Philon rubbed his sore shoulders and said to Fisher. They followed up on the previous data report to discuss the characteristics of the soul, but most of them were Fisher's guesses and could not be confirmed.
And the night was indeed getting deep. Seeing that it was getting late, Philon stopped his research for the night.
Just as he was about to get up, he found that his steam arm was motionless, so he sighed and took down a bottle of lubricant from the shelf next to him, then leaned on the table next to him and said to Fisher,
"Mr. Fisher, can you give me some lubricant? My arm seems to be stuck."
Fisher took the lubricant he handed over and gently tapped the stuck gear on his arm. After a few drops of lubricant, he helped him push the gear with his fingers, and his whole arm spurted steam again.
, becomes lighter.
"You have a small steam device behind you?"
Fisher said this as he looked at the luminous object slightly bulging under his shirt behind his back.
"I can't hide it from you... I have installed a small and complicated steam power ring. It consumes very little at ordinary times, so it does not need to replenish energy very frequently. It can be removed when not in use."
He shook the robotic arm, then smiled, "But no matter what, it can't be compared to the original one... Okay, it can move again, thank you."
Fisher smiled, put the lubricant next to him on the table, then stood up and stretched, and accidentally caught a glimpse of the small embroidery hanging on the wall of his laboratory.
The gryphon is painted lifelike.
"What kind of work of art is this? I have rarely seen such beautiful embroidery."
"Haha, this is a specialty of my hometown Ulun. When I was a child, people nearby were very good at embroidery."
Fisher took a close look at the beautiful embroidery, then suddenly remembered something and said,
"Wulun? I remember it was a coal-producing area in Nali, right?"
Philon also looked at the embroidery, and he looked at it with Fisher for a long time. Then he ended the silence and said calmly,
"....Yes."
...
...
"Fisher, look, they lent me toys to play with!"
When she and Philon returned to the mansion, they met Lar playing with a steam toy on the first floor. Behind her were several children adopted by Philon.
Except for the werewolf girl named Qiqi, whose name Fisher still remembered, the others were not very familiar. After all, there were more than ten children here.
After seeing Philon come in, they all ran to his side happily and hugged his thigh. Qiqi pointed to Lal in the distance unhappily and shouted,
"Dad, that little dragon took my toy away!"
"...."
Fisher glanced at Lar, who was holding a toy next to him, and then at Rafael, who was looking away, and was speechless for a moment.
It seemed that Fisher's eyes made Rafael feel a little embarrassed. She explained with some stuttering,
"Lal told them to borrow it for fun, but they didn't understand..."
Philon laughed, hugged Qiqi and said to Fisher,
"It's okay, it's just a toy. It's okay to give it to her to play with... Did you listen to Sister Fia and drink milk?"
Qiqi said in his arms,
"Drink!"
"Then what should I do after drinking?"
"sleep!"
Just as Qiqi finished speaking, another werewolf kid next to her grabbed Philon's trouser leg and shouted,
"Dad, you promised to see my paintings tonight!"
"Haha, okay, it just so happens that you can show the painting to your new dragon friend, okay?"
Philon touched the other person's head, making the tail of the werewolf child named Pochi dangle non-stop, and his eyes lit up.
"I'll get it right now!"
At this time, Nana, the awesome girl wearing a skirt at the door of the mansion, also came back. She seemed to be engaged in the job of assisting Lord Philon, and was so busy with things that she had not returned to the house until now.
"Mr. Philon, those werewolves have agreed and are very happy to get this job opportunity."
"That's good, then the lives of those demi-humans should be fine."
"Dad, look, this is my painting!"
Pochi ran back from the room, holding a crayon drawing of a green wilderness. In the wilderness were he, other children, and a tall man in a suit, but no facial features were drawn.
"Who is this?" Philon knelt down and pointed at the figure in a suit.
"It's dad, dad without a mask... Dad must have been without a mask before, that's why I drew it like this. You will definitely be cured of your illness in the future, and you won't need a mask!"
Philon smiled slightly, looked at Fisher, and then said with a smile,
"Hahaha, these kids are really interesting..."
Fisher glanced at Lal, who was chewing the metal toy next to him, with a black line on his face, and hit her little head with his hand, making her stop what she was doing in grievance.
"I want to be a painter in the future, okay dad?"
"Ah, that's an incredible profession. Pochi, you have to work hard. For example, go and have a good sleep now."
"good!"
Philon touched the child's forehead, smiled and ordered the maid to take those children back. Many children were still unwilling to go back to sleep, so they asked Philon to coax them to sleep like a spoiled child. Philon followed them in distressedly.
Room.
"Then let's take our leave and take a rest, Miss Nana."
In the living room, Fisher glanced at the awesome Nana next to him. She didn't have a very good impression of Fisher, probably because of what happened with Ornn before, so the expression on her face could only be called polite.
.
"Good night, Mr. Fisher, Miss Rafael."
