"Strange, where did Grandma Claire go? I haven't seen her for the past few days." Royce pushed the door open and walked into the bakery. He glanced at the spot behind the counter, which originally belonged to the old man, but was now occupied by the fox masked man.
The latter tapped his feet on the counter and ate the potato chips he had just bought from the street next door with a leisurely look.
"Claire went on vacation and won't be back for a while."
Royce looked a little puzzled. "Vacation? But she made an appointment with me last week to teach me how to make lemon cakes today. "
The fox masked man shrugged. "Then you might have to wait another day. She left in a hurry. I think she went to see an old friend or something. She won't be back for the next two weeks."
"Really?" The female archer was skeptical. She put the bag of fresh lemons on the table, and then her eyes moved to the chair under Royce's butt. Her face changed. "Oh no, you're in big trouble. Why did you replace Grandma Claire's favorite chair? She can't tolerate anyone touching her chair. "
The fox masked man was stunned. "Really? She's already so old. Hasn't she changed her obsession with things? If I said she took the chair with her when she went to see an old friend, would you believe me? "
"…" Royce looked at his teacher with a gaze that was filled with concern for an idiot.
The fox masked man scratched his head and muttered, "You said she likes that chair very much. If that's the case, isn't it normal for her to take it with her wherever she goes?"
The female archer frowned. "Where is Grandma Claire? She cares a lot about this bakery. There's no reason for her to suddenly leave for so many days. She didn't even lock the door when she left. She's never been such a careless person. Also, weren't you looking forward to the freshmen competition? Why didn't you go there? And you haven't explained to me why you suddenly put the sacred artifact in two days before the competition. Do you know how rare a sacred artifact is? If the church finds out that there's still a sacred artifact outside, it will cause a lot of trouble."
"Well, she is indeed a guest in someone else's house now." The fox masked man was evasive. In the face of his female apprentice's bombardment of questions, he was obviously a little overwhelmed. He stammered, "Well, it's a sacred tool. I found it by accident. I feel that it's not good to keep it in the corner and collect dust. It's better to take it out and have fun with it."
Louisa would never believe such a clumsy lie. After spending so much time with this guy, she had come to understand that there were not many coincidences in this world. This guy was indeed a very strange person. Sometimes, he would do some very childish things, but it would often be proven later that his seemingly strange actions had a deeper meaning behind them. It was as if he was born with this ability, always hiding behind the scenes and silently watching everything.
However, after that, the man in the fox mask probably felt that he could not lie anymore, so he finally admitted, "Well, this time I've played a little too much. Claire was taken away under my nose, but you can rest assured that I'm now actively researching how to rescue her …"
The female archer's eyes widened. "Grandma Claire was taken away?! You still have the mood to shake your legs and eat potato chips here?! "
"Well, she's not in danger for the time being. The other party wants to use her to threaten me. Before he achieves his goal, he will find a way to take care of Claire … Claire has been thinking about the lizardmen in the Dagmar Desert. Maybe she can use this opportunity to reminisce about those passionate times," the man in the fox mask was still talking nonsense.
"Desert? Wait, is Grandma Claire also in the freshmen arena?! " Louisa grasped the key point in the man's words. "Oh my god, you can't be so evil. You already knew in advance that Grandma Claire would be kidnapped, so you put those sacred artifacts in the underground city."
"Nonsense, how could I deliberately risk Claire's life? Those sacred artifacts were clearly used to deal with that monster …" the man in the fox mask quibbled. He immediately realized that he seemed to have spilled the beans, so he could only say resentfully, "Well, I did know what would happen in the freshmen arena, so I put some small things in advance, but I guarantee that what happened to Claire was completely an accident. It was an emergency, and after the incident, I have been actively organizing a rescue team day and night. Just now, I finally made a breakthrough, and now I almost know who did it," he said seriously as he moved the bag of potato chips on the counter below.
"Then tell me honestly, what exactly happened in the freshmen arena?"
"Ha, the people from the Heresy Court secretly sent a monster in without telling anyone else. They thought they were very secretive and kept everyone, including me, in the dark, but in reality, it once again proves that the brain is a very important thing. They already did something once by the lake, and even their secret hideout was destroyed by my people, and this time they're using the same trick. Not creative at all, if I fall for it again, I'll just find a plate of noodles and kill myself," the man in the fox mask curled his lips and said disdainfully.
Louisa gasped. "Did the Heresy Court hide another Man Killer Fiend in Gudilesi City?"
"No, it's not a Man Killer Fiend. The thing this time is much more interesting than a Man Killer Fiend. It doesn't seem to have a name yet, it's a brand new monster that the lunatics of the Heresy Court spent a lot of money to create. It's a combination of the strengths of several monsters, and they call it the 4th Generation Monster internally. It's the most important result of a monster experiment that started more than 200 years ago," the man in the fox mask said excitedly. "It's also the first time I've seen this kind of new thing, and from its performance these past few days, it really lives up to expectations. Tsk tsk, this guy's learning and evolution ability is simply challenging the laws of nature."
"So you let such a terrifying monster stay with a bunch of freshmen?" the female archer's face was full of disbelief. "But you had the ability to stop all of this from happening."
"Hmm, or you can put it another way. Someone secretly sent that monster into the freshmen arena, and I left them a chance of survival. Isn't that a lot more positive?" The man in the fox mask shrugged. "In short, the most important thing right now is to find a way to get Claire out."
"But you had the ability to stop all of this," Louisa repeated.
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