Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

But it doesn’t matter!

Anyway, no matter which Charles it is, Lacie doesn't like it.

However, seeing Charles becoming increasingly lost, looking haggard and powerless, she suddenly raised the corners of her mouth and said:

"Speaking of which, I came to live in seclusion in the Sea of ​​Forests because I thought human cities were too noisy. So, if the Sea of ​​Forests can be as quiet as before..."

She didn't finish her words.

But sometimes you should only say half of what you want to say, and leave the remaining half to the audience to interpret freely.

Rachel saw that Charles' eyes lit up again.

Not only that, Charles even bowed to her seriously and said to her:

"Thank you."

It seemed that he was really grateful to her.

He thanked her for her softness—but Rachel had no softness.

How could she be soft-hearted? She was so happy.

Because it was useless for Charles to build the tree house now, when Lacie came back from Lao Deng, she had already made up her mind to quickly prepare to take Charles away from the Sea of ​​Forest to collect materials to "resurrect" the priest.

So even if Charles built the tree house, he wouldn't be able to live in it.

She deliberately spoke harshly and was unwilling to let Charles build a tree house, but so what?

Hehe!

Just two simple sentences -

Not only did Charles not resent her, he even had to thank her!

[To be continued]

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The fever is gone, but I'm still sneezing like crazy

19. Two cups

Charles is really capable.

Capable in every sense of the word.

After dragging the tree back, he began to work non-stop to cut it into usable boards.

Apart from the axe that Lacier lent him, he had no useful tools, but he had the holy sword. The holy sword has never been just a symbol of bravery, it is also a handy and easy-to-use weapon that can cut iron like mud.

Charles skillfully used the holy sword to split the wood and simply pieced them together. He assembled it with several pillars that he had deliberately driven deep into the ground before, and simply built the outline of the hut.

Although it looks extremely simple, after being processed, it is enough to shelter from wind and rain.

The brave man was quite satisfied with the results of his labor. He stood in front of the cabin, wiping his sweat and smiling.

Then, after being busy for two or three days, Master Charles suddenly heard news that was no less than a bolt from the blue:

"You said I was afraid I wouldn't be able to live in the cabin? What do you mean?"

Lacey, who was lying in an armchair basking in the sun, replied slowly after hearing this:

"Literally - I need you to accompany me to collect materials. Since we need to collect materials, we must leave the Sea of ​​Forests."

"But……"

Charles was obviously a little dissatisfied, probably wanting to ask Lacie why she didn't tell him the news earlier.

Just like Zhen Guanxi who was beaten to death by Lu Tingjie with three punches, he might also want to say, "Aren't you here just to make fun of me?"

However, Laciel dispelled his dissatisfaction with just one sentence:

"Don't you want to revive your wife?"

"not to mention……"

The witch on the armchair turned her head and glanced at Charles with her beautiful blue eyes:

"When we finish collecting materials and return to the Sea of ​​Forest to prepare to revive your wife, you can still live here. After all, reviving your wife takes time, doesn't it?"

The reasons she gave were simply impeccable.

Then Charles remained silent.

He silently put down the holy sword, raised his hand, and used the light spell.

For the past three years, apart from forbidden spells, the only spell he could use was light magic.

When a person invests far more energy than others in something, he can often reap far greater results than others - although even being able to perform brilliantly in the art of light magic does not seem to be something worth being happy about.

Charles compressed the range of Light Spell as much as possible and increased the output of magic power, so Light Spell became a degraded version of Burn Spell.

He used the burning technique to carefully burn the newly built cabin inside and out, so that the cabin, which was originally a natural wood color, turned dark.

Lacey knew that he did this to prevent insect infestation, and wondered why she hadn't noticed before that this guy was quite meticulous.

But no matter how careful Charles was, it would be useless. After all, she had just lied to Charles. When they had collected all the materials, she would immediately make up a fake priest and say to Charles, "I'm sorry, I couldn't save your wife's life...", then perform a backflip for Charles and say, "But it's okay, I've already done it for her."

By then, Charles would have no reason not to terminate the master-servant contract with her.

After the contract is terminated, Charles can go wherever he wants, just don't stay in the Forest Sea.

As for the small wooden house that Charles had finally built...

Now that the priest has been resurrected, Charles certainly won't care about her and the cabin anymore. He will probably take the priest back immediately to prepare for the wedding. In that case, she will gladly accept this unwanted cabin.

Based on the simple idea that "no matter what, I will own this cabin in the end", Lacie did not just stand by and watch.

She even took out her wand and began to help Ciel fix up the cabin according to her preferences.

Charles was quite surprised at first, but later he acquiesced to Rachel's behavior.

Needless to say, with the help of Rachel, Charles' efficiency has improved significantly.

Charles was in charge of the manual labor, while Laceel was in charge of the detailed decoration. The two of them had a good understanding and worked together seamlessly, just like when they were in the Brave Squad. They quickly renovated the original wooden house into something presentable, and even prepared all the furniture needed for daily living. All that was left was for someone to move in.

By the evening of the third day, the cabin was finally completed.

