Due to the extremely troublesome way back to the Temple of Despair, coupled with Chen Ming's curiosity about the Demon Palace, after reading the documents prepared by Rice, he stayed directly in the Demon Palace.

The Demon Palace in the middle of the night is extremely quiet, the high-level demons do not like to be as lively as those low-level demons, the competitiveness of the Demon Palace is much greater than that of the outside world, and the open and secret battles of the various camps make them have little time to indulge themselves.

Chenming, on the other hand, is the freest person here, he doesn't need to meditate to improve his magic power, and he doesn't need to think about political issues.

Boredom, he strolled through the square outside the Knight's Palace, and what made him strange was that the night sky of the Demon Palace was not as scarlet and starless as he saw in the Temple of Despair, on the contrary, the starry sky here bloomed as if there was no chastity.

"I feel like I'm back at the academy. ”

Looking at the sun and moon in the sky, the corners of Chen Ming's mouth lifted a smile, originally because he lost the magic guide book, he barely closed his eyes, but when he came to the Demon Palace, he felt sleepy for the first time.

"Maybe it's because I'm close to her. ”

He thought in his heart, after coming to the Demon Palace, he was not as anxious as before, and his heart began to calm down.

Chen Ming has always believed in what An Mixiu said, although he said that he didn't believe it, but he believed that this ancient demon king would not deceive himself, and he also knew that his title and title in the Demon Palace were the result of An Mixiu's dark box operation, and the ultimate goal was to complete his appeal.

For him, Shaqiluo is the only salvation since his reincarnation, and when he sees Luo Xi again, everything in the past becomes clear, but it is because of this that he is more certain of his feelings.

Perhaps once, he loved Luo Xi deeply, but their relationship fell apart because of various misunderstandings, and now, even if Luo Xi stood in front of him again, he would still choose Shaqiluo without hesitation.

Ten years of hatred can change a lot of things, even if this resentment is just a big oolong played by fate on him, but he only has a strong guilt and debt to Luo Xi in his heart.

It doesn't matter if he is attentive or scolds him for being a scumbag, his fate should be like this, he can't change it, and he doesn't want to change it.

In fact, with the appearance of Theresia, he had a chance to choose again, although he was not sure, the artifact Eternal Sea could take him back to the past.

But he didn't ask Theresia even once, he didn't want to ask for it, he didn't dare to ask for it, because the girl's smile had already addicted him like a drug, and he was afraid that after changing the past, he would miss out on Shakira.

Therefore, his choice is very simple, to pay back what he owes, and to love him deeply, no matter how much he will pay in the future, he is willing to bear it.

"I'm here, where are you?"

The young man muttered in a low voice, lying on the edge of the empty square, and he fell asleep, obviously he did not want to sleep.

The dawn of the morning soon fell, and when Tatsunami woke up, he found that he had returned to his office bedroom, and in his arms, the yellowed old book lay quietly.

"Is it An Mixiu?"

Stroking the "Magic Book of Dusk", Chen Ming was in a daze, he felt that something seemed to be missing in this book, "It's still you ......"

Walking out of the bedroom, he saw Corvette who was already waiting on the sofa, and he greeted with a smile, "Lord Corvette, why did you come so early?"

"Young Master Chenming, good morning. ”

Corvette stood up and saluted, then picked up the file bag on the table and walked over to Chenming and handed it to him, "Your things are ready, I want to give them to you as soon as possible." ”

"Thank you. ”

Chen Ming smiled gratefully, took the file bag and opened it, and what caught his eye was a white card with excellent texture, with some bronzing fonts on it, which marked Chen Ming's current title, title and other information.

In addition to this card, there is also a token in the file bag that is similar to the token in Corvette's hand yesterday, but the gem on it is only two colors: one silver and one red.

"Silver represents the Knight's Palace, then this red ......"

Looking at the token, Chen Ming asked puzzled, "Where does this red gem lead?"

"I don't know. ”

Corvette was also dazed, "This kind of token is only qualified to be issued by the Elder Pavilion and the Demon King Palace, and if you want to get the space stone to go to other places, it can only be granted with the permission of the hall master of that place, my tokens are the Purple Demon King Palace, the Blue Elder Pavilion, the Gray Inquisition, the Silver Knight Hall and the Yellow Military Office, and the representative colors of the other two places are not red, I don't know where this gem leads specifically." ”

"It's not easy to know, so it's good to try. ”

Chen Ming smiled, and was about to inject magic power, but was hurriedly stopped by Corvette, "Young Master, don't! The unknown place where the space stone is teleported may be extremely dangerous, don't try it before Master An Mixiu comes, otherwise I'm afraid of an accident!"

"Okay. ”

Scratching his head helplessly, Chen Ming put away the token and said, "Then, does the Lord of the Corvette Hall have anything else to explain?"

"Not for the time being. ”

Seeing that he didn't insist on experimenting, Corvette also breathed a sigh of relief, he shook his head and said, "You have just joined the Demon Palace, everything is in the familiarization stage, so there is nothing to do for the time being, you can walk around, the library here is extremely rich, although it is not as good as the Temple of Despair, but some of the lone books are still worth seeing." ”

"That's a good idea. ”

Speaking of the library, Chen Ming suddenly became interested, reincarnated in hell, and his only pleasure now is only curiosity and love for those supernatural monsters.

