Chapter 348 Gifts and Return Gifts

The handkerchief smells a bit?

After hearing the muffled reminder from his brother whose face was covered, Leon suddenly remembered that his handkerchief seemed to have just been used to wipe the "treasure" discovered by Melanie, so he quickly put the handkerchief away, rubbed William's face vigorously with his sleeve, and covered it with a dry smile:

"Maybe it's not wet enough, I'll go wash it first...Senior Emma, ​​where is the water?"

"Let me do it."

After looking at Leon with a slightly reproachful look, Emma, ​​who had already wiped her daughter's face, did not reveal the secret of Leon's handkerchief, but waved to William, and then used the part that was not stained with mud to wipe his face again.

With the blessing of the cleaner's strong body control, although Emma's movements were gentle and slow, and it seemed that she didn't use any force at all, the mud on William's face was disappearing visibly.

After seeing this scene, Melanie, who was being tortured painfully, could not help but protest again:

"Sister Anna, you can be less forceful, how about I..."

"You can either shut up and sit still, or I'll deduct your pocket money for the next week, your choice!"

"Oh..."

When Anna violently suppressed Melanie's uprising, Ellie, who had turned into a little porcelain doll again, approached Leon with some curiosity, looking at this big...uncle who made people want to get close to him inexplicably.

"What's wrong?"

Although he knew that little Ellie was not a real child, but an abnormal creature born from Emma's longing for her daughter, Leon still felt a surge of pity when he saw the little girl in front of him who was timidly trying to get close to him.

After crouching down slightly to make his eyes level with Little Ellie, Leon asked with a smile:

"Do you have anything to say to me?"

"Um..."

Still not used to communicating with people older than herself, after blinking timidly, Little Ellie couldn't help but look back at Emma, ​​and then, in her encouraging eyes, she mustered up the courage to say:

"I...I drew a picture a few days ago, it's...it's of you, I want to give it to you..."

Draw a picture of me?

After hearing what little Ellie said, Leon couldn't help but be slightly startled, then nodded with a warm heart, and replied with a smile:

"Thank you then... Where is the painting?"

"In my room..."

Seeing that Leon didn't refuse, little Ellie couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then her two little hands subconsciously grabbed the hem of her skirt, and said a little embarrassedly:

"If the painting is not very good, will you accept it?"

"Of course I would."

Looking at Ellie, whose painting style is completely different from the two devils in his family, and who is so well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed, Leon couldn't help but touch her head gently through the wide-brimmed soft hat, then stood up and took her gloved little hand, smiling and making a gesture of invitation.

"The cutest Miss Ellie, are you willing to take me to appreciate your work?"

"Yes!"

After getting Leon's positive response, little Ellie's face suddenly showed a big smile, and then under Emma's gentle gaze, she took Leon's hand into the inner room and handed a wrinkled drawing paper to Leon.

In the center of this immature painting, there is a large square frame that looks a bit like a lying coffin, with a dark hole on it. In front of the large square frame, there are all kinds of colors, just like the wastewater discharged into the river by the paint factory.

And three long tentacle monsters connected by lines are floating on these dazzling color blocks, surrounding a round thing with fire on it, dancing and performing some kind of evil ritual.

So... where am I?

Not embarrassed to say that he didn't quite understand, Leon had to bite the bullet and point to the only element he could recognize and praise:

"Not bad, the color is bold, and the style is also very avant-garde... Um, what are these fires?"

"It's candles!"

It's actually candles!

After getting the hint, Leon secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then relied on this information to guess all the way.

Then the thing below, which looks like a barrel of fuel, is round and has a horizontal strip in the middle. Could it be... a birthday cake? Are those long tentacle monsters people holding hands?

Could it be that the colorful blocks of color under the feet of the people are a garden? Is the lying coffin a cabin? So the real meaning of this painting is that the people who came to celebrate her birthday are dancing around the birthday cake in the garden hand in hand?

"It seems... it doesn't seem like it... I'll change it!"

