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"Lodge, in your opinion, does the banquet at this time bother you?"
In a corner of his mansion, Nigel and Ranch were standing at the dining table chatting.
Now that Ranch was using the false identity of Rocky McCarthy, Nigel naturally called him Rocky.
"No, I think it's quite energetic. Although young people can't go around day and night all the time, it's good to celebrate occasionally."
Lan Qi replied casually.
Lan Qi was not surprised by the time of the dinner. The exam week at Purgatory Corridor College was also at night.
It's just that he has been much more tired than before recently, and he is still a little sleepy at this time.
Thalia feels refreshed every day. To a certain extent, he is equivalent to one person bearing the fatigue of two people.
Although he hasn't tried to get Thalia to use her full strength so far, if he really wants her to use up all her mana, he feels that it is possible for him to fall asleep for a day or two.
In this nearly 1,000-square-meter lobby, Lanci and Nigel looked into the distance and saw a dance party going on.
Seven giant crystal chandeliers hang from the sixteen-meter-high dome, illuminating the hall brightly like stars.
The clothes are fragrant and the people are crowded.
The guests wore custom-made dresses. The men wore silk bow ties with feather trims at their necklines or pinned flowers. The ladies wore long silk and velvet dresses with maple leaf-shaped gems or paintings on the skirts. Fireworks, when the band played the waltz of the devil, the guests danced gracefully, swimming on the black and white marble floor tiles, their skirts flying.
The white wine produced by the border territory of Posennan Yaquidan and the rosé sparkling wine produced by the Kingdom of Aloran were filled into goblets engraved with the Bacchus pattern. From time to time, they made light clinking sounds on the edge of the banquet hall, and the demon clan dignitaries chatted. and looked out the window at the rain curtain.
Demon waiters in black tuxedos shuttled among the demons, carrying silver trays with champagne and desserts.
Lanci and Nigel were out of tune with the surrounding guests. They neither danced nor talked to other demons. They just stood at a 20-meter-long self-serve dining table.
"I'm sorry to bring you to such a demon banquet."
Nigel said.
He felt that it would be quite difficult for Lan Qi as a human being here.
Of course, if his relationship in the demon world was better, Lan Qi wouldn't have to stand alone with him.
"Actually, let me tell you, it may only take me a few hours to get to know all the demons at the banquet. I am quite experienced in this kind of banquet."
Ranch said to Nigel.
"Have you ever attended a banquet with demons before?"
Nigel asked curiously.
"I held quite a few meetings in the past."
Lan Qi nodded.
At that time, he was still in Naikalis, the Demon King's City in the ancient demon world.
It's a pity that Thalia didn't have the chance to eat so many delicious foods, which made Hyperion feel even more regretful.
And if Talia is good at taking care of children, she can help him take care of Sigre.
"I am the king of the demon clan, do you want me to take care of the child?"
Thalia asked in his mind.
"Because I have discovered that Huberian is not very good at taking care of children. She will even snatch the child's quilt when she is asleep, and may even kick Sigre out of bed. That's why Sigre said she dreamed about Hugh. Brianna beat her."
Lan Qi sighed. He believed that Talia had already heard some stories from Hyperion about the last shadow world.
"..."
Thalia knew this well.
She also often loses her quilt in the middle of her sleep.
"Okay, if you want to come with me, I can help you with the logistics. You can just go and fight the vampires with peace of mind."
She has been a little curious about McCarthy's Restaurant for a long time. It will be a good time to have morning tea, afternoon tea and evening tea, and take care of the children.
"no problem."
Lanci promised.
Next time I go to Shadow World, I will definitely take Thalia in to enjoy it.
Just thinking about the scene of the three of them getting along, they feel so harmonious.
In the banquet hall.
Nigel was quite surprised to hear that Lan Qi had attended several demon banquets.
"Is there such a thing?"
He didn't expect that Lan Qi had met other demons and was familiar with them.
Demons in the Hutton Kingdom should be very rare, but he heard that Lan Qi had been to the Northern Continent and was good at challenging the Shadow World, so it was understandable.
