Mage's Secret

26. Gossip

It is not too difficult to convince Lunsha, she has an almost blind admiration for Traphael, and her life experience is pitiful, so Traphael's almost pale explanation plus some Reasons such as "a playboy like Murphy won't be really attracted to a certain person" that sounds implausible can also make Lunsha half-heartedly accept the heartbreaking result of her first love being shattered.

"Then, teacher, what about the task you entrusted to me?" Lunsha asked softly, sobbing.

The choking made her voice as low as a mosquito even more indistinct, and Traphael took considerable effort to hear what she said.He glanced at her and said, "You don't have to worry about this anymore, I will make other arrangements."

Lunsha lowered her head and wiped her tears and nodded silently. Traphael couldn't bear to see her like this, but it was helpless. If she and Murphy were involved again, the consequences would be even more serious.Although Traphael couldn't refute what Murphy said, and what he was most worried about was that Murphy's identity would be exposed, but he didn't care about his students at all.

So Traphael comforted Lunsha in a low voice with a little guilt, and told her to go to bed early before leaving her room.

When he opened the door, he found that there were many apprentices gathered outside the door. When they saw him coming out, they dispersed in a rush, pretending to pass by, and walked back to their room without daring to stay for a moment.Traphael stood at the door of Lunsha's room, looking suspiciously at the empty corridor that was crowded with many people just now, and the tightly closed doors on both sides of the corridor.

He didn't quite understand what these apprentices were doing, but he didn't delve into it. He only attributed it to the fact that he was not too young, and there would inevitably be a generation gap with the students, so he walked to the study and planned to continue the research that was forced to stop in the morning.

Although the matter on Lunsha's side was almost resolved, Traphael did not feel at ease.The real headache is how to keep other apprentices from getting close to Murphy. After Lunsha's incident, Traphael has fully realized that Murphy's danger is higher than he originally imagined.

Do I have to take Murphy with me all the time in the future?Traphael only imagined that situation for a moment, and felt that even his stomach began to ache.

But just when he was about to start feeling anxious about it, he heard a piece of news from Elvis that made him laugh and cry.

In the days following the events at Rensa, things seemed to be calming down in the Tower.Murphy suddenly settled down a lot, or it seemed that the apprentices were no longer as active in trying to get close to him as they were at the beginning.

Murphy complained about this situation a few times at first, but it didn't take long before he seemed to find something interesting. When Phil discussed magic-related topics, he stared at him with a smile that was not a smile, and he looked at Traphael inexplicably.

If only Murphy seemed abnormal, Trafael would not care too much, because in his view, all of Murphy's actions were unreasonable. If one day Murphy suddenly became serious, he would will feel bad.But if even Elvis became strange, Traphael began to feel that something must be weird.

Elvis would go to the study to discuss academic issues with Traphael every day. Elvis was very smart, and even asking for advice would not take much of Traphael’s time, so Traphael usually treated him well. They all have a lot of patience, unless Traphael himself is busy with a certain research or encounters a bottleneck like before, he will stop his individual tutoring.

Compared with other apprentices, this was already an obvious difference, which also made Elvis very proud.But since Murphy entered the Mage Tower as an apprentice, the situation where Elvis was "the only favorite" was broken.

Trafael would spend some time alone in the study with Murphy every day, during which time he would not allow anyone to disturb him, and even Elvis' needs would be delayed.Not to mention that sometimes their "secret talk" time even far exceeds the time that Elvis usually spends alone with Traphael.

This gave Elvis a strong sense of crisis. Because of this sense of crisis, Elvis spent more time pestering Traphael, and sometimes said a few words after discussing academic issues. Fei's bad words, and sometimes he would ask Traphale with some questions that he already understood quite well-this also caused Traphael quite a headache, and this account was all credited to Murphy.

What made Trafael care was that even if Elvis pestered him again before, there was a valid reason anyway, but these two days he didn't even want a valid reason, he just stopped suddenly during the conversation, and then stared at Te. Raphael kept watching, hesitating for a long time before speaking, and the conversation time was elongated in such meaningless silence.

On this day, after a conversation ended for the third time when Elvis hesitated to speak, Traphael finally couldn't help asking: "What do you want to tell me these two days?"

When asked directly about this matter, Elvis was stunned for a moment, then showed embarrassment, opened and closed his lips several times under Traphael's puzzled eyes, and finally said: "Teacher, you and Mo Fei, what is the relationship?"

"Of course it's an apprentice relationship, why do you ask that?" Traphael asked.

"Because," Elvis pursed his lips at this point, glanced at Traphael cautiously, and then continued: "There have been rumors in the tower recently that you and Murphy are... that kind of relationship. "

"What kind of relationship?" Traphael first asked reflexively, but after a little thought, he suddenly realized that the apprentices actually thought they were having an affair with Murphy.In this way, the things that the apprentices discussed behind his back a few days ago had an answer, and at the same time, Traphael finally understood why Murphy looked at him so strangely these days, presumably he also heard the rumor.

Hearing the news, Traphael was surprised at first, then a little angry and funny, but these emotions were all mixed together, and it turned into a strong sense of absurdity.He frowned and asked, "Who did it come from?"

Elvis carefully observed his expression from behind the lens, as if he wanted to find some clues from it, but he finally gave up. Traphael's expression was too calm, and his ability was not enough to see it. give the answer he wanted.So he replied honestly: "Everyone says so, I don't know who first reported it... Teacher, is this true?"

Trafael only glanced at Elvis, indicating that he knew about it, but he didn't answer the question, because he didn't know how to answer it.

Of course, the answer to this question in his heart is quite certain - it is absolutely impossible, of course it is absolutely impossible to have that kind of relationship between him and Murphy, and Murphy's teasing him has already made him tiresome. From Murphy's point of view, it probably didn't mean that at all - after all, he restricted Murphy's freedom and ruined his good deeds.From this point of view, it is already very good for the two to maintain a superficial peaceful coexistence when the two are bored, and it is wishful thinking to want to have a different relationship.

But he was a little hesitant about how to answer this question—the things that misunderstood the students were indeed things that he couldn't explain at all, and this rumor just gave him a good excuse.Not only that, judging from the changes in the attitude of the apprentices towards Murphy in the past few days, this rumor also has the advantage of preventing the apprentices from getting too close to Murphy.This just solved the problem Traphael was worrying about, and Murphy did not deny it. Traphael guessed that he might not come to tear down his platform in the future. This is a very good opportunity to take advantage of.

And speaking of troubles, in fact, it is not completely without. If this rumor is allowed to pass on, it may have some impact on his future love life, and those young people who have longed for him are likely to give up because of this.But it doesn't matter, Traphael thought, he never thought about finding a lover.Probably due to the shadows of his childhood, those beautiful ladies couldn't arouse even a little bit of affection in him, and men were even more out of his consideration.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that there is nothing to hesitate. Apart from the possibility of facing Murphy's intensified ridicule in the future, the benefits and disadvantages that can be gained from it are simply out of proportion.

So Traphael clenched his hands, looked up at Elvis, and said, "Yes, they are right."