"Okay, then I'll take you there. ”

"No, I'll do it myself. ”

Tatsumi waved his hand, declined Corvette's kindness, and walked out of the office alone.

Because it was early in the morning, there were relatively few people in the knight's hall, but by coincidence, Chen Ming ran into the deputy hall master Gelie, who had some quarrels with him yesterday.

Chen Ming greeted with a smile, and the other party was obviously reprimanded by Corvette, so he didn't make any more troubles, but this rough man didn't know how to get along with people, and after holding back for a long time, he just nodded, and then led the team to patrol elsewhere again.

Tatsunato didn't care, shrugged his shoulders, and slowly moved forward with the memory of hanging out yesterday.

Although the Knight's Hall was huge, it was not so big compared to a behemoth like the Hall of Despair, and after walking for about half an hour, Chen Ming finally stopped in front of a quaint pavilion.

"Is this the library?"

After standing for a while, Chen Ming admired this ancient and fragrant pavilion and walked in.

In the dim light, Chen Ming saw some demon figures, they didn't react to Chen Ming's arrival, and they were still immersed in researching something.

Walking into the dimly lit library, Chen Ming came to a bookshelf, took a book and slowly flipped through it.

Books are not interesting, and they can even be regarded as boring for Chen Ming, who has eaten up the library of the Temple of Despair, but after enduring the torment of waiting, he always has to find something to fill the emptiness in his heart.

When he sees something interesting, he occasionally smiles at the corners of his mouth, and his incomprehensible look looks incomprehensible to others, but for a girl who is secretly observing him in a corner, it is the most interesting thing in the world.

He's reading a book, she's reading him.

In the magic ring, the silver token that had just been obtained from Corvette had a red gem that lit up like flames.

Chenming, who was still immersed in the book, did not notice that the environment around him had changed, and he was still immersed in reading.

A breeze blew softly, and he frowned slightly as he was disturbed, and looked away from the book.

"Where is this?"

Tatsunami closed the book and glanced at the strange surroundings around him.

Behind him is a hot spring emitting white heat, and in front of him is a small building with a simple shape, surrounded by strange mountains and rocks, and under his feet, a path paved with bluestone.

Standing dumbfounded for a moment, Tatsunato called, "Natsumi?"

Didn't get a response.

Frowning, he shouted again, "Black Rabbit?"

It's still quiet.

"Am I asleep again?"

He was pretty sure that he wasn't asleep, but he couldn't explain the strange thing that was happening right now, and the two guys who were least likely to leave him didn't even respond in the slightest.

"What the hell is going on?"

Walking into the small building in a daze, the wooden floor made a creaking sound, noisy but pleasant.

"Is anyone there, please?"

It was still quiet, no one answered him, and he walked around every corner of the house, but still didn't see a single person.

But surprisingly, he didn't have the slightest panic, as if he knew that the owner of this place would not hurt him.

After looking for a long time, Chen Ming, whose mind was full of puzzlement, sat on the wooden steps at the door of the small building.

"Come out, Shakira, I know it's you. ”

Subconsciously saying this, Chen Ming's pupils suddenly contracted, and even his breathing stopped because of nervousness.

Behind him, a petite figure in a red dress grew from shallow to deep, thin arms gently wrapped around his neck, a small head, leaning on his head, she opened her scarlet eyes that were burning with flames, and whispered, "What a fool, it took so long to find me......"

Chen Ming didn't dare to make a sound, didn't dare to raise his head, or even dared to breathe, as if he was afraid that a casual movement of his own would make this girl who he regarded as the most precious treasure disappear again.

It took him a long time to come to his senses, and his dry and hoarse voice was accompanied by a hint of crying, "I miss you......"

In a word, he wanted to talk for three whole years, he thought about many words to talk about after meeting, and thought about holding her tightly in his arms when he met her again, and never let go.

However, no matter how many words and affectionate actions are, at this moment, they are all left behind by this young man or teenager who seems to have changed a lot, but in fact has not changed in the slightest.

"Well, I know. ”

The girl let go of him and circled around him like a fairy, crouching down slowly, looking up, her eyes reflecting his pained, happy expression.

She reached out and gently stroked his cheek, which was a little more angular than it was three years ago, and smiled brightly, "I miss you too." ”

The young man who couldn't stand it anymore stretched out his hands and held her tightly in his arms, greedily sniffing her unique body fragrance, feeling the faint warmth coming from this little body.

Tears slid down Chenming's cheeks and hit Shaqiluo's back, but they were evaporated by the faint flames, as if at this moment, even the flames did not allow them to have any sadness left.

"I'm sorry to leave you for so long......"

Gently patting Chenming's trembling back, Shaqiluo comforted in a low voice, "From today on, I will stay by your side, forever, forever ......"

seemed to be tired of crying, so Chen Ming just hugged her and fell asleep groggily.

