At night, every light in the north-facing room in Grande's living area was on, and all the windows were opened, illuminating Grande's backyard.
Every employee stood in front of the living area, shouting, "We want it more! We want it more!"
Kepler, who was wearing a dress that was too gorgeous for a high school student, walked toward the booing employees with contemptuous eyes, "Want more?" He pointed his finger on the forehead of an employee with shining eyes, "Then raise your hand. , this is an auction, remember~ Use your actions to show that you still want it~"
There was a lot of chatter, and the ex-criminal employees raised their hands with bright eyes. It felt like the next moment, the high school girl would be overwhelmed by this group of men who had already made a mistake once.
There was no way Zach was going to let that happen. Zach stood in front of Kepler who continued to stir up the emotions of the 'audience', "That's almost it. I really don't believe that you, as Smith's daughter, don't realize how, uh, 'inappropriate' your current behavior is. .”
Zach had put it mildly.
What's happening in the Grande is that a few girls decided to have a rehearsal for a fundraising dance in the Grande—
Since they needed a gimmick to raise funds, these girls, who were already "lawless" in Barton, brainstormed and came up with an incredible idea: auctioning off their first dance.
Why.
Kepler gave Zach a straight look and said, "What's inappropriate? The biggest dream of every girl is to be grabbed by everyone~"
'Inappropriate' can no longer describe this girl's brain. Zach warned every employee with his eyes, and at the same time, "I thought every girl's dream was to be Prince Charming."
"Ha~" Kepler curled his lips, "Don't worry~ There will be a Prince Charming~ At the real prom, Jimmy Urie will not allow me to be bid by anyone else~"
Once again, the damsel wins over our vampire. Zach never won against Kepler once! Well, I'm used to it.
Grande's back porch, Alice appears.
Kepler turned back and glared at the employees behind him, "Everyone, raise their hands to bid! I want to find out who has lowered their hands, and I will make your life in Barton a hell!"
threaten. This threat is... necessary.
Because Alice... uh, what is Alice wearing? The whole body is covered with shiny feathers! Even his face was covered with inexplicable oil paint! The whole person looks like a turkey!
Still a wounded turkey! Alice came down the stairs from the back porch crookedly, and almost fell down as soon as she took a step. Fortunately, Hank, who had been frowning at the side, stepped forward to help her, and Alice was able to steady her steps.
Alice's face under the oil paint was obviously embarrassed, helpless and nervous, and she moved forward slowly.
Kepler stared at the Grand employees behind him very responsibly, "Do you all want to experience the life of hell!"
The bidding begins, unattractive to normal men.
Zach ignored it. Zach was in no mood to care about the bidding, because he knew what Alice's outfit was. Not only Zach knows, but now there is a vampire in Grandli who also knows - Roy Zmich.
Zach looked away from Alice, who was walking slowly, and looked at Roy, who was bulging in the direction of the warehouse, knowing that he had to go over to stabilize the other person's mood.
Zach stood next to Roy, not making any move yet.
Roy: "Do you know what kind of costume this is! Zachary Toledo!" He gritted his teeth and stared at Alice who was slowly walking forward with a ferocious face.
"I know." Zach tried to make the big and small, and the small and nothing - "It's just a high-end dress in the Indian tradition."
If I remember correctly, we talked about Indian tribal traditions before the colonial wars.
"It's the attire of an Indian tribe priest!!" he continued through gritted teeth, "Every time an Indian dressed like this appears on the battlefield! It means that my brothers, my compatriots, and my children will die!!"
"No." Zach still insisted on his policy of comforting the big and the small, and the small and the nothing. "It was only four centuries ago. The highest status in an Indian tribe was only the priest who was a wizard, so they used the highest High-standard attire." Zach looked at Roy, "Please remember that the place we are in now is the Federal State, my Grande. People who use such high-standard attire now have nothing to do with the former priests."
Roy's body was still beating, as if it would grow new limbs at any time, "I... I can't ignore this..."
