Chapter 25: A Promise with Lola
Charles sent off Rika and Rain's sister Olive and refused Roy's suggestion to send a maid to help him take a bath, and he jumped into his own oversized bath tub before letting out a long sigh of relief.
"It's too discreet, too low-key today. β
In fact, when Charles was talking just now, Charles sensed that something was wrong, a mentally handicapped teenager who was drooling suddenly became a man with clear thinking, this turn was too strong, if it was an outsider, it would be okay, but Roy and Lola were too familiar with Charles, and when Charles was calmly comforting Olive just now, they both showed surprised and puzzled expressions.
"Actually, I want to keep a low profile! but...... Strength it doesn't allow it!"
Charles had also expected to slowly change his image in front of Roy, but Olive suddenly appeared to disrupt his emotions.
Acting is a technical job, and Li Feng in his previous life was not a person who was good at hiding his emotions, so he automatically lowered his IQ and pretended to be an idiot, he really couldn't perform.
Not only can't Charles, but ordinary people can't act, otherwise why would so many non-professional actors play what "original ecological acting"?
The acting skills are not good!
"You have to come up with a suitable reason to explain what you have become normal!"
Say you've been playing dumb all these years?
No, no, I don't know how many archbishops have treated Charles over the years, and even the king is very "concerned" about his condition, if you are playing stupid, then who are you deceiving? Deceiving the archbishop of the church is equivalent to deceiving the gods, right!!
"At the moment of life and death, my devotion touched the gods, and with the guidance of the gods, my illness was cured of itself. β
Charles quickly had a solution, there were many things in this world that seemed "unscientific" to him, and most of these things were related to "gods" and "spiritual powers".
After Charles Chevalier fell stupid when he was eight years old, the Marquis of Lorraine ran to the Church of the Dawn and the Church of Light, donating money and money, both of which declared that "as long as you sincerely believe in the gods, you will be cured of your illness", so now is the time to show your piety.
"Why don't these barbarians like to bathe? β
Charles rubbed his fat in the oversized tub, muttering and grumbling. In the three days he came to this world, the most difficult thing to accept was that the vast majority of people here did not like to clean themselves, and many of them had too strong body odor, and the stench similar to rotten food was simply devastating to him.
But fortunately, Charles Chevalier has a very high compatibility with spiritual power, and spiritual power has a good cleaning effect on the body, so he doesn't have any body odor on his body, otherwise Li Feng really wants to cross again.
"I rub ...... I rubbed ..... I.... "
Charles was rubbing his strength, and suddenly realized that before he could react, the door of the kung fu room was opened, and Lola, who had a pair of boots and a trench coat, walked in alone.
Charles was a little dumbfounded, what are you doing here? I have a fiancΓ©e, and you are my sister's guardian knight, and you have a leg with me...... Not so good!
Charles hurriedly pulled a towel from the side to cover his body, pulled down his face and asked sternly, "Lola, don't you think you're too rude?"
The female knight looked at Charles with deep eyes for a full minute, and gradually turned from doubt to fierceness.
"I'm just here to ask the Earl a few words, and I'm not interested in a body like the Earl. Lola glanced at Charles's body and said with a calm face.
β....... MMP......β
Charles scolded Lola in his heart, but said generously: "Go out now, if there are any questions, I'll talk about it tomorrow, but I don't promise that I will give you a satisfactory answer." β
Lola didn't have the slightest intention of retreating, there were complicated emotional fluctuations in her eyes, and after staring at Charles for more than ten seconds, she softened her tone a little and asked, "Lord Earl, your whole person has changed, is this the reason why you broke your oath and chose to come back alive?"
β...........β
Charles was stunned, he was still prepared when he heard Lola say that he had changed, and he had thought of words to deal with this kind of question. But Lola's last half of the sentence made him unable to come back to his senses for a long time.
What does it mean to "break your oath and choose to come back alive?" Could it be that Charles Chevalier entered Sbaya to die?
"Zheng.... Zheng ....."
Charles only hesitated for a moment before answering Lola, and a gentle metal scraping sound sounded in the room, and Lola slowly pulled out her knight's sword, and the cold light shone over Charles's eyes, causing a part of his body to suddenly tighten, and his heart was full of fear.
Charles didn't have any weapons to rely on, so he had to wrap the towel around his hand in a panic, the towel soaked in water would have good toughness, and it could barely add a little bit of defense.
"Lola, are you crazy? You dare to draw your sword at your lord, are you going to murder your lord?
Lola's eyes were also hesitant, and the long sword in her hand trembled, "Are you really Lord Earl?If Lord Count had such a sense as you, the Chevalier family would not have fallen into such a situation, who are you?"
Lola finally raised the knight's sword and asked Charles, and the fierce look made Charles believe that if he couldn't say four, five, or six, he would definitely be bloodied on the spot next.
Lola is a seventh-rank transcendent warrior, and in this kind of close-quarters fight, Charles has little room for head-on confrontation.
"Do you all want me to be a fool forever?Can't I be healed?Lola, what kind of attitude do you have?Do you want to die if I die?Does Olive want me to die too?If that's the case, I'm going to die now......"
Charles's thoughts are racing, he is the lord, so he must not beg for mercy, he must put on a posture that the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, and give Lola a tough response.
"You...... Olive doesn't know about our agreement, and if she does, she won't inherit the title even if she dies......" Lola's sword-wielding hand shook visibly, biting her lip to defend Olivi.
Charles's mind turned quickly, and he instantly understood what Lola meant just now.
Charles Chevalier died in battle, and after the death of the Marquis de Lorraine's direct male heir, Olive would inherit the title of Marquis of Lorraine as the sole heir.
Although Olive is a woman and has a lower status than men, she has the identity of Chevalier's bloodline, and she can still inherit the title according to the "Law of Nobility", and there are many precedents on the mainland for female heirs to ascend to the throne, and a mentally healthy marquis is always much more reliable than the idiot of Charles Chevalier.
But now that Charles is back, Lola thinks she's either a life-hungry coward or ...... It's just a change of person.
It's a different person, but how can I admit it? I can't say that it must have been killed!
"Lola, I encountered something, you put the sword down first, and I will explain it to you slowly......"
Lola didn't put down the knight's sword, but took a breath and took a step forward, the tip of the sword pointed at Charles's throat, and said coldly.
"Lord Earl, have you betrayed the light and embraced the darkness?"
Embraced the darkness, I said, as if ....... Yes....... At that time, what I saw was infinite darkness.
"Look here, this mark was stabbed by a spear, and it has a name - the Spear of Ancoral......."
β........β
"I was cursed, and when I was on the verge of death, the gods favored me, and then ....... And I was healed. β
Charles tells a true story succinctly, but when Charles Chevalier was on the verge of death, the otherworldly Li Feng traveled through and merged to inherit everything about him.
"Ancoral's spear, why didn't it stab you?"
Lola looked at the almost unrecognizable light mark on Charles' chest in surprise, and didn't believe Charles's account.
"It's the spear of Ancoral, and the spear in the corner is!"
Charnunu mouthed and motioned with her chin for Lola to look into the corner, where the spear of Ancoral, wrapped in a red cloak, was shining brightly.
Lola's sword was still pointed at Charles, and she flickered to the corner of the wall with a brisk movement, tearing off the red cloak to reveal a patterned all-metal spear.
"Be careful, don't use the spiritual power......" Charles hurriedly reminded Lola, he knew the power of Ancoral's spear, in case Lola was cursed and went crazy, would he run away bare-assed?
"Of course I know I can't use spiritual power, but ...... What's the deal with this cloak?"
"Oh, that's another story, I killed Horn Connor the Heart Eater. β