"So, you raised a Sabbat Toledo who wants to kill you, in the warehouse at your home."
This is a family-style restaurant next to the market. The good thing about this kind of place is that it has everything. On one side of the restaurant, there is a play area specifically for children.
Normally, parents should enjoy some leisure time here and leave their children over there to play by themselves. But the combination of Toledo and Rimel obviously cannot be classified as 'normal'. Eve and Zach sat opposite each other, while the two parents, Lydia and Flanders, stayed in the play area.
Don't worry about the naughty kids who are frightened by Flanders's face. The two people at the top of Toledo and Rimel are the ones who should pay attention.
"Raising doesn't count." Zac waved his hand, "Did you know that after they have fully eaten once, they can stay without food for a month. She is very, um, trouble-free."
Eve curled her lips and looked out the window. Mainly because I didn't want to look at Zach.
But why are Eve and Zach sitting here peacefully? Because Zach made a good start, not by saying "Long time no see", but by saying, "Finally, you are in front of me, and I am in front of you. You must have countless questions, ask them, I won't go anywhere."
"Then." Eve said without looking at Zach, her tone was naturally mocking, "You tricked her into telling you the secrets of her clan."
"Now I am very happy to tell you this secret." There was no need to defend, Zach smiled and gave the proposal.
"Stop doing this!" Eve glared at Zach and quickly continued to look out the window. "If my judgment just now is correct, once you replenish your blood, you will lose the ability to shield your perception. What must this be? The technique of controlling blood flow is something you haven't fully mastered yet!" The corners of her eyes twitched, "It's useless for you to tell me. Rimel is half-human and cannot control his own blood like a complete vampire."
Zach tilted his head and smiled, "I knew you were rational."
Eve glared at Zach again, picked up her drink, and sucked hard. Truth, Rimmer can enjoy human food, Zach, remember the metaphor of the fleshy skin that has not been shaved off.
Anyway, Eve looked at Zach, so Zach didn't mind at all and pushed the drink in front of him, "So, is this the only question you have? About the vampires in the Grande Warehouse?" Zach pointed out Talking to yourself, it means, 'Don't just ask those unimportant guys, ask me. '
"Barton's Alpha, does he have any tribe around him?" Zach just couldn't be satisfied.
"Only Matthew." Zach was not too disappointed. All the delays now could be regarded as Eve trying to treat him as the finale. Haha, thinking about it this way, Zach felt very honored. "But, he is a little special. I think you can probably feel that Benjamin is a little..." Zach didn't finish, thinking about the words.
"Abnormally powerful." Eve added, "I saw him fighting Newton's wolves and his transformation." She didn't finish her sentence, shook her head, and stared at Zach with an unkind expression. "So, is he a threat to me or a trustworthy Lord Barton?" These words were both self-deprecating and threatening.
Zach thought for a moment, "If you think I am a threat to you, then the entire Grande is, including Benjamin." Of course, Zach will stand firmly by his Grande side. Yes, Zach was offended by Eve's words, and Benjamin is a Grande family member.
Eve stared at Zach, "Then I guess it's dangerous, because you are my threat, always have been, whether it is now or in the past secret alliance!"
Zach smiled and shook his head, "Are you serious? Eve Rimmer, as an elder, you may not be too small-minded."
Eve's face froze, "Toledo, don't anger me!"
"Provoke you?" Zach shook his head, "When we were in the Secret Alliance, Toledo, to be specific, how much sponsorship did I find for you? I always thought we were friends, but just because of a social joke, I Is this your threat?"
"We are not friends! That is an insult!" Eve clenched her hands on the table. "We, Rimmer, are magicians! We are not trick artists for the amusement of nobles!"
"So if you stay in the laboratory and conduct magic research, you can make those nobles take the initiative to send money to you Rimel?" Zach shrugged, "If you don't show the magic of magic in front of them, how can you make them willing to fund your research? ?”
"The research they funded?!" Eve became excited. "Party hallucinogens, ways to remove wrinkles, magic to make a certain part of the body majestic, love spells, Midas touch... You call these research! This is you Toledo brought us funding!”
"Sorry!" Zach actually got excited. Believe me, he was really excited. Zach raised his hand and stared at Eve, "No noble with a long-term vision would skip the ** and go for an immortal soul! Toledo can't help you Rimmer pull down a research project that you are satisfied with! If you know If you hate these things so much, maybe I shouldn’t have attended such banquets to help Rimmer introduce potential investors!”
Silence fell. Well, who cares about the secret alliance history that has become a thing of the past.
"I just hate you! You! You guy!" After silence, someone always has to speak first.
"Believe me, I have fully received this information." Zach waved his hands and seemed to have calmed down. "It's just a pity that I didn't receive it earlier." The next words were full of malice, "Torido When we were surrounded and suppressed, I would not have kept silent about your secrets in order to protect you, Rimer. I should have spoken out together to make the alliance more chaotic. Maybe I won't be the only one now. "
Eve lowered her head, frowned, and said, "I hate you. It's my personal behavior and has nothing to do with Rimmer."
Ha, it's interesting, this guy actually knows how to excuse his own clan.
Zach moved his lower lip but said nothing, "Are there any other questions? If there are no more, I'm going to start talking."
"Bishop Manor." Eve took a sip of her drink, "My neighbor."
"You have nothing to worry about. The charming demon has its own goals, and the evil spirit has unfinished business."
"I don't care about this, what is your purpose!"
"Bishop is a useless man. It's somewhat useful to keep him alive." Zach had no expression on his face. "It won't have any impact on you and Smith."
"Fallen Angel vs. Smith..."
"You still don't have to worry." Zach waved his hand, "After Benjamin's reminder and my casual help, there is nothing left for you to be wary of on the devil's side."
