It would be a mistake to think that Leo would leave Grande after being completely insulted by Zach. He is still in Grande, fulfilling his own promise - he will help Charlie. Although Zach didn't need it, Zach had nothing to say no to having someone who could watch Charlie bleed in the basement.
Zach would not continue to stay in Grande. Regardless of whether Benjamin liked it or not, he pulled him into the car. "Rept, our sister stayed away all night. We need two brothers to educate her."
Before leaving Grande, there are two things that need to be mentioned.
The first thing was a call from Madison. Do you remember the cooperation contract between the mill and the prison? Yes, there was another death in the prison, but the mill did not provide cremation business now, so it was handed over to Grande. As for who died in the prison, haha, it was Skoll who fulfilled the devil's contract. Zach arranged for Louise to pick up the body from the prison, and he would go directly to the Church of the Holy Child after returning from Reiput.
The second thing was also a phone call. The very rare thing was that Mr. Smith's sister, Rymer Lydia, said she wanted to thank Tam and her 'husband' Flanders for their cooperation last night, and if you don't mind, she could lend Tam some time. . 'Take some time', these are the original words. Zach has nothing to refuse, and Tam is not his 'thing' anyway.
When Zach and Benjamin left the Grand and headed for Reiput, a third incident occurred that needs mentioning.
It's still a phone call, but Louise is out of town, Sam is sending souls to the mayor, and old Hank hasn't returned... No one picks up the phone. So it became a message. A strange message.
The reason why we can hear this message is because the bored Earthbinder, O'Neal Fury, was unwilling to be interrupted by the answering machine with a red light flashing while rummaging through Zack's things. The key word is 'bored' -
'I was interrupted last time, haha, didn't I even introduce myself? This time, I... Damn it, I'm going to be interrupted again, Lesembula, you don't have anything else to do... (Substitute) Zha Crane Grande, it seems that I need to control you as a 'fanatic fan' more closely~ Haha, but I don't mind chatting with you now, but it's a pity that you don't seem to be here. Then I won’t spoil any surprises. I believe Darcy is already arranging rewards for you. Haha, goodbye. '
O'Neill tilted his head, blinked at the answering machine that stopped playing, snorted, and continued to rummage through Zach's things.
Not to mention the boring road trip, Zach and Benjamin arrived at Reiput before the end of the first class.
When the announcement of 'Ms. Grande, please go to the Academic Affairs Office' began to ring throughout Reiput, Zach and Benjamin were looking at the fat girl from the Academic Affairs Office.
"So~" The fat girl stuffed this junk food into her mouth and raised her eyebrows, "Which one of you is Alice's brother and which one is Alice's father?"
Do you still remember those funny rumors among high school students? It’s probably time to dispel them.
"We are both Alice's brothers." Zach replied with a smile.
"Oh~" The fat girl continued to raise her eyebrows and grabbed potato chips more frequently, "What about Laura's yellow-haired Kaizi?"
"Matthew is my apprentice." Benjamin was a little speechless.
"Oh, that's it." The fat girl seemed a little disappointed, "Is Alice really adopted? Or is your father actually an Indian?" Fingers covered with potato chip residue pointed in the direction of Zach and Benjamin Shaking, "And all your family genes have gone to Alice?"
"Alice is adopted." Zach answered nonchalantly.
Maybe this answer to all questions made the fat girl think that Zach is a very talkative guy~
"Oh. So, what's going on with Maya? She always claims that she has two mothers? Is that true?" He raised his eyebrows and continued to look at Zach and Benjamin, trying to make sense of what he thought. The way it was, "What are you? Her two fathers?"
Why. How should I put it? In cognition, children who believe that their guardians are equal to their parents are all happy children.
So Zach smiled and had no intention of letting this fat girl who sat here every time she came realize the cruel side of the world, "No, don't worry about those insignificant things. To put it simply, you can think of Maya's family Not in Barton, so she was temporarily living in the Grande. We, Alice's brothers, were happy to have Alice around some influences of her own culture, so we temporarily assumed the guardianship of Maya. We were neither her mother nor the Father is just someone who helps with guardianship.”
The fat girl blinked, obviously not understanding, but Zach started with 'in simple terms', so she was not ready to admit it, "Oh, I understand." She waved her hand and stopped talking.
