Before you know it, the summer vacation is coming to an end.

At home, in the martial arts hall, practicing martial arts, and studying.

Everything is simple and orderly, and what to do at each point in time is almost exactly the same, like a machine that repeats the established plan. To outsiders, this kind of life is very monotonous and boring, it is a kind of mental torture, and it is unbearable after a long time, but for Dior, every day he can really feel that he is constantly climbing to a higher place, this wonderful feeling makes him addicted, pushing him to continue to move forward step by step, never satisfied.

In the almost brutal battles with Rosalind again and again, he could clearly feel his progress. From the beginning of the fragile to persist for a long time, and then slowly began to hold each other, and even fought back and forth, this kind of self-affirmation again and again nourished his confidence, condensed his will, sublimated his soul, and this spiritual achievement in turn pushed him to continue to greedily ingest more powerful power, and repeatedly, forming a positive virtuous circle.

In this process, he began to become more and more pure, and the ascetic life was like a big grinding wheel that crushed and eliminated all the distractions in his mind after being reborn, leaving only the purest and strongest gem - climbing to the pinnacle of martial arts, and he firmly believed that as long as he kept moving forward, those difficulties that had bothered him would inevitably turn into powder in front of him and become a stepping stone for him to go higher.

It's just that the changes are not only happening to him, but also the people around him.

Just like now, when he walked out of his room, he saw Lilia sitting on the sofa in the living room with an indifferent face, flipping through the books she didn't know, focused and demure.

Over the past few days, Lilia's attitude towards him has slowly calmed down from the cold resentment at the beginning after Melissa's incident, and she will not turn around and leave without talking when they meet, and sometimes talk to him, and on the surface it seems to be back to the state between the two when he was just reborn - not too close relatives.

It's just that Dior knows that this is not the case at all, and he can vaguely feel that Melissa looks at him, at his parents, at other people's eyes and demeanor have changed slightly, not emotionally, but like a person standing on a high place looking down below, it seems to be fundamentally different.

Dio instinctively hated this kind of gaze, but he couldn't tell why, but it wasn't good to be at odds with Lilia because of this kind of thing, so he shouldn't be able to see it.

In fact, he just couldn't see himself, as if he were a bystander, and the way he looked at other ordinary people was similar to the way Lilia looked at him.

"Tomorrow Anatis is going to have a Drift Fire Gala at her house?" Lilia asked when she saw Dio come out, put the book in her hand on her lap, and looked at him quietly.

"Drifting Fire Festival? huh? It's all this time?" Drifting Fire Festival is a carnival-style festival located at the end of the summer vacation, which lasts for three days in a row, and is considered the last madness before students return to school, but recently Dior's mind has been focused on practicing martial arts, and the concept of time has become very vague, and he feels a little trance for a while.

"I'm going back to the academy again, and my days are too fulfilling after I live again, and I'm almost forgetting that I'm still a student......

"The main participants are my classmates and Anantis, Melissa will also go, hasn't she told you yet?" Lilia said flatly, mentioning Melissa without any abnormality.

Melissa told Dio that it seemed that she and Lilia had reconciled again, and that Lilia had come to her on her own initiative.

"She didn't go to the martial arts gym in the past two days, so I didn't run into her. ”

"Oh, I see. Lilia nodded, "I heard Anadis say that Melissa's family seems to have distant relatives, and I heard that it is not small, maybe because of this, she did not come out." ”

"That's right......" Dior sighed, not paying much attention.

Anatis said that she had been hospitalized and had no chance to meet you, so she must take this opportunity to thank you. ”

"Tomorrow night...... Well, okay, I'll get over then. Dio thought about it, and he had nothing else to do tomorrow night, so he agreed.

"Well, then you will come with me tomorrow, you haven't been there, you may not know the way. ”

"Okay, got it. I'll go to the martial arts hall first, and I'll talk about this when I get back. Dio picked up the key on the shelf and went straight out the door.

Watching Dio leave the house, Lilia's originally calm face showed a complex and indescribable look.

"Haven't you gotten used to it?" said Hillarada's voice abruptly.

Lilia didn't say anything, stood up, and walked to her room.

"I didn't expect them to find you so quickly. Actually, the sooner you recognize your differences, the sooner you wake up, the better it will be for you......" Hillarda continued slowly.

Lilia suddenly stopped and interrupted Hillarda in a deep voice, "But I don't want these things to affect my family and put them in danger!"

