Chapter 21: The Moment of Truth

Eighteen-year-old Shuilonu heard the commotion and opened his eyes. She and Rick fell asleep on each of the two couches. On the other couch slept Naimo. Rick lay on his side, slightly hunched and placed his bag under his head, while Namo slept on his back with his hands on his abdomen.

Flomi was supported by two knights and was about to move to the delivery room. She was not as calm as she had been a few hours ago, her brow furrowed and her lip biting.

When she saw that Shuilonu was awake, she smiled and said to Shuilono, "Will you come with me?"

Shuilonu nodded and followed into the delivery room.

After some time, Rick also woke up, grabbed a messy hair, looked at the carved wooden clock on the wall, and said, "I should be ready for work, what should I do?"

"Shifts. Galag said coldly.

"Please don't do this, it's a matter of livelihood for the little people. Rick said.

"Just kidding, I trust you. Gallag's face was expressionless, and he couldn't figure out if he was joking in the last sentence or if he was joking now.

The guard at the door opened, and Tho Shabai, wearing a tousled hair and a wrinkled suit, walked in, and waved to Xike, "Wake up, I'll accompany you to work." 」

Syk looked at Galag, who didn't look at him, noncommittal. So Xi Ke took it as permission, freshened up and changed his clothes, and went to work with Tho Shabai.

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Walking out of the preparation room, Xi Ke found that the aftermath of the repair spell was everywhere. Half of the carpet in the hallway had been re-woven, and the circle hadn't dispersed yet. There are many grooves in the walls filled with temporary materials, and the surfaces are covered with similar materials. The most exaggerated thing is that he also found that the crystal chandelier in the middle of the hall was a phantom, in fact, there was only a bunch of balls of light floating there, and the original lamp did not know what had happened. The person who released those balls of light is an expert, and it is amazing that he can use the balls of light to simulate the light refracted by a crystal lamp.

From these remnants, you can see the intensity of last night's fighting. It is also a must to hide it from the public to the end if it is like this. The three state units related to the governance of the situation, plus the internal department of a large interboundary trading company, joined forces to whitewash the Taiping is extraordinary.

I wonder if the operator of the Wulu Hotel was also involved in this matter? Xi Ke had no right to know about it, so he thought about it for a moment and gave up the issue.

As is customary, there are still several hallways separated by shady curtains and "Cleaning" stands, and Rick makes a detour to the Magical Thing Hotel building. As he was about to go inside, he turned around and was about to ask if he was going to wait outside, but found that he had become transparent, and hid himself and continued to follow him.

There were a few colleagues in the break room who were chatting in uniform on the side. "So did that boy contact you last time?" "Where will you sing next time?" "Is there a new song on the next time?" "There will be a girl in the last new product announcement. "I found a noodle shop in the alley with amazing soup!"

This work is the first time that Xi Ke has made peace with so many people of similar age. In the past, the workplace was either very small, or it was mostly in the prime of life. He was not yet twenty years old when he was in the mage school, and his classmates were all over twenty-five, which was not the same year.

In this workplace, there were more than forty employees in each class of the Magic ** Department, and most of them were about the same age as Xi Ke.

So, Rick was looking forward to some "normal" socializing - no slashing, blasting, conspiracy, no wanted criminals in the team and no knights' party.

His colleagues were indeed kind enough to ask him to participate in the event, and he happily went to participate. At first, I felt pretty good, eating, drinking, singing, dancing, and chatting about inconsequential topics. These activities that he thought were fun, but somehow, he got bored later.

Up to now, what those people said, except for the information about the noodle shop, he was not interested. He's still happy to go once in a while, but those people go too often, and he's tired of it.

Thinking about it carefully, those things that he won't get tired of, such as studying spells day and night, and being fatigued and bombarded by Ye Zi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Light, with magic theory, don't seem to be things that ordinary people will enjoy. It's just that in the past, there weren't enough ordinary people around him to compare, so he never found it.

He chatted absentmindedly with his colleague for a while, and after rejecting an invitation to sing, he didn't have any nostalgia and got up to go to the animal pen.

