The world is still in turmoil, and the connection with Xiaohong is also non-existent. Before, she said that the divine enemy outside Epsilon was restless, and she should have wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to attack in a hurry and use the doppelganger of Moon Shiva to fight the defense of Epsillon.

There was nothing to do, and Li Qi had the mind to teach Cassus well, saying that it would be hypocritical to say that atonement would be hypocritical, and since he had bumped into it, he should always do something.

Li Qi said: "Killing monsters is the business of adventurers, not the duty of knights." ”

Assus blinked his clear eyes and said suspiciously, "But Uncle Ron said that the duty of a knight is to protect everyone." ”

Li Qi did not respond directly, but asked, "How many people are there in your village? Even if you go to build the castle, you and your grandfather will not be left." ”

The little boy honestly followed his words: "There used to be dozens of them, but now there are only about a dozen left." The baron said that he could not move stones but also stir mortar and cook, and Aunt Tully was also escorted with a small child. ”

He lowered his head: "Grandpa helped the previous master repair the castle when he was young, and he said that some people may not be able to come back, and Aunt Tali's child will definitely not be saved." ”

Sure enough, it was the standard aristocracy of the world of Fein, and Li Qi remembered that he had just crossed ...... No, the situation when you first woke up. When repairing the small temple, Sebadian said that according to the custom, it was enough to just grab the mud legs in the territory.

Li Qi smiled and said, "Then do you think which is worse, the monster that sets off the tide, or the noble lord who forces you to repair the castle?"

The little boy shuddered for a moment, and said anxiously: "Of course it's a monster......! Obligation, yes, obligation! And the current lord is still in charge of the rice, and the aristocratic lord of the grandfather's meeting also wants us to bring our own salted fish and wild vegetables. ”

The old man taught his grandson very well, Li Qi sighed, looked directly at the little boy, and said gently: "This is not your sincere words, you can say loudly that you hate the big monster, but you don't dare to say out loud that you hate the baron, so compared to this, isn't the baron worse and more terrible?"

As the cardinal of the Communist Party of Fei at the level of political work, for a civilian child like Cassus, he can touch his heart without using magic at all.

Needous looked at Richie blankly, his eyes were red, and he snorted and said, "Yes...... Yes, Lord Knight, my father was injured by the men of the Baron, otherwise he would not have been able to hold his mother. My sister was also defiled by those people, otherwise she wouldn't want to run away, I actually ...... Actually, I hate ......."

"Carsus!"

The old man chopping wood next to him did not speak, and when he heard this, he was frightened and quickly stopped.

"It's okay, just a casual chat," said Richie, "we don't know the barons here, and we'll leave when the weather improves, so it won't hurt you." ”

He originally wanted to say that the lady I serve is much more noble than the baron here, but this will inevitably make the grandfather and grandson have excessive expectations, and the decision will be biased in what he says under that kind of mentality.

Of course, a normal level of anticipation is necessary, he added: "We will pay for the hospitality we receive here." ”

The old man didn't know much but was quite shrewd, and when he heard what Li Qi meant, he hesitated for a moment and sighed: "Cassus, you can be honest with whatever the master asks you, and don't worry about the things I tell you." ”

Needus sighed, and took the initiative to pick up the topic just now: "Lord Knight, you must be a good knight, those knights under the Lord Baron, they are bad knights, so they will help Lord Baron do bad things." ”

Li Qi shook his head and said, "Cassus, by the standards of knights, they are good knights. ”

Cassus was stunned: "Why?"

"What is the most important virtue of a knight?"

Needus subconsciously said, "Seven virtues." ”

"No, loyalty, loyalty to their lords", said Rich, "they serve their lords with all their hearts, and of course they are good knights." Only knights who are loyal to their lords can obtain knightly powers, and only then can they talk about the seven virtues. A knight does not have the seven virtues and cannot attain greater and purer power, but without loyalty, he is not qualified to be a knight. ”

Cassus looked at Richie in a daze, and his eyes began to show fear. Obviously, he didn't fully understand, but he at least understood that this knight lord who was good-looking and had a good temper was the knight lord who had scourged the village before he maintained it.

