Chapter 40: On a Moonlit Night, a World Filled with Light
The elves in the breeding house are all more cheerful, and their true personalities are also revealed after letting go of their vigilance against Leolu.
I have to say that this is all thanks to the leading role of the little saw crocodile, the child king.
Regardless of other factors, first of all, the little saw crocodile's leadership ability is relatively strong, and the other elves also recognize it, which also makes it easier for Leolu to find a breakthrough.
However, the most problematic aspect of his personality, and the most powerful for Leolu, is that he is so enthusiastic that he will say anything to his friends, even if he has only met for a short time.
In short, access to information is easy...... It is very easy to get rid of the problem of a pattern and the title.
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It was late at night, but Leo Lu lay on the floor and couldn't sleep.
He didn't understand what was going on, but since he couldn't sleep, he just went outside.
Leo Lu slowly stood up, and after making sure that he hadn't woken up Selia and Kazuki and Zoroa, he cautiously opened the door to the house.
The evening breeze swept softly through the trees, and the daytime spirits were already asleep.
So the forest fell completely silent.
Leolu tugged at his scarf, trying to wrap it tighter. The nights in the forest are also very cold.
However, when his paw touched the hard stone in the center of the scarf, Leolu sighed and scanned his gaze around the room.
Eventually, he found a relatively large rock on a small uphill slope on the right. Finding no better place to go, Leo Lu jumped on a stone and sat down.
"It's a bit of a hassle!"
The origin of the stone given by the Phoenix King is still a mystery, and why it will produce the ability to change the power of the elves is also a mystery, and it is also related to the Phoenix King, will the stone in Leolu's scarf have a similar origin to the one in Calest?
People are always curious about the unknown, and at the same time, they are afraid of the unknown.
This is different from the elf.
Compared to humans, the elven world is much more friendly...... After all, elves don't have the same strong possessiveness and intellectual curiosity as humans.
Leo Lu pressed the stone and looked up in the direction of the moon.
"Ahh~ It's a full moon today......"
Now Leo Road can only hope that his things will develop for the better......
At this moment, Leo Lu suddenly heard footsteps behind him. But he didn't turn to look at the visitor, for just listening to the voice could fully understand her identity.
"You...... What are you doing here?"
A little hoarse, but always containing a gentle voice reached Leolu's ears.
But Leolu didn't react, or couldn't...... After all, the mother-in-law has not spent a lot of time with the elves who are not very old, and if he behaves differently from them, maybe the mother-in-law's attitude will also change......
After her mother-in-law asked her many questions, Leo Lu finally turned her head and looked at her mother-in-law with an incomprehensible expression.
The old woman was not wearing pajamas or anything like that, but instead of wearing the mud footprints of the day, she had changed into a yellowed suit with a few patches of cloth of a similar color.
"Hey...... Forget it, you don't understand ......"
The mother-in-law looked up at the clear sky, then sighed, walked slowly to the stone, and sat down with some difficulty.
Leo Lu was puzzled as to why she was still awake at this point in time.
It would be nice to say that she stayed up late into the night because she had to take care of the elves, but her mother-in-law was completely clean and looked completely clean and did not look like the person who opened the cultivation house.
"It's the full moon again......"
The old woman muttered alone, not minding Leo Road, who sat beside her, not far away.
Leolu's head turned away, but his gaze was still sneaking towards the old woman looking at the moon.
The picture on that fireplace must be that of my mother-in-law and her lover. The other half was completely torn apart, which means that something bad happened to her partner and there was no way to come back.
Half of the photograph was torn up to mean that the old woman wanted to forget that past, and the fact that the frame was still in such a prominent position showed that she was still missing.
These are two completely different contradictory emotions.
Leolu also knew that it was none of his business at all, but looking at this cliché third-rate plot staged in front of him, even the most indifferent person would at least pity this unfortunate person.
Waveguide was restless around the old woman, and Leolu felt and endured the same grief as well.
He closed his eyes and used the waveguide to create positive feelings that spread to his surroundings.
This was the first time Leo had used waveguides in this way, and although it was still very immature, it was still very successful.
After a while, the old woman shuddered a little, her mood gradually eased, she looked at the moon's tearful eyes and was stunned, then she raised her sleeve and wiped it twice on her face, and turned her head to look at Leolu, who was sitting on the side as if nothing had happened.
