Allen and his little bones [Western Fantasy]

"I'm ready."

When he heard Eli's voice accompanied by the sound of opening the door, Allen, who was sitting at the table, raised his head, and saw the blond young man "returning to his old ways", coming out with a head of wet hair that was still dripping.

Eli looked absent-minded. He had a towel on his forearm. The towel was obviously still dry and soft, and it hadn't fulfilled its supposed task of absorbing water. In the collar, there was a wet mark on the front and back.

"..." He frowned at what he saw, and couldn't see others ignoring health problems. Alan, who was particularly "double-standard" in this regard, put down the book in his hand, got up and walked towards Eli.

But Eli is probably really out of his mind right now, only his limbs are still mechanically performing the task of "getting out of the bathroom". Alan walked up to him a few steps, but he still seemed to have nothing to do, just continued He walked forward with a dull head, and the focus of his eyes didn't know where he wandered. Anyway, Alan's figure was not reflected in his half-down eyes.

Allen just watched Eli take a few steps forward. When the other party was absent-minded, his footsteps were slightly procrastinated. He actually kicked up the carpet on the aisle of the room without noticing it, and continued to move forward... Then he was successfully defeated. The rolled up rug stumbled.

Allen: "..."

After all, it is the former "Alberta Light", whose physical reaction speed will always be among the best among students of the same grade.

Eli finally came back to his senses at the moment when he was stumbled, he quickly adjusted his center of gravity, but at this moment his brain lost the chain again, and simultaneously sent him the message of "there is still something in his hand", making him subconsciously prioritize protecting his hand holding items.

From tripping over an obstacle to losing balance, the reaction time left for people is limited. Eli spent the opportunity to regain his footing on protecting things, and the partially blocked vision is still sending him "Careful to hit him." "furniture" alarm, he prepared himself to hit something hard, but he didn't expect that "thing" was far softer than he expected.

It was a kind of hardness with a sense of toughness and temperature, and two tailor-made "guardrails" were opened on both sides, enclosing him inside, preventing him from leaning left and right, and helping him stand upright.

"Don't save yourself first, but save the towel first." Alan's voice came from above his head, sounding helpless, "What are you thinking?"

"I..." After realizing that this "thing" is Alan himself, Eli raised his head in embarrassment.

However, the speed with which he raised his head was probably too fast. When he felt the pain on the top of his head, he had conditioned reflexively let out a "huh" and heard his head hit a "boom".

"..." Allen silently retracted an arm supporting Eli, and rubbed his mandible that was almost dented.

Eli is really fully awake now, and the top of his own head also hurts from the impact, but he caught a glimpse of Alan's movements from the corner of his eye, and he was too embarrassed to touch the place where he was hit.

How could he be so clumsy?Eli asked himself in disbelief, couldn't he be smarter in front of the other party?

Before he could ask why, he felt Alan's hand that was rubbing his chin hang down again.

Allen also rubbed the top of Eli's head smoothly: "Doesn't it hurt?"

"...It hurts." The moment he was touched, his body's instinct to dodge could not deceive anyone, let alone the pharmacist who was barely half a healer, Eli answered honestly.

Allen's hand seemed to have changed position on top of his head again, that hand gently pressed around the impact point, and looked at the piece of hair.

"It's okay." Alan sounded relieved, and said, "It's just a small red spot, and the pain should subside after a while."

The dexterous fingertips in the hair felt a little itchy, and Eli closed his eyes involuntarily. He responded to Alan's words, and finally wanted to raise his hand to touch after the other's finger was removed.

However, the hand was only halfway up when it was amputated halfway.

"Don't touch it." Allen pressed Eli's hand down. "You can't see the exact position. If you use the wrong force, it will make the situation worse. Let me take a look at it later."

Eli didn't seem to have much right to speak at such a time, he nodded obediently before being let go.

The hand that was freed quietly curled up beside him, and the other hand that was holding the object was empty. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Eli, Allen took Eli's other hand and held it. The towels were also taken away.

