Following Ciel's instructions, Lord Death easily found Ren's place of work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is actually just walking in again after walking out of the ancient building. He doesn't know what Ren is responsible for, only that her department is very busy, almost the opposite of Luna and Ciel.

Both Luna-sama and Ciel seem to have things to do and are not with Lord Death. And Ciel, after giving the Grim Reaper a few hints, didn't mention a superfluous word to the Grim Reaper. After walking into the ancient building this time, the middle-aged man with the lamp did not appear.

As soon as the Grim Reaper stood on the high platform, a small turntable appeared in front of him, the pointer was pointing to the number 1, and there were 2 to 9 around it. Among them, the numbers 9 and 7 are dimmed, and the rest are illuminated. Luna-sama's work is on the 6th floor, and Ciel tells him that Lian is on the 5th floor, and that the two floors are next to each other.

Twist the dial, point the pointer to the number 5 and press the middle button. Lord Death stood and waited for a while, and a small teleportation array appeared from the place where he was standing on the ground, sending him responsibly to his destination. After the habitual vertigo, Lord Death blinked and found himself in a rather unfamiliar place.

This is a rotunda with a lot of screens hanging on the wall, with white and black as the main colors, which is not very high-end and atmospheric, but it is quite comfortable to watch. At the end of the hall is a bottomless corridor that leads to no apparent direction. The furnishings were simple, with only a few long tables on the side, and the whole hall was empty, with no sign of busyness at all.

"You're here." The opponent who had been fighting before was sitting behind the long table closest to the door, and he walked quickly when he saw the Grim Reaper-sama coming. He had already changed his clothes, although he still couldn't hide the depression and malaise on his face, after all, it was much better than the embarrassment at that time, and he could still see a little gentle and elegant temperament.

To be honest, Lord Death felt that he was actually a little sorry for the other party, but the game had passed, and he couldn't say anything, just his own master. Lord Death nodded lightly and asked, "What about Lord Lian?" ”

"Your Excellency is waiting for you inside." He pointed to the dark hallway, then yawned, "Then I won't show you the way, the deepest room is." With that, he walked back to the table and sat down. The table was covered with a dense pile of paperwork, and it was filled with a bunch of things that Lord Death didn't quite understand. He took a pen and kept writing on one of them.

"What is your department responsible for?" Lord Death asked out of curiosity.

"Finance. Do you see the screen above, it's a public financial issue, and you need to go to various places to deal with it. We are responsible for allocating funds for the lower hells of each world, and sometimes we will allocate funds for whatever the Grim Reaper needs, so we are generally busy. He explained, then looked around and added with a wry smile: "But today is a holiday, so I'm the only one who stays, and it's usually full." ”

"Aren't you going on vacation?" Lord Death asked curiously.

"Well...... I've accumulated a lot of work in the past two days. He honestly sighed, "Actually, we only had one day off, but the adults gave everyone an extra day, and she did the work that day." As long as I can do it for adults, no matter how insignificant, I will stay. ”

Lord Death's expression moved, and he suddenly smiled and asked, "Speaking of which, I don't seem to know your name, so can you tell me?" ”

"I can't tell you this, the name of the Grim Reaper is a very important thing. However, you can just ask me to fix it. He smiled and said, "In exchange, shouldn't you tell me your name too?" ”

Lord Death hated names, and he thought about it before he said, "Black." ”

Xiu said very seriously: "I believe you just got up. ”

"I don't deny it." Lord Death smiled and headed for the hallway.

"I don't hate you." Xiu muttered, "That day, she came to me and told me: It doesn't matter if you can't win. ”

Lord Death looked back in a little surprise, but Xiu still lowered his head and wrote, as if he hadn't said anything. He spoke so quietly that it would have been hard to hear if it weren't for Lord Death's good hearing. Lord Death silently took these words to heart.

There were no lights in the dark hallway, so you could only roughly see if there was a road ahead. I could barely make out that there was crimson wallpaper on both sides, and there were two rooms about twenty meters apart, and the entire corridor was a full hundred meters long and very deep. In the last twenty meters, there was no longer a symmetrical room on either side, except for the door at the end, on which hung a sign, which was emitting a faint red glow, the lotus.

Lord Death knocked lightly on the door, and Lian's calm voice came from behind the door: "Come in." ”

Pushing open the door, the Grim Reaper finally saw the light. A crystal lamp hangs from the ceiling, and a weak, unblinding yellow light illuminates the room. Although the room is large, the furnishings inside are simple. Directly opposite the doorway was a large square wooden table, and everything else was filled with bookshelves, even most of the floor was filled with books, leaving only a passage for people to walk through.

Lian was sitting behind the wooden table, holding her head in her hands, looking at the notes in her hands. His eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and he didn't raise his head even when Lord Death came in. She had already changed into the pitch-black gown and wore a crimson short-sleeved dress that completely exposed her beautiful figure to the air.

There was only a cup of steaming coffee on the table, not a single book, and it didn't look like he was working.

"Lord Lian, is there anything you are looking for me?" Lord Death asked with a slight bow.

