Throne Steps

"Hey, I heard something. Recently, the referee team received gifts out of nowhere!"

"What are you? Who would believe such a story full of loopholes!"

"I know a certain teacher's waiter. He said he saw it when he opened the door in the morning!"

"If it's true, it must have been given by the students in the competition, bribing the judges or something...Ruisen, where are you going?"

Li Chen stood still at the door of the dormitory, and turned to look at the roommates who were actively gossiping: "Go to the furnace, I won't be coming back tonight."

The roommate who was still speaking just now warned: "Hey, what I just said is gossip, don't spread it until the official announcement..."

Li Chen smiled and said, "I know."

"Go, go, you are really busy." The roommate waved to him, "It's very cold in the middle of the night, so be careful on the road."

Another roommate asked: "Tomorrow I will see His Highness Saenz off, do you want to reserve a seat for you?"

"I don't need it." The corner of Li Chen's mouth twitched, "Good night."

He did go to the furnace.But in the middle of the night, a senior student of the warrior department appeared in the furnace and took him to Saenz's apartment.

Since he accompanied Saenz to solve "Song of the Siren" a year and a half ago, such late-night meetings have become more frequent.

Regarding matters concerning Yan Ying, Wiggins, and even the matter of a possible lone wolf among Samir, Saenz has basically handed over all the power to Li Chen.It sounds like they need to meet frequently, but His Highness only set a bottom line, and at other times he basically just listened to Li Chen's progress report.Li Chen himself is not quite sure whether this Highness is out of trust, or whether he doesn't care about these things at all.

In reality, Li Chen thinks more of the latter.

Saenz often summoned him late at night, but it didn't necessarily mean he had something serious to do.Once, Saenz just threw him a bauble—actually a replica of the gift Li Chen gave Saenz—and sent him to the guest room to sleep.

Of course, if it was really done by Saenz himself as Li Chen guessed, wouldn't everyone be honored to be thrown, right?

In any case, the days of Saenz being so called are coming to an end.He is still half a year away from graduation, and tomorrow is his departure day - he will leave to complete Pesa's graduation exam, and then go directly to participate in Retia's performance of excellent graduates from all continents - "Hymn".

"Ye An." As soon as Li Chen entered the room, he took off the snow rabbit fur coat wrapped around him, "You don't need to bring me this next time, I can barely walk in it."

The butler took the fluffy coat aside and replied, "This is His Highness's order."

"It's not really cold yet..." Li Chen muttered and asked, "Where is he?"

The butler sent him to the reception room.

Saenz sat by the small fireplace.A book was open on his lap, but he himself was resting with his eyes closed, the firelight turning his white robe orange.In fact, all the student apartments in Pesa have a collective heating system, so the decoration of the fireplace is more important than heating.

Li Chen entered the room and stood there for a while, but Saenz still didn't intend to open his eyes.

Those who have no power or power have no choice but to say: "Ye An, Your Highness."

Sanz opened his eyes.His eyes are still blue and blood red now, but when he grows up, they will become lighter quickly.

He just stared at Li Chen, who looked at him and suddenly started to lose his mind.

Thinking about it carefully, it is estimated that I will not see this Highness for a long time.

Today's aspect is actually parting.

"I heard about the referee team." Saenz said not so emotionally, "Is it related to you?"

Li Chen had figured out some of His Highness's temper.Now that he was still standing by the door, he went straight to asking questions about the serious matter, which meant accusations.

However, Li Chen is not a person who always tells the truth.He just laughed: "What do you think?"

"I think?" Saenz also laughed, "I think it's futile to do so."

"Really?" Li Chen shrugged, "Then you must think it's a good idea to light up the fireplace in the heating room."

Saenz is quite used to Li Chen's eccentricity.He put the book back on the low table next to it: "The rock eagle is indeed not small, but it's not big either. I hope you don't get dizzy right now."

Since "Dawn" had an accident in Samir, Pesa has changed the relevant practice policy.Samir's trip is still reserved, but in addition to more thorough security measures, it has directly become an option.Now all grades must participate in the competitive qualifying competition, which determines the assessment score of "Dawn".Since there are many students in one grade, and other grades always like to watch the games, in order not to affect everyone's study, each season is arranged extremely scattered and long.

