Chapter 404 What you don’t know
The ‘surprise’ that deadpan left for me is really not bad
Although Mo Tan could feel the two ladies in front of him reacting the moment he appeared. They were obviously relieved, but after this breath of relief, their eyes became very, very, very subtle.
It’s okay for the little priest who follows him wholeheartedly. Although his bright eyes contain shame, panic, entanglement, helplessness, frustration and other emotions, he still retains the same reverence as before, and a certain source. The enigmatic hatred of iron cannot be transformed into steel.
But Leisha, who was sitting next to Xiao Ai, was different. The surprise and relief she felt when she first saw Mo Tan were fleeting like an illusion, and her pale and pretty face quickly sank. I saw her biting her silver teeth lightly, her blood-red eyes containing murderous intent, staring straight into Mo Tan's eyes, and then asked word by word: "Is it true?"
Ignoring the former's devouring eyes and cold little tiger fangs, Mo Tan spent about 0.7 seconds thinking about it, and spent nearly two seconds covertly observing the two people in front of him. After seeing the details of the woman's expression, he suppressed a smile and sighed deeply: "This is a sad story."
He did not directly deny it, nor did he immediately accuse Futaba of lying. Or he tried to clarify himself, but raised his head with a complicated expression, and then without saying anything else, he just walked heavily to the sofa opposite Leisha and Xiao Ai and sat down, and like magic, he took out a goblet. , and like magic, he took out a small jar of [Gonghuo Lie] that could make many people drunk just by its taste. He poured half a cup for himself and drank half a sip, with a strange flush on his face. Coughed twice.
“Do you think you are not hurt badly enough?”
Leisa frowned slightly due to the smell of alcohol, and looked at the face in front of her that suddenly lost its calmness and playful smile. The man, with most of the anger in his eyes inexplicably dissipated, turned his head and said angrily He snorted: "This stuff smells terrible, don't drink it!"
After saying that, he waved his hand vigorously, summoning a thick ball of blood out of thin air, and directly poured it into the wine jar in front of Mo Tan. The wine glass engulfed it, and through some extremely corrosive negative energy, it melted to the point where not even the dregs were left.
"Sir, um, let me make you a cup of coffee."
Xiao Ai stood up in a panic, ran to the corner of the main hall, and took out the seal from the cabinet. He picked up the small pot with the Liuliting logo on it, took out a handful of coffee beans from the small wallet he carried with him, and opened it clumsily. He began to get busy.
This was the first time that the little priest saw such an expression on the person he swore to follow. The calmness that seemed to be unchanging faded away, and the cynical detachment faded away. He has that temperament that makes him hard to see through but makes him feel inexplicably at ease, as if he has become another person.
The pupils of the green eyes became deep and dim, and the thin figure looked a little bleak under the warm light of the main hall. Her hands were trembling a little after Lesa melted the jar of strong wine, and the corners of her mouth were trembling. I don't know when Mo's smile rose again, but the curve that seemed to be mocking the world in the past is now more like mocking himself, making people can't help but want to hug him from behind and murmur comfort.
Neither Xiao Ai nor Leisha have ever seen such a 'Tan Mo'.
[He is just an ordinary person]
For some reason, Xiao Ai, who quietly looked back with his peripheral vision, and Lesa, who was sitting in front of Mo Tan but deliberately not looking at him, couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, But I don’t know why I feel this way, and where the other person’s uncomfortable dejection comes from.
What is particularly coincidental is that at this moment, Mo Tan is also thinking about the same problem as the two women.
[Well, I took the bait, so what kind of complicated story is this~ 】
Mo Tan looked at the empty low table in front of him infatuatedly, sighing for his oxbowl, and at the same time he was worried that he had not finished drinking it not long after he arrived. [Gong Huo Lie] felt sad, and the third side smiled sadly at Lesa: "This is my last altar."
"Don't you like drinking coffee?"
The charming Bloodseeker lady wrinkled her nose slightly and hummed coldly, not very well: "What's so good about drinking this stuff? It makes you feel uncomfortable. . ”
There is nothing wrong with this, after all, [Gong Huolie] is There are countless spirits in the Innocence Continent, the kind that can be burned with a little fire. Naturally, it is not friendly to a 'former noble lady' like Lesa who has only drank red wine at most, and has never touched alcohol. Not to mention Xiao Ai, the little priest still feels a little dizzy now.
