Chapter 980
The moment Isaac's voice fell, the atmosphere... was embarrassing;
It was embarrassing.
Brandon’s voice faintly came from behind the blocked door-knocked on the door a few times and sent a message to His Royal Highness, who was unanswered. It sounded like he was very upset, ready to stay at the door. Don’t leave.
The little wizard with a cold sweat on his face stood there, with a nervous expression on his face, his teeth biting his lower lip, and his blue eyes were staring at Loren. Look.
Isaac held his arms back against the door, and looked at Ai Yin and the black hair wizard very curiously, narrowing his eyes with suspicious luster.
Trouble.
The fact that Ayin is a witch has always been a very sensitive topic.
Because of some "traditional prejudice" reasons, the wizard world has always been extremely exclusive to witches-even if there is no evidence to prove that witches are at a higher risk than wizards, but prejudice …Is always unreasonable.
The empire and the church’s “tolerance” towards the wizard class did not leave a way out to witches: The "Imperial Code" clearly stipulates that women are not allowed to touch the profession of wizard, and offenders deprive them of all title and property. Relegated to exile.
The church directly placed the witches at the same level as the "heretic" and "apostates", and all were at stake.
Even Lena Desalion, as the Imperial Family, can only "understand" and dare not really become a wizard, even if she really desires to be a witch.
So the little wizard can only be a cross-dresser, and even try to avoid all kinds of occasions that require publicity; at the same time, he regularly takes Mentor Dalton Kander's special voice changing potion, plus a little makeup.
And Ai Yin's appearance is "partially neutral", so in the eyes of most people, she is just an alchemist with "somewhat delicate looks"—Isaac's existence is even more helpful. She shared the "secular gaze" of overwhelming majority and saved a lot of trouble.
Under various factors, Ayin's true gender has always been a secret-in the Scarlet Blood Castle, only Loren, Dalton, and Master Ashamai know the truth.
This time is also a coincidence... The little wizard, who was busy with Floating Void City maintenance and the development of Lightsaber, apparently forgot to make up and take the voice-changing potion regularly, and Isaac noticed a very subtle weak spot.
Like Loren and Ashamai Master, they were discovered accidentally because of their respective coincidences.
So, I never told Isaac.
But Loren knows.
Isaac …Although he always pretends to be dismissive of the eyes and ideas of others, he is actually very sensitive-sometimes he is naive like a child, sometimes he is too mature.
In short, if he finds out that his friends are "hidden from him"...it is definitely not a little bit of excitement for him.
But this is not the most troublesome problem, because Brandon, Connold and a bunch of Imperial Family guards and Boy Hussars... are all at the door!
These... are the problem.
Once stimulated, Isaac can’t hold back his senses and expose Ayin’s identity...the consequences are still second. Anyone who has this secret can use it to blackmail or even threaten himself and himself. friend.
Imperial nobles, Holy Cross Church, certain clueless wizard Academy forces, certain dukes of harboring malicious intentions...
It’s not that they are afraid of them, but that they are At this juncture of "unanimous external", Loren really doesn't want to spend time and effort to play the "open strife and veiled struggle" game with them.
For some guys who are filled with silly brains, getting rid of a political enemy they hate is more important than survival.
So...you must first think of a statement that can be fooled temporarily, so that Isaac will doubt but at least not debunk it on the spot.
…………………………
"Voice changed?"
Isaac broke out.
"Yes, that's how it is." With a sigh, Loren with a "helpless" expression slowly lifts the head, very sincerely looked towards the surprised Isaac and the little wizard:
"Ayin...is still in the stage of developing voice change."
"Wait, wait, wait..."
Isaac, who waved his hand quickly, was instinctive backwards Hidden, only to find the door behind him: "You mean...no, I mean... what I want to express is... what I want to ask is..."
"Ain...this guy... How old is it?!"
