At this moment, suddenly the sound of a bell rang from the entrance of the fruit shop.

"It's rude, is this the Heluo Fruit Shop?"

Sekaria's voice.

"I'll go," said Cherus, getting up and walking out of the living room to the front of the storefront, just in time to see Sekaria and Charlie standing in the doorway, looking around.

"Leah, Sister Xia Li, you are here. ”

"Cheruth, sorry for being late. ”

"Excuse me. ”

"Where, come in, it's about to start eating. ”

With that, Cerus led Sekaria and Charlie to the back of the living room.

"Ah, the first time we met......"

The first time they saw Helo, both Sekaria and Xia Li seemed very reserved, obviously they had done their homework in advance about the deeds of this Northland wolf. However, the two are very sociable, and Harrow is also very approachable, so everyone soon became familiar with each other.

Seeing that everyone was coming, Greywind and Nanoha began to serve dishes to the table with the help of Chelus, Sakura, and others, and soon a sumptuous dinner was piled up on the table.

"Okay, let's go~"

As Herlo, who was considered everyone's nominal elder, spoke, the wolf girl's family feast officially began.

"Grey Wind...... Hello. ”

In the midst of everyone's laughter, Sekaria looked at Grey Wind Lori, who was sitting in a position with Cheruth in the middle of her, and hesitated to speak.

After two years of meeting, the blue-haired princess never imagined that the calm gray wolf who spoke like a leopard back then would become the cute appearance of the beast-eared Lori young girl now.

"Hello, long time no see. ”

Although there is an inexplicable resistance to Sekaria in her heart, under the influence of Cheruth, Gray Wind more or less identifies with her partner, so she nods and greets the blue-haired princess Ji very kindly.

Seeing that Grey Wind didn't seem to have much to talk about—in fact, he wasn't a natural talker—Sekaria thought that Grey Wind was afraid of talking too much to herself, revealing her original identity as a monster, so she didn't say anything more, and turned to look at Cheruth.

"Cheruth, do you have any plans for the holidays?"

"Vacation? Leah, did you say summer vacation?" Chelus bit the croquette in her mouth and looked at Sekaria, "Of course I'm going to stay at home during the summer vacation~"

Sekaria was speechless.

"Eh, if Chelus-chan doesn't go out all the time, it's not good," the energetic Sakura girl criticized Chelus's homely nature, "Rare summer vacation, let's go out and play somewhere together~"

"That's right, go out for a walk more when you're young, so that Xiaobai you may become the same person as the slave family in the future. ”

I don't want to be a star who can't live without Apple, Chelus glanced at the arrogant wolf.

"So, how about you form a student adventure team and go to the Mercenary Guild to pick up the vacation trial missions that the academy has specially issued for students?" Sekaria suggested, "Trial missions are generally not very difficult, and while accumulating credits by doing tasks, you can also increase your knowledge, which is basically no different from going out to play." ”

"But Leah, you ...... that time"

The blue-haired girl who was blamed by Cheruth couldn't help but be speechless for a while, and then blushed a little.

"Ahem, me, I had an accident. ”

Sakura, Nanoha and the others all agreed with Sekaria's suggestion, and even Grey Wind and Harrow also showed expressions of interest, indeed, some simple trial tasks, it was almost equivalent to everyone going out to play together.

Seeing that her friends were all eager to try, Cheruth, who wanted to stay at home, sighed secretly, thinking that her house holiday was completely ruined.

"Okay, then let's decide? Let's go to the mercenary guild together during the summer vacation. ”

"Oh~""

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Late at night, Loris Palace.

Garnes stayed alone in his study, looking at a document in his hand with a solemn face.

「...... On the first day of school, in order to welcome Princess Chiyo and Mu Sakura, who came to our college from the Phoenix Kingdom to study at our college, Her Royal Highness Sekaria personally visited the new team of the magic guidance department after the opening ceremony...... In a conversation with Princess Chiyo and Sakura Ki, His Royal Highness personally admitted that he was an old friend of Cheruth and Nanoha, and it was difficult to think that the two were meeting for the first time...... The first time she saw Her Highness in the academy was "Leah", and it is speculated that she really had an old friendship with Her Highness and had a close relationship......

