Quadruple split.

Chapter 639

at the same time
Chauvin Empire, King's Capital Troon, Mansion of the Lord of Sin
The dark elf girl in casual clothes was leaning against a night laurel tree, looking at the full moon looming under the thin clouds in the midair with some ecstasy.

"hostess."

Liv Astor, whose pseudonym was Dawn, quietly appeared behind her, handed over a delicate and soft cloak, and said in a low voice, "It just rained yesterday, and the night is cooler."

Ji Xiaodao nodded, took the cloak from Li Fu casually and put it on his shoulders, and glanced at the latter casually with his cold bright red eyes: "Thank you, but you also know that this degree of chill It doesn't affect me in any way."

"Perhaps you are right."

Li Fu smiled slightly, bowed slightly and said, "But I believe that Your Excellency the Sin Lord would like to see you add more clothes."

Ji Xiaodao also laughed, the corners of his mouth curled up in a playful arc, his voice was much colder than the surrounding temperature: "I thought that after such a long time, Mr. Astor, you have somewhat understood 'your Your Excellency, it's just that now...it's not the case."

"I apologize if I have offended you."

Li Fu shook his head apologetically, stood beside Ji Xiaodao with an impeccable and decent posture, and said softly: "I thought you might be happier if you said what you said just now."

"So you don't know me well enough, Mr. Astor, even though you are indeed an impeccable housekeeper."

Ji Xiaodao brushed off two strands of hair floating in front of his forehead, and said lightly: "But this does not mean that you can easily figure out every woman's mind, such as judging that I have feelings for someone based on subjective conjectures." Such things as love are quite outrageous judgments, and outrageous judgments will make your good intentions ridiculous."

"Keep in mind."

Li Fu smiled, and said with sincere admiration: "I have to say, whether it is your Excellency or the hostess, your level of concealing or disguising your character is beyond my reach."

Ji Xiaodao snorted lightly, raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you miss your 'before' mistress?"

"You're worrying too much."

Li Fu immediately shook his head, and said sincerely: "I just suddenly discovered that you are willing to seriously communicate with me or anyone else only when the topic involves your Excellency."

Ji Xiaodao froze for a moment, then gave Li Fu a half-smile and said, "Teach me a lesson."

The latter smiled slightly: "Don't dare."

"Speak the truth."

Ji Xiaodao sighed softly, suppressed his smile and said seriously: "Now you, you probably wouldn't make a special trip to find me just to send a cloak, would you?"

Li Fu nodded, and said in a deep voice, "I want to know how John Martin is doing."

"That guy who is a remnant of the Sun Dynasty like you?"

Ji Xiaodao lightly caressed the cracked skin of the laurel tree next to him, and said casually, "Aren't you going to see it yourself?"

Li Fu frowned, his face seemed a little apprehensive: "I did go to see him, he seems to be in good condition at first glance, but"

"That's right, Mo did exert some influence on him, similar to what he did to Duke Forsyth three months ago, but that was just an extra insurance. After all, he is different from you and is not qualified to act as a That guy is the medium for communicating with other Sun Dynasty remnants, so if you want to keep him alive, it is already the most gentle way to clean his memory with [Original Sin].”

Ji Xiaodao waved his hand, his tone seemed a little impatient: "Didn't you have contacted Garros and Galahat a long time ago, why don't you worry?"

Li Fu nodded and fell silent.

Seeing that he hadn't left, Ji Xiaodao asked again, "What else is there?"

"Tianzhu Mountain sent me instructions a few days ago, asking me to provide all the details of the previous counter-insurgency war."

"Has Mo told you anything about this matter alone?"

"No."

"Then how to report how to report."

"Yes, there is also the fact that Master Merlin has completed the preliminary work of making a trial puppet two hours ago. I hope you or your Excellency can go there when you have time. That's all."

Li Fu's eyes flickered for a moment, and his javelin-like standing posture became a little out of shape when the word "Master Merlin" was mentioned, as if he was forcibly controlling himself not to tremble.