Just in time, Alice also came over, but without any surprise, she was accompanied by a bunch of people, protecting her nervous little steps in the middle, leaning against the two guardians.
The fat girl rolled her eyes at the group of people who suddenly came in. "You should form a small group or something. You are always together! Tsk, it's empty over there." She raised her finger and pointed in the direction.
Zach and Benjamin took the lead and led a group of teenagers into an empty room that seemed to be a conference room. Everyone in this group will talk about it, don’t be in a hurry.
After everyone sat down, Zach had to clear his mind, because the topic was probably not suitable for everyone to listen to. Since Alice kept lowering her head to avoid Zach's eyes, Zach could only look at Laura and go to Kepler turned his head and asked, "What's wrong with Kepler?"
Because when everyone sat down with serious expressions, Kepler was leaning against the door like a wandering ghost, writing something in ink.
"The Yuri family is here." Laura rolled her eyes, "Accompany Jimmy over there for the entrance test, and tell this guy to ignore it!" The eye roll turned into a glare, but Kepler still stared at the door with a resentful expression. , completely ignoring Laura, "She doesn't listen! She will run here whenever she gets a chance!"
Zach raised his eyebrows. Well, Laura doesn’t need to tell you this information. In fact, Zach and Benjamin met Mr. and Mrs. Yuri when they were sitting there waiting for someone. Zach smiled politely at the two of them, but the two whispered something in a language that Zach could not understand, and silently moved to a place where Zach could not see.
The raised eyebrows were just Zach lamenting about young love.
On the contrary, Zach caught the key point of Laura's words, "'At the first opportunity'? So, you also came here because of the 'opportunity'?" What he was looking at was Sissi the Saint and Caesar, who had already taken out his headphones.
What Fat Girl said just now is also a bit concerning. She said that Laura and the others formed a small group. Yes, they are a small group, but this group does not include Saint Sissi, right? Since when did Sissi join this group? Forget about Caesar, he is just Sissi’s lackey.
This time, Laura didn't speak. It was Sissi who spoke, "Stop beating around the bush, Zach. Don't think we don't know what you are doing here. Now I should save everyone the trouble and just say it." .I asked Alice to follow me yesterday, do you have any objection?!"
Maya raised her hand and looked left and right, "Do I need to report what I'm saying?"
"No need." Zach was a little helpless. According to the current situation, the ratio of teenagers to adults was 8:2, and looking at Benjamin leaning back on the chair and looking like he might fall asleep at any time, it was 8:1. Adults are at an absolute disadvantage.
"Okay." Maya put down her hand, "I want to be fair. Sissi gave us an offer that was hard to refuse, promising to come to heaven in exchange for us protecting her for one night." After watching it for a week, most people looked weird. Everyone lowered their heads, only Caesar was swaying to the music on his headphones, "Although it doesn't mean much to me and Alice, it's still very important to them."
Zach grasped the key point again, "Heaven." He looked at Sissi, "So, you have casually said 'Heaven' among your classmates." This means that originally, I only knew that there are some extraordinary people in this world. This group of teenagers began to truly understand the world.
Sissi's newly excited emotions were not vented, so Laura was the first to say, "You have no right to blame others! You treat us like children and tell us that you have magical powers, but I don't tell us what you actually are!"
Benjamin snored, what a perfect time. Because Laura’s next sentence was—
"Matthew and Benjamin are werewolves! You are a vampire! Sissi is a saint! Alice and Maya are banshees! Why don't you just tell me!" Laura was a little excited and stared at Zach.
This was probably a bit different from the original topic, but Zach noticed Kepler's sad look at the door of the conference room. He looked completely unmoved by these words, so Zach touched his chin and said, "These names Is it important?"
"Important!" Laura was extremely sure, "At least Matthew won't be called out by Pochi..." Suddenly he stopped talking, curled his lips and glared at Benjamin, then completely turned his head away, as if he never wanted to speak again. look like.
Zach raised his eyebrows, so that was it.
So, when Matthew's werewolf identity was called out by Pochi in front of everyone at the party on Saturday, a gap opened up in Laura's world. Then Zach very coincidentally asked Alice to go to Barton Manor on Sunday to bring Kyle a guardian angel...
Zach looked at Kyle, "Is it you, introducing the real world to your sister?"
"No need for my introduction." Kyle didn't want to look at Zach at all. "She found out when I was, tsk, harassed by that crazy angel..."
