In Grande's dining room, Alice went back and forth to the kitchen, after using up all the reasons to delay getting to the table. Alice, who was full of anxiety, turned to Louise-

"Oh, Louise, why don't you have a spoon! I'll get it!"

"Oh, a fork is enough......" Louise was still a little puzzled, how her habit had been noticed today. But halfway through the sentence, Alice had already rushed into the kitchen.

"Uh, thanks. A moment later Louise took a sticky wooden spoon that she would never touch her own food with.

"Ah!" cried Alice again, "what a dirty spoon! I'll get another one!"

"No need to ......"

Alice didn't care what she said, and went to the kitchen.

Zach sat in the main seat, smiling and shaking his glass.

Louise looked at Zach with an inquiring gaze, 'What's wrong with Alice?', her eyes asked.

Zach raised a finger, smiled and waited for Alice to come back with a clean spoon, stood up, walked to Alice's seat, and pulled it away himself, "Alice, sit down." ”

Alice sat down nervously, and the spoon was no longer given to Louise, holding it tightly in her hand, "Zha, Mr. Zack...... As soon as she was nervous, Alice would add Mr. after Zack's salutation.

"Don't worry. Zach kept smiling, in fact, there was some inexplicable pride, and saying it would make people feel, well, disgusting, Grande's sister has grown up, and being a vampire as an older brother has a sense of accomplishment.

Louise continued to look at Zack, and the meaning in her eyes had changed to 'What the hell is going on!'

"We should celebrate. Zach returned to his seat and raised his glass incomprehensibly, "Our Alice, grow. ”

Alice had already lowered her head.

Louise couldn't help it, she knew everything in Grande. If Zach was trying to say that yesterday's 'accident' had led to the revelation of Grande's secrets, she really didn't think it had anything to do with celebration.

"Let me explain. Zach smiled without embarrassment and withdrew the wine glass that no one had touched, nonsense, it's breakfast!

"Yes. Zach muttered deliberately, "Let's use a more corny way of sharing, Danny." Let's talk about it first. ”

Say what?

"Do you remember the first time you confessed to who you really were. ”

Danny Ben lowered his head and dealt with breakfast in silence, and at the same time had some complicated emotions, and was suddenly named, which caught him a little off guard, "Uh...... Remember. ”

"Let's talk about it. Zach encouraged, "Friends, former family members, lovers, or the unlucky ones, the hunter's kind of fun-busting guys." ”

"Well, I'm unlucky. It's a hunter. Danny pursed his lips and stared at his food.

"Oh. Zach lost interest and glanced at the table, where there was no one else. Zach waved his hand, "Then let me think about mine, well, it's been a long time." ”

Louise withdrew her gaze, and she had the feeling of witnessing a milestone in her alien life. It's weird.

Zach frowned, trying to remember. "I seem to have an older brother, or a neighbor, or just a companion who fled the famine together, and his name, uh, Elijah. Something like that, I think. Zach tilted his head, "I don't remember." "He said if he doesn't remember, he doesn't remember.

Zach held up a finger, "But I remember what happened." Zach seems to be reminiscing about history, "The first time is always memorable. ”

Dragged on by Alice for so long. James also sorted things out in the bathroom and showed up at the restaurant, just in time to listen to Zach reminisce about the past.

"I was trying to explain to him why I needed to serve a new acquaintance who had kindly taken in a refugee like me during the day, and at night had the time and ability to hunt a deer enough for him to eat for a week. ”

James glanced at Zach, glanced at the table, and concluded that everyone was like him and didn't know what Zach was talking about.

"You won't believe that I used to be a very clumsy guy with words. Zack tugged at the corners of his mouth, took a sip of wine, and actually had a little smug look in the expressions of the people on the table who 'believe you are stupid'. Don't be surprised, after four centuries of grinding, Zach has nothing to despise about this bit of self-satisfaction.

