() Following Camilla, Kirito and Darian came to the villa in the royal city. On the bank of the river, the beautiful small garden building made people feel very comfortable. They sat in the teahouse behind the glass curtain,

You can enjoy the sparkling waves on the water.

"Speaking of which, before... I came here with Brother Kirito and Xiu Yi, but now Xiu Yi..." At this point, Camilla's right hand, which was stirring the black tea in the cup with a spoon, gradually became weak.

, there is an unconcealable loneliness in his eyes.

"It's true...I tried to persuade him not to go to the battlefield before, but I didn't expect that he would end up like this in the end." Kirito's eyes also looked very lonely. The three people who used to play together have now turned into

There were only two people, and the remaining one had already gone far away.

It seemed that she found that the atmosphere was a bit dull, and Dalian seemed embarrassed to speak. In the end, it was Camila who broke the silence first.

"Okay, Brother Kirito, don't talk about these sad memories. Do we have to spend the three years of gatherings in the past memories?"

"You obviously started the topic first." In response to Kirito's wry smile, Camilla just stuck out her tongue and tried to show off her cuteness.

"Darian, right? Speaking of which, Brother Kirito and I were playmates when we were young. Although using childhood sweethearts to describe it is a little inappropriate for our age at that time, the relationship between the two of us was pretty good in the past." Camilla joked.

He looked at the slightly wary Dalian.

"Camila's father is a trader, and he was a family friend of that old guy Wes. At that time, I was also one of Wes's few friends, and I often went to Wes's house to disturb him. From that time on, we and I

I know Camilla." Kirito made the introduction first while gently drinking the black tea exuding the fine fragrance in his hand.

"Yeah!" Camila gave a thumbs up and nodded her head cheerfully. Dalian seemed to be shocked by this inexplicable momentum and wrinkled her face in confusion.

"However, her father actually sent her to the New World during the worst period of the war."

"New World?" Kirito's words made Dalian frown slightly. "Is that why she dressed up in such a strange way?" Dalian looked at Camilla's clothes from head to toe, and finally nodded as if she understood.

.

"Ah...is it really weird? But this way of wearing is quite common in the New World..." Camilla tugged at the hem of her skirt and defended in a low voice.

Kirito observed Camilla's outfit. Although it was not as fancy as Darian's outfit, it could still be considered unique.

A pure white women's shirt is paired with a men's tie. Under the men's black fedora is a slightly tilted shoulder-length beautiful blond hair. She wears braided boots and a thick leather belt that can hold a gun.

The simple skirt looks like a nun's uniform, and her appearance and appearance don't look like the daughter of a bourgeoisie at all.

"Cackle..." A sweet laughter like silver bells rang in the small tea room. This sudden laughter made Dalian's shoulders shake, her expression instantly stiffened, and her beautiful little head looked around.

At the origin of the sound, his eyes finally turned to Kirito in disbelief.

"Sure enough, it's still weird? Even you guys laugh at me."

"Huh!?" Under Dalian's ghostly eyes, Camilla cast her gaze below Kirito's body, as if she was talking to the air. This made Dalian, who was naturally afraid of that kind of thing, almost stop.

Just run.

"How many times have I told you, don't show your feelings easily." With a sigh, Kirito was too lazy to hide them anymore. Under Dalian's stiff expression, four metal chains connected to long ropes appeared.

The head slowly stretched out from under Kirito. This was definitely a strange scene that made a dark beautiful girl widen her eyes.

"Yeah, it's been a long time since we've seen each other." She seemed to be very familiar with the supernatural scene in front of her. Under Dalian's disbelieving eyes, Camilla reached out and gently touched one of the metal chains.

, and the metal chain being touched twisted unbearably in Camila's palm, like a child acting coquettishly.

"They...are alive?!" Dalian opened her pair of bright red lips in front of her and said with difficulty, as if she couldn't believe the scene in front of her.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?" Kirito took a sip of black tea, looked at the beautiful girl with a stiff expression in front of him, and said in a joking tone, but there was a flash of worry in his eyes.

"Hurry...scared!?" Dalian yelled angrily, rather than saying that she was brave, it was more emboldening. "Just this kind of inorganic thing... Wow?! Why are you coming in front of me?"

!? Go away, you guys!" Dalian, who was about to say something sarcastic, was suddenly startled by the three metal chains that came to her eyes at an unknown moment. The bright and cold tops made her look like a work of art.

The beautiful pink neck twitched.

"Sure enough, no matter who it is, the first time they see Kirito-san and these things, they will be shocked." Camilla couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw Dalian's delicate body that was clearly scared but still holding on.

stand up.

"Kirito, remember this!" Dalian, who was holding back her tears, stared at Kirito resentfully, her gaze that seemed to penetrate him made his body tremble.