"Just now...... Did you do that?" the old woman smiled a little in surprise, and gently placed her calloused hand on Leolu's body, stroking it slowly, "Thank you." ”
It's not very comfortable to be touched by such hands, but it's not unbearable.
"In retrospect...... The first time I sat here and watched the moon, I was with the old man of our family......" The mother-in-law stared at the moon for a moment, and then began to talk to herself, "The old man is very fond of elves, and after hearing about the breeding house, the guy has been clamoring all day to open a family of his own...... What a bastard!"
Leo Lu turned to look at the old man who was smiling at the memory of his former happiness, and quietly waited for the following.
"Almost twenty years have passed, and that guy suddenly said that he wanted to go on a trip to find some rare elves, and never came back," the old man said, and the strength of his hand became stronger and stronger because of the excitement of his emotions, and Leo Lu was a little uncomfortable, "I was very angry, and even thought about why he wanted to marry such a man with a head full of elves, and he even put his mind on me at all, not once...... So a year or two later, I heard others say that he seemed to have fallen off a cliff and died. At that time, I had already decided not to think about him anymore, so I didn't react......"
The old man's voice choked for a moment, and he took his hand back and sighed.
"Until a letter arrives, it was the last letter he ever had......"
She suddenly looked at Leolu, whose already hoarse voice was now hard to hear, but Leolu roughly understood her sentimental words.
"That bastard actually said he loved me, that I was beautiful when I was babysitting with him, and that he thought of them as if they were the two of them, so in order to be together for a longer time, he had to let different children join the family......"
Leolu felt that her current situation was a little awkward, and she only wanted to hear about her past, but she didn't expect that her emotions began to become more and more excited......
The old woman paused, recovering a little under the waveguide that Leolu had sent out again, but who knows, this made the old woman feel more inclined to say more. Leolu's escape plan is now shattered.
“…… At first I just dismissed the letter as a funny joke and didn't care. Who knows if it will be a prank by some rotten good person who likes to sympathize with others...... However, more and more such letters have come to me without the inadvertent discovery of different people...... The guy writes a letter almost every two days...... Hey, what a romantic bastard, why did I forget about him!!"
At this moment, her emotions instantly rose to the extreme, and even Leolu had nothing to do. If he had used the waveguide again, Leolu would have been affected by this overly strong emotion.
However, it is true that the development of events is a little too different from Leolu's estimate. Even though he extracted some of the facts from the little saw crocodile, Leolu still didn't guess the end of the story.
"Sadness...... Destroying people's hearts even further......"
Looking at the woman who was already covering her face and weeping, Leolu slowly jumped off the stone.
It's a bit cruel to do this, but let her release it now...... Just, don't overdo it...... That's it.
Leolu was stunned and looked up at the bright moon in the sky.
"If that hadn't happened then, what would I be doing now......
Feeling stuffy in his chest, Leolu pressed his paws on his chest, listening to the slight sobbing sound in his ears, Leolu's nose was sore.
"I ...... I think I'm missing you a little......"
Leo Road ...... Or rather, he has also experienced insurmountable sadness.
Even if that sadness seems to others to be nothing more than a tragedy with a poor tear jerker.
There are some things that you can only understand if you have experienced them yourself.
But then he laughed to himself: "I'm so stupid, how could she be ...... in this world"
However, Leolu was a little glad that he didn't tell Ikki the truth he had learned, otherwise the kid might have been affected by this kind of thing.
Leolu closed his eyes, pondering in the moonlight, and it took a long time for him to open them as if he had made up his mind.
It's just that those scarlet eyes, which always shine brightly, now seem to have changed somehow.
"That'...... Just do it!"
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"Ah......h
Chirulian grumbled discontentedly, reached out and took the blanket that Larulas had handed her, wrapped it around her, and lay down on the railing of the steamer and looked out over the seemingly endless ocean.
"Laru!!] [Sister is really, I told you that I would catch a cold if I ran here now, but you didn't listen to ......]"
Chirulian snorted lightly and said nonchalantly, "I'm not the kind of elf who gets sick easily, and I don't need to worry about cold medicine." ”
But she was also a little strange.
"I'm not afraid of this level of cold at all...... It's weird, who the hell does this feel like......"