Looking at Ainia's expectant eyes, the boy was silent for a while, and then replied sadly, "No." ”

"Huh?" Ainia was taken aback, according to her expectations, with the character of a teenager, she would definitely not refuse at this time.

The boy was silent for a while, and after a long while, he slowly said, "I'm not as good as you say, I'...... Not worthy of being your dad. ”

It should be explained here that the teenager does not think that he is too young to be a more suitable elder brother, and being called dad will make him feel that he is a little old and will not agree, which is completely different from those who are called "uncle" by children on the street to ask for directions and point people in the opposite direction.

Now that Ainia has decided to open the skylight and say something, the boy no longer hides anything: "I actually don't treat you badly at all, but I've been looking for an opportunity to tell others who you are." All the parts of you that feel like I'm good for you are actually a show I did to appease you that you don't want to be hurt. Moreover, those 'loves' do not reach the level of a father's love for his children. ”

Ania smiled and shook her head, "I know, I know all of this." But in any case, you did take care of me, and although this kind of care seemed to you to be only a minimum, it was still a long-lost care for me, like a family caring. Whatever your intentions may have been before you made these actions, you certainly did care for me, and you wouldn't deny that, right?"

"Don't you care about your deeds?" the boy whispered to himself, and then said, "I really can't deny the care I have for you, but that level of care is far from the love of my family, and I still don't think I can afford to be called 'Daddy.'" ”

"In your opinion, what kind of care can be regarded as a father's love for his children?" Ania smiled shallowly, not at all angry at the teenager's constant denial, "Isn't the love between family members only reflected in the small things in daily life?" Every time you go to a crowded place, you are always worried about my social phobia, take care of my feelings everywhere, you buy me food if you don't want to go out, you don't want to take care of the room, you also work hard to help, even if it will squeeze you a lot of study time, and may even lead to you failing the exam, you have never complained; every time you see me playing on the computer for a long time, you will remind me to pay attention, hoping that I can exercise more...... These things may seem trivial, but to me they are exactly what I've been longing for. ”

The young man opened his mouth to say something, but Ainia continued: "Of course, these trivial things are not worth mentioning to you, but please don't forget the experimental accident when I first came to your house, I was the demon king at that time, the demon king with all the power, but you seemed to have forgotten this, and rushed into the experimental accident scene without hesitation, regardless of your own safety, trying to rescue me." Do you know what I thought at the time?"

The boy shook his head, "I don't know, but if it were someone else, I'd do the same." ”

Ainia bowed slightly: "Yes, that's how you ...... Stupid. Obviously, I'm a demon king, a demon king who doesn't need to be protected, and a demon king who can cause disasters at any time, but you are so kind to me, it really makes people don't know what to say. ”

The boy did not speak, and Ainia continued: "I know that after that, you are sure that I have lost my strength, so I have become even more soft-hearted, and my attitude towards me as an ordinary person has become kinder and more caring. I don't know if you were just taking pity on me or if you were treating me like a child to take care of, but I did see you as an elder to rely on at the time. ”

"I don't pity you. The boy discerned, if anything, that he felt more pity for Ainia than for him, "After knowing that you still have such a strange illness as social phobia, I just thought of you as a little sister next door who needed to be taken care of." ”

"Even if I pity me, I won't be angry. Ainia smiled into crescent moons, revealing white teeth, and the small tiger teeth at the corners of her mouth made her look vibrant, "Of course, if not, then I would be happier." ”

The boy didn't look away, he didn't look at Ainia's smiling face, he was worried that he would have a troubled conscience because of this smile, and he would have the idea that he was not doing well enough, and his reason told him that he had done nothing wrong, and if there was anything wrong, it must be this world, a world full of strife, war, poverty, class, and racial conflict.

"I have to apologize to you. Ainia's words made the young man can't help but look back at her, "Actually, my strength has slowly recovered, and on the third day of coming to the Brave Academy, my strength has basically recovered completely, but I have been hiding it from you, making you always think that I am still the sick and weak child who has lost my strength and needs to be taken care of." I'm sorry, I really wish you could take care of me like that all the time, so ......"

"It doesn't matter. The boy interrupted Ainia and said, "No more, Aenya, I already know what you think, so can you listen to my thoughts next?"

Ania restrained her smile and nodded as she looked at the boy expectantly.

"Actually, I'm supposed to be the one who needs to thank and apologize. The boy thought for a while, because he was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he spoke very slowly, "I am a very ordinary, even stupid person compared to you, if I hadn't met you, I was forced by you to be a brave man, let me come by myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to become a brave man in my life, in this regard, in fact, I should thank you." It was you who gave me the opportunity to get out of the village and see the wider world, maybe you were using me at the beginning, but you never caused me any trouble along the way, and you also gave me cheats, and took time out every day to give me lectures and solve my doubts. ”

Ainia blinked, silently listening, not speaking.

