What kind of weird button is this?

Chapter 64 Language Master Sirius

Rain poured down from the dark sky, hitting Liz's exhausted body.

With the help of a little food found from her father's corpse, Liz could barely stand up at this moment, using her remaining physical energy to keep her mind and body from completely collapsing. However, the heavy rain outside after escaping from the basement still made it difficult for her to walk, and her steps were shaky.

In such a weather environment, there were naturally not many pedestrians on the street. In addition, the location was remote. Even if she had the strength to shout at this moment, she would not be able to call anyone who could come to help.

As she walked, the rain mixed with the mud, making her feet dirty and muddy, and her clothes were completely soaked by the rain. However, it was obvious that the desire to survive was greater than anything else, prompting her to continue walking through the streets until she arrived at the door of a familiar home.

The door is unlocked, and when you walk into the house, you can see that the furnishings in the house are neat and orderly. It feels like no one has ever left here.

This feeling actually makes Liz uncomfortable, because now she doesn't even know if this is her home.

What is the definition of home? If it was defined by her family, she didn't feel like she still had her own home in this world.

After all, her family members are all dead. If she continues to stay here, she will only feel a strong sense of emptiness in her heart. This will make her anxious and unable to find her direction.

But obviously now is not the time to think about this. After so many days in captivity, Liz felt the delayed hunger all pressing down on herself for the first time, as if she was sinking to the bottom of the sea and urgently needed to return to the shore to breathe fresh air. Air.

There were some hard bread and fruits in the cupboard. She didn't care if the food had gone bad, so she sat on the floor and ate it hungrily.

There is no image of a so-called beautiful girl, and she is not like the gentle girl next door in the past. She is just following her own instinct, to put it harshly...a hungry dog.

The taste of the food came second. What made her feel most satisfied was the temporary satisfaction brought by the food gathered in her stomach.

Because she hadn't eaten so much for so long, she quickly ate all the food at home, and she didn't feel full quickly. She was still frantically looking for food.

"Sister Lizzie?!"

An exclamation came from behind Liz. The girl looked back and saw clearly the person who walked into her room through the rain-covered hair on her forehead.

If she remembered correctly, this was the silly girl who had been coming to look for her some time ago.

"...Hetty?"

"Sister Liz! Is it really you? Did you never leave?!
  Ah, sorry... I found the door unlocked when I came here a few days ago, and no one came back, so I took it upon myself to come over and help clean the house for a few days. Oh... I didn't touch your things at all. , I didn’t peek at anything I shouldn’t have.

But... Sister Liz, what's going on? Was it your father who hit you? "

Hetty's face showed some joy of being reunited with her friend and shock after seeing Liz's current situation. She, who unilaterally regarded Liz as her friend, actually had red eyes at this moment, and looked like she was about to cry.

This look made Liz frown slightly. She didn't like this kind of overly familiar character, which would make her want to distance herself.

"It turns out that His Highness Siris made me pay attention to you and your father because of this. I didn't expect... that there would be such a truth behind it.

How could he do this to you? ! You are his daughter! "

Through simple reasoning, Hetty immediately understood why Liz in front of her was made like this, and who made her like this.

Obviously, how could a scumbag who drinks and gambles every day and slaps his daughter in front of so many people not do things that are outrageous to both humans and gods behind the scenes?

She was so stupid. As a friend, she had never seen this possibility. When faced with Lord Sirius's various concerns for Liz, she even regarded it as a simple attraction to the opposite sex.

As someone who meets Liz every day, she should think more about it.

"Sister Liz, are you hungry? I still have some food here."

Realizing that Liz seemed to be looking for food, Hetty quickly took out a few apples and bread from her hand basket.

Then while watching Liz take them and continue to eat them, she sat next to her and explained in a gentle tone:

"I met your father a few days ago, and he lied to me that you had married somewhere else.

But I always felt that he would not be the kind of person who would let you go and live alone. After all, I asked around the city and no one said where the man worked. So I have been coming here to check on the situation in the past few days, but I really didn't expect that the truth would be like this.

Woohoo...Sister Liz, does it still hurt? "

"……fine."

Liz had just finished eating an apple, her eyes seemed lost, and these words coming out of Hetty's mouth always had a sense of alienation.

Hetty on the side also noticed her low mood, so her voice became softer.

"Later, later he disappeared. I thought it was just..."

"What day did he disappear?"

"Huh?" Seeing that Liz suddenly interrupted her, and the tone of the question was a bit urgent, Hetty just replied obediently, although she was confused, "It should have been a week or two ago."

"A week or two..."

In other words, his father was actually killed by Siris two weeks ago?

Still in such a cruel way, a way that fully expressed the murderer's anger.

Indeed, if she were the current self, if she had such a chance to start over again, she would definitely do the same thing and stab the man who ruined her life with a knife.

Every stabbing is a catharsis of emotions. While taking away a person's life, it also pushes the murderer himself into the endless abyss.

Of course, all this did not actually happen to her, it was just a conjecture on her part.

"Lord Siris, is he still in Ankh?"

"Lord Sirius? He has already gone to the Imperial City."

Hetty helped Liz wipe her wet hair, and at the same time heated hot water to prepare for the dirty Liz to take a bath and put on clean clothes.

As for Liz's series of questions, Hetty didn't find anything unusual. This may be because she has always been quite nervous.

"Sir, he has been away for almost a month. I don't know if he will come back. After all, he is the second prince of the empire. There should be nothing worth missing in a small place like Anka."

"Second Prince?"

