Not long after Aaron left, Alice and Grace came to the private room on the second floor.

Alice pulled out a chair and pressed the timid Grace onto it.

Then he turned to Louis and said, "Sorry for the long wait."

Louis shook his head: "Fortunately, I met a funny and humorous brother."

"Oh? What's going on?"

Seeing Alice and the other girl looking at him curiously, Louis told them what he and Aaron had talked about.

Grace didn't react much, but her eyes flickered as she looked at Louis.

Instead, Alice showed a strange expression:

"The Roxy Empire, which originated from one of the three great empires of mankind, still believes in the Eternal Blazing Sun?"

"Any questions?"

Louis wondered.

Alice imitated Louis and picked up the beef ribs with chopsticks. After taking a bite, she showed a satisfied look on her face and said:

"Of course it's strange. A considerable number of people in the Rockhi Empire don't actually believe in God."

"This has something to do with the culture and customs of Roxy, and also with their local occupational system."

"Of course, that's not the point."

Alice said this without stopping her mouth movements.

When Grace was picking up some food for her, she picked up a soup dumpling and stuffed it directly into Grace's mouth.

Then he swallowed his food and said, "The Eternal Blazing Sun has fallen. This is something that most of the followers of the Church of the Setting Sun have accepted."

——Alice took a mushroom and seaweed roll with a fork.

"Without God's church, even faith cannot be reflected, let alone being a pastor."

——Alice took a bite of the glutinous rice chicken.

"The Eternal Blazing Sun has fallen for too long. The Blazing Sun Church, once the top church on the continent, has now been renamed the Settling Sun Church, which explains a lot."

——Alice showed off a crystal shrimp dumpling.

"Of course, some people don't want to believe it. They probably think that the Eternal Blazing Sun has simply disappeared, or has run to more places that have not yet been illuminated by the light."

——Alice picked up the money belly.

(Alice: I eat eat eat!)

Louis nodded and observed a minute of silence for brother Aaron in his heart.

If this happened on Blue Star, there might be a chance of a turnaround, but in the Star Continent where gods exist, a church that cannot get feedback from gods cannot even be called a church.

In a sense, it is quite impressive that the believers of the Eternal Sun can still maintain the Church of the Setting Sun.

But he didn't think much about it.

Everyone has his own blessings, and he thought that Brother Aaron didn't seem to be the kind of person who cared about it.

Then the chopsticks in his hand instantly touched the last piece of beef ribs.

Alice, who was holding the beef ribs with him, smiled kindly:

"Caesar, you ate it before we got here, didn't you?"

Louis used his fingers to pull the cowboy ribs towards him, and said calmly:

"What do you mean by eating secretly? That sounds so ugly! I ate openly. Who told you two to be so slow?"

"I came here on time, but after I ordered the food, it almost got cold."

It was also the first time for Alice to use chopsticks, but with her excellent control, she was able to start a martial arts duel with Louis around the beef ribs.

As the chopsticks flew, a Nine Swords professional with a keen eye would have noticed that the collision of the chopsticks between the two of them actually gave off a vague feeling of a swordsmanship duel.

——She even uses two swords! In the end, Alice was slightly better and successfully snatched the cowboy ribs from Louis.

But after the snatching, she felt a little bored.

"Tsk, I don't need you to give in."

Louis smiled, revealing his big white teeth:

"My goal has been achieved."

——He actually wanted to use chopsticks to engage in a skill duel with Alice.

It now seems that he has made rapid progress during this period.

Just in the use of first-level martial arts, he has surpassed Alice.

"So, why did it take you so long to come here? What's the situation?"

Grace saw that the question was about her, and whispered:

"I, I was downstairs and didn't dare come in."

Louis suddenly realized: "Next time you come, just ask the waiter to bring you up."

Grace lowered her head: "She, they look a little busy, and there are a lot of people inside."

Louis didn't laugh at anything, he just said, "I didn't think it through. I should have found a place with fewer people."

