In the cubicle of the preparation room for the Day of the Awil, Gallagher told Banato, "Your Highness is pregnant now, and the child will probably be born in a few weeks. This matter is classified, and only the upper echelons of you know about it. 」

After hearing what Galag said, Banatu was rarely panicked: "Is this okay?

"Don't worry, it's not the first time for Her Highness Flomi. It's going to be fine. Gallag said solemnly, "But I ask you to keep it 100 percent confidential. 」

"Does that mean you can't even say anything about the people involved, but only give me a course of action? 」

"Pick someone who can keep secrets. But remember, if it leaks, you will fail all the people on the day of illumination. 」

Bannato lowered his head and pressed his knuckles against his tight brow, "I'll take it to heart. 」

"If, before the birth of the child, the outside world felt that His Highness was in danger here, Fulhack would recall her with the intention of 'for the safety of Princess Flomi', it would be a failure.

"It has to be 'peaceful' here. Battles can't come to the fore. 」

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Towards five o'clock in the afternoon, Rick shut up the eagle, changed his uniform, walked outside the hotel, and burrowed into the alley, where he found a small restaurant with orange lights. Xiao Zhen was waiting for him inside.

They had made an appointment to have dinner together. Xiao Zhen interned at a law firm in the city, and after Xi Ke worked here, the two often met for dinner.

Xi Ke explained the whole story of the Giant Eagle incident and asked Xiao Zhen, "What happened to you?"

"It's tragic. He hunched over and said, "When I went out, the aunt asked me, 'What about her niece?' I told her she was gone. She tore my coat. 」

"Uh, rip your coat?"

"I polluted Shuilono's innocence, said I was alone with her but didn't dare to admit it. I couldn't understand what she was saying. Anyway, she insisted that the Shuiloni were still in the box, but they just looked like they couldn't see anyone. Later, I pulled her into the box to see, but there was no one. Tell her that Schuilon flew away. Do you know how she reacted?"

"What?"

"It's an exaggeration, she actually knelt down and prayed to God to take care of Shuilono! Did she think 'fly away' meant going to heaven?

"How did you get out?"

Xiao Ballast looked into the distance in a fog and said, "At this time, I know that it is useful to practice running more often. 」

The dish came up, and the two sides chatted a little more about trivial matters. It was only then that Xiao Zhen officially attacked: "Huh, who is she?" Xiao Zhen smiled and took the whole plate of roast beef that Xi Ke was about to eat.

Rick reacted quickly and intercepted the plate before it left his airspace. Xi Ke and Xiao Ji grabbed the side of the plate and stalemate.

"Who is she?" asked Xiao Jiao again. The moment Syck and Schuilon flew out of the window, he saw Syck's surprised expression. These two people must know each other!

Xi Ke's grip tightened, and he knew very well that Xiao Zhen was asking about Shuilonu, "The former junior in the Dark Academy. 」

"What else?" Xiao Zhen raised his eyebrows, not letting go. The two have known each other for more than three years, and Xiao Zhen has heard a lot about Xike's past from himself and his mother, but the name "Shuiloni" has not been mentioned by Xike, and Lyernott has never said it.

"I've used my position to protect her before. Nick struggled to get the words out.

Seeing that Rick had reached his limits, he returned the food to him and resorted to other strategies: "She's beautiful. 」

Nick paused for a moment before continuing. Xiao Ballast deduced from this that these two people were still close during that time.

After Xi Ke drank half a bowl of hot soup, his stomach warmed and his heart warmed, and his vigilance was relieved, Xiao Ji continued to throw the bait. At first glance, it sounds like they are discussing Shuilonu, but in fact they are provoking Rick to say the answer that Xiao Ji wants: "It's strange that she's the daughter of a diplomat, and she's going to be exiled to the Dark Academy. 」

"Actually, it's okay, there's everyone there. Those teachers are not afraid of being targeted, and anyone dares to abduct. 」

"But it's easy to die there, is it okay for a daughter from a good family like her to be there?" In the Dark Academy, students would hunt each other and use each other as spellcasting materials.

"The first time I spoke to her was when there was a massacre in her room. She escaped alone, and Namo and I took her in. 」

On the surface, Xiao Zhen just nodded, but in his heart, he thought, "I've taken the bait!"

"Where did you hide her?"

