If You Don't Want to Die

For the next few days, Fang Li lived a very ordinary life.

Every morning when he gets up, Fang Li goes to the courtyard for morning exercise, then chats with Emilia is also in the courtyard to talk to the Mite Spirit. After that, he goes back to his room to read, which has greatly increased his understanding of the magic of this world.

Whenever it's mealtime, one of Rem and Ram will come to Fang Li's room and invite him to the dining room to eat together.

When Fang Li finished reading a book, he would go to the Forbidden Library to exchange it for another one and continue the same life.

Fang Li did this not because he actually wanted to learn magic.

Fang Li simply wanted to increase his understanding of various mystical systems.

Perhaps finding the essence of the soul within the Fang Li would be helpful?

After all, this world is not lacking in magic that is closely related to the soul.

Since there was nothing to do at the mansion anyway, Fang Li made good use of his time in this way.

It's not something that's extremely upsetting.

Magic books aren't textbooks, but the various magical knowledge they contain is still very interesting even when read with a modern mindset.

No, rather, it is precisely because people live in a modern world devoid of any illusions that they are interested in something as ethereal as "magic."

Therefore, if it were someone else, they would probably also be curious about such a book and read it.

Therefore, such a life is not so difficult.

On this day, Fang Li was also reading a new magic book in his room.

As Fang Li was engrossed in his Fang Li, the door was opened.

"Guest."

Rem entered from outside the door, bowed to Fang Li, and spoke.

"It's time to eat."

Upon hearing this, Fang Li looked up from his book, not at Rem, but at the window.

"Is it already this time?"

Fang Li hand, yawned, stood up from his seat, and walked toward the door as usual.

Rem stood at the door with her eyes closed, like a dutiful servant, minimizing her presence, waiting to guide Fang Li to the restaurant.

"Um?"

At this moment, Fang Li suddenly stopped yawning and frowned.

Just as Fang Li was about to leave the room and let Rem into his field of vision.

"A guest?" Rem seemed to sense something was wrong, opened her eyes, and looked at Fang Li.

The next second, Rem was suddenly startled.

Simply because Fang Li was staring at Rem right in front of her.

He used a pair of Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.

"————!"

A chill rose from Rem's heart.

That's the reaction of everyone who meets the gaze of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, a gaze that can read death.

A reaction stemming from instinct.

This reaction caused Rem to take a few steps back, a look of surprise appearing on her face.

Then, Fang Li suddenly said that.

Where did you go today?

The question, without any reason or warning, reached Rem's ears.

Rem was stunned for a moment, but answered instinctively.

"Rem went to the village to buy groceries today."

There is indeed a village not far from the Roswaal Mansion.

Unless otherwise specified, the household necessities for living in this mansion are basically all sourced from there.

"Really?" Fang Li said calmly, "Did anything unusual happen?"

"Something unusual?" Rem was completely taken aback by the sudden turn of events and instinctively replied, "Nothing unusual happened. If I had to say what an accident was, Rem was accidentally bitten by a puppy."

"A puppy?" Fang Li closed his eyes.

When she opened her eyes again, the icy blue had disappeared, returning to its original black.

Seeing this, Rem's chill gradually subsided, and she finally came to her senses.

Rem only realized what was happening when she came to her senses.

My palms and back were completely soaked with sweat.

(What... what exactly is that?)

Rem's expression became somewhat uncertain.

However, in the next instant, Fang Li's words caused the uncertain emotions in Rem's eyes to turn into uncontrollable waves.

That's what Fang Li said to Rem.

"You'd better ask that little fairy in the Forbidden Library for help."

"If you don't want to die."

After leaving those words, Fang Li left the room and headed towards the restaurant.

"Die?"

Rem stood there stunned, unable to come to her senses for a long time.

Afterwards, Fang Li had a meal with everyone in the mansion at the restaurant.

At the aristocratic dining table, it is only natural that one should not speak casually while eating.

Therefore, the process, like the previous few days, passed in silence.

Until the end.

"Then, I'll go back to my room and continue reading."

Just like a few days ago, Fang Li left those words and returned to his room.

The swift and decisive action made Roswaal sigh in exasperation.

"What a capricious person. How can I possibly get you to look at me even a little bit more?"

If someone is visiting here for the first time, they will definitely misunderstand something upon hearing this, right?

"Well then, I'll go back to my room too."

Emilia also got up, and carrying Puck, who was yawning and sitting on her shoulders, back into the room.

"Oh dear, everyone is so cold to me."

Roswaal smiled sarcastically, but didn't linger, returning directly to his room as before.

In the end, only Rem and Ram remained in the entire restaurant.

"Well then, Rem," Ram said to Rem, "Start clearing the table."

"Yes." Rem nodded naturally.

However, Ram stared intently at Rem, as if she had discovered something, and said this directly.

"What happened?"

Upon hearing this, Rem knew that her sister had discovered her secret.

This only gave Rem an idea.

(She truly lives up to her older sister's reputation.)

However, Rem hesitated about whether or not to tell Ram about this.

It wasn't until a while later that Rem, unable to disobey her sister, reluctantly told Ram about her feelings.

Inside the room, Fang Li continued flipping through the book in his hands, reading the magic book in front of him at a pace that was neither too fast nor too slow.

However, at one point, Fang Li's door was opened.

The person who came in was Ram.

However, Ram's attitude was no longer as composed as before. Instead, she looked at Fang Li with a serious expression and questioned him without any politeness.

"What is going on?"