Chapter 38: The Gift
By the time the students had packed up and started to set off for the mountain manor in earnest, it was already after one o'clock in the afternoon.
The rest of the way up the mountain and water was completely different from the rush of the last time Dior came here, so when the students arrived at the manor, it was already nearly dusk.
It was probably the lunch situation that made Montolo realize the mistake of his plan, and he consulted with Boromo for a while before leaving, after which one of Boromo's bodyguards left for a while.
When the bodyguard returned, he was followed by a number of nearby villagers, carrying several bamboo baskets full of various kinds of food, up the mountain with the students, and followed them to the campsite for the night, saying that they had been hired temporarily.
The camping site was set up a little in front of the watchtower where Dior had last passed, and the ground was relatively flat, and two bodyguards took these villagers who were hired for a day to clear the weeds and trees in the vicinity and organize an activity area for camping.
From time to time, small animals such as snakes, mountain rats, and rabbits in the vicinity were startled, and some girls were constantly screaming, while most of the boys grinned and greeted, but they grabbed a few small animals that ran in the wrong direction in a panic, and laughed that they could add food at night.
Once the venue was tidyed, two bodyguards dispersed to the edges of the venue and patrolled the area, sprinkling special insect repellent powder to ward off vipers and bugs that might still be there, while the hired villagers went to the nearby woods to collect dry branches to build bonfires.
After all, it was not like the previous campsite, it was a little farther away from the crowds, and it was starting to get dark, so the students couldn't run around like they did at noon, lest something happen. In fact, they don't have much energy to run around, they have a lot of fun at noon, and they have been climbing all the way to the mountain, and they have long consumed their bodies and spirits, and now they don't want to think about it when they sit down.
Dior saw that the venue was tidied up, so he and the three girls erected the tent they carried in the selected position, which was considered a place to rest.
Dio didn't bring a tent himself, so he brought a sleeping bag, and the three girls also brought a tent, obviously it was impossible to let him in, so at night he could only sleep outside, but fortunately, he had long been accustomed to this kind of wild life, and he didn't feel bitter at all.
Seeing that Dio and the others had set up their tents, the rest of the students with tents also began to set up tents in the same way, and soon, tents of different colors were erected on the flat ground, and from the sky, it seemed that a batch of colorful flowers bloomed out of thin air in the cyan grassland.
As soon as the tent was set up, the three girls went inside and didn't know what to do, anyway, Dio could hear the silver bell-like laughter coming from inside from time to time outside, and see the figures that seemed to be fighting each other through the tent cloth.
This time was just right, and Dio saw that everyone was busy, so no one paid attention to him, so he took advantage of the time to set up camp and went outside the camp.
Dio's skills were already very good, and his perception allowed him to leave the camp without alerting anyone, heading towards the tomb he had been to last time.
Arriving at the ruins of the shrine, Dio did not first look for the ancient tomb behind the wall, but walked around, making sure that no one was following him or observing him from a distance, and that there was no sign of anyone on the ground near him, before coming to the remnant of the wall, and carefully opened the entrance to the tomb again.
By the powerful rays of the setting sun, which had already tilted, Dio observed the stairs at the lower entrance, it had been nearly a month since the last time he came, and there was a thin layer of dust on the stairs on the footprints he had stepped on last time, and there were no other traces of it, and it seemed that it had not been discovered by anyone else.
Taking out the gas lamp from his bag, he lit it, and Dior went straight to the tomb inside.
The last time he came here, he still had a certain sense of reverence for the owner of this knight's tomb, especially when he encountered the enemy, he was ready to take the initiative to avoid it first, and only fought back when he was forced to do so. But when he has experienced so many things, his state of mind has been completely different, even a living knight is nothing in his eyes, let alone has been dead for an unknown number of years, so when Lilia asked him to give him a knight's sword, his first thought was not to buy it, but to run to this tomb to get it, just like running to the family that belongs to his own things.
Of course, what kind of scene this two-handed sword, which is at least one and a half meters long, in the hands of Lilia, who is now less than one meter seven tall, is not in his consideration, or maybe he will find it more interesting.
Cleanitoa, the name of this sword, is also the name of a very famous princess in the history of the ancient dynasty of Baisos, because it also has a name - the princess treasure.
Legend has it that this princess organized a knightly order to fight the enemy during the invasion of foreign enemies, and finally defeated the enemy and drove them out of the country, and to commemorate her exploits, she named the sword that she personally supervised to distribute to her knights. Later dynasties imitated this two-handed cross sword, which was used as a ceremonial sword to canonize the upper knights, and was also named Clanitoya.
