Zerg friends are also delicious

In the midsummer afternoon, cicadas chirped endlessly, and there was no wind in the sultry air.Eden followed Joplin and pushed open the glass door of the cafe.

In the past three years, this is one of the few stores that has been recognized by the Four Bugs Group at the same time.They spend several afternoons here almost every week.

Gossiping around and gossiping (Lucian presenting) while debating (Eden and Norris), scrambling for homework before the deadline (Lucian and Seth), or just hanging out with drinks and watching videos (Eden and Seth group).

Therefore, simply walking in here, sitting in the usual seat, smelling the familiar aroma of coffee and the fresh lemony smell of disinfectant, Eden's disturbed and depressed mood stirred by Gibson got a little comfort.

Because they come too frequently, the employees in the store are considered half friends.To Eden's surprise, Joplin also seemed familiar with the place—Kevin's smile on him was genuine, genuinely happy.

Eden took the paper cup from Joplin, lowered his head and took a sip, his eyes widened slightly.

It's the black tea latte on his regular order list.But not the most ordered.It's what he wants to drink most when he's down.So it can't be Kevin's leak.yes--

"Your Highness told me." Joplin just sat down and looked over with raised eyebrows, "Did I remember wrong?"

Seth told you?What did he say?When did you say that?Why do you talk about this kind of thing?

Eden shook his head.Resist the urge to ask questions.

"Curious why I would know?"

Joplin rattled the ice in his iced Americano.Then he leaned back, reached into his trouser pocket with his slender fingers, and took out a cigarette.

"Well, once he was in a bad mood, I dragged him over to eat. As a result, he still had hot drinks and added sugar in summer."

"He doesn't like sweets. So I asked one more question. Guess how he answered me?"

Joplin pressed his lips against the filter, lit the cigarette in his hand, and exhaled a cloud of thick smoke from his mouth.

"Eden likes it."

To be honest, Joplin was stunned by the opponent.He thought he had heard it wrong, so he asked again, but the black-haired female wrapped in loose clothes lowered her head, said again with light-colored lips, and pinched the paper cup tightly with her slender fingers.

After similar things kept happening, Joplin figured out the logic inside:

Eden likes it - so this thing is good - so I like it too.

"What Eden likes, what Eden hates, what Eden said, what Eden did..." Joplin flicked his cigarette ash.

"As a forced audience, I'm not the protagonist but I have to suffer, it's annoying."

"But it's not without gains. After listening to him for two years, I figured out one thing."

"Apart from Eden Looster, His Highness is not interested in anything else."

The details that Joplin said were unknown to Eden.Also, he talks about Seth as if they've known each other for a long, long time.

Eden stared at the table, his shoulders stiffened, his jaw tensed.An uncomfortable feeling grew in his stomach.

It was strange, so strange that all the dull little people in Eden's brain popped out before he realized what it was.

He didn't know Seth at all.

shouted a little man, thrusting himself into his waist angrily.

I hate him for pretending to be familiar.Seth never talked about Joplin to you, and they didn't have much friendship at all.

Another villain chimed in.

That's right.This disgusting physical feeling is the feeling that his own things are taken and used by other worms when he doesn't know.

The last time Lucian stole his favorite paper books from his house seven or eight years ago.He ignored each other for a whole month.

But it was deeper than that, more searing than that, the irrational reaction he had every time he saw Seth and Joplin together.

Hey Seth is not a thing.Of course he can make other friends.Just unhappy because of being robbed of friends.How childish.

The villain who was always calm and objective taught the lesson with a straight face.

Joplin's chuckle broke the silence at the table.

"You're angry."

The red-haired male raised one long eyebrow, his voice was low and ambiguous, and his fiery eyes were glued to Iden's body, as if he had discovered something novel.

In Muronia Academy, Eden Looster is the model benchmark that has not changed for thousands of years.

He has straight A's in his homework, various championship titles, no cliques, no bragging or pretentiousness.He is modest and gentle, polite and polite, always with just the right smile, neither cold nor overly warm.

His overcoat is ironed extremely neatly, his shirt is always buttoned to the top, and the seam of his trousers is as straight as a ruler. Even the most picky headmaster will nod proudly when he sees him.

When he stepped into the teaching building, it was like a bright light coming from outside.His light blonde short hair, fair to translucent skin, slender, soft and powerful figure, formed a very beautiful picture, and even made Chong question whether what he saw was real.

The first time he saw this worm from a distance, Joplin wondered if it was the latest bionic robot worm developed by the Empire.Otherwise, he really couldn't understand, how could a real insect be able to do that at such a young age.

Not long after that, Joplin frequently heard another name.Seth Thorn.

