About the time I was picked up and adopted by Tallulah

"...?"

Kosice was obviously a little confused. After all, he was still in the "picture-one-joy" mode eating popcorn and watching Orson's fun just a few minutes ago.

Who knew that as time went by, the ethical drama turned into a youthful romance, and his own daughter suddenly gave an A to Orson, the developmentally delayed person.

After the kiss, the immortal black snake found himself thrown out by the "protagonist", while the real protagonist, Tallulah, ran away because she was too shy.

When I looked closely, I even saw drool on the corners of my mouth from the kiss!

"What's going on, my daughter?! You kissed that little bastard, and you still want me to experience it again?!"

—Body…experience! Help me think of a solution! That girl over there is Maria. Putting aside the question of whether it will affect subsequent missions if she discovers my relationship with Orson, this is the first time someone has caught me kissing her…!

In his consciousness, Kosice and Tallulah were engaged in a fierce battle.

"You're truly endearingly shy in some ways, my daughter. I have a general understanding of the situation. The only question is... are you ready? I have the ability to resolve the current situation, but you will also have to pay a price."

"..."

After a brief silence, the immortal black snake wiped the corner of its mouth and gave a wicked smile to Maria who had accidentally come over.

"What's wrong, little sister? Is it because you got a glimpse into the adult world too early that you feel a little weird?"

The old black snake, wearing the skin of Tallulah, walked up to the confused Maria in three or two steps, his expression and demeanor revealing a sense of dominance and evil.

"No...um...may I ask your relationship with Orson---ooh!?"

Maria wanted to ask about the relationship between the two people evasively, but before she could finish her words, Black Snake stretched out his index finger and gently lifted Maria's chin.

"Look closely, you have a very nice face. And even though you haven't done any serious exercise, you already have a good physique - I like you very much."

Although Tallulah's appearance remained unchanged, the difference in temperament between them was enormous. Her black, snake-like pupils stared intently at Maria, and Maria was almost immediately entangled and bound by her unfathomable gaze, like a black snake in a dark, silent pond.

"You, what you mean by liking is—"

"Sorry, did you forget to introduce yourself? I'm the leader of the security company [Reunion Movement], just call me Tallulah. I thought this was just a boring tangle with those worthless merchants, but I unexpectedly found two good gems in the rough."

Black Snake smiled slightly and glanced at Orson behind him, indicating to Maria that she had taken a fancy to both Orson and herself.

"You are Miss Maria Linguang, right? I heard that you are still a Free Knight and that the Howling Guards just tried to recruit you, right? Instead of joining this corrupt and shady company, why don't you consider joining our Reunion Movement? We have...more interesting things to do here than you might imagine."

The black snake gently raised its index finger and lifted Maria's cheek. At the same time, it also moved its lips gently closer...

"Wait...Huh? Eh?!"

Maria was completely confused and had no idea what was going on. Although she knew that if she continued like this she would "follow in Orson's footsteps", her body felt like it was tightly entangled by a python and she couldn't move.

Boom!

At the critical moment, Tallulah suddenly struck her forehead with her right hand.

"What's going on in your head?!"

Tallulah complained loudly, feeling embarrassed and angry.

"...?"

The feeling of being tied up suddenly disappeared. Maria carefully approached Orson and looked at Tallulah in confusion as she yelled at the air.

Although to a normal person, Tallulah's behavior should be a conversation with Orson or Maria herself, judging by context 1, this sentence does not seem to be directed at the people present.

In fact, it was true. Because Tallulah was too anxious and panicked, she accidentally "spoke out" the words that she was communicating with Black Snake in her heart.

And the result is like now, suddenly complaining loudly to the air.

My daughter, didn't I tell you? This is the price you must pay.

—The price you pay is to make me look like the kind of woman who kisses everyone regardless of gender and is extremely promiscuous!? How on earth have you survived the past 2000 years!?

This is called adult behavior. You are still too young, my Tallulah. You and your ways of flirting with women and men are ridiculous to me.

——Is this kind of thing really worth showing off!?

[…How should I put it? While there's no point showing off these technologies, it would be a bit too sad if they were completely '0'.]

——It’s none of your business…I shouldn’t count on you!

