Guild Boss's Ambition

"Senior Annie, you guys take your time chatting, we're leaving first──"

"You are so lucky, senior. It is really enviable that a junior will wait for you after get off work."

Amid the teasing sounds of my colleagues, gradually, Gu Shan and I were the only ones left in the locker room.

She was unusually quiet today. She just smiled as she watched me change my clothes. I couldn't help but feel a little confused and vaguely uneasy. I began to have an uneasy premonition in my heart.

The reason why she hasn't appeared in the past few days seems to be that she is secretly planning other things.

After changing my clothes silently in the girl's sight, I pretended to be calm and broke the silence with a calm tone, asking her: "Why are you waiting for me so late? Is there something important?"

However, this imaginative girl made such an exclamation.

"Senior, you have a really nice figure──"

So she was just peeping at me changing clothes?

I really lost to her...

"You came to the lounge so late, could it be that you wanted to watch me change clothes?"

"That is certainly one of the goals of the trip! But there is another thing that is more important──"

"Hmm?" I raised my eyebrows, motioning for her to continue.

At this moment, the playful smile on the girl's face was completely gone. Instead, she stared at me with an indescribable look in her eyes. There was no longer a sunflower-like smile on her lips, but just two slightly curved arcs upward, like the ordinary and beautiful chrysanthemums in the countryside. She seemed like a young girl, not the Gu Shan I knew.

"Tonight, I'm here to apologize to you, Senior Annie." She said softly.

"Apologize?" I asked.

As if she had rehearsed countless times, Gu Shan stood up straight and bowed to me. The arc of her bow was as precise as Xiao Lan's usual one. Perhaps this was the movement that Xiao Lan taught her. However, how much motivation did it take for the active Gu Shan to take the initiative to learn these complicated etiquette? Why -

Why is this little girl working so hard for me?

Why should she change herself because of me?

"There are actually many things I need to apologize for, and there are many things I hope you can forgive me for, whether it was getting drunk in the bartender last time, or how I allowed myself to get close to you even though I knew you would feel pain. In short, I have always been grateful for your care, and I have always caused trouble for you..."

The little girl in the floral dress slowly walked up to me. The faint scent of milk shower gel told me that she had washed herself not long ago. Although it was midnight, her hair was not at all messy. It was obvious that she had carefully combed it beforehand. It was just like a girl who was going on a date with a boy and spent a lot of time to tidy up her appearance.

"Therefore, today I want to especially and solemnly say sorry to my seniors, and thank you again."

While apologizing, the girl with red hair also handed me a paper bag.

Looking at this paper bag, my heart started beating violently.

In one respect, my intuition has always been very accurate.

And "it" had the same intuition as I did, so "it" began to warn me.

However, I will not give in to "it" easily this time──

Even though my hands were shaking and I felt nauseous again, I still reached out and took what Gu Shan gave me.

Inside the paper bag is a gift carefully wrapped in colorful paper.

[Throw it away! Burn it!] — An extremely evil voice roared in my heart.

I forced myself to ignore the voice and took out the gift from the paper bag. The gift was rectangular and felt hard. It was neither heavy nor light. Even without opening it, I could roughly guess what was hidden inside.

However, if the person opening the gift can reveal the mystery of the gift from the beginning, then wouldn't the person giving the gift be able to enjoy the pleasure of giving others a surprise? In view of this, I pretended to be expectant and asked Gu Shan with a smile: "Wow - this is something interesting! Gu Shan, can I open it now?"

"Of course you can. After all, the things have been given to you. Please do with them as you wish—"

Gu Shan nodded vigorously, the smile on her lips lost seven points of disguised elegance, replaced by the sweetness and cunning that came from her nature. But even so, her naturalness and innocence had been changed because of me, dyed with other colors because of me, enriched or consumed her life because of me, just like I changed myself for her in the past.

[Gift? Are you worthy of it? You betrayer! You coward!]