Syke's attention was all on the food, and he replied casually, "Naimo and I occupied a tower in the academy, and we can't say that we can't hide it, but she still went to class. Sometimes a classmate has her eye, and I will help her. 」

Xiao Bass originally wanted to ask, "How can I help?" but he stopped before he could say anything, and changed it to a version that was easier to get an answer to: "So she also executed a few classmates?" Using hypothetical questions to lure Xi Ke into correcting Xiao Ba's words!

Xi Ke bit his chopsticks and paused for two seconds, Xiao Zhen thought he wasn't going to answer, but Zuihou still said, "She didn't kill anyone. The people who want to touch her are all cleaned up by me. 」

"Oh. How do you feel about her?"

"How could it feel? She was a child!"

Rick carefully recalled his impressions of Schuilon. He couldn't just think of Schuilonu, his memories of her always consisted of a dark background. He thought for a moment, and it was because there was always a dark background that he was impressed by Shuilonu, who was not shrouded in darkness.

Suddenly, the image of his memory jumped into his mind, it was what he saw when he returned from the ground to the surface after the teacher selection of the Dark Academy. The selection of teachers in the Dark Academy is that the students of the seventh grade, that is, the highest grade, fight each other, and only those who survive can return to the surface.

At that time, he dragged a wounded in battle, as well as a half-empty potion bag, up the ladder back to the ground. Namo had gone up before him, and Elaine was left behind by them. He climbed two steps, feeling a gray gray in front of him, and almost let go and fell back into the ground. He tensed his body, forcing himself not to show that he was half physically exhausted. In the Academy of Darkness, he has to play the role of an absolute powerhouse. He is the "Head of Killing" Rick Tregg, one of the four leaders of the Eastern Branch of the Dark Academy, and the highest-ranking male student. Incompetent students are afraid of him, ordinary students worship him, and powerful students want to pull him down. All the women in the academy, regardless of whether they are teachers or students, all those who have ambitions, want him.

He returned to the ground and saw Naimo's back. He opened his hand to the onlookers and posed as if he wanted to hug everyone, showing off that he was alive. Seeing countless pairs of eyes staring at him, Rick raised his chin and put on a dismissive look. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the petite Schuilonu in the crowd, his big eyes overflowing with emotion, happy that Syk had survived. Of the many students who rejoiced at the return of their worship of the "Head of the Slaughter", or glared at him because the object of their worship was killed by Syke, only Shuilonu was happy for "him".

Xi Ke didn't say anything at the moment, and turned his head and walked away.

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Seven years after the destruction of the Dark Academy, the eighteen-year-old Schuilonu crouched in the inner courtyard of the hotel, staring at a pool of carp.

The carp is a wonderful creature, and sometimes it looks a bit like a human face. As soon as she crouched on the shore, the carp squeezed over and opened its mouth to the surface of the water to see if she would throw feed at them. Shuilonu glanced at the coin-operated feed vending machine next to him, and then at the plump carp, and decided to forget it.

She looked at the carp and thought about the Xike, these carps who were trying to snatch the position of eating the feed, and the Xike she saw today, had something in common with their temperament. A bit like a human face but obviously a fish face, this non-human creature disguised as a human is even more similar.

When she grabbed the eagle through the window and stepped on the table with her shoes on, her first reaction was, "What is this?" Seeing Cyke's indifferent expression, as if she had to come every day, her second thought was, "Are you really human?"

She doesn't care what the legal and medical definition of human beings is, normal humans shouldn't be flying in the sky with eagle feet!

She watched and heard someone calling out to her, and she looked back to see that it was her cousin Xilu. Ji Lu and Shuilonu are close in age, lived close to each other when they were young, and grew up together.

Ji Lu and a man about the same age, dressed in expensive clothes, walked up to Shuilono, both with smiles on their faces. She has the same heart-shaped face as Shuilonu, but her hair is tea-blonde. She wore a short red dress, her makeup was more subtle than that of Schuilon, and she wore a large hoop earring. Although she and Shuilono's appearance is similar to each other, they are very different in style.

Ji Lu said to the man next to her with a very happy expression, "She's my cousin!" and then said to Shuilonu, "We're going to the 'Deep Palace Hall', will you come?" 」

Shuilonu gave the man a quick look. She could probably feel that Ji Lu didn't know the details of this man, except for the part that the man himself said. It's just a stranger posted on the side of the road.

The man was dressed in high-end sportswear and expensive washed jeans, but it wasn't fat, but it was clearly fatter than muscular, and he had the willful temperament of a three-year-old, and Shuiloni was sure that the sport he specialized in had nothing to do with sports and nature.

