There was still no one in Claire's bakery this afternoon, but the old man was still making the jam that he would use tomorrow. The ingredients were fresh strawberries she bought from the morning market in the early morning, and the lemon and sugar in the ingredients were produced from the Corre Peninsula, two hundred miles away from Goodries, and there was also a bottle of old Philly honey.

Making jams seems simple, but in fact they are very skillful. The ratio of ingredients, the boiling heat, and every tiny link will affect the final taste, so you need to have enough patience to make a can of good jams.

The fox masked man couldn't understand why Claire liked such troublesome things anyway. He lay on the table, playing with two marbles boredly. The temple's secret stronghold at Goodris had been removed. Lois has not come to the store because of the student union in the past two days. In short, it is rare to have nothing happened recently.

So the fox masked man suggested, "Claire, let's go to the hot spring this weekend."

"I made an appointment with a friend for tea on the weekend." The old man was full of apology. "Why would you ask if Lois is free."

"Hey~~~" The fox masked man stretched his tone and stopped caring about the two marbles, allowing them to roll off the table. "Claire, you're so weird lately. Speaking of the last time, you're also the mastermind behind the scenes. No matter what, it's a bit too much to secretly add seasonings to my drink."

"You're thinking too much. It's just a kind of tea that can calm your mind and relieve fatigue. I'm drinking it myself every night." Claire was calm and dripping lemon juice on sugar-pickled strawberries.

"Is that true?" The voice of the fox masked man came from Claire's ears, which scared the latter. Claire then said that the guy left his position at some point and came quietly behind her. The old man's hand holding the spoon trembled slightly.

As a result, the next moment, the fox masked man bent down and picked up a marble at her feet, "Ha, it's true here."

Claire breathed a little relieved, but the fox masked man who picked up the marbles was not in a hurry to leave.

"Beware, Claire, you're playing a very dangerous game." The man opposite looked into her eyes and reminded.

The old man remained silent.

"I know you saw your own shadow in Lois, but you should also be clear that I don't want her to go on your old path. I may not be able to make up for the tragedy of the past, but at least it can prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future." The fox masked man blew away the dust from the marble and put it in his pocket.

"It's a pity that you are not me. You don't understand what I'm thinking. I have indeed regretted a lot of things in my life, but I have never regretted that morning for a second." Claire finally spoke, but his tone was unexpectedly calm.

"Is that so, where have you been there in the past few years?" The fox masked man sneered, "What attracts you in the Dagma Desert? Cactus or those stupid lizard men? Haha, do you know what the most fucking interesting thing about this matter is? Just half a year before you planned to leave without saying goodbye, you deliberately told me that you like those uninhabited islands in the Storm Sea, and said you wanted to build a small house on it and live a life without anyone disturbing you from the world."

The fox masked man pointed to his nose and said, "And this fool in front of you believed it. I fucked a small boat and floated in the storm for twenty years, and went through every little island in the ghost place, every inch of land on the island, and even a rabbit hole. But you were drinking beer and eating skewers with your lizard man friends in the earth kiln in the Dagma Desert."

Claire's expression showed deep guilt, "Sorry, I can't bear all this. I originally thought I was strong enough, but in fact I couldn't do it. I couldn't stand my aging day by day in front of you. You don't understand how cruel this is for a woman."

"You don't know how cruel it is to a man to dig a rabbit hole that has been in the storm Sea for twenty years." The fox masked man laughed, "Forget it, Claire, no one in this world knows you better than me. After forty years, you suddenly returned to Goodris. From the moment you brought that child to me, I already knew what you were thinking."

"I didn't intend to hide it from you, because there was nothing in this world that could hide it from your teacher." The old man's eyes were full of gentleness. "From the first time I saw that the child, I realized that the question I had been pursuing had finally answered. The child looked very much like me. Whether it was his personality or temper, he was exactly the same as me when he was young. In addition to being younger than me, he also had more time."

"Hahaha, Claire, I always say that you are getting more and more confused as you get older, you still refuse to admit it, so this is your answer? Make a small trumpet that comes out of nowhere and throw it in front of me, pretending that I have been with me for another twenty years, and then I guess, this small trumpet probably has the same skills as you. I don't know one day when my brain is thrust, I will sneak away when I feel that my old beads are yellow. I will find a corner of the world for decades. I don't plan to let me go before I die, and bring a small trumpet back to find me, so what do you think of me? Do you have the village chief who gives me a magic weapon in the novice village?" The fox masked man mocked, "Of course, I guess you are mostly feeling good in your heart now, and you feel great. You are a noble woman who dares to sacrifice and escape jealousy."

"But teacher, you didn't refuse, did you?" Claire smiled. "I knew the teacher never had the heart to refuse my request."

"Stop coming, I didn't reject you because I do like that child very much, but please don't misunderstand this kind of liking is just a simple love between master and apprentice." The fox masked man sneered.

"But that child is starting to fall in love with you, too." Claire said softly, "If you are willing to take off your mask in front of her..."

The fox masked man interrupted her without hesitation, "Isn't it normal for a little girl to like this today, and Isn't it normal for her to like that tomorrow? Claire..." The man sighed, "On the first day of our reunion, I warned you not to be smart. I hate other people making decisions for me. No matter what the purpose of that person is, don't think that you can understand me after we have lived together for twenty years. You don't know what the real me is."

When the fox-masked man said the last sentence, his expression suddenly changed, and there was no warmth in his tone. The look at Claire made the latter feel extremely strange. It didn't look like a human eye at all, but a kind of indifference that was above all things, as if he didn't care about everything in the world.
Chapter completed!