At noon, the sun is at its brightest of the day.

Hugo walked in the streets of the 13th arrondissement with this dazzling light, his expression calm and natural.

After meeting with Simon Wilson and Tanaka the night before, Hugo sneaked back into the metropolitan area overnight, and only entered the 13th arrondissement ten minutes ago.

Compared to a few days ago, Hugo's hair had grown a little longer, and his tattered clothes had long since been changed, and he was wearing a baseball cap that he had just bought from a self-service supermarket, Hugo was more like a bored teenager wandering the streets aimlessly, no one paid too much attention to him, and no one realized that the person he had just passed by was the blasphemous who had turned the whole world upside down not long ago.

Hugo's move was not to pursue the ultimate pleasure of darkness under the lamp, he just wanted to quietly feel the sunlight at the moment, and feel the warm feeling of the sun shining on his body.

Hugo has experienced too much darkness in recent times, and he has even forgotten how he feels when facing the sun, and Hugo also knows that he will have less and less time to feel the sun like this, and the great darkness has come to him.

Eventually, Hugo walked into a lawn park, bought a cone from an ice cream van, and sat alone on a park bench licking it.

The sun shines on the grass, and the light can bring out its unique grass and tree atmosphere, a group of children are running and playing not far away, and young people are also walking through the lawn, talking and laughing.

"You're getting bolder. ”

A voice sounded beside Hugo, who tilted his head to look, but saw Sakura, dressed as a cowboy, standing by the bench and looking at him coldly.

Hugo smiled and said: "This dress suits you very well, there is a feeling that you don't like red clothes and love arms." ”

Sakura ignored Hugo's teasing and sat down next to Hugo.

"Now that you're a big celebrity on Tsukishima, if you're discovered, you'll soon be surrounded by a horde of police officers and military troops. ”

Hugo shrugged his shoulders and said, "That means they're afraid of me now, not that I'm afraid of them, aren't they?"

Sakura said, "I appreciate your optimism and hope you can keep it up." ”

Hugo laughed and said, "I'm not stupid enough to be so rampantly unscrupulous, although I haven't been in the metropolitan area in the last few days, I still know the extent of martial law here." Rest assured, this won't happen a second time today, and I'll be on a serious alert when I'm done with this ice cream. ”

Sakura turned her head to look at the half-eaten ice cream in Hugo's hand and frowned, "I didn't know you liked this." ”

Hugo shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who doesn't love ice cream, which seems to me to be closer to the image of peace than the white dove." ”

Sakura says, "At that time, there may have been people who had different flavors of ice cream and there were various political parties that would go to war because of this. Your so-called symbol of peace could well become the trigger for war. ”

Hugo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a wry smile: "It is also said that the essence of human beings is to fight each other, which will intensify contradictions no matter what the situation." Tsk, that's sad. ”

Sakura said: "Don't feel these things, you have completely disappeared recently, and you have not contacted us at all, and everyone thinks that you have an accident." ”

Hugo raised an eyebrow and said, "What about you, are you worried about me too?"

Sakura gave Hugo a cold look and said, "Your life is more than just yourself. ”

Hugo smiled: "I really can't imagine that one day someone will say such things to me, and suddenly I feel that my life has meaning." ”

Sakura didn't laugh at this, and said to Hugo, "Have you never considered the meaning of your life?"

Hugo raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky through the brim of his baseball cap, and the sun shone directly into his eyes, and the blinding light made Hugo feel dizzy.

I used to think that the only meaning of my life was revenge, a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Over time, however, I have come to realize that revenge is only a mission imposed on me by others, and that although I have been following this path, it is not what I am after. ”

"And what do you want in your heart?"

Hugo shook his head, then lowered his head again to eat the ice cream in his hand and said, "I don't know, that's a very hazy concept for me, I can't see or touch." ”

Then Hugo smiled bitterly and said to Sakura, "I think maybe I can pursue my feelings after I have completed this revenge mission on my body." Maybe then I will find that my life's desire is nothing more than selling ice cream in such a calm park. ”

Sakura nodded and said, "That's it, that's fine." Then the two fell silent.

After a long time, Hugo finally ate all the ice cream in his hand before saying to Sakura: "What do you think about this paper kite?"

The thing he refers to refers to the fact that he rashly appeared and announced the truth about the blasphemer to the world. Hugo had not greeted anyone before doing this, and was completely obsessed with it.

But after the incident, the consequences were not borne by Hugo alone, and the Manyan Society would inevitably be strongly attacked because of it.

Sakura said, "Paper Kite didn't express any dissatisfaction, I was by her side when you did that, and at that time she just said to me lightly, 'This day has finally come'." ”

"Every blasphemer knows that the day will come when the truth will be revealed, but everyone prefers to survive until the wound is torn open, and the blasphemer may have abilities that the world cannot match, but that does not make everyone braver. ”

"TAROT has torn off the fig leaf completely, and you have made the world more aware of the truth. No matter who has done anything wrong, even if you don't do this, the world will not be a better place than it is now. ”

"Thank you. Hugo slowly closed his eyes.

Sakura continued: "An incident happened the night before, your good assistant Xia Ran actually persuaded Xiao Jie, and the two of them went out together to find your clues, and there was a lot of trouble, although there was no accident between the two, but now that Thangka has transferred control, you should really look at Thangka's appearance, this is the biggest fire since its resurrection." ”

Hugo shook his head and said, "Then I still don't want to watch it, I don't want to get caught on fire at all now." ”

Then Hugo said: "But I received the search signal sent by Xia Ran, and it was also on this occasion that I was able to meet some new and old friends." ”

Sakura said, "So you stayed with your friends until I heard from you?"

