9 Life Lessons
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"What the hell do you owe this guy? Zach was expressing frustration, "I remember you said that the last time was the last time you helped him. β
"He, no, his father, old Mr. Quest. β
Quest Manor Zack has also been there, and he doesn't remember seeing any old gentleman, he should have hung up, so he glanced at Nuo, "Okay, this is the most annoying, the creditor is no longer there, and you will never know if you have paid off your favor." β
Nuo looked at Zach with some surprise, "You seem to know a lot~"
Zach shrugged, "I'm eternal." Don't take it literally and think that Zach is showing off, what he wants to express is that other people are not immortal, "Of course I understand~"
"Hehe, I smell the story. No, looking at Zach with an eyebrow, "Exchange, I'll tell you mine, you tell me yours, how about it?"
With a smile on his face, Zach watched as the new client was received by Louise and pointed to the officeβit was a customer from the mill who had made an appointment, and he had arrived on time. On Zach's desk, there are detailed instructions in Madison's work report, and Zach is helping Louise make it easier.
The office was occupied, and Zach simply sat on the back porch with Nuo, "Why not~ Hehe, you first." β
"Okay. Let me think. "Noh really has a thinking look," forget the boring part, keep it simple. He opened with a question, "You know, in the past, Big Q was just a small grocery store." β
"I've heard of it. Zach nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, the rise of 'Quest' seems to have started in this generation. "As much as I don't like Quest as a person, I have to admit that he's a successful man." β
"Hehe, yes, success. Nou shrugged his shoulders, smiling, but obviously agreeing with him not very sincerely, "I'm not going to talk about the history of Quest's origin, I want to talk about when I was young, full of blood, on the battlefield, fighting for my country, Mr. Quest Sr. was the one who took care of my family. β
No's military background is something that Zach has known for a long time, No, the 'General', and the boss of Saidil Security...... Zach looked at No's face a little badly and asked, "Where is your family?" The only guy Zach has ever seen who is considered a member of Nou's family is the fat maid Miuna.
"Dead. "I didn't even make it to the funeral because I didn't know." It was only a week after the funeral that I received a letter from Mr. Quest and obtained, well, family leave, and returned to Barton. β
Zach raised an eyebrow, now is probably not the time to mention that no one can still get this kind of holiday luck during the war.
Nou continued, "Of course, because of my return, the legal heirs have returned, and Mr. Quest Sr. has reconvened the memorial service for me. Very small. Probably because the object of the story is Zach, the owner of the funeral industry, so there is the following superfluous explanation, "It's kind of like a memorial ceremony for the wake of the spirit, just at home, invite some, well, acquaintances, that kind of." β
Zach nodded, this tradition is quite common, but it is not under the control of the funeral industry. And Zach has grasped the tone change in No's words, and the key words have appeared.
"It was at that time that I realized that the 'acquaintances' who came to my house, my family's home, to express their condolences were not acquaintances. Every 'sorry for your loss' of comfort is not for me. I'm an outsider in that place where everybody is expressing their grief. The most words I get are 'Oh, you're the son of Rippet, well, you're so big.'" Those men can say more to me than they can say to old Mr. Quest's two sons. β
Zach didn't have any expressions, he knew, the vampire who also participated in the war in a slightly magical way, he watched the Anthony brothers on the battlefield grow from teenagers to young people, and then to a race separated species. So, no need to say it more bluntly, Zach understood what Nuo meant.