He proficiently put a warming spell on the towel, gathered an elemental air mass, and threw two warming spells into the gathered air mass, and the artificial drying towel and small blower appeared again, and it was dealt with in twos and twos The dripping water on the wet hair in the front, and drying the golden hair from the root to the outside.

"I... look at your chin."

What I originally wanted to say was "I'll do it myself", but before it could actually be said, the greed that could only be digested by myself and ashamed to express it spread up first, which forced Eli's words to turn 180 degrees.

Inevitably, her face heated up a little, and I don't know if the shyness hidden in other thoughts has already appeared on her face. Fortunately, there is hot wind blowing next to her head, and there is a warm drying towel on the top of her hair. Lai pretended that he was blushing because of the temperature. He slightly raised his head to look at Alan's jaw. Alan was lowering his head slightly to deal with his hair. Hearing the sound, he raised his jaw, showing off his beautiful and sharp jaw line.

"It's okay." Allen said lightly.

Eli stretched out his hand carefully to touch that area: "But it's also red."

"The capillary wall of the human body is inherently fragile, and it will turn red when touched lightly, which has little effect."

While talking and blowing someone's hair, Allen brushed away Eli's hair a little more, and looked at the spot where Eli just bumped into: "Well, your mark is almost gone. —Does it still hurt?"

When he asked "Does it still hurt?", Eli felt Alan's fingertips lightly pressing on his scalp again.

It was probably because he was too hot right now, and his whole head was warm, so Alan's fingertips, which always brought warmth on weekdays, seemed cooler at the moment.

The coolness seemed to be able to penetrate into the scalp, stimulating the superficial nerve endings below, stirring up an indescribable feeling.

Eli shivered at the unspeakable littleness, and shook his head.

Unexpectedly, the shiver was also noticed by Allen, and he received the strange and caring gaze of the black-haired young man: "Cold?"

"It's not cold." Eli replied vaguely, his voice almost melting into the sound of the wind blowing from the small air mass.

Although Allen still felt a little puzzled, but seeing the flushed face and ears of the blond young man, he reached out to touch it without thinking - it was very hot, and he couldn't really feel the cold.

It really doesn't look cold.

As he thought about it, he was very relieved.

And Alan, who touched the person, was relieved, but Eli was extremely embarrassed by his "touching by God".

Compared with Eli's skin temperature, his fingertips were cooler, but the ears and cheeks that were touched didn't seem to cool down at all. Instead, they warmed up a few degrees after the finger was removed.

Eli was so at a loss that he couldn't stand on his feet, but the "initiator" didn't notice anything, and continued to blow his whole head warm and fluffy, and finally rubbed his "masterpiece", secretly feeling The senior's hair still feels very good today.

"Okay." Alan said, who was a bit reluctant to give up the soft touch, and he was careful not to let his regret leak into his voice.

Eli lowered his head when his skin continued to heat up just now, barely daring to meet his eyes, and thanked him by looking at the ground.

It just so happened that the carpet that was rolled up because of him just now hadn't been tidied up yet. With this ready-made reason, Eli urged Allen to go to the bathroom to wash up quickly while squatting down/body to tidy up the carpet.

"Be careful." Allen warned before going to the bathroom.

Considering that the amount of information received in one day is indeed a bit large, and the last message he got before leaving the end is even more amazing. Allen thought about it and patched his own words: "At least don't walk while walking. Absent-minded."

I always feel that my former apprentice is telling me in a coaxing tone, but when I think about it carefully, since the two of them reunited, there seem to be many times when I need the other party to tell me like this.

Eli said "Okay" honestly, and he sat down at the table under Alan's gaze: "I'll just stay here and continue to be absent-minded, and I'll make sure I'm still sitting here after you get out of the wash."

The corners of Allen's lips seemed to twitch, and he also felt that the conversation between the two sounded like an adult telling a child. Seeing that Eli was not very annoyed, he even made a small joke, so he picked it up and put it on the bedside She changed her clothes and entered the bathroom under the other party's watch.

The thin bathroom door temporarily cut off the two people's mutual attention.

After the bathroom door was closed, Eli continued to sort out the information he got today, trying to piece together a more complete image of his parents with this information.

