The day after that, the Emir continued to stay in the Stuart family, despite Ernst's advice.

In addition, in order to stabilize him before, Frazi did not immediately turn his face with him, so the two would greet each other when they met in the mansion.

After breakfast with the family's blacksmith, Emile returned to his room, where Ophelia was the only one who remained, and Cosette said that she wanted to go out to get some air, so she left for a while.

"You shouldn't have breakfast, right? To give. Emir handed her a loaf of bread with meat in it.

At this moment, Ophelia was leisurely leaning against the head of Emile's bed, carefully flipping through a book with a rather beautiful cover.

"Thank you." Ophelia said casually, shoving the bread into her mouth, keeping her eyes peeled off the book in her hand the whole time.

The emir couldn't help but wonder a little.

"Anyway, Ophelia, why do you always stay in my room, why don't you go out with Cosette, or go back to your own room."

“…… Do you want to hear the truth? Ophelia said lightly.

"Uh, how could this be a lie?"

"Of course, I can say that I want to protect you, after all, you are my external brain, and I may not be able to do anything without you."

"Hehe, am I really as good as you say?" The emir smiled sheepishly, but soon understood, "So this is a lie, well, then I want to hear it." ”

"Honestly, huh?" Ophelia suddenly raised her head, staring at Emir's eyes with burning eyes.

The two looked at each other, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere inevitably became awkward, until the emir blushed a little, and could not help but think about it.

"The truth is, my room was too dimly lit to read, and I felt a little lonely because I had no one to talk to." Ophelia said casually, her gaze returning to the book.

"Haha, I see." The emir smiled awkwardly.

"Of course it is, or what do you think?"

"I, I thought ......"

"Thought I liked you?" Ophelia suddenly asked solemnly.

"No, no, no, nothing, what are you talking nonsense?" The emir panicked.

"Oh, who do you like? Annie? His Highness Cosette? Or maybe it's Alice? Ophelia said shockingly, but her eyes didn't take her eyes off the words in the book for a moment.

"Ophelia, you, I'm ......," the emir said incoherently.

Looking at his embarrassed appearance, Ophelia couldn't help but snicker in her heart, but when she thought about it, she was a little sad, because it was obvious from Emir's reaction that the people he liked were among the people Ophelia was talking about.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to mess with you."

"Huh? It's been me," said the emir, glaring at her with some annoyance, and then grumbling, "really, it's time to make fun of me." ”

Ophelia heard what he meant, and quickly put down the book.

"I'm sorry, I'm just trying to ease the tension, since you're upset, so be it, I'll treat you to dinner next time."

Seeing that she apologized, Emile nodded contentedly, and then said with some anger.

“…… Hmph, I'm not an unreasonable person, okay, I'll order the menu when the time comes. ”

"Well, of course."

Ophelia smiled for the first time in a long time and continued to read.

Afterwards, the room was eerily quiet, except for the occasional sound of flipping books.

Emile sat on the other side of the bed, staring boredly at the ceiling, and after a while, as if feeling that the atmosphere had become awkward again, he began to try to find a topic.

"By the way, didn't you say you'd take me deep into the tower?"

"Don't worry, wait until Your Highness returns," Ophelia comforted him as she flipped the pages, "and don't you also want to see what the killer Ernst is talking about?" ”

"Oh, too." The emir nodded.

Looking at Ernst's appearance before, this killer is definitely not simple, it is enough to make people talk about it, and Frazi seems to rely on this killer very much, so defeating him can definitely frustrate Frazi's sharpness, so all you have to do now is to wait patiently.

"Ophelia ......"

"Huh?"

"What are you reading?" The Emile tilted her head and looked closely at the cover of the book, but she couldn't make out the title because Ophelia's hand kept moving.

"Have you forgotten? Anthony gave you a whole set of "Legend of the Dragon Knight", currently a total of thirty copies, I read it all night yesterday, and now this is the last one, don't you say, it is indeed wonderfully written. ”

"Uh......" Emir's face was suddenly covered with black lines.

Isn't this for children? It's such a big person for Ophelia, and it's still interesting to watch.

"How? I'll show you after I'm done. ”

"No, no," said the Émile, waving his hand hurriedly, "I don't appreciate them, and I accept them only because of Antony's hospitality." ”

"Alas, you're really boring, so leave these books to those in need, like me."

"Of course, you can take it, my magic ring is running out of space."

"Well, thank you."

Ophelia said, and closed the book with a "snap", indicating that she had finished reading.

After that, Emile looked out the window and saw that it was already noon, and he was going to lunch, but he was not in the mood.

“…… Why hasn't it come yet, this killer is too slow. ”

"Maybe I'll be there a long time ago, but I can't feel it because the other party doesn't have magic power, and then I don't want to dirty Frazi's mansion."

"Well, it's a possibility, so let's go out and have a look."

However, as soon as Emir's words fell, there was a slight noise outside the door, and he subconsciously thought that the killer was coming.

Then, with a "squeak", the door opened a small crack, and the emir hurriedly stepped back a few steps to remain vigilant.

"Emile, it's me, Ernst."

“…… Alas, how could it be you, Mr. Ernst, to scare me, I thought it was a killer. The emir patted his heart.

"I'm sorry, didn't you say you're not afraid of that killer?"

"But these are two different things, you know, people are scared to death."

"Haha, I'm sorry, I'm here to call you for lunch, Miss Ophelia and Miss Cosette with you."

"Cosette is out, forget my words, thank you for your kindness."

“…… Oh, then, come on, Emir, and don't find a reason to shirk it at this time. Ernst laughed.

