Leaving the Marquis's mansion, Mike ran wildly in his hurry to get back to Elijah, causing him to crash into a man around a corner and fall to the ground.

Mike: "I'm so sorry I didn't notice ...... too soon"

"Long time no see, Mike. ”

Always thinking that he had heard the voice somewhere, Mike looked up and covered the sun's rays with his hands, and finally saw the other person's face clearly.

Mike was pleasantly surprised, "Mr. Kyle, Mr. Kyle, why are you here?!"

Kyle reached out and grabbed Mike, "Little Mike, didn't you say last time that I was going to come to Devonburg to play with you? I'm still looking forward to your hospitality all the way, why forgot?

Mike: "Hahaha, yes, yes, that's it, it's just that you came so suddenly, I didn't react at once. ”

Kyle smiled: "It's okay Mike, I'm just joking, in fact, I happened to come to Devonburg for some personal matters, but I didn't plan to look for you because of the lack of time, but fate is really hard to say, I can meet you at a turn." ”

Mike laughed, "No, maybe the goddess of fate knows that I like to hear you tell stories." ”

Kyle: "Maybe, Mike, what are you doing here?"

Mike: "Oh, I'm helping the store manager, and I'm just getting ready to go to Elijah." ”

Kyle: "Elijah, that's a new name. ”

Mike: "Yes, she's the new clerk in our store, I met her with the store manager in Haikou City, something bad happened there recently, she's currently homeless, so working in our store is also a place to live." ”

Kyle: "Ah, yes, Haikou City, I've heard, it was a disaster, and it's great that you're all okay." ”

Mike: "Thank you for your concern, you're right, it's the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life." ”

Kyle: "Don't worry, the night club is over, the dawn will eventually rise, and everything will be fine, but what did your store manager tell you to do? Why don't you call the new clerk to help?"

Mike: "Of course Elijah helped, I should say she did most of the work, we went to the fair together to find a trader named Forsa to help us auction things, and then I wanted to go to Mr. Alfred, the steward of the Marquis of Ville, oh, the Marquis of Ville is the master of Devonburg." However, Ilya didn't seem to like to go, so I went by myself, and she waited for me nearby. ”

Kyle: "Well, I see, so what are you looking for this Mr. Butler?"

Mike replied without hesitation: "Regarding the matter of the Red Fang, the store manager entrusted the Marquis to help him find this thing, and I went there this time to see how things progressed." ”

Kyle nodded, "I see." ”

The conversation was quick and direct, only met once and there was a gap of more than a month in the period did not make Mike feel any strangeness to Kyle, every time Kyle can always bring Mike an inexplicable sense of intimacy, staying with Kyle makes Mike feel very comfortable, the whole person is very relaxed, and it can even be said to be a kind of enjoyment.

Kyle: "Oh, I'm so sorry, I think you're in a hurry right now, and I hope I didn't get in your way. ”

Mike: "Not Mr. Kyle, by the way, since you're in Devonburg, why don't you come with me to find Elijah, and then come to the store and let me entertain you, although I'm just an employee in the store, I don't think the store manager will mind, he's very interested in things he doesn't know, and probably only interested in this kind of thing, I think there must be something in your legend that he doesn't know." ”

Kyle: "Maybe, but I'm sorry Mike, I don't have a lot of time this time, and I'm probably going to the antique store next time." ”

Mike let out his emotions: "Oh, that's a shame. But soon he picked himself up again, "Then at least let me take you to a good meal, you, me, Elijah, believe me, the upper town of Devonburg is a foodie paradise, you will regret not trying it!"

Faced with Mike's warm invitation, Kyle couldn't bear to postpone it, so he had to agree.

......

...

There is a girl in the upper town of Devonburg who is very popular with the clothing store, and she is treated like an aristocrat every time she appears, because she is so rich.

