Catherine ...... Good evening, teacher. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" The boy was slow to react when he was slightly drunk, but he still didn't forget to greet him, although he didn't like magic, but his mother always asked him to respect his teacher, not to mention that this was not an ordinary teacher in front of him.

Catherine wasn't as casual as Rod's mother or sister who could surprise the audience with a piece of cloth, and she dressed up for such an important event. Dressed in a low-cut dark purple dress, she looks slender and convex under the outline of the fitted clothes, her makeup is light and delicate, a gorgeous amethyst necklace shines dazzlingly by the collarbone, and her long black waterfall-like shiny hair is scattered over her shoulders, covering one side of her eyes, which looks elegant and charming, and is also quite eye-catching in the crowd.

"Yo, my handsome little guy drank a lot tonight?" she smiled and grabbed the boy's arm, "You're blushing like it's baked, find a place to sit." ”

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Catherine, who was ten years older than Rhodes but was already a magic teacher at the Imperial Capital Secondary Academy, was not teasing him by calling him "my handsome little handsome boy", and the gesture of holding his arm was not ambiguous or reverie for those who saw it—because she was Rhodes' unrelated sister, the adopted daughter of his father, Duke Foster.

"Duke Foster's adopted daughter", this is amazing. Although not biological, as a member of this powerful family, Catherine is more valued than the real ladies of ordinary aristocratic families.

But the person concerned himself knows that this identity is actually just a misunderstanding, an illusion precipitated by outsiders through false rumors...... She was really just a little maid favored by the Duchess, who had neither any adoption formalities nor the right to use the surname "Foster", and addressed the Duchess and Duchess as "Lord" and "Madame" like other servants, and was not treated specially.

Born into a poor family, this now confident and beautiful female mage was brought to the city by her parents to sell her to the rich and noble as a maid in order to support her son, and happened to be met by Rod's mother, so the lucky little bird flew into the phoenix's nest by mistake. At that time, the Loy and Rhodes siblings had not yet been born, and the Duchess, who had a strong belly, was full of motherhood but had nowhere to show it, and the overflowing maternal love could not help but spread to Catherine - when the twin siblings were born, the attention turned to her own children. The Duchess, who didn't have time to care about Catherine, found that the little girl bought on the side of the road not only had a good character, but also had excellent magical qualifications and brains, so she patted her on the thigh: Send her to school to know Braille!

Catherine grasped the most important opportunity in her life, she lived up to her expectations and achieved excellent results through hard study, after getting out of illiteracy, the teacher's "this girl is very smart" evaluation gave her the opportunity to go on to higher education, after graduating from high school at the age of sixteen, she was sent to the Royal Academy of Magic by her wife to continue her studies, and at the age of twenty, she was rated as a low-level archmagician, setting a new age record for female archmagicians in the Midland Empire.

Who had ever heard that the master had sent his maid to school for ten years? Soon some people mistook her for the adopted daughter of the Foster family, and they all courted her. The couple didn't bother to clarify, and Catherine found out that this misunderstanding had brought many benefits to her, and there was no reason to explain it to outsiders......

When she returns from school, it would be too wasteful for a girl who graduated from the highest magic school and the youngest female archmage in the empire to go back to her side to serve tea and pour water...... The Duchess waved her hand: Go outside and find something good for society to do.

So Catherine followed her wife's instructions and returned to the secondary school to become a respected teacher, and soon in time for the Roy and Rhodes siblings to enter school, she was appointed by Raven to be the teacher of her own children, and also served as the half guardian of the two children when they were in school.

More than ten years have passed in a daze—and now even if the Duke jumps out and shouts that this girl is not his adopted daughter, and Catherine publicly indicates that the Duke is not his adoptive father, outsiders will probably only think that the "father and daughter" have quarreled and fallen out. Naturally, Rhodes, who grew up in this misunderstanding since he was born, has no doubt about this: a young woman who is not much older than himself, who goes home to live during the New Year's holidays, and whose mother always tells her to listen to her at school - isn't it his own godsister!

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If he had a choice, Rhodes would definitely hope that Catherine, who didn't have this inexplicable extra sister, was eager to repay her "adoptive parents", but unfortunately the Foster family was really a weird and unpredictable behemoth, and she was a little female mage who didn't even have the qualifications to repay the favor. And so history turned a little round and turned back - just as Rod's mother used her excess maternal love on Catherine, who also applied her gratitude to her two own sons and daughters of her benefactor, and unabashedly took extra care of them...... Roy is studious and cooperative, but Rod is more miserable, he loves to be lazy, he was left in the office by this "sister" for three days and two days to make up for one-on-one lessons, and he was targeted to death.

"Teacher Catherine...... You're so beautiful today. The boy hadn't thought about who to ask for help, but he changed his mind when he accidentally bumped into it. Catherine is her own family, so why bother to seek the near and far? as long as she has a good attitude and a sweeter mouth......

"Yo, I'm going to flatter people. 'Nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief', what tricks do you want to do?"

Pierced by a word, Rod touched his head a little embarrassedly, looked nervously left and right, and tried to make a casual appearance: "You...... Do you have...... That's the kind of ...... Something that prevents people from casting spells, a ...... that is worn on the body Made of anti-magical matter?"

"Yes, but it's a controlled product, used to deal with criminal mages, it can't stop spell casting, it just disrupts the spell casting process so that complex spells can't be completed, don't you don't like magic, what are you going to do?" Catherine pulled the boy to find a place to sit down, elegantly raised her glass and drank fruit wine, and glanced at the boy: "Oh, I remember, you have to use it against that little fox." ”

Rhodes was suddenly embarrassed, how did it seem that the whole world had heard about it: "How do you know ......?"