"Okay, please stop making trouble. I will be angry if others see it." As soon as Kirito finished speaking, the four metal chain heads floating in the air returned to his hem and changed again.

It has become an existence just as clothing.

"Speaking of which, why are you going to the bookstore, Camilla?" Dalian's resentful look made Kirito so embarrassed that he had no choice but to find a topic by himself.

"textbook."

"textbook?"

"I recently started volunteer activities and ran a free private school. Some children are not financially allowed to hire tutors, and I want to help these hard-working children." Camila said this, looking a little proud.

"...What a strange woman." Dalian said as if she was looking at some strange creature.

"She has been a weirdo from before." Kirito burst out laughing when he heard Darian's thoughts that he accidentally blurted out.

"Brother Kirito, you are very rude, and have you found that thing?"

"Things? Are you talking about Danterian's bookshelf?" Kirito's words made Camilla narrow her eyes and smile. "The personal library named after the devil who holds books and controls knowledge has a collection of things that should not be stored.

The forbidden library of 906,666 phantom books in this world——" Speaking of this, Carmilla continued to yearn for the intoxicating look.

"Ah, by the way, since books are mentioned, Kirito, do you know of any books that will make you smarter after reading them?"

"A book to get smarter?"

"That's right, it's a book that makes you smart as long as you read it."

"As long as it's a book, I think just reading it will make you smarter, like improving your knowledge or memory." After thinking for a while, Kirito expressed his objective thoughts.

"That's not what I mean... I mean, as long as I read that book, I will be as smart as a new person. For example, I will learn some things that I didn't know before, or solve mathematical problems." Upon hearing Kirito's words,

Camilla replied without hesitation. The content of her words made Kirito wonder if the other party was dreaming.

"Do you mean that your IQ has been improved?" Kirito asked with some difficulty. He didn't understand the human body very well, but he had learned a bit about IQ. If intelligence can be made up for by hard work, then IQ

It is already determined innately and cannot be changed. This has nothing to do with the human body and is completely related to the more complex existence of genetics.

"Do you remember Miltred?"

"The girl from the Towa family who had a crush on me before." Kirito revealed the past affairs of the other party without any hesitation.

"Yes, that's her. She also ran a private school, but she was inexplicably hostile to me and kept pestering me... Even at that time, the guy said he had obtained a phantom book that could improve the students' IQ."

"Phantom book? Improve IQ?" This time Kirito subconsciously looked at the magically beautiful girl who was still sulking at him for teasing her just now.

"Tell me more about the so-called illusion book, Camilla?"

"...Hmm." Camilla pondered, as if she was pondering the question of how to return to Kirito. After a while, she said: "How should I put it...from what I heard, it seems that it is not just about improving

With my IQ, even my thoughts and personality are completely different in just a few days..."

"Just a few days?!" Kirito raised his eyebrows in surprise. If it is true as Camilla said, then the so-called illusion that improves IQ can be regarded as an advanced illusion book. At this time, Dali

An also spoke at the right time.

"It turns out it's that book..." Dalian's face wrinkled up in awe, and she sighed. "I probably have a clue in my heart. The Book of Wisdom was written by an unknown Latin youth - I really thought of it.

It’s that thing, I didn’t expect it to still exist in the world.” After saying this, Dalian seemed upset and stopped talking, as the illusion book seemed to have brought bad memories to her.

"Oh...it seems like a very interesting book. Let's go read it together, Darian."

"I don't want it, and I can just leave it alone. Anyway, there is already the original book on the bookshelf. Rather than this, it is better to call the blond remaining female general..." Upon hearing Kirito's words, Dalian gave up first.

The complaint he started was stuck on Kirito's next sentence.

"If you come with me, I'll make you a tonkotsu ramen that you've never had before tonight."

"Tonkotsu ramen?!" A trace of crystal saliva overflowed from Dalian's bright red lips. As if he was afraid that the 'medicine' given was not strong enough, Kirito continued: "And you have been wanting to eat it but...

I’ve never had Chinese food before.”

"Chinese food?!" Dalian took a deep breath of the overflowing saliva, and her jade neck, which was so delicate that any man would salivate, twitched when she thought of the exquisite dishes displayed on the Chinese food menus she had seen in her mind.

, the stars immediately shone in her eyes, and the next moment, she had already jumped off the bench and ran out of the tea room.

"What are you doing procrastinating?! You, a man who has nothing to do except housework, why don't you leave quickly?"

He smiled at Camilla, who was still in a state of admiration and confusion, and slowly walked out of the tea room of the villa. Camilla who stayed there seemed to think about it, and quietly followed Kirito's footsteps.

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The author's personal ps: "Should I say that Lao Ma is worthy of being Lao Ma? I saved the Abyss Ticket for three months and swiped the Kallet Command eight times, but all the colors were blue, sky and purple. Why didn't I see a single fan?
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