The young man in black walked towards him silently. Lucian leaned against the door, staring at him with his wine-red eyes without blinking.
"What can I do for you?"
The young man's voice was polite and courteous, as if Lucian was indeed a stranger to him. Lucian tried to see his expression through the mask, but all he got was disappointment.
"What's your name?" Lucian asked.
"Burton," said the young man.
"Burton? Nice name. When did you come here? I'm curious about you..." Lucian smiled at him, "It's tiring to stand here and talk. How about we sit down in the room?"
Seeing that Burton was just silent and didn't understand, Lucian suddenly smiled with his hands covering his lips, deliberately pretending to be slightly angry, and said: "What are you afraid of? I am Noah's brother, not his forbidden love."
As he said that, he turned and walked into the room, saying arrogantly, "I need to buy a lot of things. If you refuse to obey Noah's orders and treat me badly, I will complain to him. Do you understand?"
Burton followed him into the room and sat down. Lucian sat at the tea table, his chin resting on one hand. He carefully observed his movements and postures.
Although Number Four was nominally his mentor, the relationship between the two was not as good as that between an ordinary teacher and student.
That was before Lucian was given a number. Number Four, as a senior, was responsible for instructing him and the other new fast travelers on the precautions for the first few times of crossing. Number Four was a very gentle young man, and the way he chose to obtain energy was "gratitude value". He and Lucian's obviously different styles of doing things made them never get along even though they were a pair of teacher and student. For a long time, whenever Lucian thought of this mentor Number Four who always sighed, advised him to be a good person, and tried to discipline him many times, he wanted to avoid him.
Although the temperament of this man named Burton is different from before, he is very similar to No. 4.
They really look alike.
If Burton is his mentor who fell into this world due to the turbulence of time and space and lost his memory, he has to notify the system to contact the control center to bring him back to the base...
But in this basic "colleague friendship"...
You know, No. 4 seems to have lost his memory now.
Lucian suddenly had some bad thoughts. Number Four was a good person and would never bother with a bad person like him.
"I need some time to confirm." Lucian said to the system, "After that, you can send a message to the control center and apply for the dispatch system to connect with his spirit."
"Okay!" the system said, "If we want to connect with his spirit, it will take at least a month..."
"Don't worry." Lucian said lazily, "I will definitely not kill him during this time..."
System: '! ! What do you know! What are you going to do! '
"I hold a grudge very well. I still remember the way he accused me of being a bad student." Lucian said with a smile, "I finally found an opportunity to bully him. If I have to blame someone, I can only blame him himself."
'What are you going to do... Wait, I'm warning you! According to the rules, you will be punished if you harm your colleagues who are also fast travelers!' The system screamed, 'Do you want to be locked up in a small dark room and exiled for a hundred years?'
"Do I look that stupid?" Lucian spoke to the system in a confused voice.
'What do you want to do?'
'Like maybe lie to him and tell him I'm his ex-boyfriend in a previous life or something? Just kidding—'
"I warn you, Lucian. According to the rules of time travel, you have an obligation to rescue colleagues who have lost their memory or have disabilities—"
Before the system finished speaking, Lucian pushed it into silent mode.
"I need these things," Lucian told Burton leisurely, "A carpet made of rabbit fur that you can walk on barefoot, a crystal cup with flower petals sealed inside, a bow tie inlaid with rubies... Don't look at me like that, these are all necessities of my life."
"I need to consult Lord Noah." Burton said.
"Does a little thing like this need to ask him for instructions?" Lucian curled his lips in dissatisfaction. "I heard that you are very powerful, Lord Burton... I heard that you are the second most powerful person in this city-state. But now it seems that you are like his dog... Where is your power, Lord Burton?"
As he spoke, he stretched out a finger and pressed it against Burton's chest. Burton silently backed away. Lucian leaned forward and suddenly smiled.
"Why are you hiding?" he said, "I'm not planning to sneak attack you, I'm not planning to..."
"Unbutton your shirt," Lucian said.
The breath he exhaled was also soft. After seeing Burton's silent but increasingly miserable expression, Lucian smiled even more happily.
"Remember to bring back what I need." He whispered.
Burton left with the list. After he left, Lucian released the system again and said to it with his hands spread out, "Look, I didn't hit him or scold him. I didn't do anything bad, did I?"
System: …Okay, okay, whatever you want.
Lucian wanted to say something to the system, but he heard a knock on the door.
"elder brother."
The voice of a young man came from his side appropriately. Noah put the cloak in the hands of the servants, and said obediently: "I heard from the servants that my brother bought a lot of things today?"
