I rely on myself

Chapter 287 Two Reasons
The person standing in front of Lin Yuan was none other than Alice, whom he had dealt with before.

Ever since the last incident when the two of them had a confrontation, Alice had become completely obsessed with Lin Yuan, and would come to him from time to time. Although Lin Yuan felt a little helpless about this, after all, he couldn't continue his research every time the other party showed up, but to be honest, Lin Yuan didn't feel disgusted with this, and even liked her a little.

After all, he is in this foreign country and he is unfamiliar with the place. In addition, the international situation of the Qing Dynasty is not good now, so Lin Yuan naturally will not get any good treatment here.

It is normal to often receive malicious stares from students from other countries. You may even be suddenly picked on. Lin Yuan suffered this treatment when he just entered school and had not yet made a heroic spirit doll.

Of course, after Lin Yuan created his own unique heroic spirit dolls and demonstrated his amazing strength, these treatments became much less common. After Lin Yuan became the "Glove Holder" and one of the thirteen, with the login code "Legend Reappears", no one dared to look down on Lin Yuan anymore.

However, because of this, Lin Yuan had no one else to communicate with in this academy and was considered an isolated person. Although thanks to the memory sharing of Lin Yuan in different worlds, he did not care too much.

But after all, humans are social creatures, and Lin Yuan sometimes still feels a little lonely when he is alone.

The appearance of Alice perfectly filled this shortcoming of Lin Yuan. So although Lin Yuan said that Alice's arrival was troublesome, he would still honestly follow her wishes.

Even if Alice played some pranks, Lin Yuan was happy to join in, and as a result, the two of them quickly became familiar with each other, and even reached the point where they had some intimate contact from time to time.

Just like before, Alice directly hugged Lin Yuan from behind. If they didn’t have a very close relationship, Alice would never do this.

"Ah, why do you look so listless? Did you stay up all night because you were angry that you didn't get to be the protagonist?"

Alice said this jokingly, and Lin Yuan simply rolled his eyes to express his attitude. However, seeing that Alice didn't pay any attention and was even getting more aggressive, he quickly opened his mouth to refute.

"... Stop talking nonsense like that, okay? Others may not know, but you know my personality. I have always stayed away from such things, so how could it be possible? I just stayed up a little late last night because of research. Stop being weird."

"oh----!"

Alice dragged out the voice for a very long time, and her face clearly showed that she was bored, but Lin Yuan had no intention of indulging her.

After all, he had been soft-hearted several times before, but the other party just became more aggressive in return. Even if Lin Yuan didn't care about Alice's pranks, he had to understand the occasion. It was obviously not allowed in the current situation.

Seeing this, Alice looked towards the awarding ceremony with some boredom. When her eyes fell on the president of the Royal Academy of Mechanics, Edward Rutherford, an ambiguous look flashed in his eyes.

But she quickly looked away, so no one saw or noticed this scene.

When Alice saw Akabane Raizin, who was rumored to have discovered the true identity of the Demon Eater, an interested expression appeared on her face and she asked Lin Yuan with great interest.

"Is that Akabane Raimin? I really can't tell from his appearance. He has such great abilities. Since he can see through Kingsford's tricks, shouldn't we say that appearance is not the best?"

From this, it can be heard that Alice had long seen through that the Demon Eater incident was staged by Felix, the eldest son of Kingsford, but she did not dismantle it because she had no business dealing with it. Lin Yuan directly responded to Alice's doubts, "Ah, although Karna defeated the man, it was indeed this freshman who exposed the trick. And from Karna's description, he saw through the mystery and flaws of the Demon Eater just by watching it once. Unlike the surface, he has a very keen observation ability."

Although he had a very bad relationship with Akabane Raimin, and even if he had the chance, Lin Yuan would not mind killing him, but he praised the other party's evaluation.

It is better to say that it is precisely because the other party has his own guys that Lin Yuan wants to eliminate him in advance.

"Oh, I see." Listening to Lin Yuan's evaluation of the Japanese student, Alice became more interested, but she was interested in telling the other party some bad facts.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan had no intention of stopping it. After all, if he could make Chiyu Lei really suffer a little, or even fall flat on his face, it would be the best for Lin Yuan's position.

However, although she was interested, even if she wanted to test it out, it would be a matter for later. It was not appropriate now, so Alice just looked at it for a few seconds and then turned back to ask Lin Yuan.

"In that case, logically speaking, even if we really want to divert attention, we should use Lin Yuanni. Then why does the academy seem to value Lei Zhen Akabane more?"

Alice asked the question that had been in her mind for a long time.

"...So after all this time, you came here just for this, right?" Lin Yuan felt very helpless, but still answered.

"The reasons are very simple. There are two main reasons."

As he spoke, Lin Yuan's expression became a little more serious. "The first one is my request. The academy informed me of the relevant matter before, and wanted to promote me as well to divert attention. But obviously I would not accept such a suggestion, which was like performing a monkey trick. So I proposed to give me some knowledge about mechanical magic as a reward, and the title was given to the 'hero'."

As Lin Yuan spoke, he glanced at Akabane Raimin, and Alice had a smirk on her face.

Because Lin Yuan just said that he would not accept such a reward as if he were performing a monkey act, which was undoubtedly a secret mockery of Lei Zhen.

Lin Yuan took a quick look and quickly looked away and continued to explain: "As for the other one, it's probably because of the prophecy."

"prophecy?!"

Hearing this word, Alice couldn't help but put away the smile on her face, revealing a serious expression, staring at Lin Yuan's face, as if she wanted to see through Lin Yuan's thoughts in this way.

"……What's the meaning."

Hearing Alice's question, Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows and said in a strange tone: "What's the point of pretending to be stupid at this time? I don't believe you don't know about the prediction made by the Time Master of the Magician Association about this night party."

(End of this chapter)