NOVEL NEXT Chapter 28: Chapter 28
The candlelight flickered on the table between the two of them, and they sat facing each other in silence under the light of the candlelight.
Just now, with the effect of darkness and the beautiful moonlight, the two of them were able to close the distance with just a few words. But now, under the bright candlelight, they can see each other's faces clearly, and the awkward atmosphere of having only met once and not seen each other for two months is clearly exposed.
In fact, it's okay up to this point. The key to pushing the atmosphere to the edge of the cliff is
The miniature of Loki is still on Allen's desk, and it's the detachable one.
Alan was stunned as he looked at Roxy, who was staring at the figurine with a frown.
[Even though I have seen it many times, the host's interlocking skills are still amazing. First, he dragged her to your bedroom, and then deliberately let her see the figurines on the table, implying a metaphor of seeing things and thinking of people.]
The words appeared vaguely, and Alan covered his face in great pain.
'.Don't bother, I totally forgot about the figurine. As for the pulling... I can explain, it's actually a very simple reason, because under the dark effect, it's easy for people to...'
[Darkness effect, do I need to blow out the candle and avoid it? ]
'.That's not necessary. Thank you.'
[I need to remind the host that if Luo Qixi's favorability continues to rise, it will only be a few points at most. Uh. Is this within the host's expectations? I said too much, so I wish you a wonderful night. ]
"Well, very good. If you can't speak, I suggest you get out of here."
[Good night~）]
The moment the smoke dissipated, Mother Lan's unique cold voice reached Alan's ears.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Alan looked up in surprise and looked at Lokisi, who had already taken off her magic robe. She was sitting upright in the chair, looking a little embarrassed but trying to appear calm.
And she didn't know when she had moved her eyes away from her own figurine and looked at Alan.
The candlelight flickered in her eyes, which were like dark blue lakes, creating beautiful green ripples.
Alan looked into Loki's eyes and murmured.
"I was uncomfortable just now, but now I feel comfortable."
This moment is just like that moment.
Looking at Alan's suddenly dazed expression, Loki blinked.
"Are you saying something to tease girls again? I don't quite understand."
Alan was delighted.
"That's great!"
[.]
Upon hearing this, Luo Qixi gave him a slightly strange look, but did not delve into it further. She then turned her head towards the bedroom and looked around.
"It makes me miss this. This is the room I lived in for two years."
"Yes, there is no bed in other rooms in the house. This is the only guest room. If we want to clean it, we have to wait until the master and mistress get up tomorrow. We will just sleep here tonight. Uh."
Alan was stunned before he could finish his words.
"Fuck, what kind of line is this!"
Upon hearing this, Luo Qixi turned her gaze back to the figurine on the table, but she didn't misunderstand anything and just spoke calmly.
"That's right. It's too late. I can only lie on the table for the night. By the way, this doll was made by Rudy, right?"
Alan looked at the overly realistic miniature version of Loki on the table, and his forehead twitched.
"Well, why don't you ask him yourself tomorrow?"
Luo Qixi turned her head and looked into Alan's eyes in confusion.
"Oh? Could it be you who did this?"
As she spoke, Luo Qixi had already reached out to touch the figurine, shook her head helplessly, then covered her mouth with her hand, yawned, and leaned over the table.
His eyes were once again fixed on the dazed Alan.
"A familiar earth magic. He should be the one who did it. I almost forgot that you are also very young. By the way, Alan, what on earth did you do in the capital that caused your family to suffer? It's okay if it's not convenient to talk about this."
Alan scratched his head.
"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it. It's nothing more than a power struggle among nobles. You may not know that the tradition of the Boreas family is that the next successors to the head of the family will have a battle for the head of the family when they are young. The winner will be selected as the next candidate for the head of the family, and the other losers need to adopt their male offspring to the winner as the other party's 'biological children' as soon as they are born, so as to avoid family infighting due to power struggles in the future."
At this, Alan raised his finger and pointed it at his face.
"And I am such a adopted child. Although I was raised by James in the capital, I am actually the eldest son of Philip, the mayor of Roya City."
Luo Qixi rested her head on her arms, her eyes half closed and then slightly widened.
"Mayor Philip? Then, how do you know you are Mayor Philip's child?"
Alan lied without thinking, and in order to cover up the fact that he had read the novel and participated in the event of No Job, he chose the most reasonable explanation at the time.
"My so-called mother's treatment of her children was so obvious that it aroused my suspicion. Later, through her pregnancy, I concluded that the other child who was pregnant with me at the same time but whom she obviously treated better was her real son. What happened later was also simple. I could naturally find out by asking outsiders about the traditions of the Boreas family."
"If it's an assassination, has your information been discovered?"
".I'm not sure, but I have always lacked the necessary respect for James. Maybe he has some doubts. He cares a lot about power, and the ambitious Philip is a huge threat. He has every motive to arrange my assassination... There is no one else except him, and I didn't provoke anyone."
".I see."
"As for going to my uncle, it was because I couldn't recognize Philip directly, and James would definitely notice it. Fortunately, my uncle accepted me."
Alan stopped talking and looked at Lokixi, who had fallen asleep on the table.
He looked at Luo Qixi's sleeping face and smiled. Using the subtle control of power through the flow secret, he moved her to the bed with almost no shaking, then turned around and blew out the candle.
Then he took out a map from the drawer and took out a pen.
The moonlight sprinkled on the old map, and a new circle was slowly drawn by Allen - the forest in the northeast of Rigate City in Donadi Territory.
Alan's murmurs were heard.
"In the forest southeast of Rigate City, the thieves' stronghold of smuggling and trafficking people has been searching for my traces. Luo Qixi's return to Buena Village is the direct instigation point of the butterfly effect. Will there be more butterfly effects in this location later?"
