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There should have been nothing special about siblings holding hands, but now everyone was paying so much attention, and the two people's hearts were hiding different feelings from each other, so they blushed and let go of their hands at the same time.

"Loulou... I envy you so much..."

Venus' eyes were full of yearning, but she just murmured in a voice that only she could hear.

Loulou finally gave up on herself under the pressure of so many gazes.

"There is nothing strange with siblings holding hands! Anyway, I am his little sister, we can do anything."

"No, no, that line can't be crossed!" Leah reminded Loulou in the tone of an outsider, "Of course, even if it develops to that extent, we won't say anything, as long as you are careful at night and don't let other people hear what you are doing."

"We won't do that kind of thing, you precocious kid!"

"What did you just say?" Aker's words touched Leah's sore spot. "Who are you calling kid?"

Aker instantly felt a biting cold, targeting him without any restraint, and he hurriedly sought help from the other girls present.

"Wait, I wasn't wrong, was I? Eh?"

“……”

“……”

“……”

There was silence in response.

Leah walked towards Aker step by step with the knife in her hand, this feeling... Yes, it seemed to reproduce the scene of his dad coming home late after chatting with the aunt who lived next door, and his mother was holding a knife asking him with a smile where he went all day. It gave the same oppressive feeling.

Aker had realized that he had nowhere to retreat, and there was a cold wall behind him. Even if Aker's magical foundation was not good enough, he knew that the natural elements of ice in this space had covered the entire room under Leah's control.

"Venus, please help me say something! She will definitely listen to what you say!"

Aker could only pin his hopes on the girl who was closest to Leah.

"Eh? Say something... Leah, that would make Elder Brother angry."

"No, no, no, I won't be angry, I just hope Miss Leah will not be angry!"

Aker was very grateful that Venus, who was usually the least talkative, was able to say a word for himself when everyone was silent, although what she said was like adding fuel to the fire...

But judging from the results, Venus's rescue was just right.

"Tsk... I'll let you go this time for Venus's sake. If your blood splattered all over my house, it would be troublesome to clean up. "

Maybe Leah was just going to intimidate Aker at the beginning, she threw the knife in her hand into the air and caught it when it fell back down.

"I'm very grateful..."

Aker's legs gave out, he slid down the wall to sit on the ground.

In short, no matter what Leah did, her mood looked much better now.

"Should we not wait for Shun?"

Everyone sat back at the table again, and Aker felt a little uncomfortable in his heart that they started to eat without waiting for Shun.

"No need, That guy knows that I'm at home today, so maybe he will deliberately come home late." Leah waved her hand and carried on, "then he will say with a painful expression that he works overtime again, he is tired, and so on, it seems that he is always thinking about how to avoid me. Seriously, I just used to be strict with him to correct his personality, but now I haven't done that for a long time..."

Leah complained as she stabbed the sausages on the plate with a fork.

So that guy handed Leah to us and let us deal with her? Was the meeting of the Imperial Defense Bureau today also an excuse? Probably this was one of the conditions for free lodging in this expensive mansion.

If he came back tonight, he would bring that guy to Leah even if he needed to drag him.

"Right, Elder Brother Aker."

"Wait," Aker reached out and interrupted Leah. "You are imitating Venus. This is not your normal tone at all."

Aker didn't know if Leah had misunderstood something, or she just deliberately wanted to attract Aker's attention. She softly prolonged her voice when imitating Venus's voice to call him "Elder Brother Aker".

"Because I think you probably like me to call you this way. I noticed that every time Venus called you this way, you looked very happy."

"Is that so, Elder Brother Aker..."

"What do you mean that I am very happy? !”

"Eh?……"

"Venus, you've misunderstood it, I don't dislike you calling me like that..."

"Hehe~"

Seeing Aker and Venus caught in a vicious circle of misunderstanding and explanation, Leah smiled like a little evil.

"If I call your Elder Brother directly, your younger sister will probably not be happy, right?"

"I, I'm not that selfish..."

"Loulou, you can just ignore Leah's words," Aker felt that Leah alone could make the girls around him fall into chaos, and only he could stop her. "Leah, you can just call my name. You want to be an adult, right?"