Allen, on the other hand, unbuttoned his clothes and stepped into the bathtub that had already been filled with water. He was stunned for a moment looking at the bathtub that was still steaming due to the heat preservation spell. After he realized it, he turned and glanced at the bathroom door. The arc of his lips deepened. After a while, he continued to complete the action of entering the water—while thinking about the last reminder from Lawrence.

Whether Eli's strength has changed or whether his ability has improved, neither of them thought about this matter at first, and neither of them thought about the direction that racial alienation can affect the level of strength. Does it really exist, and if so, how much is the increase in strength, and whether alienation has brought some other changes to Eli in addition to the ability improvement... All these questions should be put on the agenda, and find out Opportunity verified.

In addition to verifying these issues, there are two other things that make it difficult for Allen not to care.

"...The long-cherished wish of the sacrificers will go with them, and the forbidden star will guide them with the flame of the body..."

Recalling the prophecy made by Elder Phoenix, Allen leaned against the bathtub wall, closed his eyes slightly, and tapped the cylinder wall lightly with his knuckles rhythmically.

If "Hope" is him, "Rebel" is Julisa, "Son of the Rebel" is Eli, "Sacrifice" is Lawrence, and the other party's "lifelong wish" is Hall, then, In this prophecy, who is the "forbidden star" that they all ignored at first?

"Turning into flames with one's body" does not sound like a good word. It has the meaning of sacrificing oneself and illuminating others. It seems to foretell in advance that someone in their team, which is gathered together by invisible forces, is destined to sacrifice.

According to Lawrence, Eli’s father, Omega, once said to him, “Because you are also one of the stars.” Combined with the prophecy obtained from Elder Phoenix, we know that “star” can refer to all the people who appeared in this prophecy. , each "star" is a part of that "new star track".

And how to explain the "taboo" prefix in front of "star"?

Allen closed his eyes, and the faces of the two twins of the Val family suddenly appeared in front of him.

His fingers tapped on the wall of the tub for a sudden pause.

... If "taboo" is what he understands, then every generation of the Val family's twins may fit this designation.

The Waal family's research has been going on for hundreds of years. Although their goals are definitely different from the prophesied ending, generally speaking, they are all working towards the goal of "breaking the curse".

The "tilted balance" is closely related to the "curse", but what exactly are the "weights" placed at both ends of the balance, even the elder Phoenix who made the prophecy is currently unable to speak frankly to others.

As early as returning to Calby, when he received the invitation from Val's house, Allen felt that all his actions might be led by others, and he had a sense of being led by his own arrangements.

Now at least according to the prophecy, from the time Eli met him, until the two met Hall, the three of them walked together. The clues... It is true that every link of this road is both accidental and inevitable, and it is walking on a road that has been predicted in advance.

"What exactly does 'Hope' need to do?" Allen opened his eyes and looked at the hand raised in front of him.

he thought.

He has been looking at those hands for nearly 20 years. They have inherited the beautiful hand shape of his mother in this life, and they are as broad-boned as his father, with well-defined joints.

Undoubtedly, these are the hands of ordinary human beings. Even if they can help him mix various kinds of precision potions, and can also drive elemental energy to cast some small spells, they are still made of human flesh and blood in the final analysis, and there is nothing special about them. place.

Just such a pair of hands, can it really bring everything back to the right place as prophesied?

"Hope" himself doesn't even know what kind of road he is on!

At first, he just wanted to help his former friend who was suffering for no reason, and he couldn't just sit idly by and ignore the other party's plight.

...Who would have thought that this gang gradually discovered that they were also a link in the whole incident, and this link was so important.

"Ellen?"

Eli's voice suddenly rang outside the door, and the bathroom door slammed twice as he called.

It was he who knocked softly on the door outside.

"what happened?"

Allen was distracted by thinking, and it was rare for him to let himself worry about the messy road ahead for a while. He was interrupted by this call, and he didn't feel anything, so he just turned his attention.

Hearing his reply, Eli sounded relieved: "It's okay, it's just that you've been in there longer than usual, and I'm a little worried."

Long?