"Ah, didn't I tell you? In fact, Sir Sirius is the second prince of the empire. He seems to have deliberately concealed his identity when he came to Anka."

It seems that I understand Sirius a little better. Liz thought silently in her heart.

However, except for a person like her who had not heard about foreign affairs for a long time, most of the other residents outside were aware of the news coming from the Imperial City. Hetty also knew that the former Queen of the Xilin Empire had passed away due to illness. But the transition of imperial power is basically worthless to ordinary civilians. Perhaps the only thing that disappoints the people of New Delhi Manor is that their beloved second prince is not the new king who ascended the throne.

As for other rumors, haha... they may not be as important as daily fuel, rice, oil and salt.

"By the way, Sister Liz."

Hetty's cheerful speaking style once again startled Liz, who was thinking, "Where is your scumbag father? Let me tell you...if he dares to bully you again, I will never let him go. Let’s go to the manor from now on, everyone will protect you.”

"My father? He's dead~"

"……Eh?"

Maybe it was because Liz's tone of voice was too plain, and Hetty didn't realize what she was saying at this moment.

And when she came to her senses, she said what she wanted to ask the most without thinking at all: "...How did you die?"

"Well...if I said that I killed him, and stabbed him more than ten times, causing him to die unwillingly in pain, would you still consider me a friend?"

Liz just looked at Hetty, this dazzling girl who always had a smile on her face and seemed to have endless innocence.

"really?"

"Well, it's fake." Liz smiled. No one knew what other meaning her smile had. "Actually, I don't know who saved me, but I am very grateful to that person in my heart."

"Is that so... Then if you find out who it is in the future, thank him!"

Hetty smiled stupidly, as if Liz's scary words just now didn't exist at all.

"Sister Liz. Seriously, do you want to live in the manor with me? We all miss you very much."

"To the manor?"

"Well...even though Sir Sirius is not here, Butler Lian is still very good to us. He did not fire us and hired us at the original price.

What's more, before you disappeared, Sir Sirius had told me many times that he wanted you to come back to the manor. "

"I……"

Liz, who subconsciously wanted to refuse, heard the name that made her curious.

If it is because you want to find an answer, then it is acceptable to force yourself to live in an environment that is not suitable for you, right?
  "Okay, I'll go with you."

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Outside Ankh.

It took several days to get back here from Aphrama. Along the way, Sirius had to face the occasional concern from his sister Nalia, who suddenly became very enthusiastic. He also spent his free time reading a few humanities about this world. History books.

In addition, this time can be regarded as a kind of trip, and there is no strong purpose on the road, so I was delayed on the road for nearly a week.

But Sirius felt that the thing he regretted most was probably not going to the Royal Library to pick up a few magic books before leaving.

And Sirius could also feel that his current terrifying magical talent was slowly disappearing.

I don't know that it was my "kindness" that spared Engli's life and allowed him to get what he wanted, which made me less of a devil now. Or because after leaving the imperial city where Engri was, everyone around him now regarded him as an ordinary person, so the effect of the button was weakened to a certain extent.

Anyway, when he was resting in the inn during this period, no one recognized his identity as the second prince. When treating him, there was no more special treatment except a smile to please the sponsor because of his expensive clothes.

Well, when it came to the lack of special treatment, Sirius was honestly a little disappointed in his heart?
  It is worth mentioning that during this period of time on the road, he entered the stop button space twice.

But the first time he pressed the button almost made him vomit blood on the spot.

【Press this button and you will gain eternal life. 】

[But you can never wear clothes, that is, remain naked. 】

When he read the first half of the sentence, he almost thought that he was completely invincible, but the side effects of the second half of the sentence made his eyesight go dark.

He still has a face, and he will not sell his dignity just for the sake of eternal life.

Let’s not talk about the sorrow caused by various movies and TV series in previous lives that promoted eternal life, and the pain hidden under the theory of life span. Even without those problems, he wouldn't be able to run around naked all the time, right?
  The final result was naturally that the button was not pressed, and the opportunity to press the button for a week was wasted.

As for the second button, although it is not as annoying as the first time, the effect is quite ordinary to be honest.

[Press this button and you will learn the language of any race. 】

[But you can never tell the difference between them, and therefore you cannot know which language you are speaking at the moment. 】

Sirius naturally chose to accept this ability. After all, this side effect is not as outrageous as the previous one. It can even be said that the impact is completely negligible.

Of course, no matter what it was, Sirius didn't care at the moment. At least for now, he doesn't feel that he needs anything very much. He already has the life he wants. In the following days, he will go fishing every day. When he is tired, he will sleep and when he is hungry, he will eat. Isn't it beautiful?
  Oh no, Anka is not a suitable place for retirement... Damn it.

"Sirius, Nalia, Anka is here."

Hannah's tone of voice was still a little weird, but this was simply because she was not used to the disappearing honorific, rather than because she was not used to the "retirement" life of losing her status as the leader of the Thirteen Knights of the Empire.

But when the three of them came back here again, they felt an extremely strange feeling.

Although the whole city was celebrating Luther's death when they left, Sirius did not think that the people here would have a better life.

But now it seems like I was wrong? After getting off the carriage and walking along the bustling streets and bustling markets, I felt that the spiritual outlook of the entire city had undergone earth-shaking changes.

Sirius stopped a random passerby and asked curiously: "Hello, after Luther died, who is the current lord of Anka?"

"The lord of Anka? Where did the lord of Anka come from..."

"what?"

Sirius was a little confused, and then he realized that the other person might not be an aborigine, "Then who has the final say here now?"

"Of course it is a great church!"

(End of this chapter)