It is already the end of the semester, and there is only the last round of competitions left before the holiday.When this round of competition is over, the eight places that will enter the finals of the next semester will each belong to them.

The younger brother of Kaga, the deputy head of the Rock Eagle Mercenary Corps, Xia Luo, is one of the favorites for the fifth-grade championship in this qualifying competition.

In fact, Saenz will link the bribery incident to Li Chen, and then think of Xia Luo and Yan Ying, which is just a flash of light on a certain day.But once this thought popped up, he couldn't suppress it anymore.

Bribing the referee is still so blatant, this is really not the way a Raetia would think.Li Chen, who does not follow common sense, is really the best candidate for the mastermind of the incident.

Li Chen did not refute this conclusion, but said: "Xia Luo's next opponent is Ke Kelin."

Saenz didn't pay much attention to the competitions of the lower grades, but the news that should have never left behind: "Pavchenko's 'dark horse'?"

"That's right..." Li Chen showed an ambiguous smile, "'Dark Horse'."

Li Chen checked Ke Kelin's grades.In the past, his grades were basically stable at around the top [-] in the grade, so since he broke through to the top [-], his reputation as a dark horse has spread in the fifth grade.But at the beginning, he was not the only one who performed supernormally, so everyone didn't care much.It wasn't until he made it all the way to the top [-] that the crowd realized that this student was definitely the biggest "accident".

Saenz guessed Li Chen's behavior, but couldn't figure out the reason: "What do you want to do?"

Lichen "expanded his territory" very quickly, but the feeling of being difficult to control made Sarnlich slightly displeased.

"No reason." Li Chen replied, and then stretched out three fingers, "First, to distract the public; second, to put pressure on the referee team; third, to test the public's general acceptance of bribery."

Saenz already understood his train of thought, but still said: "Continue."

Continue... Li Chen narrowed Saenz's eyes inexplicably, and replied: "I have watched a few Kokolin matches, to be honest, his strength may not be higher than his opponents, but he did win gone."

"You suspect him of cheating?"

"Maybe." Li Chen replied very smoothly, "Or maybe it's just that others underestimated him and made him take the lead. In short, it is always right to use bribes to make the referee team more fair."

Saenz's thinking is not here: "What exchange did you make with Kaga? What's the benefit of his brother taking the first place?"

"No." Lichen did have a personal exchange with Kajia, but it really had nothing to do with this matter. "Shaluo and Ke Kelin are not big people. But the two kittens scratched each other's paws, and the one behind them People may not be able to treat it as a joke."

Saenz interrupted Li Chen's divergent thinking: "Fjalal will not be idle to offend Rock Eagle."

"Master is not interested. I think I am not interested in becoming the master's slave. It is clear that Kokolin's tricky tricks are Pavchenko's handwriting." The distance between Li Chen's index finger and thumb is slow Pull away, "Xia Luo's strength is higher than that of Kokolin. This is something that everyone with long eyes knows. If the referee team wants to judge Kokolin better than Xia Luo, they must bear more pressure; if Pavchenko wants to do so, There are more questions to be had.”

Saenz stared at Li Chen's face for a while, and finally let go: "Pavchenko made a series of mistakes before, and was dealt with coldly by Fugeral."

really.Li Chen finally confirmed his conjecture and said: "So, Pavchenko let Kokolin show off all the way, which is a signal to beg for forgiveness sent to Fujalal. It’s even more impossible to let it go easily.”

Wanting to use a so-called "excellent talent" who has not yet graduated to offset the mistakes made before, Pavchenko's level of thinking can be seen.Of course, it wasn't too clever for him to encourage Wiggins to conceal the fact that he could see the virtual mirror image.Now, it is almost an open secret that Saenz and Yanying are on the line. If Pavchenko really plays something between Kokorin and Sharo, His Highness Fujalal may have to come back and look at it. he.

But whether Fujalal will pay more attention to him or annoy him more is still unknown.

Saenz closed his eyes, and finally pointed to the opposite seat: "Sit."