"I should do it for me to take care of you who have no strength, but you teach me magic and give me a lecture is not something you have to do, I should have been grateful to you and better for you, but I have always thought about you after all, what will happen to you once you regain your strength, so I have never really been kind to you, and I have been thinking about how to avoid you and reveal your identity to others. It's clear that I'm so bad, but you even thought about revealing your identity just now to leave me out and not implicate me. Think about it carefully, except for the identity of the demon king, there is no difference between you and an ordinary little girl, and you are more sensible, well-behaved, obedient and kind, I should believe what I said at the beginning, you are a good boy, a good boy who works hard for his ideals, I should not always be wary of you because of your identity. ”

"You should be wary of me, after all, the demons and the human race are still antagonistic in nature, and the knowledge I learned can't avoid benefiting most of the demons in the end, and this knowledge benefiting the demons is something you should avoid, even if it's a little uncomfortable emotionally, but intellectually I can understand it, you don't need to apologize for it. ”

The young man lowered his head and muttered for a moment, then asked, "Ainia, can you tell me what you are studying magic for? Your skills are already first-class in the demon race, right? Why do you take the risk of coming here to steal a teacher?"

Ainia thought for a moment and replied, "At first, it was because of my mother's expectations, and my mother wanted me to inherit her major to study magic, and she once told me that the future of the world belongs to magic. And after my mother was killed, my thinking has changed, since the future of the world belongs to magic, then magicism must be able to create a better tomorrow, right, if I can work hard to study magic, and push magicism to a higher mountain, will it be faster to use magicism to create a new world where there is no war between races and people can live in peace, and at that time, no one will be killed like my mother?"

When Ainia said this, she smiled embarrassedly: "I know that my idea is very naïve, maybe I will never see the day when this ideal is realized in my life, but I hope that at least I have worked hard for it, and I will not regret that I didn't even work the day of the end of my life." Ah, by the way, there's a reason for that. The more I studied magic, the more unknown the world became, and the more I wanted to know more about the truth of the world, the more intense my desire to know more about the truth of the world became, so I guess I studied magician to satisfy my curiosity. ”

The boy reached out to touch Ainia's head, but halfway through it he realized that he was no longer Ainea's father, so he tried to retract his hand, but Ainia grabbed his hand and put it on top of his head and rubbed it slightly.

Looking at Ania who was tilting her head and smiling under the palm of her hand, the young man gradually strengthened his thoughts: "I believe you, Aina, if it were you, you would never use the magic knowledge you have learned to create war and strife, so I want to help you." ”

"Huh?" Ania paused for a moment, she didn't understand why the boy was saying this at this time, after all, her identity was about to be exposed, no matter how hard she tried to clear up the relationship with the boy, there was no way to really completely cut off the relationship between the two, even if it was the best result, the boy would be asked to drop out of school, and live under the surveillance of secret personnel sent by the empire for the rest of his life to prevent him from leaking secret technology and the like.

"After all, Luo Yiyi didn't directly debunk you, maybe she just had suspicions, the Demon King personally infiltrated the Imperial Capital Brave Academy to study, no matter who hears this kind of news, they won't believe it immediately. I believe that Luo Yiyi is the same, since she only got the news that the Demon King had come to the imperial capital, rather than an accurate description of where the Demon King had infiltrated, then we can use this to wash away the suspicion that you are the Demon King. ”

"Do you want to create the illusion that the Demon King is in another location, and dispel her suspicions about me?"

"That's right. Also, don't use honorific titles on me, don't you want to call me Daddy?"

"You agreed to my request?" Ainia looked at the boy excitedly with her eyes lit up.

"If you want to call me daddy, you must at least be as obedient as a daughter, right? The boy rubbed Ainia's little head, "Also, since I'm my father, then you should obediently hide behind your father and leave all the dangers to me to deal with, you should trust your father to protect you, instead of trying to run out to block danger for your father." ”

Ainia was a little hesitant, she didn't think that the boy could resist this kind of crisis for her, if she really encountered danger, she would definitely be the demon king to protect the boy, but everyone knew this, and if she really encountered danger, it would be said at that time, and it would be okay to say yes now: "Okay." Dad, can you call me Ellie? Actually, I like my mother's nickname for me more than my father's nickname for Aniah. ”

"Ellie......" the boy tried to scream, he always felt strange in his heart when he said this name, "but I'm used to calling you Anie, and I always feel a little uncomfortable. ”

"I knew I would have asked you to call me Ellie in the first place......"

"Okay, okay, it's not too early, go to bed early, Aneya. ”

"Dad. ”

"Huh?"

"Can you sleep with me?"

“？！”

"It's only one night today, is it okay? Since my mother died, I haven't been hugged again, my father has been busy with all kinds of government affairs, and he hasn't even spoken a few words for so many years, and the one time we talked the most was when I challenged him to become the new demon king......

Ainia's eyes flashed, as if she was about to cry, and the look of the lonely little girl who longed for her father's love suddenly softened the young man's heart, and he took Ainia into his arms: "Okay, but you have to promise me that you must go to bed early and get up early and don't play games." ”

“…… Well. This sounds a bit of a reluctant answer.