In Ilya's view, there is never a limit to the number of clothes, and she wants to show a new self in front of the mirror every day. At this time, Ilya was carefully selecting and contrasting two skirts, one was a colorful skirt with various patterns, and the other was a white dress with simple lines. The prices in Uptown are indeed unusual, everything that can make you wear on your body will not be calculated in silver coins, there is no doubt that Ilya is a rich person, she has just gained a new income, but she is not a person who spends lavishly, as she thought before, money has to be spent on the blade, extravagance and waste are not in line with her character.

Finally, after some thought, Ilya bought a long white dress, and judging from the aesthetic eye of his store manager, he should prefer this dress.

Walking out of the store after paying, Elijah happened to see Mike looking around the street looking for her, and she quietly walked over to scare Mike.

"Hey!"

Mike was taken aback: "Oh, Elijah, you scared me. ”

Ilya smiled, "That's great, that's exactly what I wanted, you're done?"

Mike: "yes, and I met a friend on the way back, Mr. Kyle from Pegasus, um? Mr. Kyle? Oh, there. ”

Elijah looked in the direction Mike was pointing, and a young man was walking towards him.

Mike: "We're looking for you, Uptown is getting too big, so I asked Mr. Kyle to help find the prettiest blonde girl." ”

The crescent moon on Elijah's face became more and more crooked: "Mike, you are the most honest person I have ever met, and I hope you can keep it up." ”

As Kyle approached, his gaze shifted from Mike to Elijah, his body stiffened, and his whole body froze in place.

Mike knows this kind of look very well, almost every man will show such a look when he sees Elijah, and even when the president of the Haikou City Chamber of Commerce saw Elijah in the hotel for the first time, even Mike could detect the amazement in his eyes, if there is no one who has shown surprise to Elijah in Mike's acquaintance, there are currently two, one is the store manager, and the other is the Marquis of Ville.

Kyle's gaze can be said to be naked, longing, hope, and admiration, such a look is not strange to Elijah, it should be said that it is a regular thing, but it is rare to be so direct, and what is even stranger is that Kyle does not have a trace of desire in his eyes, which is a simple intimacy.

Ilya was the first to break the atmosphere: "Mike, don't you want to introduce me?"

Mike: "Uh-huh! yes, yes, Elijah is the same Mr. Kyle I just told you about, he's from Pegasus, he's a recorder, and he likes to study all kinds of legends. Mr. Kyle, this is Ilya, the new clerk in our store that I mentioned to you. ”

Ilya politely said, "Hello, Mr. Kyle, nice to meet you." ”

Kyle stayed on for a moment before replying, "It's a pleasure to meet you, it's a pleasure to meet you, Elijah." ”

I don't know if it's Mike's delusion, but he feels an indescribable embarrassment in standing between the two of them now.

Mike: "Huh...... Elijah, I promised Mr. Kyle that I would entertain him as long as he came to Devonburg, although I would love to invite him to the store, but because Mr. Kyle has limited time, I can only take Mr. Kyle to eat something delicious this time, do you want to join him?"

The plan that had been made in mind was changed to asking, and Mike felt that it was necessary to ask Elija's opinion at this time.

Ilya was more direct than Mike thought: "Of course, I have long wanted to try the restaurant you mentioned earlier." ”

On the way to the restaurant, Kyle rarely spoke, except for Mike and Elijah chatting as usual, and Kyle never took his eyes off Elijah, even when he sat down in the restaurant.

However, Elijah did not show any discomfort, as she found that she did not feel the slightest disgust at Kyle's nakedness, and therefore did not feel that the other party would affect her. In fact, Kyle didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and even after sitting down, Elijah tentatively said a few words to him, and Kyle's answer was completely profound, neither too deep nor distant, and it was one of the few conversations that made people feel relaxed and comfortable.

Except for the two parties, it was little Mike who felt uncomfortable, but he was still young and not sensitive to this kind of thing, so what Mike saw was often only superficial, so he felt that Mr. Kyle's performance was a little explicit but he didn't know how to remind him, he was worried that Elijah seemed normal on the outside but was actually very resistant to Kyle on the inside, and it was only because of his own reasons that he would reluctantly eat with them. Now Mike, even the hot food that has just been served can't attract him.