"You are very smart, Cassus", Richie grinned, and suddenly became terrible and even cruel in the eyes of the little boy, "if my mistress, the one who rests inside, wants me to kill you." As her knight, I will not disobey her orders. ”

Cassus shuddered again, curled up and said timidly, "I, my grandfather and I didn't do anything." ”

Li Qi smiled like a spring breeze again: "So, Carsus, you should understand that the duty of a knight is not to protect everyone, but to protect the lord and serve the lord." If you really want to be a knight, you have to have this kind of awareness, and you will do the same thing as those knights under the Baron. ”

Such a truth shatters the child's simple and pure worldview, but he is clever and quickly finds a reason to mend it.

"So, if you want to be a knight, you must be a knight for a good noble lord!"

He also patted his ass: "Just like your master, sir, she must be a very good person, and she will look at me when she speaks!"

Yes, she's a good person......

When Conrad slaughtered the city, and when Arlanis destroyed the city, she would also look the victim in the eye. She didn't think it was a sin because she was with Kem and she was right.

"Good people have bad tempers," Li Qi said, "just like your grandfather, he should have beaten you, right? When he beat you, did you think that grandpa was a bad person?"

The old man next to him coughed violently, and Cassus first looked at his grandfather, then at Richie, and nodded seriously.

"A nice guy like your grandpa just spanks you when he's angry. Do good people in the aristocracy only spank people when they are angry?"

Li Qi shook his head: "They will kill people, they will kill everyone they think is bad people, at that time you want to tell, in their eyes it is also a quibble." ”

"Like your governor, he is a good man, but the baron he sent is not a good man. The Empress of the Empire is also a good person, but she has to accept the services of many bad people and tolerate many bad things happening. ”

Cassus's worldview collapsed, and he held his little head and said, "So—what should I do?"

Li Qi then asked, "You want to be stronger, you can protect everyone, you want everyone's life to be better, you want to be happy every day, right?"

Carsus nodded incessantly, this is of course the dream of every upright teenager, to become a righteous little friend, to bring happiness to everyone, and to fill the world with laughter and friendship.

"Then there is only one way," said Richie, "and you must be free, and you must not belong to any one person." ”

"You can't be like a knight, let the lord tell you what's good and what's bad, let the lord decide what you can and can't do. ”

"You have to make judgments based on the criteria that are natural in your heart, such as people should not hurt each other, and everyone should live a good life. ”

"Those standards, the things you believe in, will give you strength, will make you stronger and stronger, and no one can take away that power. ”

"It's not just you, but everyone else is just like you, believing in those things, those truths, and getting strength from them. Everyone is strong, unite with each other, protect the weak, and eventually the world will become better and better as you think. ”

Cassus was stunned again, these truths seemed simple, but they contained deep truths, he felt that he understood them at once, but after a little taste, he felt that he did not understand anything.

The old man coughed again, lowered his voice and said, "Master Knight, your words don't seem like what a knight should say at all, they sound a little like ...... Ishmat believers say. A few decades ago, a wandering priest of Ismat came to our village, and he was talking about unity or something, and he was ...... to the nobleman Ahem......"

"No, I'm not a believer in Ishmat," Richie said with a laugh, "It's just some mortal truth. ”

Cassus came back to his senses and suddenly realized: "What do you mean, sir, that I just listen to the gods! The gods are merciful and bless mortals, and if we follow the teachings of the gods, we can make everyone happy!"

The old man also thought he understood, and slapped his face and said, "I see, sir, you must be the knight of the goddess of the dawn! Everyone says that Empress Theresia on the other side of the sea is also the goddess of the dawn, and her doctrine is that everyone should obey the teachings of the gods directly......"