"Wizard, Sibe..."
"Sibella is a nice person. Feel free to communicate if you want. You can ignore the warning Benjamin gave you before. I asked him to give you the impression that you should not trust wizards gullibly, lest you find me." Zach looked at Eve. At one glance, she didn't want to explain anything anymore, and stopped before Eve had the intention to speak again, "Okay, these questions are in the past tense and have no meaning in answering."
When Eve frowned, Zach took out a piece of letter paper. He no longer wanted to organize the language reading by himself, "'Tell Eve that we will settle in Newton and will visit Barton in the near future, but we will not stay for a long time. If you like, we can arrange a time and place to meet. Smith will be Rimmer's stronghold, in Barton. Newton will be our stronghold, and we will be neighbors. The communication between Rimmer and the Black Witch should be maintained , this time, we won’t have Grande in the middle, pure communication.'"
Zach finished reading and put away the letter, "Besides this, you should have seen the report on the wanted assassination case of the police chief a few days ago. I released a message, and the person in the warehouse at home told me that there is Nofele in the central area. , I want them to see that and come to Barton, they are people that I can really call friends. So, I want you to stay out of the way and let them just come to me, come to Grande."
This is what Zach really wants to say when he comes to see Eve in person, but what he says is completely different from what Zach expected, and hastily become a 'mere notification' presented now.
"You don't have to sit here anymore. I've finished what I want to say. You can go." Zach raised his hand to pay the bill, and also to inform the two people in the entertainment area that they could come and pick up their leader.
"Nofele is still here..." Eve wanted to say something in a questioning tone, but Zach waved her hand to stop her.
"I said, I hope you don't interfere." Zach said very directly, "I mean, Toledo hopes that Rimel will not interfere, because now our identities can represent the clan, right. So, don't interfere. , Nophele, is mine."
Staring at Zach's expressionless face, Eve frowned, stopped talking, jumped off the chair, glanced at Lydia and Flender, who were coming over, and walked straight to the exit.
Lydia went after him, but Flanders sat down when he passed by Zach, "Zach?" There was worry on his bark-like face, "Eve didn't mean that..."
"It's not important anymore." Zach looked at Flanders, "It's simply the reappearance of what was once called the 'Trial of Toledo'. Everything Toledo did for other clans ended up being a spear to attack Toledo. .”
"Zach, but Rimmer was not at the original trial..."
"Because Rimmer is in his own laboratory, regardless of the outside world, and uses the resources that Toledo has obtained for you to conduct his own research. When Toledo was surrounded and suppressed, you were not there either."
Flanders frowned, then forced a smile, "When the Hidden Alliance left, we did the same in our own laboratory, doing our own research, but found out that the Alliance had left without knowing anything, and then Attacked by aliens. We got retribution.”
Zach pursed his lips, "Flanders, I'm not angry, I just don't want to deal with this kind of thing anymore. Look at me now, I live with an Alpha, the Banshee is my sister, and the demons and angels , Wizards, and even the Sabbat. I already have my hands full with things to think about, and I don’t want to add another mistake that I should have realized in the Secret Alliance.”
Probably Zach’s last expression was a bit serious.
Flanders frowned, "Do you think the friendship you had with us and Rimel in the Secret Alliance was a mistake?"
Zach took a deep breath that was personified, "Friendship? In the entire Riemer, the people I am most familiar with are Eve and you, the clan leader. The rest of you almost never appear in front of others. I also thought that there was friendship between us, but right now Just now, Eve, who can now represent Rimmer, said that we are not friends. So, tell me if this is a mistake."
"She was just misled..." Flanders tried his best to explain to Zach, "You know we rarely show up. We only appear in the league a little more than Gangluo. Only you will welcome and talk to us. We talked. Most of Rimel’s knowledge of Toledo and you comes from things during the colonial war and the occasional alliance meetings where we appeared. Zack, you can’t deny that during the war, your deeds and your reputation It’s not good. More often than not, Eve is just accepting the comments about you from people who don’t know you well.”
Remember, Zach had an Indian descendant.
Zach glanced at Flanders, "Misleading? Eve doesn't need to mislead. She, the war we participated in together, the alliance meetings you attended, even if it was less, she saw it with her own eyes. If she felt that she saw it with her eyes If it's misleading, then this is what she really thinks. She thinks I can't be trusted." Then frowned, "Very good, you just told me that it's not just Eve, I am nothing in the eyes of the entire Rimmer. Good people."
"Zach." Flanders pursed his lips, "Well, that's not what I meant. It's just that some people who don't know the truth are slandering the guy who brings them the 'Love Spell' research target every day..."
Zach twitched his lips, looked at Flanders seriously, and digressed, "Seriously, do you really hate the funding I helped you find so much?"
"Uh..." Flender's eyes twitched, "How should I put it, it's very annoying. But, you should also know that we didn't spend much energy on that kind of research. We basically took the resources and then Study your own stuff.”
Zach pursed his lips and stopped talking.
Flender glanced out the window, where Eve was staring gloomily, warning him not to continue talking to Zach.
Flanders ignored it, "Zach, you know Eve, she just doesn't want to admit her mistakes sometimes, especially now, she has too much pressure on her. In the past, she didn't need to express her opinions like this, she She just needs to be behind her father. Now, many times, she needs to stand up and express her position clearly... "
Zach knew exactly where this was going—
"Like a letter to an Alpha. Who would have thought that you would become friends with an Alpha. She just needs to take a position, a position that turns out to be wrong. She just can't admit it."
Zach glanced at Eve outside the window and said, probably to Flanders. Everyone is a vampire anyway, so they will definitely hear, "Danny will not harass you anymore, and neither will I. Whenever you want to talk, You know where to find me." (.)