At night, the village of Eagle Cape is unusually quiet.

Not to mention the sound of fighting outside, you can't even hear the sound of insects and birds.

But this is clearly unreasonable.

Ivas had long been aware of the inconsistencies.

Because in general, in rural areas like this, there should be a lot of insects, snakes, birds and beasts.

This is different from the situation where there is an inspection bureau on the side of the glass island that often comes to inspect the hygiene, and there are various pest control companies and rodent control companies that distribute leaflets on the streets. In a village like Eagle Cape Village, which is located deep in the forest, it is normal for even wild wolves to walk around the village in the middle of the night and press the road...... It's not impossible to see a snake in the quilt when you wake up.

Not to mention all sorts of little bugs.

Even if the songbugs are not active in winter...... But after a few days in Cape Eagle Village, Ivas didn't even see a ladybug, spider, slug, or anything like that.

Not only was there no wolf howling, no cat barking, not even the sound of birds flapping their wings.

"Aren't there any hunters in your village?"

Ivus asked Hasina.

Haina hesitated for a moment: "Hmm...... Maybe there is, maybe not. ”

"This is the most outrageous response I've heard this month."

Sherlock complained: "Either there is or there is none, how can there be 'maybe'?" ”

"We're Muwan County."

Hayna, who was walking back and forth in the room, responded with her waist crossed: "If you want to eat meat, you have to find herdsmen, and what about a large area of sheep and cattle." Although there is occasional game in the village, it may have been bought from Bagpipe Town or bought from another village. ”

Now I'm not sure if I'm done outside, so Haina doesn't dare to go home.

But Haina had nothing to do, and she was energetic and excited...... So she had to go around the room in circles, and then every now and then run to tease the falling griffin.

Liz had fallen asleep three times in the corner, but each time she was woken up by Hayna again.

The point is that after waking up, Haina didn't need to do anything, but quickly touched its head and soothed it to sleep. Then he walked around the room a few times and couldn't help but go to play with the griffin.

It can't be helped.

After all, the three other people, Ivus, Sherlock, and Lily, were not too disturbing.

Lily is introverted and quiet, and even when she chats, Lily will only smile and listen without saying a word. Only Ivas can react a little more when he talks to her.

She wanted to play with Evas, but now as a minister, Evas was really a powerful person for Haina - she was afraid of Edward as the Inspector General, and now Ivas is much more powerful than Edward.

And Sherlock is not to mention.

He was reading a book over there...... Haina leaned over and looked at it, and saw that it was actually a book about astrology.

There were so many letters, numbers, and symbols in it that Haina felt dizzy at first glance.

Of course, if she is forced to memorize it, she will probably be able to memorize the whole book. But it's hard to understand.

To her relief, Sherlock, who was on the path of wisdom, was not so easy to read and understand. Little Sherlock frowned and looked like his brother was struggling with his homework, which was very cute.

But perhaps it was because Sherlock also had a headache to watch—Hayna's rhythmic behavior of passing behind him made Sherlock angrily put down the book and raised his head to curse.

He hated Hayna's restless behavior of making noise around the crowd in the middle of the night, and sharply commented that she was "an energetic stupid donkey warming up for tomorrow's grinding".

So Haina didn't want to go near Sherlock either.

Stupid is stupid, she knows that she is really not smart compared to Sherlock. But the stupid donkey didn't like to listen.

- She's more or less a beautiful girl who is popular with everyone at school, and it's too much to be said to be a donkey!

At the very least, it has to be a cute animal like a horse or a dog!

"Speaking of which," Ivas on the side was thoughtful, raising his hand to stop Hayna, who was spinning around, "You used to run around with your friends when you were young, right?" ”

"Of course, otherwise there wouldn't be much fun with us." Haina nodded.

"Have you ever been near the forest?"

"We play in the forest a lot."

Haina replied.

Hearing this, Sherlock suddenly frowned and raised his head, and asked rhetorically, "You guys are playing in the forest?" ”

“…… yes, what's wrong? ”

Haina felt weak, wondering if she had said something wrong.

"That's a big problem."

Sherlock frowned like a little adult, "You adults just let you run around in the woods?" ”

"What's the matter," Haina was a little puzzled, "it's not going to the swamp, what's the danger...... The swamp wouldn't let us go. But it's definitely useless, we still go every month, ahaha......"

Haina said things like "as long as you haven't been discovered, you haven't been there" and "no one has really had an accident anyway", and she wanted to talk about her adventures as a child.

But her words were directly interrupted by Sherlock: "Aren't you adults worried about bad people or beasts and poisonous insects in the woods?" ”

Hearing this, Haina was stunned for a moment.

Only then did she vaguely react: "Probably ...... Ah, didn't Ivus say that our village is in the fairy barrier? That's probably the reason, right? ”

"Then they're not afraid that you'll be captured by the goblins?"

Sherlock then asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, Haina finally fell silent.

She hissed softly, also in confusion.

yes, why?

Ivus had vaguely guessed something.

He asked softly, "Senior sister, how much do you know about these forests?" ”

"Ah, Ivus, don't call me senior sister, I've already graduated......"

Haina waved her hand a little embarrassed: "Just call me Haina." ”

Now she felt like she was going to sweat just by listening to Eivas's polite and affectionate salutation.

Let a young minister with real power, the current patriarch of the founding family, and a member of the round table...... It is even possible that the future Prince Regent of Avalon and the future Speaker of the Round Table Hall call herself senior sister, how can she have such a big face.