"Then close your eyes and don't look." Zach interrupted and gave direct instructions, "This is my sister bidding for her first dance to raise funds, and let me tell you, I'm not in the best mood right now. In this state, you don’t want to argue with me about these things.”
Roy punched the air and turned back to the warehouse.
Zach also adjusted his mood, and walked directly towards Alice, who was walking slowly and hadn't even walked half the way. He held Alice's hand that had nowhere to rest, and guided Alice through the rest of the way.
"Yes, isn't it a bit too much?" Alice in the oil paint was still a little self-conscious and asked Zach beside her uneasily, "We originally bought a normal dress, but Siberia was not talking about special occasions. Anren has his own dress..."
Yes. Sibella is now in Grande, floating on the roof of Grande, admiring the performance on the ground with a kind face.
Zach glanced sideways at Sibella, without giving any expression, and turned back, "No, it's a good thing to reflect cultural traditions, and it's also quite... original." Zach couldn't use his vampire instinct to evaluate this outfit. It can't be said from an aesthetic point of view - being a brother is very hard, so Zach could only tactfully say, "But Alice, if you, um, dress like this, are you sure that someone will bid for it?"
Of course, Alice also saw Kepler in front of him intimidating Grande's employees to create the illusion that his current image was 'very attractive'. But Alice smiled, and Zach once again lamented his brother's difficult answer. Alice said with a confident smile, "Kyle will take a picture of me~"
Zach is also very open-minded. At least his sister, Alice, is not like Sissi, who breaks up, gets back together, gets back together, and breaks up... which is a headache.
Alice walked to the end, and Kepler took Alice and said to Zach, "Go help Maya!" Then he continued to glare at the employees behind him, "Don't even raise your hands for me, don't put them down!"
Turns out Alice isn't the only one dressed like this.
Zach walked back to Grande speechlessly. Halfway there, Maya appeared.
Zach raised his eyebrows and subconsciously looked up at Sibella. Sibella was fine, she just waved her hand, turned around, and disappeared.
Maya was dressed normally, not like an Indian priest from four centuries ago, but not normal either. Kepler's dress was outrageous enough for a high school kid, but Maya's dress... just drove Grande's staff crazy.
"Oh! Miss Maya!!" Voices like wolf howls came and went.
It looked like he didn't need Zach's support anymore. Zach returned to the living area and continued to look at the screaming employees one by one. He couldn't let them get too, uh, 'excited'. There must be a bottom line.
"Wow~" Kepler didn't have to force the employees anymore. Kepler looked at Maya walking over and naturally said to Alice, "Maya really worked hard~"
Zach smelled the bloody smell of high school, and wanted to avoid it, but couldn't avoid it - Zach didn't dare to let the girl and Grande employees around.
"I'm a little worried, what if..." Alice started to speak, but was interrupted by Kepler.
"No chance, if Caesar doesn't react when he sees Maya like this~~" After saying that, high school bastard, Kepler smiled confidently, "It means that Caesar is Blake's hexagram~~"
"Oh!" Alice opened her eyes wide for once, "What about Maya?"
"Just give it to some lucky boy for free~"
"Maya will be sad." Alice was still considerate.
"No, she won't~" Kepler looked very sure, and had already gone to greet Maya. His first words to Maya were, "This is the first time I realize that you are so scheming~ I remember the one we bought. The skirt was not originally like this~"
"Yeah." Maya didn't have a special expression, "I changed it a little bit, what do you think? Does it look good?"
"It's okay~" Kepler took Maya's hand and did not let Maya go to the end. Instead, he gave the excited audience a 'you know what to do smile' and led Maya back, "I want to see Let’s see whose bid is higher?”
"Why not~" Maya accepted the duel invitation, and the two girls began to compete.
Grande's employees went absolutely crazy.
Zach, Zach raised his hands and covered his eyes. Zach couldn't believe such a ridiculous thing happened in Grandry...
"It's okay, it's just for fundraising." Alice became the one to comfort the adults about their guardianship philosophy, "None of us really thought about selling ourselves as commodities." Of course, we didn't think about it. Isn’t the dialogue unclear? These girls are all in control!
