Chapter 39 True Love (1000 comments plus more)

Astor stood at the door and looked carefully at Lu Yi's dormitory.

Small.

It's really too small.

The entire space is not even as big as the toilet at Klein Manor.

The bed in the corner didn't look even bigger than the cat's bed that Lu Yi had when he was a child.

How on earth did Lu Yi manage to live in such a cramped little room for two months?

Does Braeside College still advocate asceticism?

You talk a lot of great things at the beginning, recruit people and then just throw them into a place like this?

Astor frowned slightly.

Lu Yi put the lunch box on the small table, turned around and saw Aster still standing at the door, and immediately urged: "Brother, come and sit down..."

He gave the armchair to Astor and turned to move a wooden stool from the side.

"Brother, sit in that chair."

Astor walked up to him and took the wooden stool from his hand without allowing it to be refused.

“I can just sit here…”

Lu Yi didn't want to give it, and the two of them each held one end of the wooden stool.

"Louis Klein." Astor looked up at him.

When Lu Yi heard Astor calling his full name, he subconsciously let go and let Astor take the wooden stool away.

Astor sat upright on a small wooden stool that was extremely inconsistent with his status, with a serious expression as if he was attending a family meeting.

He is very much like a medieval boss who will say in the next second, "When the day breaks, let the Vincent family disappear!"

Lu Yi was amused by his sudden thought and was so happy that he opened the lunch box.

Astor didn't know what he was laughing at, but his brows furrowed even more when he saw the lunch box he opened.

"Brother, have you had dinner? Do you want some more? This spicy chicken is really delicious..."

Lu Yi handed the spoon, knife and fork in his hand to Aster.

Astor took the cutlery he handed her and put it back on the table.

"Do you eat such simple meals every day at school?" Astor asked seriously.

Astor was so heartbroken for Lu Yi's miserable experience.

Was it possible that Lu Yi Klein, the youngest son of the Klein family who was held in the palm of their hand, was sent to Braceside College to suffer?

"Ah? Is this very simple?" Lu Yi was bewildered. "It's not bad. There are both meat and vegetables, and the nutrition is quite balanced."

Although these dishes are indeed not as good as the luxurious cuisine of Klein's main residence, it is after all a school with so many mouths to feed, so it is understandable that they should be kept simple, right?

Seeing that Lu Yi looked flawless and had adapted well, Astor felt even more heartbroken.

His poor brother!

It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury but difficult to go from luxury to frugality, but Lu Yi has adapted to such a difficult life. Who was spreading the rumor that Lu Yi Klein was arrogant and extravagant?

"Have you been living here since school started? And eating meals like this?" Astor asked.

"This condition in school should be pretty good, right? This is a specially approved single dormitory. Some double or quadruple rooms are really crowded..." Lu Yi answered the question irrelevantly.

"Brother, don't make such a fuss. Besides, you've studied at the Knight Academy before, right? The conditions in these academies should be similar, right? Just treat it as a kind of training."

Lu Yi, who lived in a four-person dormitory in high school in his previous life, said that the conditions in Braceside are really good.

And even though the dormitory looks ordinary, the things he uses are all good things brought from Klein Manor.

The thick and soft mattress, the pillows and sheets that felt so soft to the skin, the cushions and backrests on the armchairs, the eye-protecting magic stone lamp on the desk...

Lu Yi really felt that his life living alone in his dormitory was extremely comfortable.

But Astor obviously didn't think so.

He was extremely dissatisfied with everything he saw, and the longer he stayed, the more he felt that Lu Yi was suffering.

"Who told you that I lived in the school dormitory back then?" Astor raised his eyebrows.

"Ah?" Lu Yi was stunned. "Ah?"

"If you want to temper your mind, I support you, but tempering your mind does not mean restraining material conditions, and there is absolutely no need to be hard on yourself in this regard.

"I used to study well at the Knight Academy, but I moved out after my first day of reporting. The Klein family has no shortage of manors."

"Then second brother..."

"He doesn't live in the student dormitory in Lasvino either." Astor said, "Even Xia lives in Klein Manor in Kadifan."

"Ah this..." Lu Yi was dumbfounded.

"Didn't your father tell you where Catelila Manor is when you left home?" Astor asked.

Lu Yi hesitated for a moment and said with difficulty: "...I think he did tell me that."

One night before he left, Duke Klein told him a lot of things in the study. But Lu Yi was so immersed in how to make a beautiful ceramic cup that he completely forgot what Duke Klein said.

Now that Astor reminded him, he finally remembered.

It seemed that Lu Yi really knew where Katelila's manor was.

Astor looked helpless, "...I don't know what to say to you."

Lu Yi smiled flatteringly and said guiltily: "It's actually not bad. Brother, look, I live quite well, don't I?"

"That's good." Astor sneered, "Now who can recognize you as the arrogant young master of the Klein family?"

I'm afraid people would believe him even if he said he came from an ordinary family.

Lu Yi felt that Astor seemed to be mocking him sarcastically, but seeing that he had come all the way to visit him, he was magnanimous and did not hold it against him.

