After spending half a day in Irlan House in the morning, Roy joins Vera and d'Artagnan for an afternoon of rehearsals for tomorrow's Apocalypse festival.

It wasn't until evening, when everything was ready, that Roy got in the carriage and prepared to go home.

On the way home, he also went to the Order's headquarters and picked up Arya.

Tomorrow's festival is also a heavy task for the Knights, so Arya will leave work later than him.

After waiting at the door for a while, Arya left the headquarters and got into Roy's carriage.

The carriage started slowly, and drove towards Arnold House, and along the way, you could see that there were obviously more patrols and guards on the side of the road than in previous years.

These patrol guards are also part of the Knights Templar, and are merely the lowest rank of ordinary members, usually made up of ordinary people.

After all, with the small number of inheritors, it was impossible to defend such a large area of the upper city.

A good sword must be used on the blade, and Arya and the inheritors have to be responsible for guarding more important places.

"Captain Arya, I'm counting on you to keep us safe tomorrow."

Roy took Arya's hand and smiled.

"Just finished being busy, sweating ......"

Arya shrank her hand a little embarrassed, but was caught by Roy and had to give up resistance.

"Today we have arranged the patrol route and various guard points, and there should be no problem with security."

She looked at Roy, "It's young master, you're going to participate in the award tomorrow, do you feel nervous?" ”

"Your young master is not a person who has never seen the world."

Roy laughed, "It's just a process to go on stage, my heart is very big." ”

While chatting, the carriage soon arrived at Arnold's mansion, and Roy and Arya stepped out of the carriage and immediately found that the atmosphere in the mansion was lively.

Renault set up a large table in the main hall, and the members of the Christian family came to cheer on him.

Just like last year, Arya's people have come to Arnold House to meet this year.

"Look, our two protagonists are finally back."

Renault stood up with his wine glass and smiled at Roy and the others who came over, "It's up to you, hurry up and take a seat." ”

Roy greeted everyone and took a seat with Arya, his eyes swept over the crowd, and asked Renault:

"Hey, why didn't Mr. Gawain come?"

If there was anyone he knew best, it was Arya's uncle Gawain.

However, after the family cleared his grievances, Gawain left Sidenia with Hitomi's Black Flag mercenary group, and if he wasn't here, he probably wouldn't have returned in the wilderness.

Sure enough, Renault replied, "Gawain sent a letter from the wilderness, saying that the satellite city is now in a state of combat readiness, and the people in the city cannot come and go at will.

As a result, he was unable to return to the city to join us, so he asked me to congratulate you on becoming a knight. ”

Roy nodded thoughtfully.

Sidney blocked news of the demon's appearance in the wilderness, and those in the city who knew about it were temporarily restricted from their freedom of movement in order to keep it secret.

I don't know how the situation in the wilderness has been after nearly a year, so I'll ask Vera next time.

In this way, the dinner lasted until late at night, until the members of the Christian family returned and Roy and Arya saw off their guests at the door, and then they had their own time alone.

In the courtyard, Roy retired his servants and enjoyed the fireworks under the night sky while drinking tea with Arya.

On the last day of the year, Sidenia is immersed in a sea of fireworks, and the night sky is full of brilliant flashes.

Enjoying this year's fireworks with Roy, Arya unconsciously got closer to him, and her tone was full of nostalgia:

"I remember when we watched fireworks together last year, it always felt like it happened yesterday."

Roy smiled and touched her head: "I'll watch it together every year in the future." ”

"Of course." Arya smiled, "But in my heart, that year was the most special. ”

It was on this day last year, under the brilliant fireworks display, that she gave her own gift to the boy she liked for the first time, as well as ......

own first kiss.

From that moment on, she had already made a decision -

The young man in front of her, she has been with her for a lifetime.

"Speaking of which, so do I."

Roy pulled out a delicately crafted blue onyx pocket watch from his bosom, "This is the first time I've received a girl's birthday present." ”

This pocket watch was given to him by Arya for his birthday last year, and a small line is engraved on the inside of the cover:

Dear Roy Arnold:

I will always be with you.

- Your Arya Christian.

For the past year, Roy has carried this pocket watch with him and has never left it behind.

"Before I knew it, it was another year."

Roy put down his pocket watch and looked at Arya expectantly, "Will you give me a gift this year?" ”

"Yes."

Arya blinked mysteriously, "Guess what I'm going to give?" ”

"Can't guess." Roy shook his head and then smirked, "Then do you know what gift I want the most?" ”

"What kind of gift?"

"Of course - it's you!"

At Arya's exclamation, Roy picked her up.

"Elbow, follow me into the house!"

……

After a while, Arya snuggled up in Roy's arms.

She raised her eyes to look at the wall clock on the wall, and suddenly sat up: "Young master, it's past twelve o'clock now!" ”

"Huh?" Roy said lazily, "Why don't we sleep first?" Tomorrow we have to get up early. ”

Arya said seriously, "However, because tomorrow is so busy, we may forget, so we should do what we need to do first." ”

She crawled out of the bed, picked up the clothes that had been left on the floor, and found the gift box she had prepared for a long time in her pocket.

"Happy New Year, young master, and ...... Happy birthday! With a happy smile on her face, she handed Roy the gift box.

"Thank you."

Roy stood up and took the box and opened it.

Inside the box is a white square token with Roy's name engraved on the front, as well as the family crest of the Arnold family.

"It's ...... Transsound Stone? ”

Roy had the token that d'Artagnan had given him, so he quickly recognized it.

"Hmm." Arya nodded, "I'm going to order a pair of sound transmission stones, and I have one to match this one."

"Even if we are separated occasionally on weekdays, with it, we can talk from afar."

As she spoke, she pulled out her own sounding stone.

The token was engraved with Arya's name, as well as the crest of the Christian family.

Arya injected spiritual power into the sound transmission stone in front of Roy, brought it to her mouth, and said:

"Hey, are you there, are you there?"

At the same time, Roy felt the sound transmission stone in his hand tremble slightly and began to heat up, he also injected spiritual power, and then Arya's clear and sweet voice came from the sound transmission stone.

Seeing her slippery body and looking at herself expectantly, Roy couldn't help but smile and said to the sound transmission stone:

"No, no, my husband is going to bed, come and warm the bed, come quickly."

"Yes, yes." Arya giggled, set the token aside, and climbed into his bed.

The lights went out, and the whispers and chuckles of the two came from the bed.

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Thank you for the three yuan of grilled fish and the reward of the book friend 20220308084145372! 520 sugar single chapters,The number of words is a little less (we can't write it in depth.,Let's read a few books at night to make up for it)

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