Lu Yao stepped aside to let Harold in. He did not ask where he had been these days. "I'm glad you're back."
Harold walked to the sofa and sat down, then took out a bone from his arms.
Lu Yao came back with the water and saw the bone in his hand. He was a little surprised: "Where did you get this?"
This bone is very similar to the one the demon gave her.
Harold handed it to her and said, "I went to collect the remains of my parents and found a strange bone mixed in with my mother's bones. This is not a dragon bone. Do you know which one it is?"
Drex's soul was locked in a bone bracelet by Helena, and the bone dragon that appeared was not his original body.
His and Alia's bodies are respectively in the Jinklay Mansion and the Royal Palace in the capital.
When Harold's magic power recovered a little, he collected the remains and took them to a secret place for burial.
Lu Yao took the bone and looked at it, then took out another one from the warehouse and put them together: "Do you think they are the same thing?"
"It looks the same. Luyao, are you collecting this kind of bones?" Harold asked.
Lu Yao didn't know whether he should collect this. There was no such item in the system task. He shook his head and said, "This one was given to me by a customer from another store. I didn't expect to find it here."
Harold remembered the man who appeared in his mother's memory. He gave his mother a box and asked her to keep it for him.
The box was narrow and long, and looked just big enough to hold a bone of this length and thickness.
My mother has passed away, and the agreement should be considered fulfilled.
Harold nodded and whispered, "Then I'll give you this one, too."
Lu Yao recalled that the demon seemed to have said that bones were her goal.
But the system didn't say anything, nor did it issue any task to find bones. I don't know what the connection is.
She thought for a moment and nodded in acceptance: "Okay, thank you."
Harold looked deeply at Lu Yao with his dark blue eyes and pursed his lips.
"What's wrong?" Lu Yao asked.
Harold lowered his eyes, shook his head gently, paused, and nodded: "Lu Yao, do you want to sign a contract with me?"
contract
"The kind that binds the soul?" Lu Yao was curious.
Harold clutched his robe tightly in his hands and nodded.
Lu Yao shook his head: "If possible, can we not do it?"
Harold was slightly startled, "Why?"
Lu Yao smiled bitterly: "My soul is already very heavy. If I hang another dragon on it, I'm afraid it will fall down."
Little Black Dragon didn't know that she had to rebind a soul every week. Now she had three souls bound to her, and there were four or five more in line.
In the future, if the snack bar recruits new people, the number of people will increase, and there will really be no place to hang dragons.
Harold didn't understand why she was laughing, but his tense shoulders slowly relaxed and his hands loosened, "I understand."
Sure enough, Lu Yao is Lu Yao.
[Congratulations to the shop owner for being recognized by the strongest race in the Alexandria Continent, the dragon race. The nail salon has been upgraded to a five-star store. The shop owner can immediately go to the next world! ]
Lu Yao felt his pocket getting hot and felt for a clue.
Every time she read the little note, she would put it somewhere randomly, and it would always appear in her pocket the next time.
Like a little note that can find the way.
Two finger-wide white slips of paper were stacked together. The first one had "Five Flavors of the World" written on it, and the second was a small picture of a sharp, scaly claw holding a handful of treasure. The fingertips gently rubbed the edges and corners, and there were indeed new clues underneath.
This time it's a text clue, nine words.
Harold came closer and saw the words on the note, "'Life is like a box of chocolates', what is this?"
Lu Yao casually put the note in his pocket and said, "Guessing game. Harold, you want to stay in the lounge?"
Harold was stunned for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Is it okay?"
His parents' affairs had a significant impact on him, and the little black dragon suddenly became much more sensible.
"Of course," Lu Yao recalled Drex's request and said what he was thinking, "Harold, I'm going to talk to Teacher Mu Xin and ask him to send you back to Dragon Valley."
Harold's eyes flashed, and he muttered quietly: "Dragon Valley is not fun at all."
Lu Yao: "You still have another fifty years to go before you become an adult. Don't waste this time just reading comics. I don't want to have a useless clerk in the future."
Harold: “…”
The next day, when the shop assistants came to work, Harold came out of the lounge and startled everyone.
At noon, Mu Xin came to the nail salon to find Lu Yao and brought an unexpected guest.
Lu Yao first talked to Mu Xin about Harold. The dragon clan owed Harold, and the prophecy of the world-destroying black dragon had been broken. It was not difficult for him to return to Dragon Valley to continue his studies.
