About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"Ahahaha...that sofa will be sold next month..."

Maria couldn't laugh, tears welled up in her stomach.

"No way!"

"It can't be helped. The maintenance costs of the territory itself are actually very high. Moreover, since you haven't been expelled from the Knights Association, you still have to pay taxes... Sorry, I shouldn't complain to Mr. Orson about this. Perhaps you should become Aunt Zofia's retainer knight. That would be a better idea."

Xia Guang smiled bitterly and indicated that it was still not too late for Orson to escape.

"No knight would change masters so easily. So, Miss Maria, your purpose in participating in the knight competition is to make money and maintain the reputation and status of the Xu family?"

Orson said casually that he would help Maria, and at the same time asked Xia Guang why he decided to go against his family's wishes and step into this fire pit.

"Is it for the family's honor? Or is it for the prize money? Actually... I'm not really sure."

Maria lowered her head, revealing a hesitation that she had not shown in front of Zofia before.

"That's really unbelievable, isn't it? You've already made up your mind to participate in the competition, but you still can't figure out what's going on in your heart... If it were my sister, she would definitely move forward without any hesitation."

Xia Guang looked at the portrait of an elder on the distant wall. That was Lin Guang and Xia Guang’s grandfather, the legendary Silver Spear Pegasus, the legendary man who single-handedly changed the direction of the Uka War.

“That’s hard to say.”

"Ok?"

"I'm just guessing. After all, everyone has their own difficulties. Miss Maria, don't worry too much. Goals are often found unexpectedly along the way."

Orson comforted Maria in this way, and at the same time prayed in his heart that she would not bring the subject back and ask why he participated in the knight competition.

I'm here to make money from match-fixing to pay off Rhodes Island's debts, and to advertise for the Reunion Movement.

If I were to say this kind of goal, I would probably be kicked out by Xia Guang tonight...

Fortunately, because it was already very late, Maria did not ask what Orson's U-mee was. The girl from the Lin Guang family, who had made up her mind to participate in the knight competition today, just wanted to rest early, take Orson to register for the competition tomorrow, and then train herself as much as possible before the first game.

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At night, Orson lay on the sofa (for sale) and thought about the current situation.

The original plan was to debut as the lowest-level infected person, but now it seems that he can only participate in the competition as the "attendant knight of the new heir of the Linguang family."

It didn't have much impact on the game itself. After all, Orson's purpose of coming this time was simply to "eat spinach", and the highlight was on the Patriot and Kal'tsit.

But...when the situation of the Lin Guang family is so serious, why doesn't Margaret take any action?

There are two possibilities. One is that she does not think that selling furniture to make a living is a "serious situation", or that Casimir's situation makes it impossible for her, the "Infected Knight of Glory", to intervene.

Find time to ask her...

"brake!"

Orson dodged to the side from the sofa, and a long sword almost brushed past his hair at the same time.

"You've picked the wrong place, thief."

A Kuranta man wearing a windbreaker, a one-handed sword on his waist, and short golden hair appeared next to the sofa at some point, and swung the long sword in his hand.

——We couldn’t find it immediately during the frequency exploration... It looks like a rather difficult enemy.

Orson frowned and slowly stood up.

"I'm not a thief. Have you ever seen a thief sleeping at the scene? I'm Orsen, who became Maria Linguang's attendant knight today."

In order to avoid conflict, Orson slowly stated his position and identity, but the middle-aged Kuranta man in front of him showed even more profound disgust after hearing this.

"A knight follower...? I thought her private participation in the knight tournament was childish enough, but it seems she's capable of even more outrageous behavior."

The middle-aged man sighed and pulled the sword from the sofa, then grasped it in his right hand again. Although at first glance he didn't seem to have any pretensions, his aura and pressure were far more terrifying and suffocating than what Zofia had shown him.

"I don't think that's a farce. Miss Maria made this choice out of responsibility for the future of this family."

"Choice—that is not a choice, but a clown circus of the utmost stupidity, an irredeemable self-destruction."

Keng! !

The middle-aged Kuranta suddenly swung the long sword in his hand, and Orson could only grab the knight's sword hanging on the wall beside him to block the attack.

"That sword...put it down. You have no right to touch it."

After the middle-aged Kuranta noticed the weapon in Orson's hand, his tone changed from 'scattered anger' to 'pure anger'.

"Do you think I would take orders from a madman who would brandish a weapon at someone at the slightest disagreement?"

Orson held the hilt of the sword with both hands, holding the knight sword in front of him, ready to fight.

