Compared with chess, Go and flying chess, the most suitable for girls is checkers.

Twisting up the crystal round marbles, sweeping across the entire chessboard like a dragonfly, occasionally pursing his lips and chuckling because of his own actions, that touch of style Luo Xiaotian can't forget anyway.

However, because checkers are too difficult to do, whether it is a chess piece or a chessboard, Luo Xiaotian finally decided to play backgammon.

The chessboard did not have any difficulty at all, and Luo Xiaotian drew it, as for the black and white chess pieces, since the requirements were not so high, Luo Xiaotian went to the courtyard outside to find two branches of uniform thickness, and then cut them into thin slices of the same size, and dried them with fire magic after coloring.

In this way, a pair of backgammons with a little bit of flavor is ready.

Well, because the branch you found is not a long-dead sunken wood, it will emit the fragrance of the tree after being baked by fire magic, which is not a big impact.

"Rollo, what is this, how are you going to play it?"

"It's called backgammon, and it's very simple, both sides land at the intersection of the board, and as long as one side makes five pieces in a line in any direction, it wins. Come on Nina, let's try a game first, and you'll understand after a round. ”

Sure enough, after a game, Nina completely understood how to play backgammon, after all, this kind of chess with almost no rules is the best to understand; Nina, who understood the rules, began to act as a teacher, teaching Ellie, who had been sitting quietly next to her, to play chess, but in Luo Xiaotian's opinion, Ellie had already understood it when she first watched herself play chess with Nina.

"Ronald, let's play backgammon too!

"Marcus, you're interested in this kind of little game too?"

"Anyway, Alice hasn't come back yet, and although this game called backgammon is simple, I think it's more interesting than the popular war chess of the Empire. ”

“... Well, I'll go find two branches and make another set of backgammon. ”

......

"Marcus, it's not that I don't want to help you, I don't know what this has to do with me or my father. ”

After Alice returned, the chess game between Luo Xiaotian and Marcus came to an abrupt end.

"Lord Brewster must know! That man won't lie to me!"

"My father couldn't have been involved in such a thing, so why should we meddle so far away? The framing, annexation, or commercial wars you mentioned have nothing to do with us at all!"

"I don't believe it! I want to see the Duke!"

"Alas... Well, I'll ask my father if he'd like to see you. ”

After saying this, Alice glared at Luo Xiaotian and left in the direction of Duke Brewster's study.

"Marcus, why do you think that as soon as Duke Brewster speaks, your family will be out of danger?"

“......”

"If you don't want to say it, forget it, but after this time, we don't owe anyone anything, so we won't help you anymore. ”

“... It was Uncle Kozmo who told me that these people in our family could only be spared by asking for help from Alice's father, Lord Duke Brewster, and that Lord Brewster would gain enough from a series of events that Duke Brewster would let me go if I begged to come to my door. And he also told me not to tell anyone about it, so I don't want to tell you. ”

“... I don't understand, even if your so-called Uncle Cozmo is right, the mastermind behind all this is Duke Brewster, and if you come here to ask for help, the most likely outcome is not to be destroyed? Although you don't have any evidence, the dead in this world will never reveal their secrets. ”

“... I don't know, I just know that Uncle Cozmo would never lie to me, he and my father Marshall are closer than brothers, and it can be said that without him there would be no Grant!

"You ought to ask your Uncle Kozmo for himself, and perhaps he will tell you something, or kill you, if he has achieved his goal. ”

From Marcus's description, Luo Xiaotian only knew that it was this man named Kozmo who tricked Marcus here, and no one knew what his purpose was.

"Come with me, my father wants to see you, Rollo, do you want to come along?"

After hesitating for a moment, Luo Xiaotian still followed, because of curiosity and because of some kind of intuition, he told himself that he must follow.

At the door of the Duke of Brewster's study stood Glinton, who, when he saw the crowd, saluted Alice and opened the door to the study.

"You're here, then, Marcus, what do you want to say to me?"

Luo Xiaotian and Alice sat down on the sofa under one wall, leaving only Marcus standing in the middle.

"Lord Brewster, I wonder if our Grant family is still saved!"

Oh? Didn't you question it at first, but in a different way? It seems that Marcus has not been carried away.

"The Grant Family?... I don't remember having any trouble with your Grant family. So, I don't know if your Grant family has been saved. ”

“......”

Sure enough, it seemed that Duke Brewster was also confused, and he didn't know what Marcus was talking about.

"Wait! Grant! Something I kind of care about, Ronald! Maybe it has something to do with you. ”

Something to do with yourself?

"That's what happened, about your parents. The caravan sent out last time brought back new information, and not long ago, there had been several more disappearances, in the same way that had occurred in previous disappearances across the Empire. ”

Duke Brewster took a document from the nearby bookshelf and opened it.

"Marcus, your father is Marshall Grant, and your mother is Mia Henrietta?"

"Yes... What's going on?"

"Hmm... Not long ago, someone who pretended to be a cardinal of the Illuminati came to your house and lied that you, Marcus was going to be sent to the holy city of Sainlet to be judged by the god of light for colluding with the heretics, and the Grant family was also spurned by the god of light forever because of blasphemy, and the whole Grant family was in chaos, and some people fled from the family, until the next morning, no one who stayed found that your parents, including the fake cardinal, had disappeared; 。 ”

“... How could it be... Impossible..."

Luo Xiaotian didn't care about Marcus with an unbelieving face, but stood up and walked in front of Duke Brewster, and took the document from the duke's hand.

Because it was a matter that specifically asked the caravan to pay attention to and investigate, this time there was a lot of detail, including the cardinal's dress and appearance.

Possibly, very likely, this so-called cardinal is the one who once appeared in his hometown.