Because this cross sword uses the fish scale yin carving forging technology, the technical and artificial requirements are very high, and thousands of them have been built in the past dynasties combined, and there are even fewer that can be handed down to the present.
Standing in front of the sarcophagus, Dio looked up along the somewhat blackened silver filigree gauntlet, and saw two rows of ancient Baisos on the body of the sword formed by countless diamond patterns:
"Defend glory with my loyalty" and "Shelter justice with my courage".
The spine of the sword was also inlaid with several diamond-shaped crystals, which shone in the light.
"Good stuff. ”
Dior has only one evaluation of this sword at this moment. He had seen several Clanitoas from different eras, but this one was clearly a little more different, and for antiquities, being different proved its worth.
He looked around, but did not find the scabbard of the cross sword, so he had to give up, and quickly took out all the cleaning tools that had been prepared in his bag, and gave the sword a facelift, so as not to look like it had just been taken out of a certain cemetery.
Dealing with this qiē as quickly as possible, Dio took out a piece of black cloth and wrapped the cross sword firmly, and exited the tomb with his back behind his back.
After sealing the entrance again, Dio looked around and found nothing wrong, so he turned around a few times to roughly remove the traces he had left behind, and then returned in the direction of the camp.
When I returned to the camp, there was still some fainting red on the western horizon of the sky, and the rest of the sky was already occupied by inky blue, as if it was constantly dripping dark dye into the waterhole called the sky, rippling little by little.
"Brother Dior, where are you going?"
Anandis, who was sitting at the door of the tent, immediately greeted Dio when she saw him.
"Go get something. Dio smiled gently, then looked at Lilia who came out of the tent, "Okay, gift." He handed Lilia the sword he held in black cloth behind his back.
"Huh?" Lilia paused for a moment before she reacted and reached out to take the crosssword.
"Be careful, it's sharp, it's sharp, don't hurt yourself. Dior reminded.
"Thank you. ”
After a moment's struggle, Lilia thanked her a little embarrassed, and then immediately returned to the tent with her sword.
"Show me. ”
Anatis screamed and went into the tent, and then did not forget to seal the door of the tent.
Dio shook his head with a smile and stepped aside, lest the three girls think he was eavesdropping. This time, he obviously felt that the relationship with his sister had made very good progress, and it seemed that the relationship between the normal brother and sister was just around the corner.
......
Inside the tent of Lilia's three daughters.
"Are you gone?" asked Lilia in a low voice.
"Gone, gone, I just opened the crack and glanced at it, and it's definitely gone. Anatis patted her overly full chest and said coquettishly, "Let's see what good gift your brother has given you." ”
"That's it, that's it, take it apart, Brother Dior is so good, he definitely won't give anything ordinary. Melissa added fuel to the fire, "Last time Anna was so proud of the sword in her shop, Lilia you must compare her to her!"
"Okay, I'll show you now, this is what my brother bought for me with his part-time salary, although it's not a very good thing, but it's also a piece of heart. Lilia said as she began to remove the black cloth from the sword's body, pretending not to care.
"Okay, don't pretend, who doesn't know that you're happy to death in your heart. ”
Anatis pouted, the sword in the shop belonged to her brother, she could borrow it for fun, but her brother Henry refused to give it to her because of the death of this sword baby. And Lilia's brother is different, he sent it out directly, even if it was almost Lilia's after that, it seemed much more generous, and her brother was compared to Dio, which made her a little depressed. As for Melissa, when she saw her being crushed, she might have laughed at her in her heart.
So don't guess the girl's mind, no matter how good the relationship is, there will also be open and secret battles between girls, comparing with each other, but on the surface, they are good and flowing, and they can't wait to stick together and not separate, which usually makes others scratch their heads.
As the layers of black cloth were lifted, the hidden sword body was completely revealed in front of the three girls.
There was silence for a long time before Melissa muttered.
"It's beautiful. ”
Although reluctant to say it, Anatis also had to admit that the sword could be regarded as a work of art. Clarinitoya was originally shaped according to the aesthetics of women, and at this moment, the beautiful patterns on the sword body sparkled in the light, and the diamond-shaped crystals were filled with colorful brilliance around them, looking as if they were rare treasures in the world, and it was undoubtedly a great killer for women who used their love for jewelry to be on a par with the legendary greedy dragon.
"Your brother is so good to you. Anatis said enviously.