Schuilonu could not imagine the man crossing the continent on his legs, or riding on the back of a violent bull for more than ten seconds. It was easy to imagine him sitting at the bar and drinking a cocktail - like she was going to do now.

Somehow, though Rick wore the mage robes usually made up of the desk clan, Shuilonu found that she could easily imagine Tick accomplishing those feats. And he will show a smile that should come once a day, making the audience wonder if he is really human?

Shuilonu thought to Syck and replied, "Well, I'm fine anyway. 」

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Seven years ago, when Schuilonu was eleven years old, she was walking on her way to primary school with her schoolbag on her back. The elementary school she attends is just two blocks away, a ten-minute walk, so it can be said that she just started to lose sight of her home, and then she saw the school gate.

Despite the proximity, her parents always insisted that the servants drive her to school. And she's hated it since she's been a little sensible. She didn't like this special feeling, and she didn't like the unreasonable envy in the eyes of her classmates. She can't understand weishenme, she's so worthy of envy?

Because of this schooling relationship, it was difficult for her to make friends, and everyone looked at her differently, either deliberately alienating her, or obviously uncomfortable talking to her.

On this day, she finally persuaded her parents to let her go to school on her own, thinking that in this way she could be an ordinary child, and went forward happily.

The first time he walked on his feet seemed long, and when he walked around the corner, the familiar scenery appeared in a more realistic way, and then he saw a very kind-looking woman standing on the side of the road.

Schuilon hadn't seen her before, but it wasn't surprising, she didn't know the people who lived and opened the business along the way.

Schuilonu still remembers the woman's appearance. She has long, slightly curly hair that is meticulously tied into a low ponytail. The body was very close to the low wall by the side of the road, but it did not lean up, and his thin face was full of sadness. She wore a new long dress, which looked thin at this time of late winter and early spring.

Schuilonu always remembered how she felt, and she felt that the man seemed to need help, so she stepped forward to talk.

"Are you alright?" asked eleven-year-old Shuilonu.

"Oh, I'm fine. The woman said. She smiled. There is kindness and warmth in this smile, and there is nothing else. The woman continued, "I am the happiest person on shijie. Are you happy?"

"I'm happy. Shuilonu replied without hesitation. She has a family that loves her, life is safe, and does she need anything else for happiness?

"No, you're not happy!" said the woman in a tone that lowered down and then raised, as if she were stopping the misguided, "Have you ever had the experience of talking to someone and they didn't listen to you, that was uncomfortable, wasn't it?"

Shuilonu thought about it for a moment, yes, but was it uncomfortable? She didn't feel it, but after hearing her say this, she felt as if there was. She began to feel that of course it was uncomfortable for people not to listen to her.

Then the woman said, "Have you ever wanted to do something but adults don't allow you to do it, and that's really sad. 」

Shuilonu thought it was okay, but when she said this, he felt as if he was full of sadness.

The woman kept talking, "Oh, your expression is so sad, there must be a lot of pain in your life!"

In the course of a brief conversation, Schuilonu had forgotten that she had only been a few minutes before, and that she had felt that she had been fully happy, and that she had begun to feel that her life was full of pain.

"Nobody understands you, no one cares about your feelings, everybody wants you to do what they say. How can I be happy in such a life? But I am happy because I am under the care of the Lord, who cares for me in every way, and who pays attention to me all the time. The grace of the Lord can remove all suffering, and with Him I will no longer be afraid. 」

"Who is the 'Lord'?" Shuilonu asked curiously, she didn't know, and this question pushed herself into purgatory.

"We all call Him the Lord of the Night. He can give us freedom. Do you know what freedom is?"

"Is it to be able to live according to your own ideas?"

"Yes, you're really, really smart, and do you know what omniscience and omnipotence are?"

"Just know everything and can do anything?"

"You're really smart, so cute!"

The woman's praise made Schuilonu a little fluttery—others had never praised her so much, and always had to do a bunch of difficult exercises to praise her less—her wariness had been lowered with the praise.

"The King of the Night is the All-Knowing and All-Powerful, the Lord who gives us liberty. Do you want to be free to realize yourself?"

"Yes. Although the young Schuiloni did not understand the meaning of the words "self-realization", she received the hint from the woman's tone that "self-realization is a good thing and should be desired."

"Do you want to know the Night King?"

"Okay," Shuilonu was about to continue, "but I'm going to ask Mom if it's okay," when a strong wind suddenly blew around him, and there was a blue light shining in front of him, and nothing else could be seen. When her vision was clear, she was already in a room with no windows and no doors, thousands of miles away from home.