"To sum up, compared to me, the legal heir, the family of my family, not me, is Mr. Quest, until the end. When I realized this, I was thinking about making amends. Nou shrugged, "Maybe it's to make up for old Mr. Quest, or maybe it's to make up for my family, I'm late, I don't know." β
Nuo pursed his lips, his face was a little speechless, "You know, when Mr. Quest was still alive, he really didn't ask me to do anything, but the two children who were in my family's home were more like my own family in the past, and now they have grown up, hehe, Quest, who you and I don't like very much, always asks me to do this and that." β
Zach also chuckled, "You should realize that the current Quest is just taking advantage of the kindness of the previous generation to take advantage of you. β
"Of course I do. "But every time I want to say 'no,' I think of the scene a long time ago, at that little memorial service, when I was sitting on the couch watching a room of strangers in a daze, and the lovely and innocent Quest brothers were being comforted." Shaking his head with helplessness, "This is what I deserve, I will never know if I have paid off my favor, I can only be used." β
Zach patted Nuo, which was comforting.
"It's your turn. Nou regained his smile, not hiding his intense curiosity at all, "Your story." β
"It's too much. Zach first gave a look of seeing everything, and waved his hand, "I have lived for more than four centuries, I have probably, half a hundred rounds of identity, half a hundred times of other people hanging, but I am still alive, I wonder if my own round of favors is over, that is half a hundred stories." He smiled slyly at Nuo, "I can't finish talking~"
Nou squinted, "It's not fair. "Well...... No's smiling eyes began to flicker, "I'm starting to think that you're just trying to trick me into telling me my story, and then reasonably ask if I'm going to the Midparts for Quest's favor again." β
"It was discovered~" Zach didn't continue to hide it, "Hehe, that's exactly the case." You don't like this entry point?Then I have other transitional topics to choose from, such as Charlie~"
Nuo raised his eyebrows and smiled silently, "You don't get out so easily, just talk about one, for the sake of fairness." β
Zach looked at No, "Well, you didn't say no. Refusing to explain to Zach why he went to the Midlands and needed Zach and Konstantin in danger, "Then I'll talk about one, just to give you time to prepare." β
Noh made a gesture of please.
Zach looked thoughtful, "Let's talk about the most distant one." You know, the oldest things are the easiest to talk about, and there will be no psychological burden. β
Noh smiled and pursed his lips, yes.
"I used to be an introverted, non-verbal, and clumsy guy. "This opening, uh, why is it a little familiar, after all, Zach describes himself as not good at words, only - "It's the kind of person who is silently waiting for death when there is a famine." β
"When you were still human?" No, who was quick to react.
Zach nodded, it was really like what he just said, there will be no psychological burden on things that are far away, Zack's face still kept smiling, "But I survived because someone saved me." "I can't remember who this man is, maybe it's my neighbor?" I don't know, anyway, he saved me, if he had a potato, I would have half, and if he got a job, I would get half of the salary." β
As Zack spoke, he automatically raised his eyebrows and looked at Nuo, "It's just to defend myself, it's not that I don't want to go out to work, it's that I can't, I'll be abducted in about two days out, and then sell it to be a ********* Nuo's eyes widened, staring at Zack's face, obviously asking if this is a joke."
Zach shook his head, "It's a pity, I'm not kidding, you can go and find stories and novels from four centuries ago, there are only two ways out for untouchables who can't survive, there is a skin to sell, or a soul to sell." It's all a way to sell something. β
"Well, the feudal era, the aristocratic and non-aristocratic era, I see. You go ahead. Nou waved his hand.
"I'm the guy who has a good skin and tries to keep his soul, so I shouldn't be able to live, but that guy saved me. β
Nou frowned, a little hesitant, "What did he sell......
"No, so we had a hard time until we met Toredo. I ended up selling something......" Looking at No's somewhat awkward eyes, "Don't think crookedly, I'm talking about my loyalty, the ancestor of the Toredo clan chose me to be his direct descendant, even if I was clumsy at the time, I could understand what it meant to be a direct descendant of an immortal nobleman." So, I gave up my human ancestry, accepted the Toledo bloodline, and became the second generation of Toredo. My suffering as a human being ends here. β
Nuo pursed his lips, "So, it's time to return the favor." β
Zach nodded again, "Yes." Then he shook his head helplessly, "But I'm still clumsy, and I've probably used the most suspicious way to repay this favor - I can't do it during the day, oh, at that time, the Thirteen Clans didn't have the ability to walk during the day." I can't visit this guy who kept me alive during the day, so I can only be careful to skip him and let him live when I choose food for the loyal Toredo Ancestor, and then hunt at night and secretly bring him food to make him live a little better......"
