Teacher. ”

The skinny girl's body was shrouded in a wide linen suit, but through the large sleeves peeked out two skinny hands, more appropriately than claws.

The girl's eyes flickered with gloom, and she lowered her head to avoid Steward's gaze.

"Elsa, the Lanchester family is a great family, the mountain elves have been completely wiped out by the Templar Order, and no one will harm your homeland anymore. ”

Stewart looked at the poor girl and sighed in his heart, this is his student, from a declining aristocratic family, his mother is just a maid in the Lanchester family, for unknown reasons, he gave birth to her with a certain Lanchester, but Lanchester was bloodbathed by the mad mountain spirits on Murdo Mountain at the beginning of this year.

It was a terrible mountain spirit, four meters tall and able to lift a cow with one hand, and the head of Lanchester's house, an old swordsman who was nimble more than many young knights, had died at the hands of the stupid mountain spirit.

At the time of the incident, Elsa was sent to collect fruit in the woods far away - after the decline, the Lanchester family made a living selling all kinds of fruit brews, I don't know if it was good luck or fate?

"Teacher... However, I no longer have a family. ”

Elsa didn't appreciate how warm that family was, not so much that she was a member of that family, but rather that the family gave birth to her just to have one more laborer, just look at her thin shoulders.

Stewart crouched down, the setting sun behind him, and the tall figure enveloped Elsa at once.

He looked at Elsa, he was just here to teach the children in the neighborhood how to read words, and he didn't interfere too much with what happened to them, what to do now?

Steward's unbeknownst to him was that the nearby villagers had scribbled up a school for him, in which he was fed, housed, and taught, but it was nothing more than a spacious hall with clay seats and an earthen wall that kept the bedroom behind the hall.

Behind this school, there is the half-tall but herd of beasts of Mount Merdo, Lanchester is on the other side of the mountain, if he can, Stewart wants to send Elsa back to the Lanchester family, after all, now she is the only survivor of the family, and the only Lanchester, she is eligible to inherit the family property that is not rich but more than enough to cope with life, the great Knights Templar has also completely cleaned up Mount Merdo, and those monsters have not appeared so often, so to speak, this area is safe.

But Steward only didn't expect that Elsa was still a child, she didn't know how to run a family, and she didn't know how to live, not to mention, after inheriting an empty family, how would Elsa protect this family property, you know, although the nearby bandits and monsters were killed by the Templars, but people will become new robbers and bandits because of various desires.

So, Stewart couldn't open his mouth to let Elsa Lanchester go home.

He couldn't say, Elsa, go home, all the dangers were gone.

There was no danger now, but it could easily become a new dangerous gathering place, and the Knights Templar had just left, and the villagers were discussing how terrible the scourge was and how pitiful Elsa was, but as time passed, this sympathy changed.

The Knights Templar could not get rid of the monster called desire in people's hearts.

"Elsa, look at me. ”

Steward looked at the child's straw hair, which was completely obscuring Elsa's face.

She actually knew how to ask the teacher for help, but she was afraid of rejection, so she came to her lips and shrank back.

But after hearing the teacher's powerful voice, she slowly raised her head, as if she was making some kind of difficult decision.

"Don't worry, Elsa, no one will let you go back, that home and its assets, I will watch for you, until you understand its value, when you can master it. ”

Steward's hands pressed on her shoulders, giving her an inexplicable sense of relief and courage.

Little Elsa took a deep breath, finally straightened her body, and gritted her teeth: "Teacher, I don't want you to protect me, I want you to teach me." ”

"Teach you, teach you, learn these words? Rest assured, you'll be able to master it soon. ”

Stewards smiled, his eyes full of love.

"No..."Elsa seemed to have been struggling with something, whether to say it, or whether it would cause trouble to the teacher, and finally, her brown face was relieved, "I want you to teach me how to use magic!"

Stewards was stunned, a little sluggish for a while, as if his ears had heard something wrong, could it be an auditory hallucination, but the child's serious expression didn't seem to be a joke at all, so he laughed.

"Where do I know magic, Elsa, I'm just a more literate and homeless veteran, and it just so happens that if I teach the children to read, I can eat and sleep well, so I stayed. ”

Although Elsa Lanchester lived a very poor and depressed life, she could not hide the fact that she was a smart child.

When Stewart dismissed the incident as a child's gibberish, Elsa didn't laugh, but looked straight at Steward's with her brown eyes, which no longer dodged, and the latter's smile gradually became awkward.

When Stewart stopped laughing, the kid said in a little adult-like tone.

"I've seen you run into Uncle Wilma's house in the middle of the night and quietly use your magic on his dog who was accidentally injured by a trap, and that dog was already dying, but that long stick in your hand, well, I'm a staff, it's a staff, right? The blue light from the staff enveloped the dog, and then it was fine, and it could run and bark at the same time, and wake up Uncle Wilma's family, and you ran back in embarrassment, and the next day, the village said that it was a miracle, and the dog was regarded as a gift from the gods, and never beat and scolded it again, and for a while, I also wanted to be cast a magic by the teacher's staff, and everyone would not beat me and scold me..."

As she spoke, Elsa actually began to cry, and her words slowly became disconnected due to choking.

Stewart sighed, "Why haven't you come home in the middle of the night?"

"Uncle Pompeii said that I wouldn't be allowed to go home until I had collected enough Blue Spirit Fruit, so... I've seen it all, teacher. ”

Elsa was still crying, but insisted on finishing her words so that the teacher could promise her.