In the spacious dining hall, the silver metal tables and chairs fixed to the floor are neatly arranged on the ground one by one, and the surrounding white walls are painted with patterns of ducklings, apples, and pears.
Students in twos and threes sat in front of tables and chairs and ate food from their own plates, and some were queuing up to serve out their plates at the cafeteria window.
Garen and Rafael sat opposite each other at the right end of a long table. They each ate the sandwiches on their plates, dipped the sesame sauce in the middle from time to time, and drank a sip of tomato, potato and beef soup.
There was a low hum in the surrounding cafeteria, and the voices of many people's voices bounced back into the empty cafeteria, mixed with echoes. I feel like I can hear what I'm saying clearly, but when I listen carefully, it's just a blur.
Garen raised his head and glanced at Rafael who was opposite him.
"You didn't answer my question last time."
"what is the problem?"
"What do you like about me?" Garen inserted a slice of apple into his mouth.
"I like everything." Rafael looked calm, "If I have to say something, it is that you are good-looking, don't you think it is very face-saving to take it out?"
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"Then what reason do you want?" Raphael shrugged.
The two of them stopped talking for a while.
Garen felt that this little guy was a bit weird, he was obviously a girl, but had the same personality as a boy.
"Can you tell me what agreement you made with Yilian and the others?"
"I can't tell you this." Rafael smiled, "But you just need to know that the power of the oath is unstoppable. It doesn't just involve me and them."
"Really?" Garen squinted his eyes, he felt that he might have to go back to Wenwen's parents, about some secrets about this small town. As two people who have lived here for so many years, they should more or less know something secret.
This mystery is likely to involve the issue of potential points.
"After dinner, let's go to play golf. I have a sister who has made an appointment to wait for me on the court. Then you can go and cheer for me." Rafael's clothes seemed to be taken for granted.
Garen also wanted to get in touch with her more and dig out the secrets inside, so he nodded and did not refuse.
After eating, we went to the court to play basketball for a while. After class in the afternoon, Garen returned home together under the protection of Rafael. Rafael insisted on sending him to the door of the house, just like a boy sending his girlfriend Send Garen to the house.
At home, after teasing Vivien who was calling her brother, Garen finally waited until his parents came home one after the other.
In the study in the evening, Garen pushed his brother and sister away, and looked at his mother sitting across from him with a puzzled expression.
"What's the matter? You have such a serious face, like a little grown-up." Mother Triss smiled, reached out and grabbed Gallon's face and pinched it. "Okay, did you get bullied at school?" She asked softly.
Shaking his head, Garen avoided his mother's hand pulling his face.
"Mom, I want to ask, is there any ancient traditional oath in this town, once an oath is agreed, it must be kept?"
"Oath?" Triss thought for a while in doubt, "We have moved here for many years. Indeed, there is indeed a kind of ritual-like thing here. Only the locals will abide by it very much. As immigrants, we just listen to the oath. Said, but never seen. What are they called ancestral vows."
"Is it a ritual?"
"Well, almost. The local people regard it as a very formal and serious thing. The ancestors here are a place where you have to be careful with your words even when joking. If the ancestors are involved in swearing, maybe people will be killed." Reese exhorted sternly. "By the way, I heard that there is a girl chasing you? It is said that you are still very beautiful? Isn't it?"
Seeing his mother's face quickly become narrow, Gallen also knew that he might not be able to get more information from here. Having said so much, it means not saying anything.
Looking at my mother's expression, it seems that I really don't know more, so I can only give up.
After chatting with his mother for a while, Garen left the room. He brought over his laptop, which was a birthday present from his father last year.
Crackling typed out a line of words on the keyboard and entered them into a web search engine.
There are a lot of information about the oath, narrow the scope, enter the United States, Grande Town after blanking.
Snapped.
Press the Enter key, and there are only five messages left on the screen.
They are all oaths such as religious ceremonies, four of which are local public oaths, and one is a video of the American spirit of students swearing to inherit freedom under the national flag.
After carefully reviewing the religious ceremonies, they are all public events that require a lot of preparation, and they are either for spring plowing or fishing, or one of the festival customs, which is worthless.
Turning off the computer, Garen sat on the edge of the bed and thought. In this town, it seems that many women, especially local women, share some kind of special secret, which is old, solemn, and everyone sticks to the rules.
"It seems that the best breakthrough is the relationship with Rafael. When the relationship is close to a certain level, naturally many secrets will no longer be secrets."
The following life was no different from usual, the only change was that the girl who accompanied Garen changed from Jie Ling and Lian to Rafael alone. Rafael came to pick up Garen on time every day, and occasionally gave some small gifts, all of which were good old objects and antiques. Garen wanted to talk to Jie Ling and the others several times, but the other party deliberately avoided them, so he had no choice but to give up.