"Uncle Maenna—wait, he's not the enemy!"

At the critical moment, Maria in the house heard the sound of fighting outside and immediately rushed out to try to stop the two.

"Maria, do you know what you are doing? You have no idea."

After noticing Maria's appearance, the middle-aged Kuranta named Mainna looked at Xia Guang, still with a tired and angry expression.

"Before you completely destroy the name of Linguang, let me personally deal with your childish—"

Pong! !

Before Mainna could finish his words, Orson, who was standing beside him, cut him off with a slash.

"Don't go too far. Remember what I said earlier? I'm Maria Linguang's squire knight. So, let me teach you the fundamentals of knighthood—talking through duels."

"……interesting"

There was finally a change in Mainna's expression. Orson's attack just now was faster and stronger than he had expected, both in speed and force.

Orson and Mainna were facing each other in the living room of the Linguang family, while Maria was a little panicked. This confrontation was completely different from the previous one with her aunt.

At this moment of tension, the cell phone in Mainna's pocket rang.

"I'm very busy now—Sir? No, no, no... Yes, of course I'm free now, yes, yes, hmm. That was indeed my negligence... No, I will rush back to deal with it immediately. I'm sorry to keep you dealing with my mistake in the middle of the night. Yes, yes, I understand... Please give me another chance, I'll rush back right away."

Mainna, who had just been cold and full of aura, immediately became respectful and bowed after answering the phone.

"Okay, thank you very much. I won't let you down... Of course, of course, yes."

"..." "..."

Maenna hung up the phone and glanced at Orson.

"Know your own worth sooner rather than later. I don't care if you end up in the hospital or something, but how long do you plan on using Lin Guang's reputation as a clown?"

"Uncle... I've also considered this carefully! If I don't stand up, the Linguang family will be expelled from the rank of knight! Then the honor that Grandpa and his family have always protected will be destroyed..."

Maria tried to explain, but Mainna sheathed her sword at her waist and buttoned up her windbreaker, showing no intention of listening to Maria's words.

"Glory? You don't even know what you're protecting. Withdraw from the knightly tournament immediately, Maria. I'm only warning you this once."

Mahenna issued an ultimatum.

Orson standing aside had an expression as if he had seen something new and interesting.

After all, it was the first time for him to see a social animal knight making harsh remarks while being dragged back by his leader to work overtime all night.

06. A good son-in-law should get along well with his father-in-law

The sudden attack by office workers last night did not scare Orson, but instead made him more curious about the current situation of the Linguang family.

From Xia Guang, his aunt, and the former Lin Guang, Orson had a rough idea that the Lin Guang family was once a prestigious knight family in Casimir. However, with Lin Guang's grandfather's inactivity, the social knight, known as Mainna, had no intention of participating in the Knights' Tournament, replacing his father as the family's Head Knight (a knight who served as the head of a household). Consequently, the Lin Guang family faced a lack of funding and a decline in family honor.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Orson... I feel like I've been causing you trouble since we met yesterday."

Early in the morning, Maria and Orson were walking on Casimir Street. Maria helped Orson as a tour guide and gave him a brief introduction to Casimir. At the same time, Maria apologized for accidentally bumping into Orson, being misunderstood by his aunt, and almost getting into a fight with his uncle yesterday.

At this time, their destination was the Knights Association, where they were going to register for Orson to follow the knights to participate in the competition.

"It's okay. Come to think of it, I was a bit too arbitrary. I agreed to it without even knowing anything about the knights."

Orson followed Maria and said don't mind.

Although Orson had a general understanding of Casimir's situation during the meeting with Talulah and the others on Rhodes Island, and in order to prepare later, he also learned some of Casimir's power distribution during the high-intensity confrontation with Black Snake.

But Orson himself does not intend to touch too much on the dark aspects of Casimir. Kal'tsit and Amiya will personally handle the part about treating the infected, while the work of resisting tyranny and uniting the people will be handled by Talulah Alina and others.

Orson's purpose of action this time was very clear, and it was simply to participate in the so-called S11 Casimir Cup Knight Competition Special, and try to get a good ranking to supplement the family income.

Although it sounds easy, Orson also made a lot of preparations for it.

Indeed, Orson had made extensive preparations for this trip to Casimir, to help the Reunion Movement further expand its influence and, incidentally, to help Rhodes Island solve its funding problems. One of these preparations was even to sometimes call him "Black Snake" and "Kosiche."

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Because of visiting Black Snake Old Man's Miaomiao House many times, Orson now doesn't even need to have close contact with Tallulah to tune his soul in order to reach Kocecie's melody like before. Instead, he can automatically get in touch as long as he is roughly within the range of receiving Tallulah/Kocecie's soul melody.

