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"Then, Sylphy, why don't you just accompany Gawain?"

Sylphy became proud:

"Sylphy is quite useful, isn't she?"

Because Sylphy is useless, she cannot accompany her brother. Now Sylphy only makes her brother feel pain and self-blame. Just staying by her brother's side will make him hurt and sad.

Gawain pondered:

"Can you guys talk about this in private?"

Chapter 25 Teachers and Students

October 3, 417 Jialong calendar year

In the private training ground, Roxy was practicing alone on how to use the new magic armor.

Gawain and Sylphy had been gone for two hours.

This statement is not quite right. After all, Sylphy will not come back here in the short term, perhaps for several months.

The three people who had just reunited separated again.

Luo Qixi couldn't help but think:

"After we find everyone, can we really live a peaceful and happy life together like we did in the past?"

The answer is obvious.

Even on the way back, Luo Qixi had actually come to this answer deep in her heart, but she just didn't want to admit it.

Children will leave home when they grow up, students will leave their teachers when they graduate, and friends will go their separate ways after getting together. This is the most natural thing.

Just like how, during her year-plus in the Demon Continent, Roxy had dined with two of her former adventurer team mates several times, even boasting about leading them to slay the Red-Eating Serpent that had appeared in the outskirts of Licaris City. Even if she possessed powers that amazed her former friends, what did it matter? Everyone would still return home before nightfall, to their more important family.

There is no way to turn back time.

Even if Sylphy and Gawain accepted me and said they treated me as a family member and an elder, what would it matter?

That was just a metaphorical relationship. Her strong connection with her students might last for another five or ten years, until they all left for Shalia as promised, until they graduated from the Lanoa School of Magic. Then the promise would end, and the connection between her and her students would naturally break with it.

Sylphy and Gawain, Rudy and Alice, they might become two loving couples, separate from their original happy families, and become two new, small, and equally happy families.

And what about her?

She has no one she loves, and no one who loves her. This certainly does not refer to the love between family members, but the love that can make two people who were once strangers and had no blood relationship become family.

So, one day she will become lonely again, just like she had been for more than 20 years.

Even if she reestablished contact with her parents, Luo Qixi didn't think that would make up for her loneliness. After all, she was no longer a child, but an adult who was mature enough to support an entire village on her own.

But it doesn't matter.

"I'm not someone who is so fragile that I need to rely on others to survive."

Yes, she has grown so much, hasn't she? She has gained a lot, hasn't she?

"I am satisfied."

Luo Qixi felt that she was satisfied.

Lokisi controlled the full body magic armor which was more than a hundred times more complicated than the magic arm armor, and maneuvered nimbly in the open field, occasionally pulling out the magic spear to simulate shooting.

It was hard for her to imagine that this thing was the work completed by Gawain and Rudy during the period when she left. The integrated achievements might be several times more than the total achievements during the Buena Village period. Then, based on pure logical deduction:

"This thing must have been secretly made by Gawain alone, right? Many of these so-called modules are even made of anti-magic materials to form black boxes. Is this some kind of shameful lost technology?"

Luo Qixi couldn't help but complain.

This also reminded her of what Sylphy had warned her privately last night:

"Teacher, my brother has been under a lot of psychological pressure recently. I hope you won't add any extra emotional burden to him."

Therefore, Luo Qixi did not intend to delve into it.

As for Sylphy's other private warning this morning:

"Brother is still the same as before in many ways, so please don't bully him based on your understanding of him, okay?"

Luo Qixi was also helpless:

"Who do you take me for?!"

It's been just over three years since we last saw each other, but she's almost had a generation gap with everyone else. This is probably what happens when children are in their growing years. Although their essence and friendship haven't changed, there are too many changes in other areas.

But, probably, these are all good changes.

When Luo Qixi first learned from the letter left by Gawain that he had fallen out with his adoptive parents, she was so anxious that she almost wanted to turn back immediately.

I never thought that such a dishonest idiot who loves to dwell on trivial matters like me would grow up to this point, and... and... and still sleep with Sylphy...!

Thinking of this topic, Loki's face turned red instantly under the helmet. She quickly stopped practicing, took off the helmet, and fanned her cheeks with her hands to cool down.

"Are they confirmed in their relationship?"

“But it doesn’t look like it…”

Although Luo Qixi felt a little uncomfortable for some reason, probably because of the feeling of being abandoned or isolated, her gossipy heart was still burning.

At this time, another voice sounded:

"What determines the relationship?"

Luo Qixi was so frightened that she almost threw her helmet away. She glared in the direction of the voice angrily:

"Don't speak suddenly behind someone's back, idiot!"

Gawain also untied his helmet, shook his messy hair, and landed not far in front of Lokisi, and suddenly explained:

"You guessed right. These full-coverage magic armors were indeed made by me without anyone's knowledge. They were previously inappropriate to be shown. However, the anti-magic material wrapped around them isn't some shameful technology, but rather delicate components that are easily damaged by excessive magic power."

Luo Qixi blushed as she recalled what she had just said to herself, and asked simply:

"When did you come back?"

