Endless Silver Machine

As night falls, the active atmosphere gradually replaces the laziness of the day, and rushes into the small tavern in the blink of an eye.

Originally, Luoluo and Ling wanted to come downstairs to help, but Aika decided not to let Ling show up outside for the time being, considering the news that Gurli told him. It was also a good choice for Luoluo to stay with Ling and accompany her.

Although Luoluo still felt that he could not help in any way and felt guilty, Ling seemed to understand Aika's intention and agreed to his request. Then she hugged the awkward Lolo and didn't let go until Aika disappeared from their sight.

"Sister Ling, why don't you insist anymore? If you insist, my brother will definitely compromise!"

Luoluo's face was full of unhappiness. But Aika has now left the second floor, and it is not so convenient to catch up again.

"Luoluo, think about it. First of all, we have never helped in a pub, and there may be people in such places who have strange views on girls our age. If not handled well, it may develop into conflicts. , That will only cause trouble for that guy, right? Rather than causing trouble for him, wouldn't it be better for us to just stay here and wait for him to come back? "

"It won't get in the way..."

Although he said this, Luo Luo, who knew very well in his heart, finally chose to compromise.

Ling, on the other hand, looked over the top of Luo Luo's head in her arms and looked thoughtfully at the door where Aika disappeared.

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There are gradually more and more guests in the tavern, and maybe it will be full every night.

Although there are only three store employees: Nia, Gurley and Aika, no customers complained. Nia was mixing drinks behind the counter while chatting and laughing with the men sitting in front of the counter. Aika and Gurley deliver the guests' orders to their tables.

"If you want to get more information, walk back and forth among the guests. Sometimes you will get unexpected results."

Gurley said softly next to Aika, and then walked towards one of the ladies.

Aika sent their orders in order according to the brand numbers on the table.

Most of the guests here just come to chat to kill time, and the topics they talk about are naturally trivial matters.

Until the end of business tonight, Aika had not obtained any valuable information.

"It happens all the time. This is not the intelligence department of the empire. This kind of thing can only rely on luck."

Gurley sat at the counter. The excitement has not dissipated from his face. It seems that he has successfully used this face to seduce the lady who seems to have some status.

Aika sat next to him and stared at the wine barrels neatly arranged behind the counter.

"I said you two are getting ready to clean up and close the store. Why are you just sitting here?"

Gurley obediently obeyed Nia's instructions, left his seat and started cleaning the hall. Aika was about to stand up, but Nia noticed what was on his mind.

"Wait a minute, little brother," Nia called Aika, and he turned back in confusion, "Are you thinking about the little blond sister?"

"Eh? How did you know..."

"Boys, they only show that look when they are thinking about girls."

"I probably didn't show any strange looks..."

Aika turned her face away, just to cover up her shyness that Nia could see through at a glance.

"If you have any questions to ask her, wouldn't it be better to take the initiative to ask her?" Gurley interjected while wiping the dining table, "If we are friends, if there is nothing that must be concealed, they will talk to each other candidly. ."

"That's right!"

Nia was also encouraging Aika, but it was obviously for some other purpose.

Aika didn't answer immediately, but just looked towards the stairwell leading to the second floor.

If Ling is really the girl wanted by the Vatican, what should I do? Should she be handed over to the Holy See, or should she be protected from the Holy See?

What is the right thing to do? Or what exactly do you want to do?

Aika doesn’t know yet.

"By the way, there is only one bathroom here. Let me take the two children to take a bath first."

"Yes. Please excuse me, Sister Nia."

"You are so polite, kid. Even I am interested in you."

Gurley bumped Aika's waist with his elbow, and he reflexively took a few steps away from Gurley.

"When these words come out of your mouth, the taste changes..."

"Oh? I really mean it!"

"..."

It was late at night, and the two of them still hadn't finished cleaning the tavern.

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Not long after Nia went upstairs, she heard her screams.

"What's wrong?"

