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It's so realistic that the kitten in the bubble actually showed a frightened expression.

With a soft sound of "wave~", the bubble was popped and exploded into a brilliant starlight.

He clearly knew that this was a very low-level illusion, and Scorpion hated the feeling of having his senses manipulated, but he did not deliberately dispel the illusion.

His room was still dark, and Xie could hear the whispers inside. He paused and slowly opened the door...

…

There was a sound of the door being pushed. Uehara, who had been single all his life and had few friends, was preparing a so-called surprise for someone for the first time.

"Scorpion! Happy birthday!"

The bright incandescent lamp was turned on instantly, illuminating the room as if it were daytime. Then, many balloons and confetti flowers instantly dropped from the ceiling. The insects screamed with excitement, and a huge round table was placed on it.

A seven-layer cake and a table full of fruit plates, candies and snacks. Are you surprised?

Uehara was indeed pleasantly surprised, and the surprise eventually turned into fright.

Damn it, where did Scorpion go? Xiao Chong opened the door, and what he saw at the outer door was Scorpion's scary puppet crow.

"Yeah!" Xiaochong was so frightened that he took a few steps back.

Just when Uehara, Granny Chiyo and Xiao Chong were stunned, "You messed up my house."

Xie's cold voice came from behind.

Okay, you little kid who likes to play pranks. Uehara didn't even pull his head back. Judging from the sound, he picked up Xia in one go, turned Xia 360 degrees like a rag doll, and placed it on his seat.

beside.

"Happy birthday, Scorpio." Uehara smiled and started to quickly light the candles with matches.

"Yes, yes, happy birthday, Scorpion!" Xiao Chong was even more excited than Scorpion, as if the birthday was just for him, "Hurry up and blow out the candles, I want to eat the cake."

There were not many people, but the atmosphere was full of joy. Only Granny Chiyo did not say her blessing.

Her lips trembled, "Happy birthday, Scorpion." However, her expression looked a little stiff.

Uehara was a little surprised by the relationship between Chiyo's mother-in-law and Scorpion. There was a feeling of alienation between them.

Uehara clearly noticed that Xia, who was still smiling at him and Xia, met Granny Chiyo's eyes, and his smile completely disappeared, replaced by a very calm look. But in this situation where he should be laughing

moments, calmness itself is problematic.

"Hey, Scorpion, you are the protagonist of your birthday today," Uehara put a birthday hat on Scorpion. He brought one, and Xiao Chong also brought one. Only the one belonging to Granny Chiyo was put aside. Granny Chiyo did not bring one for herself.

On the bed, she looked at Xie intently and wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to communicate, so she still couldn't say a word.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven candles." Uehara guided Xiao, "Xiao is already seven years old."

"First make a wish, and then blow out all the candles. The wish will probably come true." Uehara encouraged, and once again lit a candle that was blown out by the bastard bug.

Scorpio no longer believes in wishes. How can a wish made against a few candles come true?

"Uehara, you are so boring." Among the three of them, the one Xia recognized most was not Xiaochong who was his friend, or Granny Chiyo who deceived him about the cause of his parents' death. The one he recognized most was Uehara. Out of respect for a person

The recognition of the Iwagakure ninja, who had defeated Konoha White Fang, was also recognized by Uehara, and of course Uehara's endless bizarre ideas about puppetry. Therefore, the first words after the birthday party started, Scorpion said to Uehara

of.

Xiao Chong didn't care, but Granny Chiyo was sitting across the round table from Scorpion. She felt Scorpion's indifference and alienation towards her. Granny Chiyo's eyes were full of loss.

"Are you bored? No, no, no, this is no ordinary birthday cake." Uehara blinked and encouraged Xie, "Let's try it."

Isn't it an ordinary cake? Scorpio is interested.

He skipped making a wish directly. There was a huge cake with up to seven layers, the white cream exuded a silvery luster under the light, and the seven small candles looked too small compared to the big cake.

"Hoo!" Scorpion puffed up his mouth and blew gently towards the candle. The force was too light, and the candle only shook a little but did not go out.

Frowning, Scorpion opened his mouth again and took a deep breath. This time, all the candles were successfully extinguished.

Just as he thought, it was really boring. Xia looked at Uehara in disgust.

However, Scorpio was happy a little early. Not long after the candles were extinguished, they suddenly lit up one after another.

Things got interesting. Scorpion blew out the candle again, but the candle relit as always.

Scorpion suspected that it was Uehara's fault, such as an automatic ignition device, but Uehara innocently stated that there was no such thing.

Well, I can still trust Uehara’s words.

Scorpion once again regarded this as a competition between puppet masters, and he began to have a strong interest in cakes that he didn't like.

"The candle contains a potion that can ignite spontaneously?"

"No?" Uehara shook his head firmly.

"Is that...a ninjutsu?" Xie frowned and thought.

"Not really."

"Illusion?"

"no."

…

Xie Xie guessed a dozen reasons, but couldn't guess the answer. Xiao Chong beside him was almost anxious to death, blinking his eyes desperately, but Xie Xie was concentrating on thinking about the problem, so he ignored Xiao Chong.

Seeing that Scorpion, who was not interested in birthdays and birthday cakes at all, now looked like he couldn't wait to cut the cake and take a look at it immediately, Chiyo felt a little emotional. The boy from Iwagakure really had a way. Or maybe, it was him.

The method of communicating with Scorpio was wrong. Granny Chiyo fell into deep thought.

Seeing that the candle was half burned, Scorpio still hadn't guessed the secret of the candle's spontaneous combustion, so Uehara had no choice but to tell the truth. If he delayed any longer, the candle would be burned out.

Uehara pulled out a candle, blew out the candle, lit a match and gently hovered it over the extinguished candle.

Visible to the naked eye, a thin line of fire quickly spread from the match to the candle core, and the candle was easily ignited.

"The burning of the candle is not complete, and a large amount of incompletely burned wax will evaporate as it burns to form smoke."

"And in the state of smoke, it is an aggregation of countless solid particles."

"Although it cannot be seen with the naked eye, smoke does have flammable properties."

"Smoke formed from different substances has different ignition points. When the temperature reaches a critical value, it will re-ignite."

Under Xia's uneasy eyes, Uehara stepped on a stool to reach the chandelier on the ceiling, and then gently removed a set of convex lenses from the chandelier.

"Scorpion, if you look carefully, you will find that our round table is facing the one under the chandelier."

"What lights the candle is the light gathered by the lens, not the puppet device or ninjutsu. It's that simple."

Scorpio refuses to admit defeat, he wants to see what other strange things are in the birthday cake. (To be continued)