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September 20th, Thursday.
Inside Viscount Glaint's villa in the Empress Borough of Backlund, Lin Ruo met his friend, Viscount Glaint, once again.
"Good morning, Glaint. It seems I should congratulate you on achieving your wish?" Because he was about to attend Mr. A's gathering, Lin Ruo, quite accustomed to local customs, changed into a black hooded robe at Viscount Glaint's villa.
He arrived at Viscount Glaint's bedroom and greeted him with a smile, as Viscount Glaint was dressed similarly.
"It's all thanks to you, my friend. If you hadn't found the Apothecary's potion formula for me, I don't know when I would have become an Apothecary!" Viscount Glaint, clearly in good spirits, said with a smile upon seeing Lin Ruo again.
What he said was true. During their last meeting, Lin Ruo had given him the Apothecary potion formula that Viscount Glaint had been searching for, which had delighted him at the time.
If the Kingdom of Loen's culture hadn't emphasized restraint, he probably would have given Lin Ruo a hug on the spot and called him a good brother.
"By the way…" Viscount Glaint seemed to have thought of something else, suddenly leaned closer to Lin Ruo, and lowered his voice, "Rudy, I can now concoct that kind of… that kind of medicine. Do you need it?" After speaking, he gave Lin Ruo a knowing look that only men would understand.
Lin Ruo: …
Do all you Apothecaries have this problem?
"No need, I don't need that stuff for now." Lin Ruo, who fully understood what kind of medicine Viscount Glaint was talking about, twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and refused with a somewhat wry smile.
"Alright then…" Viscount Glaint didn't seem to mind being rejected. He adjusted his clothes in front of the mirror and instructed his personal servant in the room, "You wait outside. Except for Miss Audrey, don't let anyone else come in here."
"Yes, sir!" The personal male servant replied respectfully.
As Viscount Glaint's personal servant, although he didn't quite understand extraordinary matters, he generally knew that his master was going to do something mysterious with other people again, most likely attending some kind of hobby gathering.
After the personal male servant left the bedroom and closed the door, Viscount Glaint led Lin Ruo into a hidden door in the bedroom, quickly arriving at an inconspicuous side of the villa, where only a carriage was waiting.
The two then waited. After a while, Audrey, shrouded in a black robe and wearing short calfskin boots, appeared before them.
"Although it's not the first time I've seen it, I have to say, Audrey, you really suit this kind of attire, super cool!" Viscount Glaint praised, completely sincere.
"Honestly, I think Glaint is right." Lin Ruo, while sizing up Audrey, also nodded in agreement, his tone teasing, completely the attitude of talking to a friend.
Because of investigating Rudy Flair's enemies and figures related to the Loen royal family, Lin Ruo had naturally met Audrey more than once in reality during this period.
Their relationship couldn't be said to be particularly good, but they could be considered friends.
"Thank you!" Faced with the consistent praise from her friends, Audrey lifted her long skirt and performed a curtsey, her mood obviously quite pleasant.
After all, who doesn't love being praised, especially when the praise is sincere and comes from friends they care about? Even Audrey was not immune to this.
The three then got into the carriage, and after driving for about ten minutes, the carriage stopped.
Lin Ruo followed Audrey and the others out of the carriage, and then saw two familiar people.
Fors, with her curly brown hair, light blue eyes, and always looking very lazy, and Xio Derecha, whose height was always one meter fifty, wearing traditional knight training clothes, with a face that even looked a bit like a middle school student, but with a faint sense of majesty.
To be honest, Lin Ruo wasn't surprised to see these two people.
After all, he had joined Mr. A's gathering through Justice Audrey's side, and Justice Audrey herself had joined Mr. A's circle through Fors and Xio's connections.
In addition, she and Viscount Glaint themselves had relatively shallow qualifications in Mr. A's circle, so Lin Ruo ultimately went through Fors and Xio's connections after all.
Of course, not as Rudy Flair, but as Isendy Lyme, the fake identity Lin Ruo usually used when meeting with Viscount Glaint.
"Audrey, is this Mr. Isendy Lyme?" Fors asked, her tone as lazy as ever.
While speaking, her gaze fell on "Isendy Lyme," who was half a step behind Audrey.
Because the other party was lowering his head slightly, completely shrouding his face in shadow, Fors couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, but she didn't really care.
After all, this was very normal. Among the wild Beyonders who attended Beyonder gatherings, 8 out of 10 would cover their faces. The remaining two were either particularly arrogant or had something wrong with their brains.
"Clang—"
At this moment, something fell to the ground.
Fors could almost guess without looking that it must be those scattered weapons that Xio was carrying that had fallen to the ground again.
She glanced at Xio, intending to say something, but suddenly froze.
Because Fors found that Xio's state was not quite right.
The other party seemed to have seen something that surprised her very much, staring fixedly in one direction.
Following the direction Xio was looking… Fors saw "Isendy Lyme."
Fors: ?
While a big question mark popped up in her head, Fors also had a bad premonition in her heart.
At this moment, she saw that "Isendy Lyme," who was originally half a step behind Audrey, took off the hood on his head, revealing a face that Fors would never forget.
"Long time no see, Miss Fors, Miss Xio. I didn't expect it to really be you!"
Not surprised that he was recognized, Lin Ruo took off his hood and greeted them with a smile, his tone as friendly as possible.
Fors: …
Fors: ! ! !
Ahhhhhh! How could you be here?
Then, Fors heard the other party say with a smile, "By the way, Miss Fors, did you receive the letter I wrote to you recently?"
Letter?
Right, the letter!
It's over, I haven't written a single word!
Fors almost subconsciously thought of the letter that arrived yesterday.
She first felt instinctively guilty, and then a big line of words appeared in her mind:
I'm done for!
Compared to Fors, who was extremely guilty because she was being urged to write but hadn't written a single word, Xio, after the initial shock, was the first to regain her composure, but with a somewhat complicated expression, she took the initiative to say hello:
"Long time no see."
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