Mu Xin was surprised that Harold was willing to go back.
Lu Yao smiled and said, "I'll trouble you with the school matters."
School is about to start, and Harold and Tina are going to Dragon Valley.
The two young dragons obtained their parents' consent and applied in advance not to live in Dragon Valley.
After finishing their afternoon studies, they can go back to the nail salon together.
Dragon Valley is not too far from Emerald Town. Harold and Tina are both relatively mature young dragons, so there won’t be much danger if they travel together.
Lu Yao plans to upgrade the nail salon, expand the lounge area, and set aside a room for Tina, Clarissa and Eugenia to rest, as Sijin and Harold are sometimes too noisy.
The king died suddenly, the nobles collapsed, and the empire was in turmoil.
The nail salon's business was unexpectedly not affected. Instead, many customers came to customize combat manicures. Lu Yao wanted to upgrade the laboratory and reception room as well.
After chatting with Mu Xin about Harold's return to school, Lu Yao turned to look at the guests who came with Mu Xin.
Radner is the longest-lived elder of the dragon clan. Lu Yao had met him last time at the magic academy.
But he came in human form today, and she didn't recognize him.
Radner's purpose was simple; he wanted to know about the Demon Dragon Armor and the Nine-Star Demon Sword.
That ancient weapon refining magic book was very magical. After Lu Yao succeeded in refining it, the contents of the book disappeared.
By the time she had refined the last piece, the entire book had disappeared.
As for the bone-eating grass, Lu Yao only said that he got a little bit by chance, and now it has all been used up.
Lu Yao stood at the door and watched Radner and Mu Xin leave.
Back at the store, Si Jin asked her about the bone pen.
That day at the Magic Academy, others might not have noticed, but Si Jin knew that Lu Yao took out a strange pen and easily severed the souls connecting Helena and Drex.
Lu Yao took out a bone pen from the warehouse, but it was not actually a pen.
Before she gave Harold a battle manicure, she practiced making a few magic props.
There were some good materials at hand at the time, so she picked up some and cast a handle, and inlaid the finger bone that the demon gave her on it.
Now it has a black handle and a white head. It looks like a pen and is very convenient to take out and put back.
That day she had a flash of inspiration. She didn't expect the bone pen to be so powerful. It could cut off the soul connection with just a slight cut.
As soon as the bone pen was taken out, Si Jin jumped three steps away alertly.
Because of the emergency that day, he didn't feel it, but only now did he feel that the pen exuded an indescribable evil aura.
Edward and Clarissa also frowned and stood up and moved away.
Only Ambrose was jealous of Lu Yao's pen, but he didn't dare to really reach out to take it.
The nail salon is only five stars and has not reached the standard to add a deputy store manager, and the employees still need to continue to hone their skills.
Lu Yao plans to continue training store employees while also starting preparations for a new store.
System: [This time the clue is very simple. I suggest that the next store should sell chocolate directly.]
Lu Yao: “…”
Isn't this really artificial intelligence
System: [Shopkeeper, why don't you speak? ]
Lu Yao: “… I don’t think so.”
The system cannot understand: [Why? ]
The clues all said they wanted chocolate. It was such a simple and straightforward hint. Couldn’t the owner understand it
Lu Yao: "Is it possible that 'chocolate' is just a metaphor?"
The system does not understand what metaphor is, so it can only retreat to advance: [What does the store owner think? ]
Lu Yao: "The nail salon still needs to be taken care of for the time being. It's better for the new store to be simpler so that the owner doesn't have to watch over the store all the time. I have a plan in mind. Let's open the Star Gate first."
In order to facilitate the management of several stores, the third store was located next to the nail salon.
The location and area of this shop are similar to those of a nail salon. As usual, Lu Yao spent 100,000 popularity points to upgrade the shop into an alternate space.
At the same time, she drew new drawings and asked the system to decorate and arrange the new store according to the requirements.
The maintenance took twelve hours, so Lu Yao went to the market.
I had a chat with all the suppliers, put up an invoice for the goods including those for the late-night snack bar, and re-determined the supply price.
The next day, Lu Yao stood in front of the third shop and was quite satisfied.
System: [Lu Yao’s blind box store, what a weird name.]
Lu Yao explained: "'Life is like a box of chocolates', in fact, there is a second sentence - you never know what the next piece will taste like."
Illiterate system: [? ? ? ]
Lu Yao: "Don't you think this store fits the theme perfectly?"