"So soon, I was exposed. Short, direct expression, "I began to be taught. Elijah, uh, that's probably the name, forget it, just call him Elijah, people who have turned to dust won't mind anyway. ”

Zach paused for a moment, as if to silently apologize to someone in his heart, "Elijah began to lecture me, and he asked me if I had secretly stolen the noble gentleman's food. Of course, I deny it. He went on to ask me if I had bribed Mr. Noble's guards to poach the deer. Zach shrugged, "Naturally, I, who was not good at words at the time, continued to deny it. ”

"He began to call me a disloyal person, believing that I had tarnished the goodwill of the noble gentleman who was willing to take in the refugees, and rejected the deer I had given him. Zach had a little helplessness on his face, "The people of that era are too, how to say it, be upright." ”

Zach raised an eyebrow, "Including me, I told the truth when I was eager to prove my quality. I told this Elijah, the good aristocratic gentleman, was actually the ancestor of a vampire clan named Toredo, that I had been chosen to be his one hundred and twenty-fourth direct blood relative, and that overnight, I had fangs, claws, and manipulating red eyes. ”

The atmosphere at the dinner table became weird, and Brian, who had been wide-eyed and looked like he was listening to a story, asked without any help, "And then?!"

"He ran away. Zach glanced at the people at the table, as if he was disappointed that everyone didn't show expectation, "I was scared away, and I haven't seen this guy who seems to be Elia since." ”

Well, like the confusing beginning, this story has a very sloppy ending.

"In the morning, can you not talk about these things, unappetizing!" said in an irritated tone, James.

"I didn't tell Lola who we really are......" Alice, still nervous, her voice overlapping James's words, and then shrunk and disappeared automatically.

James glanced at Alice, who was stunned for a moment with an irritated expression, as if he had thought of something. He looked at Zach who was shaking his wine glass again, pulled the corners of his mouth, and stopped talking.

Zach didn't pay any attention to James at all, and looked at Alice with a smile, "It's not about telling others who you really are. The important thing is to be honest with yourself and take the first step yourself. Being honest with yourself in this world is growth. ”

As if to explain to the audience, Zach chuckled, "If it weren't for the guy who seemed to be named Elijah, he was scared and ran away." I'm afraid it will take me a long time to realize that I am not some lucky refugee taken in by the aristocracy, but a newborn vampire. ”

Therefore, the so-called honesty is to recognize yourself!

Looking at the incomprehensible expressions of the people at the table. Zach tilted his head, "Can't you hear the difference? The former is a bondage left over from an end of life, and the latter is the real life course I'm about to begin." ”

Zach chuckled twice, "I'd be angry if someone said I was a lucky refugee right now." There is only one definition of time in this world -- the vampire, Zachary Toredo. Zach lifted his glass, "Grand." ”

"That's stupid!" James bowed his head. Forking his breakfast, it seems that he just can't help but maliciously complain about Zack. "You need to scare away an innocent person to know what you are!

Zach didn't want to pay attention to this detective who was about to leave after breakfast.

Originally, this breakfast was used by Zach to appease Alice, who had to reveal her secret to a friend. Zach chooses an extremely tricky angle, using 'being honest with himself' to dispel Alice's fear of scaring away her friends. How can James be allowed to mess around here!

"And Masques, how do you recognize yourself?" Zach kept smiling, tapping his glass, "Wait, James." Who are you?The vase-like son of General Lance, the shackled detective at the Patton Police Department, or the human having breakfast in a dining room in an alien house. Tell me James, what you know about you now. ”

There was a screeching scraping sound, from James's fork rubbing against the plate.

James glared at Zach, if the fork in his hand was silver, he would definitely fork it out!

"Zach!" Louise slapped Zach on the arm.

Zach shrugged, "Did I say something wrong? James, do you have any other 'identity' that I missed?" ”

"No leaks!" James dropped his fork and stood up, glaring at Zach viciously, "That's a lot! I'm definitely not the guy who messes with breakfast!

Gone.