Kyle touched his nose suddenly, smiled and shook his head, as if he had just come out of the shock of seeing Elijah for the first time, and then look back at the original appearance, the appearance of Mr. Kyle that Mike knew.

He took a bite of the food and smiled, "It tastes good, I have to be honest with you Mike, I was skeptical of your 'hospitality' at the beginning." ”

The familiar performance quickly brought Mike back to his senses: "Mr. Kyle, you can question Mike anywhere else, but you can't question Mike in Devonburg. ”

Mike pretended to be old and confident and made everyone laugh, and the atmosphere at the table changed to what it should be.

Kyle: "By the way, Mike, you said your store manager was looking for Flame Fang, and I might be able to help with that. ”

Ilya was amazed, this was the first time she had seen Mike reveal information about the store manager in front of an outsider.

Mike was pleasantly surprised, "Are you serious, Mr. Kyle, are you sure you know where this thing is?"

Kyle: "Yes, you know that I'm a person who specializes in studying and documenting legends, so I often get some unexpected information about these things. ”

Mike shifted his chair and sat down close to Kyle, who was also intrigued, but instead of Blazingfang, she was focusing on Kyle. Although it can be sensed that Mr. Kyle has no ill will towards Mike, Elijah wonders how he can easily let Mike reveal personal information about the store manager who holds a high position in his heart.

Kyle: "A few years ago, while sorting through the lore, I got a piece of information that one of the three treasures exists on an island called Thirteen Skulls in the far sea, the Flame Fang. This is not hidden news, and it is certainly not known to everyone, but no one has been able to successfully remove the Red Fang from the island. ”

Mike couldn't wait to ask, "Why is that?"

Kyle: "Don't worry Mike, listen to me." The reason is very simple, nothing more than two points, there was a problem on the way to find the island, and there was a problem after arriving at the island. I have also sought out the sailors who have gone out to sea in search of the Red Fang, and have tried to learn about it from them, but those who are destined to return from this kind of treasure hunt at sea are invariably reluctant to talk about it, and in the end I have spent all my means to get a little bit of information. ”

Kyle wiped his mouth: "It's not that no one has ever found the Thirteen Skull Islands, it's that they can't get to the island, there is something terrible in the sea that is blocking them, as long as someone dares to approach, there will be no one left to be swallowed, so no one has been able to take the Red Fang from the island, and even the few people who can find the island and return to land alive are very few." ”

As Kyle's words ended, the hope in Mike's eyes gradually dimmed, which almost showed that going to sea to hunt for treasure was a non-feasible plan, and after the last incident in Haikou City, Mike didn't like the sea very much, he felt that the vast and unknown sea seemed to drown everything he had now, and he didn't like the people around him to be close to the sea, especially the store manager.

Ilya was thinking about it seriously, "Mr. Kyle, since you will mention this matter, it is natural that you will have a corresponding suggestion, right?"

Kyle smiled, and Elijah's commitment seemed to make him very happy, "Yes, but I can't guarantee any risks. As I said, 'It's not that no one came back alive', and in my previous contact with the small group of people who came back alive, one of them I still keep in touch with is a captain, a captain who has actually found Thirteen Skulls, and he has helped me a lot while I was researching the matter, and I am pretty sure that if you want to go to Thirteen Skulls, this captain will be more than willing to take you there. ”

Ilya: "Why?"

Kyle: "Because of his revenge, he was the only one on his ship who came back alive." ”

......

...

In the antique shop, the merchant rarely stopped what he was doing.

Merchant: "From Kyle...... That's what he told you?"

Mike: "Yes, the manager, he also left his contact information with the captain, eh...... Captain Balubak. ”

The merchant pondered: "Hmm...... What do you think, Ilya?"