With my breathing becoming increasingly heavy and cold sweat pouring out, I unwrapped the gift without damaging the paper.

Just as I expected, this is a book, and it is also a novel that left a deep impression on me.

"Her Lies?"

I half leaned against the locker, enduring the dizziness, and used a smile to hide my discomfort: "Gu Shan, how did you know I liked this story? In my previous life, I went to several bookstores, but every one of them told me that it was no longer published."

"Senior Annie, do you like this book?" Hearing this, Gu Shan immediately looked dumbfounded and said, "Oh my God, if I had known I would not have chosen this book! Senior Annie, please forgive my stupidity!"

"Huh? Why?" I asked.

"Just open the book and you'll know." Gu Shan said regretfully, covering his face with his hands.

So, I followed her instructions and opened the book.

However, in the flipping motion, I did not feel the turning of pages, but rather it felt like I was flipping through a book as a whole.

"This is……"

"This is all Xiaolan's bad idea!"

What exactly did Xiaolan and Gushan do?

The two of them glued every page of the novel together, then dug a big hole in the middle of the page, and then used this big hole to hide the gift they really wanted to give me.

Looking at Gu Shan who quickly dragged Xiao Lan into the water, even though the noise was still going on, I was still amused by her: "It's okay, it's okay. I like your secret book very much, but what is this glass bottle?"

Hidden inside the book is a glass bottle filled with light yellow liquid.

"This is the perfume I made myself." Gu Shan said, looking at me with anticipation.

"You made it yourself? Do you know how to make perfume?" I couldn't help but be surprised.

"Xiao Lan taught me." The girl explained, scratching her cheek.

"I think so~~"

I felt relieved and pulled the cork out of the perfume bottle with a smile. A botanical scent immediately wafted from the bottle into the dressing room.

The scent is mild and fresh, which is very much in line with my preference.

"What's that smell?" I asked.

"It's the scent of poplar," the girl answered.

Courage - this is the meaning of poplar.

This bottle of perfume is not only a gift from her to me, but also an encouragement to me.

After understanding this meaning, I didn't know what to say to her for a moment, and the feeling of fear intensified in my mind. As if she understood my struggle at this moment, the girl with twin ponytails in front of me smiled sweetly at me, and suddenly said goodbye at this time: "Senior, it's getting late, I'm going back to my room to rest, see you tomorrow."

After she finished speaking, she left the locker room quickly without stopping.

It was like she didn't want to see me in pain with my face blue and lips pale again.

but……

She didn’t know…

Her departure did not make me feel any better this time...

The fear only evolved into deeper fear.

Although she has gone far away, the distance between our hearts has quietly come close.

……

……

77. New Toys (Lian Er)

(Lian Er)

In the afternoon, Xiaoban and I squatted at the door of the stone house and watched the ants.

Ordinary ants don't attract me.

But today's ants are different. There are two types of ants today.

One is red ant and the other is black ant.

While fighting over a piece of cheese, the red ants and the black ants had an argument and then started fighting.

Black ants are giants the size of fingers. They move very quickly and are very powerful. As long as two black ants work together, they can move a piece of bread as hard as a gold coin. With their strong big jaws, they look like Sister Meng'er, well-trained knights.

The red ants fighting against the black knights were much smaller, but although they were at an extreme disadvantage in terms of size, their numbers were very large. The densely packed lineup looked very scary, with almost always five or six red ants fighting against one black ant. Unfortunately, even though they had an advantage in numbers, under the heavy armament of the black knights, the red ants' resistance was just like an egg against a rock.

The situation on the battlefield was cruel.

I only watched for about five minutes, and there were many corpses on the ground, some of which were black ants, and more were red ants. I really couldn't understand why they were fighting over a small piece of cheese. Couldn't they just divide the food in half and take it back to their respective nests peacefully and rationally?

However, why, despite such heavy casualties, the red ants still show no signs of retreating?

