Maybe it was because Mu Xiu glanced up at the name of the store, and then found the name of the large chain fast food restaurant in the world for the first time, so he fell directly into deep thought.

So after waiting for a while, the girl on the side gradually became a little nervous.

"What, what's wrong? Any questions, Mr. Musiu? ”

Egremiya Yicheng seems to have no way to know people who she doesn't know too well, and she doesn't even dare to speak out loud - although even if she is a familiar person, she still doesn't dare to speak loudly.

"No, it's just that something suddenly occurred to me."

Mu Xiu scratched his cheeks, then tilted his head to look at the black-haired kimono girl: "By the way, Miss Yicheng...... Have you ever been to this kind of fast food restaurant before? It seems too rude to go here, why don't you change places? ”

"This, this, I've only heard of it, I've never been to a place like this before......" Saginomiya Isumi raised her sleeves to cover her chin, her face was slightly ruddy, although she didn't express her opinion clearly, but the meaning was already clear.

"So—let's go to the tea room across the street!"

Mu Xiu turned his head and looked around, made a decision on the spot, and changed his initial thoughts. And by carefully examining the expression and demeanor of Esunomiya Isumi just now, he has basically determined that it seems that the name of the store on the signboard in front of him is not an individual mistake, but that this chain restaurant is really called this name.

- Is it just that it's not called "McDonald's", but "McDanald's"?

To know this name, even if it is said that it is because of the differences between the world lines, it is really intriguing.

Could it be that in some corner of the city, there is really a temporary demon king city converted from a three-ping-square apartment?!

……

……

Five minutes later, a slightly confused voice sounded in the tea room—

“…… Runes? ”

Mu Xiu blinked suspiciously, repeating the word, which he felt a little familiar. Even if it's not in games and novels, but just in his daily life, he seems to have heard someone mention it once......

No, the girl in front of me said it once, and it was more than a month ago.

Now he and Egremiya Isumi are in the fine house of a tea room, each holding a tea and sitting on the ground.

They are separated by a low table with tea, snacks and fruits, and on the side of them is an open tea garden with a direct view of the tea trees cultivated in the garden.

The number of tea trees is small and relatively sparse, but the layout is exquisite, and the environment seems to be very elegant and quiet. It can be said that it basically makes people feel like they don't know where they are, and it is even more difficult to imagine that they were still in school five minutes ago.

However, in fact, this is still in the school, but the surrounding area is just a food area.

After all, White Emperor Academy, as a private aristocratic school, is not like other ordinary high schools, but there is a convenience store that sells lunch bread and waits for the end of class to let those students rush to the past.

Instead, there is an area where several shopping streets are gathered like a university town, where you can eat, drink, and have fun.

"Yes...... I would like to ask you, Mr. Mu Xiu, about the knowledge of ancient runes. ”

Maybe it's affected by this ethereal and quiet artistic conception, or the surrounding furnishings and atmosphere are very familiar, but Eonnomiya Yicheng doesn't have the shyness and stuttering before at all. She nodded calmly as if she had returned to her home turf.

But perhaps because of the influence of previous preconceived impressions, the teenager always felt that she was trying to calm down.

"Uh, why?" Mu Xiu felt quite strange, and subconsciously asked the first reaction in his mind. He never knew what runes were, and he didn't know when he had such an ability as rune mastery in his personality.

Then he immediately thought of the possible ambiguity in this simple question, and quickly opened his mouth to add, denying that he would have any "runic literature" or something, but it was too late.

"It's because of me, my own spiritual power, Mr. Muxiu." Egremiya Isumi seemed to have already considered the possibility of the other party's inquiry, and said slowly but firmly. "Just like the movement you noticed before, this is actually not an accidental phenomenon, my spiritual power is still very unstable compared to the masters of the Egreton Palace family in the past-"

This petite and lovely girl picked up the tea bowl in her hand, her expression looked a little distressed, and her blue-purple eyes were also dyed a dark green by the refracted light.

"Grandma Yinhua said that this is because I am still growing, so my spiritual power is also constantly improving, so there is such a problem...... But even if it's like this, I still think, I think...... That's it, that's ...... Hmm——!! ”

She spoke slowly and softly, as always, both because of etiquette and because she was easily shy.

But in the same way, whenever she didn't know how to explain the next words for a while, she would gradually become flustered, and the more flustered she became, the more she could not explain clearly.

“……”

Mu Xiu watched speechlessly as the black-haired kimono girl changed from her previous composure to stammering, her face was red, and she wanted to try to say what she was thinking, but her tongue was curling more and more, and finally she couldn't hear what she was saying at all.

