Chapter 24: Estrangement
Rafa, who had returned to the city lord's palace, disappeared for a while, and did not even eat dinner, and it was not until the next morning when the caravan was about to depart that he belatedly saw off the two caravans.
After that, he hurried to Philicon's territory, ready to arrange the work of each witch.
"Are you alright?"
It seems that Filihill, who has been waiting for him for a long time, seems to have arranged everything, when he came here, she was directing Hedda and Elle to calcinate something, it seems that she really has two brushes, otherwise how could the powerful Heda easily listen to her?
"Of course it's okay, didn't you see me jumping around?" Rafa turned around and moved his body to prove that he was okay.
Felihill put down the drawings in her hand, "Then how did I hear that Ao Dai seems to have taken Shirley for a while?"
"Ahem, didn't I tell her not to be discovered......" he began to mumble quietly, "Hey, why are you looking at me like that?"
As he moved, his dodging eyes accidentally met Felihill's blazing gaze.
As Felihill's gaze flickered as she stared at him.
Rafa seemed to be pulled out of this world, and his vision became strange.
"Rafa. ”
The moment she spat out his name, Rafa seemed to see a strange color in her eyes.
Then Felihill's lips began to hum, as if to say something, but strangely he could not hear a word, and the world seemed to become silent for a moment, and there was nothing else in his field of vision, only Felihill's indifferent face.
"Got it?" said Felihill quickly, quickly finishing the last sentence.
It was the only thing he heard.
But he didn't know what she was saying.
But the strange thing is that although he didn't know what was going on at all, he couldn't help but say like a dream,
"Understood. ”
Then his vision began to quickly return to normal, and the noise around him began to gradually resound.
But the memories of a moment ago seemed to be fading rapidly, and when he blinked and looked back at Felihill, he couldn't remember what had just happened.
Rafa rubbed his cheeks with a dazed expression, "I ...... just now What's wrong?"
"Aren't you trying to say anything to me?" asked Felihill, confused.
He looked up dumbfounded, and saw that Elle and Hedda had stopped what they were doing, and were looking at him as silently as Felihill.
He tried to think about what he had forgotten, but he couldn't remember.
"Forget it, I can't remember," Rafa scratched his head, "By the way, Fili, how did you build the foot-operated milling machine I said earlier?"
"I knew it would be useful for future bullet processing, so it was the highest priority, and it had already been built. Felihill sat back down, picked up the black tea Rafa had given her, and gestured toward a room in the distance.
"What is the priority of the steam engine?"
"It can assist in the mining of ore, which is the material used to make guns in the future, so it is the second priority. She opened the notebook in front of her, and there were a lot of words written in it.
"What? isn't the steam engine the highest?, what is the highest priority?" Rafa was puzzled, and Felihill seemed to have paid no attention to what he had told him so many times.
"The manufacture of firearm parts as well as gunpowder. ”
Felihill's answer can be said to have surprised him, he didn't expect to make so many plans, but she didn't care at all, and always grasped the problem of making guns.
"Fili...... Elle isn't going to be making parts for guns all the time, is she?The parts for the steam engine have already arrived, so why don't you start assembling them?" He didn't know what to say.
Felihill closed the book and said indifferently, "Rafa, I have never been obliged to do anything for you, I think this, I made it very clear at the time of the engagement, I respect everything for you, but it does not mean that I have to give everything for you." ”
Rafa didn't expect Felicille to come up with this reason, and he was a little stunned for a while.
And the beautiful idea that he thought that "the relationship between the two was not bad" was also dispelled at this moment, and it turned out that he really didn't matter to her.
He should have understood that everything Felihill had said before was no joke, and it was time for him to break those meaningless illusions.
Raising his head, he wanted to say something more to the witches, but when he thought that these witches seemed to be obedient to Felihill's words, his words might not have much effect.
One last glance at Felicille's back, he didn't say anything more and left silently.
Counted out by Felihill, Rafa became unable to do anything.
Even when Sieverus smiled at the news that the cement factory had been built and began to produce it, he didn't feel anything, he just leaned back in his chair and silently ordered the previous bounty to be paid, and then he couldn't hear what Sieverus said again.
"No, she doesn't always force me to draw something, so why doesn't she do it if I ask her to do something?"
When he calmed down, he felt that he had lost a lot.
"And the things I said, isn't it to accumulate industrial power in order to be able to make guns in the future? She thinks that she can subvert the world by forming a magic group of a few witches? If that's the case, then there are so many witches in this world, isn't the world already the world of witches? Do you still need to make guns?"
"I thought she was looking far away! I didn't expect that she was also a fool with mouse eyes, sitting in the sky, looking at the sky like beans, and thinking about the distance!"
As soon as Seapheus was gone, Rafa began pacing around the hall with his hands behind his back, and began to curse Felihill in his mouth, causing Audrey's cheeks twitch as he stood in the corner.
"Your Highness...... Maybe Madame has her own plans...... "Seeing that Rafa was almost about to jump on the table, Audair had to say something to persuade her.
"Plans? Her plan is to have the witches build guns day and night, without thinking about what Icefield City really needs right now!"
Audele, who was scared back, was also a little distressed, although she knew that the power of the thing called a gun was amazing, but now the city wall was quite strong, and there were two flame witches sitting in the formation, even if the wolf cavalry army attacked, it should not be able to break through the city wall that had been repaired, why bother to insist on making guns thanklessly?
Rafa, who had been scolding for a while, seemed to be unable to find any words, and sat down in his chair again, staring blankly at the door.
"Okay, didn't you let me interfere with you, and don't come to me if anything happens to you in the future. In the end, he relied on the Spiritual Victory Method to make himself feel better.
After that, Audair proposed to go out for a walk and take a look at the surrounding construction, and he readily agreed.
Walking down the street, people who felt good about Rafa smiled and saluted him, which made him feel a joy that was very different from Felihill's coldness.
"Silly girl, just stay in your lab and get moldy. ”
Smiling in response to passers-by, he decides to be the polar opposite of Felihill.