"I don’t know very well, but I just missed it when I heard instructor Dalton once." Sighed then said again, Loren shook his head, deliberately avoiding Isaac’s gaze: "Anyway , That is... sixteen or seventeen years old?"
"Sixteen or seventeen years old?!"
Isaac's expression was even more shocked: "But I have known this guy for almost eight years !"
"This is the key, it’s really not a secret but I don’t know how to explain it...Since you find out, of course you have to tell you."
" But..." Isaac shook suddenly and faintly remembered something: "But when I first saw this guy, it didn't look like he was only seven or eight years old!"
"Usually It’s easy to make people look more mature than their actual age.” Loren gritted his teeth and took a deep breath:
“Isaac, you have to understand, you are like this. 'S genius is in ten-thousand does not have one, and Ain …think about Master Dalton, would he take in a wandering orphan as an apprentice for no reason?"
"He took you for no reason, Although it seemed that there was another purpose..."
Isaac's brows jumped continuously: "But I understand what you mean."
Looking at his suspicious look on his deputy, no matter what Is it black hair wizard or Ai Yin, both slightly relaxed.
Finally... it was temporarily fooled.
"So...the reason why I noticed that Ain's voice is slightly different from the previous sound is that it is due to the period of voice change plus long periods of non-rest and exhaustion?"
"Yes, that's how it is." Loren smiled and looked towards him, with a very sincere tone: "Speaking of which, it's Isaac; if it weren't for your reminder, I wouldn't have noticed this."
"Of course, there is a natural and insurmountable gap between the real wizard and the sorcerer, especially this kind of insight into the subtleties." Isaac, holding his arms, shrugged:
"Anyway, it sounds reasonable."
"Facts speak louder than words."
"Well said." Nodded, Isaac suddenly looked very "concerned" towards black hair wizard: "Ai, by the way-Loren, how are you recovering, are you awake?"
"Uh, I...woke up from sleep."
"Really?"
"Um, really."
"Don't hold on. If you didn't wake up, you didn't wake up." Isaac chattered uncharacteristically: "Straight Let’s talk, was it awakened by the two of us?"
"No, I am awake now."
"Isn’t it pretending?"
"No." Looking at the abnormal Isaac, Loren suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Since I am sober..." Isaac's complexion changed abruptly, squinting at the face of the black hair wizard:
"Then why lie to me?"
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"..." Loren.
"..." Ai Yin.
"I just thought if there was an accident, but now it seems to be more than I thought!" Isaac, stared wide-eyed, looked particularly aggrieved:
p>"My friend, my best friend, it is totally intolerable to conceal one thing from me!"
"And what is even more intolerable is that they not only conceal something , Still trying to deceive me after being pierced by me!"
"Isaac, we didn't mean to lie to you." Loren sighed, his expression incomparably tangled: "Yes, I just..."
"I don't want to tell me the truth!"
For the flustered and exasperated black hair wizard, Isaac's expression became more and more annoyed, and he directly picked up the magic wand on the side: "What is it? You can hide things from me until now, and you still think I shouldn’t know?!"
"It’s not that you shouldn’t know, but everyone shouldn’t know--including me, because of one... Um, I knew it by accident."
"That should be...huh?" Isaac raised his eyebrows, his expression slightly improved: "In other words, this incident belongs to Ain's...private secret "
Loren closed his eyes, nodded helplessly: "You can say so."
"So... until now, only you know-and because of an accident? To be honest, don’t lie to me!"
"Because of an accident, then..." The black hair wizard had a flat mouth and was very entangled: "Teacher Dalton and...Ashamai Master also know."
Dang!
The wand fell to the ground.
Isaac mouth opened wide, so shocked that I can hardly speak.
The grievances were almost written on his face.
"Even...Even the Ashamed Master is in front of me, knowing the secret of my best friend?"
"That was an accident."
Although it is true That's the case, but Loren himself feels that this explanation is particularly unconvincing.
The atmosphere in the room has become very subtle.
The little wizard who was always silent blushed, struggling flashing in Zhan blue eyes.
