"In a sense, it's also back." Jiang Yan thought about his current identity, and responded to Lily's question subtly. Then, without waiting for the other party to ask in detail, he asked again: "I met again after a long time, you

Haven't eaten yet? If it's not a meeting, I'll treat you to you?"

"Is that OK?" Lily asked slightly tilted her head.

"Of course, don't be polite to me. Now I can afford to buy even the highest-level package." Jiang Yan gave her a thumbs up.

Then he stood up and said, "Waiting for me here for a while, I'll go and buy it for you. I'll ask you, what do you like to eat?"

"It will be all right."

"Okay, wait a moment."

Let the girl sit down and wait, Jiang Yan turned around and ran to the counter again, took out the crystal card and picked the most expensive set meal casually. After thinking about it, he ordered another after-meal dessert.

After a while, Jiang Yan returned to Lily with the food and put the plate in his hand on the table: "Please use it."

Lily glanced at the plate with a faint sense of spiritual power that made people feel comfortable. The pieces of high-quality meat that obviously came from the elf beasts, and they should also be poured out with characteristic spiritual liquid and exuded the infiltration.

A platter of fruits and vegetables with a sweet smell flashed in her eyes.

Although she had never eaten it, she could tell from her appearance that the cost of Jiang Yan's meal that she invited her would definitely not be small, and many researchers may not even be able to consume it at will.

But looking at Jiang Yan across from him with a smile, Lily finally said nothing, picked up the knife and fork and started eating.

The girl's mouth was chewing in small mouths, like a little squirrel. She was not light or slow, and she obviously had a much more temperament than Jiang Yan's way of eating, and she was as cute as a delicate doll.

The appearance gives people a pleasing look.

Unfortunately, the skin of this "doll girl" has a bit of an unhealthy pale complexion, but it makes people feel even more pity.

Jiang Yan smiled and watched her eat slowly, and inexplicably felt a novel experience of feeding her pets.

I don’t know when, Jiang Yan’s hand reached over and landed on Lily’s head, gently stroked the light golden hair that was as smooth as a gauze scarf, as if he was giving a pet a hair.

"!"

Lily naturally felt Jiang Yan's behavior. She paused for eating, turned her head and looked at Jiang Yan blankly, but said nothing, turned around and continued to eat.

‘Oh?’

On the contrary, Jiang Yan himself was a little shocked by his subconscious actions. However, after he woke up, he did not stop, but continued to rub the girl's hair.

'I took action without realizing it... It seems that some habits of the remnant personality have been inherited? However, I have to say that the girl's reaction really makes people feel the urge to tease her like a pet.

No wonder Can Lingge regarded her as one of the few friends in the institute who could get along with her comfortably when she was a child.'

Jiang Yan recalled the memory left by the remnant spirit personality, the behavior of "he" often "feeding" and "shing the hair" for girls like teasing a cat.

Then he thought with some uncertainty: ‘…Well, this should be considered a friend, right?’

Time passed quietly. In this remote corner, the doll-like girl ate silently, and the black-haired boy next to him placed his hands on the girl's hair like a considerate big brother, gentle

Slowly combed her hair.

Although girls seem to be older than boys in terms of age, their temperament makes this scene not completely inconsistent. Occasionally, adults who notice the movement here will also see this.

I smiled knowingly and treated it as a touch of spiritual adjustment in my boring study of life.

After a while, Lily ate all the food Jiang Yan bought for her, including the dessert. Only high-folded cups and plates were left on the table. This amount of food was more important than that of ordinary adults.

There are too many, but Jiang Yan is not surprised at all. As an extraordinary person, it is very common to increase the appetite due to the needs of cultivation. If he eats his own food, he will be much more exaggerated than this.

Not only Jiang Yan, as the Dragonborn Experimental Subject, they are almost all foodies. Because of their innate physical defects, in order to improve their physical fitness, the Dragonborn Experimental Subjects will instinctively desire energy supplementation, especially rich.

Foods containing high-energy spiritual power are especially loved by them.

"Lily, are you full? Do you want another serving?"

"No."

Lily, who put down the knife and fork, turned around and began to stare at Jiang Yan in a daze.

"Uh, Lily, take a little attention..." Jiang Yan looked at her face, then raised his finger and pointed at the corner of his lips slightly helplessly.

"…?" The girl tilted her head.

"...Forget it, don't move around." Jiang Yan held his forehead, then reached out and pulled out a tissue from the napkin box on the dining table, folded it, and gently put it on the girl's face and started to wipe it.

, wipe off some dessert residues she accidentally stained with.

During the whole process, Lily let Jiang Yanshiwei motionlessly, but instead narrowed her eyes slightly, as if she was completely used to it.

