"Uh-huh, that's good!" Riel nodded in satisfaction, "Then I'll leave it to you!"

"Have you already figured out what to give her?" asked Allen.

"Uh...... Sort of......" Riel said hesitantly, "I think it will help her......"

"What the hell is it?" Alan wondered.

"Uh...... This ......" Riel suddenly looked a little embarrassed, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "You'll know when you see it, anyway, we're going to send ...... together"

"Okay......" Seeing that he didn't want to say it in advance, Alan didn't ask any more.

"You're ......," Riel suddenly changed his rather serious tone, "what are you going to give her ......"

"This ......" This time it was Alan's turn to hesitate, staring out the window and muttering to himself: "yes, what should I give her......"

"I didn't expect it to give you a headache too, hey. Riel burst out laughing, "That's pretty rare. ”

"The main thing is that she usually doesn't have any special hobbies other than studying or studying......," Alan shrugged and said, "but it's not a big problem, anyway, it's still very early until the twenty-two, so I'll think about it slowly." ”

That being said, Alan already had a vague plan in mind, but like Riel, he didn't want to say it in advance, so that they could surprise Alyssa together.

He wanted to give Alyssa a bracelet or necklace.

He and Riel used to play near the Camus River when they were young, and it was at that time that he noticed that he occasionally saw some glittering stones on the riverbed. He also asked old Adrian about this, and the well-informed old man told him that this small stone with a translucent shape and a beautiful cyan pattern on it was blue quartz, which had a similar effect to the tears of the sky in his neck, and could help calm the mind and improve the quality of sleep. So since then, every time Alan goes to the river to play, he pays special attention to this beautiful little thing, and when he picks it up, he takes it home and puts it in a small box for his leisure time to see.

Thinking of this, he opened the drawer and took out a small wooden box that was placed inside. There were five or six pieces of blue quartz the size of a fingernail in the box, of different shapes, shining in the light, which reminded Alan of the stars in the night sky of Beya.

But these few pieces are a bit too little, as if nothing is enough.

So for the next few days, every day as soon as Riel went out, he would go out with him, but the difference was that Riel went to the town to hang out, and he went the opposite way around, looking for blue quartz by the Camus River.

However, such small stones were not common, and he searched all the way up the Camus River, and even searched both sides of the river to find only nine.

"Then make a bracelet. Alan thought that at this time, there were only ten days left until the twenty-second, and it might be too late to find it any further.

So he went to old Adrian and borrowed some sandpaper and began to polish the little angular stones. Although he could use magic to manipulate the sandpaper to do the work, he decided to do it manually to avoid a lack of uniformity in the shape or any other mistakes. Fortunately, there are no impurities such as floating soil on the surface of these blue quartz, which saves him a lot of effort, otherwise he might have to grind out cocoons on both hands. He then used the strengthening magic he learned at school to increase the hardness of a needle to the limit, then used a levitation charm to control its rotation, punched small holes in each of the polished beads, and finally strung the nine blue quartz with a slightly elastic red string.

The whole process is too cumbersome and complicated to repeat.

And just like that, the afternoon before Alyssa's birthday, the bracelet made of blue quartz was finally completed. Although it doesn't look as fine as the ones sold in the store, it still looks quite dazzling and brilliant where there is light.

The next morning, the two of them got up at seven o'clock, and the first thing they did after getting up was to check the weather, if it was sunny, they didn't need to hold an umbrella, which could save a lot of trouble.

The sky was still beautiful, and although it was still cloudy, the light rain that had been falling for several days finally stopped.

The two of them simply ate breakfast and went out, and as a precaution, they each brought an umbrella.

Probably because it was too early and there were few pedestrians on the road, they walked all the way north, and soon came to the sheep's intestine path that Alyssa used to take when she returned home.

This path Alan had never walked before, and when he came in, he found that it was very winding and there were many forks in the road. Luckily, Rare knows how to get along and has been leading the way. Remembering that this might be the case in the entire town's residential areas, Alan realized where Riel spends his days every day, and it probably took him more than a day or two to find Alyssa's home on this kind of path.

"It's almost there. Riel listened at a fork in the road, pointed to one of the paths, and said, "Follow this path until you reach the end." ”

Alan looked up at the end and saw that it was not very far away, and he could faintly see a very old small house, similar to all the houses in the neighborhood, the kind of stone construction, with only one floor. However, this one is not as tightly connected as the other houses, and it has a low earthen fence on the outside, which makes it a little abrupt.