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"Be an adult..."

"Yes, a 'mature adult'."

Aker caught Leah's desire of becoming a "mature adult" and ended her secret scheme.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough!"

Leah seemed to want to pretend to be mature and coughed slightly, but she didn't expect that she would really choke.

After covering her mouth and coughing several times, she pretended that nothing had happened and raised her head to look at Aker.

"Then I will just call you Aker now." Leah had obviously taken the bait that Aker put down, but Leah didn't notice it. "But Aker, you actually like the title ‘Elder Brother’, right?"

"Loulou has called me that since I was a child. It should be said that I'm used to it."

"Oh... then I can also become your younger sister. Venus and I don’t know who our parents are, so we really hope to have people like brothers and sisters by our side..."

Leah didn't mind speaking out about the personal affair between her and Venus. Although when Venus said that they lived in an orphanage before, everyone was aware of this, there was no need to confirm it specifically.

"Ah... this way... it's okay..."

Aker didn't think much about it, and he didn't even think about ideas such as "His younger sister can only be Loulou" and "The godsister is different from the real sister".

With one more younger sister in his heart, there would be an extra family member, and that was what Venus meant to him.

However, when Aker promised Leah in a daze, three sharp gazes immediately gathered on him.

"I knew it, you are a siscon."

"Elder Brother... You clearly already have me..."

"Hey, Lynn, don't talk nonsense, it will cause misunderstanding! Loulou, calm down, what I just said didn't mean that."

"Then... Elder Brother Aker really only needs a younger sister... It doesn't really matter if I am here..."

"Venus, you really need to stay silent at this time!"

As a result, the entire dinner time ended while discussing whether Aker was a siscon or not.

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After dinner, Leah piled the tableware in the sink, saying that she would wait for Shun to return and let him clean them up.

Washing dishes while standing on a low chair was difficult, Loulou had also experienced such a thing before, and Aker understood why Leah didn't tell him the reason honestly.

The five people were still sitting around the dining table, and Aker knew that Leah wanted to say something about the books he had read in the room. But no one else knew what was written in that book. They were stopped by Leah when they were about to leave.

Aker signaled to Leah with his eyes, intending to ask her "should we let them know now as well".

He still didn't know the family's affairs very well, so he didn't want to let Loulou know now. He hadn't even told her about magic gear. Similarly, he didn't want Ling and Venus to know it because of this reason.

However, this little movement was noticed by the keen-eyed Lynn, and she immediately realized that what Aker and Leah were going to talk about would probably affect everyone's future.

"Since we are already friends, it is natural that the secret cannot be kept hidden forever. You know all my secrets, but you want to conceal your secrets from me. It's too unreasonable. "

Lynn argued this way. This was the reason Aker used to persuade her some time ago.

"Then I'll just start with the main topic," Leah patted her hands gently, drawing everyone's attention back, "That book, Aker, have you read it roughly?"

"Mhm."

"About the 'Chise' family, and the magic gear 'Mechanical Alchemy', there are records in that book. You didn't skip these, right?"

After all, this was the point that Leah wanted Aker to know, and of course, it was impossible that Aker would skip them.

Leah saw her answer in Aker's solemn expression, and went on.

"The real name of the magic gear of the 'Chise' family is 'Mechanical Alchemy'. It is one of the magic gears recorded by the Bice Empire. The "Chise" family was once called the "Bice Twin Towers" together with the "Heinz" family. In other words, you and Ms. Lynn's family were in the same situation, and both declined after the cross-border war ended. I don’t know much about these two families, so now I’m going to talk to you about magic gear ‘mechanical alchemy’. After reading that book, you should probably also know the ability of ‘mechanical alchemy’, right?"

Leah's book used a story to record the history of the nobles who used magic gear to lead mankind out of the battlefield from cross-border wars. As for the authenticity, only historians could tell.

And there were not many records about the magic gear "Mechanical Alchemy" of the "Chise" family, as Leah told Aker before.

"The ability of 'Mechanical Alchemy' should be the same as its name says, capable of transforming magic energy into various magical machinery. My two pistols should be the product of ‘mechanical alchemy’..."

