Cloud Thinking

Chapter 240: Rely on Friends When You Go Out

"Your Highness Helia, why are you here?"

Donaldson regained his consciousness and sat on the chair opposite Helia, frowning.

Of course he knew that Helia had killed Dorado, and he was also very clear that tonight's party was for this matter.

But isn't Helia in solitary confinement now? How did she manage to get here in such a short time without alerting anyone?

What was she doing here? Was she here to kill people? Was she here to prevent the Morabi family from taking revenge? Was she here to learn about the secrets of the noble families? What kind of trouble was she going to cause?

A bunch of questions flooded into his mind with the appearance of Helia, but he also knew that Helia was not someone he could question, and their relationship did not allow them to tell each other the truth.

Helia stared at Donaldson, frowning, and remained silent for a long time.

Just when Donaldson began to wonder if there was something else on his face, he heard Helia say awkwardly: "You..."

"What's your name...?"

Donaldson felt his eyes go dark and he almost fainted.

Although he had never imagined the scene of meeting Helia again, he never expected that she would not even remember his name.

But judging from her reaction, she probably recognized his face. Shouldn't he feel relieved and honored about this?

He suddenly recalled the scene when his team was trapped in the underground ruins during the previous competition. At that time, Helia didn't seem to recognize him.

How to say it, although he didn't expect the other party to remember him, when he found out that the other party didn't even remember his name, he did feel a little uncomfortable.

"My name is Donaldson..." He said his name through gritted teeth.

"Oh! It's you!" Helia looked as if she had suddenly realized something, which made Donaldson even more depressed.

Is my name so hard to remember? Or is Helia forgetful? She doesn't look forgetful at such a young age...

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Darlie's voice sounded from outside the door: "Donaldson, I'm coming in."

Helia didn't know that it was Dalli outside the house. She thought it was someone from the aristocratic family led by Donaldson, so she quickly got up and tried to find a place to hide. However, Dalli's knock on the door was just out of superficial politeness. Without waiting for the people in the house to respond, she opened the door.

So, Dalli, who was carrying the water, met Helia's eyes as she was about to escape through the window.

Compared to Donaldson's shock and confusion, Dalli quickly figured out the current situation and closed the door naturally, as if she had seen nothing.

"Dalli, is that you?"

Helia recognized Darlie, so she took her foot off the windowsill and closed the window and curtains again.

Donaldson was further devastated.

They all remember Dalli's name, so why don't they remember his? Is there still discrimination between men and women?

Darlie raised her index finger to her lips, signaling Helia not to speak, and then summoned her wand to cast a simple anti-peeping barrier to ensure that the movements in the house would not be noticed by people outside.

She carefully checked the house and confirmed that there were no spying or recording magic or magic props. Then she looked at Helia and asked:

"Your Highness Helia, why are you here?"

Helia didn't hide anything and stated her purpose directly: "I want to sneak into this meeting. Can you help me?"

She didn't expect that both Donaldson and Dallie were children from magical families. It seemed that Carter's College was almost infiltrated like a sieve.

Donaldson refused directly, "No."

"Participants must be children of a magic family. You can't get in."

"And we won't..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Darlie: "You just want to find out the news, right?"

Helia shook her head, "It's more than that."

It seems that tonight is not destined to be a gentle and peaceful night.

"Your Highness Helia, this is not the royal palace. This is the territory of the Murabi family. You just killed one of their members. If you are discovered, you will die here." Donaldson reminded and threatened.

"Let's go now. For the sake of our fellow students, we will pretend that we know nothing."

Dalli was dissatisfied with Donaldson's remarks and drove him away directly: "Donaldson, go downstairs and call Judith and the others up, and tell them that there is something important to discuss."

Donaldson was dissatisfied with Darlie's tone of command, but when he met her unhappy look, he said nothing and got up and left.

Darlie watched Donaldson slam the door and leave, smiled at Helia a little embarrassedly, and explained: "He has been having a hard time since graduation, so his temper has become so bad, don't mind it."

Helia sensed the strange atmosphere between Darlie and Donaldson, and asked curiously, "Who are you two..."

