with you? Could it be that I said something wrong or did something wrong ?”

"No...I...just thinking..." Kiki hesitated, and said, "I...probably...never...will be able to become the...great magician that Hill admires."

Hill couldn't help but startled for a moment, and then burst out laughing, "Kiki, what are you talking about?"

When Hill asked him this question, Kiki blushed in embarrassment, closed his mouth immediately, and turned his head angrily.

Hill hurriedly put down the knife and fork in his hand, put his hand into his arms, stroked his black hair, and comforted him with a smile, "Don't be angry, don't be angry, I just didn't expect Kiki to say such a thing. Words—but I'm glad, really, because I don't want Keech to be as great a magician as Tina."

"You're talking nonsense, you clearly said that you admire Tina very much!" Kiki frowned.

"I admire her, that's all." Hill buried his head on Kidge's shoulder, and wrapped his arms around his waist, closing the distance between him and himself, "But that doesn't mean I want you to become Be her, Keech, you're my friend, she's not."

——I don't want you to be a great magician, I just want you to be my magician.

Thinking of this, Hill hugged Kiki even tighter.

Keech didn't quite understand what Hill was talking about, but the phrase "you are my friend, she's not" made his frown uncontrollably loosen, and his mood became unexplainably joyful.

--I like this saying.

Keech raised the corners of his mouth and raised his hands to cover Hill's palm around his waist.

Hill opened his hand in response, intertwined his fingers and clasped them together.

Neither of them spoke again, nor did they notice the purple robes quietly hanging down at the stairs.