At the same time (?), southwest France, the suburbs of Toulouse.
The landboat [Flying Frenchman] is sailing quietly somewhere on the Garonne River.
"Ah, it still doesn't work." Bailey, the young fox man disguised as Prince Cloval, put down the marbles in his hand and covered his head: "It was clear that the situation was great just now... Big brother is too lucky to throw so many marbles in a row.
six."
"Hug, I'm sorry." Elaine said sorry, but she still finished the last move unceremoniously and moved the marbles to Bailey's position. This marble checkers competition was completely over.
"I thought I could gain some advantage by relying on my intelligence..." The little fox pouted and said unwillingly: "It really doesn't work. Big brother's gambling luck is too strong, as long as it is related to gambling.
He will definitely win."
"You, you can win without playing with dice, or if you don't use candies as bets, it will be fine..." Elaine glanced at the pile of candies beside the table dejectedly. He didn't like eating candies, and now he
Anyway, I couldn't taste the sweetness in the candy. The candy was forced by Bailey as a bet, and Elaine didn't even want to take it. He was just playing marbles with Bailey, and unknowingly, he got the candy from Bailey.
So much sugar won there…
Elaine's gambling luck is Leo's gambling luck, and that gambling luck, which can already be regarded as a kind of talent, is closely related to interests. As long as a competition involves interests, it will be considered a kind of gambling, and as long as it involves
When it comes to random gambling - even if it is as simple as throwing a dice, Elaine will have an absolute advantage and ultimately win.
If you want to win against Elaine in the competition, there are only two ways. One is to completely remove the interest relationship from the competition and make it a purely unprofitable competition; the other is to remove the element of luck in the competition.
Completely eliminate everything from random card dealing to dice rolling, and make the competition completely a confrontation based on intelligence - such as playing chess. In this way, it is possible to win Elaine from the competition.
But in this way, Bailey, who has a higher IQ, will have an absolute advantage. In the past, when playing chess, Bailey crushed Elaine and won, without any suspense. This is a bit boring...
"As expected, we still can't play chess together... Big brother Elaine will definitely win in chess games that involve luck, and I will definitely win in chess games that purely use my brain... It's so boring." The little fox pressed his face
On the table, he complained depressedly.
"Ah ha ha ha..." the white lion boy could only laugh awkwardly.
"Then let's stop playing chess and come to painting?... But I'm terrible at painting. Well, fly a kite?... But I flew the kite away, and I don't have a kite anymore..." Bailey said mid-sentence.
There I became depressed: "Well, I really want a game console, even a handheld game console..."
"You didn't, didn't you?" Elaine felt very strange, shouldn't a prince have everything he wants - even if Bailey is just a fake prince.
"My tutor said it would affect my study, so the people above never bought it for me." Bailey glanced sideways at Lina, the Holy Lily Knight, who was waiting in the same room not far away, and was very careful not to buy it for me.
He let his identity slip.
"Really..." Elaine was a little confused. Sure enough, Bailey was forced to study, in order to better play the role of a prince. Forcing such a young child to learn so many things, but not giving him any fun or rewards
, and now he is even asked to die in place of the real prince. It is really too much.
"Here, I'll give it to you when we get to Bordeaux?" Elaine whispered, "What kind of handheld do you want? You, choose it yourself?"
"I'll wait until I get to Bordeaux alive." The little fox also lowered his voice and said at a volume that only orcs with sensitive hearing could hear.
The little fox's unintentional words stung Elaine. Then Bailey coughed lightly. It was just a light cough at first, but it became more and more violent. It took about a minute for the cough to stop.
"Your Highness," the female knight on the side asked, "Is it time to take medicine?"
"Oh, let's take it now..." Bailey took out a small bottle, poured two small blue pills out of it, and drank it together with the black tea.
"What kind of disease is this?" Elaine asked curiously.
"It's just a bit of asthma." Bailey replied, "It's okay, it's okay, brother, don't worry about it."
No wonder it's okay. Elaine thought to herself. No wonder the little fox was advised by Dio, who was disguised as a maid, not to blow the wind on the deck all the time.
