James returned punctually at lunchtime, and the corner of his eye twitched as Louise gave him money for the dress, but he accepted it anyway.

"If you're going to give me clothes, I'd rather you choose your own snacks instead of just paying for them in passing. That's what Louise said.

"How. Louise raised an eyebrow at Zack, "Didn't you reconcile, this little joke is nothing." ”

"It's not reconciliation. Zach shook his glass and smiled, "We never had a falling out, right, partner James." ”

What could James say, the corners of his eyes twitched again, he ate silently, and when he was done, he had to go back to the police station, where there was a partner who really needed him to ask - Curson, the situation in the southeast, as a police detective, he still had to pay attention.

There are guests coming.

As the sound of the engine approached, Zach suddenly raised his eyebrows, "Cliff is here, it seems that Linda is also there, James, you want to ......" Hiding or not shying away from it? But Zach hasn't finished asking yet.

James stood up with a gloomy face, "My car is still in your backyard!"

Zach pursed his lips and glanced at Danny the Phantom.

The phantom man received the command, his body scattered into colored light, skimmed over the wall, and vanished.

Mo, who was pretending to eat, raised his eyebrows and tilted his body out of the restaurant, probably curious about what Danny, a phantom person, was going to do.

Zach ignored it and pointed to the ground, "You go and help the 'General' refer to his future plans?"

James frowned, 'Future plans'? He knew very well that the 'General' had left Grande to go back to the southeast to stir up trouble, what could he, the policeman, refer to for such a hidden danger in society?

James didn't bother to argue anything, and picked up his lunch and walked out of the restaurant. It seems、Probably sighed、Or went down to the basement。 It's good that the 'General' can help him eavesdrop on the conversation.

Cliff's car was parked in the front yard, after all, he and Grande were not friends, and at the wedding, he, the host, did not fulfill his duties of hospitality.

Zach waved at Old Hank. When he signaled to pick someone in, the phantom Danny's colored light gathered and returned.

"How did you do that?" Mo raised an eyebrow, "I can feel that James's car is really gone, not out of sight, but really gone, where did you get it?"

It's been a few days since we got along, but Danny always feels a little weird about Ink. As you know, since Mo inexplicably commented on the phantom race, the atmosphere between the two has always been a bit weird. Well, similar to the feeling that the Tao is different and does not conspire with each other, it is too lazy to pay attention to the meaning of the other party......

So at this time, Danny first frowned, looked at Mo with a sincere and curious face, and then looked at Zack.

Zach gave a 'I didn't have to explain it for you'.

Danny pursed his lips and resumed dealing with breakfast. "I didn't do anything, James did. He wanted the car to disappear, and I just passed that hope. ”

Let ** be realized, this is the advantage of phantom people, but also the disadvantage.

Mo opened his mouth, looking like his cognition was shocked, but immediately. She shook her head, "You're deliberately exaggerating your abilities, if you can 'deliver' ......" she accentuated the two words, "People, whatever." Then I completely retract what I said about you, about the cherubim. But I don't think I'm wrong, you're not that powerful. ”

Danny frowned, "I'm not going to exaggerate anything. There was already an impatient tone, obviously thinking that there was something wrong with the ink, "What 'you', I have already said, I have nothing to do with the cherubim. Danny didn't forget to find the language problem in the other party's words, "And do you have a problem with your comprehension, I said, James wants the car to disappear, it is he who wants it, not me." He didn't hope so, the car came back, what does it matter if I am strong or not!"

"Oh. Mo blinked, "So that means, well, doesn't the effect last?" ”

Well, that's right.

Danny didn't bother to say anything more, waved his hand, and concentrated on lunch.

Cliff and Linda entered, led by Old Hank.

Zach looked at the two guests with a smile on his face, trying not to show a funny feeling, because Cliff-

His husband's hand was uncomfortably around his wife's waist, sometimes moving up and sometimes down, as if looking for a suitable position. But look at Linda's uncomfortable expression as a wife, Cliff's hand doesn't fit anywhere. It seems that this marriage still needs a lot of running-in.

"Welcome. Zack's etiquette, there is nothing to say, he nodded to the guests with his wine glass, took over the lead of old Hank, and walked upstairs to the office, "Sorry for leaving the table early at the wedding party, I don't know today, you newlyweds ......"