Putting down the materials in his hand, Garnes habitually raised his hand to press his temple to look out the window, his eyes glazed over.

It was really, too unexpected.

After that dinner, Sekaria, who had always kept her distance politely, was a little concerned about the overly intimate attitude towards the wolf girl Cheruth, so after the dinner, he specially recruited some reliable children of noble ministers who were studying in the national academy, and asked them to inquire about the affairs between Sekaria and Cheruth in the academy for him.

It can be regarded as the sequelae of taking over his father's intelligence work, after learning about Sekaria's attitude towards Cheruth, Garnes subconsciously had a trace of doubts about the description of Cheruth's deeds in the academy that Sekaria had provided before.

Garnes thought she knew her sister well, and with Sekaria's temperament, it was almost hard to believe that she could become so close to a strange girl she had just met in such a few months...... Garnes wondered if the young girl named Cheruth was using some means or some purpose.

However, he was taken aback by the fact that Sekaria's intimate attitude towards Chelus was not due to the special methods that the wolf girl had used in the past few months...... Judging from the rumors and information gathered, the two of them are friends who have known each other since before, so it naturally explains why Sekaria is so good to Cheruth, but a new question arises, when and where did Sekaria make such a friend?

His sister has been showing up from time to time to deal with all kinds of princes and nobles and their children because of her identity since she was a child, but even so, he has never heard of such a wolf girl in Sekaria's social circle, and even in his memory, Sekaria has almost never been in contact with people outside the Loris Kingdom before she came into contact with the international students in those colleges after entering the Loris National Academy, and even after enrolling, there were no students from the Northland Wolf Clan before Cheruth。

In this way, if Sekaria and Chelus are really old acquaintances, then the only chance they have to get acquainted is the time when Sekaria traveled to the Warcraft Forest with her two years ago...... It was the only time Sekaria had left the kingdom as she had grown up.

Garnes tapped the fingers of one hand on the table, closing his eyes and carefully recalling one detail after another, when suddenly, instead of continuing to knock on his fingers, he froze there, and the expression on his face froze as he remembered something.

Two years ago, the Warcraft Forest ...... Cheruth ......

“...... No wonder...... No wonder...... I remember...... No wonder...... But how is it possible...... Indeed, it is the name of Cheruth, so that everything makes sense......"

Garnes muttered distractedly.

He remembered that two years ago, in the Warcraft Forest, Sekaria had mentioned the name of the person who had saved them, yes, it was called "Cherus".

However, this is too weird, shouldn't "Cheruth" be a remnant of the Nolan clan who hides in the depths of the Warcraft Forest and is with the Warcraft, but this Cheruth in the academy is clearly a real wolf girl.

No wonder he only felt familiar when he heard the name Cerus, but he didn't immediately remember it, he didn't think that this wolf girl was connected to the Nolan people who secretly rescued him and Sekaria two years ago.

"That makes sense, the incident two years ago, Leah has been refusing to say anything about what happened during the time she disappeared...... If this Nolan girl named Cheruth had rescued her after Leah had been taken captive by the Beast, and had taken her all the way to us and eventually helped us escape, then the friendship between Leah and her, which seemed to have existed since before, and Leah's hidden friendship with that girl without telling me, all made sense......"

The appearance of the wolf clan, what kind of camouflage is used, yes, the identity of the Northland Virtuous Wolf is genuine, so this superb disguise must be from the hand of that virtuous wolf.

Garnes took a long breath as if he had been held underwater for a long time and finally came out.

...... Leah, my sister, you're hiding a lot.

Garnes frowned.

...... Is that really troublesome...... Nolan, the rebel of the Solan Cult...... It looked like he had to tell his father.