"That's right, Sal."

Clarence sat down in front of the lab table, carefully polishing his long nails, and said casually, "You know, that junior brother outside of you has come to Noah." ”

"Noah? Do you say the royal capital? ”

Salvatore looked up in surprise at the other table: "I know about it...... But how do you know? ”

"I know it's weird?"

Clarence smiled, "I'm from the Soul Reaver School. ”

He smiled, stretched out the index and middle fingers of his right hand, gestured to his own eyes, and then to Salvatore's.

"—what you know, I know."

"You saw it from Longjing Tea, right?"

Salvatore reacted immediately and chuckled softly.

Clarence shrugged, "yes."

"I've warned him not to think cranky in front of the Soul Reaver, but he's thinking more. Even more detailed than I had told him......"

"It's definitely going to take special training."

Salvatore smiled helplessly: "You are scaring children." ”

"Children should be scared."

Clarence pushed his glasses and made the opposite point with a straight face: "It's better to be scared by me than to be searched by other Soul Reavers after you go out." ”

"I don't think so."

Salvatore scratched his fluffy hair, and there was a somewhat troubled expression on his lazy face: "If you keep scaring them like this, they may not dare to approach you."

"I can't gain experience against the Soul Snatchers, what if they leave the Black Tower?"

"I don't care what they do."

Clarence snorted twice, and said angrily: "I don't have a good class one by one, and I don't have the patience to practice hard how to shield and fake my thoughts." Even if other Soul Reavers directly changed their memories and minds, they brought it on themselves. ”

"Don't say that......"

"It's not like we don't have the Soul Snatcher School, there are so many books about the Transformation School here, as long as you can't learn them, you won't read them...... There is no shortage of tower masters in your Transformation Sect, and there are few smart people in our Soul Snatching Sect who are capable and self-controlled. One by one, they are either ill-intentioned, or they are stupid, or they are stupid with bad intentions...... The other schools also do not attach importance to the confrontation with the Soul Reaver School. ”

Clarence complained, "But I change their minds, and if I make them feel it, they think it's a rank suppression, and anyone can do it; If they don't feel it, they don't even feel that their minds have been changed.

"How are you going to teach me this?"

"Alright, alright, dissipate."

Salvatore reluctantly patted Clarence on the shoulder and comforted: "That being said, you also have to consider their receptivity, right?"

"If they don't get the hang of it, it's all in vain. As a teacher, in addition to one's own knowledge and ability, 'teaching methods that can be accepted and learned by students' are also a kind of teaching ability. ”

"To put it lightly......"

Clarence muttered a few words and flicked her freshly polished nails.

With the crisp sound of bones clashing, the white jade-colored nails made of centaur phalanges cut a pure white shimmer in the air.

In Clarence's own eyes, the air swept by his fingernails produced tiny, pure black cracks.

Centaurs are a race that can directly peek into the future with their own naked eyes and pluck the strings of fate with their hands...... It's something they're born with.

But it is precisely because of this that the timid and indifferent character of the horses has been developed.

You can see the predestined outcome from the beginning – and be able to see each time you change the future, and see again which direction the future will lead again. This eliminates the need for them to have the "perseverance to face their fate".

Because everything is just "something that hasn't happened yet".

Once they get used to the fact that "what they see will happen", it is difficult for them to have the courage to fight the future.

I lost the great joy I gained when I stayed the course.

Lost the tenacity forged from the suffering of the unknown.

and lost the "short, meaningless happiness" that he had obtained on the way, because of the unknown......

For the Centaurs, the small surprises and joys they get in the future are "meaningless" compared to the goals at the end. But if everything is about following the "ultimate meaning", then everything will become meaningless.

At the same time, when the whole race has a future vision, the future vision of the individual cannot produce a greater advantage within the group. Or even the opposite...... The centaur eyes, which can be used to aid in the ritual of peeking into the future; The centaurs' phalanges can be used to make fate-changing props.

- In a sense, the cowardly and indifferent character of the centaurs is entirely due to this talent of theirs.

“…… It's like a centaur. Without strength, it is useless to peek into the future. ”

Clarence said in a low tone, "For these students who have no talent and no consciousness, my advice is not to let them graduate. ”

When he said this, he glanced at Salvatore with a smile: "Speaking of which, Sal. You're now advanced to Silver...... Although he is an alchemist, it is time to take students.

"When you start taking students, you should know how I feel."

"No, it won't."

Salvatore said confidently: "I have been thinking about this day for a long time...... I'm actually looking forward to it. In fact, when Mr. Benjamin taught me, I thought about what it would be like for me to lead students in the future.

"Although it is not polite for him to say that...... But Mr. Benjamin really doesn't care about us.

"I thought at the time that if I became a teacher in the future, I would definitely not be like him. I have to patiently answer questions to my students—not only to teach them spells, but also to teach them how to be human. ”

Salvatore looked at Clarence and replied seriously, "Seriously, Senior Clarence. They are all only fourteen or fifteen years old, and I think we should teach them how to think, how to live, and how to learn. ”

"Fourteen or fifteen years old is not too young. And Master Benjamin was ...... at the time"

Clarence stopped talking.

Master Benjamin's mental state at that time was obviously not quite right. If he didn't kill you at that time, it means that you are already very good......

However, Salvatore would not have been able to understand these words.

He shook his head and changed the subject: "Alright, Sal." How's it going? ”

"What else? Blacktower's life is so orderly, how could I possibly let her out. ”

Salvatore is clearly in a good mood: "If only life could be like this." ”

"In that case, I'd suggest you check out the new batch of students first. When I was looking for Longjing tea before, I saw a manufacturable material. I saw in him the traces of breaking free from fate...... Not only is he a genius in terms of talent, but he also has the corresponding will and perseverance. ”

Clarence suddenly thought of something, and said to Salvatore: "It's the youngest child...... The ten-year-old one. ”

“…… Can you feel like a genius? What, isn't he a good fit for the Soul Snatcher school? ”

Salvatore looked at his friend, his respected senior, with some surprise.

Clarence is always looking for his heir.

Longjing Tea is one of his favorite students.

It's just a pity...... He didn't choose the Soul Reaver school. Moreover, Longjing tea is indeed more compatible with the Imperial Decree School.

The evaluation is so high, but it still gives it to itself...... That only shows that this is a genius of the transformation school.

Salvatore suddenly became a little interested: "And what is his name?" ”

"His name is von Hohenheim."

Clarence replied.