This whole bidding is just a gimmick to get money.
Zach lowered his hand, his eyes thanking Alice for her comfort. But looking at the two girls in the backyard who had let go of competition, he still shook his head, "Forget it about Kepler, Mr. Smith can't control her, but Maya?" Zach was really speechless, "Why has Maya changed? It’s like this.”
Remember when Maya first arrived? What a good girl, she doesn't roll her eyes, she doesn't play tricks, and she doesn't say, 'Kill all those who abandoned me! ', I will only follow Alice every day...
Zach looked at Alice, "How did Maya and Caesar, uh, get together?"
Zach had deliberately ignored countless high school gossips, and now he was asked by Zach himself.
Zach has to ask, because Maya has changed so much, and Caesar, Caesar is really not a 'good kid' in Zach's mind. Do you still remember that Caesar asked to become a foreigner, and told Zach to slow down? Think about it slowly, he is still underage anyway.
Maya and Caesar, in Zach's eyes now, are not what a child should look like. According to common sense, such a combination will not have good results. Zach, as a responsible adult guardian, had to step in.
Zach added to his question, "If I remember correctly, didn't Caesar often verbally mock Maya and you?"
Not only Caesar, but the entire Repute High School was mocking Alice's followers when Maya first arrived. Zach heard it on several of his visits to the high school. But Zach thought at the time that this was a problem that Alice had to face when her circle of friends consisted of Laura and Kepler from the third generation of West End - being discussed by other classmates.
"Oh, Caesar is not malicious." Alice said that people in her circle of friends should not be surprised. "You know how much Caesar likes to make fun of this kind of thing. When we were children, he made fun of you and Benjamin, and then Qian When Sissi came, he followed Sissi. After getting to know Sissi..." Alice glanced at the employees behind her who were all focused on Kepler and Maya, and continued, "Started to make fun of Sissi. Maya and I also Same."
Zach understood. Alice said it was not human nature, but alien. Now translate Alice’s summary of Caesar—
Caesar joked about vampires and werewolves when he was a child, maybe out of curiosity, maybe because he found it interesting, or maybe because he had nothing else to do in his childhood. Then a saint came to Barton. This was a new alien race that Caesar had not come into contact with in his short life. Caesar did not hesitate to become his follower but also stayed behind the saint because he was curious, he found it interesting, and he thought he could meet him in his life. Such 'things' are so lucky. Finally, when it comes to Alice and Maya, the truth is the same. Caesar is not interested in people. What he finds interesting is that the Alice he knew when he was young is just one person. Now with Maya, they are two. Together, they will Grow into a dark witch!
Caesar embodied the pursuit of a novel outlook on life perfectly, even though he was only a teenager.
Zach sighed anthropomorphically, "So Maya likes this type of person, and Caesar happens to be right next to her."
"Absolutely." Alice paused for a moment, "Actually, Maya is also this kind of person."
Yeah? Zach didn't notice.
"Maya has lived in Salem with Yuehua Baiying and the others since she was a child, and has never seen what the outside world is like. She first heard about me from Yuehua Baiying and was curious about what I was like, so she came to Glen Come on, and then we met Laura, Kepler, Caesar... everyone." Alice smiled at Zach, "Didn't you find that Maya has the characteristics or habits of all of us? She saw it She learned the behaviors she found interesting and put them on herself~ So sometimes she is as considerate as Laura and will take care of me, sometimes she is like a young lady like Kepler and has a temper, and sometimes she is silent and does not share. Any concerns are the same as Kyle's..."
While listening to Alice's words, Zach was looking at Maya thoughtfully.
Alice's conclusion, "But Maya is still Maya herself. She always knew what she wanted, so she gave you the list (to kill everyone)." Alice lowered her head, paused for a while, and then raised it again, "Caesar Not worthy of Maya at all. Now I kind of hope Caesar is Blake’s guy, Maya deserves better~”
Zach's originally serious face twitched, forget it, I can't control it anymore. Like most guardians facing teenage problems, Zach chose to let go and fly~birds out of the nest! (To be continued)