Emily was silent for a moment as she extinguished her cigarette and casually tossed it into the trash can, sticking her hands in her pockets, "Got it, I'll have someone restock the supplies as soon as possible."
"Okay." Ya Xiao nodded and added rather seriously, "It doesn't have to be too much. The marshal's body will be recovered in two more days, and he won't be able to use up too much of the flour if there's too much of it."
From start to finish, the new butler's focus was on the ingredients in the back kitchen as if he didn't see anything wrong with Emily chaining a badly injured man.
"Got it."
Emily was a little tongue-tied as she yanked on the chain in her hand. The battered man behind her stumbled and stifled a grunt as he was yanked, looking wretched and miserable.
"I'll continue on my mission. See you some other time."
Emily nodded at Ya Xiao, not caring in the least about the misery of the criminal, her pace determined.
Originally, she thought that Ya Xiao, who had come from the central city, would be afraid of this scene, but now that he didn't have any fear at all, she didn't have to worry about the other's emotions anymore.
The new butler had some nerve.
Emily let out the same sentiment as Mist.
And the bold Ya Xiao on the side didn't even realize that there was anything wrong with his performance.
The demon world often had big demons leading defeated people around to show off. When he saw that scene just now, Ya Xiao actually felt quite affectionate.
It was just that he didn't know whether it was an illusion or not, but he unintentionally glanced at that criminal and always felt that the dirty face was somewhat familiar. The tip of Ya Xiao's tail wagged for a moment, and in an afterthought, he remembered that this person was the villain's younger brother, one of the main protagonist group, Qin Chen.
So it's Qin Chen.
Ya Xiao was originally interested, but after realizing who it was, he withdrew his eyes with a lack of interest.
He remembered that the other party had been seriously injured by the villain in his alienated state last time, and it seemed that he hadn't healed yet.
Just as Ya Xiao and Qin Chen brushed past each other and were about to leave, Qin Chen, who was chained and bruised, suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"You're his new butler?"
Qin Chen endured the pain in his body, his voice was a bit unsteady, but Ya Xiao could still hear that the man was carrying a strong hatred towards that 'him'.
Emily in the front instantly realized that Qin Chen wanted to do something bad. She was about to spin around and side-kick the other party to teach him a lesson, but before she could make a move, she tugged on the chains in her hand as if she had remembered something and warned, "Don't say anything unnecessary."
Qin Chen ignored it, breathing a little heavily. He eyed Ya Xiao with complex eyes, mixed with sympathy and hatred, as if looking at someone through Ya Xiao.
"With Qin Qi, you'll die sooner or later." His voice was hoarse and incoherent as he said to the innocent butler, "If you still want to live, don't stay in the Sixth Base."
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"Emily, you knocked him out, is it okay?"
Emily: ......
Ya Xiao had been cramming the army's rules for the past few days. He didn't want his good friend Emily to be punished and said rather apprehensively, "Will you be punished for knocking a criminal out?"
"No." Emily was silent for a moment and explained in a dry voice, "He maliciously slandered an officer without evidence. According to the regulations, a one-time stopping measure can be taken."
"That's good."
Ya Xiao was relieved, "Let me help you transport him away."
Qin Chen, who had collapsed on the ground, was a tall man.
"No need."
The youth on the opposite side was slender and thin. Emily didn't think that he could drag Qin Chen. Compared to that, she felt that it was more important not to let Ya Xiao believe in Qin Chen's bullshit.
"The marshal has been guarding the Sixth Base. No one loves the people of this base more than the marshal. Ya Xiao, don't believe this criminal traitor's bullshit."
Emily didn't want Ya Xiao to develop a dislike between him and the marshal because of Qin Chen's words.
"Hm! I know!"
Ya Xiao nodded his head very seriously. Those blue eyes were permeated with determination as if the marshal had a perfect image in his heart and no one could change his perception, "I admire the marshal. I'm not going to leave the base."
Admire the marshal?
Emily froze for a moment, not realizing that a butler could actually admire the marshal who had a bad reputation among the many bases.
But when she thought about it, the marshal was indeed a hero. If he didn't admire the marshal, the frail butler from the central city's first reaction upon seeing the marshal in an alienated state would definitely be to run away rather than stay and continue to take care of the marshal.
She pursed her lips. Her silver lip studs glistened under the light, and her chains jingled under her movements, "In that case, I'll leave first, so you have a good rest."
After saying that and without waiting for the demon to respond, she turned around and left the area.
"Okay."
Ya Xiao watched the unconscious Qin Chen being dragged by chains and sliding on the floor, while Emily put one hand in her pocket effortlessly. He sincerely said to the system in his heart, [Fourth Uncle, Qin Chen is really weak.]
[The current members of the protagonist group are really not as strong as the villain camp.] The system said in agreement, [However, a large part of the reason Qin Chen was knocked out was all due to the fact that he was severely injured.]