As time passed, he gradually got used to Rafael's presence.
Occasionally giving some small gifts back to Rafael, the relationship between the two continued to heat up, both like best friends and boyfriend and girlfriend.
For young children, a routine of ruts flies by uncommonly quickly.
Slowly, Yi Lian and Jie Ling gradually faded out of Garen's sight, and his relationship with Rafael became better and better. He has never been the type to take the initiative to approach others, pursuing his own goals, so that he does not have much time to make friends with the people around him, but the type of Rafael who actively approaches him is gradually becoming an exception.
The life in junior high school is not much different from that in elementary school, except that students grow faster and their thinking is a little more mature.
Garen practiced secret martial arts every day, but his cultivation remained at the second level, and his progress was extremely slow. He asked Rafael about the status of the stag badge many times, but the information he got was unknown, saying that it was only her grandma. To know more about the situation. This made Garen, who was almost at a standstill, even more curious.
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On the blue sea, the golden red waves of the setting sun are constantly rippling.
The seaside hundreds of kilometers away from Grando.
On the light yellow beach, a ten-year-old blond boy was walking slowly towards the sea water. He was wearing only a pair of black swimming trunks, and his clothes were thrown far away on the black reef not far away.
The boy has a handsome face, with a hint of femininity and neutrality, giving people a feeling of weakness. He is obviously a boy, but he has a soft beauty that makes people feel pity.
He walked slowly towards the sea, step by step, his feet were covered, then his calves, then his knees, thighs, abdomen, and chest.
In an instant, strands of mist as black as ink diffused from his body, spreading along the sea water to the surroundings.
The mist, like ink, soon blackened the water around the boy.
The boy didn't seem to realize it, and continued to walk towards the depths.
The strange thing is that the sea water that submerged to his chest, from the time he left the shallow sea area to the depths, still only submerged to his chest, without any change.
Wow! !
Suddenly, a wave broke out on the sea not far away, and two pennant-like fish fins rushed towards the boy from a distance. Under the mixed blue sea, two huge blue-black giant sharks in the water quickly swam towards the boy. Their fins were like a motorboat breaking through the waves, bringing out two arcs of white waves.
The moment the fins entered the black water around the boy.
The weakness of the boy's body suddenly changed, and his hands were as straight as two sharp knives, and he plunged into the water suddenly.
laugh!
Two gigantic sharks bang and bang, exploded, and turned into two balls of scarlet flesh. The blood quickly flowed into the black waters around the boy. The color of the blood was quickly covered by black, and then everything returned to the original peaceful scene. .
Garen frowned and raised his hands.
"It's too slow," he sighed.
The power of the Claw of Black Sass has reached the level of a fighter, and his physical fitness has reached the level where he can barely release his spirit, so his strength has recovered a little.
However, the rules of this world are different. It seems that he is no longer able to completely condense the spirit. Even in his state, he can only put the spirit into the material in public, and then affect the external things. It can no longer be released directly as before. Overwhelm the opponent.
But in this way, the courage blends into the water and into the air, and becomes something that ordinary people can see, not something that only fighters can see. It's just that the consumption is much higher. Garen can only maintain the release of Qi for ten minutes at most. The area covered by Qi is about ten meters around him. Within these ten meters, all creatures that enter it will suffer from the terrifying spirit. The hallucination is suppressed, and at the same time, the substantive Black Sass' vicious palm power will slowly and quietly penetrate into the enemy's body along with the vigor, gradually weakening the opponent's physique and speed.
The current vigor is not so much a product of the fusion of spirit, energy and spirit, but a pure poisonous gas released from Garen's body. This poisonous gas has a strong hallucinogenic effect, can also weaken the opponent's physical speed, and is soluble in water.
"Garon! You went into the sea again!" On the beach in the distance, a slim blonde girl was waving her hands vigorously. "Go ashore, I have something to tell you."
Garen looked back, it was Rafael, he likes to exercise now, he would ride a motorcycle to the beach to swim every day after school, in essence, he was exercising Black Sass' insidious use of palm power.
This secret martial art seems to be a standard evil skill, and it actually has the effect of absorbing and melting the flesh and blood of other creatures. The foreign flesh and blood will have a good strengthening effect on the palm strength. Hunting wantonly in the forest would be very likely to be found to be abnormal. He might as well stay away and go to the ocean to practice, but he was completely unnoticed.
As an evil skill, apart from being vicious, Black Sass' characteristic is that it is very concealed. It is estimated that even fighters of the same level will not be able to sense the movement of Garen's secret force at all. This was also what Garen was extremely satisfied with.
Garen quickly retracted the poisonous mist that had melted into the surrounding sea water, and turned back to swim towards the shore.
His movements are very natural, and his body lines are extremely soft. Every time he strokes the water, his body will swim forward like a fish.
(end of this chapter)