() After living in Wes's mansion for a week, Kirito gradually got used to it. He just spent some time tidying up the messy room so that it didn't look too dirty.

In order to try to recover the magic power consumed by the three-dimensional picture book last time, Kirito basically spent most of the day in a deep sleep state, except for making food for a girl who had been staying in the basement reading a book.

No matter how you look at it, this is beyond the normal work and rest time of ordinary people. Dalian even began to wonder if Kirito was sick. For several nights, Kirito secretly came to his room and touched him when he thought he didn't notice.

Touch his forehead to see if he is sick.

On this day, feeling that his body's magic power had recovered well, Kirito woke up in the dark. Of course, the main reason was that someone kept shaking his body in the warm bed, and occasionally there was a sound like the collision of armor and metal.

, clanging sound.

"——Kirito! Get up! Kirito!" A girl's clear and beautiful voice as clear as a silver bell could be faintly heard in his ears, calling Kirito's name arrogantly.

"...Um...who is it! It's so noisy!" Kirito hated people waking him up when he was sleeping. In the past, he had just been corroded by the evil in this world, and he would often be cursed by resentment in his mind when he slept at night.

When I woke up with a start, I hadn't had a good night's sleep in three months. I don't know how long it took for me to gradually get used to the resentment in my mind. It was also from that time that sleeping became one of Kirito's favorite enjoyments.

Kirito groaned and opened his eyes. His biological clock and the rich night color outside the window told him that the time should still be midnight, and in front of him, a thin girl with long black hair stood

In this darkness.

The jet-black clothes, which seem to blend into the night, are decorated with multiple layers of lace and ruffles, and are covered with metal armor everywhere. It is a strange piece of clothing that I don't know whether to call it a dress or armor, with silver chains.

The old locks tied to his chest shone dimly.

"...Dalian..." He stared quietly at the beautiful girl in strange clothes in front of him. After a moment of silence, Kirito finally said: "If you are hungry, just wait until noon. I'm very sleepy. Don't bother me now."

The time should still be midnight."

"You can rest assured that there is nothing wrong with your sense of time." The girl named Dalian did not feel guilty at all. In desperation, Kirito had no choice but to poke his head out of the warm bed in boredom.

, as if to determine whether there was something wrong with his biological clock, he looked out the window.

It's still a dense darkness, not like dawn is about to break at all. A silver moon hangs high in the eastern sky, and the farmhouse's chickens are probably still asleep. "So... what's the point of waking me up in the middle of the night?"

Kirito grabbed his hair, which was still messy when he woke up. His appearance had not changed in five years, and his hair had not grown longer in five years.

Dalian stood expressionless in the darkness, her beauty like a fine porcelain doll looked a bit scary at the moment. She was holding a coat for going out in her arms, as if she was ready to go out at any time.

Dalian's serious look couldn't help but be a little bit infected by Kirito. He suspected that the other party had woken him up in the middle of the night, and he wondered if a robber had come in.

"I'm going to the bookstore."

"Huh?" Darian's extremely calm and uninflected language made Kirito's brain unable to react for a moment.

Dalian looked at Kirito who was silent for a while, and the unclear expression on his face made her feel a little irritated. "I've read the whole house of books, and now I feel bored. I'm going to buy books."

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"...Read...have you finished reading?" Kirito could not react to Dalian's somewhat explosive remarks in his mind. As one of the few friends of Weiss during his lifetime, the collection of books collected by him during his lifetime was absolutely

It was more than the royal library. However, when the girl in front of him, who was only twelve or three years old in appearance, said that she had finished reading, Kirito said that he could no longer calm down.

"How long are you going to let me sleep for?! Get up quickly, you lazy idiot!" Dalian looked aloof, looking at Kirito who was still curled up in the bed without any action, and the abuse didn't stop.

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"Let me tell you...Dalian, generally speaking, bookstores don't open before dawn." In desperation, Kirito had no choice but to poke his head out again, and looked at the situation in front of him, unwilling to let him wake up.

A beautiful girl who never gives up.

"Idiots know this kind of thing, but you still have to say it over and over again. Does that mean your IQ is on the same level as that beetle who can only roll balls?" Okay, the look in Darian's eyes said, "Then you are an idiot."

?' Kirito really couldn't find what to say to refute.

"If you take the first bus, you should be able to reach the Royal Capital before noon." Dalian said in a relaxed manner, but Kirito was so frightened that he almost jumped out of bed. "Wait, you mean you have to go all the way to the Royal Capital.

Are you all going to buy books?!"

"Yes, it's not just about going to the Royal Capital. It's very efficient to go to the Royal Capital first to buy some important books, and then go around to other places to buy the missing parts, right? Instead of spending time admiring me, you should get up quickly and get ready.

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"... Huh..." Looking at Dalian's contented expression, Kirito thought that his body had recovered a lot, and if he continued to sleep like this, his body would become moldy, and he also happened to go to the royal capital for a visit.

An old friend finally crawled out of the warm bed.

“That clerk over there, I’ll cover all the books from this bookshelf to that bookshelf!”

Near noon, Kirito and Dalian arrived at the bustling university town. The bookstore was located in an alley lined with restaurants and shops. However, after Dalian entered the bookstore and watched it for a while, she admired it.