Tallulah hurriedly took back control of her body. After all, if she continued like this, she would become a more sinful person than Orson.

After all, Orson at least won't attack people of the same sex - oh, there's Ino, so that's okay.

No...wait a minute.

Tallulah suddenly thought of something.

If you think about it from another angle - if I release the black snake and capture Frost Star Alina, Natalia and that lynx, then I will be the only one left in Orson, right?

What am I thinking!? Ugh, is this the [Black Snake's Curse]... This is truly creepy.

[No, this is just your imagination, my daughter—]

*System prompts, 'Immortal Kosice' has been banned by the administrator*

"Um... Sorry, it was an interesting meeting. I'll find you two to discuss it in detail later. That's all for today."

Finally, because of Koschei's series of actions that "although explained the kiss, it was just adding fuel to the fire", Tallulah had to leave the Howling Guard in a panic and calm herself down first.

"...The Reunion's boss is a truly beautiful woman with a unique personality."

Maria watched Tallulah run away, blinked, and then expressed her feelings truthfully.

"Maybe an old man?"

Orson complained with a look of stomachache, feeling that he was gradually narrowing the road.

But after complaining, Orson gently touched his lips with his fingertips, which still had a faint fruity scent of lipstick and the residual warmth of young Draco, which was much higher than that of an ordinary person.

—Tallulah...did you have the habit of wearing lipstick before? Or did you change this habit specifically because of 'someone'?

Thinking of this, Orson's cheeks also turned red.

21. Maria's Strangeness

After the turmoil caused by the chance encounter with Tallulah ended in a somewhat strange way, Orson finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Old Black Snake's actions did resolve the "misunderstanding" in a sense and did not expose the relationship between himself and Tallulah.

The only problem is that Maria seems to have developed some strange ideas because of this...

Although Orson was very grateful to the damn Black Snake for helping Tallulah out of trouble, this did not prevent him from preparing to open a can of herrings in a gas mask in the old Black Snake's consciousness field after returning.

After all, Margaret didn't know that the "Black Snake" existed in Tallulah's body. If her precious sister inexplicably became a female Tong, it would probably be inconvenient for the Shining Knight Tenma to find fault with the leader of the Reunion Movement, and he would definitely chase her and beat her up in the end.

"What a man with a strong desire for domination! This greedy desire to bring everyone under his control is terrifying... right, Maria?"

Orson acted out the whole thing, in order to conceal their relationship. He felt a little sorry for Tallulah and said this.

"Oh, yes."

Maria nodded, but her tone was a little absent-minded.

"By the way, didn't Maria go to watch the Whistling Knights' combat training a while ago? How was it? Compared to your aunt's training method, which one is more intense?"

Orson frowned and tried to find a topic to chat. He vaguely realized that after the riot just now, Maria seemed to give him a feeling that was a little off compared to before.

Although this girl does not look as dazzling as the sun, she still has a comfortable glow. However, she now reveals a sense of confusion and hesitation, and even that "glow" seems to be stained with a layer of gray cloth.

To put it another way, the reason why Orson was dragged here by Talula was that "this place didn't seem to have many people around", but he met Maria here.

It seems that something happened to Maria, causing her to want to go to a "place where there are not many people" to rest for a while?

"As for intensity—I think Aunt Zofia's is probably more powerful. After all, she initially wanted to train me so I'd give up. Hehehe..."

Maria rubbed her hair and said embarrassedly.

"...Maria, did you encounter anything while visiting the Howling Guard headquarters just now?"

Orson hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to ask Maria directly what happened.

"Huh? No, I'm just a little...unwell, that's all. I'm sorry to have made you worry, Orson."

Maria smiled at Orson to show that nothing was wrong.

"Compared to those... Oh, right, Orson should have received an invitation from the Howling Knights? Should he consider going? Although the Howling Guards don't have many knights at the top, they have a complete training system for first-time knights and above-average salaries. They're pretty good!"

Maria turned the topic to Orson.

"It seems like they did come here to poach me, but the discussion was interrupted halfway due to some unexpected circumstances."

"An emergency?"

"It's just... quite sudden."

