winter era

Chapter 31 The Real Young Master
"Hey, I woke up earlier than I expected." Sitting in the dining room was Niya, holding a knife and fork in her hand.

Unlike yesterday, she didn't wear the casual clothes, but put on the gorgeous clothes for socializing very neatly.Dozens of spare parts and articles used to express his identity are hanging on his body, and the heavy pressure makes him quite uncomfortable.

Seeing how Kaos pushed the door open, the nominal 'Master' of the Rost family shrugged in surprise.The well-behaved knife and fork is cutting the medium-rare steak on the table.It seems that in order to pursue some kind of aristocratic demeanor, this guy who likes to eat cooked meat and hates raw meat a few years ago is now turning the knife and fork in his hand fearlessly.

The action was beyond Kaos's imagination, and it didn't even splash any internal juice.Instead, he quickly cut the fresh and tender veal into several pieces with the knife in his hand, then picked it up with a fork and put it in his mouth.

The knife is as fluent as ever, shouldn't he give up training?
"The knives are as sharp as ever, but don't you like cooked meat?" He opened the stool next to the dinner plate and sat down.Because there are only two dinner plates on the vast dining table.One is on Niya's side, and the other must be for him.

"It's not that I don't want to eat it, it's just because I'm used to it." Niya twirled the knife in her hand and danced happily on her fingers, sliding a few shiny marks across her pretty face. "Because I am the leader of the Rost family, I must have the aura of a family leader. I can't relax even in normal times, so I'm almost used to it now."

Niya smiled dryly, held up three fingers and took a sip from the wine glass next to the dinner plate.That look was more like some kind of training than eating.The constant training that makes Niya a true leader.

"It's been hard work, you." Kaos looked at the half-cooked steak on the table and shrugged at Niya.

For his past experience, the food is really too novel.So Kaos simply gave up eating in a short period of time, and instead looked at the eating, vast and a bit too much restaurant.

But what surprised Kaos was that the restaurant in the Rost Family Castle was not so much a restaurant as it was a religious venue.Behind the ornate settee for the owner is a grand rainbow tree pattern in stained glass.Under the sunlight of the morning sun, it casts colorful shadows on the white tablecloth.

Only Kaos and Niya were eating quietly on the long empty table.The sense of oppression brought by the light and decoration made Kaos, who had regained human emotions, subtly feel a certain feeling of incompatibility.

It is more appropriate to say that this is a kind of prison than a place to eat.

'Everyone has their own way of life, and no one has the right to pity anyone. Kaos looked at the other side who had finished eating the steak, and Niya, who was wiping the corners of her mouth gracefully with a tissue, sighed inaudibly in her heart.

He didn't have so much time to spare to feel sentimental about his age. After all, in terms of misery, there was probably no one in this world who was in more pain than himself, a traveler who had been holding back for 20 years.Whenever there is no one at night, he has an urge to go crazy.Fortunately, he was still a wizard with self-control, so he didn't make any surprising moves.

"Huh? Don't you want to eat?" After wiping the corners of her mouth, Niya realized that the dinner plate opposite Kaos hadn't even moved.The girl disguised as a man looked at Kaos with a weak face in surprise, and asked a little strangely. "Is the steak not to your taste? Or is there something else that interferes with your meal? Can you talk to me?"

"It's okay, it's okay. It's just that I used to be a great wizard, and I gave up eating for a long time, so I can't accept this kind of formal meal." Kaos smiled weakly, and pushed the plate on the table to Niya's side.

He is telling the truth.Even if he has become a great wizard for a while, he returns to a human body, the tide left before the magic addiction subsides will still allow him to maintain his inhuman body structure for a period of time.Even if it is food or something, you can only taste the faint taste, and there is no way to try more delicate things.What's more, even if it is the original logic of caring for people who are about to starve to death, it is impossible to just eat something like veal steak.

Niya, who quickly figured it out, just mumbled, 'Food can't be wasted', and then unceremoniously pulled the dinner plate over.With her precise knife, she sliced ​​the steak into bite-sized bite-sized pieces.

"I said, Niya. You don't need to look up, just keep eating and listen to me."

Kaos stretched out his hand to signal Nya, who was about to choke, not to worry so much.Picking up the wine glass on his side and shaking it, looking at the scarlet liquid inside, he sorted out his thoughts.Because of the protection regulations of Master Rost, part of the information can also be disclosed to Niya.But is this behavior really okay?Kaos wasn't sure about this.

What if the enemy is unexpected without thinking too much?Directly and stupidly ignored the trap of the second layer of bait and ran directly to the Northland.In other words, he had a little bit of brains, but he didn't think too much, what should he do if he blatantly attacked Niya?
This feeling of relying on the integrity of the enemy's IQ is not very pleasant to be honest.Ordinarily, for ordinary people, the plan is just relying on other people's stupidity, but this kind of plan relying on other people's IQ to reach the normal level makes Kaos feel like sitting on pins and needles.There are always layers of traps in my mind. Although it is very simple to deceive a smart person, the premise is that he is indeed a smart person.The three cloned great wizards in the North made him really a little worried about whether the enemy's intelligence level was enough to jump into this trap.

After thinking about it, Kaos decided to reveal some uncritical but useful things to Nya.After all, it was the only flaw in the plan, he couldn't let Niya walk into a dangerous environment.We can only rely on this to try our best to get out of danger.

"Niya, do you know the related theory of soul wavelength and wide-area diffusion?"

