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Therefore, it is very likely that he never told anyone present, including his main god.

Telling the secret arrangement of the youth on such occasions will only annoy the other party.

The various changes Chios brought to Ais, as well as his deliberate concealment of his acquaintance with Tifa, and his behavior of using this connection to divert the main force of the Loki family really reduced his impression in Riveria's heart.

However, Riveria came to negotiate, the purpose was to obtain an agreement acceptable to both parties, not to declare war.

What's more, it is precisely because I know that the youth city in front of me is beyond imagination, so I need to be more careful in dealing with it.

"Chios, can we talk alone?"

The elf royal family asked in a calm tone as if discussing business.

"...Okay." Chios nodded, who had no intention of letting irrelevant people stay, and was completely waiting for the other party to speak first.

The bone china teacup was gently put back on the base cup tray, and a look of apology naturally appeared on his face, as if he was just respecting the visitor's request, rather than wanting to do it himself.

"Sophia, after confirming that the equipment is all right, lead the team and set off. God Hestia, Estier, and Naza, can I trouble you to go to the bustling street to pass the time?"

"understood."

Picking up the rope for climbing the vertical hole, and hanging the alchemy potion bag on the left and right sides of the belt respectively, the cold-tempered dual swordsman simply responded, gestured for the team to follow, and then walked out of the house neatly.

On the other side, the goddess who didn't expect that she would also have to be excluded, stopped in mid-air with the fourth snack she just took in her hand, and looked at Chios and Riveria repeatedly.

Realizing that she may not be able to see through Chios's mind, she carefully examined the latter's reaction.

"Well, well..."

Hestia was finally relieved after staring at it for a few seconds without seeing any signs of ambiguity.

She patted the biscuit crumbs on her clothes and jumped off the sofa.

"Recently, I heard that there is a jewelry store near the Stegwart Theater with good craftsmanship. I just went to have a look. If you find something you like, I will credit you."

"No problem, as long as I don't go bankrupt, you can just buy it."

"You can rest assured about this point, even if we accidentally buy the entire store, it will be very difficult for you to run a deficit this month..."

Miss Ward, who is now in charge of the family's finances, left this sentence with a smile, and eagerly pushed the dog-eared girl beside her, and left the scene with the main god.

The sound of footsteps gradually faded away, blending into the vague hustle and bustle of the street outside the courtyard...

"Please sit..."

Chios poured a cup of black tea for Riveria and placed it opposite.

Lean back on the back of the chair, cross your hands and fingers in front of you.

"So, which topic are you going to start with?"

"Of course it's about Tifa..."

Matters related to the entire family are undoubtedly the first priority for Riveria.

"It's not a problem for her to join our Loki family. Cases where adventurers and friends belong to different factions are not uncommon in cities. But Tifa and you are more than that, and pretend that they don't know each other, deliberately making us ignore you two. What is the motive behind the human connection?"

"motivation?"

As if he found it interesting, Chios pondered over the word carefully.

"As one of the strongest Families of Olali, the Loki Familia is famous far and wide. Even though I was born in a small and distant country, I have heard a lot about your active deeds. And unlike your competitor, the Freya Familia, your main god seems to like to intervene Meddling in other people's business, digging out secrets, whether done for your own pleasure or a pure sense of justice, is trouble in my opinion..."

As he spoke, he flicked the inertia ball on the table with his fingers.

咑, 咑, 咑...

The left and right ball pendulum hits the metal beads connected in the center alternately, producing a regular sound like a metronome, and the cycle repeats.

"For me, who built a new faction from nothing, the Loki family is too powerful. As long as you stand on the opposite side, my way forward will be difficult. To avoid this situation, the only way I can What I do is to strengthen the friendship with the Loki family as much as possible."

"Tifa's joining you is to build a bridge of communication. Through her kindness to me, she can influence the attitude of other members of the Loki family to a certain extent. However, if we want to resonate with others, the two of us have already Knowing this has to be concealed."

"You mean, letting Tifa into our Familia is purely to promote friendship between the two sides? There is no other intention at all?"

The elf royal family couldn't believe the young man's statement.

"Otherwise, treat you as enemies? What can I do with my meager strength? Besides, there is no conflict of interest between me and the Loki family, so doing so will not benefit at all."