"I see, go and write your report."

Ji Xiaodao nodded expressionlessly, then waved Li Fu to leave.

Five minutes later, in front of the study in the mansion of the sinner
"Miss Silent Prayer."

A woman with soft blond hair and a pretty face leaned slightly towards Ji Xiaodao, and performed a heroic-looking courtesy, which did not match the elegantly colored long dress on her.

The latter nodded slightly, and asked softly to the woman in front of him, "How is your health?"

The pale-skinned ex-sun sect paladin Dora Shika smiled peacefully, shook his head and said, "Master Merlin's potion is very useful, except that the control of power is not in place, there is no What's wrong."

"Ah That's good"

Ji Xiaodao first breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly frowned and said, "Wait a minute, is the medicine he prepared for you to suppress rejection or relieve pain?"

Dora shrugged: "It accelerates the fusion efficiency. Master Merlin wrote in the note attached to the medicine box. As long as you continue to take it, you can fully control your own power within a month at most."

"so what?"

Ji Xiaodao's expression was a little gloomy, and he asked: "Can that thing slow down the rejection? Or... not only will it not slow down, but it will even make you suffer more pain?"

Dora didn't answer, but just shrugged her shoulders indifferently.

"Two months ago, when the rejection first started, you couldn't even get out of bed."

Ji Xiaodao stared at Dora's watery black eyes, and said coldly: "And now you are still cooperating with that lunatic Merlin in trying to make your body completely absorb that power."

"But these days I can get out of bed and go for a walk in the yard."

"You're just holding on, that pain"

"That pain is nothing."

Dora didn't let Ji Xiaodao finish speaking, but interrupted seriously: "At least for me, this is the case."

The two stood in front of the study and looked at each other for more than ten seconds, and as Dora's gaze became more determined, Ji Xiaodao finally took the lead to look away.

"Is it worth it?"

She asked.

"You don't have faith, so you don't know what it's like to be betrayed by your faith."

Dora nodded, and said softly: "I have lost the favor of the so-called gods, while those superiors who have abandoned the teachings can still bathe in the grace of God without any scruples. Isn't it absurd?"

"so what?"

"That's why I am willing to be Your Excellency's sharp sword, to witness that he crushes the absurd grace and overthrows the high kingdom of God."

Dora looked up at the drowsy sky, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised: "Perhaps I don't have the qualifications, but at least I can witness this great deed in a closer place by working hard. Compared with it, this degree of pain is really It's too insignificant."

Ji Xiaodao stared blankly at Dora, and sighed softly after a long time: "Has his power still affected you in the end?"

"Perhaps, but I can assure you that I have never been sober."

Dora shrugged noncommittally, and smiled at Ji Xiaodao: "As the first person to stand beside Your Excellency, Miss Ji Prayer, you don't need to feel sad for your changes, right?"

Ji Xiaodao suddenly laughed, nodded and said: "Yes, from my current standpoint, any words of comfort are tantamount to hypocrisy or self-deception. I'm sorry, Dora, I said some strange things just now."

"You don't have to apologize."

Dora shook her head, and said softly: "Your Excellency gave me this life. That innocent Dora Shika died long ago in the tribunal under the City of Light, and I, who was recreated by Your Excellency, is the only one. My wish is to carry out all your will."

"Even if he's wrong?"

"Even if he's wrong."

"You can turn back."

"No, the one who can turn back is you, Miss Silent Prayer, I know that you are different from my lord, Lord Gallows, and have never been affected by your power."

A flash of envy flashed in Dora's dark eyes, she turned her head to look at the closed door behind her, and said softly: "Since I chose to let you erase part of my memory three months ago, and made an oath From the moment you become his guardian knight, there is no going back."

Ji Xiaodao's pupils shrank a bit: "Erase memory?"

"Oh, it has actually recovered. When the first rejection appeared."

