Chapter 544

With the "enthusiastic help" of her twin brother, Melanie ultimately didn't escape this beating, and it even came with a super multiplier.

"Smack!"

"Ouch!"

"Don't you dare scream!"

After pressing her slender fingers together and giving Melanie's butt a fierce smack, Anna's two delicate eyebrows twisted together, and she said through gritted teeth:

"How old are you? You've actually learned how to frame people!"

"I... I... I really wasn't framing her!"

After twisting forward like a maggot and then being dragged back, Melanie looked at her sister's face, which was redder than an apple, and sensing that Anna's next basic attack would likely be a critical hit, she hurriedly defended herself:

"That Religious Studies teacher always says he's pious, but he can't even get the color of the underwear worn by the Twelve Knights when they sacrificed themselves for the god right. He must be faking his piety! My writing to the Church was a reasonable query!"

"You're still talking!"

After landing three consecutive critical hits and stacking up her attack speed, Anna panted and said angrily:

"How could the scriptures write such boring things! You're just talking nonsense!"

"Sister, Melanie isn't lying this time, the scriptures really wrote it."

Hearing this, William took the scriptures out of his schoolbag, flipped through them, handed them over, and explained with a serious little face:

"Look, this passage contains the self-account of the Twelve Knights after they were ordained... 'My God favors white, so I follow white, wearing clean clothes inside, and a scarlet robe outside...'"

"So the clothes the Twelve Knights usually wore should be white from inside to out. It's just that because they had to maintain respect for the god they believed in, they voluntarily downgraded themselves and wore robes of other colors on the outside, but their underwear should still be white.

Although these aren't directly written in the scriptures, if one is familiar enough with the scriptural clauses, one can actually guess it."

"..."

This... did I beat her wrong again?

Looking at the articulate William, Anna couldn't help but hesitate. Her volume lowered unconsciously, and she bit her lip gently:

"But... but this isn't an orthodox question after all. Even if he couldn't answer white, it can't be used as a reason to report him..."

"No, the Religious Studies teacher answered it."

William shook his head and said:

"Although he was very angry, after flipping through the scriptures for a while, he still said the color of the Twelve Knights' underwear should be white."

"Then why did you still..."

"Because white isn't the correct answer."

After taking back the scriptures and flipping through a few more pages, William pointed to the text above and said to Anna with a serious face:

"The question Melanie asked wasn't what color the Twelve Knights usually wore, but what color underwear they wore when they sacrificed themselves for the god.

And according to the scriptures, they first underwent three months of trials in the Great Desert, and only went to sacrifice themselves right after coming out of the desert. There was no time to change or wash clothes in between, so their underwear hadn't been changed for a full three months, so it should be yellow."

"..."

"..."

Looking at Anna, whose forehead veins were jumping, her pretty face turning from white to red, red to purple, and purple to black, Melanie pulled up her pants, flipped over, and threw herself into Li Ang's arms.

"Big brother, save me!" Can't save! This really can't be saved!

Turning sideways to avoid Melanie's pounce, and incidentally twisting to avoid the arm reaching for his thigh, Li Ang glanced at her with pity, then sensibly moved out of the way.

Don't blame big brother for being disloyal, it's mainly because of how angry your sister looks. If I save you, she might even want to beat my butt, so just honestly take the beating!

After a chaotic chase, Li Ang looked at Melanie, who was crying and screaming from the beating, and figuring that Anna's anger had probably been vented for the most part, he stopped her.

"Alright, alright, take a break, look at how you're panting."

"Even if I'm panting, I'm still going to beat her!"

"Mm-hmm, beat her! This time I definitely won't stop you! If she isn't educated properly, she'll go astray!"

Following Anna's wishes, after "scolding" Melanie with a straight face, Li Ang reached out to gently stroke Anna's back, helping her, who had poor lungs, catch her breath, and then requested gently:

"But I'm a bit tight on time, I have to go to the Bureau to work overtime in a while, and it's so cold today... Good Anna, can you deal with her later and find me two blankets first?"

"You just protect her!"

Easily seeing through Li Ang's diversion, after giving him an annoyed glare, the sickly girl struggled out of Li Ang's arms, walked angrily toward the bedroom, opened the paint-chipped wardrobe with a creak, and began looking for blankets.

Giving Melanie a "why aren't you hiding yet" look, and watching her run into the inner room on tiptoe, Li Ang followed slowly into the bedroom and comforted his sister, who was crouching in front of the wardrobe:

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much. Melanie is a bit eccentric, but she never bullies people; she just has a tough personality and can't stand being at a disadvantage."

"William is the same, a bit mischievously bad but never harms anyone. Although they aren't easy to worry about, they are actually good children... Anna?"

"Ah?"

Seeming to be startled by Li Ang's words, Anna couldn't help but tremble slightly, then continued her actions. She stood with her back to Li Ang, rummaging through the blankets in a somewhat flustered manner, while nodding repeatedly:

"Mm-hmm... they... really aren't bad, just not very sensible yet, they'll be better later... By the way, are blankets enough? Do you want to take a thick coat too?"

"Blankets are enough, the Bureau is quite warm."

Looking at his sister's slightly flustered movements, Li Ang frowned subconsciously, then asked directly:

"Anna, what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing."

The sickly girl shook her head, turned back holding two folded blankets, and smiled with some reluctance: "I just found out I lost something and am worried about whether I didn't bring it when we moved."

"I see..."

If it were Li Ang from a month ago, he might have been fooled by her words, but the current Li Ang had long been accustomed to distinguishing people's expressions. Even without using the Black Goat's soul vision, he could tell that Anna was clearly hiding something on her mind.

"Then you look for it first. If you can't find it, I can accompany you back to Veteran's Alley in a few days, and we'll look for it together."

"Mm-hmm."

After putting the two blankets in a bag, Li Ang walked out of the bedroom to the door, picked up the shopping bag on the shoe cabinet, and pressed his fingertips quietly against his ram's horn.

"Anna, the thing you just lost, is it that family photo that only has you and Mom and Dad?"

?!!!

Looking at Anna's soul in his soul vision, which was instantly filled with terror and panic, Li Ang said in a gentle voice while putting on his shoes slowly:

"Actually, my birthday isn't the day you told me, and I might not even have any blood relation to our parents, and you aren't my biological sister, right?"

(End of chapter)