Marquis Odice?!
Nanali was slightly stunned. Looking at this big and tall man in front of her and recalling Ivette's appearance, disbelief filled her small face.
This was Ivette's father?
Although Nanali knew that Ivette came from a knight family, just looking at Ivette's appearance, she really couldn't imagine that Ivette's father was such an Orc-like existence.
Were they really related by blood?
If they were, then how powerful must Ivette's mother's genes be?
"Humph!"
Demo snorted coldly, looking down at Lane with his eyes and said: "I don't care if you are the captain or the butler. I'm here today to ask for an explanation from you!"
Lane himself had never seen Demo in person. The address just now was just Lane's guess and intuition.
Now getting Demo's confirmation, the corner of Lane's mouth twitched and he had the same question as Nanali in his heart.
Was this really Ivette's biological father?
Coming to his senses, Lane said with a faint smile: "Explanation? What explanation? I seem to have never had a conflict with you, right?"
"You know exactly what you did. Why pretend to be stupid?"
Saying this, Demo drew his sword with a clang and pointed it directly at Lane. His thunderous voice resounded through the sky: "I, Demo Odice, hereby challenge you to a knight's duel!"
Looking at the shining sword blade pointed at him, Lane's expression suddenly turned gloomy and his face changed into that signature evil smile:
"Demo, regarding the apprenticeship, it was a mutual willingness. Why go to such lengths?"
At this moment, Lane's address to Demo changed to directly using his name.
"As the head of the Dark Corrosion Knight Regiment, why did you deceive a nine-year-old child? Don't you think it's a disgrace to your knight regiment?"
Demo's face flushed red, clearly extremely angry.
"The apprenticeship will cause no loss to Ivette. Or do you think I will do harm to Ivette? Moreover, as Ivette's father, do you still think that Ivette has the mentality of a nine-year-old?"
Saying this, Lane slowly placed his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist: "I may be somewhat at fault in this matter. But the Knight's Oath has been made. No matter what you say, it's useless. However, Demo, I accept your knight's duel."
Lane had long expected to have conflicts with Demo. But Demo didn't use underhanded tactics but directly chose to have a knight's duel with him, which was somewhat beyond Lane's expectation.
However, this also suited Lane's intention.
After Lane accepted the challenge, the atmosphere between the two seemed to freeze.
The strong horse under Demo stared at Lane's weak and thin horse. The horse's nose was breathing heavily, as if breathing out its fighting spirit.
The thin horse glanced at the strong horse and suddenly raised its front hooves and neighed.
Hearing the thin horse's neigh, Demo's strong horse seemed to be severely frightened and retreated several steps!
"Stop!"
Feeling embarrassed, Demo angrily pulled the reins. After making his horse stand still, he looked at Lane and said calmly:
"Seeing that you still have the duty of a butler, the time of the duel will be after today's classes. The location will be in the mansion of my Odice family in Atel. There is a special swordsmanship arena there."
"Demo, are you mistaken about one thing?"
Lane suddenly said: "As the one challenged in the duel, the location of the duel should be decided by me. How about, after the classes, you come to the mansion of the Yaxi family?"
"Don't push your luck!"
Demo's eyes were almost shooting fire. For him, a marquis, to personally visit the mansion of an earl for a duel? Joke!
"In that case, if you want me to agree to your suggestion, at least say that word, right?"
Lane's expression was always smiling, making Demo's anger rise rapidly. He couldn't wait to draw his sword and chop Lane right now.
After taking a deep breath, Demo turned black in the face and said to Lane word by word:
"After the classes, please, come to the mansion of the Odice family and have a duel with me!"
"OK."
Lane's reply was as if he was going to be a guest.
After getting Lane's reply, Demo really didn't want to look at Lane anymore. Mounting his horse, he turned and left.
He now just wanted to return to the mansion, prepare his best sword, conserve his energy, and then beat Lane until he was disoriented at night. Then make Lane stay as far away from Ivette as possible!
If it weren't for the relationship of the Knight's Oath with Ivette, Demo even wanted to chop Lane into mincemeat!
Demo didn't underestimate Lane's strength as the head of the Dark Corrosion Knight Regiment. But in his eyes, it was just worthy of his serious treatment.
The Dark Corrosion Knight Regiment itself was not small in scale and all of them were the elites of the knight regiment. They were only fighting against the cannon fodder soldiers that the Demons used to probe the bottom line of the Hedley Empire.
And he, Demo, was a man who had entered and exited the tide of demonic beasts alone ten times!
After watching Demo leave, Lane rode the horse and led Nanali into the academy.
After parking the horse in the stable, Lane led Nanali towards the teaching building.
"Lane..."
On the way, Nanali looked at Lane worriedly,bite one's tongue.
Lane knew what Nanali was worried about and smiled faintly, rubbing Nanali's head:
"Don't worry. Demo is no match for me. But I'm afraid today's afternoon meal will be a little later."
"Don't touch my head..."
Although she said that, Nanali didn't slap Lane's hand touching her head this time either.
And in her heart, Nanali also chose to believe Lane.
When sending Nanali to the classroom door, Lane once again "coincidentally" met Dorothy and Octaville.
"Good morning, Mentor Lane!"
Seeing Lane, Dorothy greeted with a smile.
Lane smiled faintly: "Good morning, Dorothy."
"Mentor Lane, I read that 'Cinderella' you wrote in the newspaper. It's really very good!"
After saying such a sentence out of the blue, Dorothy flashed into the classroom.
Lane's smile froze slightly.
No, how did you guess so quickly that that story was written by me? That signature wasn't my real name, right?
At this time, Nanali had also entered the classroom, and only Lane and Octaville were left facing each other at the classroom door.
Suddenly, a faint smile appeared on Octaville's face: "Black Butler?"
Pfft!
Suddenly being called by the pen name like this, Lane felt that his embarrassment was about to kill him: "How did you know?"
"As soon as I saw that signature and that unrestrained story, I couldn't help but think of you. It's that simple."
Hearing this, Lane's expression immediately became very awkward, and his toes kept scratching the floor through the sole of the shoe.