Allen and his little bones [Western Fantasy]

People who have little experience in expressing emotions, say a heart-to-heart statement in a roundabout and subtle manner, as if they are afraid that they will scare someone if they say it too bluntly.

Because I have had a self-loved experience before, and I secretly wondered if Alan also likes me, but in the end unfortunately failed to confess, and ended in frustration. Based on the principle of not falling twice in the same ditch, Eli Regarding Allen's words, he didn't dare to impersonate him for a while.

He was afraid that he might be wrong again.

One of the two expresses implicitly, while the other is afraid to ask someone to explain more clearly because he is worried that there may be deviations in his understanding. After a period of silence, an indescribable atmosphere of embarrassment gradually occupied the surrounding space, making them feel uncomfortable .

"Then, then I..." Knowing that he had to answer, Eli got stuck like a rusty wind-up toy, and blurted out somehow, "Then next time I have a chance, I will try to make it for you." A dessert with chocolate?"

"..." Alan couldn't figure out what kind of answer this was, but he felt that if he didn't reply, the blond young man seemed to be about to run away.

He nodded confusedly: "OK."

The topic died here.

Eli felt that his performance was extremely poor. Even if he thought about it later, he felt that he might not be wrong, but he was too embarrassed to ask Alan again for a while.

He had to get over his self-condemnation period before he could muster up the courage to ask Alan for an answer.

Of course, Allen also felt that this development was far from what he had expected. Eli and his own follow-up reactions were quite problematic, but he has always been good at discovering and analyzing problems. It only took half a night to realize that it might be the past. The "lessons learned from the past" made Eli hesitate, and his expression was not clear enough, which interrupted the conversation that could have promoted the relationship.

"Let's look for another chance." Allen thought after figuring out the cause and effect.

He noticed Eli's embarrassment and dodge. Looking at the micro-expressions and small movements of the other party when he faced him, he knew that Eli must take a while to slow down. Recently, he could not meet again for the "relationship promotion" again for the time being.

Hall returned just a day after Eli's severe depression.

Eli vaguely noticed Alan's thoughtfulness and patience, but he couldn't face each other completely calmly, so Hall saw that the atmosphere between him and Alan was not right.

"Hey, it's just the two of us now."

After Allen was called away by the dean with an owl, Hall glanced at the end of the corridor where the dark-haired youth disappeared—by the way, he greeted a teacher who happened to pass by the corridor and was watching him in astonishment—before he shrank his head. Going back to the room, hooking Eli's shoulders, "hehe" laughed: "During the two days I was away, what happened to you two? Is there anything you can tell me privately?"

At this moment, the three of them had checked out of the hotel room in the undead inhabited area, and returned to the Hall of the Undead to greet the elders on duty, and then returned to Black School through the teleportation circle at the Hall of the Undead.

I just settled down in the teacher's dormitory where I hadn't seen for a few days, and then I sat at the table and wrote a farewell letter to Val's family. Allen handed the letter to Yin Xiao a second ago, and let him be a dexterous messenger with black feathers After taking the letter away, a second later, the silver-haired boy Herbert, who had not seen him for several days, knocked on his door.

I don’t know if Herbert put a “smooth wind” on Alan’s place. Alan came back during the normal teaching time of the college. Apart from greeting the guard on duty and the acquaintances he met along the way, his return should be still It was not widely advertised, but Herbert arrived at him very quickly, and brought a message from the headmaster asking if he was free now, and wanted to say a few words to him before leaving.

"Have."

After Alan finished his short answer, he asked Eli to rest in the house for a while, so that Hall could move freely. Before his chair was warmed up, he hurriedly followed Herbert away.

Hall held back the idea of ​​asking Eli to inquire about the "mystery of the miss", but when "Hope" who was relatively calming him left, he immediately rubbed Eli.

Eli was still in a somewhat tangled state, Hall used "alone" and "quietly" to classify the two into one group, thinking that he had indeed been helped by his seniors several times before, and most of the advice given by his seniors was It was feasible and effective. He organized his language and told the other party about his troubles.

When Allen went to the principal's office and returned to the room about an hour later, he saw that the senior who usually loves to go out and wander around was still staying in the room, welcoming him back with strange eyes.

Allen paused: "...what?"

Is there something wrong with him?

The strange eyes only flickered in Hall's eyes, and then disappeared in an instant, so fleeting that it seemed to be Allen's illusion.

When Allen looked at Hall for a second time, the senior really returned to normal, and he spread his hands innocently at him: "It's nothing, we are all curious about why you have been here for so long, Ferrop asked What did you say? Is there anything we can hear?"

"Ferrop" was the name of the present headmaster of Black Hall.

Although Hall has a face that seems to be a junior for the other party, ten years younger than Ferrop, but in terms of age, Principal Ferrop is his out-and-out junior.

As soon as Allen heard it, he understood that the senior was changing the subject. He was sure that the expression he captured at that moment was correct, but when he saw Eli's expression next to him, his acting skills were more than one point worse than the senior's. The blond-haired young man hid a little, letting him see the clue at once.

Eli and Hall have a "little secret."

That "secret" is eighty-nine out of ten related to me.

A decision was made in his heart, Allen didn't pursue the previous question, and said: "There is also a communication key between Principal Philop and the group of undead elders. He got the content of the prophecy from the elders of Phoenix and chatted with me. His take on prophecy."

As for the specific views, Allen did not continue to say.

Just as he didn't ask what Eli and Hall talked about, seeing him stop talking, Hall and Eli also understood that the following content was about "unspeakable", and they didn't ask any more questions.

"I greeted Principal Philop, and Mr. Neil also delivered a letter. Are we leaving for Theodore today?" Eli asked Allen.