Aika suddenly had a bad feeling, dropped the tools in his hands and rushed up the stairwell. Gurley followed suit.

There is only one suite on the second floor of the tavern. The entire second floor of the tavern is Nia's room, and now Luoluo and Ling also live in it.

Nia was at the door of her room at the moment, kneeling on the floor with an expression on the verge of tears. It seemed like girls' laughter was coming from the room.

"What, it seems like nothing happened... Aren't they quite noisy?"

Gurley shrugged.

"Shut up! They drank the wine I had kept for five years! It was supposed to be used to celebrate my birthday..."

Nia knelt down weakly on the floor, covering her face and sobbing.

Aika looked towards their room. The overall color of the room is pink, which is very girly, but slightly out of tune with a woman of Nia's age.

The ground is covered with fluffy square cushions instead of the floor. Even if you lie on it and sleep directly, you won't catch a cold.

And right in the center of the room, Luoluo and Lingzheng each held a cup filled with some kind of liquid, seeming to be a little delirious and talking about irrelevant topics. Their cheeks were all red, and they looked obviously drunk.

"These two children...I obviously put the wine bottle on the top of the cabinet! How did they find it..."

Aika walked into the room, and the whole room was filled with a fruity scent. He picked up the empty wine bottle that had fallen to the ground and smelled it, convinced that the sweetness filling the room was the smell of this wine.

"So sweet...is this really wine?"

"This is probably the Supreme Fruit Bar that the boss lady has been showing off to me, which is brewed using fruits harvested from the entire orchard? This bottle seems to be the most important to her!"

Gurley said the incredible facts in a nonchalant tone.

"Hehehe..." Nia, who was kneeling on the floor and sobbing, stood up staggeringly as if her soul had been taken away, and let out a gloomy laugh, "But it's better to be drunk...this debt , just use the body of a young girl to repay it!"

Nia, who suddenly cheered up for no apparent reason, rushed into the room, picked up Ling in her left hand and Luoluo in her right hand, turned around happily and rushed down the stairs.

Aika stared dumbfounded at Nia's sudden outburst.

"What will happen to the two of them..."

"At most, the boss ladies can use their bodies to vent their anger. Anyway, there won't be any big problem."

"It sounds like the problem is huge! But if I intervene, it will definitely be affected, right?"

"What do you think?"

"...Let's wait until Sister Nia calms down before talking."

After calmness returned downstairs, Aika and Geli quietly returned to the first floor along the stair railing.

There were some vague sounds coming from the bathroom behind the stairs that had to be taken into consideration.

"I hope Sister Nia won't go too far..." Aika sighed. He thought that no matter how much women go overboard, it should only be that way. "But, uncle, you are really honest today. I I thought you would definitely run to peek or something."

"I tried it a long time ago. But if the boss lady is here, it's better to give up decisively. I don't want to lie in the warehouse for three days and three nights."

"But if you do that now, I will definitely send you to the warehouse to lie down for three days and three nights."

Gurley sighed pretentiously, sat back at the bar and started pouring wine into the glass.

He just took a small sip, and then his eyes fell on Aika's right wrist.

"What's that wrist thing?"

"Is this one?" Aika raised his right hand, and the silver-white wrist wheel shone brightly under the light of the bar. "This is a farewell gift from my father. It should be a kind of magic tool, even if it is nothing. I can easily use my magic talent."

"That's right. Did you say before that you were born in the village at the foot of the Warren Mountains?"

"Um."

Gurley wordlessly picked up the wine glass in his hand and put the rim of the glass to his mouth. However, he seemed to be thinking about something in his mind and did not drink the wine left on his lips.

"By the way, Luoluo also got a necklace from home that seemed to be a magic tool. But she tried injecting magic into it but it had no effect. It might just be an ordinary decoration."

"Can I have a look?"

"Wait until she comes out after taking a shower. She keeps wearing that necklace around her neck."

"oh."

Gurley did not continue drinking, but just looked in the direction of the bathroom.

"You finally couldn't help but want to take a peek..."

