There is a cemetery on the hillside southeast of Renno-Sato, where the dead villagers are usually buried.

Although the cemetery is a non-profit cemetery, it is well managed. The tombstones and aisles are all white stones, and there is a circle of evergreen conifers around it to shade the sun. This green and white, quiet and quiet, quite gives people a sense of freshness, and the parting of life and death is not so painful.

Life is like summer flowers, and death is like pines and cypresses. There are people who die, in fact, they don't die, they just stop changing, they stop moving, and eventually, they become like a tree.

When Nalan came to the cemetery with a bouquet of flowers, he found that someone had already arrived first.

It was Honju Kosuzu and Kamishirasawa Huiyin, the two of them stood in front of the tombstone of the Fujii family left and right, just standing, and other than that, they didn't do anything, they didn't talk, they didn't mourn.

The day was not too good, with dark clouds and a little wind, giving people a sense of bleakness as winter was approaching. Nalan Twilight rode the autumn breeze and walked forward, and found that the tombstone of the Kazuhiko family was empty, and there was not even a decent fruit bowl or incense burner. He placed the bouquet diagonally on the pedestal of the tombstone, then folded his hands, bowed his head and closed his eyes, and observed a moment of silence.

After that, he opened his eyes, looked up, and looked at the rolling dark clouds, his face beaming.

"It's a nice day!" he said.

"Just for you, right?" said Suzu Motoi, who was beside him.

"Hmm......" Nalan thought for a moment and said:

"Anyway, as long as it's not sunny, it's a good day. ”

"I don't know you vampires very well......"

Nalan turned his head to look at her and said:

"You don't seem to be in a good mood, Suzu. ”

Although from his vantage point, he could only see the top of Suzu's head, but he could still hear a rather obvious loss and a little sadness in her words.

"How can I be in a good mood?" Xiao Ling raised her head and asked with an unhappy face, "I played since I was a child, my best friend, turned into a monster, and you wanted to kill me, and then he was killed by you." What do you think is there that makes me feel better?"

"Uh...... And the last one, I mean, 'I killed you.'" ”

When Xiao Ling heard this, she gave him a blank look, and then ignored him anymore. Nalan Yu just smiled and said:

"It's sad that an old friend is gone, but haven't you made a new friend?"

"Who?" asked Xiao Ling, looking up into Nalan Twilight's eyes.

Nalan smiled and held out a thumbs up and pointed at herself.

"Me. ”

"You go to die!"

Suzu kicked him and walked away in a rage. Nalan turned around, with a rather relaxed smile on her face, and waved her hand at her back.

"I've got time to play at the Red Devil Pavilion!" he shouted.

"No way!"

When Suzu was gone, he turned around, his eyes on the low tombstone again. An autumn wind blew and swept away the smile on his face.

"The weather is nice, isn't it?"

Teacher Huiyin on the side pressed her wind-blown hair, turned her head, and smiled at him.

"Ah, that's right. Nalan said, "It's very suitable for lying on a wicker chair, blowing a little breeze, swaying, and then ...... I can't wake up. ”

"Heyan's child's ......," Huiyin added, "I would like to thank you on behalf of the villagers of Renzhili. ”

"Thank you and forgive. Nalan waved his hand, "I'm the one who killed your student with my own hands, and what you say sounds a little awkward." ”

Hearing this, Huiyin shook her head and said:

"Because he was my student, I sympathized with him and showed disrespect to the villagers he killed. What's more, put me in that position and let me face the vampire-transformed Kazuhiko, I think, I will make the same decision, only, much more painful than you......"

"Hey......" Nalan sighed, "You know, I've been wondering how things got to this point these days. ”

"Kazuhiko's fate was already predestined the moment his father died, but why did his father die? Yes, it was because of Remilia. But have you ever wondered why Remilia came to Gensokyo?"

"Why?" asked Huiyin.

"For she is the offspring of the forbidden which I have created. In the outside world, she has no foothold at all, and moving her family into Gensokyo is almost her best and only option. As for the reason why I created her, I can only tell you that it was the only thing I could do to survive at that time. ”

"Interesting, teacher, isn't this series very interesting?"

Nalan smiled, though there was no hint of joy in his eyes.

"Fate is like a chain," Nalan said, "and each event 'certainly' leads to the next, and eventually ends up locking us in it." Everything we go through in this life, the beginning and the end of life, is determined long before we are born. ”

"I, he, and Ladu III, who caused the mutation some time ago, are just grasshoppers trying to break free from the shackles of fate. The only difference is that both of them have failed, and I haven't ...... yet However, it's also coming soon. ”

"So, you see I'm here to sweep the grave of someone I don't know at all...... You just think of this as the death of a rabbit and the sorrow of a fox, and the kind of thing that hurts it! In Kazuhiko's body, I seem to see my future self......"

Huiyin listened to his words and didn't say anything. Nalan Twilight has lived for more than 1,200 years, and has become a part of history in itself. For her, this age is still too big, beyond the scope of what she can "empathize".

After a little thought, she said in a slightly flat tone:

"You know, I've read from books that come in from the outside world that says 'the history of mankind is a spiraling process'. In other words, similar historical events will be repeated over and over again, but in general, history is constantly moving forward, not in circles. ”

"Babylon is followed by Rome, Alexander is followed by Caesar, thousands of years, great men come and go, empires rise and fall, but the whole world is indeed moving forward. It's like bamboo, it changes roots every sixty years, the old dies, and the new sprouts. The newborn bamboos look similar to the dead ones, but they are really different. ”

"So, Mr. Nalan, are you the bamboo that is over sixty years old and about to die, or the bamboo shoots that have taken root and sprouted from the remains of the former?"

She spoke, squinting and smiling, facing Nalan Twilight, waiting for his answer.

"I'm ......," Nalan pursed his lips, "Honestly, I can't give you an accurate answer." ”

"It wouldn't be nice if I could accomplish my mission and just finish it all...... But...... In fact, I would like to start all over again, to be a teenager again at the age of 1,200. ”

"That's the difference between you and Kazuhiko. Huiyin said, "In the same bamboo forest, some people have seen the old dead branches, and some people have seen the newborn bamboo shoots. Even if they end up in the same situation, I don't think their fates will be exactly the same. ”

"Originally, I should have said these words to Kazuhiko......" Speaking of this, Huiyin lowered her head, and a sad look climbed up her face, "If I could be more careful, things would never have come to this point......"

Seeing her like that, Nalan gently patted her shoulder and said:

"Do you drink?"

"Nope. ”

"Then let's go back to the village for a meal, I'll have a treat. Just think of it as the tuition fee for the class just now. ”