Chapter 61: On the right track
When Kevin arrived at the Earl's house on time, Sunny was already sitting in the room and waiting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Although her face was obviously still very resistant, she lowered her head, and Kevin didn't look at it when she came in, and she didn't say hello.
Kevin stepped forward and knocked on the table: "What about the etiquette of the nobles? Stand up!
Sunny puffed up her head and didn't speak.
Kevin saw the red mark on her forehead and immediately teased: "You slept on your stomach last night?" Haha!"
"Humph!" Sunny pouted, ignoring Kevin.
"I remember you said that the world is dominated by the strong, so do you think I'm strong or you're strong?" said Kevin, tapping on the table across from her.
Sunny still pouted, not moving or speaking.
"Dumb today?" Kevin was surprised, "The strong specify the rules, so now that I specify the rules, what else do you have to say?"
Sunny still didn't speak.
"Alright then, let's consume it. Kevin simply opened the textbook, looked at it himself, ignored the other party, and let Sunny sit like this.
The two sat for a while, until Sunny became more and more agitated, and gradually began to fidget. After all, children are active by nature, and they can't stand it for a while.
"Uncomfortable, take the book, go read it first. Kevin casually threw her a copy of literature.
Sunny hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the literary book. If nothing else is said about this literary book, at least there are a lot of illustrations on it, which can be regarded as attracting little girls.
After a moment of silence, Kevin saw that she was somewhat interested, and immediately explained some interesting things to her. For example, some fables, some fairy tales, some bad jokes, and so on. Of course, they are all young, and they will never use jokes that are not very gentlemanly.
"Once upon a time there was a sheep village, and it lived peacefully until one day a wolf came. The sheep village is in crisis, and everyone fights together to resist the wolf. This battle lasted for a long time, and the wolf kept trying to eat the sheep, and the sheep kept resisting. Until a long time passed, the wolf still did not eat the sheep. "Kevin tells some stories about the younger age.
"Then the question is, why hasn't this wolf starved to death after he hasn't eaten sheep for so long?" Kevin asked.
Sunny involuntarily began to use her brain, was silent for a moment, and began to ask: "The wolf eats other animals?" "The wolf doesn't need to eat to absorb the magic element?" "The wolf is the same as the dog, can it be ****?"
"Neither," Kevin laughed, "I don't know the real reason." ā
"Haha, you don't know if you still take it out and ask. Sunny smiled, but at least today's smile wasn't as annoying as yesterday's.
"Because the reason is simple, it's a very long story, a long, long story, so long that its author has overlooked similar details. Kevin replied.
Sonny: "......"
"Maybe the author deliberately ignored this issue, maybe the author originally just planned to write a short story, if the short story is a duel between the sheep village and the wolf, there is naturally no question of whether the wolf is hungry or not," Kevin replied, "As a result, in the author's creative process, because of a certain situation, the author found that it was not bad to write differently, so he let the wolf keep escaping, so the duel continued indefinitely." ā
"Alas, in fact, I have seen a lot of similar works, a cat and a mouse chasing each other for many years, a work that makes the protagonist's supporting characters and dragon routines infinitely recall more than ten years, a child after 20 years, even a one-year-old Terran child, a huge god with eyes like duck eggs beating countless huge monsters, although there are only a few beating poses, but it is beaten for 50 years. Kevin smiled casually.
Sonny: "......"
"You know what this is? This is literature," Kevin added, feeling that something was wrong, "one. ā
Sonny: "......"
Children are children after all, and emotions come and go quickly, Kevin easily mobilized her emotions, and then entered Kevin's rhythm. Kevin has traveled all over the world, he has seen a lot of interesting things, and he has seen a lot of stupid things, and it is still easy to take out a bunch of them and tease a child.
This conversation was at noon, and there was a knock on the door outside: "Miss, it's time to eat." ā
Kevin and Sunny glanced at each other, nobles are usually troublesome to eat, and there is a large set of rules. Kevin, of course, didn't have the right to sit at their dinner table, so he just waited where he was. After a while, the maid brought the food, of course the food of the earl's family would not be bad, and Kevin could basically eat sweet, sour, spicy and salty, there was no problem.
But it was only a moment, and Sunny actually came back with a plate of food by herself: "I'll eat here." ā
"Good. Kevin was also relieved, obviously having been affirmed by Sonny. I am quite competent for the position of tutor.
During the meal, the two also chatted while eating, and the topic continued. Eventually, Sunny couldn't finish eating, and there was some left.
Kevin taught her: "Don't waste it, your dishes are obviously different from mine, I'm afraid they were specially made for your genius." The materials should all be expensive. ā
Sunny pouted, "Then you can eat?"
"You're welcome. Kevin was really welcome, took the plate on the other side, and ate a fine meal.
After a short break in the afternoon, the two went out for a walk. About the same time, go back and continue teaching. However, in the afternoon, due to the hot weather, Sunny was also a little lazy. Kevin also knew that the teaching effect would inevitably be poor at this time, so he immediately chatted casually.
Before dinner, Kevin proposes that the two continue their magic practice. Sunny was indeed a little unwilling to fail yesterday, and was willing to try immediately. And Kevin also wanted to practice his magic skills.