The black hair wizard couldn't help closing his eyes.
Yes, the person who really hesitated and was hurt is not himself, nor Isaac, but Ayn.
Only after really personally experiencing and experiencing can we truly understand the world that resembles the "Medieval feudal society", and the deep malice and prejudice against certain classes and genders.
Charlotte ran for the Torino family and the future of Byrne, and even sacrificed herself; but in the eyes of the "traditional Byrne people", she ruled Duchy in the name of others is acceptable, but Never become the Duke of Byrne.
Because of her, not "him".
Salika Jonah won the title of Duke with the Centaur Battle of the Great Green Sea, but the result was surrounded by various rumors and rebellion-if there were no Brandon and Loren While supporting, she couldn't even sit firmly in the position of the leader of her Jonah family.
Because she is not "him".
Fitlownet Dessalion...Even if she has been out of the queen’s empire, she has a higher hatred of Princess Zhang than Brandon—they love Princess Zhang and respect Princess Zhang, but rather Support Brandon is not willing to support her.
Because she is not "him".
The church despises the wizard, the rich despise the poor, the old nobles despise the new aristocrats, and the Imperial Capital people despise foreigners... The reason why this empire full of prejudice and malice did not fall into a civil war depends on the Evil God in the north. And the giant dragon of Jufeng Mountain.
Because in the eyes of Evil God and giant dragon, humans are no different from ants.
It's ridiculous, but more cruel.
black hair wizard lifts the head looked towards Isaac, and decided to pull a more bizarre answer to try-even if I can't fool Isaac and make him feel cheated by himself, it's better than letting Ayin...
"Isaac!"
At this moment, the little wizard suddenly spoke, with a slight tremor in his voice: "It's no longer meaningful to keep concealing things until now— —You are right, I shouldn’t hide something from my friends..."
"Ayin, you..."
"Loren, listen to me!"
The little wizard steals directly, and looks towards Isaac solemnly: "Loren has only one reason for lying all the time, to protect me."
"Protect you, what to protect you "Isaac was startled, with a very incomprehensible expression: "Are you very special and dangerous-don't be funny, Ain, you're just an alchemist, and I'm just a wizard."
"Although I hate this kind of rhetoric, this world still despises the wizards. Even the church spit at us at best, rolled his eyes and said two words of frigid irony and scorching satire——well, unless you are heretic Or a witch."
"Yes."
Ai Yin sighed lightly.
"Um...right, right?" Isaac's expression froze.
"I mean, you guessed it."
Took a deep breath, the little wizard's words made Isaac completely froze:
"I …Is a witch."
At that moment, the atmosphere in the room became extremely silent again.
Slowly closing his eyes, the black hair wizard lowered his head.
Looking at Isaac, who was already speechless, the expressionless little wizard took off his head strap, let his long hair hang behind him, and took off his coat:
"If If you didn’t hear clearly, I can repeat that... vocabulary just now, but it doesn’t mean anything else, I just don’t want you to misunderstand it."
"I didn’t deliberately conceal something from you— —Just as you said, in the eyes of the empire and the church, witches are no different from heretic."
"Even for your safety, I don’t want you to know...this is at least something wrong. At that time, you can still be the one who knows nothing."
Isaac stood there, dumbfounded, unable to even say a word-neither knew how to answer nor what to do. Asking something, completely turned into a piece of wood.
"If you think I'm cheating, deliberately concealing it and not telling you is out of mistrust... Then you just think about it, and I don't plan to defend it anymore."
Pretending to be calm, Ai Yin lowered her head, trying to hide the crystal clear corners of her eyes, and the corners of her mouth curled up with a bitter curvature: "Just like you said-so stupid, only a little clever me, simply unworthy Become a friend of the genius Isaac Grantham!"
The voice fell, and the little wizard, who choked a few times, stood up again, pushed open the door blocked by Isaac, and walked out of the room in large strides.