Just when this question popped up in my mind, a group of red ants crawled out from the shadow of the pillar at an astonishing speed. Unlike other red ants, this group of red ants had the same tall body as the black ants, and their two jaws were also pointed and sharper. They were completely slaughtering weapons prepared for battle!

This is the special forces of the Red Army's lair!

The red ant just sacrificed itself in order to wait for the appearance of this reinforcement!

Because of the appearance of the Red Army's special forces, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed subtly. The powerful Black Army gradually suffered casualties. Each Red Army's special forces could almost replace two to three black ants, which completely dissipated the Black Army's original unstoppable momentum. It was at this turning point that the Black Army gave up the cheese on the ground and chose to retreat.

"The Red Army won the cheese war with heavy casualties."

I silently wrote down this conclusion in the observation diary handed out by Teacher Isabella, and stood up with satisfaction.

After finishing my homework, I can ask Xiaolan for snacks with a legitimate reason!

At this happy moment, a refreshing female voice sounded behind me.

"Lian'er, what are you doing here alone?"

“Ah?!”

That was Sister Doris, who temporarily lost her snake tail.

Since I didn't know how to explain it, I just handed the homework book to her and let her look at it by herself.

Seeing my notes, Doris showed a nostalgic expression: "Are you making an observation diary? I did this when I was in elementary school! Are you recording the war between ants? It seems quite interesting. I just wonder how your teacher will react to your narrative method with pictures and texts..."

Because there are many common language characters that I have not yet learned, I created some hieroglyphs in the process of doing my homework.

However, this is all allowed by Teacher Isabella.

“When you can’t write, just draw.”

This is how she taught me every day. Whenever I drew a picture in my diary, she would tell me how to write the corresponding common language words on the same day. However, although it is a very happy thing to learn to write, if I drew too many pictures in my diary, I would have so much homework to do that day that I would have no time to play properly.

"It's really not easy to be a good kid──"

"Well, Lian'er, I don't think Ruan has ever done divination for you. Do you want to try it?"

After returning the observation notes to Lian'er, Sister Doris's eyes conveyed the message that she wanted to play with Lian'er. Unfortunately, Lian'er had already finished her homework and it was time for Sister Xiaolan to ask for afternoon tea. If she wasted time playing with Sister Doris, Sister Xiaolan would cancel the original afternoon tea using the excuse that it was almost dinner time.

Compared to the exquisite desserts, those inedible playing cards are nothing.

I shook my head solemnly with a serious expression, rejecting Sister Doris' invitation.

"Eh? I was rejected. Ugh, I'm so sad."

Sister Doris, who was rejected by me, immediately started to cry in a very fake way. Faced with this unskilled way of acting like a spoiled child, I made an evasive move, pretending that I didn't see anything. Holding Xiaoban's dog leash, I walked straight around Miss Snake and strode towards the door of the stone house. However──

"and many more!"

Miss Doris suddenly grabbed my arm.

I turned around and gave her a questioning look.

She put on a flattering smile and said to me like a salesperson: "Lian'er, let's make a deal, okay? You let me tell your fortune once, and I'll give you an interesting toy later, okay?"

"Uh-huh?"

What interesting toys?

After understanding my look, Sister Doris said with a smile while groping inside her cloak, "Lian'er, you probably haven't seen the Force Ball yet, right? It's a new type of weapon developed exclusively by the Celia Alliance. It can produce different effects based on the attributes of the user. Although it's not very powerful, it's the best entry-level item for cultivating spiritual power and magic control."

Sister Doris was promoting her product with great emotion, but after searching inside her cloak for a long time, she still couldn't successfully take out the so-called Force Ball, and her expression was as shocked as could be.

"Strange, where is my Force Ball? Where is my Force Ball? I remember I clearly put it in my pocket!"

Seeing this, I wordlessly handed the two crystal balls to Sister Doris.

"How come Ruan's crystal ball is in your hands, Lian'er?"

Miss Snake looked as if she had seen a ghost.