The female devils I saved came to my door

Nameless froze for a moment.

She knew nothing about Ciel's past.

Originally, Charles wouldn't say much, so she naturally wouldn't ask any more questions.

But today's incident seems to be her real opportunity to understand Ciel.

She randomly stuffed some food into her mouth and finished eating as if it was chewy. She pushed away the empty plate and looked up at Charles, waiting for him to speak.

"The person who attacked us that day was Lovna herself. Either a fake with the same name, or the founding empress." Charles pondered for a while, feeling that he didn't know how to explain: "She, and the founding queen of the West Ipoli Empire, were posthumously named The Queen, Sirna, is the same, she was once my student."

Wu Ming made a sound.

She felt like her brain was a bit out of use.

"But, but..." After a while, Wuming stammered: "I remember, I remember that they died one after another before the Ipoli Empire was split... Their respective descendants inherited the throne and split Ipoli. Li Empire..."

"That's false. They have lived until now. Moreover, the descendants who succeeded them to the throne are actually not related by blood to them. The royal families of the two countries now actually trace their origins to my blood." Ciel covered his head. Face: "They themselves have been hiding in their respective tombs, secretly manipulating their respective countries and stimulating the situation on the mainland..."

"This……"

Although it is unbelievable, since Mr. Charles said this, it can only be true...

"It's my fault for teaching them like this." Charles blamed himself: "I thought I could change their fate, but instead, the sisters shared a bad future.

“Although I prevented the collapse of the Ipoli Empire in a short period of time, it led to the division of East and West in Ipoli that has lasted for hundreds of years...

"But this is the best I can do."

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When Silna and Lovna were harmless girls, Ciel was worried about how to educate these two children well.

It's definitely not reliable to count on their parents.

Their biological father, Prince Nolen, could only spell one or two hundred words correctly. His main job on weekdays was to lead soldiers on patrols to catch thieves, and occasionally engage in large-scale armed fights with neighboring countries to compete for land and water. .

Although Sirna didn't hate him, it was unrealistic to expect this guy to teach his daughter well.

As for Sirna's mother, she is a very controlling and rigid woman. Until now, she still hopes that Sirna can go back and listen to her words and continue to accept her discipline.Sirna would be frightened when she saw her.

Lovna's mother was busy making a living. Although she knew some principles, she had little knowledge and didn't know how to take care of children.

The problems faced by these two children are also different.

Sirna used to be threatened by the instructor and forced to learn too much knowledge, so that she was under great pressure and had a natural fear of learning.

As for Lovna, although this girl is optimistic and cheerful, she is really stupid.Now I can’t even add, subtract, multiply or divide simply.

As soon as you take out the test paper or ask her to sit down to answer the questions, her brain shuts down.

In this environment, Ciel did not dare to teach Sirna magic randomly. He had to teach her character well first.Let her get rid of those psychological shadows.

Therefore, we can only educate through entertainment.

First, he learned brick kiln and carpentry, and built some seesaws, swings, rotating rocking chairs and other entertainment facilities in front of his residence.

Then, after spending a lot of money, I bought cardboard with enough hardness from the merchant.Relying on manual memory and painting skills, he produced many pop-up books and pop-up cards.During this period, many soldiers and chess pieces were also made out of oak wood, and they were painted one by one to create a whole set of gaudy gadgets.

These things cost more money and time than Charles expected.

Then, relying on the settings of various online games and adventure novels in my memory, I stitched together several sets of tabletop role-playing games, and designed many levels that required grammatical knowledge and mathematical calculations to pass.

In order to make it easier for these two children to understand, he specially simplified the rules and lowered the difficulty.

This set of adventure board games, which Charles calls "any fool can play it," is finally completed.

He began to educate Hilna and Lovna in an entertaining and educational way.

Every morning, after breakfast, I called the two children and asked them to sit in the yard, spread out the tabletop game board, and then class began.

Opening the rule book compiled in the form of a pop-up book, the two little girls will immediately cheer up and listen carefully to Ciel's introduction of today's game rules.