"Hmm. Alan nodded, motioning for him to come closer, and then covered Rare with an adaptive camouflage enchantment. This barrier automatically adjusts the pattern on it as they move, making them look like it's just as different from the scenery around them. Of course, the mana consumption of this high-level magic is not low, so Eren has not started using it until now.

Then Alan covered himself with a layer, and the two of them seemed to disappear in an instant, completely integrated with the surrounding environment.

The neighborhood was quiet, as if no one lived at all.

At the end of the road is a deep ditch, and on the other side of the ditch are large rice fields. The rice here usually doesn't mature until around October, so it still looks green. At first, all the crops were wheat, but it suddenly started raining all day, so everyone had to switch to rice, but it may be because the light is a little too little, and even if they plant, the harvest is not very good.

There are no doors in the wall, only a narrow entrance. Looking inside, the door of the house was closed, and there was a cherry tree in the yard that was not very tall.

Remembering the bottle of cherries that Alyssa had given him, Alan nodded: it seems that this is it.

There was no movement in the house, and there was no light, presumably because he hadn't gotten up yet, because it was so dark, and if the lights weren't on, I was afraid that it would be pitch black in the house.

Probably a little bored waiting in place, Rare began to wander around the neighborhood slowly.

It wasn't long before the birds were telling the time again, and almost everyone in the neighborhood was getting up, some carrying farm tools and working along the path next to the ditch, while others trotted all the way to the town, not knowing whether they were in a hurry to go to work or wanted to take advantage of the rare absence of rain to go to town.

Their magic worked, for several of the people who went to work in the fields passed by their faces with laughter and laughter, but they didn't realize that there were actually two people standing there.

But it didn't take long for it to start raining again. Alan had no choice but to open the umbrella and add a camouflage barrier to the surface of the umbrella. The rain restricts Riel's movements, and he finally gets more honest.

And so, for the next three hours or so, there was no movement in the house, so that Alan had the illusion that it was an empty house. It wasn't until about eleven o'clock that there was a dull creak of the door.

Riel usually sleeps until after eight o'clock, so he has been yawning incessantly since just now, but now when he hears this voice, he can't help but feel a thrill, and he instantly sleeps completely.

The two of them peeked into the fence and saw Mrs. Dalke pushing the door open.

"Wow, this old woman is finally going out...... "Riel whispered, "I thought we were going to wait here until it got dark." ”

Alan also breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glad that he could go home early, this kind of weather is still suitable for staying at home and reading.

But as soon as Riel finished speaking, Mrs. Dalk looked up sharply as if she had heard his voice, and stared at them with a dead look!

Alan chuckled in his heart, glanced at Riel, and suddenly felt an inexplicable panic.

Rare also noticed that something seemed to be wrong, and just wanted to ask what was going on, but Alan covered his mouth and pulled him back slowly. He dissatisfiedly took Alan's hand away, and before he could speak, he noticed that Alan's expression seemed to be a little nervous, and when he looked over there, he realized that Mrs. Dalk had taken out her wand at some point!

"Grandma, what's wrong?" came Alyssa's voice.

But Mrs. Dalk did not speak, but shook her head, motioned for Alyssa to go back to her room, and closed the door.

"What's going on?" Alan wondered, "She seems to have discovered us?"

By this time, Mrs. Dalk had already walked out of the yard, and Alan had no choice but to pull Riel back slowly, until he reached the wall of the house opposite. But Mrs. Dalke, as if she could see them, was still slowly approaching in the direction of their retreat!

Alan had no choice but to retreat in the direction of the rice field while thinking about what was going on.

"Could it be...... Are they footprints?" Alan looked at his feet and dismissed the idea, as the road was paved with stones, and it was impossible to leave footprints.

"Or footsteps?" Alan shook his head again as soon as the thought came to him, and their movements were so light that even if there were footsteps under the sound of the rain, they should not be able to hear anything.

"How did she find out about us?" said Ellen, who was sweating from his forehead.

Just when he was at a loss, his feet suddenly slipped, and he almost fell into the ditch. Allen's heart tightened, and he looked back to find that they were standing on the edge of the ditch - there was no way back......