After looking up at Leon in front of her and then looking down at the long tentacle monster in the painting, little Ellie's face turned slightly red. She quickly took the painting back, put a black coat on one of the tentacle monsters, and then put two dots on the position of the face and drew a short downward arc as a mouth.

After changing Leon's image, she simply went all out and drew a tree in the garden with a crayon. On the tree, she added a small tentacle monster touching a bird's nest, and under the tree was a big tentacle monster with his hands on his hips, looking up angrily.

On the other side of the tree, in what seemed to be a bush, there was a small tentacle monster that had half of its body in the bush and was twisting its butt desperately. The tentacle monster family... the Leon family were all painted on it.

"It seems... it seems to be a little better this time..."

After drawing a few small black particles next to Melanie, alluding to the precious treasure she found in the secret passage, little Ellie, who had completed the secondary creation, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then handed this abstract-looking painting to Leon with a blushing face.

"For you, thank you for coming to celebrate my birthday."

"No... you're welcome..."

After a slight twitch in the corner of his mouth, Leon carefully took over the avant-garde artistic "Tentacle Monster Sewage River Raging Picture" and put it away, then squatted down and smiled:

"I like your gift very much, and I also have a birthday gift for you."

"Really?"

After hearing what Leon said, little Ellie said with surprise:

"What gift?"

"It's not time yet~"

After pretending to smile mysteriously, Leon did not take out the fireworks and fireworks that were ordered overnight, but asked:

"Ellie, before giving the gift, can you take off your gloves and shake hands with me?"

Shake hands?

After hearing what Leon said, little Ellie hesitated for a moment, then nodded timidly, took off the gloves used to block the sun, and placed her small palm in Leon's palm.

[Name: Treasure Flower's Sorrow (Soul, Life and Death, Reflection)]

[Appearance: A well-behaved girl who can grow up normally but can only appear near Treasure Flower Manor. When exposed to too much sunlight, she will temporarily become transparent]

[Abilities: Soul Constancy (Limited), Resurrection from the Dead (Limited), Prayer Reflection (Regional Limited)]

[Price: None]

[File: After discovering that the execution of the Treasure Flower Family was inevitable, in order to keep her daughter alive, Emma Alman asked Leonard Kuko to protect her daughter at the cost of the location of the Treasure Flower Family's secret vault.

In order to obtain the wealth accumulated by the Bohua family, Leonard Cuco agreed to the deal, but after confirming the location of the secret vault, he was worried that the king would dislike him for saving the remnants of the Bohua family, so he tore up his promise and threw the less than one-year-old Ellie Alman into the lake to drown her...

...

When the ignorant soul returned to the world with her mother, Ellie Alman, who had lost her body, could not be resurrected and was about to completely dissipate under the sunlight.

In order to keep her last family, Emma Alman's strong desire led her to split part of the power of "Treasure Flower Sin" and combined the souls of many relatives who died with similar blood to create this special abnormal object that can only be "used" in Treasure Flower Manor...]

[Evaluation: When with "Treasure Flower Sin" Emma Alman, she should have gained the ability to grow and complete after 666 additional physical deaths, but because of the lack of the original body, this feature has never taken effect]

[Infection value: 0.1]

It's similar to what I guessed before, but it seems to be better.

After reading little Ellie's "explanation", Leon couldn't help but smile, the shiny buttons on his cuffs flickered slightly, and a small children's firework appeared in Ellie's palm.

Then, the [Dream Invader] created by the third generation director was activated, and a dreamlike flame quietly appeared, igniting the small petal-like colored paper at the end of the fireworks, and a small cluster of brilliant fireworks sprayed out from the gap between the petals of colored paper.

"Wow!!!"

"It's too late to give a real gift today, so I'll give you this first."

Holding Ellie's small palm and teaching her to use the bright spot at the end of the fireworks to draw circles in the air, Leon looked at the little Ellie in front of him with surprise, stretched out his right little finger to her, and said with a smile:

"If Ellie can do me a favor, when blowing the cake candles tonight, make a wish for Senior Emma to stay at home with you all day tomorrow, then I will give you a better gift, what do you think?"