From plugging in an Ethernet cable to using Wi-Fi, Tianyi 3G is so fast!

Kosice was completely annoyed. No matter how unhappy he was in the past, at least Orson would bring his daughter over. He just tolerated it as another way to promote the father-daughter relationship.

The problem is that now this B has learned to open the door by himself, and no longer needs to ask Tallulah for the key. All that is left for Black Snake is pure torture.

When Kosice first saw Orson coming over alone, he was still trying to hold himself back and say that this was nothing but a fancy trick and it was meaningless to him.

But when Orson said that he could run in without going through Tallulah, Black Snake finally couldn't hold it anymore. He lay on the luxurious lonely throne like Ge You.

Kosice thought Orson had come up with some new trick to torture his 69-year-old comrade, but the request Orson made after finding Black Snake surprised him:

"Can you help me train in cold weapon combat?"

Orson's purpose in looking for Black Snake is to find a "coach".

"Cold weapon combat?"

Black Snake frowned. He thought that Orson's words had other meanings, but he couldn't hear the mystery.

"Yes, you should know this, right? We're about to head to Casimir, where there's an event called the Knights' Tournament. Although Senior Patriot has taught me combat techniques,... well, let's just say there's nothing I can do to learn a fighting style at his level."

Orson rubbed his hair and said embarrassedly.

While Orson's combat skills are considered top-tier within Reunion, they rely heavily on tuning the black music score of items, commonly known as "enchantment," and using rests/curtain calls for intense pursuits.

In terms of pure weapon combat, Orson's skills are actually not outstanding.

For this purpose, Orson sought guidance from many operators in Rhodes Island, but because Orson did not have much time and the operators also had things to deal with, the training was not very effective.

Finally, Orson thought of a lonely old snake who had nothing to do at the moment. He was occasionally released by Tallulah to argue with other politicians, and usually stayed at home to listen to storytelling.

"Don't tell me you've gotten through your 2000-year career just by talking big?"

Faced with Orson's simple and effective ridicule, Black Snake stood up from the throne very calmly - he picked up the bottle of 996-proof Water of Life, a specialty of Ursa, and slapped it over.

"This is the first weapon engraved in the blood of the Ursus people."

Black Snake threw the broken wine bottle aside, and his whole body showed a sense of refreshment that he had not felt in hundreds of years.

The black snake, who has been carefully planning and taking every step cautiously, has always been wandering on the edge of the gray area of power politics and has never done anything "out of line" for thousands of years.

In the past, even if he was attacked in the realm of consciousness, he would not fight back because it was meaningless and would only make Tallulah or Orson feel his "impotent rage."

He will just keep calculating what benefits his actions can bring and what impact they can have on the surrounding environment.

But now it's different. Orson came to me and asked me to beat him up. At this time, taking action is not a manifestation of "incompetent rage", but a manifestation of "helping others to achieve their goals".

The father-in-law must do his best to meet his son-in-law’s request!

Moreover, like now, there is no need to consider anything. The action of just having sex with him first can only be done in the realm of consciousness.

I let you eat my cabbage, I'm going to spit shit out of you.

At this moment, Black Snake was no longer a terrifying conspirator, but a participant in an indiscriminate street fight who had long wanted to lose face and beat Orson to the ground.

Soon, the two men were fighting. One-handed swords, longswords, machetes, daggers, spears, rapiers—every weapon a knight could use and couldn't—Orson secretly learned from these repeated encounters.

All I can say is that Black Snake’s 2000 years of life were not lived in vain. Although his combat ability is not as good as that of elite operators, it is also at an above-average level. The most important thing is that he is proficient in many weapons, which is something that most operators do not have.

And Orson also discovered that Black Snake's life in the past 2000 years was probably not all glamorous and luxurious.

Because when he was having a high-intensity SOLO with his father-in-law, Orson noticed that Kosice could not only use proper weapons, but also wine bottles, bricks, folding stools, trash cans, oil pans, and bicycles, and he was very skilled at using them to beat people.

All I can say is that the immortal black snake also has its own immature past.

07. Old acquaintance comes to the rescue

After arriving at the registration venue for the special tournament designated by the Knights Association, Orson was immediately caught by the pure white and holy building in front of him.

Unlike the heavy industry and mysterious style of the landowners in Ursus, the buildings in Casimir are more in line with Orson's impression of the "aristocratic" temperament, noble, luxurious, and sacred.