"It's an eyesore."
On the bed, Luo Qixi, who was exhausted from running around, suddenly lay down on the soft mattress, and soon she began to breathe evenly with barely audible sounds.
(End of this chapter)
40. Chapter 40 I can explain why Luo Qixi was in my bed
40.
The next day, Rudy came to find Allen as soon as he stepped out of the bedroom door in the morning, because they had agreed to get up early yesterday to review the previous day's battle together in the yard and summarize and improve.
He rubbed his face and walked sleepily in the corridor, but for some reason today, the downstairs sounded livelier than usual. It was the sound of Senis and Lilia preparing dinner, and they seemed to be chatting happily about something.
Rudy didn't pay attention. He walked to Alan's door and pushed it open.
The door opened smoothly - Alan didn't usually have the habit of locking the door.
The curtains in the room were not opened early in the morning as usual, but instead tightly covered the windows, making the room dark.
Rudy looked towards the bed and saw that the thin blanket that Alan usually covered himself with was curled up and still rising and falling slightly.
"Alan is a rare guy who stays in bed. Did the battle yesterday drain all his energy?"
"It was he who suggested getting up early, but I'm the one who's staying in bed. Hehe."
Thinking of this, Rudy tiptoed to the bed, grabbed a corner of the quilt and lifted it up!
"Wake up! Naked man!"
He rolled up the quilt and flew it into the air. At this moment, a gust of wind blew from the window, lifting the curtains slightly.
It shone on Luo Qixi's hazy sleeping face on the bed.
Rudy looked at Luo Qixi's face with misty eyes and was silent for a long time.
Then he slapped himself in the face.
"Did I fall into a trance? I actually mistook Alan for Roxy. Haha, how weird."
"But why is Alan wearing Loki's clothes?"
He rubbed his face vigorously and looked at the bed again.
Luo Qixi, no, Alan seemed to be disturbed by the slap, his beautiful eyelashes trembled slightly and were about to open.
There were footsteps at the door and someone pushed the door open.
"Luo Qixi, it's time to get up. If you don't get up, Rudy will be here soon."
Rudy looked at the familiar figure of Alan who pushed the door open, slowly turned his head to look at Lokisi who had her eyes open, and slowly turned his head again to look at Alan who had a horrified look on his face.
The air was stagnant.
Alan looked at Rudy, his whole body numb, and he blinked rapidly.
"Rudy, calm down, I can explain."
Rudy looked at Allen expressionlessly, exuding the murderous aura that could only be exuded when the child in the original book called Boss Long "Dad". He forced a cold smile and spoke.
".Speak, I'm listening"
"Ah it's Rudy, where's Alan?"
But at this time, Lokixi opened her eyes. She raised her body and turned to look at Alan at the door with a hazy face.
"Ah, Alan, you're here. Good morning. Thank you for last night. If you hadn't called me this morning, I wouldn't have known when I went to bed. But I still remember that we were at the table. Anyway, I haven't slept so comfortably in a long time... You really helped a lot. I even asked you to help me boil water for a bath this morning."
"Mother Lan, do you want to listen to what you are talking about?"
A huge word "danger" appeared on Allen's forehead.
'Save me, save me!'
The next moment, Rudy's roar echoed in the Greyrat family.
"Alan!!!"
"Listen to my explanation!! First of all, she has clothes on!! Wait! Wait!"
"Water Ball Technique!"
"Ryuu Secret Technique! Hey hey hey hey!! Wait! The bed is wet! Roxy is still in the bed!!"
"Water?"
The two men looked with stiff necks at Roxy, whose head was covered with water balls that were redirected by the flow of secret technique. The latter held her head and blinked, still in the state of just waking up and not realizing what had happened.
At this moment, Senislilia, who had been informed by Allen in the morning that Lokisi had returned, ran to the door.
The former saw Luo Qixi with her head dripping with water, then looked at the two "children" with very interesting expressions, squinted his eyes, clenched his fists, and squeezed out words very gently from between his teeth.
"Alan, Rudy, you two seem to have a good relationship. It's really reassuring."
——
At breakfast, Alan and Rudy, both with panda eyes, sat at the table, looking very well behaved.
Senis was still angry and kept muttering to herself.
"Before Alan came, I always thought Rudy was a well-behaved child who was easy to take care of. It turns out that he just lacked friends of the same age to play with. And you, Alan, you are four years older than Rudy, but why are you acting like a child?"
"Sorry!", they said in unison.
In fact, the two people who are really of the same age looked at each other silently, and looked at Luo Qixi across the table without saying goodbye. She had to take a shower instead of taking the initiative. The latter had already changed into a set of home clothes in the suitcase and was drinking tea with her eyes focused, but the smile that appeared in the corner of her eyes exposed her true thoughts.
Paul on the side said happily.
"Since Luo Qixi happened to be passing by, you can stay for a few more days. Let's vacate the utility room next door and give it to... um, Alan to live in today."
Roqixi glanced at Allen. This was the confession that Allen forced her to make in the morning. On the one hand, she didn't want Paul's family to worry too much. On the other hand, Rudy didn't know Allen's true identity yet. After all, in Roqixi's opinion, Rudy was still young, and it was better for him not to know about these family disputes.
Allen was simply worried that if Rudy knew that he was Alice's brother, he would easily let the secret slip when he entered the teenage tutoring period and went to Roya City.
Exposing one's identity and attracting James is not a big deal, but if it triggers a butterfly effect, that would be a big mess.
"But because my money was stolen by a thief, I had to walk here, and it was late at night when I got here. This is very much like Roxy's style."
Loki choked and Senis naturally reached out her hand to help her breathe.
The former stroked his chest and glared at Alan with half-closed eyes.
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