Dora smiled slightly, and lightly squeezed her slender hands that were incompatible with the word knight: "But it doesn't matter, after all, that innocent me has long since died, so even if I think about some things again, they won't be a burden anymore. "

Ji Xiaodao, who didn't know how to react, could only nod his head, and then reluctantly stopped talking about the topic that might hurt Dora, and asked softly, "Did you go to see Mo just now?"

"No, it's just that Master Merlin suggested that it's best to be closer to your Excellency within half an hour after taking the medicine. Miss Ji Prayer, don't think too much about it."

Dora blinked narrowly at Ji Xiaodao, and then walked slowly to her room after saluting the latter.

And Ji Xiaodao asked Dora's back after being silent for a few seconds: "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Well, if it's Miss Ji Prayer"

Dora's footsteps paused slightly, then she turned her head and smiled at Ji Xiaodao: "If you can occasionally accompany me to practice for a while when you are free, I will be very grateful."

"fighting?"

"It's good to learn from the end."

"Accelerate fusion?"

"Exactly."

"You can do it today."

Ji Xiaodao nodded slightly, and said lightly: "If you are not in a hurry to rest, after His Royal Highness Arthur leaves, I will go find you."

"Then I wait for you."

Dora smiled, and then went on to her room.

And Ji Xiaodao stopped in place for a while, then turned and walked into the study.
"Dora Shika became what he is now, and you planned it all by yourself?"

The girl casually pulled out a chair and sat down in front of the long table piled with parchment, looking at the culprit in front of her with complicated eyes.

"Just follow the trend."

Mo casually picked up a report that Ji Xiaodao personally sent earlier, flipping through it casually and said nonchalantly: "She is an interesting test subject."

Ji Xiaodao narrowed his eyes slightly, with a slight sarcasm in his tone: "Oh? What's the result of the 'experiment'?"

"Not successfully, but you don't need to know more details."

Mo casually burned the information in his hand to ashes, closed his eyes and leaned back on the chair lazily, and said lazily: "Before Arthur Bohe arrives, clean up this place a little bit."

Ji Xiaodao didn't move, but just stared at the eyes behind the ink mask that rarely showed emotion: "So, if you don't turn Dora into a test subject, she will definitely die, right? "

"tomorrow."

Mo didn't intend to answer the question at all, but just instructed himself: "Let the people of Viper bring the newly developed things of Merlin to Gawen, and deliver them to her within seven days."

For some reason, Ji Xiaodao seemed relieved, and then he stood up and carefully sorted the pile of parchments on the table that were not really messy, stacked them up and put them into the cabinet, and continued to ask: "So you just chose the relatively bad one between saving her and destroying her. As for the others, it's all just a coincidence?"

"You don't fit here."

Those black eyes that seem to be able to drag people into a bottomless abyss stared at Ji Xiaodao calmly.

"If by 'here' you mean 'beside you,' I very much agree."

The girl waved a breeze and sent the little dust on the ground out of the window. She leaned against the edge of the table on Mo's left, folded her arms and smiled, "But my idea of ​​leaving 'here' is still getting weaker every day. Even I don't know the reason, but from an objective point of view, it's really cheap."

Mo closed his eyes, leaned on the back of the chair like a doze, and said nothing.

"If it's for purer purposes such as equipment and levels, it seems reasonable."

Ji Xiaodao slightly turned his head to look at Mo's side face, and said with a smile: "It seems reasonable for Astor to think that I have feelings for you, but if you really want to say why, in fact, even I can't even explain myself"

"madness."

Mo, who was pretending to be asleep, tapped the armrest lightly, but Ji Xiaodao, who was sitting on the edge of the table with his legs crossed, was knocked down from the air.

"Stupid?"

The girl nimbly walked around behind the chair of the culprit, turned her back to the latter and looked out at the boundless darkness outside the window: "This is a good reason, maybe the reason why I have been able to stay here until now is really just because of stupidity. That's all."

"You'll regret it, Silent Prayer."

"I regretted it a long time ago, Mo."

Chapter [-]: The End

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