Elaine, who returned to the store, saw everyone eating refreshments. The kids had obviously already had breakfast, but she didn't expect that they could continue to eat with gusto.
However, what the black cat brought out was also dark food - at least in appearance - watching the children sucking the "eyeballs" (actually dyed ones) from a plate of "blood pool" (actually ketchup)
Simi), Elaine showed an incredible look.
Although it looked weird and scary, the children ate it with gusto, as if they were eating special Halloween food. The corners of Pierre and Io's mouths were stained with "blood" (ketchup), and they continued to devour it before they could wipe it off.
They looked like two little devils. Only Bailey was eating slowly and gracefully, and while eating, he gracefully sipped a few sips of black tea.
"Ah, this child is so well-bred." Black Cat said as he happened to pass by Elaine when he came to collect the dirty dishes and empty cups.
After all, Bailey received a royal-level education (although it was forced), so table manners are naturally more particular. Elaine thought to herself. But a child can't help but pay so much attention to etiquette when he just has a meal in an ordinary restaurant.
Can't help but feel a little distressed.
"Black Cat, borrow, lend me a step to talk." Elaine said.
"Of course," Charlotte replied, "but I'm too busy right now. If you can come to the backstage kitchen to help, we can use the free time to chat."
"Okay, okay." Although Elaine didn't know what kind of help his clumsy self could be, he still agreed. After explaining a few words to the children, he followed the black cat into the backstage.
There was a young chef cooking the food in the cafe. He should be a friend of Black Cat (Charlotte and her friends jointly run the cafe). However, Elaine didn't know the man, so naturally he didn't go up to talk to him.
.
"Here." Charlotte tied a pink apron on Elaine.
"Eh, eh...?!"
"Help wash the dishes." She said: "It's time to change the shift, Mario, you go out to entertain the guests, I'll cook."
"Okay," the chef said, quickly finishing the food he was cooking, then taking off his chef's clothes and hat, and asked Charlotte to take over.
Charlotte also took off her black cat-eared maid outfit and was about to put on a chef's uniform. Elaine was startled and quickly turned away, only to find that Charlotte was actually wearing bottoms.
Dressed in black.
"Don't, don't scare me..." the white lion man groaned.
"What are you expecting?" Charlotte rolled her eyes at Elaine: "You don't think I'm really going to walk in front of you, do you? Even if you are that pure little Elaine, I will not be indifferent to you.
Be careful."
"Hey..." Elaine drooped her ears.
"Stop talking and wash the dishes quickly. We are worried about the lack of manpower here. It is rare to find a free coolie." Black Cat urged.
"Bitter, coolie..." Elaine couldn't laugh or cry: "And, why is it a pink apron..."
"I always think this color matches you very well, and I want to tease you, hehe." Charlotte's answer made Elaine furious, but she didn't dare to get really angry.
Anyway, he went to the sink and started washing the dirty dishes that were gradually piling up.
"First add disinfectant and detergent to the soaking tank, use fiber cloth to clean off all the dirt on the plate, then send it to the rinsing tank to rinse with clean water, and finally place it on the drying tank to dry. This way
You should be able to do simple tasks, right?" Black Cat ordered: "Don't break the plates. It would be terrible if you only find out that there are not enough plates during the noon rush hour."
"Ha, haha..." Elaine said with a smile. No matter how clumsy he was, he couldn't break the dishes so easily.
He began to wash the dirty dishes carefully, and the black cat kept taking the tickets from the front desk and making food according to the records on it. Most of them were desserts (this is a cafe after all), but of course there were also some simple staple foods.
"I, I want to ask you something." Only then did Elaine take the opportunity to speak.
"Oh?" Black Cat snorted emotionlessly, busy with the work in hand, and waiting for Elaine to continue.
"I, I will leave Edinburgh soon and go to Greenland." The white lion boy continued: "But those children, especially Bailey, I, I can't worry about."
"Bailey...is that the little lion?"
"Um."
"Could that child be...your son?"
"No, it's not!" Elaine hurriedly denied, why do everyone think Bailey is his son, "Peng, the son of a friend."
"...Constantine's?!?"
"How, how is it possible!" Elaine was even more dumbfounded. Constantine was neither married nor an orc. Just thinking about it, he knew that Bailey couldn't be Constantine's son!
"But when it comes to your friend, isn't there only one friend?" Black Cat said a little bit harshly.
"Okay, that's too much...!"
"You're kidding, hahaha. Please continue."
"Anyway, in short, I can't take Bailey to Greenland. Well, that might be a journey with no return. Bailey is very, very important. Too important. After I leave, I, I hope you can
Take care of him and send him to Cairo, Egypt, the headquarters of the Sphinx Consortium."
"oh?"
"When the time comes, you tell the people over there that Bailey is Leopold's son, and they will know what to do." Elaine continued: "For example, if you really can't leave Great Britain, you can also wait for Kang
Standing comes back and asks him to send the child there."
"You really treat our place as a nursery..." Black Cat complained depressedly.
"Hug, I'm sorry... I have no one but you, no one else I can rely on." Elaine sighed.
"If I only take care of him for a few days, I don't care. The child seems to be well-behaved and sensible." Black Cat continued: "But to be on the safe side, I will wait until brother Constantine or Lancelot returns to China. Go now.
The road to Cairo is not safe, it is full of natural disasters and plagues."