Grace shook her head hard and said, "It's okay. Mr. Caesar has helped me a lot."

It was only at this time that Louis remembered that Grace was born in Dragon Bone Prairie.

In other words, she spent most of her life on the sparsely populated grassland.

And because my family members are better protected, I have even less communication with the outside world.

Before, Grace was able to kneel and walk in the imperial capital only because she was so eager to save her father that she selectively forgot many gazes.

But now that he had come to his senses, he had returned to the cautious and timid look he had when he first met their team.

But then I thought about it and something was wrong:

"That shouldn't be the case. Forget about you, Grace. You don't look like someone who is good at dealing with people, but the person next to you is not like that."

Louis was talking about Alice.

It's understandable that Grace would be nervous, but what about Alice?

The fact that Alice didn't make others nervous was a sign of her restraint.

Grace lowered her head, too embarrassed to speak.

Alice said carelessly, "I had already brought her downstairs and asked her to go upstairs to find you first."

"But I saw that her clothes were a little old, so I decided to get her a set of clothes that I couldn't wear anymore."

Alice patted a new dress on the chair, and Louis noticed that the size of the dress was a little ill-fitting.

Cough cough.

After all, at first glance, I felt that the size was obviously a bit small.

Just an analogy, but only an analogy.

The little swan is Wangzai Xiaomantou...Okay, this is a bit too insulting, but at most it means "I can't afford it".

His first wife was the standard body type that he liked best in his previous life.

Grace is a little bigger, but not as broad-minded as Alice.

Alice's body shape really doesn't look like that of a warrior. Louis feels that she is actually held back by her body shape.

Louis didn't know what it was like for people who learned martial arts and swordsmanship in their previous lives.

But after practicing the Nine Swords with Enser, he could clearly feel the impact of different body shapes on swordsmanship practice, which was quite significant.

Alice...it could be worse.

The outfit on the chair looks plainer and more conservative, and the size doesn't quite match.

Not quite Alice's style.

But Louis was not very sensitive in this regard, so he didn't notice the problem when Alice came in just now.

"...I thought she had gone upstairs to look for you, but when I came back, she was still sitting downstairs waiting obediently."

Grace was so shy that she couldn't even raise her head.

She couldn't help but recall what happened before.

After her father disappeared, she was always worried about his safety.

To this end, she took out all the money she had saved over the years, and planned to find a way to hire adventurers to find her father if her father never came back.

Everyone in the group is a good person.

Although Miss Alice always has a bad woman's smile.

Although Mr. William is serious most of the time.

Although she hadn't even seen Mr. Caesar's face at that time.

But she has always been hiding a secret in her heart that only her parents know.

[She can vaguely sense other people’s attitude towards her]

Well-intentioned.

Malicious.

coveted.

Protected.

Sympathetic.

Hateful.

…

Although she cannot feel other people's emotions very clearly, Grace does have this ability by nature.

It was because she did not sense any malice from the members of the Moonlit Cat Group that she mustered up the courage to open the door and let them in.

At that time, the person he secretly paid the most attention to was Mr. Caesar.

She couldn't understand Mr. Caesar's emotions.

It seemed to carry an unspeakable anger and dissatisfaction, but also mixed with more kindness and sympathy.

In the past, she could only feel such emotions when her father's emotions fluctuated greatly.

Although it was strange why Mr. Caesar was in such a mood, what happened later proved that he was helping her.

Especially when her father returned home safely after being missing for a few days, her gratitude reached its maximum.

It's just that Mr. Caesar always likes to tease her, he really has bad intentions.

But Grace didn't hate this feeling.

Instead, she was thinking, "Is there anything I can do to help Mr. Caesar?"

"It would be even better if it was something only I could do!"

Just as he was thinking this, news from Mr. Caesar came from the imperial capital.

He asked someone to deliver a letter to her, saying that he was very optimistic about her potential and that there was something that might require some hidden talent in her.

As compensation, he was willing to offer himself an opportunity to study at St. Louis College.