He is known as the biggest stain on Looster.It is an existence that all the worms in the academy look down upon.

Joplin doesn't think so.Sann was as silent as a shadow.Where there is light, there must be shadow.Because of Sann's presence, the doubts entrenched in Joplin's heart were finally relieved——

Looster would actually laugh too, a little smugly, a little affectionately, like his peers.

His emerald eyes came into focus, and his jade-like skin was flushed.His eyelashes trembled and were steamed.His lips parted slightly, with uncontrollable curvature and fine lines.

Seth Thorn is not a blemish on Looster.He is the fire that lights him.

Do not believe?

Look at Looster now—

The corners of his mouth drooped, his brows were slightly furrowed, a thin layer of frost covered his cheeks, and a cold light shone in his green eyes.

He was annoyed, disgusted, and unhappy.

His mask cracked to reveal a real emotional response.

However, this emotion only lasted for a few seconds.Soon, those downward arcs were all gone.

The blond male straightened his back, sitting there, and it was the flawless Looster again.

"Don't be patient, Eden." After the circling smoke, Joplin smiled knowingly.

"I've been watching you for a long time, and I know you better than you think. Maybe even better than yourself. You and Your Highness—"

"Do not make jokes!"

With a "bang", Eden stood up suddenly, and slapped the coffee table with his palm: "Joplin, you don't know anything!"

"Our business has nothing to do with you!"

"Oh." Joplin shook his head, "Eden, are you sure?"

He raised his wrist, opened his terminal, and projected a dozen photos in the air without waiting for the other party's reaction.

Large and small light screens intersect each other.It does not prevent Eden from seeing the above content clearly.Because all the photos are of the same female.

This female insect has black hair and dark skin, and is either wearing tight short sleeves or a racerback vest.Sweat soaked his bulging shoulder blades and bulging back muscles, like a layer of oil on his honey-colored skin.

In some photos, he is doing one-arm push-ups.In some photos, he sweats profusely on a treadmill.It's more that he's fighting other bugs.He was hit in the abdomen, his arms were restrained, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, and the corners of his eyes were blue.

The female insect is naked|The exposed body is covered with scars, and it looks extremely embarrassing.

What made Eden's heart sink suddenly was Seth's eyes——

His eyes were completely swallowed by the dark gray mist.Purple was gone.Other emotions that Eden had seen were gone too—the buoyant spirit, the feverish desire, the deep fear, the tangled vulnerability...

All gone.

It's like a grave.Only the embers after the flames were extinguished were flying around, and the bleakness and desolation made the insects horrified.

"I have a lot of similar photos. Oh, and there are videos too. I can send them to you."

Under the clerk's hesitant gaze, the red-haired male spewed puffs of smoke into the air.

The suffocating smell of tobacco and a woody scent rushed to Eden's nostrils, effectively suppressing his urge to punch Joplin's head with a quick blow.

"Don't look at me like that. This is the position you gave up, Eden, and you should have stayed there."

"...I respect Seth's choice."

Eden gritted his teeth, desperate resentment churned and stirred in his abdominal cavity, ready to erupt at any moment.

Joplin is Seth's friend.It was his decision to invite the worm.He couldn't beat Joplin for it.

"Our Highness is duplicity. You and I are very clear."

"For so long in the past, in your relationship, you have always taken the initiative."

"Whether he wants to admit it or not, he's used to waiting for you to make a decision. You'll just make him feel abandoned when you stop suddenly."

"Eden, he's scared. He's so scared, he's so scared that he can't stand it, he just wants to kill himself to escape."

"What about you? Are you going to watch like this, and then tell me, this is 'respect'?"

There was a blunt sneer at the corner of his mouth, and his contemptuous eyes fell on Iden's fist with white knuckles.

"Seth won't."

Sweat dripped from his temples, and Eden closed his eyes, struggling to push himself back into the chair.

--can not tell you.

——My world can’t be just you.

- We will part sooner or later.

——If you know about this, it is better not to know.

—With you, I can never find my way.

—Please allow me to leave.

"He's just not used to it. He'll be fine soon."

"He knows what he's doing..."

"—he doesn't know! You don't either!"

Joplin rushed over and pushed Eden on the shoulder, his expression distorted with anger: "You don't even know what you are doing! You will regret it!"

"Joplin, you're mistaken. We're not arguing."

Eden forced himself to straighten up.He clenched his teeth, took a deep breath, and let himself open his palms to relieve the numb and sore joints.

"He also texted me in the morning and we talked about today's schedule. He just stepped up training because he wanted to improve a little bit before the interview."

"Seth...is very gentle with his friends, always accommodating me. I always worry too much, and unconsciously make up my own mind, help him make up his mind, help him make decisions...but never think about whether he needs it or not. .”