Sure enough, it was a remote place, and even Theresia's true identity was distorted in the process of spreading the news.

Of course, Li Qi was not willing to make some efforts, and finally made a dowry for Theresia, and he said leisurely: "It sounds like the gods are the biggest good people, does this conflict with the principles I just said?"

The old man and the little boy were stunned, and the little boy reacted first: "A god is a god, how can it be compared with mortals?"

Li Qi continued: "Since the gods are not the same thing as mortals, why should He take care of mortal affairs? ”

"And the gods are also mortals, you see, didn't Empress Theresia be mortals before? What if more mortals also became gods?

The old man and the little boy fell into deep thought...... No, confused.

Inside, Theresia, who seemed to be asleep, opened her eyes and looked at the tattered roof, and the golden light in her eyes swam and finally condensed.

"Fish ~ Fish ~"

Ellie's shouting broke the silence, and Richie turned her attention away as she chatted to Cassus.

Fearing that she would cause a tragedy in this small village built between the rocky cliffs, Li Qi asked her and Shajani to go down to find her own witch armament, which should still be usable, such as the Divine Power Battery, and some small accessories, which could still be useful if the turmoil could not be stopped.

Unexpectedly, she finished her business and caught fish on the beach again, and this head ran up with a sea fish bigger than her, and Sha Jiani, who had returned to her normal Lori state, carried various parts on her back and chased after her.

It was already afternoon, and seeing that the fish Li Qi also swallowed his saliva, he was hungry.

He decided to show off his skills: "Ellie cut the fish, I'll grill it!"

"That's amazing——! I'm here to help!"

Startled, Cassus followed the old man and looked at Elle again with an incredulous gaze.

Elle said disdainfully, "Huh...... Toilet!"

She dropped the fish on the shelf, pulled a dagger out of the pile of rubble that Sajani was carrying, and began to cut the fish. The technique was extremely skillful, which made the old man admire.

This is a skill that Elle has developed in the wild, and when she was still the Black Knight of the Familia family, she often moved in the wild, catching fish and grilling them to eat when she had nothing to do.

However, she is not good at grilling fish, and after eating Richie's grilled fish once, she relied on Richie, and now Richie has to grill fish for her at least once a week.

As for how Li Qi's ability to grill fish came about, it has to be attributed to his father, of course, it was taught by his father in the earth world since childhood. During the years when I was a social animal in the steel forest, in addition to playing games, I was left with the hobby of tinkering with cooking skills in the kitchen.

After all, restaurants and takeaways are expensive and not tasty......

Cut the fish three or two times, and then scrape the scales. The old man was still looking for their usual scaling stick, and Ellie waved her little hand: "Poof!"

She placed her glowing hand on the fish, and Litch was about to stop it, when there was a popping sound, and the scales mixed with the crumbling raw fish flesh sprayed Ellie's face all over her face.

"You......"

Richie pulled her over and said dotingly while helping her clean up, "It's still a bear child, and so is Catherine." Forget that now that the world is swinging, the power will get out of control?"

Elle stood obediently, but her mouth was unwilling: "Catherine, poof." ”

Richie joked: "Yes, yes, Catherine doesn't have breasts." ”

"Yo!

Ellie was furious, and buried her head in his arms, rubbing him with blood.

The grandfather and grandson next to them came up to help, although they did not have extraordinary strength, they were professional in cleaning up the sea fish, and they peeled the big fish clean and slippery after a while.

Using the skeleton of the witch armed with Sajani to support the big fish, make a simple cradle, and set up the way, Li Qi grilled the fish on this stone cliff near the sea.

There are no spices in the village, no spices, and there is no shortage of salt. Fortunately, Ellie's eye is good, and the meat of the fish she caught is tender and delicious, and it tastes unique.

The smell of fish gradually spread, and Li Qi beckoned his grandfather and grandson to eat together, and after a while, Theresia also woke up, and went out of the house to complain, "If there is something delicious, it won't wake me up." ”

Li Qi just wanted her to rest more, and he didn't distinguish between him, and moved her seat, so that she squeezed between herself and Ellie.