"Zach. Louise pulled the corners of her mouth helplessly, watching James walk out of the restaurant, and there was a bit of reproach in her tone, "Didn't I tell you that I was a little nicer to James." ”

Zach had to be distracted at this point, remember, Louise had spoken for James more than once or twice. If it's just a little bit of the kindness of the same human when I first met Grande, isn't it a little long?

"Louise. Zach pursed the corners of his lips, "Why help him, I'm not wrong." It's that he forgets that he is still a guest, and what good will happen to him if he confronts his host. Zach shook his head, "I've rarely been in this position to be at the head of the table), but he won't hold back at all. ”

Louise frowned, and was silent for a while, "Don't you think it's naïve for you to be like this, it's obviously a relationship of mutual trust, but you have to fight like this." ”

"Trust?" can't be argued. That is, it belongs to the kind of bad relationship where big things are okay, but small things are constantly there. Zach tugged at the corners of his mouth and shook his head, "It's a habit, I unconsciously wanted to get him at the beginning." If you want to persuade me, you might as well let him follow the rules more. ”

Louise was silent. This time, Louise didn't use her usual way to resolve the embarrassment, which was strange again.

Zach took a sip of his wine and was silent for the awkward atmosphere at the table, and Zach shook his head. This breakfast is for Alice, Zach is ready to return to the original intention, "Ellie ......"

"Do you remember Susan?" Louise said suddenly.

Zach frowned, "Your 'old' friend. "'Old' represents the past tense, the two opposing parties (Aethra's people), and this friendship is no longer possible.

"That time Susan came to Grande and was very interested in James, do you remember?" Louise didn't look at Zach, because Susan was the one she brought Grande, and she felt guilty.

"Remember, it was just a coincidence that James met at Grande. What made me uncomfortable was that she wanted to ask about something Grande shouldn't have asked. Zach responded.

"Do you remember that after that dinner at Mrs. Quinn, I knew she was working for Ethella, and then she came to me again to make something clear?"

Zach tightened his eyebrows, "Remember, I remember to tell you not to go, you insist you can handle it." ”

Louise still didn't look at Zach and nodded, "I just wanted to draw a line, and she wanted to apologize, she said that before the dinner, she really didn't know about our relationship with the mayor." ”

Zach pursed his lips, does it make sense to say this now?

"You know, in my previous profession, I didn't have easy friends. Louise frowned, as Zach had prepared for Alice before, in the past and future lives, Louise now perceives herself as a Grande, not a 'single woman' she once was.

"Susan wants me to forgive me, at least don't misunderstand her as a person......" Louise's voice was a little quieter, "after all, she does a word-of-mouth business ......" replied in a loud voice, "said something like this to me, 'Since you Grande have become friends with that son of General Lance, keep it up.'" I didn't really have much interest in that James, I had read some reports about him before, and I knew that it would not have anything to do with my profession, how could I deliberately approach him, it was Acera who was interested in him. ’”

Zach had to ask, "What interest can Aethra have in James?"

I asked. "Louise finally looked at Zach with some concern in her eyes," Susan said, not to James, but to 'Lance'. ”

Zach opened his mouth. Sure enough, there was something missing from James's words just now? As the first James to come from the west to the easternmost town of the Union, there was still something else that Zach didn't know!

Maybe it must be mentioned here, Zach doesn't know, but someone does. Crowley knew that because she had 'gotten' James, James had been extremely repulsive to demons ever since.

And the woman Ethra! Zach had to wonder what Anthony's opponent was up to.

Zach shook his head, focused, he, the owner of the Grande, couldn't let James disrupt his breakfast plans. James Lance doesn't matter, Grande's sister does.

"Alice......" Zach wanted to smile again, his face a little stiff, and his lips were irritated, "Alice, I only want to say one thing, Lola and Capler were not scared away, no matter what you showed them, they were not scared away. You're Grande's sister, their friend, and that's who you are, don't worry. ”

Just said his intentions in such a flat and straightforward manner, which was too different from Zack's style, and a sense of dryness overflowed.

Just in time, Austin came to work with his team, and Zach had a place to vent. Oh, and it's still a mess there. (To be continued......)