After saying "The collection of books is not complete yet", Kirito's common sense began to be destroyed again.

Regardless of the fact that a mysterious girl dressed in pitch black walked into the back of the store without permission, and started to say strange things out of nowhere, it is understandable that the store clerk had a bad attitude.

"Hey, Dalian... I'm so sorry." To apologize to the clerk who looked unhappy, Kirito ignored the struggling girl and picked up her soft, boneless body and immediately

He left without forgetting to cover his noisy mouth.

"I said your way of buying books is too strange." He let go of the girl in his arms, and this time even Kirito, who didn't like to be angry, looked displeased.

"You have a strange mind. What's wrong with coming to the bookstore to buy books?!" Darian's eyes were full of tears. The resentment in her eyes seemed to be able to pierce Kirito.

"It's not like you're buying canned food. Anyway, I don't care about the way you learned to buy books from Wes. Anyway, now that you're out with me, I can still buy you five or six books." Needless to say, Darien said.

That weird way of buying books was definitely Wes's method in the past. Kirito couldn't describe him in words as a fanatical book collector.

"Five or six books?!" Dalian's almond-shaped eyes widened, as if she had been hit by something, and she weakly shook her head. "Only choosing five or six books out of so many books? What kind of torture is this? You are like this

Is it fun to bully me? You super pervert!"

"Or you can choose not to." Ignoring the girl's scolding, Kirito picked up a detective novel from the bookshelf and started flipping through it. He was just flipping through it quickly, but he didn't expect that he was distracted by the key scene.

I was attracted by the plot and began to read it seriously.

The next moment, the flavor adjustment scene appeared...

"It's the postman." Dalian, who was just staring at Kirito resentfully, suddenly ran up behind him and whispered in his ear: "The criminal in that incident disguised himself as a postman and put the body in the delivery box.

In the bag he used, he deceived the police."

"Eh?!" Kirito turned his head hard, squinting at Dalian who was covering her mouth and snickering. He was warned in advance who the culprit was, so he naturally lost interest. In desperation, he had no choice but to put the book in his hand back on the shelf and pick it up.

He picked up another book. Unexpectedly, Darian then half-closed his eyes and said: "The prisoner is the doctor who is the narrator. Pay close attention to the description of the discovery of the body."

"Why are you spoiling it?" Kirito could even feel his left eyebrow beating constantly.

"You weren't the first to bully me."

"I'm just telling you common sense!" No matter how good-tempered he was, Kirito couldn't help but raise his voice, and Dalian seemed to feel that the other party was angry, and his eyes dodged, but she had an arrogant personality.

But he snorted awkwardly and looked away.

"Hey, don't argue in a place like this, it will cause trouble for everyone." Kirito turned around and looked at the place where the voice came from. What he saw was a young woman who was reading a book in her hand. Judging from her appearance, she was about ten years old.

She is seven or eight years old, which makes her twenty years old. She is undoubtedly beautiful in appearance, but her childlike and innocent smile is even more impressive.

The girl's attire is completely unconventional, like a pioneer in the New World.

"Are you... Camilla!?" It was obvious that Kirito's tone was very uncertain about the authenticity. When Dalian discovered that a stranger had arrived, she immediately hid behind Kirito, not forgetting to stretch out her hand to hold him.

The clothes around his waist said: "Who is this shameless woman with nothing but a face? Your former mistress?...Ah, it hurts, Kirito!"

Looking at Dalian with tears in his eyes, Kirito increased the strength of his hands, as if to squeeze out the water from the fair skin in his hands. "If I hear you say those inappropriate words next time, it won't be so simple.

You're punished, you know?" Dalian, who was just about to retort and struggled, saw the face so close to her, the sudden glare immediately made her head pound like garlic.

"I didn't expect it to be as rumored. Your face really hasn't changed at all." After looking at Kirito's appearance that was exactly the same as the one in his memory, the girl named Camilla looked full of envy.

After seeing the dark girl behind Kirito who looked at him with a look of caution, he thought for a while and then said: "This girl should be the adopted daughter of Grandpa Weiss. Hello, my name is Camilla."

Dalian, who was freed from Kirito's hands, seemed to be wary of the girl named Camilla in front of her. She rubbed her red and swollen white cheeks and hid behind Kirito, causing Camille who had just stretched out her hand to

It's not awkward to pull it.

"Do you have time? Kirito, speaking of which, we haven't seen each other for three years. Let's go have tea together when we have time." Camilla followed Kirito's eyes and looked at the pouty man behind him with a full expression.

The indifferent Dalian suddenly smiled mysteriously while thinking of a solution, and then took out a small paper bag from her bag.

Tied up by the ribbon was the wrapping paper from a well-known snack shop in the city. As soon as Camila opened the package, the sweet aroma of baked snacks overflowed, and Darian subconsciously leaned forward, her eyes full of longing.

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"Would you like to have tea together? There are also freshly baked scones." Camilla asked with a smile, and Dalian seemed to be in a war between heaven and earth. After being silent for a while, she asked extremely seriously.

Asked: "Are the scones served with fresh nai oil?"

"Of course, you can add jam to the black tea." Camilla nodded happily. Dalian immediately put the book in her hand back on the bookshelf, walked to Camilla's side, and said with a tone full of reproach.
Chapter completed!