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-hu......h, uh-hu

Outside the corridor outside the door of the tea room, the two black suits who were kneeling quietly on both sides twitched slightly, and the corners of their mouths twitched slightly, and they couldn't bear to hear the movement inside.

After about a minute, Mu Xiu turned his head to look at the few tea trees outside the tea garden, and the sparse sunlight. He no longer looked at Esumi no Miya, whose face was so red that he seemed to have a fever, and the top of his head was almost spewing water vapor, and directly interrupted the other party's speech as if he was suffering.

And as if he hadn't seen anything, there was an indescribable calm in his tone—

"Miss Yi Cheng, you mean, because your spiritual power has been running out from time to time, so you have been working hard to improve your control ability?"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-hu......h, uh-hu

"And because from the past to the present, the grotesqueness caused by the wrong operation of spiritual power may still continue?"

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-hu......h, uh-hu

"What is the relationship between spiritual power and magic? …… Wait, are you saying that runes are the essence of spells? ”

“……”

“……”

A strange silence abruptly appeared, and the room fell into an indescribable silence.

"Wait, wait, why do you understand me, Mr. Mu Xiu, what I just said?"

Although Egremiya Isumi was shy, she was also surprised, knowing that what she had just said even she couldn't understand, it was just a series of meaningless syllables that her lips trembled.

"Oh, it's just a little bit of simple reasoning......" Mu Xiu didn't seem to want to talk about it much, and casually found an excuse that even Egremiya Isumi wouldn't believe.

He lowered his head by the way, picked up the dark green tea bowl in his hand with both hands and took a sip gently, in order to hide his calm expression, as well as his cold eyes and breath. And because of the height contrast between the two sides, even if the tea is refracted, Egremiya Isumi can't see his face.

The third stage of the liberation of the forbidden area of life - the development of the brain domain and mental power.

The state of liberation at this stage, in addition to the substantial increase in basic memory, calculation power, thinking speed, etc., also made Mu Xiu accurately awaken the sixth sense in the true sense, that is, the so-called "heart eye" and other abilities.

The most intuitive ability is to be able to simulate the thinking of others, so as to indirectly predict the next move of the other party, to put it bluntly, to perceive the mental activity of the target object through mental simulation.

This is in a sense very practical, the terrible ability of the so-called "other heart to heart".

Moreover, the power of the forbidden zone that has been liberated to this stage, and the sequelae brought about by the liberation itself are almost non-existent.

Just now, Mu Xiu simulated the way of thinking of Eonnomiya Yicheng through this state, predicting the other party's current mental activities, so as to clearly know what the girl wanted to express. Although it is not a mind-reading technique, the effect is almost the same.

- Because theoretically, he can simulate the thinking of people he has met and made an impression of.

However, there are generally discrepancies between theory and practice, so there must be a limit value for the object that Mu Xiu can simulate, which is probably related to the difference in strength between him and the target object.

But judging from the fact that he can now simulate the thinking of Egret Palace Yicheng without hindrance, this seems to show that even if the head of the Egret Palace family in front of him, a girl with suspected A-level spiritual power, is no longer enough to form an overwhelming strength advantage over Mu Xiu?

It seems that there is a real possibility -

In terms of the simple rating system of the "main god" light ball, Egremiya Isumi is likely to be an exorcist with A-level spiritual power enhancement, but her spiritual power is still growing and is very unstable.

Although the quality of her ability is not watery, she may not be able to control it herself, and her optimistic estimate may only be about seventy or eighty percent.

And Mu Xiu has B-level superpower development as the core, supplemented by C-level swordsmanship ability and should be double C-level domineering control, plus although he just stepped into the third-order level, he can be regarded as entering the door.

Therefore, he can perfectly control all these strengthenings, such as the command of his own power. That is, it is limited to the shackles of the side plot, and his own strengthening ability can't keep up for a while.

Looking at it this way, it seems that although the systems of Egret Palace Yicheng and Mu Xiu are completely different, on the whole, their ability values are almost the same, and there is indeed no situation where one can crush the other.

Even to put it mildly, that is, maybe Egret Palace Icheng can defeat Mu Xiu, but he definitely has no ability to kill the other party. And Mu Xiu may not be able to defeat Egret Palace Izumi, but he is absolutely sure that he will be able to kill the other party.

- Because the hole cards and available means of both sides are different, very different, plus ordinary competitions and life-and-death fights are fundamentally different, so it is not unusual to create such a result.

And that's just for the current stage.

Mu Xiu had a hunch that even if he couldn't come up with an A-level side plot for a while, he would strengthen his more advanced abilities.

However, as long as he has figured out the mystery of the third stage and mastered the various "active abilities" and "passive effects" brought about by the liberation state, his own strength will probably have a great leap forward.