Ya Xiao accepted this reasoning.
Still, he preferred the powerful villain.
Because of this episode, Ya Xiao went back to his room to rest a little slower than usual, which meant that nursing his tail and horns was delayed by a few minutes.
He carefully applied the conditioning cream to his tail, massaging every spot into place, while pondering over the previous events, including that look on Qin Chen's face. Finally, he concluded in his mind:
[It seems that the shattering of the villain's glorious image has really dealt Qin Chen a great blow.]
It even spawned some hatred.
[Right.]
The system strongly agreed, [Who says otherwise? After all, the villain is a heroic character at the beginning of the plot. Although his stern and harsh style has affected his reputation, both Qin Chen and the protagonist Wei Shi admire him a lot.]
If the two of them hadn't inadvertently found out that the destruction of the Seventh Base had something to do with the villain, they both would probably have been the villain's little fans for the rest of their lives.
The plot didn't explicitly say how Qin Chen was injured.
Even the protagonist, Wei Shi, wasn't clear about the exact process, but the protagonist knew exactly how things started and how things turned out.
After Wei Shi and Qin Chen inadvertently found out that the destruction of the Seventh Base may have something to do with the villain, his younger brother Qin Chen could not stand it and immediately went alone to question Qin Qi. In the end, he was seriously injured. From then on, the relationship between the two brothers was like fire and water.
[According to the development of the plot, the two protagonists, Wei Shi and Qin Chen, will continue to collect clues about the destruction of the Seventh Base, trying to find the truth about what happened and constantly causing trouble for the villains.] The system ran through the next plot.
However, all of this was actually accepted well by Ya Xiao. The reason why he suddenly mentioned this was because Qin Chen's hatred for the marshal was just the beginning.
After this, the marshal would encounter many, many enemies who would seek him out because of the destruction of the Seventh Base. He would be attacked one after another.
[The villain cannot get hurt.]
Ya Xiao bit his nails, his tail glowing with a ghostly blue dark light swaying behind him, already anticipating the situation afterward, [If the villain is injured, not only will I be slow to absorb the demon value, but I'll also have to be responsible for the healing daily, which is purely a loss of money.]
[That's why we need to prepare in advance and try to avoid the villain getting hurt.]
[Right.] The system agreed.
As for what to prepare and how to prepare, Ya Xiao hadn't thought about it yet. He wagged his tail, thinking that it wouldn't be too late to think about it when the time came.
The next day, Ya Xiao started work as usual.
First, he would bring breakfast at seven o'clock sharp for his employer who suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, followed by pouring black tea, helping his employer pick out cufflinks, and supervising his employer's drinking of his medication...
When everything was done, Ya Xiao would promote their relationship by having a casual conversation that was limited to ten minutes and had a random subject matter while the other man took a break.
He looked at the villain sitting in his chair, his tail wagging behind him. Villains were fussy and troublesome, but their behavioral patterns were all so fixed that it was fairly easy to figure them out.
Of course, what Ya Xiao didn't realize was that he would mostly avoid the unfixed ones unconsciously by relying on his demon instincts. Those were patterns that an ordinary butler had no chance of avoiding.
"How was last night?"
The room was dimly lit. Qin Qi played with the special headphones in his hand. His sight fell across the darkness on the butler who was within a meter of him, and his tone was casual as if he was simply making small talk.
Thinking back to what Qin Chen said from Emily's mouth, Qin Qi's gaze was vaguely scrutinizing.
"Last night?"
Ya Xiao was a bit confused, and his tail hidden in his pants wagged a bit. Because he didn't quite understand what the villain meant, he said according to his thoughts, "Well, it's good. It's a good night's sleep."
Qin Qi didn't say anything.
He turned his head slightly sideways and gazed at Ya Xiao through his black lenses for a long time before withdrawing his gaze.
"After the body check tomorrow, without any accidents, we can return to the base that day."
"Okay."
A pleasant expression instantly appeared on Ya Xiao's face, and the tail wagging behind him simply couldn't stop.
When the marshal's body healed, he would be able to absorb more demon value. The magic-draining healing could be stopped for a while, which was something he had been looking forward to for a long time!
As soon as he thought of this, Ya Xiao was all energized.
Qin Qi could sense that the other party should be happy, but he didn't understand exactly why he was happy. It couldn't be because he was going back to the base with himself? Obviously, there was nothing to be happy about.
However, as long as the other party didn't have any thoughts of breaking the contract, it was enough. Qin Qi's right hand's index finger unconsciously tapped on the desktop.
"After leaving the fortress, you won't have to stay by my side at all times like now. You can freely arrange your time when I'm working."
Qin Qi arranged indifferently.
When he traveled to the military base headquarters to work, he usually didn't need the services of a butler.
Ya Xiao, who was originally happy: ......
In that case, was it okay not to leave tomorrow?