Before Zack's politeness was finished, Linda finally couldn't hold back, and as she followed Zach upstairs, she pinched Cliff's hand moving up and down, and pushed it away, "Don't have these unnecessary things, Toredo, you know why we're here." ”

Then skip it, Zach tilted his head slightly, and glanced sideways at Linda, "I don't know." Also, call me Zach, or Mr. Grande. "Zach gives two options, the former does not need to be explained, and the latter, which stands for 'formal', the formality of the outsider's master.

Linda was silent for a moment in the back, as if she had thought for a moment and made her choice, "Zach. ”

Satisfied, Zach pushed open the office door and made a gesture of please, "Shall I call you Linda, or Ms. XX (Cliff's last name)?"

"Linda. "Simply.

At this time, Cliff's face turned pale. Well, this marriage needs to be run-in......

"Cliff told me. When she consciously sat down at the desk, Linda spoke directly, she should be a direct person, without any tactful foreshadowing, and went straight to the point, "You know that the Demon Banquet is raising inheritors in captivity." She glanced at Zach, who was sipping, "And I'm from the West." Then he stopped talking.

Zach took a sip of his wine and waited for a while, this was Grande, our vampire's office, and Zach wasn't interested in letting the other party lead the conversation. When he put down his glass, Zach deliberately raised an eyebrow, "You want to ask me if I have any suspicions." Are you from the Demon Feast?"

Linda didn't answer.

Zach shrugged, "Of course I doubt it, you want to ......" The corners of his mouth raised slightly, "Defend yourself?"

"Nope. Linda looked back at Cliff, who was not as self-conscious as she was, standing in the doorway of Grande's office. The whole body is uncomfortable. Linda pursed her lips, retracted her gaze, and looked back at Zack, "I'm not going to defend myself, I'm the one who was kept in captivity by the Demon Feast." ”

Zach raised an eyebrow and picked up his glass again. This was unexpected...... Easy, Zach thought that the other party would at least try to cover it up, after all, the woman in front of him. The words that came up for James, Zach had to admit that he would be deceived.

"In fact, I'm amazed at your choice of words. Linda frowned, "'Captivity', in the Demon Feast, our self-perception is that of the Devil's Feast, the servants who have to serve the Devil's Feast every life cycle. She paused, her gaze drifting away. "I only found out when I heard Cliff say about your arrival at Barton. Captivity, more suitable. ”

Zach also glanced at Cliff, who was still uncomfortable by the door, shook his head, and pointed to the workbench in front of the bookcase, "You can sit down and flip through some books or something." "Zach is helpless. He hadn't done anything out of the ordinary with this Cliff since he came to Barton, and he didn't know what this guy was afraid of.

Leave Cliff alone, Zach looked back at Linda, "I didn't invent the term 'captivity'. It's consensus. "Zach spreads his hands," or the consensus of the Hidden Alliance. The Demon Feast likes to loot aliens and then enslave them. Due to the special nature of your inheritors, the people in the Hidden Alliance do not feel that the Demon Banquet has asked you to do any dangerous work, and will only take good care of you. Captivity. ”

"Yes. Linda nodded, as if, this conversation turned into a friendly exchange between the two alliance forces of the vampires, "Our living environment is the best ......of all the alien races enslaved by the Demon Feast," she seemed to think of something, "Except for Cozy...... " She immediately shook her head, looked at Zack, and looked like she was listening to me, "Kozil, Kozil is the mind-reading family, but they are no longer slaves of the Demon Feast, they are partners of the Demon Feast." ”

Since the other party said it so bluntly, it still means a little, although it is not sincere at all. Zach shook his glass, his eyes widened, "Really, Kozil is a companion of the Mind Reading Family, the Demon Feast? ”

Don't think Zach is hypocritical just yet...... Kozil was a partner in the Feast, and Zach really knew about it for the first time. Don't get confused, Kozil's story is going on on both sides, James is going back to Grande, but Emilia doesn't seem to need Baba to tell Zach this.

"You don't have to thank me. Linda shook her head, "We didn't intend to hide it at all. "'We' is the point," because we weren't prepared to meet the last Toredo here until we came to Barton. ”

"Not the last one. "This is a mistake related to the safety of Zack's life, and it must be corrected as soon as possible. Don't forget, Toredo of the Feast, waiting for the real Toredo to vacate this surname that can move in the sun!" "The 'General' is not a solution, just a foreshadowing of a point of view," even if I don't want to admit it, I still have to admit that there is another one by Papa's side at Midnight. ”

Zach looked at the woman who had already admitted that she was the one who was the one of the Demon Feast, "You can understand, after 'leaving' the Hidden Alliance, I have a lot of free time, along the way, hehe, the last Toredo, this title, I am not suitable to bear." ”

That's the solution, tell the Feast that Zack isn't the only one in Torredo, your Toredo, the Night Suns, wants to be a real member of the Thirteen Clans, and it's useless to kill Zack!