Elijah: "If you're asking for credibility, I don't think this Mr. Kyle is lying, at least not in my opinion. If you're asking about the risks, I don't think you need to be reminded to know that the island hunt is bound to be dangerous, and maybe it's not much safer than the last time. ”

Speaking of the last time, Mike began to feel a little uneasy, and the businessman, who was aware of this, did not give a conclusion on the spot, and he wrote down Balubak's contact information and ended the discussion on the grounds of "discussing it at another date".

The merchant returned to work and casually asked, "You've already eaten when you come back, haven't you?"

Speaking of eating microphone, he was motivated: "Yes, the store manager, that restaurant is still as delicious as ever, the store manager must go next time, every time you call you, you say you want to work, and there is nothing wrong with going out once in a while." ”

Merchant: "Well, I'll think about it." In that case, you don't need to prepare dinner tonight, do you?"

Mike: "Of course ......"

"No!" Ilya took over, "Of course not, what, is the manager trying to be lazy? Is he trying to fool around? Say it's your turn to prepare dinner, whether we eat or not, we should be prepared, what if we are hungry? And Mike is just when he grows up, he can't be hungry, what if he doesn't grow up in the future." ”

The merchant had expected this: "You are right, in that case, considering what you have just eaten, both in terms of quantity and taste, I think it will be enough to prepare a clear soup with some simple bread tonight." ”

A simple dinner, so that I have more time to concentrate on my work, and the restoration of the object in my hand is about to enter the second stage, and now is the critical time, and I can't be hindered by other small things.

Ilya approached with her hands behind her back: "Well, let me see...... The store manager's current hand should be the last of these antiques that need to be repaired, well, it is indeed very important, after all, the store manager must be looking forward to entering the second phase to replace the next batch of new, unseen antiques, this is the critical moment, and must not be hindered by any small things, such as spending unnecessary time preparing dinner. ”

Merchant: "...... Well, what do you want to eat tonight?"

The addition of the uncontrollable element Elijah has had a huge impact on the monotonous antique shop, such as the preparation of dinner. Ever since Ilya became a clerk, there has been an unwritten rule that everyone should eat together, at least for dinner. According to Elijah, the fact that the three of them were able to sit down and eat together to share their day's events and their feelings for the day was a good way to foster bonding, and this proposal was strongly supported by Mike, the "senator" clerk. Dinner was prepared in two shifts, one for each merchant, for Elijah knew that the man's cooking skills were so amazing that she was a little jealous, and Mike and Elijah were in a group of ten days.

As for the opinion of the merchants?

Maybe change is always subtle, from Ilya followed the merchant and Mike to leave Haikou City and return to Devonburg, Elijah has been influencing the two of them all the time, even Mike who gets along with the merchant day and night has not noticed, in the more than a month that Elijah joined, the expression on the merchant's face gradually "visualized" and began to "enrich", little Mike has subconsciously taken this very surprising thing as a daily routine, and in his opinion, Elijah has begun to gradually become a "victorious to the merchant" store manager dictatorship weapons".

Mike began to take these things for granted.

Merchant: "Does Ilya have to be like this?"

Ilya: "Hey, hey, don't be so aggrieved, fortunately, it's all your own people, otherwise others will think I'm bullying you, tsk, who can bully the store manager in this store, don't dare to make such a joke." ”

The merchant sighed silently, finally stopped what he was doing, and after getting the "order" for tonight's dinner, he walked to the newly built kitchen of the store and began to prepare.

Elijah's "observance of words and looks" could always see the inner thoughts of the merchants, and had begun to reach the level of mind-reading, and she was often complacent about it, and there was nothing more triumphant than the fact that a person who was accustomed to keeping everything in the palm of his hand was being mastered by himself, let alone the merchant, who had been in Haikou City at first, and who had never been able to live in front of him, and taught himself a lesson.

And the proud Ilya did not find that only when facing businessmen could he take his "observation of words and feelings" to the extreme, and directly gain insight into the other party's inner thoughts.

In the small antique shop, the three of them are slowly but surely changing without them noticing.