With a move of Allen's finger, the translucent water mist condensed out of thin air in front of him, showing the current time.

Only then did he realize that he had indeed been thinking about things in the bathroom for a long time.

It has been nearly an hour since he entered the bathroom. It was only because the bathtub was always warm and pleasant under the heat preservation spell, and he couldn't feel the passage of time from the change in water temperature, so he thought he hadn't been in the bathroom for a long time.

"Come out now." He said, stood up in the bathtub, and said casually, "Have you ever paid attention to my usual washing time?"

There was a sudden "boom" on the bathroom door, and it sounded like someone outside the door had bumped into the door panel.

Allen paused when he reached for his nightgown. He was worried that the blond young man outside the door would make himself red again, so he quickly wrapped the large bath towel he was holding in his hand, and then walked over to open the door.

Surprised that he had accidentally revealed a little secret about how long people take a shower, Eli knocked his head on the bathroom door, and was stepping back with his forehead covered, hoping that Alan would not pay attention to the abnormal noise of the bathroom door, but things backfired , before he took a few steps back, the sound of footsteps behind the door had approached, and the door was opened in the next second.

"I……"

"you……"

Allen and Eli basically spoke at the same time. Out of politeness, Allen immediately stopped talking, ready to listen to Eli first, but Eli had a special connection with him, and stopped talking at the same time as him.

The blond-haired young man showed an expression as if someone had slapped him in the head, and he stood there for a few seconds in a daze.

Then he silently slid down the hand that was covering his forehead to cover his face, and squatted down in front of the black-haired young man who still had a strange expression on his face.

Allen: "...?"

Allen then squatted down/body: "It hurts?"

As he spoke, he reached out his hand worriedly to lift Eli's forehead hair, wanting to see what kind of foolishness this man had made of him.

Eli covered his face tightly, the refusal to show him couldn't be more obvious.

--Do not!

——It’s not a question of whether it hurts or not!

The former senior, covering his face, shouted silently in his heart, but he didn't dare to tell Alan the truth.

Eli can't tell what happened to him today. It's not the first time he has seen Alan with his upper body exposed generously. It seems that the other party has two nerves in his head that are in charge of words such as "beautiful" and "ambiguous". , after knowing his intentions and gradually responding to him in a vague way, he still faces him like this from time to time, treating him like an ordinary brother and friend, treating him completely undefended, as if he didn't even think about it. But will he, a person who "has an evil heart" towards the other party, have evil thoughts about those smooth and beautiful lines?

Promise!

Eli tried to warn himself from the bottom of his heart, trying to make the body's response follow the brain's instructions.

However, the reality is that today he had a particularly strong reaction to Allen, who appeared only wearing a bath towel. After squatting on the ground for a long time, his body temperature, which had just barely dropped, soared.

But Alan was still close at hand, the bath towel rolled up a little because of the other party's squatting/body movement, and a whole firm and warm chest was in front of his eyes.

Because he didn't get a response, in order to better check his situation, he got a little closer.

"I'm fine...it's fine." Eli replied in a voice he could barely hear.

Allen obviously didn't believe it.

"Then put your hands down first." Allen said, "Let me see."

Eli, of course, refused to let go.

When he was blowing his hair just now, he was covered by wind-blown hair and a towel, so he covered his face with his hands, and he wished he could turn around and run away.

Suddenly, he missed the days when he faced Allen with the body of an undead skeleton. The embarrassing senior hoped that he could quickly switch to a state where he would not be noticed by the black-haired youth. I wonder if his hope was too much. Intense, Alan was about to start a compulsory inspection, but the abyss token placed in the portable space shook slightly.

In the next second, a dark light group covered the whole body of the blond young man in front of him.

The abyss order reminds the Lord to pay attention to the movements of the undead around him.

The Lord Ling silently looked at the clothes that had been loosened due to the temporary thinness of the wearer, and was silently facing the skeleton in front of him.

"...or take off your pants." After a few seconds of silence, Allen suggested friendly.

—It's all slipping to your feet anyway.

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Sexy skeleton, transform online, take off pants in a second.