He didn't notice that he didn't have any nostalgia for it, which caused some emotions among those colleagues that had nothing to do with work.

After entering the enclosure, he noticed that his colleague had missed an ingredient that was important for the synthetic animal, so he adjusted the feed formula. He took a disinfectant rag to wipe down the areas on the workbench that his colleagues had not wiped. He also noticed that one of the bird monsters had too long claws for the colleague in charge to deal with, so he took a chair and sat down in front of the bird monster and filed the short claws with a file.

He silently got time for a walk, and walked to the innermost pen on time to lead the beast. Thoshabai watched from the sidelines and shook his head.

With his "professionalism", he felt that the job of Cyke would not be done for long.

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Shortly after Nick went out, a critical moment ushered in the preparation room for the Day of the Aillumina.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Flomi has a mini-breakfast party. But she is now in the delivery room and is unlikely to be present. So Galag took Flomi's cosmetics and went into the bathroom, and when he came out, his appearance had changed to Flomi, and all the details, including height and chest circumference, were the same, and there was no error of half a cent. "She" tripped over the mat as she walked out of the bathroom and fell forward, taking a step forward with her palms on the ground and one foot without hitting her face. Garrag shook his head, turned and walked back into the bathroom, stepping out again and tripped over the footpad. This time, his hand was clenched into a fist, and he almost fell forward with his arm between his arms, and although he didn't hit his head with his elbow, he looked very embarrassed.

The Knight of the Apocalypse next to him gave the boss an appreciative gesture: "This time there is a likeness!"

"Okay, that's it. Galag turned to Seren, staring at him. "She" frowned slightly, and her melancholy expression made Seren's heart beat faster.

Galag said, "Your Highness, please leave it to you. 」

"I see. Serian saluted the great Galag, then turned and walked into the delivery room.

Garrag walked in a way that destroyed the room along the way, and walked out of the preparation room with a group of knights to attend the morning feast.

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Half an hour before Galag disguised himself as Flomi, the bamboo shoots Tairuo and Mono had been fighting all night, and both of them were so heavy on their feet that they could not lift their hands and held on with their willpower. They followed a large cloud of ooze into a dining room and into the kitchen in the back.

Tairuo rushed ahead, and as soon as he stepped into the kitchen, three kitchen knives flew right in his face, and he turned his head to dodge, and Mono behind him also lowered his head to avoid it.

After the kitchen knife, the cups and plates flew out, and the two of them flashed left and right, stepping into the kitchen with the same pace as dancing.

While Tero opened his defensive field, Mono rushed into the kitchen, clearing a foothold with the wall of fire, and then replaced Tero with Mono's cover.

The ooze sticks to the ceiling and drips constantly. If you change to Tai Ruo to cover Mono, the Holy Sword Tongue of Fire will devour the entire kitchen, but only the soft mud will be ignited, and everything else will be safe. The ooze exploded and fell, blowing the refrigerator to the ground, and the marinated and chopped ingredients fell to the ground, and sauce and meat slices were all over the floor. The Magic Lamp Tube bursts. The large cylindrical soup pot flew from one end of the kitchen to the other, shattering the tiles, and the soup pot was also dented, falling down and covering the floor.

The counter was cut in two. The faucet flew and the water squirted out in large quantities.

After all the soft mud turned into charcoal, Mono withdrew the holy sword, and the two looked at the mess in front of them.

A piece of coke at Taeruo's feet moved, and Mono grabbed the whole frozen fish that had fallen out of the freezer and smashed the coke. He used too much force and used a spell, and the fish stuck to the ground. Then he picked up a basket of potatoes, stuck them one by one on the bursting faucet, blocked the flow of water, and then fixed them with a spell.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and Tauro looked back to see the cook standing in the doorway with a helper and a waiter in a daze.

Before the chef could shout, Mono cast a sleep spell on the three of them. Tairuo quickly caught them with the holy sword and gently lowered it where there were no broken dishes.

The two "bats" came out of the portal and said to Tairuo, "It's not good, I'm going to have a meal here. 」

Mono glanced at the waiter, who resembled him.