In the new day, Mike is working diligently in the store, even in the face of daily repetitive chores, he is willing to maintain a serious and rigorous attitude to complete it tirelessly. Ilya was lying on the newly bought bench and looking through an old book that I didn't know where to find it, the space in the antique shop was much wider, and there were basically a lot of strange and completely unused things in the past, Ilya spent a lot of time sorting them out, and put them in the attic upstairs, and by the way, she cleaned up the cobwebs and dust that were almost the entire floor of the upstairs pile, who would have thought that an antique shop that looked so beautiful on the first floor would look like this upstairs.

As for the basement, Ilya also thought about cleaning the entire antique shop with the basement, but she didn't, because the merchant sternly warned her not to approach the basement, and the other party's expression was so solemn that Ilya didn't question it at all, and never approached the door to the basement since.

Now the antique store has a lot of "women's taste", the store furnishings and display of furniture, the location and type of antiques are all operated by Ilya, there is no previous stiff and old-fashioned, now the atmosphere in the store has become mild and comfortable, but unfortunately even if it has been so good changes still failed to make the store's business better, the antique store except for three living people, can not see the fourth.

The merchant is still buried in his work, he hasn't received a letter from Hank for a long time recently, and after returning to Devonburg to discuss the plan, this guy seems to have suddenly evaporated from the world, and considering the object, it is difficult for anyone to take the initiative to find Hank.

Ilya suddenly threw away the book in her hand and jumped up: "Ahhh

Mike stopped what he was doing: "Elijah, tidying up the store every day is what our clerks need to do. ”

Elijah: "I know, of course I know Mike, but you didn't notice that the floor in our store has been cleaned by you so that it's as clean as my face." ”

The merchant interjected coldly: "Then it seems that more efforts are needed." ”

Ilya gritted her teeth and glared, "Please concentrate on your work, store manager." ”

Mike: "That's... So what do you want to do? Go shopping in Uptown?"

Ilya hugged her head and squatted down: "Hmph, hum, what is there to visit in Uptown, this time is almost over, I don't want to go anywhere." ”

Mike: "But... Don't you just want to go out?"

Elijah: "Hmm... I just want to go out and about. ”

Mike: "But you don't want to go uptown. ”

Elijah: "Hmm... Nothing to visit. ”

Mike was also distressed, and he looked at the store manager, who was tempted to ignore the gaze from him, but he found that ignoring it only made his gaze more and more intense, until at last he could not ignore it.

Merchant: "Do you remember that incident?"

Ilya covered her face in her knees: "What's the matter?" ”

Merchant: "Thirteen Skull Islands." ”

Ilya raised her head and asked, "Didn't you say it's dangerous?" and the store manager hasn't mentioned it for a few days, so I thought you gave up." ”

Merchant: "No, on the contrary, I have been in touch with Balubak in the past few days and have learned a general understanding of this matter from him, and there is a certain feasibility of this matter. ”

Ilya straightened up and said with great interest, "Really? Oh my God, that means we're going out again, right? Oh my God, we're going to take a boat to the far seas? Oh my God!"

The merchant motioned for the other party not to get excited, and he turned to Mike, "What do you think, Mike?

Mike was stunned: "Huh?"

This was the first time the merchant had asked him for advice on going out, though they had only traveled once.

Mike: "I... I don't have any opinions, the store manager thinks I should go, then I'll go. ”

The merchant nodded: "Well, in that case, let's try it, don't worry, Mike, it's just a normal voyage, and it's the three of us together." ”

Ilya also looked at Mike with a smile, and the sight of the two made Mike feel a little more at ease, and his worries about the sea were reduced.

Merchant: "If you have a preliminary plan, you need to say hello, Mike, you should go to Uptown once." ”

Elijah: "Then I'll go with you to the smiling butler this time." ”

Merchant: "No, you stay, I have something to tell you." ”

Mike nodded his head in response, though a little curious, and opened the door to the Marquis de Vale's mansion.

There were only two people left in the antique shop, and Ilya was the first to ask, "Say, there is something to say separately that Mike can't know." ”

The merchant stopped his workstation and said, "I don't have anything weak as you think. ”

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