After the dragoons were gone, Bran looked preoccupied. Zoya has also recovered from the last shock in the past few days, and has started to talk to Bran again every day in the villa.

"I've missed Erin a little, do you miss her?" Zoya asked casually.

"I don't want to!"

"How do you feel like you're on your mind? I still miss them a little. ”

"Do you know the characteristics of the Northlanders?"

"What are the characteristics?"

"It's just heartless. ”

Zoya followed Erin's example, lightly hammered Bran, and saw that he didn't react when he smiled, so she was relieved and bold to hammer again.

"I heard you went to see Erin off?"

"No, just like when they came, I just sat in front of my house and watched the fun. ”

Perhaps thinking of the time when Bran brought his own beasts to watch, Zoya smiled.

"When we leave with the mission, will you still watch the excitement?"

"No, it won't. ”

"Why?" Zoya asked rhetorically, dissatisfied.

I'm probably going to be away for a while, and I'll be away before you go.

"Where are you going?"

"I can't tell you that this is the Northlanders' big secret. Bran grinned.

"It's a lie again. ”

When bidding Zoya farewell, Bran gave her a hug and explained to Zoya, who was blushing, that it was an early farewell gift.

......

At dinner at the castle, the Duke began to persuade Bran to educate him about the dark circles under his eyes. And Lily is also adding fuel to the fire, accusing Bran of being cautious and deliberately making herself ugly with a dark eye. With the wizard's physique and Bran's ability, he can make the dark eye frame disappear in a short period of time, and he doesn't have to endure it for so many days, making her embarrassed.

Bran was silent for a while, a little hesitant, a little difficult to make up his mind, only his mother, who had always doted on him, saw his contradictory mood at this time.

Bran looked up and explained, "It's the face pattern, the reaction of the Northlanders when they hear the call of the wasteland. ”

"Fart's facelines, I'll add two more to you now. "Since Lily's ability evolved, the increase in strength has made her more violent, but it's really not a good habit.

Bran sighed, raised his head, and said seriously, "It's really a face pattern." ”

Seeing that his sister had a posture of rushing over, Bran quickly explained: "I can't suppress it anymore, and I don't want to hear it now, but the voice has already sounded." So I had to make a choice. ”

"What do you want to ......pretend to be this time?" Lily was a little angry. Then, the words below her could no longer be spoken. She saw that the bruises on Bran's eye frames slowly dissipated, and some inconspicuous markings appeared.

"It's impossible? How old are you? You're not even 10 years old. Lily cried.

"It's 10 years old. ”

Except for the voices of the two siblings, echoed in the dining room, and everyone in the restaurant looked quietly at this time. Some surprised, some overwhelmed, did any of the children of the Northlands hear the call of the wasteland before they were 14? It all happened so suddenly.

"This can't be, I'm your sister, I'm much better than you, I didn't hear it, why did you hear it?" Lily began to be unreasonable, worried about her brother's safety made her start to speak incoherently. It's just that this time it's no longer useful, in the past, my brother would back down and compromise, but today my brother didn't obey her.

"I don't want that either. I thought I could hold it down, drag it until you also hear the call of the wasteland, and then enter with you. Although after entering the wasteland, they will be separated according to their call, but at least there is a possibility of being together......" Bran shook his head and did not explain further.

"You can leave, leave the Northland now. When you reach adulthood, the call of the wasteland will disappear, and then you can come back again. The Duchess was a little anxious.

"In what capacity?" Bran asked his mother. "I know, you want me to just stay alive anyway. In a doting way, with a reason to live, he threw me out of the Northland. And then, how is this different from abandonment?

I don't want to be what you put in your arrangement. You have used your experience and experience to arrange all the ways for me, but it shouldn't be the whole story.