"Well," the emile nodded, and then said to Ophelia, "I'll be back as soon as I can, and I'll pack you some food when the time comes." ”

"Go, go, don't make everyone wait for you."

Then the Emile followed Ernst out the door.

They walked up the long corridor, but whenever there was a fork in the road, they kept turning and turning, and although the emir did not usually notice how far from his room to the hall was, he did not have to turn so many corners, and he gradually became vigilant.

However, when I thought about it, I didn't feel any nervous, so I relaxed again.

Finally, after a few tens of minutes of walking, the emir was taken to the back door of the mansion, which was a dense wooded area with a narrow gravel path leading deep into the dense forest.

Ernst stopped abruptly and turned around.

"Hmph, since you haven't said much all the way here, I can think you can see it, right?"

“…… yes, so don't stop, keep walking. The emir crossed his arms and said leisurely.

"Haha, it's so refreshing, I'm going to be impressed with you." Ernst smiled sadly and began to walk down the gravel path into the forest.

"Sure enough," said the emile thoughtfully, "to say such a thing, you must not be Mr. Ernst, for he has always admired me. ”

"Hmph." The man snorted coldly and said no more.

After another ten minutes, the two men came to the end of the gravel path, and in addition to the tall trees that were closely arranged, there was a rather wide stream, which flowed into the distance with a large number of fallen leaves.

"Isn't it nothing? So where the hell is the killer? ”

"Hehe, it seems that you still don't know my true identity." The man turned around, tore off the human skin disguise from his face, and revealed an unusually horrible face.

His facial features were gone, except for his mouth, which was probably burned, and his face was full of tiny holes, and strangely, black bugs were faintly emerging from those holes.

“…… What a disgusting thing this! The emir was frightened and took a step back.

"Disgusting?" The man seemed to be quite resentful of the word, "Hehe, it seems that you are still like ordinary people, you are a bastard who judges people by their appearance, and I really thought that Frazi wanted me to kill an extraordinary person." ”

“…… Oh, so you're going to be sad about this, I'm sorry, I apologize to you. The emir bowed his head sadly.

Seeing his unexpected move, the man couldn't help but be stunned, and immediately yelled after reacting.

"Huh? Who's sad? You don't have the right to pity me! ”

"No, it's not that I pity you, it's just that what you just said made me think of myself, I used to be looked down on because my family was poor, but I am better than you, my family is poor and can be changed, but I look ...... It's a lifelong thing. ”

Hearing this, the man suddenly burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha...... Your name is Emir, right? You're such a fool, I've killed so many people, and I've never seen someone as stupid as you, what's wrong? Do you want to convince me with these few words that I will spare your life? I tell you, no way, since you have taken this life, I will let you suffer and die according to the custom. ”

After he finished speaking, he attacked the emir directly, but without any weapons, but with his bare hands.

Emir wanted to dodge, but he didn't expect his movements to be so fast, and he was punched directly.

But the next scene was very funny, I saw the man's fist swing out very imposingly, and touched the emir, but he didn't feel it at all.

"You...... Hit me? Emile's face was full of question marks.

“…… What, what's the situation? Shouldn't you fall? ”

The man looked up at the emir, and if his eyes were still there, he would have looked even more puzzled.

"You, are you really a killer?"

"Of course, if I kill so many people, isn't it still a killer?" The man felt inexplicable.

"No, how the hell do you kill people at your level?" Somehow the emir was a little angry, he asked the man in a loud voice, "Isn't there a threshold for your profession?" No, you shouldn't ask that, I mean, who are you killing, powerless kids? Or is it an old man who can't help but be weak? ”

"I'm ......" The man withdrew his fist, as if he had been asked, looking cramped and uneasy.

Seeing his reaction, the emir was speechless to the extreme, and then returned to the mansion directly along the gravel path.

However, as soon as he took a few steps, a man's sneering voice came from behind him.

"Hey, Emir, do you really want to go back?"

"What?"

Emile suddenly realized that he had been fooled, and was about to turn around, but felt the man resting his head on his shoulder, and the snort that spat made people feel a chill.

"That's why you say you're stupid, since you've been tricked, let's go to hell honestly."

As the man spoke, a glittering dagger plunged into the emir's back, seemingly aimed at the spine.

“…… You're the one who deserves hell. ”

As a female voice sounded, a huge sword qi struck and slammed into the man's head.

The man's knife was about to be pierced, but if he continued, he would be killed on the spot while paralyzing the emir, which was not cost-effective, so he immediately stopped.

"Ophelia, why did you get here?" Emir breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he was really in a desperate situation this time, if the knife was fatal, Lilith would come out to save the scene, and he was counting on Lilith to fight back, but he didn't expect that the killer just wanted to temporarily destroy his nervous system and then slowly torture him.

Ophelia then crossed her waist and complained.

"Didn't you say come back as soon as possible? I happened to be hungry, and you didn't come back after waiting for a long time, so I had to come to you. ”

Of course, Emir would not believe such words, it was only about twenty minutes away, how could she suddenly be hungry, Ophelia must have been following them all the time, but it was too incomprehensible to expose her lies at this time.

"Cut, there's actually a helper." The man gritted his teeth with hatred.

After all, he brought the emir here because it was convenient to do it one-on-one, and now that it has become a one-on-two, his task can be accomplished even more.

The emir looked at his nervous appearance and smiled slightly.

"Okay, I don't want to bully you, let's fight alone, each with our own ability."

“…… Hehe," the man laughed as well, "you're an idiot. ”

As soon as the words fell, the two attacked at the same time.