"Is it okay for them to cling to each other like that?" Elmer-sama looked at us with two rows of long noses, frowning uncomfortably.

"What do you mean ?" Larissa-sama glared and the surrounding temperature dropped to freezing "Did I let you come out here?"

"Oh no, I just want to take a look at our daughter" Elmer-sama stammered, sneezing several times.

"I will... I'm going back to my room right now," Elmer-sama's teeth were chattering from the cold. He couldn't stand it, so he hid immediately, turning his head without hesitation.

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"Your mum's still scary ?" I said something stupid in passing, and when I realised that Charlotte, who was sitting next to me, was staring at me, she poked me hard in the waist.

"Ah, I'm in pain"

"You must not speak ill of my mother!" Charlotte puffed out her cheeks, "If I told my mother that, you would be dead!"

"I'm sorry!" I trembled as I remembered Larissa-sama's angry face earlier, my face turned pale, "Please don't... don't tell your mum."

"You think sorry is done ?" Charlotte stared at me.

"You..."

"She's going to force me to do something again," I held my breath and waited, obviously this was the way Charlotte used to force me when she caught me.

My instincts told me not to look her in the eye this time.

"You.. you go to my room !"

"Your room ?" I asked again, confused.

"Yes. I asked my mother's permission," Charlotte's cheeks blushed slightly, "tonight..."

She stammered:

"Let's sleep together again tonight, like when we were children..."

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"No," I wanted to say, but I couldn't. Charlotte's mother was standing behind her. She was smiling brightly, watching my every reaction with a 'are you going to refuse?

Not to mention the chill that ran down my spine, I had the feeling that as long as I wanted to reject her, her mother would let me become an ice statue like Elmer-sama back then.

"Hey, Anos-kun," Charlotte looked at me and pinched my cheek angrily, "did you hear what I just said?"

"I.." I involuntarily looked at Charlotte's mother, Larissa-sama, who was shaping me with ice in her hand.

"I...I agree!"

"Really?"

Charlotte was overjoyed. She turned and winked at her mother. "That's a thank you, isn't it?"

"Ha ha, so they worked together from the start..."

Then Charlotte dragged me into her room, then onto her bed...

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"Mages, we will definitely come back for revenge !" a white-haired swordsman looked at the ashes around him, and without hesitation, placed the black sword to his neck.

Immediately, a stream of fresh blood rushed to the ground and the swordsman gradually collapsed...

From the silent darkness, rows of people in white robes walked silently out, led by a great sage who looked very old.

He approached the bodies of the last warriors of the pure race alone, paused before the swordsman he called 'DEVIL', and looked up at the sky, his eyes already filled with long tears.

"After so long, the wish of slaves like us has come true," he shouted, snatching the black sword from the swordsman's hand.

"Everyone, we have won!

"We have truly won our freedom!"

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"It's that dream again" Before I could complain, I couldn't breathe, something suddenly filled my nostrils.

When I dimly opened it, I was stunned by Charlotte's thing..

"You should eat more, stupid Anos-kun," Charlotte muttered as she slept, her hands tightening around my head.

"Ugh... "I struggled, forced to use my hands even though I knew this was very wrong...

(I don't know what it would have been like if Charlotte's parents had known this.)

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"Phew," I sighed comfortably and moved away from her, "sleeping with girls is always a bad idea."

"A bed this wide that she's still crawling into her place, not to mention that she drew the line last night," I looked at the pile of pillows that had been used as a barrier that Charlotte had distorted, and I couldn't help but exclaim:

"Girls are really hard to understand".

Saying that, I gently got out of bed, straightened my shoulders and took a deep breath.

"It does seem a bit early" I said as I looked out of the window, then looked at Charlotte. I remembered when she used to sleep with me as a child and we would definitely sleep until close to midday.

"No wonder she and I looked so chubby back then!" I grinned.

But it's different now, she's become a beautiful lady. And me, I often get up early to run to build up my strength, do push-ups, inhale the ground, so my body is much more toned.

I quietly left the room, found my tracksuit and slipped out of the villa. I planned to run a lap from here into the city centre and then come back and find a really high spot. Watching the sunrise - it had been a hobby of mine for a long time.

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