Today's Haina is no longer as young and immature and high-spirited as she was when she first came to work in the Inspectorate. She's a little older now and understands a lot more. And she didn't have that much contact with Ivus...... The reason for their intimacy was simply because Ivus shared with her the forbidden secrets of the Silver Crowned Dragon becoming the Pillar God.

Since then, they have been accomplices. Because they hold a forbidden secret together, and they both know that the other person also holds it, and they also know that the other person did not report themselves in the first place - so they become grasshoppers on a rope.

It was only after that that Haina was forced to join many of the plans of Ivas and Sherlock. As a result, she knows more and more, and now she can't run away.

And now that she fully understood what the name Ivas meant to Avalon, she wanted to go back in time and punch herself twice when she was stupid.

Aihuas just smiled, easily seeing through what Haina was afraid of: "It's okay, senior sister. From the first time I called you Senpai, you gave me a kind reply...... From then on, I can call you Senior Sister.

"Later, I called you by your name 'Hayna' to show closeness, but now the situation is different, calling you by your name has become official, and calling you senior sister has become close, so I will naturally choose the closer one."

"But ......"

"Nothing."

Ivus's fingertips tapped lightly on the tabletop, and the sound of the tap gently interrupted Hayna's words.

Although he is no longer in a wheelchair, the habits he left behind are still there.

"You're a close disciple of the Grand Arbiter."

Ivas said lightly: "At the age of twenty-two years and two months, he has touched the genius of the fourth energy level wall.

"Who's to say...... Aren't you the next Grand Arbiter? ”

"Ah, no, no, no, no, no, I can't, no, no, no, no."

Haina was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she shook her head and waved her hand.

She didn't feel the vigor of her ambition at all, only the great pressure.

Even if Haina didn't understand politics, her instincts were aware that the Grand Arbiter was the Protector of Avalon today. Without the Grand Arbiter, I'm afraid Avalon would have been dragged into the chaos of war at once.

So what does the next big arbiter mean?

It means that he has to bear the heavy responsibility of "protecting the country"!

In other words, if Avalon is dragged into the war when the position of Grand Arbiter is in his own hands, it is his own responsibility!

- That's all because of the sin that his own strength is not as good as that of the teacher!

Further, if Avalon were to be destroyed because of this...... Wouldn't he be a sinner!

The thought of listing herself in future history books as the direct cause of Avalon's demise made Hayna feel her hands numb.

How could she possibly carry such a level of responsibility......

Ivas smiled and didn't pursue any further.

Instead, he changed back to the previous topic: "Senior sister, did you carve a knife from a small tree on the way to school?" ”

"Ah, did you notice it?"

Haina was a little embarrassed: "Sure enough, its position is still too prominent...... Yes, when I was in middle school, I carved a knife into that little tree on the way to school. When I came back the other day, I found that it was still in the same place, and the position of the tree, the location of the tree marks, was exactly the same as before. I was really touched that nothing seemed to have changed. ”

“…… Carved a knife? ”

Sherlock suddenly reacted to something.

He raised an eyebrow, closed the book and put it down, sitting up straight.

"You're not going to use that tree to record height, are you?"

“…… No, can't you? ”

Haina hesitated.

She has a terminal illness that causes her heart to be weak when she is questioned by Sherlock.

"Accurately?"

Sherlock just asked rhetorically.

"It's accurate."

Haina was puzzled.

"Are you sure the mark is as wide as it was when you carved it?"

"It's the same, I remember it very well. The depth is the same, just a scar. ”

Haina replied affirmatively: "Not only the nicks, but also the shape of the canopy." The tree was beautiful, and I have rarely seen a tree that looks so much like it...... There seems to be something wrong with this, you just need to understand the meaning! ”

Sherlock gasped, "No, you never suspected something was wrong here?" ”

Even Lily couldn't help it.

She whispered, "Hayna...... A small tree is different from a fully developed tree, and a tree is different from a person. The scars on the human body do not increase with age, but the scars on the small tree will gradually widen. It's slow, but the marks you left behind are bound to be deformed.

"It doesn't go up, but it gets longer, thicker, ......"

"—No. You guys say this, senior sister probably doesn't understand. ”

Ivas sighed: "How can a person realize that trees grow when she lives in a village where 'trees don't change' from birth to the age of thirteen or fourteen? ”

"What are you talking about, of course I know that trees grow ......"

Haina said casually.

But she was suddenly stunned for a moment, covered her head, and muttered in a low voice: "No, wait......"

The common sense in her mind is constantly changing—her hometown is the same, and the trees are growing.

Two very different common senses rose and fell in her mind repeatedly, and for the first time she felt that the world was so unreal. Her pupils continued to overflow with a faint yellow aura, and then she was crushed by the clear blue of Qingming.

Looking at Hayna's fierce reaction, Sherlock looked at Ivus with some admiration but some confusion: "When did you find out?" ”

"Just now."

"Because I know very well how close and powerful the explosion was to the woods," replied Eivas.

"But after the explosion, the ground left a deep crater. But the trees were unscathed, and not even a few branches had fallen. ”

He looked at Haina, who was holding her head and her pupils trembling violently, and said softly, "So neither of you actually understood what I meant.

"I'm not trying to tell Hayna, 'Trees grow, so the notches you leave are distorted,' or 'The little tree of that year shouldn't look exactly the same now.'"

"-I want to ask, senior sister, what did you use to leave the marks on the tree back then?"

The first chapter is close to 4,000 words!

Wait for the cat to eat, and there is a second chapter meow~

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