"So be it."

Even though he said something casually like a joke, Gurley didn't have much of a smile on his face.

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A cloud of steam rose from the bathroom behind the stairs.

Nia hummed a little tune and walked out from the shadow of the stairwell with Luo Luo in her arms, with a satisfied smile on her face.

Luoluo had fallen asleep in her cute lace pajamas, and her slightly red cheeks showed the signs of soaking for too long.

That cute girly pajamas might be old clothes that Nia had worn in the past.

"If you think those are the clothes the boss lady bought for herself, you are totally wrong. In fact, they are... Gu!"

Before Gurli finished speaking, Nia kicked him in the stomach without hesitation. He squatted on the ground holding his sunken belly.

"I want you to talk more!" After dealing with Gurli, Nia handed Lolo, who had fainted in the bathroom, into Aika's arms. "Come and hug her."

Aika hugged her sister in a princess hug, and Luoluo's cute sleeping face turned to her side unconsciously.

At such a close distance, Aika could even feel Luoluo's breath blowing on her neck.

The faint fragrance of shampoo or shower gel also kept sounding the alarm in Aika's mind.

He tried his best to look away and avoid looking directly at Luoluo's pale skin.

While Aika was struggling internally, Nia took out Ling, who also fainted.

She was also wearing pajamas that seemed to be the same style as Luo Luo's. Her slightly moist bangs stuck to her reddish cheeks, and her moist lips breathed gently, revealing a mature charm that was different from Luo Luo's.

Aika and Nia sent Luoluo and Ling back to the room on the second floor. They should not wake up again tonight.

"Sister Nia, where is the necklace Luoluo wears around his neck? It's the one with a blue gem embedded in it."

"That's what you said." Nia took out the exquisite necklace from the pocket of Lolo's pajamas. "It looked like a very expensive thing. I was worried that it would be damaged while taking a bath, so I took it off for her."

The tear-shaped blue gem shines like a star, as if aqua-blue liquid flows within it.

Aika took Luoluo's necklace and returned to the first floor to show it to Gurley, who just said he wanted to take a look at the necklace.

Gurley seemed to take Lolo's necklace with both hands cautiously, looked at it carefully, and then placed the necklace on the bar. He placed his fingers on the surface of the aqua gem and poured his magic into it.

Suddenly, the sleeping gem burst into dazzling aqua light. Gurley withdrew his finger as if it had bounced away, and a stream of blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.

"Is it okay!"

Aika quickly supported Gurley who was staggering back. He had no idea that Gurley's tentative movements would cause such a big reaction. It was obvious that Luoluo had tried so many times but nothing happened.

"Aika, what is your family's surname?"

Gurley called Aika by his name for the first time, and raised the question in a pointed way.

"Given a surname?"

Aika has never heard of what the so-called "surname" is. It is a term that he has never been exposed to in the border village of his hometown.

Gurley's eyes when he looked at Aika were no longer as close as before. Although it wasn't to the point of being cold, Aika could clearly feel that there was an invisible barrier between him and Gurli.

"There is nothing special about our family. We have been living in that village a long time ago." Although he didn't know what caused Gurley to be wary of him, Aika still hoped to explain it clearly to him. "As for me, The wrist wheel and Luoluo's necklace are just farewell gifts for this trip. If you know something that we don't know, which makes you misunderstand us, then I think whether it is something that can be said or cannot be said, I have the right to know."

Now Nia is sleeping with Luoluo and Ling in the room on the second floor, and Aika must learn from the serious Gurli alone what made him have to put away his smile. At least, what you don't know won't be some kind of truth that you can laugh off.

Gurley's deep gaze seemed to have seen through all of Aika, and the tense atmosphere around him disappeared unconsciously.

He sat down in front of the bar, pushed Luoluo's necklace to the spot where Aika had been sitting before, and motioned for him to sit down.

Aika swallowed her saliva and sat back down next to Gurli. Gurley picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp as usual. The nervousness from before also disappeared with the glass of wine.