"Of course, I also know a thing or two about various demon etiquette."
Lan Qi nodded.
"If Miss Tata were here, you could have a dance with her."
Nigel gave a helpless smile.
Although he felt that Ranchi and Tata were always noisy, the relationship between the two was surprisingly good.
"Haha, she... wait, she seems to really know how to do it."
Lan Qi habitually wanted to ridicule Tata, but suddenly realized that she was a princess.
After treating her as the unemployed gray-haired girl next door for a long time, her true identity is often ignored.
"So what if I do? Do you think I will promise you?"
Thalia said in Lanci's mind.
"No, based on our coordination, it is estimated that out of the four steps, each other will step on at least two wrong steps."
The more Lan Qi cooperates with Talia now, the more he feels that the two of them are like sine and cosine functions.
Never get it right.
"Don't you think that just for the sake of cultivating tacit understanding, you should try to ask to be your teacher first?"
Thalia asked again after a moment of silence.
"But there is really no chance now. I can't let you appear out of thin air. Do you actually want to promise me?"
Lanqi replied with a helpless thought.
"It's a pity today, but on the day of the Fireworks Festival two days later, there will be a masquerade event at the Temple of Love. You can invite Tata to go with you."
Nigel suddenly seemed to think of something and mentioned.
"..."
Lan Qi was speechless for a moment and looked at Nigel.
And Tata in his heart stopped talking, as if waiting to see how he should continue.
As we all know, the biggest gap between top laners is the jungle gap.
And Ranchi felt this gap at the beginning of today.
"what happened?"
Nigel always felt as if Lan Qi was facing someone just now, and his unintentional words brought him down.
"By the way Nigel, is your full name Nigel Quilston?"
Lan Qi changed the topic rather abruptly, making Nigel a little stunned.
Although Nigel's reputation in the Posen Demon World is not very good, most of the demons still give him corresponding respect here, and even call him Mr. Quilston.
At Lord Perlman Quilston's dinner, even Astros, the lord of District 7, did not come to specifically trouble Nigel and Butler Rocky.
However, Astros still couldn't help but come over and taunt Nigel. Nigel's face was expressionless, and Astros was taken away by Eureka, the lord of District 8, a gentle and bespectacled demon lady.
"Yes, I was adopted and taught by Teacher Perlman since I was a child. He is also like an adoptive father to me."
Nigel admitted.
“Then Ciara Quilston, whose birthday is today, is more like your adopted sister?”
Lan Qi looked at a girl far away in the hall who was often greeted by demons as if she was being praised by stars, and asked Nigel.
"..."
Nigel didn't deny it, but he didn't nod either, just like Wuyan called him his adopted sister.
"It's my sister's birthday. As a brother, you should go and say hello no matter what."
Lan Qi patted his back and pushed him away.
He could see that Nigel was somewhat unwilling to face the teacher’s daughter Siara.
But he also discovered that Nigel looked at Siara several times, and Siara also looked at Nigel several times, but their eyes never met.
"The accident was not your fault. If my guess is correct, it was you who protected Siara, right?"
Lan Qi looked at Nigel who couldn't push even an inch, and continued.
It is said that when Nigel killed his sister who was cursed and turned crazy, his sister Siara was also present.
Obviously, if Nigel did not choose to do this cruelly, Siara, the sister, would also die.
"It doesn't change the outcome and the hurt Ciara feels inside."
Nigel lowered his eyes and muttered to himself.
"Your decisiveness and determination actually saved her. There is no need to blame yourself. Tragedy did happen. Time cannot be turned back. Some things cannot be changed in a lifetime, but it is not your fault that this tragedy happened. "
Ranchi was still patting Nigel on the back, as if he would keep patting Nigel if he didn’t leave today.
"You gotta figure this out, okay."
"..."
Nigel glanced at Lan Qi with a complicated expression and nodded. His dark eyes, which had always been deep, finally looked at the glow in the distance where Siara was.
At this time, Lan Qi also sighed in his heart.