Chapter 227

"I am very happy. There are not many people who can be sworn in by you on such an important occasion."

He turned his head and kissed Treya's forehead.

"Then I will answer the question just now, Will--"

"Keep going tonight, don't stop."

She reached out and unbuttoned her chest.

"Especially, that beautiful dream."

...

In the future...

Will they spend every night in Treya's room like this?

Chapter 256 Interlude: Something is wrong with him x1 (3k)

"He...something is wrong with him."

Xuna stared at the newspaper with Will being carried by a princess, and wanted to get close to him to look at it with a microscope, and then she spoke like this.

"I'm talking to you. We just sat down and didn't talk about business. You stared at his photo in the newspaper. Are you still going to talk?"

In an ordinary town in the southeast corner of the capital, Pevlan and Shuna finally contacted and met - of course, it was not because of Iel's guidance, but Shuna got Pevlan's message in the town of Novis, which was once a novice village, and inquired about the information of the famous "White Fortress". Then, she asked the Adventurer Association to pass the message and found a relay point along the way.

A week has passed since Shuna and Will said goodbye.

"Ah, there's nothing I can do. Wouldn't you be unable to take your eyes off when you see your first love getting engaged to someone else?"

Shuna spread her hands, leaned back on the chair, and spoke naturally.

"..."

Pevlan wanted to make a joke, but was choked back by her "frank" admission.

It should be said that although they haven't seen each other for a few years, Shuna is still the person who is so straightforward that it is difficult for others to take the upper hand in words.

In a sense, she has not grown up at all.

"Why? He's about to become a husband, and he's the Queen's man, and you still want to take advantage of him?"

"... Not really, I just think he's really not right."

Xiuna's eyes were still fixed on the newspaper.

She squinted, and the gray-white newspaper was particularly eye-catching in the sun.

To be honest, even she herself couldn't explain it clearly.

If it was according to what Will had promised her before he left, the "engagement" now shown in the newspaper might be what Will wanted.

He successfully assisted the princess, completed his plan, and then walked hand in hand with her into the marriage hall.

At least the princess "pampered" him very much, "liked" him very much, and didn't commit suicide because of him, and didn't do anything to him.

She even announced the good news to the people of the whole country.

Oh.

It's really a cause for celebration, a cause for celebration.

He really had a plan in mind, was sure of victory, was full of confidence, and won a big victory, so he should be congratulated.

But...

"What's wrong? Tell me in detail."

"Didn't you say you wanted to talk about business? Why are you gossiping about me again? You are not my captain now. You have to change this habit."

Pevlan looked at the newspaper and Will, but her eyes were more like she was looking at a public figure who was at the center of the gossip and very far away from him.

Pevlan felt that she had nothing to do with this person, but she did hear a lot of rumors about him along the way.

There were rumors about the young masters of the Systrom family, and this one looked even more important.

"I heard about this person from his maid. How should I put it... He seems to be a stranger guy than you. That's why I want to hear what you think."

"Strange."

Xuna did not deny this view.

In a sense, perhaps it was because Will was strange that she liked him for so long.

After all, a normal person who is "not weird" probably wouldn't ask a question like "How to use low-level magic like ice armor to resist 200-degree steam" on the Adventurer's Association's message board - when he was only ten years old.

"Okay. It's really weird."

This trait of his is also... what attracts her.

"Then, what's wrong with this engagement photo? Isn't it weird that he's being carried by a princess?"

"This photo... he's too normal. That's what's wrong."

Shuna answered her question with a roundabout and riddle-like sentence.

"You call this normal?"

"The smile is not happy enough, but it's sincere enough, without any acting color - this is too normal, it's hard to believe."

In Shuna's eyes, Will's abnormality is probably here.

When she first met him, he clearly had a thick barrier, as if he couldn't fit into this world, as if he wasn't "alive" here.

After the witch took him away, the barrier on him was thinner, and the feeling of being alive was stronger.

But...

"The man in this photo seems to have changed his 'life', living a happy life all the time, and encountering the happy surprise of being hugged by his fiancée. But I don't think he is the kind of person who would feel this way."

"Will should be a person who appears to be more passionate on the outside, but is colder on the inside."

As Xiuna said this, she rubbed her fingers around Will's face in the newspaper. During the friction, her fingertips were already stained with the gray printed on the newspaper.