"Huh? What's that? It sounds very powerful." Rost's 'Master' waved a knife and fork with his sleeves rolled up, and responded absently.With his two eyes staring straight at the food in front of him, it can be seen that this guy's body and mind are all devoted to the steak.Faced with this situation, Kaos could only sigh and try his best to carry out a crisis education.

"Where people gather, souls will also communicate with each other. Often look at the back of others, and that person will be aware of it. This is the transmission and communication between souls. This communication will slightly distort the surrounding space After all, it is the interaction of the soul. But usually, this kind of distortion is not too much. Only when the number of people exceeds a certain threshold will it interfere with the operation of the spell. This is one of the main reasons why mages cannot face too many troops One, because it's not that easy to sort out the soul space."

"So?" Niya replied politely, forked a piece of steak and put it in her mouth.

"Recently, you'd better stay in a place with a lot of people. The denser the place, the better. I don't think anyone will launch an attack in the cornerstone academy of the empire." Kaos spread his hands, his face Pull up a pale smile.

"You know that I killed those three great wizards recently, right? They are actually replicas. The mental coordination is not as good as that of the mentally retarded. Even a combination of telepathy cannot completely cast a joint spell. But that is after all. The three great wizards are fighting, I killed them so easily, do you think that if an organization might let me go? No, they will track them down until they are sure that I am here. They may even kidnap you or ignore you in order to threaten me Imperial mage treaty. I know they dare to do these things. So for your and my safety, it’s better to stay in a place with more people.”

This is how Kaos responded.Just say it all.He believes that Niya is not the kind of little girl who can only scream, otherwise she would not be able to take the position of the "eldest young master" of the Rost family and play it perfectly for so many years.Rather, if the Rost family is really so stupid to let a fool become the young master, Kaos might as well just pack up and turn himself in to the Paradise organization as soon as possible.If the conscience of the empire is a fool, then what is the point of the empire.

"I knew that if you came to me, there must be nothing good. I am thankful that it is not a big crisis of the collapse of the empire. But I still have my own considerations about your countermeasures." It did not live up to Kaos' expectations, Niya indifferently wiped the marks on her face with a napkin.Those dark green eyes slightly spread out, carrying an awe-inspiring and inviolable aura.

"I think your thinking is still too naive, Kaos. You just start from your own point of view, and you haven't thought about the different behavior patterns of others because of your scheme." The 'eldest young master' of the Rost family crossed their fingers , Facing the pale wizard head-on, he spoke of the consideration of the 'Eldest Young Master' in a deep voice he had never heard before.

Under the unbelievable gaze of Kaos, Niya, who had completely switched modes, lifted up the light golden hair on her forehead, a pair of dark green eyes sunk deep in her eye sockets, constantly trembling from side to side, thinking about the next development and evolve.

"From a normal point of view, if I changed my life rules after you came, it would prove two possibilities. One, I changed something for you, because I am a close friend with life and death. But from the setting Generally speaking, there is no close relationship between the young master of the Rost family and the head mage of the Northland, so this point is negative. Then the enemy can only consider the second point, that is, what you said to me What caused my journey to change."

"Since my behavior pattern has changed, it means that I am definitely not the kind of abandoned child who can be abandoned. Although there is a possibility of deliberately setting a trap, most people will think that you are showing favor to me or worrying about me. I just made the move that made me change. This is a loophole. It shows that you have realized that you are in danger and your position is not so secure. This is simply an obvious signal to the enemy. "

"I don't know what kind of plan you have, but I know that any plan will be ruined if someone sees it through. So what you have to do is not to ask me to change the order of actions, and we are even more casual than usual. Because you It’s returning from vacation, and I’m thinking about it carefully. This is the most normal development process. I’ll even invite you to parties and other activities many times to show how much I value you. This kind of normal development is reasonable .Your idea is based on fantasy, and there is no real basis at all-I said, why are you looking at me like that?"

Niya, who was sitting on the chair, felt a strange sight, and looked at the pale face opposite Kaos with a strange face.The great wizard touched his heart unnaturally as if he had been frightened by something.

"No, I want to say, Niya, you are really amazing, you can consider everything..."

Kaos looked at Niya, who was wearing gorgeous clothes, and murmured in disbelief.The gap between this and the Niya in his memory is simply heaven and earth.In her memory, that Niya didn't think about so many things, even the act of thinking itself would give her an unusual headache.Time is indeed the most terrifying existence, Kaos is so sure.

"I always feel that you seem to be speaking ill of me in secret?" Niya glared at the great wizard with her dark green eyes, and her reproach seemed to say that Kaos was making a fuss. "And this kind of thing is a basic skill in our field, Kaos. If I didn't think about it, I would die in those vortexes sooner or later. Even if I am the young master of the Rost family, the Rost family Is there less death in history from sudden illness and women's bed?"

"I believe you will never die in a woman's bed, you will only die in a man's bed."

"Shut up." Niya gave the great wizard over there a fierce look.

The awe-inspiring aura that emanated made Kaos feel a little uncomfortable for a while.Although it can't compare to the life-and-death aura of the ice dragon, the other human aura from a higher political position still makes this former great wizard feel a little novel.

What happened to this stupid little guy all these years to become the crisp and clean look he is now?It's not that he feels strange, because in terms of strangeness, he must be the one who has become the most strange in his own eyes.He was just curious, wondering what had happened over the years to make a little girl so resilient.

"If you want to tell the story of these years." Niya tied her hair into a very popular ponytail and tidied her clothes.Seemingly aware of what Kaos wanted to ask, he glared at him before speaking.

"Then get dressed and get ready to get on the carriage. There is still half an hour's journey to the college, enough for us to chat."

(End of this chapter)