Removing the grilled fish, Theresia frowned, swallowed and then stretched out.

"It's really plain, there are no spices, it's completely the original taste of fish, just right", Theresia laughed, "I didn't expect you to have such a skill." ”

Li Qi said: "I'm a person, in fact, there is nothing special, I am loyal to my own desires, and I am also ...... Ahem......"

I almost dropped my bookbag, but fortunately, Theresia only thought it was an ancient saying passed down by Lady Crimson, and didn't dig into it.

She said as if chatting: "This is contradictory to your beliefs, everyone is for me, I am for everyone, you can't be loyal to your desires, right? ”

Li Qi also said in a chatting tone: "So I am pursuing a world that can satisfy personal desires to the greatest extent, but will not conflict with each other." Moreover, the reason why mortals can become the chief of all spirits is because they will not be satisfied with low-level desires, but continue to pursue, and the soul can continue to grow stronger, making the world wider and richer. Such a world is not only vibrant, but also more stable. ”

"You're still so naïve," Theresia said, pointing to Cassus, "just like this ...... Children alike. ”

Li Qi swallowed a large mouthful of fish: "If people don't have dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish?"

Theresia shook her head slightly: "If someone dreams, someone has to face reality, and the dream will wake up after all." ”

Li Qi looked up at the sky: "But the world has changed." ”

Theresia also watched, and the canopy that should have been blue was like a chaos after the nebula stretched, covering the entire planet.

She whispered, "I'll make it back......"

With a snap, Shajani blew the fish drift open, so frightened that Ellie almost knocked her off a cliff dozens of meters high with one arm.

After that, Li Qi and Theresia didn't talk about dreams, worlds, or anything, but talked about all kinds of trivial matters.

Theresia was unconvinced, saying that in fact, her grilled fish was also very good, and that she was a camper like Ellie when she was the adjudicator. Richie sarcastically said that she only knew how to match spices, which provoked Theresia to pick out a fist-sized fisheye and stuff it in his mouth.

The two sisters are really the same.

Eat and talk until nightfall, when the grilled fish feast ends.

The old man, Ballo, cleaned up three rooms next to each other, one for Theresia, one for Elle and Satiani, and one for Richie.

A lot of the time in the house, Elle sleeps with Richie, she is on the right and Finny is on the left, and Tina is hanging at the foot of the wall, but with Theresia there, of course it's not good to be together again.

Lying on the bed, sensing the tide of power that was still swinging, Li Qi tossed and turned.

Depending on the situation, he would have to stay with Theresia for a while, and now that Theresia's mortal heart was extremely active, he felt that he would regret it if he didn't take the opportunity to do something.

Of course it's not that kind of thing, but hopefully she'll change. Originally, I thought that what happened to Numan El would make her wake up a little, but now it seems that she is more determined.

Alas......

Li Qi let out a long sigh of helplessness, and the room suddenly shook slightly, as if some magic guide had been opened.

It's a pity that his connection with Xiaohong is very weak now, and he is not a legend, and all kinds of senses and visions that he should have have become extremely weak.

He was stunned, worried about some attack, when a figure pierced through the wall and appeared in front of his bed.

"Ai ...... Catherine?"

The night came in through the window, and only the slender figure of the man was reflected, and Li Qi, who had the iconic short hair, would not be mistaken.

Catherine's breathing was a little muddy, and she stood in front of the bed, holding the neckline of her loose nightdress with both hands, and slowly pulling it away.

The nightdress fell to her feet, and the nightlight sprinkled on her skin, creating a blurry glow.

Richie murmured, "Catherine......"

Catherine climbed into bed and threw her burning body into his arms, enough to melt the breath of his heart, and a vague whisper fell from his ears to the bottom of his heart: "That's it...... Now ......"