So when Galag sat down in the dining room, it was Mono who was dressed as a waiter. He rolled up his long braids and stuffed them into his hat, wore a pure white uniform, and used a little magic to make him look like a Sarafayi, and with a smile on his face, he carried the food that the "bat" got through the portal, ready to be placed on the teacher's desk.

Gallagher remained silent. "She" pretended to speak with her hand and knocked the whole plate of jam over Mono's face.

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Shuilonu accompanies Flomi in the delivery room. The interval between labor pains is getting shorter and longer. Between labor pains and labor pains, when Flomi caught her breath, she would chat with Schuelon, all about her husband Isolon.

Flomi's words were intermittent, and the time jumped back and forth, and Shuilonu listened carefully, and slowly made up a story.

Flomi told Shullonu that the first time she saw Isolon, she knew it was the man she wanted.

"It's a woman's intuition. Even if he didn't lay everything out in front of my eyes, I knew him. 」

Shuilonu could understand that she was like that. When she sees someone, she knows their story. Although she doesn't really know what the other person's past is like a resume, she can always see the prototype, some kind of crystallization, an impression, and let her know the unrevealed side of the person in front of her. Such an intuition cannot be translated into words, but it is complete in itself.

"The first time I saw him, he was standing downstairs and I was standing upstairs. Everyone smiled at me. Out of politeness and to hide their embarrassment, they all thought that whatever they said to me was too difficult for me to understand. Actually, I understood, but I didn't have time to tell them about it, and they left. He didn't smile, but only his eyes met mine, nodding at me.

"He never compliments me, but he takes care of my needs.

"He removed all the porcelain from my room. The first time I saw him kneeling was when he got down on one knee and wrapped the corner of the table with foam. That's when I laughed, and when he saw me laughing, he laughed along. 」

Together, they have seen the rare snowfall in Nirvana, and they once opened a flower garden from scratch. They don't need to tell each other what's fun, it's fun to look at each other and smile.

"He sometimes looks lonely, and I see a hole in his heart and he wants to fill it but can't find a way, so I decided to tell him that I love him.

"He never said he loved me. But every time I told him I loved him, his expression told me that sentence.

"He doesn't usually talk much, but when Little Skinball was born, he spent his days asking people if his son was cute and if his forehead was full, so that Lord Galag scolded him for turning his brain into a mush?"

Schuilonu stayed by Flomi's side, listening to her talk about these fragments of memories. For Flomi, missing her husband seemed to be the best way to relieve pain.

She listened to so many of their happy memories. Listen to him build a house for her away from royalty. The blue-gray roof tile house has a simple appearance, but it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and even Flomi's cold feet are comfortable inside. Listen to Isolon's dog to help keep the hostess out when she falls, and to help sound the alarm when she is not feeling well. Listen to their quiet and lively lives. Isolon's friends in the army often visited, and Gallag, whom he had met during his training with the Order, often came to visit them. Flomi finally learns to make tea safely, and when she successfully walks from the kitchen to the living room with the tray and puts it down, a crowd applauds her.

The erect Garrag actually wrote a poem on the wall of their house about it, praising her ever-changing sense of balance. But she couldn't memorize the poem.

Shuilonu did not understand that Weishenme Isolon was not here.

"When Little Skinball died, he didn't speak all day. When Flomi said this, she had tears in her eyes, and she didn't know if it was labor pain or heartache.

"When I told him I was pregnant, he asked me if he could get this child out of the clutches of Verhak, but there were so many things I had to do alone, could I do it?"

Flomi covered her eyes and choked, "I promised him I would do it. 」

Shuilonu listened silently. She saw the story of Flomi. She has a strong heart, and although she is bound in a traumatized body, she is still brave enough to face Shijie and brave to love.

For the sake of her and Isolon's children, she had to bravely leave her husband and come to Sarafayido.

Although Schuilonu didn't understand every aspect of it, for her, the whole thing was already in full shape. She already knew that the existence of this child had to be a secret, and she also knew that there was a lot of sacrifice behind it in order to make it a secret.