"Did I look like a big brother with a heavy responsibility just now?"

"ha……"

The originally tense nerves completely disappeared because of this question that Gurli asked with a playful smile.

"Actually, the Fu surname I just asked you about is not a secret hidden in the dark. It's just that you may not have access to this term in a border village like yours." Gurley explained to Aika in a relaxed tone, "The so-called Fu To put it simply, the surname is the name given to certain nobles by the emperor of the Bis Empire. For example, the royal family of Emperor Augustus has the surname "Iela", so we call their family the "Iela" family. The names of the current third princess and the fourth princess are Lan Ming Yiela and Ziming Yiela. There are also some other families with the surname Fu in the nobility. The surname Fu means this, and it is also called among the nobility. It must be some big families with special status."

"That means only nobles can have surnames, right? Then why did you ask me that question just now? It's impossible for our family to be a noble, right? It's acceptable to say that it's a noble that declined hundreds of years ago."

"There is a possibility."

Gurley wasn't kidding, that's what he told Aika in his tone.

"The reason why I asked you that question is because your sister's necklace made me think in that direction. This necklace is not an ornament, nor is it the ordinary magic tool you know, but it has a symbol A magic weapon with greater significance."

"Is this necklace... a weapon?"

Although Aika once imagined that Lolo's necklace, which was also obtained from his parents, might be some kind of magical prop like his wrist wheel, he never thought that it would be a lethal weapon.

"Weapons are just a general concept, but most of the existences like this necklace are weapons that can harm others. Because they appear in this world in response to the wishes of the dead souls in the cross-border war. We call them ' Magic outfit'." Gurley did not let go of any wavering in Aika's eyes, "It seems you know this term, right?"

Aika has indeed heard of the term "magic costume", but until now he still doesn't know the meaning of this term.

"I heard Ling mention it before. At that time, she asked me if my Fiery Eyes were magic equipment."

"It turns out that I knew it from her..." Gurley thought for a while, and then stopped talking about Ling, "In short, the magic costume is also a symbol of the Fu family in the Bis Empire. The Fu family has the inheritance of magic costume. , also only people in the family can use the inherited magic equipment. I just suffered the magical backlash from that necklace because I don’t have the bloodline recognized by it.”

"What about the Eyes of Fiery Flames?" Aika connected himself with the silver-white wrist wheel with magic power, and the silver-white figure of the two guns appeared in the magic circle shaped like a certain heraldry. "The Eyes of Fiery Flames are also Magic costume?"

Although Aika couldn't feel it, Gurli, who had just forcibly activated the necklace, could feel the magic power fluctuations unique to the magic suit.

"Yes, your wrist wheel and your sister's necklace are two different magic costumes."

"Magic costume..."

The farewell gift given to them by their parents actually had such a meaning, and Aika couldn't accept it for a while.

After living in that border village for more than ten years, Aika never knew there was anything special about her family.

Now he already knows the meaning of the magic costume and the Fu family. But for Aika, even if he knows this, his and Luoluo's life trajectory will not change. Because they will neither become nobles nor use the power of magic equipment for anything other than self-defense.

"Logically speaking, it is impossible for a family to inherit two different magic costumes..."

"Um?"

"Nothing, just talking to myself. By the way, is Miss Luoluo your biological sister?"

"Um."

There is no other answer to this question, only this question that Aika can answer without any thought.

"In this case, your bloodline should also be accepted by this necklace. Come on..."

"No need..." This time, Aika chose to escape, "This is something that belongs to her and should be left to her to accept. I will tell her about the true identity of this necklace at another time."

He didn't dare try. It's not that I'm worried about the backlash of my magic power, but that I'm afraid of revealing something indescribable.

He actually heard Gurley's soliloquy clearly. In such a quiet night, even the smallest sound can be clearly heard.

It is impossible for a family to inherit two different magic costumes. So, why did Aika and Luoluo get "Eye of Fiery Flame" and "Heart of Orchid" at the same time?

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