Mage's Secret

Lunsha sat on the bed and cried for a while, then stood up and straightened her clothes, brushed the hair that had been combed back to the front of her face, and went out sobbing.

Traphael stood there and waited with a sullen face. He looked calm, but the moment Lunsha walked out of the room and closed the door behind him, he immediately pointed his wand at Murphy and said in a deep voice. Zhi asked, "Didn't you promise me that you would not attack my students?"

Murphy seemed to have heard some interesting topic and said with a smile, "You look like you're jealous."

But Traphael ignored his joke, he stared into Murphy's eyes with almost persuasive eyes, Murphy shrugged his shoulders, and said with a smile: "I just said that I would like to find some other entertainment, I didn't promise you not to approach them any more. And strictly speaking, it shouldn't be my fault. First of all, I didn't take the initiative to approach her this time, but you arranged her by my side. Secondly, and most importantly, She came to confess to me first, and all I did was accept her kindness."

"Your so-called 'accepting kindness' is nothing more than deception!" Traphael said.

Murphy smiled, stretched out his fingers and shook, and said, "Don't be mistaken, it was not my intention to hurt her. All I did was to make us both happy. And what made her cry Man, it's you, respected Mister Master."

"Are you trying to say it's all my fault?" Traphael almost laughed angrily at him.

Murphy changed his posture so that he could sit more comfortably on the bed, then looked back at Traphael, and said, "Isn't it like this? While we are doing such a private thing, you use such a simple and rude mistake He rushed in in a very disrespectful way, and didn't even give her any chance to hide it, but it made her very embarrassed."

Traphael retracted the staff to his side and said, "I'm just protecting my students."

"To protect the students?" Murphy laughed and said, "Is it such a high-sounding reason again? But I noticed that from the moment you came in, it was not Lunsha who had been staring at me, but mine. This mark. Why do you still act so hypocritical in front of me? Isn’t it tiring to wear such a mask all the time? Anyway, I already know what kind of person you are, don’t you want to make yourself more relaxed? "

Traphael's eyes darkened, but he didn't say anything to refute, but just tightened the hand holding the staff.

Murphy watched his reaction with interest, and seeing that he didn't respond, he continued: "I've heard a lot of comments about you in the city these days, and they are all noble, kind, and knowledgeable. What a great mage, it seems that even the city has become dazzling with you. It's really interesting to think about it this way, but everyone doesn't know that such an outstanding mage is selfish, hypocritical and indifferent."

"I didn't say anything wrong." Murphy looked at Traphael's increasingly gloomy face and laughed again: "Looking at your reaction, I should say nothing wrong. From the beginning, I felt strange, like You, a mage who summoned me in order to pursue knowledge against worldly morals, did not live alone and focus on research, but involved so many worldly affairs and packaged yourself so well. But now it seems that all this can be explained It makes sense—you are doing it for fame and fortune, right? Constantly pursuing fame and fortune, doing whatever you can to get further, even using the power of taboos—it really seems like something you would do.”

As Murphy spoke more and more, Traphael's face became more and more ugly. Just when Murphy blurted out the last syllable, he finally couldn't help waving his staff at Murphy.But it was Murphy's movement that was faster than the sound of his incantation.

Just when Traphael was just waving the staff, Murphy jumped up from the bed, and he rushed to Traphael in an instant, holding the staff tightly, together with Traphael's arm turned in another direction.His movement was so fast that it almost left an afterimage on the spot, and Traphael was almost forced to the wall by him in a posture that he could not resist.

"What do you want? Human!" Murphy lowered his eyes and looked at Traphael, his lowered voice revealed a very dangerous taste, his black eyes were faintly red, as if he was on the verge of anger: "It's just a You’re just a mere human, and you’re trying to do something like this to me again?!”

Trafael's back was already against the wall, but he was still staring into Murphy's eyes.Too careless, he thought, the last time he was able to succeed was probably because the demon had no defenses, but this time he gave too many signals to the demon, which made the demon more vigilant, and it would not be so easy to succeed again.

"Let go," he whispered, his voice tinged with exasperation.