Linda had a nonchalant expression, she waved her hand, "If you're worried about those newcomers......" she glanced at Zack, "'newcomers', we aliens of the Demon Feast, the name of those new vampires." This is the explanation, and then continues, "We don't care much about the 'Toledo' things, they seem to be not very gregarious when they come to the Federation. ”

The corners of Zack's mouth twitched, naturally, our vampires didn't want to show such a fear of death, but in the Valmina incident of Old Woody, the ability of the newborn vampire to isolate all perception really surprised Zack a little, and he had to pay attention to it, at this time he was a little curious, what is the situation of these newcomers to the magic feast who are trying to become Toledo. Zach didn't have time to ask.

"We don't care much about the last Toredo, which is why none of the three groups of us who came to Barton informed the Feast of your existence. ”

Here comes a new emphasis. Zach had to ask, "Three batches?"

"I was the first. Come in early spring. Linda looked at Zach, "The Devil's Banquet wants to know what the rumored ownerless city in the easternmost part of the Federation is like, so I'm here." He paused for a moment, "What I've reported back is the same as the new rumor, that Barton has a lord, an alpha. ”

"The second batch. Zach pushed the other side forward, wondering if James would be counted in the three batches. Or, Linda decided that James would explain as she had arranged and then continue to hide it!

"Taylor. ”

James also came in early spring, skip it? No, it's in the middle or back of the previous paragraph! Don't pursue it now, because Linda said Taylor!

While Zach raised an eyebrow, Linda continued, "Taylor has a military background, she's not an alien, just a human institution controlled by the Demon Feast. Humans, vampires, after all, are still symbiotic, the ...... of the Demon Feast"

"You don't need to explain this to me, I'm a vampire, Toledo used to be in the Hidden Alliance similar to Lesenbra, and I know very well the status of vampires intervening in human affairs. Zach interrupted Linda, "I care more about who she is, she's a teacher at the Hunter Academy, isn't she?"

Seth's container Mason explained that after the gates of hell were opened, the Demon Banquet's attitude towards the Holy Lord's Faith Academy changed, and the Demon Banquet, which had been obsessed with the purpose of the colonial war, seemed to have completely abandoned its attachment to the Holy Lord's faith and cut off support for these academies.

"She's right, but she was also sent to the academy to help them under the control of the Demon Banquet, she was originally an interrogator, and she was good at sorting out intelligence. Linda frowned, as if it was a hassle to explain this matter, but she was trying, "Below in the belief of the Holy Lord, the demons of hell have come to this world, and the Demon Feast is not ready to start a territorial war, so a peace agreement has been made, but it is not ready to completely abandon the relationship established with the followers of the human Holy Lord for four centuries when the upper level of the faith, Heaven, temporarily leaves the Federation. ”

Zach understood, "So use the power of humans to help humanity." Zach nodded, "So Taylor, is it to report to the Demon Feast, or to the Witcher Academy where she is located?"

"Academy. "But she took it upon herself to stuff a saint into the republican mission and report it to the Demon Banquet, after all, the Demon Banquet was looking for news of the Saints." ”

Zach nodded, forget it, Taylor's matter is here, he doesn't really care, Taylor has his neighbor Konstantin watching, there is nothing to worry about.

Well, do you need to explain more details? Konstantin is working for Crowley, a fallen angel who has a bad relationship with the other demons in the Federation. The enemies of the Western Demon Hunter Academy are naturally demons who have come out of the gates of hell. Linda just said that the magic banquet is not good to help the academy openly, so she used the power of humans to help secretly. Taylor showed up at Barton to help the Academy.

So, no matter how you look at it, Taylor's situation is not an enemy for Grande, and it is still only a clue to the witcher of the West. It's just that this clue can only be a help for Crowley, which makes Zach a little helpless.

"The last batch, I guess, was Kozil. By the way, your wedding dress was beautiful, and I didn't have a chance to tell you in person at the time. ”

"Thank you, Kozil. (To be continued.) )