This kind of true and unpretentious emotion made Qingdeng feel speechless.

Feeling Elodie's sincerity and sincerity, Qingden tightened his lips and his eyelids sunk slightly because he was concentrating on thinking.

——What a mature and sensible boy...

Qingdeng let out a long sigh of admiration in his heart.

Elodie's maturity and understanding made Qingdeng once again wonder, "Is this little girl really only 12 years old?"

After Elodie expressed all her enthusiasm, the sound of everyone's breathing began to dominate the room.

There was no sound of wind blowing outside.

There is no noise from the corridor outside the room.

At this time, Qingden became the center of attention in this spacious ward.

Qingdeng's mind has completely recovered from the initial shock of "suddenly being apprenticed to Elodie".

My heart is very peaceful, like the surface of a mirror-like lake without wind.

Under the gaze of everyone, Qingdeng calmly realized that it was time for him to give a serious response to this little girl who bravely expressed her wish and took action.

Qingdeng never thought about or planned to accept any apprentices.

Suddenly, a question popped up in Qingdeng's mind: Is there any way I can teach people?

Although he now often gives guidance and teaches some of the new juniors in the trial guard hall, Qingdeng does not think that he, who is still very young, has the skills to officially accept him as a disciple, teach others and solve their doubts.

ability.

Following "Can I teach people how to teach them?", another new question immediately appeared in front of Qingdeng: What good will it do to me to accept Elodie as my disciple?

Qingdeng has always considered himself a rational person. Before doing anything, he likes to calculate the gains and losses in detail.

If there are many benefits, do it seriously; if there is no benefit, don't do it if you can.

So at this moment, Qingden subconsciously began to calculate the gains and losses of accepting Elodie as his disciple.

One of the criteria for judging whether you have thoroughly mastered a certain knowledge is whether you can teach this knowledge to others.

When teaching people knowledge, you can enhance your own understanding of this knowledge, and maybe even elicit new insights about this knowledge.

Teaching others knowledge and solving their doubts... This in itself is an act that can make progress together with others.

Therefore, for Qingteng, the biggest benefit of taking Elodie as his disciple is that in the process of teaching Elodie the natural spirit flow, he can also progress along with it, so that his swordsmanship level can be improved in disguised form.

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But compared to the "gain", the "loss" of accepting Elodie as a disciple is also quite obvious.

The biggest “loss” is the cost of time.

Ayoto is not an unemployed vagrant, nor is he a swordsman who specializes in teaching swordsmanship. He has a formal job as a servant at the Beifan Institute.

Although the leisure time that can be freely controlled is not small, it is not too much.

Although being a teacher to Elodie will be beneficial to your swordsmanship practice... but spending a lot of time teaching Elodie directly practicing swordsmanship in the trial gym seems to be more beneficial to your swordsmanship progress.

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Can these "gains" I have gained make up for these "losses"?

Reason stirs in my mind...

Perhaps it was because Qingdeng's long silence made Elodie feel nervous... Qingden heard Elodie's breathing become heavier.

Turning his head to look, Qingden saw that Elodie's body was now tense.

The neck, shoulders, arms, waist...every part from head to toe is in a "tight" state.

With his eyes wide open, he was still looking directly at Qingdeng.

Although she tried hard to control her emotions, Qingden's silence still allowed uneasiness and tension to creep into Elodie's eyes uncontrollably.

The slightly swaying eyes conveyed the message "I don't want to be rejected by Qingdeng".

Qingden looked at Elodie quietly... It was at this moment that a weird scene happened.

Another emotion besides "rationality" appeared in Qingdeng's mind.

After this new emotion appeared, the emotion called "reason" immediately hid like snow after seeing the sun or ice when it touched the flames.

No.

It's not like he's hiding.

It was defeated.

"Reason" was overtaken by the new emotion...by the emotion called "sensibility" and was defeated.

It seems that a similar phenomenon has occurred before.

Qingto quickly recalled that he had encountered this kind of situation just a few months ago when Mai Kinoshita revealed the true identity of the "Cat Monk" to him and asked Qingto to assist her in her "Phantom Thief Operation".

A situation where "emotion overwhelms rationality".

At that time, he chose to help Kinoshita Mai out of a purely emotional stance, and has been silently supporting Kinoshita Mai's "Phantom Thief Business" as a "Fox Monk" until now.

Is it out of friendship with Elodie?

Was it because Elodie was moved by her determination to learn martial arts and protect her family?

Or was it because of the admiration and admiration conveyed by Elodie that Qingdeng was embarrassed to respond with negative feelings?

Qingdeng couldn't figure out what he was thinking now.

At this moment, he only knew: he could not underestimate the enthusiasm of the little girl in front of him.

He only knows that there are some things for which there is no need to worry about rationality or gains and losses.

At this moment, Qingdeng had made up his mind.

Although he couldn't say exactly why, when he came back to his senses, Qingdeng only had one answer left in his mind.

If someone asks Qingdeng later: Why did you make this choice... then Qingdeng should only answer: There is no reason, I just wanted to do it at that moment.

"...Monsieur Angoulême."

Qingdeng raised his gaze and looked at Anthony seriously.

"how do you say?"

Qingdeng's "What do you say?" of course means "Would you like me to be Elodie's swordsmanship tutor?"

Anthony lowered his eyelids and looked at Elodie beside him.

"...If Mr. Tachibana is willing to teach Elodie...then I have no objection."

Anthony, who was moved by Elodie's heartfelt words just now, no longer showed his tough side, and nodded solemnly towards Qingden.

Qingdeng smiled slightly, then turned his attention to Zhou Zhu.

"...Master. Although I am not exempt from all duties now...but can you make an exception and allow me to accept a disciple?"

Only the winners of the Immortal Order can open a gym and accept disciples - this is the rule of the swordsmanship world in this era.

According to this rule, Ayoto, who has not yet obtained the nenri-shin-ryu shogunate, is not qualified to accept a disciple.

"Uh... well..." Zhou Assistant raised his hand and rubbed his bare chin habitually. A look of hesitation tugged back and forth between his brows.

Kondo and Okita, who were standing on the left and right sides of Shusuke respectively, both turned their faces and looked at Shusuke.

"Father."

Kondo called Shusuke softly, and then said nothing more, only looking at Shusuke with a smile on his face.

What Kondo wanted to say was reflected in his eyes and his smile.

"master."

At this time, Okita also looked at Shusuke with a smile on his lips. He also put what he wanted to say into his eyes and smiling face.

Maybe he was impressed by Kondo and Okita's gaze and smile, or maybe he figured it out on his own. In short, after hesitating for less than half a minute, Shusuke sighed helplessly.

"Although it's against the rules... but it doesn't hurt if you do it once or twice."

Zhou Zhu expressed his attitude tactfully.

"Master, thank you."

Qingdeng lowered his head and thanked his master gratefully.

"Mr. Orange..."

Qingden turned his cheeks and looked seriously and seriously at Elodie who suddenly whispered his name.

Anticipation and excitement...as well as the innocent and romantic emotions unique to young girls appeared on her expression. Elodie's face was full of excitement, and her two little hands on her legs were twisting back and forth.

When she heard the questions Qingdeng asked Anthony and Zhouzhu, Elodie had already realized what Qingdeng's answer would be to her.

Although she was aware of it... Elodie really couldn't feel completely at ease until she heard Qingden's exact answer with her own ears.

"I definitely can't go to your house every day to teach you."
To be continued...