Nou frowned, "That must be ......" looked at Zach, "It's tough." β
"Very. Zach shrugged, "So I messed up." Zach paused, and then conveniently skipped the part of the story we'd already heardβZach admitted to the man that he wasn't a human anymore, "He, uh, let me just say he, well, left." β
"Dead?"
"Of course, in the end, it should have died, but no, left. Zach tilted his head, "I promised the Toredo Ancestor that he would forever abandon everything he had ever been a human and embrace the eternal life of a vampire in exchange for the Ancestor's escape from chasing a slave." Zach was quiet for a moment, "I want to believe that he let me live, I let him live, and I have paid off the favor I owe him when I actually became Toledo." "But, who knows? I never heard from him again, and ten, twenty, or half a century, as a colonizer in the New World, I will never be sure that I have repaid the favor." β
Noe watched Zach be silent for a moment, the corners of his eyes twitching, "Cunning, too cunning." With the age difference between me and Quest, I can't survive him. Your story, without a bit of reference. β
"Hehe, you shouldn't look for a life reference in me. Zach squinted, "It's your turn again, the middle thing." β
Noh smiled and began to wander his gaze, it was obvious that he was delaying.
But there's no point in procrastinating. "You ......"
As soon as Zach spoke, Louise pushed the door, "James has a call, I'll turn you down, he's in a bad mood." β
Zach pouted, "When is he in a good mood." He glanced at Nuo, who was spreading his hands easily, "Wait here." He got up and walked into the showroom and picked up the phone on the counter.
"Nate was coerced by Darcy into spreading 0711!" said the earpiece and went straight to the point.
Zach didn't want to speak.
"Nate is a fan of the band Temptoredo!
Zach still didn't want to speak.
"The Feast is using Nate to set up a plan against Quin and Smith!"
There was no speech on the other side of the earpiece, only the gasp after the excited words.
After waiting for a while, Zach spoke, "Is that all?"
It was the receiver's turn not to speak.
Although James can't see it, we know it, Zack, even if it's a phone call, his expression must be sufficient, for fear that the emotions he wants to express can't be transmitted from the slender phone line, "I'm so disappointed, James, say something I don't know." β
The earpiece exploded, "You can just look at someone and ask whatever question you want! I can? I think it's easy for me to get that out of Darcy's mouth......
"Director, Director Darcy. "Well, at this moment, Zach actually has the heart to remind this thing...... And, "James, where are you? How did I hear the horn, are you in a public phone booth?"
"Sure!or I'd be talking to you about this?!" Probably realizing that it was a shame to go crazy in a phone booth, and calmed down a little, "Darcy couldn't ask anything, I was going to find Oz ......"
"Why?
"How else......"
"Oz doesn't know, can you use a little brain, James, Kozill is now being watched by the West End because of his relationship with Liszt, hmph, at least in the eyes of Director Darcy. This kind of demon banquet splits up to deal with the people of the West End, even if it is to avoid suspicion, he will not tell Oz, do you still need me to tell you this truth?"
"Uh......"
"James, don't do things that don't make sense. Oz also has Liszt's affairs to deal with now, do you think it's easy for him to be duplicitous between the West End and the Demon Feast, don't add to his burden. Keep an eye on your chief......"
Zach was also interrupted once, raised his eyebrows, listened to the hang-up tone, shook his head speechlessly, put down the phone, and was just about to continue to ask Nuo-
"You look busy~ Don't bother, I'll go first, goodbye. "No, farewell.
Well, Zach gave up, his self-consciousness prevented him from asking a third time for the same thing, "Well, goodbye." (To be continued.) )