"Roy came to me two days ago to borrow a book about orcs, so we just had a casual conversation. Catherine smiled wickedly: "It turns out that you haven't dealt with that little fox yet, things in the world are so wonderful, a stunner like you, if it weren't for your sister staying with you every day, half of the girls in this hall would dare to chase you, a little fox was lucky to be brought home by you, but he refused to dedicate himself obediently, and you have to find a way to toss, who gave you this bad idea?"

"I'm a man, the word stunner...... That's weird, isn't it? ”

As soon as the words fell, Rhodes realized that something was wrong, and his predecessors had already summed up the experience: every female mage is a feminist, tough and proud, don't argue with them if you don't want to feel uncomfortable.

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Equality between men and women is just a slogan, after all, there is a difference between the sexes physiologically, which is magically reflected in the fact that men tend to have more mana in their bodies, while women are more sensitive to the elemental power in the environment. There may not be much difference in the early stages of learning spells, and there are advantages and disadvantages in the early stages, but in the later stages, magic affinity becomes more and more important - the more advanced the caster's strength, the less his own mana will be in the spell cast, and the power of the spell will depend more and more on the magic elements of the surrounding environment rather than the magic in the caster's body.

It can be inferred that there should be more women than men among high-level mages, but in fact, there are still slightly more men than women who have registered for the title of Magister, and this is the power of sexism - without chance, many talented girls like Catherine will never have the opportunity to touch magic in their lifetime, and even if they are lucky enough to enter this circle, it still depends on resources and time to cultivate a good mage.

As a result, female mages have become a rather special group: on the one hand, they already have a high social status and seem to have escaped the predicament of discrimination, and on the other hand, they often have more demands. Not all female mages are willing to stay at home and raise children like the Duchess Foster - out of disgust with sexism, this group will spontaneously gather together to try to fight for political status, to get closer to the center of power, to promote sexual equality and even liberation......

Rhodes didn't have any concept of male superiority and inferiority, but his casual attitude just now still made the female mage feel dissatisfied, and Catherine looked at him with displeasure: "I said that you are a stunner, why can this word only be used to describe women? A well-born, clean, handsome, and beautiful boy like you is a stunner in the eyes of women!" she paused, and continued to complain indignantly like a machine gun: "It is unusual for women to talk about men, and the reverse is natural? This is also sexism, if it sounds good, it is called machismo, and if it doesn't sound good, it is called a straight man. You are such a good fellow, you must not make this kind of thinking a habit!"

"I'm sorry, I made a mistake ...... my tongue" The young man asked for help, although he didn't think much of what she said, he could only apologize quickly.

"Hmph, you didn't feel that any girls were chasing you, but they were all chased away by your sister and the Prime Minister's daughter. Catherine didn't want to argue much with the little boy, and soon her face calmed down: "Can Friss treat you like a confinement, do you think it's a coincidence that her seat has always been next to you, how do you feel about her?"

Hey, it's only been half a minute, and I've changed from a stunner to someone else's confinement again, and it's so weird to talk to a female mage, and some topics become more and more outrageous the more you talk. Rhodes quickly brushed it off: "Friss is just a good friend of mine, I never thought about her!"

"Oh, yes. Catherine narrowed her eyes at him, "If she and her family heard the news, they would be disappointed." ”

"Uh...... I don't care so much. Rod almost forgot what he was doing: "Don't talk about this, Miss Catherine, do you have that thing?"

"Hmm~ I think about it. Catherine put down the cup, raised her chin and looked at Rod, this little ancestor who is not afraid of causing trouble all day long, bought a fox little slave girl but didn't know where to start, at this moment in order to get rid of the virgin body, jumping up and down like a monkey begging grandpa to tell grandma everywhere to find someone, it's just funny. Thinking like this, a picture of a monkey scratching her ears and cheeks really appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but be amused by her imagination and laughed out loud, and under the effect of preconceived intimacy, she felt more and more cute about the boy in front of her.

Rod didn't know why Catherine was laughing suddenly, and stood a little embarrassed waiting for her to continue.

"You've graduated, stop calling me teacher. "What kind of status do you have, why do you want to bully a little fox girl with so much effort, Catherine thought to herself, but she decided to push the boat down the river: "Call me by name, or sister, I'll find a way for you." ”

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It is bold to let the children of the master's family call her sister, but outsiders think that she is the adopted daughter of the duke, and the person concerned never denies it, if even Rhodes calls her sister, then this identity will be faked. It's just an ambiguous colloquial title, even if Mrs. hears Rhodes call herself that, most of them won't doubt it.

As much as she hated the feeling of being a fox and a tiger, Catherine knew very well: without this identity as a background, she was just an ordinary civilian girl in this city, and she was just a newcomer in the wizard circle, and outsiders would not look at her directly. In spite of oneself...... This is the difficulty of being born ordinary, how good it would be to be the daughter of a lady.

"All right, Catherine...... Sister. Paralyzed by the upsurge of alcohol, and with his willingness to ask for help, Rhodes was so obedient that he didn't think much about what the salutation meant to the listener.

"Well, you'll come with me later. Catherine's heart skipped a beat, and she glanced at him as if nothing had happened: "Have you eaten enough?" ”

"If you don't want to eat, let's go. The young man's heart was itching: "Can you not tell anyone about this?" ”

"See how you behave, come on. ”

Catherine put down her glass and walked towards the side door of the auditorium, where the young man stood up in his chair and followed in a daze.

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