"Although I like drinking coffee, there are always times when I want to get drunk."
Mo Tan smiled casually, except for the uncontrollable pain in his eyes. He seemed to have returned to normal, and lightly shrugged: "I just don't know when, my drinking ability is getting better and better, and I can't get drunk with ordinary wine."
"What exactly do you want to say?"
Lesa flattened her mouth and tried her best to make her softening expression cold: "What's going on with Futaba?"
"I don't want to. You know what she said to you."
Mo Tan did not shy away from this topic that seemed to hurt him, nor did he lower his voice to prevent Xiao Ai, who was pricking his ears, from hearing it. He leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes softly: "What that girl said about me is not too much."
Of course, even though he showed an expression that was so hopeless that it made people feel heartbroken. , but in fact Mo Tan only did this because he really didn’t know what Futaba had done, and it was impossible for Leisha and Xiao Ai to convey it to him intact, so they couldn’t find any loopholes to exploit. .
The other party is a four-eyed flathead who is no worse than me in all aspects as long as he calms down. Not only is he extremely sinister, but he also knows how to deceive. This despicable, dangerous, and neurotic guy is almost as good as himself. I had given Lesa and Xiao Ai some hours of 'talk therapy' before, which was enough time for her to talk nonsense. The nonsense is perfectly woven, and it is very likely to have dug countless holes for oneself. Denying or arguing directly in front of the two women will only have the opposite effect, and 99% of the time it will make a bad thing worse< br>
So he simply changed his style. Instead of denying the other party's nonsense, he made another nonsense himself.
Although it wouldn't hurt even if Leisha and Xiao Ai misunderstood something, Mo Tan started to play happily.
Sure enough, after hearing what he said just now, Lesa, whose expression had become softer, suddenly became angry again and said coldly: "So you admitted it?"
Mo Tan did not open his eyes, but asked tiredly: "What are you referring to?"
"Because Futaba gave you a child with a congenital defect, you abandoned her!"
Ms. Bloodseeker's eyebrows were raised, and she asked with a complex expression: "Is it true?"
Xiao Ai was almost boiling the water now, and this girl listened very seriously.
"I have no obligation to answer you on this matter, my dear."
Mo Tan opened his eyes with a tired look on his face, then leaned forward slightly before Lesa got angry, and sighed softly: "But this is not a secret that must be kept, so if you want to hear it, neither am I. Can’t say a little bit.”
For some reason, looking at the other person's increasingly gloomy and gray eyes, Lesa suddenly had the urge to stand up and hug the other person, telling him not to mention the sad things again, and then...
"Say it. "
She crossed her legs, held her smooth chin, stared at Mo Tan with burning eyes, and expressed without hesitation that she really wanted to hear it.
Humans (generally speaking) are such contradictory creatures.
Mo Tan was not surprised. He just nodded slightly and turned back to Xiao Ai by the window with a smile: "Come here too, you have almost boiled the water."
"Ah!"
The little priest immediately turned off the fire in a hurry, then hurriedly poured the remaining boiling water at the bottom of the pot into the cup, threw a handful of coffee beans into it and walked quickly Bringing it to Mo Tan: "I'm very sorry, sir."
Mo Tan shook his head, then Then he motioned her to sit down next to Lesa, took a sip of the really unpleasant coffee, and after being silent for a while, he whispered: "Sure enough, that girl is still complaining that I didn't leave her a child. But I'm still worried about it." Lesa and Xiao Ai were shocked at that time and said "Ah (twice)" in unison.
The former even said doubtfully: "But Futaba told me."
"If you want to hear it, if you have any questions, just wait until I finish talking before asking."
Mo Tan interrupted Leisha lightly, and said as if babbled: "After all, it's not something that makes people happy just thinking about it. It’s just something that I can’t forget even if I want to.”
Lesa pursed her lips and lowered her head in a rather ‘obedient’ manner and stopped talking.
After a while, Mo Tan spoke again: "Seven years ago, a relatively popular poem appeared in my hometown."