"You're locking me up here, but I can't be left without anything to use, right?"
"How could that be? I love my brother very much, so of course I want to give him the best things." The young man said with a smile.
He sat beside Lucian and looked at him. He had the blood of a succubus, but he was not a succubus—the demon blood of his father replaced the succubus blood of his mother. He looked at Lucian's waist and suddenly smiled: "Good, brother, all the marks on your body have disappeared. You have finally returned to your original appearance."
The boy's words always made people feel creepy. But Lucian was not afraid. The young man then asked, "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"You are a little worse than your brother Wade." Lucian said with a smile, "If he knew that I was touched by others, he would peel off the skin on my waist."
The old man's face darkened a little. Then, he said softly, "Brother, can I sleep with you tonight?"
"No." Lucian said, "The stuff in my body that belongs to your brother Wade hasn't completely dissipated yet - or do you not mind this smell?"
Lucian swore he was talking about the blood that Vader left for him to suck—the other thing he had only gotten in his dreams.
After saying this, he looked at the young man with a smile, until the young man finally turned gloomy and walked away.
"Children just don't stand being teased." Lucian said to the system, "Look at Wade, he has a very good mentality."
System: "Take it easy, Lucian, please, take it easy."
Lucian certainly won't take it easy.
"Ved will come find me," he said.
After saying that, he lay back on the bed and closed his eyes, enjoying a rare night that was not reduced to tears in his dreams.
'Using Vader as an excuse works pretty well,' he thought half-heartedly in his sleep.
He didn't know that after leaving, he returned to his palace. He looked at the puppets that looked exactly like Lucian in the palace, and his face twisted.
…
It feels so good to meet old friends, and it feels so happy to bully children.
The next day at noon, Lucian received the things that Burton had bought for him. He asked Burton to put them in order one by one, and found that Burton was in a good mood. So he asked him "casually" how he came to the City of Laziness.
Burton was very silent, but Lucian always found a way to get him to speak. After Lucian said, "If you don't speak, he will look down on you and tell the city lord," Burton finally said slowly that he had no memory of the past.
No memory of the past.
He just said that he woke up under a cliff, killed many monsters, was picked up by Noah, and became his subordinate from then on.
"What else?" Lucian asked further.
"... I don't remember." Burton shook his head. "I only remember that when I woke up, there were colorful fragments on my side..."
Lucian felt that the colorful fragments were very similar to the time fragments that would be brought out when breaking through the time turbulence. He was basically sure that Burton was number four, and continued: "Besides this, don't you remember the past at all..."
"In the past?" Burton was a little confused.
Lucian's evil thoughts came up again.
Since Burton was No. 4, he would take this opportunity to bully this "good guy". He really wanted to see the wonderful expression of No. 4 when he returned to the base and saw that his former student had not changed at all and was playing a prank on him.
He deliberately put on a sad expression and whispered, "Actually, when I first saw you, I thought you looked a lot like... No, don't you think I look familiar to you? We once..."
He wanted to continue acting, but Noah had already walked in.
But the effect of this interruption was really great. Lucian could clearly see that Burton was stunned for a moment.
"Want to hear the news, brother?" The young man said with a smile, "Heloise sent me a message, asking me to send her brother back to be executed. I refused her because Eden is your subordinate - are you happy, brother?"
As he spoke, he sat down next to Lucian, hugged his arm, and said softly: "Brother, I want a reward..."
"Sure." Lucian said, placing Burton's hand on Noah's, "I'll give you your knight back."
Noah: …
Lucian: "You can ask him to sleep with you. He looks more secure than me."
"No." Noah was very dissatisfied. "I want my brother. Why does my brother always reject me? Aren't we brothers connected by blood? My brother..."
… Why can't you be like a puppet and never reject me? Nian thought.
Everything in this world did not belong to him alone. Whether it was his father's position as city lord or the brothers he was fighting for, he understood this truth early on, and after gaining power, he used the most brutal means to eliminate those factors that would cause him trouble.
Only the doll that belongs to him is the most reliable.
They would never rebel against him, never reject him.
The system was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. It looked at the increasingly gloomy face of the young man and persuaded Lucian: "Why don't you just go along with him for now? I think he..."
"Okay." Lucian said.
Before he could feel happy, he heard Lucian say, "But I have a small request."
"What?"
"Can we let Burton and Eden sleep with us?" Lucian said with a wink. "You are afraid of loneliness when you sleep, but I like to sleep in a lively environment."
Year:…