Dalli smiled helplessly: "Family marriage."

Helia's expression changed again and again. Looking at Dalli's face and Donaldson's attitude just now, it seemed that the two of them had no friendship for each other and were forced to be together only for family reasons.

Alas... She could only pat the other person's shoulders twice to comfort him. She didn't know how to say anything extra, and it was difficult for her to say it.

Judith and Mirang came up quickly. When they opened the door and saw Helia, Mirang screamed, "Helia..."

But a quick elbow from Giudice shut him up.

The door was closed again. At this moment, the five people in the room looked at each other, as if they were analyzing the current situation. For a moment, the atmosphere was silent and a little awkward.

Mirang was the first to lose his temper. He moved closer to Helia and said in a low voice, "No, Helia, why are you here?"

He didn't use any honorifics, probably because he still remembered what Helia had said in the academy before, and he treated her as a classmate and friend.

"It's impossible that I came here to reminisce about the past with you." Helia glanced at Mirang and felt that he was as stupid and dumb as he was in the academy.

She looked at Judith and tilted her head toward the window, motioning for her to step aside to talk.

Save time talking to smart people.

"Your Highness Helia, the Tanasha family has sent two younger generations, but we are not sure whether they are direct descendants. People in their family do not often show up in public. If you come here rashly, your life may be in danger." Judith reminded.

His tone was gentle, and unlike Donaldson's implicit threat, his words were spoken out of worry and concern.

"I've actually always been curious about one thing." Helia changed the subject, "Is the future predetermined? Is fate predetermined?"

"If so, then what is the purpose of the existence of foreknowledge? Is it to make people feel their own insignificance and powerlessness and make them submit to the authority of fate?"

"If not, then why do we believe that the predicted future must be true, and why do we try to avoid the predicted future?"

"I have only one attitude towards the future and destiny. I will not be a passive follower. I want to be the one who takes the initiative to control my destiny and future. I want to be the master of my life."

"So no matter what they foresaw, whether they saw me coming and set a trap, or whether my coming was not what they expected, I am not afraid."

"I will move towards my goal. I will work hard to get what I want and remove any obstacles I encounter. Do you understand?"

Judith understood, or rather understood it very early on, that Helia was still the same Helia as before. Even if there were towering mountains in front of her, she could still move forward firmly and bravely until she reached her destination.

"I can help you. You saved our lives. It would be unreasonable for me not to help you." Judith waved to Dalli and Mirang, motioning them to come over.

Since Dalli called Judith, it was obvious that she wanted to help Helia, and Mirang always took Judith as the leader, and judging from the attitude he just showed, it was obvious that he did not intend to be an enemy of Helia.

But Donaldson had some reservations and was not so willing to help.

"There is a bloodline verification checkpoint to enter the meeting. Princess Helia definitely cannot replace someone else to enter. We have to find another way."

"If I remember correctly, Judith, your family seems to have some kind of imitation magic inheritance. You should be able to help, right?" Dalli said.

Judith nodded, and had no other reaction to the fact that Dalli knew about her family's inheritance. However, Mi Rang was a little surprised and stared at Dalli vigilantly.

"I can turn you, Your Highness, into an inanimate object, but this magic has great limitations. You must transform back into a human within an hour, otherwise..." Judith paused for a moment and continued, "You will never be able to transform back."

"But how long the meeting will last is uncertain. If your identity is exposed during the meeting, you will definitely be besieged by the participants. You must be prepared."

"The meeting is hosted by the Murabi family, and this is their territory. Once you show up, you will definitely be caught by them. Have you thought about how to break out?"

Helia subconsciously touched the small bag on her waist, which contained her secret weapon. After listening to Judith's words, she nodded.

"I have a way to break through, don't worry." She said, "But no matter what happens, you are not allowed to help me, and try to distance yourself from me."

"I just need you to help me this time. If I hadn't been desperate, I wouldn't have troubled you."

Even at this point, Helia was not worried about herself, but was still thinking about them, worried that they would be implicated by her.