Orson hesitated. After all, he couldn't tell the truth, "I bumped into Tallulah, and then she forcibly dragged me away for interrogation, and I kissed her by the way."

"That's it..."

Maria nodded, and the topic fell into silence.

"Anyway, let's go back first. Is there anything else you want to do?"

Orson sighed and decided that it would be better to go back first rather than have an awkward conversation in such a place.

"Okay, okay. Don't worry about me, Orson. I just felt a little disappointed after seeing the battle of the regular knights and felt that I was still too weak."

Maria forced a smile to signal Orson not to worry about her. Orson nodded and said nothing more.

Maria is still just a young girl, so her words and actions can almost be said to be unconcealed.

Orson knew very well that Maria was lying, and her "disappointment" did not come from the gap in strength. After all, Maria was very clear before participating in the knight competition that her strength could only be climbed up from the bottom.

So what exactly is the problem…?

Orson put away his silly look in "slacking off mode". Maria looked a little strange and it seemed that he needed to take some action.

The Howling Guards' originally planned poaching operation nearly turned into a grave-digging operation due to their encounter with Tallulah. However, it's foreseeable that for Orson, the "newly-promoted Infected Knight and Retainer Knight of the Linguang Family," similar poaching activities will become increasingly frequent in the future.

After all, Orsen was considered a "handsome, neat-looking (if a bit short) young man with a touch of Yan Nation temperament," a highly marketable presence. Furthermore, Orsen's strength, as verified by his underground arena contacts, was at least a reliable entry into the top eight.

Not only that, Orson himself is also involved with the well-known knight family "Lin Guang". He was photographed by the media living with "Maria Lin Guang". He also had close contact with the "Whip Blade Knight", one of the top 16 in the previous special tournament.

Whether it is appearance, strength, or gimmicks, Orson has a lot to talk about and will naturally be favored by major companies.

In fact, just after the two left the Howling Guard, Orson received several more messages in his inbox, basically all of which were olive branches extended by different companies.

Companies such as Rose Newspaper, Meshko Group, Swarma Food Company, Suning.com and JD Logistics have all set their sights on Orson, a rising star that seems to have a lot of traffic.

The only different text message here is an anonymous message from the Supervisory Office. The content of the message roughly says that a certain master is very interested in Orson, the "infected person", and hopes to send his attendant knight to take time to talk to Orson.

At first glance, it looked no different from other spam messages about recruiting new employees, but what caught Orson's attention was the name of the "follower knight" in the letter, who was also Orson's 'acquaintance' - Sister Shi Le.

——I always feel that more and more people are involved, which is really completely out of line with [low-key]... If I had known earlier, I would not use this method, and would have used a more low-key way to save those infected people.

Orson deleted all the messages except the anonymous one, then sighed and looked at Maria beside him.

"Maria?"

"Uh! I'm here. Um, are we going back, Orson?"

Maria, who was a little absent-minded, was startled, and then responded in panic with her tail standing up and a little ruffled.

"Well, let's go home."

——Although I don’t know what the attendant knights are supposed to do specifically, there should be a requirement like “helping the master solve problems”, right?

While Orson was mentally deciding to find out why Maria was acting strangely, he took out a black paper bag and put it on his head.

"Perfect disguise!"

Orson was thinking this, and the next day he saw this news in the Red Wine News:

Is the attendant knight too embarrassed to face the world and has to cover his face? Will the cross-class romance between Maria Rinkou and the infected knight Orson ever come to fruition? And who is the mysterious woman who intrudes on the client's negotiation with the Howling Guard? For the full article, please subscribe to this newspaper and enjoy a 8% annual discount.

"...I, I can really explain, Aunt. Please give me another chance, at least give me the time for a song...!"

"What do you want to explain, Orson? Are you trying to tell me that you and Maria went out together today not because of the Howling Guards' invitation, but because you secretly ran out for a date? If that's the case, there's no need to explain, because now the whole of Casimir knows that you two are having this weird master-servant relationship!!"

“Isn’t that so?!”

When Orson returned home, he was whipped by his aunt for no apparent reason. After seeing the news in the newspaper, Orson finally understood what had happened and tried to argue that he was really harmed by his reputation.

"So, putting Maria aside, what's going on between you and that Vaifan woman?"