The physique of the orcs is much stronger than that of humans. Even if Bailey is just a weak fox among the orcs, he will not contract a lung disease as serious as asthma. That kind of disease cannot be congenital (orcs almost never have congenital disease).
Sexual diseases), it must be caused by long-term malnutrition and overwork.
Those guys in France must have been forcing Bailey to study day and night, and they didn't pay enough attention to supplementing the child's nutrition and ensuring adequate rest, which is why he ended up like this.
The pain in Elaine's heart increased again.
"Well, what else is interesting next? Although we can study together, but since we are playing with my big brother, reading without saying a word seems a bit boring... Sure enough, we still want to draw?"
"Well...paint, paint for a while, and then you have to lie down and take a rest." Elaine said, "Yes, if you have asthma, you should pay attention to rest more..."
"Yeah, let's paint then." The little fox happily took out a box of crayons and drawing paper: "Big brother will be a model, and I want to draw big brother."
"You, how do you draw a white lion on white drawing paper...?"
"Use the gray crayon to draw the lines and the white crayon to paint the details, hehe. Brother, keep this sitting posture, yes, yes, yes, right hand, cupping your chin, looking out the window, with a melancholy expression."
"Why, why are you melancholy..."
"This is more suitable for big brother, it's cooler, hee hee." The little fox said with a smile, and also placed the vase with roses on the table as a companion.
Ten minutes later.
"It's done, big brother, take a look!" Bailey handed the drawn picture to Elaine.
"This, this is..." Elaine looked at the picture very depressed.
Is this...serious?
Is what he painted really a lion? What’s the matter with the face that looks a bit like a dog and a bit like a cat, but just doesn’t look like a lion? And wasn’t Elaine just sitting there with her right hand holding her chin? Why is the posture in the painting?
His appearance has completely changed. He is lying down? Is this a Sphinx? Wait, isn’t it? It’s a Sphinx? What the hell is that one next to it? Is it painting a vase? But that should be...
...Pyramid? Or upside down???
What kind of genius would turn Elaine, who was sitting there with her chin in her hands, into a prone sphinx, and paint a vase into an inverted pyramid?
This is no longer a portrait, but a postmodern abstract painting, right??
There are so many flaws that I don’t know where to start…
"Brother, how's my painting going?" the little fox asked with a grin.
"This...ah hahaha...very, very creative." Elaine had a lot of things to say in his heart, but he was afraid of hurting Bailey's self-esteem. He didn't dare to say that Bailey was terrible at painting, but he
He didn't want to lie in front of the kid and praise him for his good painting. So he just laughed and tried to fool him.
"I know I suck at painting, big brother, there's no need to comfort me." The little fox said, "But it's so fun to paint. I've been painting when no one forced me to study. I can paint freely and paint whatever I want."
Just draw whatever you want."
This painting is not only very free, but also very casual...Elaine complained in her heart.
"It's Big Brother's turn, do you want to draw me? I'll be a model." Bailey tried to strike a handsome pose - at least he thought the pose of leaning against the wall while holding his chin was handsome.
"I'm terrible at painting..." the white lion boy said gloomily. Besides, Bailey only brought crayons. How could he draw fine paintings with such a thick pen...
"It's okay, I'm just painting for fun." The kid pushed the white paper and crayons in front of Elaine: "Come and draw, I really want to see big brother's paintings, and I want to keep them as treasures."
He said so, and Elaine really had no way to shirk it.
"Then give me a pencil," Elaine turned to the female knight over there and said, "I'll draw. Can I scan the drawing?"
Ten minutes later.
"That's amazing. Is this drawn by big brother?" Bailey looked at the pencil drawing, and the little prince in the picture was copied so lifelike. Although the posture and movements sitting there were a bit stiff, at least the face was drawn well.
Very similar.
"Just, I just followed the painting." Elaine replied.
As he expected, his lion-man transformation has excellent image memory ability. He can easily remember the pictures in front of him and then reproduce them in his mind. Moreover, this lion-man transformation also has quite good eyesight.