She became more and more irritated as she spoke.

She originally thought that the person who could make Will become more honest would be herself, and she felt like she had been robbed of the dungeon BOSS.

Although, in her eyes, the current Will is very "awkward".

"I always feel like he has forced colored paint on gray stone. It's very wrong."

Speaking of which.

Shona's fingers paused for a moment.

The newspaper is black and white. Although you can't see the color, you can roughly tell what color it is by the grayscale of the color.

For example, if Will's eyes are dark blue, when Treya was a princess, she was often praised for her "beautiful light blue eyes" by people she met.

It looks like this...

Why does Treya's left eye appear slightly darker? Compared to Will's dark blue, it seems to be darker, but it won't be the same black eyes as mine.

Could it be...

Purple?

Shona mentally thought of the color of the eyes of an empress in a remote dungeon. She happened to be a "demon" with the same source of power as the Entak royal family.

Pevlan listened to Xiuna's narration quietly, then watched her fingers twist and then stop at the position of her eyes.

After waiting for a while and Xiuna didn't speak any more, she asked:

"No more?"

"No more. What else do you want?"

"Well, what should I say? He is really a strange person. The women around him seem to have different evaluations of him. I guess even His Majesty's evaluation will be completely different from yours."

"Forget it. Let's continue talking about your business."

Shona scratched her head, as if she wasn't willing to continue talking.

"I mentioned just now that you are not an 'isolated case'. In Novis Town, we found an individual similar to the one you were born at. And... her body also had black hair and black eyes - just like you. "

"It's not surprising. The town of Norvis was discovered in the dungeon in The Wizard of Oz, right?"

"Yes. After all, this is the only underground city there these past few months."

"Well..."

Shona started thinking.

Although there is no obvious connection, the "Green Stone" was also discovered in the Wizard of Oz at that time, and what was also found was a processed stone - proving that the Wizard of Oz was on the Green Stone buying and selling line. Well-informed.

"Did that person also kill the emperor in the dungeon - or when you arrived, what you saw was her holding a knife and the emperor lying on the ground?"

Pevlan's expression suddenly became serious.

"...How do you know? Could it be..."

"Yes, I was like that at the time. However, other than that, I can't provide any clues..."

Shona still hid something and didn't say it.

Although Pevlan did not mention the "cause of death" of the person, she guessed that she most likely committed suicide.

Of course because...

She had thought about it too.

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

"It's nothing. It's just that in the dungeons under the responsibility of the Adventurer Association, there have been more and more mysterious combat power enhancement events recently. Our rescue team reported many abnormalities, but nothing was found above. I was still thinking, when encountering such a Weird things, can you provide some relevant clues?”

"!?"

Shona felt like she heard some strange information.

The inexplicable increase in combat power, as well as the reported abnormalities... When she and Will set out, they could no longer obtain the complete green stone. In the case of only fragments, the rescue team should not know this information.

Therefore, these dungeons may... no, they must be dungeons that also have "green rocks".

The clues that she and Will once thought were "broken" found an extension on the Adventurers Association side.

“Where can I learn about these anomalies?”

If there are any clues to the Green Stone...

There are clues to what he cares about most...

Then he will definitely take the bait, right?

You will definitely find a chance to go out with yourself, right?

Like before, my eyes lit up when I heard this word, and I sparked all my interest and went to investigate on my own.

Then...then there is a chance!

The card she holds in her hand that is most attractive to Will is the Adventurers Association.

…

When Shona reacted, her fists were clenched.

Was she someone who would be so excited about something like this? I always feel...

This is more like the ugly appearance of the "emotional loser" after the story ends.

"Why are you suddenly interested? It seemed like you didn't know anything just now."

"Adventurers... the Adventurers Association has done things that so many people have failed to accomplish. Of course I'm curious. What? The Adventurers Association won't take care of this, right?"

"..."

Pevlan knew a lot about Shona. She could tell at a glance that Shona was lying for other purposes.

but……

She really felt that if Shona came to investigate, she would be much better than herself.

The most important thing is that Shona is freer, unlike her who needs to drag the entire adventure team with her.

"There is a way. You can register with the Adventurers Association. As an S-level person, you can directly join the investigation of this incident and get the authority to inquire. Dungeons with abnormalities have been reported, but there is a certain level of confidentiality."