Otto reached for the teacup on the table, but Luo Chen slapped his hand away.
"If you want a drink, pour it yourself. Do you expect your teacher to pour it for you personally? Dream on!"
"Okay then, but teacher, could you please not be so childish?"
Otto picked up the teapot and poured two cups of black tea, handing one of them to Eleanor behind him.
Eleanor thanked him, looked at the still steaming black tea in her cup, and took a small sip.
"Is it good? I got this from that guy Francis."
Eleanor nodded slightly. She had only met Luo Chen a few times, and most of what she knew about him came from Otto. At most, she had been dragged along to eat cake with him yesterday.
"So you want this girl to train with me for a few days? Can't you train her yourself? Don't tell me you've slacked off on your training."
When Luo Chen said the last sentence, his voice noticeably lowered. If Otto answered yes, he wouldn't mind taking out the simulated Black Abyss White Flower and poking a few holes in him.
"How could that be! How could I slack off on the training arranged by the teacher? Karen went out, and I thought I had nothing to do recently, so I thought I would go out to treat the Black Death and collect samples to see if it has mutated."
Otto was almost drenched in sweat. Luo Chen's tone just now clearly indicated that he was going to beat someone up! Although his physical fitness was already very high, he couldn't help but feel that Luo Chen's hits really hurt.
“You can train her on the road, and aren’t you afraid of encountering danger if you go alone?”
Hearing Luo Chen's words, Otto shook his head. Having Luo Chen train Eleanor was only a secondary purpose; the main purpose was to have him help look after Eleanor.
"Eleanor, could you go somewhere else first? I have some private matters to discuss with my teacher."
"I understand."
Eleanor left the yard and stood guard by the gate. Otto sighed heavily only after confirming that she couldn't hear him.
"Actually, my main concern is that you, teacher, help me change Eleanor's personality. Sometimes she's too straightforward, even more stubborn than Karen."
"Really? I didn't notice much yesterday."
Luo Chen glanced at Otto, then at Eleanor outside the door, stroked his chin a few times, and nodded in agreement.
"I can agree to that, but I don't know how much I can change it to."
"It's alright, as long as you agreed, teacher. I've already given Eleanor a long leave of absence, so she can stay with you for the time being."
As soon as Otto finished speaking, Luo Chen turned his head around and stared at him with a questioning look: "Are you serious? She has nowhere to live by herself?"
"Isn't this more convenient? I told the bishop that Eleanor would be going out with me, and it would be a bit bad if they found out I was lying."
Luo Chen stared into Otto's eyes, wondering what Otto was thinking all day long.
"I'm really fed up with you. Get lost, go as far away as you can, I don't want to see you right now."
Luo Chen released his grip, Otto's smile particularly glaring in his eyes. He's already starting to stuff strange things into his hands; no wonder he'll always treat him like a tool later.
"Okay, I'm off now."
Otto got up, straightened his clothes, caught sight of the tea canister Luo Chen had placed on the table, stuffed it into his clothes with lightning speed, and ran out the door.
"Eleanor, you'll be staying at the teacher's house for the next few days, huh? I'm off!"
"Otto the dog, come back here right now!"
Luo Chen stood up and shouted, looking at Otto's back and Eleanor at the door, and finally smiled helplessly. He could talk a good game about his own apprentice, but he was actually reluctant to actually do it—except for Otto, of course.
"Never mind, I'll just go to Francis's and grab another box next time. Eleanor, come in here."
"Yes."
Eleanor carried a small box into the courtyard and stood solemnly in front of Luo Chen. She constantly reminded herself that the person in front of her was Lord Otto's teacher, and that due respect was essential.
"Don't be so nervous, I'm not going to eat you."
Luo Chen took Eleanor's box and put it on the ground. He pointed to the chair Otto had just been sitting in and told Eleanor to sit down.
"Make yourself at home, have a seat."
"Thank you, Lord Luo Chen."
Eleanor sat down and secretly glanced at Luo Chen, only to find that Luo Chen was watching her the whole time.
"Lord Luo Chen, is there something on my face? Why are you staring at me?"
"No, don't you have anything you want to ask?"
Eleanor shook her head, her face still expressionless, sitting there like a robot.
'This is difficult.'
Luo Chen took another sip of tea, thinking to himself. Eleanor's current state was truly giving Luo Chen a headache, and the thought of her voluntarily transforming into a Honkai Beast to stop Kallen in the story only made it worse.
"You can stay in the house over there. I'll go and help you tidy up."
Luo Chen pointed to a small house on the left, and was about to take a step when Eleanor stopped him and went over there herself.
"Stop, stop, stop. I'll do this. You sit down."