, suitable for painting. As a child, Leo often took his drawing board to the courtyard and copied the scenery in the mountains and forests behind the kingdom. Since Leo could easily reproduce such complex scenery with a charcoal pen,
The current Elaine can definitely do the same period.
Of course, except for the face, other parts of the painting were still a little out of shape. Elaine had no foundation in painting and didn’t know that before painting, he had to make a draft to confirm the perspective of the picture and the proportion of the character’s body, so he removed Bailey’s body parts below the neck.
The painting was slightly out of shape. The face was restored quite well because he repeatedly observed it while painting.
The body proportions were slightly out of shape, but there was almost no difference in Bailey's eyes. Of course, a child could not see the difference. He just danced with excitement and shouted things like "Elaine is so awesome."
"I really want to keep this in my collection. My first self-portrait is simply my treasure." The little fox said with a smile.
"No." Elaine smiled and took the painting from Bailey's hand: "Can you give this to me? Next time I will draw a better one for you. Painting, painting is real."
of you."
Bailey's face now is not his real face. The face that appears in front of Elaine's eyes is just the face of Prince Cloval simulated by Bailey using illusion magic. Therefore, this painting only depicts the little prince of Orleans, not Bailey.
It has no commemorative significance. Elaine even felt angry when she saw this face. Why did Bailey have to die for such a person? Elaine wanted to copy the little fox Bailey's own face as a gift.
Bailey. He has not found a suitable opportunity yet, but there will definitely be an opportunity in the future. Before he can find this opportunity, he must first ensure that Bailey can survive.
"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough cough!" The little fox's series of coughs interrupted Elaine's thoughts. Bailey's physical condition seemed to have worsened.
"Okay, don't, don't keep playing, lie down and take a rest." Elaine urged.
Bailey rubbed his chest: "But I still want to play for a while..."
"No, it won't work. My body is broken. If I break down, I won't be able to continue playing." The white lion boy said with a straight face, pretending to be serious: "Yes, you have to listen to the doctor."
"Yes, Dr. Elaine." Bailey also deliberately agreed, smiled and walked over to lie on the bed: "But big brother wants to read me a story and coax me to sleep."
"Okay, okay." Elaine went to the bedside, picked up a fairy tale book on the bedside - in fact, it was more like a picture book for children - and read: "A long time ago,
There is a little girl called Red Hat..."
"Ah, big brother doesn't stutter." Bailey interrupted as if he had discovered something new.
"Well...yes, you won't stutter when you read a dialogue to a book." Elaine replied.
"Do you stutter when talking to others?"
"No, it's almost like that."
"So this stuttering is not a disease, but a psychological problem?"
Elaine was silent for several seconds: "Big, maybe?"
"Is the eldest brother stuttering because he is afraid of talking to people?" Bailey asked sharply, as if he could see through Elaine's heart: "Is the eldest brother also afraid of me? Is he afraid that I will hate you and won't do it with you?
Friends?"
Elaine then fell into a deeper silence. His stuttering was a problem he had a long time ago. And if you look deeper, just as Bailey guessed, Elaine stuttered because of fear.
He is afraid of... communicating with people. People are very scary creatures. You never know what they really think in their hearts, and you don't know when they will start to hate you. So Elaine always speaks with trepidation, for fear of saying
One wrong word will make the other person hate you and make them reject you.
But, really? Does Elaine want to be afraid of a well-behaved and lovely child like Bailey? Will Bailey really hate him? Does he really need to be afraid of being hated by Bailey? If there is no need to be afraid, why would he still be there?
Are you so cautious in front of this child?
"Yes, I'm sorry..." Elaine replied. She didn't know what to say other than apologizing.
"Big brother has nothing to apologize to me." The little fox reached out and rubbed Elaine's head: "One day, I will let big brother open his heart to me and talk to me normally. If it's true.
It would be great if we could do that."
"Well, well...I hope so too." Elaine forced out a bitter smile, then picked up the fairy tale picture book and continued reading the story.