Lian still looked at her notes and asked in a flat tone, "What do you want?" ”

Lord Death thought for a moment, and paraphrased Luna-sama's words, "Is this trying to dig into the wall?" ”

"What she can give you, I can give you. If she can't give it to you, I can give it to you. I have the right to mobilize all the possessions in hell. Say, what do you want. Lian gently stroked her hair, not caring about the authenticity.

"You know, that's impossible. Isn't it? What I want, you can't give me. And she's already given it to me. Lord Death shook his head slightly.

"Don't you think about it? If you refuse me, you may not have such a chance in the future. For the first time, Ren took her eyes off her notes and looked straight at Lord Death, as if trying to see through something.

Lord Death smiled slightly, but did not answer.

With her slender fingers on the ears of the cup, Lian took a sip of the coffee in the cup, closed the note in her hand, and closed her eyes. Lord Death did not speak, and let the silence continue. Minutes and seconds passed, and the silence of the space lasted for a long time before Lian reopened her eyes. The coffee in the cup has turned warm and no longer emits heat.

"What did she give you?" She asked, tilting her head.

"Everything." Lord Death was still smiling.

"Yes." Lian breathed a sigh of relief, "You're qualified." ”

She is a mage, especially when her absolute strength is extremely high, and there are a lot of spells that can be mastered. Among them are polygraph-detecting spells. She knew that Lord Death wasn't lying. That's enough.

"So, Lord Lian. Is there anything you can do with me? Lord Death smiled and asked again without missing a word.

Lian snapped her fingers, and a flame ignited in her hand. She put the cup to her fingertips. While she was reheating the coffee, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "Are you either?" ”

"No, thank you." Lord Death shook his head slightly. He doesn't like coffee very much because it's bad for his body. He goes to bed when it's time to sleep.

"Yes." Lian didn't insist either, took a sip and put down the cup. With your hands crossed over your thighs and leaning back on the chair, your posture becomes more relaxed. She didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

Lord Death stood silently, waiting for her to speak.

"She's still the same." Sighing softly, Lian took off the hat on her head and put it on the table, and said in a low voice: "You should tell her that it is not necessary, that it is not needed." In this case, maybe we will have a lot easier. ”

"What?" Lord Death didn't react at once.

"The colors of the other side are full of hell, but they are only deterred in front of her. We were afraid that one day we would be entangled in the other side, so we stayed with her. We hesitate, hesitate, and are confused. She is like a beacon in a tower, dispelling all darkness, warm and selfless. We hid in the light and kept each other warm. When the walking corpse in the distance approached, trying to dye the other side. The wanderer stood up and clenched his weapon as if he had received the last hope. ”

She closed her eyes, whispered, out of reach, and suddenly opened her eyes and asked, "How many deaths have you seen?" ”

"Not much." Lord Death answered honestly.

"One day you'll know what a horrible thing it is to be on the other side. Those who have been completely eroded by the other side have inevitably fallen into the abyss and can never be recovered. We're the only ones left to survive at this moment. And everything, but buried in 'secret', there is nothing to say. Servant, promise me. At some point, Lian had already stood up and walked in front of Lord Death: "No matter how difficult it is, no matter how painful it is, you should do everything you can to protect her, so that the other side will always be just the other side, and you will be in front of the tower." ”

With that, Lian's finger lightly touched the forehead of Lord Death. Lord Death subconsciously wanted to retreat, but found that his body was completely unable to move as if it was locked by something, and he could only watch Lian's finger on his forehead.

His fingertips touched his forehead, and the cold feeling spread through Lord Death's body, making him shiver. After the fingertips left, the shiver became even more pronounced. His notes appeared on Lian's hand for some reason, and his head hurt as if it had been gnawed by something. When Lord Death tried to take the note back, Ren had already taken out a pen and wrote something on the first page of the note. Then she snapped her fingers lightly, and the Grim Reaper fell backwards and walked on the ground, and the notes in Lian's hand disappeared.

Lord Death didn't have time to complain, gritted his teeth and hugged his head. He had never encountered a pain that could shake him so much, and he could not bear it at all.

Ignoring the pain of Lord Death, and not apologizing at all, Lotus Flickered back to her place. Taking a sip of coffee, he opened his notes, and there were tall paperwork stacked on the table, even several times more than on the repair table. She lowered her head and began to write, and only after most of the pain of Lord Death had dissipated did she whisper, "Xie." It's your name, and it's not your name. ”

"What do you want to do?" Lord Death gasped and stared at Lian.

"After leaving, go to the seventh floor to find Ciel, I've opened the permission to you. Tell her she doesn't have to keep looking for your file. Lian snapped her fingers, "Xiu, send off." ”

"This way, please." Xiu didn't know when he appeared behind Lord Death and said with a smile. He said so, but he summoned an armor at some point, lifted the collar of Lord Death, and walked out. After seeing the armor walk away, Xiucai bowed deeply to Lian: "Then my lord, I will say goodbye." ”

Lian looked at Xiu's back, opened her mouth, and finally fell silent and rewrote the paperwork in her hand. There are a lot of things, even when the time comes, she doesn't ask. She's not an initiative person. If that is his choice, then she will respect his choice instead of blaming or complaining about anything.

It's just that......

"As I said, it's okay not to call it that way if it's only when we're there." She sighed imperceptibly, and casually removed the shielding barrier from the room.