Luo Chen pressed Eleanor back down, his attitude extremely firm. Eleanor had no choice but to sit there and watch Luo Chen go into the room and tinker for a long time.
"Okay, you can put your suitcase in now."
Eleanor took the box inside, put it away, and then came back. She saw Luo Chen standing in the courtyard, holding a knife. When he saw Eleanor come out, he beckoned to her.
"Let's have a match, so I can see what you're made of."
Eleanor assumed a fighting stance, holding two daggers in her hands. Luo Chen wondered if these things could really get into his body.
"You're going to hit me with this? Why don't you use this instead?"
Luo Chen produced a black abyss white flower in his hand and threw it at Eleanor, where it pierced straight into the ground.
Eleanor stared at the Black Abyss White Flower in front of her, her mind going blank for a second. Wasn't this thing sealed away in her own home? Where did Luo Chen get it?
"Surprised? Don't worry, there will be many more surprises for you in the next few days."
Luo Chen twirled his sword, the tip ultimately pointing at Eleanor. Eleanor pulled out the Black Abyss White Flower, splitting it into the Black Abyss and the White Flower. Holding the Black Abyss, she reinserted the White Flower into the ground.
It wasn't that she didn't want to use the White Flower, it's just that she hadn't fully mastered the weapon yet, although she knew how to use the Black Abyss.
Eleanor charged forward, but before Black Abyss's thrust could reach her, Luo Chen slashed at Eleanor's neck, forcing her to pull back to Black Abyss and use the butt of its gun to block Luo Chen's blade.
The longsword sparked as it struck the Black Abyss. Eleanor deflected Luo Chen's attack, swung the Black Abyss around, and swept it towards Luo Chen's waist.
With lightning speed, the longsword sliced through the abyss. Eleanor felt a strange force surge into her hand, and the next second her attack was so easily neutralized.
Before Eleanor could adjust, Luo Chen stepped forward and unleashed a horizontal slash, forcing Eleanor to dodge backward.
Eleanor dodged Luo Chen's knife, pointed her spear directly at Luo Chen, and thrust it forward with force.
Hei Yuan and Eleanor passed through Luo Chen together. Eleanor looked at the open space in front of her in disbelief, made a decision in a very short time, abandoned Hei Yuan, took out a dagger, gripped it in reverse, turned around and stabbed Luo Chen.
Ke Luochen reacted even faster. He turned around, grabbed Eleanor's arm, and interrupted her as she raised her leg to knee strike, disarming her and finally letting go.
"Not bad. There's very little I can teach you about combat. Go back and sit down."
Luo Chen returned the dagger to Eleanor, clapped his hands, and the black abyss and flowers on the ground disappeared, leaving only two holes to prove that they had existed.
Luo Chen returned to the stone table and sat down, poured two cups of tea, and handed one of them to Eleanor.
“Otto doesn’t know when he’ll be back, so you’ll stay here with me until he does. My training method for you is to spar with me every day until Otto returns or you reach a level that satisfies me, and then it can end.”
Chapter 264: Belief Needs No Reason
"Lord Luo Chen, there is something I would like to ask you."
One morning, Eleanor finished her duel with Luo Chen, put down her spear, and called out to Luo Chen.
"what happened?"
Luo Chen didn't turn around. He poured two cups of tea next to the table, handed one to Eleanor, and then sat down, inviting her to come over and talk.
"So, what kind of person is Lord Otto?"
Eleanor thought about it for a few days and finally decided to ask, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep well.
What kind of person do you think he is?
Luo Chen smiled faintly, stood up from the chair, and walked around the courtyard with his hands behind his back.
"Is he a master strategist in everything? Or is he always careless and irresponsible? Or is he ruthless in achieving his goals?"
Luo Chen recalled every meeting he had with Otto before. The feeling he got from Otto five hundred years later was completely different from the one he got now, as if they were two different people.
"I can't say what kind of person he is; you have to find out for yourself."
Luo Chen looked at the long sword he had stuck in the ground, walked over and pulled it out.
"But there's one thing I can tell you: Otto cares about you quite a bit, otherwise he wouldn't have brought you here."
Luo Chen sheathed his sword, tossed it aside, pulled the deck chair to the center of the yard, and sat down to bask in the sun.
Eleanor held the cup without moving. She felt that Luo Chen's words had a hidden meaning. Wasn't Otto sent her here to train her? Did he have other purposes?
Luo Chen didn't disturb Eleanor, letting her think it over slowly. He closed his eyes, feeling the sunlight on his body. This kind of pleasant day was really too comfortable.
"Eleanor, what do you think of Destiny?"
Luo Chen suddenly spoke, and Eleanor was stunned for a moment, seriously considering the question Luo Chen had raised.
"I do not know."
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