Harold went out for a while, and when he came back he was wearing a white robe, his blue eyes were shining, and he looked even more youthful.
Si Jin was a little surprised: "Don't you like black the most? Why did you suddenly change clothes?"
He had known Harold for decades, and the guy always wore black and had never thought about changing his style.
Harold raised his chin and said proudly: "I look good in anything I wear."
Si Jin: “…”
It's floating so high that its tail is about to reach the sky.
Asking again at this time would simply give him the opportunity to show off.
The first thing Lu Yao did when he entered the room was to confirm whether the fairy was still there, after all, they came back too late.
Edward and Mum were lying on the armrest of the sofa, their heads together, muttering something.
"What are you two doing?" Lu Yao asked curiously.
"Shh." Edward put his long fingers to his lips and lowered his voice, "Keep your voice down."
Lu Yao moved closer and saw two thumb-sized fairies snuggling together, lying on a comic book with their eyes closed. Their round bellies were covered with a white handkerchief and surrounded by a circle of white paper flowers.
Mumu rested his little paws on the edge of the round glass table, humming a requiem quietly.
Lu Yao was shocked, "What happened to them?"
Edward was leaning on the sofa with his elbows, an open comic book on his lap.
On that page there was a cross-shaped coffin and white flowers all over the floor. Mum was wearing a black swallowtail suit and lying on the table, looking exactly like the mourner in the cartoon.
Edward's emerald eyes curved slightly, and his voice was gentle: "Nothing, just teaching Mum some aesthetic knowledge about sleeping."
Aesthetics... vampires do like to sleep in coffins...
Lu Yao suppressed his crazy urge to complain, as he always felt that if he complained, he would lose. He pointed at the goblin lying motionless on the page and said, "… So they are fine?"
"Yeah, I just fell asleep."
"… "
Lu Yao was speechless and almost scared to death, thinking someone had died in the store.
After Harold and Sikin finished showing off, they came over and stared at the two little things on the table. "How long have they been here? Why haven't they left yet?"
When Tina, Clarissa, Eugenia, and Ambrose heard that Lu Yao had returned, they all came over and gathered around the round glass table.
Pushu was half asleep when he felt a strong and terrifying gaze. When he opened his eyes, he was almost frightened to death.
The shopkeeper and the black dragon finally returned.
But for some reason, demons, necromancers, vampires, slimes, dragons and humans formed a circle, staring at him and Merulu with eager eyes.
The goblins were so small that every other race around the table looked like giants.
In Pushu's eyes, there was a terrifying murderous light in their eyes.
Did they get exposed
Pushu woke Merulu up, "Wake up, the owner is back."
Merulu rubbed her eyes and sat up, facing the onlookers, calmer than Pushu.
She scanned and found Lu Yao accurately. She flapped her wings and flew in front of her. "Are you the owner?"
Merulu's eyes and hair are both tangerine-colored. She has two fluffy buns on her head with two purple flowers pinned in her hair. She wears an exquisite puffy skirt and is so cute that it leaves you speechless.
Lu Yao stretched out his hand, letting Miss Fairy fall into his palm, and nodded with a smile, "Yes. I am Lu Yao, the owner of this nail salon."
Merulu raised her head and said seriously, "My name is Merulu, and the one sitting there looking a bit silly is Pushu. We are both light magicians, and we are here to apply for the position of store clerk."
Lu Yao had just added the content of recruiting light magicians to the job announcement, but he didn’t expect that someone would apply so soon, and they were a pair of twin goblins.
Because Ambrose said before that there were not many magicians in Emerald Town, and most of the people coming in and out of the town were ordinary vendors and residents, so it was difficult to recruit suitable people.
Lu Yao asked: "Although we are recruiting light magicians, the work content is mainly related to nail art. Have you ever been involved in nail dyeing before?"
Merulu rolled her round eyes and nodded: "Well, we know how to use mist wood liquid to dye the armor."
The twin fairies knew that the owner was not at home, and when they entered the store they were attracted by comics and snacks. They did not pay much attention to the clerk doing nail polish for the customers, and at this time they thought that this store also used the traditional nail dyeing method.
Puxiu also flapped his wings and flew over, landing next to Merulu, and said obediently: "Melulu and I can both learn to extract mist wood liquid and help customers dye their armor."
Lu Yao pretended to hesitate, touched his chin and suggested: "It seems that you don't know yet, we don't use fog wood liquid when doing nails in our store. It's hard to explain it in a sentence or two, why don't you experience it first, and then you decide whether to apply."
These two little goblins were a little strange. They came very suddenly and their purpose was very clear: they wanted to stay in the store.
Lu Yao was not worried that they had bad intentions, but since she was already here, she should at least get her manicure done before leaving, so that she wouldn't have to look for fairies all over the world.
Pu Xiu was stunned and stretched out his short, fat little hand: "You want to do our nails?"
Although the twin goblins had been locked up in the temple for more than ten years, they had not been short of food and drink.
Perhaps Carlos also thought the little elves were cute, so he fed them carefully with dew and nectar, and their activity range was limited. The two little ones were raised to be plump, with dimples on the back of his hands.