Gawain was as keen on telling the truth as ever:

"That's it. I was planning on observing your training, but I didn't expect you to get distracted so quickly."

Luo Qixi patted her breastplate in relief. Fortunately, no one heard the embarrassing part.

Gao Wen asked casually:

"So, what determines the relationship?"

Luo Qixi circled around Gawain suspiciously.

"Mr. Gao Wen, have you become a stuffy, gossipy guy over the years?"

Gao Wen didn't bother to pay attention to her and ordered directly:

"We've finished what we discussed earlier. You should pack up your equipment and I'll take you to various locations to issue commissions. It's a good opportunity for you to raise your adventurer level to S, so I don't have to question your adventurer level every time."

Luo Qixi's attention was diverted by the new topic. She couldn't help but ask curiously:

"I remember you said that Elinalize helped you get the adventurer qualification, right? So, what level are you at now?"

"E."

“Puchi…Hahahahaha…!”

Luo Qixi tried hard to cover her mouth, but she couldn't hold it in anymore.

Until Gawain, who could no longer bear it, put the helmet in his hand on Loki's head.

In an instant, Luo Qixi calmed down.

The unfamiliar aroma of plants and trees uncontrollably penetrated her nostrils, and the fresh and refreshing smell made her dizzy.

Loki followed Gawain into the room. She tried to hold her breath until she felt suffocated, then she realized she could take off her helmet.

After clumsily taking off the helmet, Loki greedily took two breaths of clean air without the smell of Gawain's hair, and fanned her nose, hoping to quickly dispel the smell of plants lingering in front of her.

She looked at Gao Wen's back and asked subconsciously:

"Speaking of which, Gawain, are you engaged?"

Gawain pulled out his chair and sat down. He took out a rolled-up map of various countries from a bucket beside him and chatted casually:

"Didn't you and Sylphy talk about this last night? Although no one believed I was only ten years old at the time, the engagement was indeed a hot topic. Sylphy was so angry that she had to clean the mailbox every day."

No, she was definitely not mad about cleaning.

I don't know why, maybe it's my self-righteous intuition, or maybe it's because I and Rudy once made too many tasteless jokes about brother-sister love in private, but Lokixi just feels that Sylphy likes her brother in a romantic sense, even though Sylphy is not even of engagement age.

Of course, it is more likely because he has not grown up yet. It is not strange to have possessiveness and budding love for the brother who has been with him since childhood.

Luo Qixi pulled out her chair and sat down:

"You've done so much without me these past few years, and we've only just begun talking about preparations for your tenth birthday."

Gawain calmly looked up at Luo Qixi and then lowered his head:

"You abandoned us."

Luo Qixi hugged herself in horror:

"Gawain, you're not still holding a grudge, are you?"

"No."

“Absolutely!!!”

"whatever you think."

Luo Qixi smiled helplessly and continued gossiping:

"Gawain, don't you have any ideas? Sylphy said that Rudy is likely to marry the eldest daughter of the Boreas family, right?"

Gawain circled the map:

"Record the place names in the order I circled them."

Luo Qixi picked up an empty notebook and pen from the pile of books, stood next to Gawain and began to take notes.

Gawain then replied:

"I won't get married, and I don't have any plans."

The second half wasn't surprising, but the first half made Luo Qixi extremely confused:

"Gawain, aren't you the last of the Vitrum people? Is it really okay not to continue the bloodline of your race? Even if it's just mixed blood. Didn't you say something perverted in your early years about wanting to marry as many wives as possible?"

"Wait...could it be that the Vitrum can't interbreed with other races?"

Gao Wen didn't want to explain too deeply:

"That's pretty much it."

Seeing Gao Wen's negative attitude, Luo Qixi didn't go into the matter any further. In her opinion, being unable to have offspring was obviously not a reason to give up on falling in love. So it was most likely a problem of lifespan, right?

Lokixi still remembered that Rudy used to like telling everyone stories about the theory of longevity, such as the story of an immortal witch adopting a human boy, which often made Sylphy very sad. Then Rudy would be beaten by Gawain. She only thought it was funny at the time, but now she only thinks it is troublesome.

Honestly, as a demon, Roxy didn't quite understand this sort of thing. It wasn't that she didn't find the lifespan theory sad, but she couldn't understand why someone would refuse to face the truth because of the difference in lifespans. Of course, she was someone who loved to avoid things, but Roxy didn't think she'd avoid this kind of thing. In the demonic continent, there were examples of immortals and mortals marrying, weren't there? Perhaps it was just the difference in the cultural atmosphere they grew up in.

Luo Qixi decided to find an opportunity to persuade Gao Wen in the next few days. This is also the teacher's responsibility.

After a moment of silence, Gawain casually asked:

"What about you, Luo Qixi?"

Luo Qixi, who was thinking about how to be a good teacher, was suddenly asked, and she was unable to react and stammered:

"Me...me?"

"I don't have any ideas for now."

At the tip of her nose, the smell similar to Sylphy's hadn't dissipated so quickly.

Chapter 26: Traveling Together (1)

"Get everything and let's go to the big forest first."

After spending half an hour planning the rest of the day's itinerary, Gawain gave orders to Private Lokixi.