Murphy squinted his eyes and watched his angry face remain motionless. Just when Traphael thought he was about to get angry, he suddenly relaxed and said, "That's right, that's the expression... Your reaction like this is comparable to yours. The usual serious look is much more interesting. During the time I spent with you, I kept reminiscing about how you looked when we first met, and your look was really great."

Trafael lowered his voice and asked: "So that's why you keep teasing me all the time?!"

"Teasing?" Murphy said with a smile, "When did I ever tease you?"

Traphael suddenly had a headache, and he realized that it was a waste of time to continue discussing this topic with Murphy.Murphy was teasing him, provoking him on purpose, and it made him feel very annoyed that he had fallen for it.So he closed his eyes to regain his composure as soon as possible.

Instead of continuing the topic, he frowned and said it again: “Let it go.”

This time Murphy let him go very readily.

Murphy went to the bed again and sat down, quietly watching Traphael tidy up his robe, as if the threat just now was just an illusion of Traphael alone.

Trafael tidied himself up, looked up at Murphy and said, "I've emphasized many times that it's not good for you to trouble me. Since we're on the same boat, don't think you let me fall into the water. I can get out of it. For the sake of the two of us working together happily, I hope that something like this will not happen again. Of course, I will not make such a mistake again and send my students to your side. At the same time, please leave My students stay away, if you have something, I will accompany you at any time, how about that?"

Traphael sighed silently in his heart—he had been trying his best to avoid this situation from the very beginning, after all, he really didn't have extra time and energy to play around with this wayward brat, but he didn't expect that the final solution would still be this.

"Teacher, if you want to do it yourself, of course I wish for it." Murphy said with a false smile.

Seeing that he finally reached an agreement with Murphy, Traphael nodded and said, "Then, you should rest first." Then he turned and walked out of the room.

Closing the door that caused him a lot of trouble, Traphael rubbed his eyebrows, the matter is not over yet, there is another trouble waiting for him.

Traphael walked to the apprentice's room, and he still wanted to find Lunsha.The apprentices who met along the road got together in twos and threes to discuss something, and when they saw him passing by, they immediately shut up and didn't speak again, and only after he had gone far away did they gather again to discuss.

Traphael had no interest in what they were discussing. Young people had their own fashions and entertainments, he always thought so, although he never knew what was popular among young people when he was an apprentice.

As he walked, Traphael thought silently in his heart for a while what to say to Lunsha, and he reached his destination without knowing it.

Standing at the door of the room that he had visited once today, Traphael reached out and knocked on the door again.

After a while, until Traphael was about to knock on the door a second time, Lunsha slowly opened the door.

She stood at the other end of the door, but it seemed like she was standing in another space.The room behind her was extremely dark because the curtains were tightly drawn, and there was a stale smell in the air, Traphael frowned unconsciously.

Seeing Traphael standing outside the door, Lunsha shrank her shoulders, and then called out in a low voice: "Teacher." This voice was almost weaker than her usual breath, and Traphael couldn't hear it clearly. He only vaguely guessed that she was greeting him.

He nodded to Lunsha and said, "Let me talk to you about what happened just now. May I go in?"

When Lunsha heard this, she quickly turned aside to make way for the door, so that Traphael could enter the room.Standing in this uncomfortable room, Traphael looked around. The furnishings in the room were very monotonous. It seemed that after she moved in, she didn't add anything new to the room except herself.

Lunsha stood beside him helplessly, pinching her fingers with her head down.

Traphael glanced at her sideways, and put his hands on her shoulders. Her thin body trembled suddenly because of the touch, and it took a while before she relaxed carefully.

Seeing that she seemed to relax a bit, Traphael said: "About the incident just now, first of all I want to apologize, I am very sorry that I rushed in so directly and caused you embarrassment, but I hope you can understand my embarrassment. Intention—like I just said, he doesn't really like you."

"Of course I believe you, but why... are you so sure?" When mentioning Murphy's matter, Lunsha's voice was suddenly amplified again. Although it didn't increase much, Traphael could hear it clearly.

Hearing that Lunsha really asked this question, Traphael hesitated for a moment before saying: "Although you are one of the parties involved, this matter involves Murphy's affairs after all, so I can't tell you too much. I can only tell you that from his character and the things I can't tell you directly, he can't be sincere to you anyway. And you just need to trust me."