However, if you look closely, you will find that there is a hint of nostalgia and joy in her clear blue eyes, which is as clear as a lake. Although this emotional fluctuation is very small, it does exist, making the girl

The temperament of his body like a "doll" has faded away, and he has a more "human" aura.

"alright."

After wiping, Jiang Yan pinched the tissue into a ball and covered it tightly, threw it to the side, and then he couldn't see the tissue ball falling into the trash can in the corner of the wall in a perfect arc, and then turned to it.

Lily had returned to her calm eyes.

"Lily, you said you came back this time for a physical examination? You are the only one?"

"No." Lily shook her head slightly and whispered: "Everyone, we are all back."

"So that..." Jiang Yan narrowed his eyes when he heard this, and thought of the figure of a blonde boy who was serving the earth dragon elf in his memory.

Although that period of time was a life experience of the remnant spirit personality, it was also part of Jiang Yan, equivalent to a clone-like existence. Then, whether it was the happiness or anger of the remnant spirit personality, it was no different from him.

Jiang Yan will not forget the bad feeling caused by the large amount of pain left in his body when his true spirit just woke up two years ago.

‘Are you back too? Just take this opportunity to avenge your revenge at that time.’

"……Word?"

Jiang Yan, who was making a decision in secret, was pulled back by the girl's voice.

"Ah? Well, what's wrong?"

Lily didn't care about Jiang Yan's distractedness, but asked, "Will you leave this time?"

A trace of tension was rarely revealed in the girl's tone.

Jiang Yan was stunned and met Lily's gaze and found that this girl who had always had very few emotional fluctuations in his "memory", as if she was indifferent to everything outside, had a clear hint of uneasiness in her eyes at this moment.

Then, he suddenly laughed, nodded and said, "No, now, I should stay in the institute often."

"……That's good."

The girl who received a positive answer had a slightly bent lips, and a very shallow but inexplicably touching smile appeared in her eyes.

"Next time, don't leave suddenly." Then, she restrained her smile, looked at Jiang Yan calmly and with a slight serious look. At the same time, she poked out her hand and bent her white-looking little finger to Jiang Yan:

"Agreement?"

"Uh?" Jiang Yan was stunned for a moment, looking at the action that made him miss, "You still remember this little 'ritual'..."

In this world, there is no popular way to make agreed behaviors with fingers. The reason why Lily did this action was naturally due to the credit of Jiang Yan's remnant personality in the past.

At that time, some instinctive memories that accidentally leaked from the seal of the true spirit made the residual spirit personality have different will and personality from other experiments of the same period since childhood, and stood out. The children pointed at each other's behavior of making a covenant.

It is one of them.

"Yan... the agreement is made!" Seeing that Jiang Yan did not respond immediately, the girl urged her tone intensified her tone, and her little finger was handed to Jiang Yan further.

"Okay! Lily, if I want to leave next time, at least I will tell you first, just make an agreement, right?" Jiang Yan had no choice but to promise, and at the same time, he obediently reached out and hooked her finger and shook it gently.

shake.

"Yes!" The girl who completed the agreement had no strange appearance on her face, but a look of happiness appeared in her eyes.

Seeing this, Jiang Yan asked curiously: "Lily, do you seem to be more like a 'person' than two years ago?"

"People?" The girl looked at him in confusion, with questions in her eyes.

"I mean, you have a lot more feelings than before."

The artificial dragonborn experimental subjects trained in the research institute were basically treated as the definition of battlefield weapons in the early stages, even Jiang Yan was no exception, because as weapons, they did not need too many individuals.

Feelings, if there are too many feelings, it is not conducive to control.

Apart from the necessary combat skills, knowledge, and loyalty to the empire, the institute will not teach these artificial dragonborn subjects any unnecessary emotions.

In the eyes of the superiors, they would be better to become human-shaped killing weapons that don't care about anything other than fighting and performing missions.

Only after some special dragonborn experimental subjects show excellent qualification potential to a certain level will they be further supplemented by the institute for spiritual and ideological education, for example, the one who always ranks among the top in each competition.

several.

Therefore, basically all the experimental subjects did not have much personal emotions when they were young. Only Jiang Yan, No. 1, was the most special alien at that time. Even without anyone teaching him, he could still be without a teacher by his instinct

I understand the joys, anger, sorrows, and happiness that a person should have, and form a distinct personality.

It was influenced by him that several outstanding students in that period, such as No. 81, gradually developed their own personalities in advance.

However, compared to other excellent students, Lily is quite special. It seems that she is naturally like this. Her external emotional expression has always been very weak, and she is often at the mercy of others like a doll. Perhaps, this is also Jiang Yan's remnant spirit

At that time, personality often looked for her reasons.

But until Jiang Yan left the institute two years ago, there was no obvious change in the girl.

Now it seems that in the two years after he left, the girl began to get out of the "stamp-up doll" state and became more like a normal person. I don't know if she was stimulated during this period?
To be continued...