Sometimes, he has no choice.

"Let's go this way," Thales gritted his teeth and started walking. "Slimani was in a panic. He didn't choose the right path and even fell. This will affect his speed. There may be hope of catching up."

"I know the alley he entered," Heeley said solemnly. "It's not easy to walk in, but there is a shortcut here. If you're lucky, you can intercept him."

As soon as the pedestrians on the road walked into the two of them, their expressions changed and they turned away one after another, which made Thales very depressed, but it also saved him a lot of trouble.

Thales still remembered the route drawn in the hell sense, while Shilai was almost familiar with the road. Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the target location, the two of them were getting healthier and faster, and their pace was gradually speeding up.

"How did you determine Slimani's location? What did you do in the utility room just now?" Thales asked suspiciously.

"Then you, what did you do outside just now?" Xi Lai glanced at him.

The two were silent for a while.

"Magic, medicine bottles, breaking through empty doors, and the ability to find paths and find people," Thales muttered, "Tell me, sister Huiana, how many mysteries do you still have about you?"

"Not much, at least not more than your mysteries of eavesdropping, magic, nosebleeds, and the same ways of finding people, Brother Wyatt." Healy retorted.

Thales and Hilley looked at each other unhappily as they walked.

It seems that both of them have their own secrets and don't want others to know.

But after a few seconds, they seemed to understand something and both smiled in relief.

"Fuck you, Huiana." Thales shook his head and said helplessly.

Hilley didn't bother to respond and just gave him a middle finger.

"Hey, that's mine. Wait, how do you know this gesture?"

"I've seen, I've seen that mute next to you do something to 'a certain' Wyatt."

"Ha, I knew you were imitating it wrong."

"No way, I remember it very clearly: the middle finger was sticking out."

"That's true for us, but you have six fingers!"

boom!

Hilley gave him a hard elbow, and Thales, who was so smart, grinned in pain.

"No one has ever dared to make fun of me!" Healy gritted his teeth.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Thales apologized quickly, "I just thought that this would be better than... than deliberately avoiding it or not mentioning it."

His voice became quieter:

"Feel sorry."

Hilley looked at him deeply and moved on.

The two of them walked on in silence.

"You don't have anything to ask?"

Thales came back to his senses in shock:

"What? What are you asking?"

"Ask, ask," Shilai paused. She touched her gloves and spoke with difficulty, "My hands?"

There was silence between the two for a while.

Finally, before Thales pulled his hair out in his mind, he racked his brains to figure out how to answer the call.

"Oh, this," the prince laughed, as if he didn't care, "What's the matter? There was a king in my ancestors, and his nickname was 'Eight Fingers'..."

Xi Lai rolled his eyes at him.

"I know the Eight-Fingered King, but you know: my situation is different from his! He is a healthy and normal person who was injured and lost while hunting..."

"Hey!"

Thales quickened his pace to catch up with Hilley:

"So what? You only have one more finger than me, than a 'normal person'..."

"It's four," Sheila looked at her hands gloomily, "I have them on both hands and on my feet when I was a kid. Almost every doctor I went to said that they are connected to the bones and nerves and can be removed directly.

, may damage the entire hand..."

"very good!"

Thales interrupted her, beaming with joy, trying to make the atmosphere humorous: "What I want to do with my whole hand, you can do it with only five-sixths of your hand. This is an advantage!"

Hilley snorted and curled his lips disdainfully: "Stiff and hypocritical."

Well, maybe a little.

Thales felt that he had exerted too much force and had to shut up.

They turned into an alley, which made Thales feel familiar: this was one of the places that hell's senses had just described for him.

"I heard that when I was born, a Sunset priest once said that this was a bad omen or a bad consequence. It was Sunset's punishment for the entire family, or at least a warning." Heilai said in a daze.

Bad omen, bad consequences.

Taylor paused.

His memory drifted back to the Prison of Bones. In the dark bottom of the prison, Sak'el's words to Yoder echoed in his ears again:

[Does King Kessel know... Do they know that the evil flower that was planted many years ago has already borne evil fruits? 】

Thales took a deep breath, forced himself to smile, and raised his hands to Xi Lai:

"Look, my hand is intact, at least it looks normal."

"Yes, I know, 'normal people'," Hilley sneered, "So what?"

Thales forced a smile.

"I mean, my hands and feet were intact when I was born, but it didn't seem to prevent the Sunset Goddess from punishing the Bright Star royal family."

Hilley's eyes moved.

"So, you can go to hell with the bad omens, bad flowers, bad consequences, etc." Thales said with a smile.

Hilley looked at him for a long time, passed by a closed "Milton Honesty Pawn Shop", and turned into a deserted side road.

"But that's not what many people think," she whispered. "You just saw the reaction of those people on the street, right?"

Thales's smile became smaller.

"Is this why you have been living in seclusion since you were a child?"

"This matter is a stain on the family," Miss Kevin Dill said with a hint of irony, "My parents, they have to...be very careful, from my coming-of-age ceremony to my engagement, on all occasions when I appear in public.

Well, maybe there is also my funeral. You know, since I was a child, the purchase of women's gloves has been an important expenditure that my father has entrusted to Ashford. It is top secret."

The stain on the family.

Thales was silent for a while.

"this is not your fault."

Hilley shrugged: "I know, I figured it out a long time ago, this, this is not my fault..."

The girl raised her hands and shook them, her eyes fixed on the cot of her little finger.

"But what they brought, what they brought to me, what they turned me into..."

Hilley's eyes gradually drifted away, then slowly focused again.

What they brought, what they brought to me, what they turned me into...

After listening to her words, Thales couldn't help but hold his left hand: in the middle of his palm, the scar left by multiple scratches became more and more obvious.

Can't be eliminated.

"Do you know why I have such a bad relationship with Karabyan's twins and why we can't get along?"

The second prince came back to his senses: "Yes, I have heard something: did you scare them when you were a child?"

Hilley sneered.

"When I was little, they discovered...my hands."

Thales said nothing.

"Of course, they laughed at me, despised me, and wanted to use this to get a hold of me," Heeley waved his hands and frowned, "but I fought back, hard."

fight back……

"So they isolated me, ostracized me, started cliques, bad-mouthed me at the dance..." Healey continued, "and I continued to fight back."

Keep fighting back...

Thales frowned.

"In the end, the situation got very bad, and it went all the way to my father's side, until my father and Count Karabiyan reached an agreement. Kasha and Qina were ordered to reflect and be strictly disciplined, and they had to secretly swear in front of the sunset statue:

For the rest of my life, I will not leak the Kevin Deere scandal or my... situation, um, to anyone."
To be continued...