Their luggage was still shrunk down and placed in the portable space. Just now Allen asked Eli to take a good rest in the room. Except for a soft towel and Allen’s usual cup, Eli took out all the other items. Move, so that they are in a state where they can continue on their way at any time.

The soft towels soaked in water wiped the tables and chairs in the house, and the customary cups filled with energy drinks were placed on the table.

Eli asked and handed the cup to Allen.

Alan didn't know whether it was intentional or not when he took the cup. He first held it together with Eli's fingers that hadn't let go of the cup. Hold the cup handle: "Thank you - we will leave tomorrow morning, and there is a farewell party tonight, they are ready."

Eli's whole hand trembled slightly after being touched, as if a cup of drink at a suitable temperature suddenly scalded his hand.

Thanks to Alan's hand covering his hand, and the other side's palm firmly supporting the weight of the glass, a full glass of drink was not splashed out.

"Have you drank water?" Alan didn't seem to notice Eli's abnormality. After taking two sips from the cup, he looked up at Eli's lips, and frowned when he noticed that the blond youth's lips were slightly peeled.

Looking around the room from the corner of the eye, he didn't find the second water glass in the room. He probably guessed that the person only poured water for him, but he forgot about himself. He handed back the cup in his hand.

"Two sips."

Allen's voice was inexplicably uncompromising, and Eli took the cup back a little cautiously. Seeing that the black-haired young man really didn't show any resistance, he even motioned to his lips before quickly sipping the cup.

When the cup was tilted to block the line of sight, by the light leaking from above to the rim of the cup, one could see a ring of wet water stains on the opposite cup rim.

Eli couldn't help staring at the water stain for a few more seconds... Then he felt the cup sink by two points.

Allen, who let go of the water glass just now, stretched his hand back and forced the rim of the glass to level again.

Allen: "You're going to drink up."

Eli: "...!"

The water glass was tilted, and Eli was obsessed with paying attention to the water stains left by Alan. He swallowed and failed to keep up with the rising water flow, and almost caused a tragedy where a twenty-year-old still drank like a two-year-old and leaked his mouth.

Even though Allen helped in time and straightened the water glass, a few drops of "fish that slipped through the net" landed on Eli's skirt, soaking out two dark pieces of light gray fabric.

Allen, who put the cup aside, skillfully gathers the wind to heat it up. The "Elemental Heater" that has been used to comb Eli's hair several times before will reduce the blowing range and eliminate the dark traces in two strokes.

Eli didn't even finish a course of treatment, and even the evidence that he almost leaked water was wiped away by Alan.

He couldn't recover for a moment, and stared at Allen in a daze.

Allen, who broke up the small wind group of elements, looked at him twice, couldn't hold it back, flicked his fingers on his forehead, and smiled.

"Okay, don't be in a daze." Allen said with the corners of his eyes softened, "We have to stay for another night today, come and tidy up things with me, huh?"

"..."

Eli's face was flushed red, and the red color was getting brighter and brighter.

He wanted to speak but was afraid of making a mistake. Under Alan's gaze, which was much gentler than usual, he didn't know what to say. In the end, he simply closed his mouth, nodded without saying a word, and then opened up the space with the other party, packed up Something to use tonight.

It was the same as the reception banquet that the two of them attended when they arrived at Black Academy together. Even though they didn’t actually stay in Black Academy for a few days, Eli didn’t know the teachers and students of the academy for a long time, but he seemed to be here from the beginning. Accepted as a part of it.

The part about the transformation experiment of the Vaal family was covered up, and Eli was treated as an ordinary mixed-race wandering outside. When he wondered whether there were really cases of high-level undead combining with humans in the past, the young undead who was at the same table with him It is different from the young demons.

One said that his parents once said that in the history of the undead, there have been several cases of "falling in love" in the history of the undead. Half of the cases have successfully given birth to offspring, but those few couples are in order to prevent family members and private life from being criticized. Most likely, they found a way to conceal their ethnicity or lived in seclusion. Now it is difficult to trace the specific family and surname, but the authenticity of the case does not need to be questioned.

The other said that there are many examples of human beings falling in love with dark creatures, but according to his parents and elders, almost none of those cases had a good result. Among the few examples known to the elders, it was not humans who finally discovered dark creatures In fact, there are other plans, or it is just a novelty for a while, that is, their feelings cannot be tolerated in the world, and they are still mixed in the human settlements, and finally chased by the human knights.

"After being chased, what happened to them?" Eli couldn't help asking.

The young demon was about to continue opening his mouth, but was quickly kicked by the undead friend under the long table.

He suddenly realized that he had said too much, and some words were not suitable to say in front of Eli, a "half-race", so he quickly shut up, with a look of shame on his face.

"It's not a happy ending, is it?" Eli got the answer from the expression on the tablemate.

The young demon wanted to nod but felt bad, he struggled for a moment, the undead friend next to him was quick to make up his mind, and quickly remedied: "However, I think that what the elders know is old rules after all, with... With that... right! It has the limitations of the times, and many things that happened to them in the past are looked at now, and they happened to different objects, and the ending must be different."

"Yes!" The young demon got a ladder from a friend and hurriedly climbed up, "Look, if it were you and Alan, I think you can handle it better—if you can't, you can live together." When you come to Kalby, Allen is not like the human beings mentioned in the example of my parents. He will not adapt to gathering with dark creatures. You will settle in Kalby. No one here will move out because you chose each other. Great principles come to oppress you and force you to separate."

Allen, who was walking over, only heard the second half of his colleague's speech. Standing behind the two of them, he suddenly said, "Why me and Eli?"