"What about intelligence?"

"What information can she steal..." Chios shrugged and asked the other party.

"She should not have the right to check the financial revenue and expenditure of the Loki family. The entire content of the labyrinth mutation is open to me. Why should I investigate the body data of the female members? Regardless of whether I am bored to that point or not, you think Tifa will agree. ?"

"Who is telling you this? I mean, like this time you transferred us away with deep monster information, without telling us about dealing with the Ishtar family alone on the surface."

Feeling that Chios was avoiding the important and taking the light, trying to divert the topic, Riveria got angry.

A lot of dissatisfaction with the youth that has been suppressed and accumulated for days poured into my mind.

"In the end, you're always cheating..." She held onto her overheated forehead, her eyes showing a little tiredness.

"I don't know Tifa, I treat Ais as my sister, and I still still...why don't you want to say something sincere to me? You can get better results if you say it directly, but you insist on covering it up with lies." everything."

"Your argument is actually based on the position of after-the-fact evaluation..." Chios looked away.

The sudden change in Riveria's tone made it difficult for him to adapt for a while.

"Don't make trust seem easy to do. If people believed it so easily, our language wouldn't be so complicated."

Chapter 670 Seventh? Secret Technique? Repeated Horizontal Jump

Originally, the atmosphere of going around in circles around the affairs of the two families, testing each other's attitudes a little bit, became a bit stiff because of Riveria's steep personal emotions.

Although the pace was accidentally disrupted, Chios finally found his footing again in a short time.

"Since you prefer the cold truth to soft lies..."

Restraining unnecessary touches, the young man who made up his mind to carry out the plan to the end, turned his eyes back to the elf royal family.

It is indeed quite lethal for a woman who gives an impression of intellectuality and independence to suddenly reveal her soft side.However, he has long passed the childish age where people will be led by the nose because of this.

"Then I will do as you wish, and tell you frankly..."

With these words, the gentleness and kindness on the young man's face quickly peeled off.

Only the indifference of glaciers and frozen earth remains.

"Based on my own suspicions, I asked Tifa to investigate the distribution of monsters in the deep layer. After confirming that many clues point to the safe floor in the deep layer, I asked her to list all the doubts to you. Afterwards, the expeditionary army encountered the monster army on the 50th floor. It is enough to prove that my inference is correct, and you are not in vain."

"Judging from the results, not only did you achieve the goal of boosting the morale of the city, you successfully wiped out a large number of deep-level monsters that may attack first-level adventurers without anyone falling down, and you also discovered the relationship between Tifa and me through the source of information. From then on , I can no longer influence your decision-making through Tifa. Based on all the above information, the Loki family can say that there is no loss at all. The main force has been transferred, at best, you have passively exchanged benefits with me."

"Please remember, the reason why you can put on a high profile to accuse me is because you know that I still value the friendship with the Loki family, and I feel somewhat guilty about the deception. If we are ordinary partners or enemies, even if we find out later Thoughts are induced, and Finn will admit at most that he was not thinking well, but he will never send someone to talk to me. Likewise, I have no reason to spend time listening to you complain."

Hearing this, Riveria was stunned for a moment.

The implication...

They can only blame their own stupidity for being kept in the dark, not to mention that Tifa did not cause harm to the Loki family, and did not kill half of the expeditionary army from beginning to end.If it weren't for the friendship between the two parties, Chios would never sit here and let Riveria question him.

Without waiting for the elf royal family to reply, the young man went on to say:

"If you can't hold back this tone, you can try to persuade the main god Loki to expel Tifa from the family. Although she has not joined the Loki family for less than a year, I believe that the current guild is very willing to forgive you. "

If the guild leader, who is worrying about how to curb the expansion of Chios' power, knows about this, he will definitely hope that the Loki family will immediately cut off all ties with the Hestia family, so that they can completely move closer to the management organization.

At least one of the two major factions of King's Landing Olalie must fall to the guild, so that Royman will have the confidence to stay at the poker table and compete with Chios on the same stage.

"If I didn't want to maintain friendship with the Loki family, I would be reluctant to give up such precious combat power to others. You should not be so shameless, while enjoying the contribution of my free dispatch of talents in the past, while thinking about how to morally override Press me..."