"Alright alright, brother, you look down on me but I do. If you keep talking the food will get cold and I'm starving..."

"Then don't eat." Astor interrupted him, "Let's go eat outside. I haven't eaten yet."

"I've been to Katelila before, and I know of a remote restaurant whose food is just as good as those of the Klein family's chefs."

The taste is not inferior to those chefs of Klein's family? !

Their chef’s cooking is delicious!

Lu Yi's eyes lit up and he immediately put down the chopsticks in his hand.

"So what are we waiting for? Let's go right away!"

After getting the horses, the two men rode through the streets of Katelila. Their identical blond hair and blue eyes made it easy to tell at a glance that they were brothers.

The older brother has deep and sharp features, and his eyes and eyebrows show the arrogance of a superior. The younger brother has delicate features but is very aggressive, and is so beautiful that he looks like an angel walking out of an oil painting.

In short, it was impossible to take your eyes off them. Passers-by on the road were all staring at the two blond men on horseback.

Lu Yi followed Astor through many twists and turns and finally stopped in front of an ordinary alley.

Astor carefully identified the alley in front of him and nodded, "This is it. I didn't expect that I could find this alley accurately after not being here for so many years."

The two entered the alley.

"Brother, aren't you worried that the store might go bankrupt?" Lu Yi asked curiously.

Astor glanced at him and said calmly, "No."

"Of course not. This store is hidden in such a remote place. I guess the customer flow is not that high..."

"It won't go bankrupt. I invested in this store," Astor explained.

Lu Yi was impressed by his generosity and said, "The owner of this store is really lucky to have received your investment so many years ago."

I guess the capital injection is just a nice-sounding term, and it's just a name used to give money to people to prevent the restaurant from closing down.

Otherwise, based on Lu Yi's understanding of his brother, Astor would not invest in such a business that is sure to lose money.

"Their taste is worth my money," said Astor.

Astor knocked on the closed wooden door in front of him.

The wooden door opened from the inside and an elderly man's head popped out.

His eyes fell on the blond, blue-eyed Aster and he recognized him immediately.

"Ah! It's Master Astor, right?! Master, I haven't seen you for many years!"

The old man immediately pushed open the half-closed door and welcomed the two people in with surprise.

"Lord Astor, I don't know if you are here..."

"Nothing, I just remembered this good restaurant and brought my brother here for dinner." Astor asked, "Do you have any fresh ingredients now?"

The old man nodded, "Yes! But maybe we can only cook what we have, and we can't order food."

"It's okay," Aster nodded.

"Are there any dietary restrictions for adults?"

Astor has no dietary restrictions and is not picky about food, he just picked out Lu Yi's dietary restrictions.

“Just leave out the cilantro.”

"Okay! Please take a seat, sir. The food will be ready soon!"

Astor casually opened a box and took Lu Yi to sit in.

There were porcelain bowls and chopsticks on the table. Astor pushed those tableware aside gracefully and took out two sets of brand new tableware from his space ring.

He used the hot water on the table to carefully scald the two sets of bowls, chopsticks, knives and forks at hand. After making sure that everything was in order, he placed one set of tableware in front of Lu Yi.

Lu Yi held the knife and fork in his hand and said happily: "I am indeed Astor's true love."

The future head of Klein's family, a nobleman worth hundreds of trillions of gold coins, actually condescended to wash dishes for him!

Who would believe this if I told them?

"You're talking nonsense again." Astor set the tableware in front of him.

The food was served quickly and soon the table was full.

Lu Yi tasted two dishes and was pleasantly surprised: "This tastes just like what I have at home!"

Astor smiled.

"But brother, it's really amazing that you still remember the way to this restaurant. It must have been many years, right? Has Katelila changed a lot over the years?"

"Changes? Almost nothing has changed." Astor thought for a moment, "About ten years, right?"

"Ten years! That's a long time!" Lu Yi exclaimed, "Brother, you have a really good memory."

His elder brother is excellent!

Aster is not like him who has cheats. All his achievements are earned by himself.

Astor chuckled, "Lu Yi will be more powerful than me in the future."

"I remember it, probably just because it made a deep impression on me at the time."

Ten years ago, he had not yet accepted his mediocrity and had just finished his baptism of calm, his heart full of unwilling anger.

But the young Aster didn't know how to vent this nameless dark fire.

No one could pull him out of the vortex of self-doubt, and he could only try his best to save himself.

Under the pretext of traveling around the continent, the 20-year-old Astor traveled to all the famous magic academies in Isaiah during those two months.

Lasvino, Saint Dover, Braceside... He wandered aimlessly in these places that accepted countless talented people.

He met many new students who were about to enroll and came to check out the school in advance.

Some people mistakenly thought that he was also a freshman who came to check out the place and talked to him enthusiastically.

Astor seemed to be talking to them calmly on the surface, but he was even more confused inside.

Everyone has his own path, but where is his path?

Astor didn't know that at the time.

He could only wander around aimlessly.

Just find a hotel to stay in at night and go to a restaurant when you are hungry.