When she heard the news, although she felt a little embarrassed, her heart was leaping with joy.

This might be her only chance to repay Mr. Caesar.

So she agreed without hesitation.

Then not long after, she met Miss Alice who came to pick her up to take her to the imperial capital.

Not long after getting on the carriage, Miss Alice told her that although most of the students in St. Louis College were normal people, there would always be bad people when there were too many people.

She was worried that she would be looked down upon by some people in the academy because her clothes were too worn out, so she said she would go home to get a set of clothes she had worn before and give it to herself.

But what Miss Alice didn't know was that he could feel her emotions.

It smells like a lie!

Grace quickly realized that the so-called clothes that she had worn before were actually new clothes that Miss Alice bought.

After figuring this out, she felt both moved and helpless.

When she stood at the door of Meyer's restaurant, she found that there were a lot of people inside, and she was even more afraid to go in.

Just as she was standing around the flower bed, anxiously waiting for Alice to come back, she felt an indescribable hot thought appear in the attic.

She couldn't describe what it felt like.

It was as if... as if a little sun appeared in the attic.

When she came to her senses, she saw the little sun walking out of the attic.

The moment he saw her for the first time, the [Little Sun] wearing the iron can-like armor showed her a surprised expression.

He seemed to want to say something to him, but the next moment his expression changed and he turned and left.

Not long after he left, Miss Alice drove back in a carriage.

"Grace, why haven't you gone up yet?"

Hearing this, her face turned red with embarrassment.

Fortunately, Miss Alice didn't say much and took her upstairs directly.

I was very happy to see Mr. Caesar again and always wanted to say something to him.

But she was too embarrassed to speak, so she just hid in the corner and didn't say anything.

"I'll just wait quietly until Mr. Caesar needs me."

"Ah, he's looking at me!"

…

"Grace, I have a friend at St. Louis College who is so close that we can wear the same pants."

"His name is Louis Charles Julius. If you encounter any problems in the academy, you can go to him. He will definitely help you if he can."

Louis patted his breastplate, gave a thumbs-up, and turned and left while Grace looked like an abandoned little animal, disheveled in the wind.

Alice seemed to have thought of something and smiled maliciously. Even when she saw Grace's confused expression, she just rubbed her face and said nothing.

After a while, Louis, who had taken off his armor, finally tidied up his messy clothes and came back to the carriage.

Grace tilted her head and looked at Louis in confusion.

Louis coughed and a gentle smile appeared on his face:

"Ladies, I will be accompanying you on this trip to St. Louis College, as requested by my brother Gaius Julius Caesar."

A big doubt flashed across Grace's small eyes.

She didn't seem to understand the situation.

"Caesar first..."

"You got the wrong person. Please call me Louis."

"But you are obviously Kai..."

Louis smiled and stretched out his fingers to pinch her cheek, revealing his sharp fangs:

"Ms. Grace, this is Louis."

"Mr. Louis."

Grace suddenly realized.

She remembered hearing other shepherdesses gossiping about the neighboring farmer's brother and his wife having sex on the pasture.

It is said that the farmer's younger brother was saying behind her back at that time, "Sister-in-law, don't look back, I am my brother."

A light bulb suddenly lit up on Grace's forehead.

"So Mr. Caesar also likes to disguise himself as someone else?"

"Grace, from today on we are classmates."

At this moment, Alice was smiling like a big-tailed wolf.

Louis wanted to point at himself and say, "I am your classmate."

After all, he and Alice were both students of the Nine Swords discipline, but Alice was in Class 7 of the Heavenly Sword, while he was in Class 3 of the Military Sword.

On the contrary, it was Grace, who was affiliated with the combat nun major under the priest discipline.

The relationship between the two girls is not as close as that between Louis and Alice.

But seeing Alice rolling her eyes at him behind Grace's back, Louis didn't bother to say anything more.

"I'm going to go to the Nine Swords Department Office first. It seems that Olivia has other arrangements."

(End of this chapter)