Hugo tilted his head and said, "Sort of, drink something, talk about something, it feels quite pleasant." ”

Sakura looked at it and said, "Do you still have the heart to drink at this time? aren't you worried that alcohol will irritate the wound?"

Hugo stared at Sakura and grinned, "When did you see that?"

Sakura said, "When I saw you for the first time, I realized that no matter how much the prosthetic limb is simulated, it can't compare to the real body. ”

Hugo grinned, then raised his left hand, which was indistinguishable from the shape of the real palm and swayed in the sunlight, but Hugo's brain could not feel the feedback from the limbs every time he swung it.

"What the hell is going on?"

Sakura's voice was still calm, but her eyes flashed with irrepressible grief.

Hugo pouted: "I met a powerful character, this time I was unlucky, no one can help me." But fortunately, the other party didn't really want to kill me, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here. ”

Sakura swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Don't you have a strong ability to heal yourself?

Hugo smiled: "My self-healing is not regeneration, if you tore off all my hands and feet in the Far Mountain Apartment, I would not be able to live to this day." ”

Sakura closed her eyes in pain and fell silent.

Instead, Hugo said cheerfully: "Don't worry about anything, maybe it's not a bad thing for me." Fitting a prosthetic leg to my body isn't as bad as I thought, I'm getting used to it quickly, and I'm thinking about putting a hand cannon in it. ”

Sakura opened her eyes, and they were already in dire need of moisture.

"You should trust us more. ”

Hugo smiled, he naturally understood what Sakura meant. Imagine if you were accompanied by a paper kite on that day, then such a result would not have happened. But even if time could go back in time, would Hugo himself make such a choice?

Hugo said: "Time, luck, and fate, the Manyan Society has resisted too many disasters for me, and this time I should bear it alone." The loss of my arm this time also gave me a clearer understanding of myself. ”

Then Hugo stretched out his prosthetic left arm and rubbed Sakura's head and said, "Don't be so anxious to air for me, we will have greater sacrifices in future wars." ”

Sakura said, "First of all, I didn't shed tears for you, you are too self-inflicted. And if you don't remove your stinky hand from the top of my head, I'll rip your other arm off!"

"Uh... No offense. Hugo withdrew his arm in a daze.

...

Walking through the cool boulevards, Hugo and Sakura look more like a close couple, and the sound of the leaves seems to be coaxing them.

"I remember that there was a small lake not far ahead, and it was there that I had a deep conversation with Chitose Hara, and at that time I learned about the form of another world, and I had a clearer understanding of my friends and enemies. ”

At the mention of the original Chitose Sakura's expression, he couldn't help but become sad and gloomy, and Hugo exhaled abruptly and said, "In a blink of an eye, it was a long time ago, but now that I think about it, I feel like it was yesterday." Hehe, I have to say that I really miss that dead fat man. ”

Sakura said: "In the entire Manken Society, the one who believes in you the most is Chitose, and at that time he firmly believed that you were the one who could change the world, and it was precisely because of his attitude that he influenced many people, including me. ”

Hugo nodded and said, "Yes, the first time I saw a paper kite was at his grave, and I owe him a great favor in my life." Then Hugo laughed and said, "If Chitose Hara is still alive now, what judgment will he make in the face of the current situation?"

Sakura thought for a moment and said, "Chitose is a more casual person, he will not take the initiative to declare war on one side or the other, but when a threat comes to him, he will not sit still either, and will definitely do his best to fight back." ”

Hugo said: "So what is the situation we are facing now?"

Sakura said: "Now the entire metropolitan area of Tsukishima has entered a strict state of martial law, which is especially obvious at night, it can almost be said that it can be said that there is a curfew order in five steps, one post, ten steps and one sentry. ”

Hugo said: "Is this all the result of the involvement of the military?"

Sakura nodded and said, "Let's just say that the military's intervention has indeed changed the overall pattern of Tsukishima." We don't know much about the underpinnings of these official forces, but we can experience first-hand that the heavens have changed. ”

"The military has imposed martial law on transportation arteries, medical institutions, shopping malls and entertainment cities, and even intervened in communications, social interactions, and more, and it is said that it has won more Skynet permissions. As far as the incident caused by Natsuran the night before is concerned, both the Metropolitan Police Department and the military received the news at the same time and dispatched together, but in the end, the Metropolitan Police Department made concessions and the military took over. ”

Hugo sneered: "It's not a loss to the troops who control the mecha and the gun, and they still have a lot of confidence to do things." ”

Sakura said: "It seems that you have not easily persecuted these soldiers of the military, and in the face of overwhelming public opinion pressure, they can only use this method to express their position strongly." ”

Hugo said: "Now the military's fist, no matter how fierce it is wielded, is only to show others, its ultimate goal must be to find me, only by completely defeating me, a thorn in their side, can they regain the right to speak, and can also gain more prestige in front of them." But it seems that the military is also using the incident to grab more power. Thinking about it, they also saw the incomparably chaotic pattern within Moon Island at the moment, and wanted to take a piece of the pie in this chaos. ”

Sakura said: "Regardless of its purpose, it is now the primary enemy we have to face, and this is also what you have made clear, as long as we find a way to defeat us by the military side before we have time to face the next enemy, otherwise it will be difficult to carry out many operations under their strict supervision." ”

Hugo nodded approvingly, "I wanted to see a few more friends when I returned to the metropolitan area this time, but as far as you said, I think I can do something else for the time being." ”