This time, she spoke dragon language.
Fisher took Rafael and the others up to the second floor. Before leaving, he asked Lar to put the toy back, otherwise she would definitely have to sleep with the mechanical car. In fact, she didn't even know it was a car.
I just saw that the thing had four wheels and could be pushed around.
"Where are Mil and the others?"
"Ah, they came down with us before, but there was nothing interesting so they went back first."
After sending Lar back to Mir's room, and waiting for the room to close, only Fisher and Rafael were left in the corridor. Fisher turned his head to look at her, causing her to avoid it subconsciously.
out of sight,
"Let's go to bed."
"...Um."
Rafael originally wanted to change clothes directly, but now Fisher was beside her, so she got into the quilt on the ground first, then carefully took off her clothes under the quilt and put them outside.
.
But Fisher didn't even look at her, he just leaned on the bed and kept writing something with a quill under the light of the bedside lamp.
Most of them were about the content of today's research with Philon, and there were also some speculations about souls, such as their characteristics and observation methods. Fisher was hypothesizing in his mind what methods could be used to prove it.
Rafael didn't want to look at Fisher at first, but soon realized that Fisher had been focusing on the research at hand and ignored her at all, so she turned her head and looked at it silently with half of her head exposed outside the quilt.
Looking at Fisher in his shirt on the bed.
After writing for a long time, Fisher rubbed his shoulders and put the pen and notebook in his hand on the bedside.
"Get ready for bed... Well, are you studying how to defeat me?"
He noticed Rafael who had been looking at him next to him, so he asked.
Her red horns illuminated her face, but it was unclear whether her cheeks were stained with cherry color again. She grabbed the quilt with both hands and covered it up a little. Now only her eyes were exposed.
She responded quietly,
"Um."
"That's good. If you think more, the probability of success will be greater...I'll turn off the lights."
Fisher turned off the light. He seemed to have heard the sound of Philonne and Nana returning to their bedroom. He also lay down under the quilt and stood his stick beside the bed to avoid being attacked by this dragon lady in the middle of the night.
sneak attack.
Rafael had no intention of sneaking up on him, but she suddenly slept in the same room with this human being. For some reason, she always felt a little hot, so she couldn't sleep well.
In the silent night, the moonlight outside the window shines on the curtains, and there are only the breathing sounds of two people in the room, as well as the indistinct whispers coming from the Mill house in the distance. It is probably Lal thinking about what to eat tomorrow morning.
What, there was also the sound of Fahir and Kehir tickling her but being stopped by Mir.
The soundproofing of this house is not good, but luckily Lar and their room is far away from Fisher's room, at least farther than the distance from them to Philon and Nana's room.
Her ears twitched a few times, and she unconsciously began to listen to the sounds outside to dispel the heat in her body.
Soon, there was another door opening in the corridor outside. It should be the door opening of Nana's room. Small footsteps sounded. She seemed to have opened the door of Philon's room next to her.
"Mr. Philon..." Nana's voice was gentle and low, and it was a little blurry when it came here. "Please let me serve you tonight..."
"sorry to bother you."
"..."
Philon's door closed, and soon, some low breathing and Nana's soft moans came from there.
Rafael's mind went blank for a second, and then his entire face turned red.
Wait, that awesome girl and the city lord are...
"Feifei....Fisher!"
She sat up from the quilt full of steam and looked at Fisher, who was lying next to him with his eyes closed, in a panic, "You...you, did you hear me?"
Fisher still maintained his sleeping posture, then opened one eye and glanced at her. After a second of silence, he said,
"Don't listen, go to sleep."
Rafael pursed his lips, and then lay down on the bed again.
Etc., etc...
Humans and demihumans also...
This is not, this is not...
Although she had many thoughts, there was only one clear thing in Rafael's mind about the simple matter of the union between demi-humans and humans. It was like an impact on the world view, which made her start to think wildly.
Then... isn't that a human being like Fisher?
Wait, why am I thinking about Fisher?
But he is also human, and I am a dragon...
No, no, although he is also very strong and powerful, and indeed... a good person... But first of all, it is impossible for me to choose him as a suitable partner... let alone do that kind of thing...
Yes, that's right...
That's right.
She covered her ears with a pillow to prevent the melancholy sound from entering her ears, but she didn't seem to notice that the scales on her body slowly fell down and became pliable because she thought of someone. She hugged herself uneasily.
The slender tail seems to be hugging...
She shook her head and quickly hypnotized herself not to think too much and sleep quickly.
Don’t think too much! Don’t think about that scene! Don’t think about Fisher!
Humans and demihumans...
Forget it!
Fisher next to him silently opened his eyes, and his expression turned into dead fish eyes, because the faint steam with the scent of Rafael began to spread in the whole bedroom again, it didn't take much to think about it.
That guy is having random thoughts again.
He wisely did not speak or make any move, he just glanced in the direction of Philon's room, not sure what was going on in his mind.