One afternoon, Astor accidentally turned into a complicated alley.

He didn't eat lunch, so he saw a small restaurant and didn't mind its shabby appearance. He went straight in and ordered a meat dish and a vegetable dish.

It is obviously just a small, unremarkable restaurant, but the food tastes exactly the same as the food in Klein's main house.

Astor finished the meal with red eyes, and returned to Klein Manor the next day with the admission letter from the Knight Academy.

And that road, which originally had no intention of leading to the restaurant, left a deep impression on him and was vaguely remembered even now, ten years later.

Astor thought that he had found more than one way to the restaurant that afternoon.

Another one is to protect the family——

The way home.

…

St. Dover.

Lu Yi temporarily switched perspective. He originally just wanted to take a look at the vest to see if there was anything going on, but he was dragged by Wavelin to fight.

“Bang—”

The heavy swords collided with each other making a crisp sound.

Lu Yi took a half step back, while Wavelin on the other side took three or four steps back before he could stabilize himself.

Wavelin smiled bitterly and said, "No, how come you are getting better and better? This progress is too amazing."

Lu Yi smiled and put the heavy sword in his hand back into the scabbard.

"If you have a brother who is good with a sword, you will also improve quickly."

Just kidding, Astor has been watching him learn swordsmanship since he was a child, and he even had intensive training in the last two months before reporting.

Now with Weverlin's daily practice, it would be strange if he didn't make rapid progress.

"You have a brother!" Wavelin exclaimed.

He is an only child and has always envied people who have brothers and sisters at home.

It's over, I let it slip! Lu Yi's expression froze.

It's not a big problem, he can still make it up -

Lu Yi had a lonely expression and looked down at the sword in his hand.

"I have an older brother and a younger brother. When I was a child, I often saw my older brother teaching my younger brother how to practice sword."

This wasn't really a lie, after all, Rand's character background was that of the unappreciated second son in the family.

Upon hearing this, Wavelin's expression became a little flustered, and he immediately shut up and stopped talking about Rant's brothers and sisters.

"Ah, so, so..."

Wavelin had never hated his poor tongue and inability to read people's expressions as much as he did now.

You are really bringing up something that is not relevant.

Why do you have to poke holes in other people's sorrows?

He deserves to die!

Wavelin looked sad and followed Lu Yi silently.

Lu Yi stood on tiptoe and rubbed his head, comforting him: "It's nothing, actually. I won't be sad about such things any longer."

Because he is Lu Yi, Lu Yi thought secretly with joy.

It’s just that Wavelin’s expression was too depressed, and he couldn’t show too much joy when comforting others.

When Lu Yi touched his head, Wavelin felt much better.

He knew that Lu Yi really didn't care about the sad things he mentioned, and the guilt and self-blame in his heart were relieved a lot.

And Lu Yi even touched his head!

Waverin's mood went from sad to happy, and his happiness was about to bubble up.

Lu Yi, who witnessed the whole process of his emotional change, laughed and thought that if Wavelin had a tail, it would be shaking wildly now.

Maybe he really has some beastman blood in him?

After all, his size is indeed a bit outrageous. There are very few normal humans who can grow so tall, and even the distribution of his muscles is abnormally developed.

Thinking of this, Lu Yi asked casually: "Wavelin, has your family ever mixed with the blood of the beastmen in the past?"

There are many beastmen living together in human territory, which leads to quite a few people having more or less beastman blood in their blood.

Just like Shimona, he is also a half-Orc-human hybrid with who knows how many generations.

Wavelin scratched his head and smiled, "Is it so obvious? My family lives in the country next to the orc forest, and my mother is a dog orc."

"Wow~" Lu Yi exclaimed after guessing correctly, "Will you also grow a tail? Like the dog man?"

Wavelin shook his head. "I inherited more of my father's blood. The human characteristics on me far outweigh the beast characteristics, so I don't have a tail or anything like that..."

Lu Yi looked disappointed.

"But maybe it's because I didn't inherit my mother's beastman characteristics that my parents have been discussing having another child for the past two years."

"Then doesn't that mean you have to be a brother?!" Lu Yi blinked.

"Yes!" Wavelin said shyly, "Little baby! I wonder if he will grow soft ears?"

"Well, speaking of which, Lanter, you reminded me that I might have to go home tomorrow. This week, you might have to live alone and go to the cafeteria to get your own meals."

"It's okay, I can do it. But why do you suddenly want to go home? Is something wrong?" Lu Yi asked casually.

Wavelin's expression darkened, and he said softly, "Actually, I don't know it very well either."

"I received a letter from my family last night. It seems something happened in the Orc Forest. My mother is missing..."

What happened in the Orc Forest?

Lu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Although I may not be able to help much, I must go back! What if, what if there is a place where I can be of use?"

"Waverlin." Lu Yi called him.

"What's wrong?" Wavelin turned his head to look at Rand, whose expression had become serious.

"Would you mind having one more person? I'd like to go with you."

Lu Yi had a hunch that the unusual movements in the Orc Forest must be related to what happened in the New Victory Royal City.

He had to go and see for himself.

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