At this point, Kevin's recent life is finally on track. Get up in the morning and do a, go out and go straight to the capital as soon as you're done, run to be a tutor for a day, rub two meals, and come back after dinner and hurriedly go to the tavern to give a speech, otherwise I'm afraid my travel expenses will be gone. After the tavern finished speaking, he went back to the barracks to sleep.
The day passed quite fully, and there was hardly a day off. I have to go to the portal every day to get to work, and the cost of this journey is also staggering. Of course, Sunny doesn't learn every day, after Kevin arranges the class schedule, he basically takes classes in the morning, rests in the afternoon to chat and practice magic, etc., and plays with Sunny on weekends.
In the eyes of the rest of the military, Kevin was simply cool. ran out every day, and no one cared, and grabbed a lot of people who had big opinions about him behind his back. Kevin himself knew that Starter sometimes came over at night and would talk to him about the situation in the army.
Big opinion, but so what? Kevin laughed, if anyone wants to, come and replace me. Even if the general personally talks to Kevin, Kevin will argue with reason. What should I do if I don't have funds and personnel? A broken catapult still wants me to have combat effectiveness? Why don't you let me go to heaven? What a joke.
On the other hand, Sunny is also making rapid progress. I don't know if it's because Kevin teaches well, or if she's really a genius herself, when she really starts to want to learn, Kevin becomes very effortless. In addition to the three compulsory subjects of language and mathematics, Kevin also added some other things such as history, humanities, military and even politics to him at will, occasionally teaching her to draw, teach her to play cards, teach her to play chess and other elegant entertainment activities.
Sunny is happy almost every day, and for a child, it is indeed a happier thing to have a big brother-like character who plays with her all the time. Although it is more helpless for the big brother to always have a little kid, but after all, Sunny is not so unreasonable, and after getting acquainted with it, Kevin also thinks that this kid is still okay.
Basically, every afternoon, he would take a time out to practice magic, and Kevin was able to see almost all the elementary magic. This is also a lot of exercise for Kevin. Only read books, no one practiced, no experience accumulation, once fought, no matter who he faced, he had no score in his heart.
Fortunately, Sunny is not strong, although there is a lot of magic, but it is relatively immature, if this is directly a real magician and Kevin alone, Kevin is not sure, and it is just a gradual process for Kevin. And at the moment, there is no mage who is willing to practice with Kevin all day long.
It's no secret how to defeat Sunny in the way, it's just a bit unpopular, even if Kevin doesn't say it, I believe Sunny can always ask, Kevin simply told him bluntly. If you want to deal with Kevin, you either need to change the way you collect mana slightly, or you have to suppress your opponent through movement or other low-level magic to create opportunities for yourself.
If she wants to change the way she collects magic, 10-year-old Sunny is not at this level. As a result, the final battle between the two turned into a magic missile shooter, but Kevin wanted to mainly practice magic to interrupt. For this reason, Kevin often deliberately showed flaws, and Sunny thought that the opportunity had come, so he chanted a more advanced spell, but it was still interrupted, and he tried again and again.
After all, Kevin is a lot older than her and has been through recruit training. Physical and mental strength and observation are stronger than her, and it is no problem to bully a child.
Every afternoon practice, I often encounter a small spoon carrying firewood passing by, sometimes three or four times. Kevin didn't dare to talk at first, after all, he thought of the Earl who appeared behind him at that moment. But after a long time, I gradually became bolder.
"Hey, aren't you the maid who dropped the firewood on the floor last time?" Kevin used a very lame way of accosting, "How are you?"
"yes. I am fine. Little Spoon smiled.
The two were silent for a moment, and the little spoon continued to move forward: "I'm leaving." ā
"Yes. Kevin nodded, and continued to practice with Sonny.
After the first accosting, Kevin was very familiar with passing by later: "Hey!"
So Little Spoon also: "Hey!"
But that's all, for a month, the two didn't say anything else. Kevin sometimes couldn't figure out what was going on in this earl's house. With the Earl's incredible strength, Kevin felt that at least there would be nothing in the Earl's Mansion that could hide from him. And with the strength of Little Spoon, the lowest among the assassins, it is really impossible to run to carry out the mission.
Of course, these things, I don't understand or think about them, Kevin is just responsible for teaching his own lessons, curiosity kills cats, and the upper nobles always have the secrets of the upper class, and the result of knowing too much is to be killed.
A month passed quickly, and in early October, Kevin counted the time and felt that he should go and ask for pay. Immediately, he found the Earl again.
"How's my probationary period, Lord Earl?" asked Kevin.
"Yes," said the Count, still reading in his study, "you are better than I thought. ā
"Thank you. Kevin was already beaming.
"But since you came, Sunny has been eating with you in the room every time, and she's eating a lot more all of a sudden. The Count replied.
Kevin: "......"
"Forget it, you can eat it, it's not a big deal. The Earl waved his hand, "You have indeed taught well this month, and I will allocate you a thousand gold coins." You can go to the account office to pick it up later. ā
"Thank you, Lord Earl. Kevin was really a little ecstatic, thinking that the other party must have something difficult, but he didn't expect it to be so simple. After all, I've only been doing it for a month.
"A thousand gold coins will be enough to repair your catapult," the Count just disagreed, "but if you want to add something to the magic change, it's a bottomless pit." ā
"Yes, anyway, thanks to Lord Earl. Kevin still thanked him again and again.