Hillarda was silent for a moment before she spoke again, "So you have to be strong, the hope of the weak is always only the handouts of the strong. ”

Hearing this, Lilia paused for a moment, did not speak again, but walked back to her room and slammed the door shut.

......

As soon as you walk out of the community, there is a sudden rush of heat outside, drums and orchestral sounds mixed with high shouts, and the streets are full of young men and women, who gather on both sides of the street, watching the procession slowly walk through the center of the street, and from time to time applaud the wonderful performance of the procession.

Dio walked slowly down the street towards the martial arts hall.

Along the way, it was a very lively scene, not only people from the city, but also many tourists from other places also participated, which made the atmosphere even more hot.

When he came to the street opposite the martial arts hall, he happened to encounter a procession of students from a certain academy passing by, and the audience on the side crowded the street like a sardine can, and he couldn't walk at all.

Dior had no choice but to stop on the side of the road and wait for the procession and crowds to pass before leaving.

Now passing by is a cheerleading team of girls. These young girls, who are about sixteen or seventeen years old, wear uniform yellow short skirts, revealing their white thighs below, and from time to time with the slogans shouted in their mouths to raise their legs, youthful and energetic, so that the onlookers of the male audience let out bursts of cheers of high interest.

Dio looked at the door of the martial arts hall through the crowd, and saw that many disciples of the martial arts hall had already run out, huddled in the crowd and shouting, looking very lively.

Compared with the people around him, he is obviously much taller and stronger, and the rare black hair and black eyes are also very conspicuous, and now he is a heroic face, coupled with the mental changes brought about by the improvement of strength, he stands there like a scorching flame, unconsciously attracting the attention of the women around him, standing on the side of the street is very eye-catching.

From time to time, the eyes of young girls in the procession were locked on him, and they frowned at him, and seemed to be very interested in getting to know him.

And Dio put on an expression that no one should enter, so that the girl who wanted to get close could only leave in disappointment.

It was only when the procession had gone away that the crowd on the side of the road began to disperse. Dio saw that it was almost over, so he squeezed away a few people who were in the way and went straight to the door of the martial arts hall.

It happened that when he walked in, he saw his senior sister Rosalind walking out of the front hall, looking like she was going out.

"Senior sister. Dior took the initiative to greet him.

"Oh, Dior, you came just in time, I went out for some business, I may have to come back late, you take care of the martial arts hall for me today. "Rosalind looks in a very good mood today, with a smile on her face, and she looks like she has been carefully dressed, which can be called gorgeous and compelling.

"Okay, no problem. Dio nodded in agreement.

Now the director of the martial arts hall, Valen, took his eldest disciple Prague to a far away province and city to recuperate, Lynch has been staying in the quiet residence in the martial arts hall to recuperate, and it is Rosalind who usually manages the martial arts hall, and now she has something to do, and it is natural for Dior, a personal disciple who has nothing to do, to take over the management.

Of course, there is nothing for him to take care of, more of a role to play.

With that, Rosalind walked out of the martial arts hall and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Looking at the undisguised spring heart of the senior sister, Dio also roughly guessed what she was doing, but she didn't expect to be a mercenary, and the usually tough senior sister still has such a cute side.

Thinking of Rosalind's experience as a mercenary, Dio took the opportunity to think of the other two brothers. According to the understanding since getting along, Lynch is a killer, and Prague is said to have been a pirate, and later played black boxing, plus Rosalind, who is not inferior to the two senior brothers, Dio's three peers are not fuel-efficient lamps, and they all use this experience of wandering on the edge of life and death as a whetstone to hone their own martial arts, so that Dio is also considering whether he should learn from these senior brothers and sisters in the future.

"Sasha, do you have anything of mine?" said Dio, as he walked to the counter in the antechamber and asked the female student in charge of the work.

"There's a letter, Brother Dior, which was just delivered this morning. The handsome girl with some freckles took out a letter from the locker next to her and handed it to Dior.

"Thank you. Dio thanked him and opened the letter on the spot, and sure enough, the list of new arrivals mailed by the old man Hemer.

Recently, because he was busy practicing martial arts, he went to the hummingbird antique store very rarely, so he simply gave the contact information of the martial arts hall to Haimer, saying that once there was a new product coming, he would send a list of it, and if he was interested, Dior would go over to see it.