I know that this is an attempt by the Northland to break the isolation, to try to marry and communicate with the outside world, and to try to break the tradition of our Northland people not to intermarry with foreigners. I was able to survive, and my mother's doting was one thing. But this is the Northland, how could an idiot be allowed to grow up in a castle just because of doting? From the time I saw the young men and women who were about to get married, I wondered, when did this news come out? Something I didn't want to remember, something I didn't want to remember, something that I didn't want to remember, became clear. It's not always a good thing to remember too early. During that time period, my sister, me, and my sister may all be chosen to marry.

Don't look at me like that. It's not your fault, Father. Rest assured, I never hated you either, at least you once gave your son a nice hug when he found out that he wasn't an idiot. Now, please don't stop me.

Tomorrow I will leave alone, temper myself on the way to the wasteland, and I will come back from the wasteland. There are many kinds of strength, at least I'm still a good wizard, and I'm not weak in the unscrupulous fight to the death. So don't worry, since my two stupid brothers can come back alive, so can I.

After the completion of the trial, I will leave the Northlands as you hope, as you hope, as the Northlanders. ”

Everyone was silent, and after a long time, Madame said, "Let Dani accompany you for a while." ”

"If you still want me to come back alive, you have to let me go out on my own.

If, I mean if, Dani is my squire. According to tradition, I have no descendants, and all that I have will belong to my only attendants.

I'll go back and rest, and I'll not come here tomorrow to say goodbye. ”

Bran got up and left the table.

......

In the patio of the lodge.

Madame regretted it very much, and said to Bran, "If I knew this, I would not let you go no matter what." ”

"Mom, don't do that. Being able to live easily for a few years is something that Northland people can't think of. ”

"Will you go to the wasteland by yourself?" will you leave it to me?" asked little Lorisie.

"Flowey will follow me, he won't leave me. Looking at Lori's somewhat disappointed expression, Bran added: "If one day, Flowey comes back by herself, you must treat him well." ”

"I promise. Little Lori nodded affirmatively. "But I still hope you'll come back with him. ”

Bran took Radani's hand and said, "Guard our manor." ”

Dani crouched down, took Bran into her arms, and held her for a long time before letting go: "Ride my horse away." ”

"No, my brother rode in and slipped back on his own legs. It's better to count one less death, and I won't drag them down. ”

......

Bran left before dawn, taking his inseparable friend Black Cat Flowey, towards the wasteland.

......

At dawn, Dany took two snow falcons and two white wolves who often lay on the third floor of the villa.

With Bran and Dani gone, the villa seemed to have lost some kind of vitality. At this time, Bran's mother, sister, and sister sat in the somewhat deserted patio, not wanting to speak.

"I want to follow behind and escort my brother for a while. ”

"No, there's Dani. It's been him and Dani for the past two years, and we can't get in. ”

"But I'm his sister. ”

"Do you regret it?" the lady took her daughter into her arms, "regret not taking care of my brother seriously?"

Madame sighed and said, "Don't worry, Bran will take care of himself, he has never really needed to be taken care of." It's been like this since I was a child, it's always been like this, he's always taken good care of himself, and he has taken good care of you and your sister, but I haven't noticed. He doesn't need any care, he just needs a buy-in, that's why he's going to do this damn trial, and we'll just wait for him to come back. ”

"He always wouldn't say what he wanted, he always did, that's why I ......" Lily whispered, as if to someone else, as if to say it to herself.

......

Miss Zoya came, and then left disappointed. The little girl finally knew that the hug was really a farewell gift, and Bran didn't lie to her this time, but she always felt that Bran smiled and hugged her, there was a sense of goodbye.

Soon before she left with the mission, she finally found out that Bran was going to the Northlands trial, the one with the highest mortality rate. She couldn't believe it, how could that little Northlander, who was always pale, sitting in a rocking chair and dangling, without a trace of wildness, go to the trial at this time? Wasn't he going to marry and leave the Northland? Or was it true, as rumored, that the Northlander was always dying?

Zoya began to worry about her best friend and began to have some tea and dinner......