He paused, and then He sang softly under the gaze of the two ladies in front of him——
"You don't know why I left you~
I insist not to say it and let you cry~
Your tears are like a downpour, breaking all over the ground~
In My heart is clear.
You don’t know why I am so cruel~
Hovering in the sky where you can’t see~
There are many things you don’t know”
Although she only sang one bar, and although Mo Tan didn’t show any emotion throughout the whole process, Lesa However, He Xiaoai still heard an indescribable emotion from his low and magnetic voice, and even Mo Tan himself didn't know what it was, and was moved by it
Compared with the time when he attacked Futaba with distorted magic sounds in a public space, Mo Tan sang quite seriously this time, so although the level of curiosity dropped to infinitely close to zero, the lethality was still not low
And this old song from decades ago is really nice
Anyway, Xiao Ai couldn't help but clasped her little hands: "It sounds good."
"What's wrong with this song?"
Leisha, who was also obsessed with listening just now, was relatively calm. He just asked Mo Tan expressionlessly: "What do you want from me?" What does it have to do with Futaba and her child?”
“This song was written by me. It can be said to be my first work after becoming a bard. "
Mo Tantian said shamelessly.
The two women's eyes suddenly widened: "Ah!"
"To be precise, I wrote it to that girl Futaba."
He added shamelessly.
“Huh!?”
The eyes of the two ladies widened even more. A blood seeker and a sun priest subconsciously held each other’s hands and asked Mo Tan in unison. Said: "Why?"
If anyone with common sense sees such closeness between the Sun God clergy who are most keen on killing 'heresies' and the blood seekers who fit the 'heresy' template, it will definitely make people's jaws drop, although both of them are quite good. It’s just non-mainstream.
“Why?”
Mo Tan repeated with a wry smile and shook his head: “I just wrote out what I wanted to say, although I just emphasized ‘can’t say’.”
Leisha and Xiao Ai did not continue to ask questions, but sat there obediently waiting for Mo Tan's next words.
And Mo Tan did not keep them waiting for too long, just a few seconds. I improvised the following based on the previous song "Excerpts of Things You Don't Know".
"The first time I met Futaba was ten years ago."
Mo Tan tilted his head and looked at the boundless starry sky outside the window, with a nostalgic smile on his lips: "Then When she was sixteen and I was sixteen, she ran away from home and I met in a certain valley when I started wandering. I was chased in an extremely embarrassing situation because I accidentally provoked two bugbear tribes.”
【Two bugbear tribes? 】
Xiao Ai didn't react at all, but Leisha, who had seen Futaba take action, was stunned for a moment.
Mo Tan guessed her thoughts and shook his head slightly: "She was not as powerful as she is now. She was just an ordinary girl. I was not as good at making girls happy as I am now. I was just a white girl. An ordinary half-elf as pure as a lotus flower.”
Leisha rolled her eyes and sneered at Mo Tan's words. She didn't expect that she was a girl who was very happy to be coaxed.
Xiao Ai wanted to laugh but was too embarrassed to do so. It was very hard to hold it in.
However, both of them were a little relieved. At least the 'Tan Mo' and 'Mr.' in their eyes could still say one or two nonsensical words and were not completely immersed in the sad past
Unconsciously, the two of them had subconsciously figured out the setting of 'Sad Past'.
“After that, we finally escaped each other’s pursuit and escaped into an ordinary town.”
Mo Tan continued to talk, without mentioning at all where they were hunted or the small town in the ravine they fled to. He just said with special nostalgia: "After the danger passed, I fell seriously ill and became ill. I had a high fever for several days, and the town that didn't even have a church naturally didn't have a priest. If it weren't for the kindness of the locals, and Futaba's careful care every day, he would often risk going into the forest to get some unknown poisonous things. If the poisonous herb comes back, maybe I will be dead a long time ago."
After a moment of silence, Xiao Ai couldn't help but ask: "Then, what then?"
"Then?"< br>
Mo Tan, who seemed to be stunned in place, trembled slightly as if waking up from a dream, and it took him a long time to react before revealing a sad smile.
"Then we met each other's eyes."
Chapter 401: The End
(End of this chapter)