The two stood in front of the cabin, both feeling quite accomplished. Lacele even wanted to light some fireworks to celebrate. Although Charles' expression did not change much as usual, the slightly upturned corners of his mouth still betrayed his true thoughts.

It is a very fulfilling thing to witness the completion of the wooden house that I built step by step with my own hands.

So, Laciel suggested celebrating.

At first, Charles didn't understand what was worth celebrating, so he didn't agree, but he soon succumbed to Lacie's unreasonable demands.

Because Rachel told him that if the dead pastor loved him, he would definitely want him to be happy every day instead of being like he is now, with a gloomy face and acting like everyone owed him money.

Then, without waiting for Charles to say anything, she smiled and said, "It's happily decided. You go catch some prey and I'll prepare some good things."

Charles didn't know what the good stuff she was talking about was, and he had no interest in asking, but since she said so, he had no choice but to take the holy sword and go hunting deep in the forest alone.

Honestly speaking, with his physique and fighting skills, it was a bit of a waste of talent to deal with those ignorant prey in the sea of ​​forests. Therefore, he returned triumphantly with a lot of prey soon.

There were fish caught from the stream, a few fat and tender pheasants, and a handful of edible wild vegetables.

Back in the forest, he had already gutted the prey, removed the inedible internal organs, cleaned them, and strung them up with thin vines.

When the team was still in existence, he had always been in charge of such matters, so he seemed quite familiar with it.

only……

At that time, there was always a greedy girl beside him. She would squat beside him when he was preparing the ingredients, tugging at his sleeve from time to time, impatiently urging him to hurry up, saying that she would starve to death if she didn't have anything to eat.

To Charles, it was a beautiful memory filtered through a honey-colored sweet filter - so he unconsciously raised the corners of his lips slightly - but soon he realized the cold reality that the priest was dead.

Then, the smile on his lips, which rarely appeared since the pastor's death, suddenly disappeared.

The hero returned to his usual silent self.

Then, carrying the string of game, he crossed the dense forest and returned to the newly built cabin.

The sky had become completely dark, and the endless night enveloped the Sea of ​​Forest. There was no moon in the sky, the stars were dim, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you in the dense forest, but Charles saw a ball of warm, jumping fire.

——That was the fire that Rachel started.

The witch with silver hair and blue eyes was sitting on the ground next to the campfire. She bent her legs and was throwing firewood into the campfire one by one out of boredom. The firelight made her eyes and cheeks red, which made her look cute.

She seemed to be waiting for someone.

She seems very lonely.

Charles suddenly felt as if he had seen this scene somewhere before, and there was a strange sense of familiarity.

However, before he could recall where he had seen such a scene before, Rachel spotted him:

"You're back? Come on! Come here! Let me see what you caught!"

She motioned for Ciel to sit down next to her.

Charles paused for a moment for unknown reasons, then walked to the campfire and placed the prey on the small table that Lacie had prepared long ago.

He noticed that Laciel had also prepared salt and various spices, so he silently took the spices, took out the holy sword, and planned to marinate the fish and pheasant first.

At this time, Lacie suddenly handed over a few branches that had been sharpened in advance.

"Use this!" she said.

"..."

Charles's movements froze for a moment, but he finally took the branch that Lacie handed him and strung together all the processed ingredients.

For some reason, during this whole process, he never raised his head to look at Lacie even once.

Lacele noticed this, but she said nothing. She just watched Charles process the ingredients silently.

It wasn't until Charles finally processed all the ingredients and started roasting them on the campfire that she took action.

She suddenly moved closer to Charles.

Originally, the two of them occupied their respective sides of the campfire, not interfering with each other, but now Laceline broke this balance. She took the initiative to invade Charles' territory and elbowed Charles who was grilling meat.

"Why are you deliberately avoiding me?" She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you feel sorry for your wife?"

Then she tilted her head in a rather bold and casual manner and nudged Charles lightly with her shoulder:

"What are you afraid of? We're all brothers. If you're afraid that having dinner with me will let your wife down, why don't you just treat me as a good brother?"

I am a man anyway, she thought.

So she didn't understand why Ciel felt guilty... But it was also quite cute, after all, she had never expected that Ciel would be so devoted to her.

She cried so much that he loved her so much.

But Charles didn't know all this. He didn't know that the witch next to him was actually the priest he loved deeply. So even though the witch kept telling him to treat her as a good brother, he still moved his legs calmly and distanced himself from Lacie.

Small actions can cause so much damage.

Rachel felt that Charles didn't believe her, she was very hurt and almost cried - of course, it was fake, she just wanted to tease Charles, but unfortunately Charles was smart and didn't fall for it.

So she could only sigh with regret, and then try another plan if the first one failed.

She pulled out the good stuff she had told Ciel about before.

"This is a fine wine that I got with great difficulty from those pointy-eared people in the Elf Forest," she shook the light green wine in the bottle towards Charles in a serious manner, "It's not something that ordinary people can easily see, let alone taste."

As Lacie spoke, she used magic to pry open the cork, and instantly a refreshing fragrance emanated from the bottle.

Then she raised the bottle to Charles, winked, and asked:

"How about two cups?"

[To be continued]

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20. Don’t drink too much