But to humans, this is really cute.
Lu Yao's eyes would occasionally fall on Pu Xiu's protruding belly. He wanted to poke it, but he held back and nodded seriously, "Yeah."
Merulu flew in front of Lu Yao, stretched out her little hand, and blinked her tangerine eyes. "No one has ever been able to dye the fairy's nails, because our hands are too small. Even with the smallest tools, it is difficult."
Lu Yao carefully held Meilulu's hand and led her to the workbench. "So, today is your first time getting your nails done? Don't worry, I have a way. I will definitely give you a beautiful pair of nails."
The other shop assistants had never seen a fairy do nails, so they gathered around and immediately joined the on-site learning group.
Lu Yao took out the tablet and pushed it over as usual, "Let's see if there are any styles you like."
After learning how to use the tablet's photo function, Merulu and Pushu sat beside the screen, fascinated.
Fairies, like elves, are naturally close to nature.
When they saw the colorful manicures with small flowers, little stars of surprise appeared in their eyes. They had never seen such beautiful nails before.
Suddenly, they turned to a page of moving nail art, and Pushu blurted out, "Master Carlos!"
Merulu pinched Pushu and looked up at Lu Yao.
Lu Yao propped his chin on his elbow, tapped the tablet screen with his other fingertip, and said with a smile: "Pu Xiu is amazing, he can recognize him as the high priest just by looking at him. His manicure is not easy to make. I spent the whole night making magic circles and almost collapsed from exhaustion."
The demon, necromancer and vampire ancestor also saw this pair of beautiful manicures for the first time and couldn't help but come closer.
Clarissa: "It actually moves. How did the owner do that?"
The Necromancer stroked his bald chin and asked, "Can leopard print nail art be done to this extent?"
Edward: "Dark magic and light magic are intertwined. It's an interesting idea."
Everyone was interested in the manicure, and no one cared about Pushu's mistake in his excitement. Merulu breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at Carlos's manicure, "I want this too, but I like mountains, flowers and trees, and the colors should be more colorful."
Lu Yao didn't expect to be tricked by the little goblin here, so he had to spend another night here.
She just wanted to light up the illustrated guide, why was it so difficult
Tina silently took out three bottles of recovery potion and placed them on the corner of the table, and said considerately: "This is the high-level potion I made, the shop owner can work without worry."
The others also looked very interested, and they were all curious about how the owner did the fairy's nails and how to make the manicure move.
Lu Yao: “…”
Fairies' hands are much smaller than humans', so making movable nails is more than twice as difficult.
Lu Yao sighed and picked out the nail polish, glue and tools he needed from the drawer.
Goblins' bodies do not grow in size, and they cannot switch freely between animal and human forms like dragons and orcs.
Lu Yao thought for a moment, took out a piece of plastic nail plate, and used a magic circle to construct a simple magnifying glass, and asked Merulu to put her hand under the magic circle.
Looking from above the magic circle, the goblin's chubby little hands were almost as big as a normal person's.
Lu Yao took off the nail piece, shrunk it by the same multiple, and then put it under the magic circle to operate. Comparing it with Merulu's nail shape, he ground out a nail piece that would fit her finger perfectly, then picked it up and enlarged it to its original size.
Repeat this operation ten times, and you will get a nail piece that can be shrunk to fit perfectly with Merulu's ten nails.
Lu Yao used copying magic to create three spare armor plates and began the experiment.
Her idea was simple, and initially it was mainly about color matching.
In order to control the texture of manicure, you must be careful not to apply color too heavily, otherwise it will become a mess after shrinking.
Lu Yao tried two or three times and prepared to trace the picture.
But this time she was not making armor, she got new inspiration from Dominic's magic book and the original nail art magic circle.
Before applying the armor polish, she first drew a dark magic circle that she had recently figured out on the surface of the plastic nail plate. Then she followed the normal process, tracing and coloring it layer by layer, while weaving both light and dark magic circles into the nail surface.
Merulu was secretly surprised to see Lu Yao skillfully use both light and dark magic.
But everyone looked as if they were used to it, and she restrained herself from showing any surprise.
Pu Xiu was very curious, so he sat next to Lu Yao and watched closely. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "You are actually a magician with both light and dark attributes. You are so amazing!"
The little elf's lemon yellow eyes flickered, revealing approval.
Lu Yao couldn’t help it, he put down the soft brush, stretched out his index finger and gently poked Pu Xiu, who was even softer than he imagined: “Mr. Fairy, you are also very cute.”
She calls me "Mr. Fairy", I'm so happy!
Pu Xiu hugged Lu Yao's fingers and rubbed them, and then felt several strong gazes.
The dragon boy with raised eyebrows and the slime with brows folded into small mountain edges both stared at him.
Merulu couldn't help but cover her eyes, Pushu was so stupid.
Lu Yao continued to do his nails while tracing, stopping from time to time to draw magic circles, which was very time-consuming.
The shop assistants were watching very seriously, and Ambrose and Edward occasionally discussed in low voices, as if they were not in a nail salon but in a high magic theory seminar.
Time passed little by little, and Lu Yao finally finished the first nail surface.
