"Wait! You're going to arrange for me to live in this dilapidated mansion full of spiders? ”

Jeno paused in the garden, questioning Elise's arrangement. He doesn't hate bug girls, but he hates bugs very much, and he firmly disagrees with letting him live with a group of spiders.

"What? You can live in such a poor environment on Shadow Island, except for more bugs, everything else is available here, is there anything wrong? ”

Elise turned her head and looked at Jeno innocently, she personally felt that it was quite comfortable.

"I don't want to wake up and see spiders crawling all over my body." Jeno shook his head repeatedly.

His words reminded Elise of the moment she had slipped into Jeno's room and observed him for a few moments, which confused her train of thought.

"Actually, there weren't so many spiders here, and it was full of servants. This was once my ex-husband's newlywed mansion, but since his death, I have sealed it off and my servants have been dismissed. ”

Elise reached her finger to a spider's web, allowing a spider the size of a coin to crawl into her palm.

"What horror story are you talking about?" Jeno frowned, completely unable to understand what Elise was trying to say.

"I mean, this house has inherited many of my memories, and in order to preserve those memories, I sealed off the house and dismissed the servants, which shows that I care about this place."

"Oh, I thought you were going to plant green grass on your husband's grave in the presence of his heavenly spirit." Jeno teased casually, not knowing if Elise would be able to meet what he wanted to say.

Green doesn't have a special meaning in the Land of Runeterra, and Jeno also made such a joke when he knew that Elise and her dead husband were not in harmony, but it was still undeniable that it was very disrespectful to the dead.

"We'll stay here for the night now, and tomorrow I'll take you around, so that you won't be easily spotted in the crowd. Of course, you can also go out to find a hotel to stay, but without my guidance, by the time you find the hotel, it will probably be dawn. ”

Elise smiled lightly, not paying attention to Jeno's teasing, and then pushed the door in by herself.

"Okay, okay, people are under the eaves, you have to bow your head, you have the final say." Jeno sighed, crossed the threshold, and entered the mansion.

The vaulted vestibule is supported by a heavy wooden frame covered with spider silk, and the walls between the wooden frames are decorated with faded frescoes depicting the early days of the empire when the Zaafan family contributed to the empire.

On Jeno's left and right, the walls of the long corridor were covered with paintings, but the shadowy curtains obscured the paintings, and the faint moonlight through the cobwebs through the windows could vaguely see that these were portraits of Elise before she fell into the cobwebs.

A pure and sweet girl, a noble and glamorous lady, and a celebrity in the political circles...... From the various periods depicted in addition to Elise's beauty, with the gradual transformation that took place on her. However, Jeno saw from Elise's micro-expression how a beautiful spider transitioned from perfectly hidden to fully exposed.

However, it can also be seen from the side that Elise's husband loved her beauty deeply before deciding to poison his wife, but beauty is no match for power after all. When watching the powerful Elise take the rights that belong to him into his arms little by little, the deepest love becomes the most intimate poison.

"Have you seen enough?"

Just as Jeno couldn't help but judge, Elise's impatient urging came from the crooked staircase of the antechamber.

"I don't look at it, I don't look at it, it's so-so." Jeno immediately followed Elise to the bedroom on the second floor, but his casual words made Elise quite concerned.

"Is it an average drawing or a person looking average?"

"Of course, it's average." Jeno replied truthfully with the package on his back: "By the way, do you know Draven?" ”

"Oh, looking at my portraits, you think of Draven? Am I sorry for my looks? "Elise not only stood still, but also took off her veil and turned her head to look at Jeno as if to say, 'Look at my face and say it again.'"

Jeno was a little messy for a moment, and replied, "I just mentioned it casually, I have something to do with him, and I don't mean anything else." ”

Seeing that Jeno immediately cleared up the relationship, Elise felt a little better and said, "I know, but there is no intersection." I'm an old-school aristocrat, and he's a military nobleman. I was on the Black Rose's side, and he was on Svein's side with his brother. ”

"There's always going to be a place where people from both walks of life like it, right?" Jeno seems to answer casually, but in essence, he is guiding Elise to say the answer he wants.

"You're talking about...... Liquidator Arena? I can only think of this place, a place that both factions of aristocratic men loved to visit. ”

"Alright, find a time to show me around." Jeno smiled, went to see Rui Wen first, and found a beautiful thug for himself.

"You're also interested in gladiators?"

"It's okay, I heard that Draven's throwing axe is very ornamental, so I wanted to take a look." Of course, Jeno couldn't be interested in Draven, he was interested in Riven.

"You men are so boring, what's so nice about this fleshy thing." Elise, who has been in politics for many years, scoffs at this kind of barbaric game: "Although I haven't seen it much, I also know that Draven is not going to go into a gladiatorial fight casually, unless he meets an opponent worthy of fighting." ”

"For example...... Minotaur? ”

"It was during Darkwell's reign, and I remember being a minotaur who was active in the arena, but he won the meat grinder and became a free man, and Draven didn't know where to play with mud."

Elise was referring to the same person as Jeno was thinking, namely the Bullhead Chief Alista, who was captured by Darkwell's youngest son, Kailang Darkwell, and captured the Immortal Fortress and sold to the Reckoners for gladiatorial performances to make money out of the pockets of the nobles.

However, after winning the Meat Grinder Contest, the prisoner of war became a free man and fought against the Imperial nobility, but later disappeared when Svein staged a coup d'état and bloodied the Darkwell family.

Also having a similar encounter with Alysta is Zhao Xin, an Ionian fisherman.

It is rumored that as long as it is a one-on-one battle, Zhao Xin has never lost. He earned his name in the arena, but before he could become a free man in the Meat Grinder Tournament, he was bought by Darkwell and thrown into battle against the elite forces of King Gavin III of Demacia.

But it also opened a new chapter in his life, becoming the head of the royal court, and giving everything for Demacia.

"And is there a meat grinder contest recently?" Jeno asked.