"I appreciate your concern for him. But as friends, we have to trust him."

"friend?"

Joplin sneered, as if he heard some funny joke: "We can clearly hear what you said in the SD store."

"Did you tell him the nonsense just now? Did he accept it? Did you agree?"

Eden was silent.Talking about it made him feel exhausted.He should have turned away from the start.He shouldn't have said that to Joplin.

"Whether we can be lovers or not, we are still friends."

After a long few minutes, Eden finally raised his head and looked to his side.

"Seth has made his decision. As a friend, I will always support him."

Joplin responded directly to Eden's gaze.At this moment, he understood the persistence in the boy's eyes, and the reservation and tenderness hidden behind that transformed from pain.

For some reason, the look in Eden's eyes made his chest ache.

Joplin put out his unfinished cigarette in the ashtray and sat back in his chair irritably.

The coffee machine hummed slightly.Everything suddenly quieted down.

Yafeu, who had been secretly paying attention to this side behind the console, took a few glances and realized that there should be no fight, so she continued to greet other guests.

"Eden, His Highness blamed himself for your kidnapping."

After a long time, Joplin's deep voice broke the spreading silence.

Eden looked up.

"It has nothing to do with him." The male worm stared wide-eyed.

After a brief surprise, his voice became firm, and the guard field exuded a sense of cold oppression.

"Someone said something—"

"If it's just a friend, of course he can convince himself like this."

Joplin interrupts Eden.He turned to look over, "But he likes you, so much that he can't help himself."

"You were kidnapped, which hit him hard. He felt that he couldn't protect you, he could only bring you bad things. So since that time, he never visited you again."

Joplin's words hit Eden like lightning.Shock and surprise left him dumbfounded.His hands fumbled stiffly by his side, but there was nowhere to put them.

Seth never came to him because...

Eden thought to himself, shaking his drowsy head, thinking that he had misunderstood.

"Seth...is that so?"

Joplin knew he had found a breakthrough, but this unexpected development forced him to feel pity for himself.Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, he spoke as calmly as possible.

"You can adjust your relationship, but please, don't let go."

"Our Highness is too stupid. He thinks he can bear it. But in fact, if you really end up like this, he can't bear it."

"Eden, you are more sober than him."

"So you have to be firm. You have to trust your instincts. If you don't believe in yourself, how can you make him believe in you?"

"I know this request is too much, but it takes time for him to grow up, please wait and give him another chance."

"He doesn't screw up every time."

Eden pursed his lips, lost in thought.

For a moment, he was awed by Joplin's words.

He felt he was seen through.And he was never used to this naked|naked feeling.He wanted to deny it, and scolded the other party for talking nonsense.He really wanted to growl and scold the other party for his arrogance and condescension.

But there was something in Joplin's voice.A humbleness that borders on supplication.

It was this thing that short-circuited Eden's thinking for a second.It was also at this second that Eden suppressed the instinctive defense mechanism and no longer questioned Joplin's position.

He began to reminisce about that day.

Heart pounding against ribs, throbbing with joy at the presence of Seth in his head.

He thought of Seth's apologetic and wet eyes, remembered Seth's hesitant and trembling touch, and heard the hoarse and rapid breathing...

"There's something I think you should look at..."

Joplin raised his wrist.The photos suspended in the air disappeared one by one.He dragged out a document again.Eden chose to accept.

"I found it by accident when I helped His Highness fill in some information. It's encrypted. Maybe you will know the password."

The file transfer is complete.Eden clicked on the list.It's a web link.

Joplin is already logged in.The profile photo is the same as Seth's other accounts.Eden clicked into the last encrypted folder indicated by Joplin.

【my star】

I don't know which nerve this line of phrase pokes in me.Eden's face flushed.He expertly typed in his own birthday.

Decryption succeeded.

"Drip Drip"!

A communication request sounded suddenly, and Xia En's photo on the terminal covered the file.

"Xiao Yi, your female father is in labor pains, and we are going to St. Joseph's Hospital to wait for delivery."

"Nomic is going to pick you up now. You wait for him at the west gate of the academy. We'll talk about it after we haven't completed the formalities."

His male father was rarely so nervous.Eden was startled suddenly, and all the blood on his face disappeared.

"I'm leaving first."

Eden pushed the chair away in a panic, and without waiting for Joplin to respond, he got up and rushed out the door.

The author has something to say: Joplin: I like to observe the various reactions of various bugs.This is my observation log.When I have enough cases, I will sort out and publish a book.

Lucian: Stalking?Peeping?

Joplin: As far as I know, I haven't broken a single law.All evidence samples are private.

Lucian: Well said.You are a pervert!