Judith and Dalli both smiled helplessly. As expected, Helia was still the same Helia, the one who dared to fight against the great believer alone to protect everyone.

"Well, don't worry, if we dare to help you, we will figure out how to get out of this situation." Judith said.

For some reason, Helia stared at Judith's face. Even though the other person's smile was normal, she still caught a trace of guilt.

She thought he was lying.

"You saved me twice, I should repay you." Dalli said again.

What she meant was that even if she was eventually blamed or even punished by her family or other noble families, Helia didn't need to feel guilty or blame herself. She could just think of it as repaying the other party for saving her life.

After repaying the favor, both parties are even.

"Yeah, I didn't even have time to say thank you before you left." Mi Rang recalled what happened before and scratched his head a little guiltily, "Thank you, otherwise we would have died."

Helia found it funny for some reason. "It's as if I didn't come back to the academy, and you didn't come to thank me?"

Mi Rang glanced at Judith, who then took the opportunity to explain, "We returned to our family after graduation, and have been...staying at home to study our family traditions, so we haven't been able to go back."

Helia understood that this was a disguised form of house arrest.

Yes, these children from aristocratic families have been given the name of aristocratic families since they were born and have been kept in the world of the aristocratic families. Sending them to Carters College is just for the purpose of infiltration and testing. In the end, they still have to return to the aristocratic families.

In order to prevent them from being confused by the vast world outside, they were put under house arrest when they returned, under the pretext of allowing them to inherit the family tradition. In fact, this was to restrain their minds and make them recognize whose blood was flowing in their bodies and what their responsibilities were.

No wonder Brahili tried his best to escape and refused to let his son have too much contact with the family.

However, perhaps it is precisely because of the precedent of Brahili that the aristocratic families have become increasingly strict in disciplining their younger children, for fear that the good seedlings they have cultivated will eventually run away or even stab them in the back.

Helia didn't dare to think about what kind of punishment Judith and the others would face if she ran away after doing this job. Would she ever see them again in the future?

She lowered her eyes to hide the chaotic and complicated emotions that flashed through them, and said, "Thank you."

"We should be the ones saying this," Judith said with a smile.

Although Donaldson was somewhat reluctant, as Darlie said, he was saved twice by Helia. If it weren't for Helia, he would have died long ago.

Out of the little bit of conscience that had not yet been extinguished, he finally nodded and agreed to help Helia sneak in.

"Come to think of it, I'm surprised that Donaldson and Darlie are together. I didn't expect Judith and Mirang to be together too. What's going on with you two?" Helia didn't think about anything else when she said this, nor did she think that the relationship between the two of them was the kind that was not presentable.

But putting them together like this can still easily lead to misunderstanding.

Donaldson was hit hard again. Helia could recognize Dalli, Judith, and even remembered Mirang's name, but she couldn't remember his!

Is this intentional? Tell me! It must be intentional!

"I was born into a small family, which has become increasingly decadent in recent years. In order to avoid being divided up by other families, I turned to Judith's family and became their dependent." Mi Rang said frankly, and from his tone, it could be heard that he did not think this was a humiliating thing.

"So I was sent to his house when I was young, grew up with him, and became his bodyguard."

Although Mirang acted very calmly, Helia still felt that she had stabbed him in the stomach. "Sorry, I didn't mean to..."

"What's the big deal?" Mirang put his arm around Judith's shoulders and said with a smile, "You all think this is something that will make me feel uncomfortable, but I think it's a good thing."

"If it weren't for Judith, I would never have been able to access so many good resources, nor would I have been able to become a powerful magic swordsman. Moreover, he treats me very well, and our relationship is like that of brothers. I am very happy that I was chosen, and I am honored to be the sword that protects him."

"In the end, I am the winner. Look at my brothers, they live in fear and have no future. I am not like them. Thanks to Judith, I am now very successful."

How should I put it? I originally thought that Mi Rang was a straightforward idiot who couldn't think flexibly, but now it seems that he is quite smart.

Judith elbowed him again, "Okay, shut up."

Although he said that, his slightly red ears betrayed him. Mi Rang felt a little embarrassed by what he said.