At this moment, all his pain, torment, and nightmares were diluted and dissipated by the girl in his arms.

"Actually, I've been by your side for the past three years......"

The girl closed her eyes, and in the arms of the young man was her warmest bed, which had been, since the first meeting, "It's just that some fool never knew......

......

After sleeping for I don't know how long, Chen Ming woke up from his dream, looked around in a panic, and when he felt the soft and delicate body in his arms, his heart calmed down.

"Hmmm......"

As if disturbed by Chenming's movements, Shaqiluo's brows furrowed, and she reluctantly opened her eyes, shrunk her petite body, and sat up in a daze.

"Sorry to wake you up. ”

Chen Ming said apologetically, "Do you want to sleep for a while?"

Shakiro shook her head, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and said, "I've been asleep for a long time. ”

"Hmmm......"

Facing his heart's thoughts again, for a while, Chen Ming didn't know what to say.

"I'm hungry, you can cook for me. ”

The girl got up, patted her somewhat messy skirt, and said.

"But there's nothing here......"

After walking around just now, Chen Ming didn't find any traces of people living here.

Shakiro looked up at him and said, "If you want to, there will be anything here." ”

Chen Ming was stunned, and the next moment, his surroundings became blurred, and when he came back to his senses, the surrounding environment changed greatly.

"This is ......"

Looking around in surprise, Chen Ming said in surprise, "The small building of the academy?"

The familiar living room, the familiar bar, and the kitchen where he often cooked, Chen Ming found that he felt like he was back in the academy.

However, Shaqiluo shook her head and said, "This is the center of the Demon Palace, my world, and in the future, it will also be your world." ”

"The omnipotent Shakira. ”

Chen Ming's heart suddenly sudden, touched his head, and said with a wry smile, "I feel that with you, all I can do is cook." ”

"Trust me, you're going to get stronger. ”

Shakiro earnestly confirmed, "You're going to get stronger." ”

"Hmm. ”

Putting away the self-esteem that made him feel pathetic, Chen Ming smiled and patted her head, "I believe in you, but before I become stronger, I'd better fill your little belly first." ”

"Hmm. ”

The girl nodded earnestly, then turned and walked towards the sofa in the living room.

Chen Ming smiled slightly, withdrew his gaze, walked to the kitchen with ease, and began to fiddle with the food.

"I'm wondering now if the materials in the academy's refrigerator have changed by you. ”

Looking at the neatly arranged ingredients in the refrigerator, Chen Ming glanced at Shaqiluo, who was sitting there quietly holding milk, and in a trance, he seemed to have returned to three years ago.

After being busy for nearly two hours, Chen Ming shouted softly, "It's time to eat." ”

The girl stepped away and moved to the dining room, where Chenming affectionately moved the chair for her, and when she was seated, he returned to sit down opposite her.

"Delicious. ”

As she chewed the food in her mouth, Shakira said.

"I prefer to be your cook rather than be stronger. ”

Chen Ming thought in his heart, and he smiled and said, "It's delicious, then eat more......"

This situation is the same as it was back then.

......

The galaxy in the middle of the night hung brightly in the sky, and Chen Ming and Shaqiluo sat on the steps in front of the small building together, looking at the galaxy in a daze.

"Now, Chenming. ”

Shakiro suddenly spoke, "Can you tell me about your experience over the years?"

"My experience?"

Chen Ming was slightly stunned and said with a wry smile, "This is nothing good." ”

Shakiro shook her head and said, "I want to hear it." ”

"This ......"

The young man lowered his head and thought about it, and finally said helplessly, "Okay, then let's talk about it." ”

Under the stars, he spoke faintly, and she listened quietly.

The story is very long, but a lot of unpleasantness is omitted by the youth, and only some interesting and happy things are told to the girl.

As for the girl, she witnessed his experience, and the pain was more than the joy, but she did not expose his good news or bad news, but there was a touch of pity on the little face without the slightest flaw.

After the story was finished, Tatsunato looked to his side with a smile, Shakiro was no longer there, and he returned to the library, but this time, he didn't look for it frantically, because he knew that he could go to see her whenever he wanted.

"One day, I will stand by your side and announce to the world that you belong ......"

The girl he cherished, gave him a key to break into her world, a silver token, a ruby that burned with flames......

Walking briskly out of the library, the blinding sunlight shining on his face.

Squinting uncomfortably, Chen Ming saw the young man who was standing there staring at him not far away, and said with a smile, "An Mixiu, thank you." ”

Put away your disgusting smile. ”

Pouting with hatred, An Mixiu said, "Now you're satisfied, right?"

"Hmm. ”

Chen Ming was not angry, and nodded, "I thought you forgot your promise to me." ”

"Despair is not disappointment, I never lie. ”

An Mixiu rolled his eyes, then smiled, "Since I did your request for you, shouldn't you also listen to my request?"

"Your appeal?"

Chen Ming was stunned, frowned, and said, "Let's hear it?"

"It's actually quite simple. ”

An Mixiu raised his eyebrows slightly, and met him with a flat gaze, "Within twenty years, I will obtain the title of prince of the Demon Palace." ”