"Well, well. I'll leave it to you to judge." Elaine breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as it can ensure Bailey's safety."
"I'll do my best." Black Cat replied: "But is this really good? That child seems to be very attached to you, and you are completely in love with him. You plan to leave him without saying a word.
, or explain everything to him before leaving? No matter what I do, I don’t think this will end well. I can’t guarantee that I can keep an eye on him 24 hours a day. What if he insists on looking for you and encounters danger on the road?
manage?"
"I, I will persuade him." Elaine whispered.
"Can you persuade him? With your eloquence?" Charlotte had a drop of sweat on her forehead, expressing her doubts.
A drop of sweat broke out on Elaine's forehead: "Sir, I have to give it a try. Bailey is a sensible child, he will understand my difficulties."
"No matter how sensible he is, he is only a child of a few years old..." Black Cat snorted.
So Elaine stopped talking and just washed the dishes silently.
He knew that he could not persuade Bailey with his eloquence, nor could he make Bailey accept the fact of separation so simply. However, if he explained all this to the little fox sincerely, maybe a miracle would happen?
A small shadow swayed past the kitchen door, taking in all the conversation. Then he disappeared in despair.
It was around noon that the group of people returned to old man Senezel's hotel. When they arrived, Elaine was almost exhausted and almost needed Queeg's support to walk - of course he couldn't show his weak side in front of the children.
, so I can only hold on.
In addition to buying clothes and stuffed dolls for the children, Elaine also bought a lot of books (mostly novels) for Bailey and a lot of candies and toys for Pierre. Io insisted on not giving up anymore.
Accept the gift from Elaine, but Elaine finally persuaded the red wolf boy to accept the silver comb he had been using to comb his hair, because the hair on Io's body was a bit messy and really needed to be combed.
The little ghosts returned to the hotel happily. As soon as they sat down on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, Olin came over to Elaine: "Prophet Mutani wants to see you."
Why the prophet of Druidism suddenly wanted to see Elaine, the White Lion boy was completely confused. He just hoped that this was not a bad thing... At least the Druidism was not a bad religious group, it was Pantora a long time ago
What about the state religion of Great Britain?
"Okay, okay." Elaine planned to go with Olin.
"Brother, come back soon!" Bailey seemed to have some agreement with Queeg. He was winking at the leopard: "I'll make lunch for you. Uncle Queeg will be there to guide me."
"Okay, okay, I'm looking forward to it." Elaine said with a gentle smile. This was not just a perfunctory expression. Because the food made by Bailey made Elaine really taste the taste, he was really looking forward to it. He
It's been a long, long time since I had a good lunch, ever since Leo left.
"This way." Olin took Elaine's hand and walked deeper into the house, because there was a passage in this hotel that led to the Druids' secret underground meeting place. Although Olin had no intention of deliberately concealing the existence of the passage,
But it would not be a pleasant thing for everyone present to know the existence of the secret passage.
Walk through the long stairs, extending all the way underground. Then walk through the long passage, deep into the darkness.
"Speaking of which, you have grown up." Halfway through the walk, Olin suddenly said. She was walking in the dark with a lantern and felt bored.
"Ha, ha?" Elaine was shocked. Just looking at the face of this lion-man boy, it was not only that he had not grown, he had even grown in reverse and had become immature. Is there really no problem with Olin's eyesight?
"No. Appearance is not important, what is important is [the heart]." Olin said: "Do you still remember the first time I met you? At that time, you were huddled on the street corner, shivering, cold, hungry, and dirty.
Stinky. You were as helpless as a child at that time. You should be an adult now."
"Uh...please, please don't mention that." Elaine said depressedly.
"Are you so afraid of being mentioned about your dark history? Hehe." Oulin smiled mischievously: "It seems you still have a sense of shame."
"Of course there will be." The white lion boy blushed. Even though he has experienced countless miserable, embarrassing, and shameful things in his life, he has also fooled around, fooled around, and made many jokes.
; But his shame has not been completely thrown away.
"At that time, you were clearly a child in the skin of an uncle. Now, just over a month later, you have completely reversed yourself and turned into... um, an uncle in the skin of a child?"
"You, don't you have a better way to describe it..." Elaine was sweating profusely by Olin's wonderful metaphor.
"No, sorry, hehe." The Druid coordinator smiled and said, "Anyway, you finally look good now. Not like a child who needs care from others, but like a parent who can take care of his children."
Feel."
"No, no..." Elaine replied a little shyly.
"Just admit this honestly. If you are too modest, girls will hate you."
"I, I don't have to be liked..."
"Looking at you, you must have a girlfriend?"
"No..." Elaine thought about Leo, and felt heartbroken.
"Really not? That's not what you said on your expression. Is this a face that has experienced a broken love?" Olin smiled mysteriously and came over to look at Elaine: "And being broken in love makes people mature."
"I, I don't want to talk about this." Elaine avoided the topic.
"Tch, that's stingy." She then shrank back, held up the lantern and continued walking: "Then don't ask, this matter has nothing to do with me anyway."
(You should have asked this a long time ago. Why do you have to ask about me?) Elaine was puzzled.
"We're here." When Elaine was wondering, Olin suddenly slowed down.
There was a faint light ahead, and the passage had reached the end. Further ahead was the underground meeting place of the Druid Cult, a relatively vast underground cave.
Prophet Multani was already waiting for Elaine at the entrance of the cave, with two guards beside him.