For example, today's adventure is about two warriors selected by the Eternal Church. They have to go through a large maze full of dangers to defeat the dragon in the depths of the maze, and finally get the treasure guarded by the dragon.

At this time, Ciel will take out the pile of Two-dimensional style cards and let the two girls create characters.

Sirna chose a thin male mage wearing a battle armor.Because she thinks this character is very similar to Mr. Charles, and she likes it very much.

Lovna, on the other hand, chose a heroic female magician wearing mage robes.Because she wants to become this person.

Take out the twenty-sided dice and roll the appropriate result, and the adventure begins.

To explore the maze, you first need to find other partners who can help.Therefore, Ciel turned to the next page of the rule book, and a hut with the word "tavern" appeared on the book.

Before the two adventurers set off, they must gather their partners here.

The first test is how to allocate start-up funds and recruit valuable teammates.Whether to invite expensive but powerful knights, or hire mediocre but cheap and durable mercenaries.Should I just buy powerful weapons for myself, or wholesale a complete set of low-quality armor...

In this process, the difference between Lovna and Sirna can be clearly seen.

Sirna will carefully consider every plan and list her capital quota on the sand, doing things in an orderly and logical manner.

But Luovna, she was too lazy to think too much.Even if Ciel wanted to lead her to think more, she would still give her random answer.

When the adventure officially started, we entered the maze.

There are always various levels hidden in the various complex three-dimensional mazes designed by Charles.

"The monster in front of you has eighty points of armor. If you want to weaken its defense, you must spell the spell correctly to restrain it."

"The mysterious businessman in the maze has appeared! He promised to help you, but only if you help him calculate the unit price of each kind of goods."

"Your partner was seriously injured in the battle just now! Provide him with treatment quickly - Lovna, as a magician, you have to calculate the results of these dice yourself. If you make a mistake, he will be dead."

…………

Lovna always didn't want to think.Especially when she has a smart teammate like Sirna, she is even more lazy to think about it.So I have to force her.

Even if she had to clasp her fingers and think hard for a long time, she had to finish it by herself and couldn't rely on Sirna's prompts.

If they encounter a problem that they cannot understand, Ciel will transform into an angel of the "Eternal Supreme God" on the spot, giving hints to the adventurers in trouble and telling them how to solve the problem.

Of course, the learning efficiency of this teaching method is far lower than that of normal class study, but these two little girls don't need to take the college entrance examination anyway, so why bother to take such a test.

He also hopes that by telling stories and guiding learning, the two children can learn slowly, so that they are willing to listen to the class and understand some basic principles.

For example, he would use the words of a paladin to tell the story of a knight who passed a trial and was rewarded; he would use the words of a little boy to tell the story of a child who used peas to climb into the sky and defeat the giant; he would use the words of a god accidentally discovered in the maze Lamp, tells the story of the ancient magic lamp...

Every NPC, prop, and teammate in the game process can have a story. Each story is stitched together from countless games, movies, and TV series, so of course there is a lot of material, and it will never be repeated.

The two girls always sat in front of Teacher Charles attentively, listening to him tell all kinds of weird stories.

At the end of the game, Ciel will always let go, allowing the two little girls to achieve the final victory, complete the adventure, and get a happy ending after achieving success and fame.

As a reward, he would give them candies, or make them a handmade toy, or perform some magic for them, and after making them happy, the day would almost pass.

Originally, this kind of education was very good.

The kids have fun and learn something too.

The two children who have grown up also appear to be smart and smart.

With Ciel's teachings, they are more cheerful and sensible than girls of the same age.

Moreover, the manners they displayed did not come from the discipline of sticks, but from their heartfelt trust in what they were learning.

Lovna also followed the guidance and finally learned some basic arithmetic and writing, as well as some grammatical knowledge.This level actually exceeds that of many local nobles.

Sirna has made rapid progress.She is already smart, but without the pressure of her mother, she learns in a relaxed way, which makes her more efficient and makes faster progress.

By the time she was ten years old, she had mastered the math skills of Shire's middle and high school, and could even do four-digit multiplication and division in her head.

They all thought this was a good teaching from Ciel.

