After all, the Grand Duke is not an unreasonable person. If you think about it from the perspective of a magician, the other party's concerns are not wrong at all, even though they don't sound very pleasant. If you start a dispute with the other party just to get a chance, the topic will easily veer into strange places. The old Duke has practiced this kind of negotiation technique a lot, and of course he doesn't want to fall into this trap himself.
To be fair, he also wanted his granddaughter to go home and not live somewhere where he couldn't see her.
It's just that the Grand Duke wanted to let go of a certain magician with words, but the certain magician refused to give up and continued: "And the lady continues to stay. The biggest trouble is that she is, who is she? The owner of this family? This A guest at home? An insignificant stranger? A friend staying with me? If I am the owner of this home, then who am I? If I am a guest of this home, you have paid too much. I won’t talk about strangers, just talk about it. It’s too raw. It’s okay to live with a friend, but back to the previous problem, let an unmarried girl live in the house of an inexplicable magician, okay?”
In fact, there is nothing new in this kind of questioning, it just digs deeper into the previous issues. So Lin changed his direction and tried to analyze it: "There are only two main reasons for a child to stay at home and not want to be exposed to social situations, no more and no less.──"
Starting with such a topic really aroused the interest of Grand Duke Kawei. His face changed slightly, and he listened with his ears straightened.
"──First, the lack of security. Second, the pampering of people at home. The first point should be easy to understand, because there is no security and I feel that I will be threatened as soon as I leave my own little world, so I don't She is willing to walk out of her closed door. As for the second point, let me put it this way. If she is a child from a poor family and does not go out to work and has no food for the next meal, is it possible for her to stay behind closed doors? That’s right. It is the love of her family that allows her to live without having to worry about scarcity without having to do anything. In this case, if you want to help this child, letting her leave her own little world is the first important step. Step. So the question is, what does the Grand Duke want to do next?"
"Let that child learn magic." Duke Kawei said in a deep voice.
"Although the order is a bit reversed, we should first make her feel safe, and then find a way to let her leave her own little world. But this is still a good second step. What do you think, sir?"
The Grand Duke of Kawei, who looked serious, stretched out his hand to stop a certain magician from continuing, and said, "Let's find a quiet place to talk." After that, he stood up.
Because the tone of the conversation between the two parties was slightly higher, there was a vague tension in the entire banquet hall. Now that the Grand Duke is interested in talking in detail, he certainly does not need to make any threats from his own family. What's more, it's still unclear whether these threats will be useful to this magician.
But of course the Grand Duke had no reason to punish his subordinates for their spontaneous actions. It's just that he doesn't need them to show intimidation now, so the grand duke stood up and waved his hands to everyone, smiling and said: "It's okay, everyone continues to eat. Don't be afraid of overpowering this magician, it's all paid for by me anyway." "
The Duke's Guards laughed, and the banquet hall returned to an atmosphere of mingling, and everyone was eating and drinking enthusiastically.
The small salon next to the banquet hall was designed according to the layout of someone's small reception room, with aristocratic touches added to make this second small reception room more luxurious and comfortable. The alcoholic drinks prepared inside are all high-end products that cannot be obtained through commercial methods without certain skills. They were all brought in to support the scene by the silly grandfather who loved his granddaughter.
But Lin has never touched anything here. Even this second-small guest room, he rarely came to; in order to avoid the suspicion of being under the melon field, he rarely walked to the west hall. Anyway, Nizi will stay, not for him, but for his apprentice.
In line with the principle that doing more is worse than doing less, in daily life, he rarely cares about the affairs of Marquis Balan and her servants. Even so, no one dares to mess with him in daily life.
After all, when Marquis Balan wanted to stay, a certain magician conveniently left behind several black gauze troops of female guards of the Gwana Empire, daughters of noble nobles. The black veil army dared to kill them, so what are the servants of a few nobles?
In short, this second small reception room is the first time someone has entered it after it was completed. The chief deacon of the Marquise was more familiar with the layout here than he was. Therefore, the person who came forward to prepare the after-dinner wine was a servant belonging to the Marquis Balan.
The Grand Duke of Kawei was not in a hurry. He took a few sips of the wine and calmed down his overstuffed state before asking: "Your Excellency Gablash, you seem to have a lot of ideas about the child. Okay." Let me hear your details."
"In fact, it is about some of the things we can do around the two points just mentioned. Teaching her magic and improving her sense of security is a very important project in changing her work. As for who teaches Of course, it’s okay for me to learn anything. It’s just that at this stage, she seems to be interested in undead magic. I don’t know if the Grand Duke can find other people who can teach this kind of magic normally. Fen At least a suitable candidate.”
"What kind of magic are you not interested in? Why is it the undead magic alone?" The Grand Duke asked himself in a low voice with confusion and regret in his words.
"I have some inferences about this, but no evidence. So the Grand Duke will listen to it."
Although he didn't expect an answer, it didn't mean that this silly grandpa wouldn't be upset by these things. So he still cares about someone's inference. "Okay, please tell me."
"Perhaps, she just wanted to find a friend. Because she got along with my apprentice, she was willing to live there. She learned the magic of necromancy without anyone knowing, and the first thing she did was to make a dog. From a certain From this perspective, she is creating a companion for herself."
"What's the difficulty in getting companions? If you want companions of the same age, there are a lot of them among my subordinates. Everyone is loyal and will never dare to disobey her, let alone hurt her." Grand Duke Kawei was excited. said. He even started to stretch his fingers to figure out how many companions he could help his granddaughter find.
Someone poured cold water on her and said, "Maybe it's because of this that she doesn't want to get along with those people. Because of their status, their behavior is too thoughtful or too boring."
"Isn't that what nobles are like? The lower nobles exist to serve the higher nobles. The same is true for the people." Duke Kawei said plausibly.
Lin shrugged and said: "As for this noble's self-consciousness, don't you think you should educate your granddaughter yourself instead of educating me? Obviously, that one does not have such a self-consciousness. I think, This shouldn’t be my problem.”
The old man couldn't help but sigh.