Li Chen walked towards him, but didn't sit down as he said, he went straight in front of him and spread his hands: "Parting gift, I wish you success."

Saenz looked at the small transparent cube in his hand, amused: "It's this kind of thing again?"

"That's right, but it's more fancy." Li Chen didn't care about the sarcasm in the other party's words, and replied, "It's just for fun. When your life is threatened, just smash it at your feet."

Saenz had just squeezed the small cubes, when he heard the words, he gave Li Chen a glance: "It's your turn to worry about it?"

"'A dead horse is a living horse doctor'." Li Chen shrugged, retreated to the seat and sat down, "What if it is useful?"

Saenz was noncommittal, and just put the thing in his pocket: "I was interrupted by you, so I haven't talked about the business."

"Oh." Li Chen spontaneously poured a cup of tea, "I thought criticizing me was a serious matter."

"Fjerard is getting engaged."

Li Chen was taken aback.

But he immediately realized: "Oh, it's normal at 24. Whose daughter is it?"

"Navy blue."

"It's only natural for a warrior's matrilineal lineage to find someone from a magic family." Li Chen commented casually. While drinking tea, he suddenly thought of something, and his face became weird. "Is your elder brother... still a baby?"

If it was a child from another family, no one would believe that he was still a baby at 24.But as a holy representative Saenlich, Li Chen really felt that everything was possible.

When Saenz was asked such a question, his expression became strange.But if this question is delayed for too long, it will become more strange, so I have to answer: "No."

After a pause, Saenz added: "...probably."

What does "probably" mean? "Yes" or "no" are acceptable answers, this "probably" makes people feel that they are trying to cover up, okay?Li Chen felt as if he had touched a very exciting gossip, and couldn't help asking: "Then you..."

As expected, Li Chen was immediately pinned down by Saenz's coercion.

This Saenlich seldom used the spiritual power of the contract, if intimidation was really needed, the coercion would be overwhelming.But releasing coercion for this kind of questioning is simply a typical example of becoming angry from embarrassment.

In fact, it is not surprising that Saenz is a young girl. After all, when he was 15 years old, he was "forced" by Li Chen and admitted that it was his first kiss. Li Chen already had a very clear understanding of Saenlich's "pure whiteness".

However, it is a matter of a man's face, even the Sarnlichs will not be lenient.

Li Chen finished gossiping in his head, and immediately apologized: "Your Highness, I was wrong, I'm sorry."

Saenz was very annoyed by Li Chen's behavior of stroking the tiger's beard, but every time the other party's apology seemed sincere, he could only forgive him again and again.

In fact, as soon as the male Saenlich graduated from Pesa, various maids of the right age began to appear in the mansion.They have different appearances and temperaments, but the only two things they have in common are the governor and strict mouth. It is self-evident what they do.

But Saenz would not be so stupid as to explain all of this, otherwise Li Chen would definitely be able to make up the meaning of "Oh, that means he is about to act before he succeeds".

The "correct" approach is to directly change the topic: "The previous topic, what if Kokolin wins?"

"Win?" Li Chen knew Saenz's plan, so he didn't expose it, but just smiled meaningfully, "That would be even better..."

Seeing his expression, Saenz knew that there was still someone behind, and he didn't intend to ask further, just said: "Whether you win or lose, what does the outcome of this match have to do with you?"

Li Chen replied: "Yanying didn't have anything to do with me at first, Pesa didn't have anything to do with me, you, the whole Retia... none of my business."

Saenz looked at Li Chen, he could imagine what Li Chen would say next.Some dramatic lines are difficult to hear at ordinary times, but Li Chen can express them naturally.

Just like the "girl" who cursed sharply on stage a year and a half ago.

He started—

"But now, these things are beginning to concern me. Inextricably linked, light or dark, vague or clear. Especially you..."

Oh, come on, it's so stinky.Saenz was a little distracted, but his eyes did not leave Li Chen.

Li Chen laughed.

"May my loyalty be exchanged for your victory, my dear Highness."

So true!

——Thought His Highness Saenz who set off early the next morning and found that Li Chen hadn't come to see him off.

[The author has something to say]: Five chapters in a row! Happy birthday tome!