"Please wait a moment," Loulou raised her hand, "This seems to violate the laws of physics... magic energy can be converted into energy, but converting it into solid objects, it feels like a miracle in a fairy tale..."

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"That's why its name contains the word 'Alchemy'. During the cross-border war, the ‘mechanical alchemy’ of the ‘Chise’ family was the most powerful magic gear among mankind. It was said that an indestructible position could be constructed by ‘mechanical alchemy’ alone. However, the records of the "Bice Twin Towers" were erased after the fall of the two families. Many scholars have tried to study them, but because of the lack of information, those people may not understand Aker's magic gear better than him."

"I didn't know the real name of magic gear until now. There must be more things I don't know about it..."

"I am not the holder of magic gear, and I can only help you to this extent." Leah paused for a second and then carried on. "However, there is a saying that the weapons that can be constructed by ‘mechanical alchemy’ are based on Magic Mechanology. At that time, the head of the "Chise" family was one of the founders of Magic Technology, so they maximized the ability of 'Mechanical Alchemy'."

"Do you mean that as long as I know the structure of a magical machine, then I can use the ability of 'mechanical alchemy'?"

"It's not wrong for you to understand it this way. However, it is said that it is necessary to reach the level of ‘knowing every part and operation principle’."

After Leah finished speaking, she left her seat and walked into the kitchen. After a while, she brought five glasses of juice.

"So refreshing..."

Loulou held the glass tightly with both hands. It was really satisfying to drink a glass of iced juice in this weather.

Lynn also held the glass, feeling surprised. The juice that Leah had just served became cool just right after being touched by her hand.

"Your magic is quite convenient..."

"Thank you, Miss Lynn."

When the cup was finally placed in front of Aker, the bottom of the cup made a slightly dull sound when it touched the tabletop.

"This is yours, I hope you like it."

"Hey, hey, this is pure ice..."

In the glass in front of Aker, an orange solid ice cube replaced the liquid.

"What you see is just an illusion on the surface."

"Then I hope to see the deep truth like them!"

Leah took his glass as he wished, and the ice cubes quickly melted into an orange liquid in the cup

"Are you happy now?"

"...Miss Leah," Aker didn't touch the cup cleverly this time, "there is steam coming out of the glass."

Aker didn't know why Leah apologized to himself sincerely before, but now she was clearly playing with him.

Venus stood up from her seat, pressed down Leah, and said to her in an elder sister's tone.

"Leah... you can do that to Elder Brother Aker, I'll try to make it cooler..."

"Ah, thank you." Venus, you are really an angel, totally different from a certain someone."

"Hehe..."

Being praised so much by Aker, Venus chuckled a little embarrassedly. And Leah, who was called "certain someone", didn't seem to be dissatisfied at all.

Venus took a deep breath, straightened her back, and showed nervousness. Then she held the glasses with her small hands and controlled the flow of her magic energy.

"Venus, you can do it!"

Leah was also cheering for Venus on the side. It seemed like she had completely forgotten that it was her who made the drink so hot.

The white mist gradually appeared around the cup, which did not happen when Leah used elemental magic. It seemed that Venus's ability to control natural elements was far from Leah's level of precision.

It took about a minute for the white mist to fade before Venus slowly let go of her hand.

Just controlling the natural ice element of this dining room, this kind of magic consumed very little physical energy. But Venus seemed to be working hard. She must have spent a lot of mental energy to adjust the output of magic energy.

"Thank you, Venus, you worked very hard."

Aker stroked Venus' head as a sign of encouragement.

The juice in the cup had become a cold drink, but there were still crushed ices floating on the surface, but in general, this was a perfect work. It would not be too cold, which would be bad for his stomach, nor would he feel hot like the kind of heat just after drinking.

"What were we just now?"

"Speaking of which, what were we talking about just now..."

After the trouble caused by Leah, Aker had forgotten the most important question.

"Elder Brother, we were talking about the structure of magical machinery..."

Loulou whispered to the forgetful Aker and Leah.

"Yes, if you want to use the ability of 'mechanical alchemy', you must first master Magic Mechanology. And Keke is a professor of Magic Mechanology. at the Frimaire Academy. "

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