Ambrose stared at the almost transparent nail plate, a little skeptical: "Isn't the color a little too light?"
Lu Yao shook his head: "No, when it falls on Merulu's fingers, the color is just right."
After she finished speaking, she moved her fingers and finally drew a huge light magic circle above the plastic nail plate, instantly activating the dark magic circle that was first drawn on the nail surface. The nail polish on the nail plate shattered and decomposed, and fell on Merulu's fingertips as she guided, and then recovered bit by bit.
This is inspired by Dominic's book. The nail polish is directly peeled off the nail surface, reduced in size, and finally fixed on the fairy's fingertips.
Merulu looked down at her fingertips. The shrunken nail polish was neatly attached to the nail surface. The color tone was indeed just as the owner said, with the right shade.
This is a mountain scene with melting snow in spring. The gradually spreading green and the white snow piled up on the mountain tops complement each other.
The snow originally covered the middle of the mountain. As spring spread, a light green spread up the mountainside and advanced towards the top of the mountain. The snow melted little by little, and the colors became fresh.
Merulu held her face in her hands, squinted her eyes, and said loudly: "I like this! It's so beautiful, so pretty!"
The fairy's fingers were so tiny that others couldn't see them, so she took the initiative to put her hand under the magnifying glass magic circle so that everyone could see her manicure clearly.
Ambrose stroked his chin, red light flickering in his hollow eye sockets. "I see, the concept of magic nail art is very interesting, and the basic construction system is already mature. Has the owner ever thought about conducting research in a higher and more advanced direction?"
Lu Yao: “?”
Edward continued, "For example, adding offensive magic effects to the nails, or adding armor and weapons."
Lu Yao nodded: "I do have some ideas in this regard, but I am too busy to handle it alone. The construction of the new magic circle and the tolerance threshold of the armor surface will take time to test."
Ambrose stepped forward and said, “As a store clerk, I will fully support the store owner in this research.”
Lu Yao smiled bitterly: "Put that research aside for now. You should learn the basic formation of magic nail art first, then I can relax a little."
Ambrose: "How difficult is that? I have already learned it and can help you now."
Pu Xiu stood up and jumped into Lu Yao's hands: "I've learned it too, I can help too!"
Harold's brows were tightly knitted together. He seemed to have seen Mumu No. 2.
Mumu also frowned and uttered a grievance.
Merulu: “…”
Just pretend that you don’t have this brother.
The surprise came too suddenly. Even Ambrose was fine, but Pushu was so amazing that he learned it just by watching her use it a few times.
Lu Yao made a quick test and found that the two of them used magic skillfully without any mistakes.
At the beginning, Lu Yao only had to trace the picture, and he safely handed over the work of constructing the magic circle to the two magicians.
With the cooperation of three magicians, the progress of dynamic manicure was greatly accelerated and it was completed by midnight.
Merulu raised her fingers, and on her nails there were falling spring flowers, gurgling streams, and melting snow. Her tangerine-colored eyes were shining as if covered with a layer of honey.
This was Miss Fairy's first time to dye her nails, and it completely exceeded her expectations. She liked it so much that she didn't know what to do.
Pushu came over and looked at Merulu's fingers, feeling envious.
The owner said it was too late today and he would have to wait until after get off work tomorrow before it would be his turn.
However, the twin fairies' magical abilities were unanimously recognized and they were successfully hired.
Lu Yao opened the illustration, and the fairy icons lit up. Finally, there were only two races left.
She turned her eyes to Mumu and asked kindly, "Mumu, you haven't done your nails yet, do you want to try it?"
Before Mumu could answer, Edward stood up excitedly, "Do Mumu's nails? Shop owner, I have an idea. I'll design this set of nails!"
Lu Yao: "... Is it the gorgeous aesthetics of the vampires again?"
Edward could no longer hear her words, so he casually found a piece of paper and a pen on the table and began to draw.
Lu Yao took a look and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
This ancestor of the blood clan does have some talent.
She suddenly had an idea and went over to tell Edward about it.
Edward pondered for a moment, his emerald eyes glowing, "Why didn't I think of this? This is a great idea! Give me three days."
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Mumu's exclusive manicure is taken care of by her biological father Edward, and the new clerks in the store are all very capable.
Ordinary guests no longer needed Lu Yao to receive, and she began to have time to concentrate on studying magic.
The next day at noon, Lu Yao took the lunch box to the nail salon, then turned back to the snack bar.
This day is the time agreed with the customer to trade the black ring.
She had lunch with the store clerks, and when they learned that she was going to the park to do business, they were very curious and expressed their desire to watch the scene.
Lu Yao was a little unsure: "Will the guard captain allow it?"
Chi stepped forward, "It should be fine. We all have camouflage in the game, so nothing will be exposed."
Xiao Qie raised her hands excitedly: "The shop owner was almost injured in the previous transaction, and there may be survivors who want to do something bad. We will accompany you and make sure that their little tricks are put to rest."
Lu Yao imagined according to Qing's mimicry in the game, if she went to trade, she would be followed by a group of big NPCs...
I’m afraid the guests will be scared to death