At this point, Chios no longer needs soft restraint against the Loki family as much as in the past.

At the moment when the personnel arrangement was exposed, Tifa's continued stay in the Loki family only had the meaning of a symbol of friendship, and had no other significant effect.

Converting to the Hestia Familia and raising the evaluation to A in one go is indeed a way.

The young man raised his feet and rested his left elbow on his knee.

Resting his chin on the back of his hand, he looked at the woman across from him, and calmly stated his conclusion on this topic:

"Give her back to me, and we will have a happy competitive relationship from now on. On the contrary, if you choose to let her stay in the Loki family, you can treat this incident as a prank by a friend. After all, there is no need to be a little depressed, Ruin a hard-earned friendship, no?"

Unless the two sides are prepared to break up and resolutely go to confrontation, otherwise even if you don't want to bear it, you have to endure it...

The message was delivered clearly and without error.

"..."

Riveria, who has been an adventurer for decades, can naturally understand the viewpoints discussed by Chios.

From the perspective of faction cooperation, there is nothing wrong with holding such a realistic idea.

Adventurers have never been the benchmark of virtue, they are professional groups who have no shame even if they drag monsters to other unrelated people for "monster gifts" in order to keep themselves alive.

Citizens of Orario recognize that a group of adventurers with different personalities have a high social status because the behavior of defeating monsters is equivalent to protecting the safety of the city in disguise, and the magic stones dropped by monsters are closely related to economic prosperity, not because of their character. noble.

If it were any other head of the family, Riveria would never have any extra expectations.

However, since Chios came to Orario, all the impressions given to him are completely different from most adventurers, and this young man is still Ais's favorite...

The superposition of the two phases greatly raised Riveria's psychological expectations of Chios's character.

Because of this, when you find out that the other party is lying and concealing, you will be particularly annoyed.

Because of this, it is extremely disappointing to hear young people speaking confidently.

a moment of silence...

"I really never thought that I would hear such words from you..."

The cup of black tea placed on the table in front of the woman's seat is still slowly steaming white...

But all she feels is the cold...

Finally, he understood Chios's true thoughts, and got the confession he wanted as he wished.

The truth is chilling.

"I'm also sorry that neither of the two explanations can satisfy you." Chios replied pretendingly indifferently.

"Looks like we don't have much to talk about."

Grabbing the magic wand resting on the table with her slender hand, Riveria got up and left the table.

After knowing the attitude of the other party, she didn't even want to mention Ai Si's matter...

Spending too much time talking to this kind of person is purely a waste of effort, why not try to enlighten Aisi and let her realize how bad Chios is.

"Wait."

"What else do you want to say?" The elf royal family looked back with some displeasure.

"I know you may not want to accept it, but it's not easy to let you go back empty-handed..."

As Chios said, he opened the desk drawer, took out a beautiful document with gold stamping on the edge, and stamped with the emblems of the Hestia family and the Ward family in the lower right corner, and handed it over.

"This is my request to the deputy head to sort out the suppliers of the supplementary supplies you urgently need based on your family's industry consumption records under the name of the Chamber of Commerce in the second half of the year. With the seal on this document, you can use the cost until the end of next year. Purchase the specified goods at the same price as all merchants listed on the list."

Confused by Chios' erratic attitude, Riveria is at a loss with priceless documents.

"But... don't you feel indebted to us at all? The tone just now, after all..."

"Of course, I lied to you."

A wicked smile appeared on the corner of Chios' mouth.

"Who made you look like a businessman, and came to me to blackmail and blackmail. Obviously you didn't admit it, why should I accept your accusation like the only person who did something wrong?"

"Now do you feel embarrassed that you almost got angry and walked away? Can you share with me how you feel at this time?"

Chapter 670 Eight? Is this man a ghost?

Faced with Chios' repeated questioning, Rivilia, who was standing in the center of the reception room, held a document stamped with the emblems of members of the consortium council and the deputy speaker, and her sharp ears suddenly turned red.

Cheeks also seemed to be on fire.

"You, why are you so childish?"

"I'm still young, so it's not surprising that I'm still a little childish, right?"

Chios replied with a playful smile on his face.

Hearing this, Riveria's blood rushed to her forehead, and she suddenly felt dizzy.