Hearing Lloyd say that he wanted to inherit the agreement, Tio didn't react for a while, and showed a cute "hey" expression.

"I have to admit that now I am too far from my eldest brother. I'll try, though! Try to be a man, and at least keep that convention. ”

Looking at the man in front of him who swore firmly, Dio's heart welled up with incredible feelings.

Lloyd, what a fool...... Isn't that like a marriage proposal?

Should it be said that it is natural? Or should I say that I am very slow to feelings......

Jonah said that he was a harem man with three thousand beauties dressed in a herbivorous appearance...... Although I don't want to agree with Jonah, I have to say that this evaluation is really apt.

Yes...... Speaking of which, Brother You shot at Miss Noelle so quickly...... Is it because you see through this?

Thinking about all this, Theo's mood was incredibly relaxed.

It suddenly occurred to me that when Guy mentioned Sergei and his "partner", was he also thinking about these things? Everyone lives together, works together, makes stupidity together, complains together, and even has their embarrassments and baskets full of them......

"If you have to say like it or hate it, it should be like." Like...... Is it?

"Hehe......"

Theo smiled, her small size and her clean light blue hair, like an ice elf.

"Brother Lloyd, I like you."

"Huh?"

Lloyd chuckled inwardly, not understanding why Theo had responded in this way.

Oh! By the way, Theo is just a child, and "like" and "love" are not the same. I see, that's it, right? Want to say thank you to me or something?

Really, Theo, if you talk about that kind of word, you will be misunderstood by strange men that you have a crush on him!

Lloyd was determined in his heart, and turned back to explain to Theo that he couldn't talk nonsense.

"I like Theo too!"

immediately gave a response.,Similar to my brother's doting sister who likes to be spoiled.。 Lloyd gently rubbed Theo's hair.

This kind of action, which clearly regarded herself as a child\\sister, immediately aroused Theo's dissatisfaction: Brother Lloyd, sure enough, is still too slow.

"I'm not a kid anymore."

Such an inflated declaration. Lloyd could only laugh ha.

"I'm not going to mess around with the agreement. If you want to make an appointment, let's change it. Big Brother Lloyd and Big Brother Guy are different people, you understand that, right? ”

"Ah...... That's right. ”

Lloyd smiled awkwardly, trying to make Theo happy, but getting the most important point wrong.

"You don't have to make a promise right away, but you must come up with it yourself."

"Theo ......"

"And - I'm not a child, I don't like to be protected unilaterally, and I hate to ask for it. We...... You're all part of the Support Division, right? ”

Theo jumped out of his chair, and after a brief moment of heat dissipation, Theo himself was freed from his dizziness. Looking at the spirited Theo, Lloyd smiled unconsciously.

"That's right."

"Hehe......"

Theo smiled again.

It's so cute, a smile from the heart......

Lloyd sighed from the bottom of his heart: "If only I could smile more often."

"Laughing, laughing or something. It's just that suddenly I relaxed. ”

Directed by Lloyd's clean eyes, Theo felt embarrassed.

"And、And、And! I'll have to go to Jonah to get paid! ”

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"Woohoohoo~He must be angry~"

Like a cute kitten, Ling deftly turned around in the chair, holding the back of the chair with both hands, and looked up at You.

On You's face, there was a self-deprecating smile.

"If it's Jonah, probably yes."

"You're still laughing, how much trouble you've filled in for others!"

Noelle, who almost wanted to punch him, managed to contain his violent desires.

"Who knows, Sa. Anyway, the last person in charge was Jonah. It can be regarded as a great achievement for him to return to the consortium naturally. ”

You said this consciously without the guilty. The angry Noelle wanted to hit him.

"I said you...... Can't we just learn a little bit about what 'kindness' is? ”

"Ah, well, then the 32nd of every month will be set as the day to learn kindness."

"Well, that's right—that's right! Which month is the 32nd! ”

"Yada, hey~"

After making a strange noise, the two men chased each other in the steel space of the puppet workshop.

Ling stared at the two of them, and there was a burst of anger for no reason. With a sneer, Ling's hand had already conjured the golden scythe, predicting Noelle's momentum, and Ling's scythe flew out aiming at Noelle's inevitable path. The scythe, which was as huge as an adult, danced into a disc under the influence of the great force, and flew quickly in front of Noelle.

It should be Noelle's flesh and blood, and Ling is watching such a plot coldly.

But no.

Yu's chains grabbed Noelle first, pulling her into his arms, dodging the scythe's attack.

"It's not polite to kill guests!"

"Oh? But Ling Jue, the guests who put aside the host's own fun don't know how to be polite, right? ”

Ling's eyes were filled with a cruel smile. However, compared to before, the murderous aura has subsided. Yu Tatsumi judged that she should not strike again.

The child in front of him, although he looks amiable, also has the temperament unique to a child.

Probably, it was the playfulness of her good relationship with Noelle that made her unhappy.

You shrugged.

"We were originally out on a date, but you were the one who invited us to the tea party."

"Hmph, so what? To ...... Ling Asking for payment? ”

The golden scythe had flown back into Ling's hand, and the little kid gently unbuttoned his neckline and held the scythe in a sultry pose.

"Forget it, that kind of reward will probably be divided into several parts by the sickle."

"That's for sure, right?"

"Forget it, I want to live longer."

Decisively rejected the temptation, and Yu's expression relaxed a lot. Infected by his relaxed attitude, Ling also put away the golden scythe.

"Oh? Ling won't be so brutal, at most it's just to the extent of cutting off her hands and feet. ”

"Ahaha, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about this."

Rubbing the girl who was trying to get out of his arms, Yu-Tatsumi smiled even brighter.

"Hmph. That's ......."

Ling sighed inexplicably, stopped talking, turned the chair, and operated on the terminal, and after a while, a small record crystal was spit out by the machine, and Ling threw it to You.

"Something about the Black Auction."

“OK。 Thank you~ Next time, I will invite you to drink black tea. ”

"That's going to give me the best!"

Bidding farewell to the lovely Ling, You and Noelle leave the somewhat stereotyped metal space inside the puppet workshop.

The old man Jonah, who had been watching them move, couldn't help but smile. He was the developer of the Extreme Strategic Weapon, now known as Patil Matir, but sadly, the results of this research were stolen by his disciples. Disheartened, he half-broke away from the association and specialized in puppet technology around Crossbell.

For Ling, Jonachus was guilty of it.

Because he knows better than anyone how complex Patil Martil's thinking circuits are, and it is difficult for the manipulator's mind to keep in tune with it.

Most of the testers before Ling couldn't bear the pain and died. The other side endured the pain but couldn't handle it, went crazy. The association had thought about freezing the plan until they found Rei.

Jonachow didn't know if Rei's spirit was born different, or if he became what she is now in order to synchronize with Patil Martier, who was supposed to be an innocent and lovely girl, but now she is a little devil who no one can guess.

It's rare to see her show the kind of feelings she just had.

Whether it's a pleasant exchange with an outsider or a scythe thrown out of jealousy, it's at least better to show your true feelings than to disguise. That's what Jonachus thought.

That man...... Is it Rei's light?

But...... That man, not so much light, should be called chaos...... Those eyes are connected to a heart as cold as Hades.

Jonachus asked himself if he still had a human eye, because...... His chief disciple had such a brilliance in his eyes.

Jonachus sighed in his heart, wanting to pray, but not knowing who he should pray to without faith.