"That's your guardian angel! Not crazy! Have some respect!" Sissi glared at Kyle, "Do you know how many people dream of having a guardian angel! What a blessing..."
Maya raised her hand again, "I must say, I didn't dream of such a thing..."
"You have no right to speak here!" Sissi changed her target, "You..."
"What on earth does that angel want to do to my brother! Sissi, you keep saying it's a protection! But I don't think it's a protection at all. My brother..."
"Okay Laura, stop talking, I..."
"Yes! Kyle, why don't you explain it to your sister yourself..."
"Hey! Everyone! It seems like they are out. Yuri and the others are coming out of the principal's office! Everyone! Can someone help me listen to what they are saying to the principal? Will Jimmy come back? Everyone..." Kepler was at the door While shouting...
Caesar continued to sway to the music, and his eyes fell on Chris who was sitting there at a loss. He gestured to take out another pair of headphones, and the voice was inexplicably loud, "Share??"
Zach pursed his lips, looking at the chaotic group of teenagers, and looked speechlessly at the only quiet Alice, "You should at least make a phone call."
Finally, it’s time to get down to business.
"Am I grounded..." Alas, Alice's first reaction really left Zach speechless.
"It depends on the situation, unless you have a good reason." Zach could only say this. He nodded at Benjamin who was pretending to be sleeping next to him, asking Benjamin to get out of the way and talk to Alice properly in this mess of teenage brawl. , too laborious.
Alice moved to Zach and lowered her head, "Sissi said it's best not to contact you, because Barton must be the one who can stop the Newton Demon. We don't know how you will defend yourself, so we don't want Gran to De got the news that Sissi was hiding, so that’s why he didn’t contact you.”
Zach raised his eyebrows. This reason was reasonable. He nodded and glanced at the still messy teenagers again. "So, you were all together last night? Laura and Kepler were also there?"
"Well, we were at Pike Elementary School. After daycare, we made up a Leo to stay in school."
Zach nodded again, at least it wasn't anything weird, "Then Sissi really promised heaven?"
"Well, mainly for Laura and Kepler, Sissi..." Alice's head lowered, "Sissi told them, don't think that they are saints just because they helped Parker Elementary School. With their family's reputation, For what Barton has done, as well as the family affairs that they vaguely know but do nothing to pretend to be children, it is absolutely impossible for them to go to heaven. No matter whether there are still demons in this city, these West Side families will definitely go to hell. Even if they are My friends and Maya’s are useless too. None of us are vampires. We will all die sooner or later and go to hell..."
Zach frowned, glanced at Sissi who was still struggling there, and shook his head. So the real reason why Laura called out the alien name here was not because of Grande, but because Saint Sissi wanted to protect herself. After heaven and hell were spoken, she simply dragged all the aliens into the water. Forget it, Zach doesn't want to comment too much on Sissi's character. He is a saint chosen by the Holy Lord, and it is not the vampire's turn to comment. Zach continued to look at Alice, "So you agreed to help Sissy for the sake of your friends."
Alice nodded.
Zach also wanted to ask something more, such as specifically, how Laura and the others reacted to the alien race. However, a shadow moved towards Zach, it was Kepler with a sullen face, "You are a vampire, right? You can hear what people are saying outside, right?! Tell me! What is the principal talking to Yuri and the others!" Otherwise, I will tell everyone that you survive by sucking blood!”
Finally, it became quiet here.
Zach tilted his head and blinked. In the peripheral vision, Benjamin found a chair somewhere and pretended to sleep, while Kepler in the center of his field of vision looked absolutely unquestionable!
Zach opened his mouth, "Okay." The following is a retelling, "Jimmy Uri is asking the principal for the allocation of course selections. The principal is a little embarrassed, saying that it is inconvenient to disrupt the class allocation near the end of the semester. Jimmy is insisting. Mr. and Mrs. Uri were trying to persuade Jimmy not to be too willful. Jimmy continued to insist..."
Just when Kepler's face was about to get worse under this flat retelling—
"Jimmy's persistence paid off, and the principal agreed to his request." Zach raised his eyebrows, "Jimmy was cheering, 'I will be in class with Kepler,' he said."
I don't know who sighed, probably Laura.
He changed his face faster than flipping through a book, "Really!! Zach!! You are the best!!" Kepler gave Zach a hug.
Hey, teenagers. (.)