However, as time goes by, Ciel will inevitably feel slack.

In order to keep the two children's learning fresh, he had to update a batch of cards and chess pieces with different illustrations every once in a while, and write a new story book and setting collection.

But the stories he made up would always be exhausted, and in a poor place like Ipoli, it was difficult to get cardboard for making pop-up books, paint for painting, tools for woodworking...Especially the paint for painting is a complete luxury product.

The Ciel could not always rely on the king's bounty and the support of Prince Norn.

They have already given Ciel a lot of funds, and it is not appropriate to ask them for money again.

They also won't understand why they have to spend so much money and do so much unnecessary work just to entertain two children.

Therefore, in order to get extra funds, Charles could only get busy.

He needs to write documents to the local nobles, conduct weddings and funerals, help local priests say mass, communicate with merchants... Only in this way can he get money and buy what he needs.

Among these troublesome things that can annoy people to death, only Sirna can help him.

She can write beautiful calligraphy, and can use magic to clean the house and arrange the furniture for Charles.Therefore, it is inevitable for Ciel to be partial to Sirna.He will praise her more and ask her to write invitations and documents for him.

She can also use spells to induce the fruit trees in front of the courtyard to grow sweet fruits.

When satisfying the appetite, it can also be sold extra, bringing considerable income to Shire.

As for Lovna, she is still quite envious of Sirna's magical talent.But as she grew older, she also read Teacher Ciel's magic book. Despite Sirna's help, she still couldn't learn anything.

Only then did she truly realize the difficulty of learning magic—she might not really have this talent.

Moreover, in life, all she can do is make some cheese with her mother and give it to Teacher Charles to satisfy her hunger.

Her handwriting was crooked and her arithmetic was only adequate.

When Ciel and Silna were looking at the accounts sadly, she could only wait by and could not help them;

After Teacher Charles returned home exhausted from finishing a lot of work, she could not serve out sweet fruits like Hilna, or wave her hand to make a delicious iced drink and give it to the teacher to quench her thirst;

After Teacher Charles took out the tabletop game rule book and started a day of adventure, she was unable to cope with the increasingly difficult levels during the adventure.

Even though Teacher Charles carefully taught her how to solve the problem, she could only give an unclear answer while sweating profusely - in the end, she could only see a slightly disappointed look in Charles's eyes.

However, Hilna can always overcome obstacles in the game and easily pass all the levels set by Teacher Charles.

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Lovna began to feel a little panicked.

As she grew older, she began to understand.The carefree smile on her face began to diminish.

The older she grew, the more powerless and mediocre she felt.

The behavior of following Mr. Charles and happily asking for rewards has become less and less, so that it no longer exists.

As for Hilna, she is living more and more happily.

Because she really used the knowledge she learned to help the people she wanted to help.

In this way, the three of them spent several years in such a somewhat difficult but generally peaceful life.

The girls also grew up slowly.

…………

Much later, when recalling that time, Ciel would regret his unconscious partiality.

He should have discovered Lovna's psychological changes earlier.

He should design a course for her that is more in line with her abilities, and give her the opportunity to help herself, so that she can gain the same sense of accomplishment and satisfaction as Sirna.

But it's too late.

Was it during that time that he planted the seeds of inferiority and doubt in the heart of Lovna, who was supposed to be carefree and extremely optimistic?

Could it be that since then, the friendship and affection between her and Sirna had produced the fruit of jealousy?

maybe.

16. The market on the edge of Ipoli

It’s another year of winter festivals.

Every gathering place of human civilization will hold large-scale celebrations during the long and eventless winter to vent the depression and annoyance of the cold season, and to vent all the fatigue and stress of the year at this moment.

The first snow of the year had fallen not long ago, and the roads were still covered in slippery ice.The priest and his colleagues hung up a religious painting symbolizing the Eternal Heavenly Father at the door of the church, set up an altar, set up a donation box, and patiently waited for devout believers with spare money to come and send money.

Farmers who serve various noble landowners rarely have some free time. They can take a breath when they are too busy, gather around the fields, drink some low-quality private wine, and complain to each other about their endless life.