After the last reunion of fellow countrymen, Rudelious's relationship with me became even better.
Although Seven Stars and Rudelious were from the same country on Earth, I noticed he barely ever sought out Seven Stars.
Instead, Rudelious often looked for me to discuss magic, though it was mostly about his own troubles, asking me to help him figure them out.
For example, two days ago, he approached me under the pretense of wanting to learn advanced Healing Magic from me. But halfway through the lesson, he inadvertently let slip his real reason for coming.
"Brother Dorin, do you have a teacher?"
"I do. My teacher is very famous. My grandfather found her for me when I was in Ars. Her name is Bladiconde Gallanod, and she is an Elf. You might not have heard of her, but you must have read the book she wrote, titled 'traveling the world'."
"Oh, oh, I have indeed read that book. So, Dorin, your teacher is the author of 'traveling the world'? Your teacher is an Elf? Then she must be much older than you, right?"
"She is indeed much older than me; perhaps I should say she is over 300 years old. At this age, perhaps only Elinalise among us can compare to her. Do you know Elinalise's age?"
"I don't know. When I first met her, I asked. But her reply was: 'Oh dear, one must never ask a lady her age. By the way, I'm almost fifty years old.' I feel like she must be lying. So it should be hard to find out her age."
I thought about Elinalise being Sylphiette's grandmother and calculated the age when she gave birth to Lilia. Fifty years old was definitely a lie. She must be at least eighty, and that's the minimum guess.
Thinking that I often engaged in outdoor activities with an eighty-plus-year-old woman, I couldn't help but admire myself a little.
"Fine, let's not consider her age. After all, the Elves are a very perverse race. In two years, I'll probably look older than my teacher. In twenty years, people will probably think she is my daughter when we go out together."
"Exactly, that's the problem I have. Teacher Roxy, as a Demon Race member, she should have a lifespan of over two hundred years, and her race doesn't age; they always look like children. I don't even know if I should call her 'Teacher' when we are out in public now."
"What does that matter? Are you unwilling to be her disciple anymore? Teacher, Master—it's just a title. Do you really care about such things?"
Rudelious gave an awkward smile after hearing my answer. He probably didn't come to ask me this question.
I listened as he pondered for a moment, then said hesitantly:
"Brother Dorin, I don't know how old you were in your previous life. At least you are older than me right now, so I'll ask you directly.
If your teacher is very close to you, and you are intimate in daily life, and you share many memories, chatting and living together harmoniously.
But recently, for some unknown reason, she suddenly became a bit cold towards me, or rather, she started avoiding me. What is going on, and what should I do?"
When Rudelious asked me this, I understood. At first, I thought he came to complain that Roxy was older than him! Let me think.
I pondered for a while, patted Rudelious's shoulder, and said with conviction:
"Rudelious, did you ever date in your previous life? Or were you ever married?"
This question made Rudelious break out in a cold sweat. He whispered:
"No, I was unlucky in that regard in my previous life. But I played a lot of dating simulation games. Does that experience count?"
"Well? Your current situation can be understood as a dating game where the Affection Level is already MAX, but you haven't reached the confession stage. Can you understand it that way?"
Rudelious nodded seriously.
"Have you ever tried, while playing a dating game, after maxing out one character's Affection Level without confirming the relationship, immediately going to raise another character's Affection Level?
In that situation, wouldn't the first character's Affection Level suddenly drop very quickly, perhaps becoming negative or entering a special state?
But as long as you go back to raise the first character's Affection Level again, the recovery speed will be much faster than before."
"Consider the recent situation around you, combine it with my analogy, and think about this problem carefully!"
Rudelious fell silent there. I guessed he was deep in a brainstorming session. Haha.
I patted his shoulder again.
Leaving him with a parting shot: "Good luck, brother."
And then I got up and left.
Haha, when I read novels in my past life, I always thought Rudelious's love life was too smooth.
Sylphiette was basically handed to him, and Roxy was also given by the plot. Only Eris had a slightly bumpier path, but basically, there was no melodrama of love and hate found in typical romance dramas. At most, it was just Rudelious unilaterally misunderstanding Eris.
This time, I already helped him clear the most difficult, hardest-to-chew Eris. I initially thought he would easily handle the remaining two.
Alas, it seems it's not that simple. The young man still has to work hard!
Two days after leaving Rudelious, another young man came to me because of love problems today.
Actually, I wasn't very familiar with him. Cliff Grimor—I barely exchanged a few words with him during the weekly class meetings in the Special Class.
At most, I only heard him bragging about how amazing he was, and I never encountered him being ganged up on and stepping in to help.
So I never thought he would come looking for me. But for some unknown reason, he found out through some obscure connection that I was close to Elinalise, asking me to introduce Elinalise to him.
Elinalise came to Ranoa Magic University this time. Although she attends classes in the regular courses, we only meet outdoors under special circumstances.
At other times, we basically don't have much contact. However, I have heard her reputation many times at this school.
For example: Elf Succubus, Virginity Terminator, Mobile Juicer, and so on.
There's even a campus legend saying that men shouldn't walk alone in the campus groves at night, as they risk being targeted by the witch, ultimately leading to the loss of the most important thing in a man's life. Such stories have spread.
It seems that capable people create their own legends everywhere they go.
So, I didn't expect that Cliff Grimor would ultimately find me and ask me to introduce Elinalise to him. Normally, this would be a crazy choice.
But knowing the plot, I was very clear that Cliff would succeed.
In the end, I agreed to his request. However, given my strange relationship with Elinalise, I didn't take him directly to see her.
Instead, I used an intermediary, making him go to Rudelious and telling him that Rudelious and Elinalise used to travel together often and that their relationship was very good. As for me and Elinalise, our relationship was just average; it could only be described as negative, better not to mention it!
After all, this is an important plot point that affects the later stages, so I took it seriously. Only by getting those two together would Cliff go on to research how to suppress the curse, thus finally finding the ultimate method to counter Orsted's curse.
I was already prepared to cut ties with Elinalise. In reality, I didn't think I was that important to her.
To her, I was just a tool to suppress the curse during her journey.
Even after having relations with me, she didn't stop looking for other curse suppressants. That was the best proof.
But an accident occurred.
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