Noon. Special Mission Support Division, living room.

Because Yutakami didn't come back, everyone in the support department prepared their own lunch.

Everyone worked together, one person at a time, and easily spelled out a table of sumptuous dishes.

Vegetable stew (Ellie), fried rice (Lloyd), bone-in steak (randy), ice cream (Tio). Everyone made a dish with a very personal style.

"Woo-I always feel so nostalgic, how long has it been since we've cooked?"

Randy nibbles on a bone in his mouth as he brings fried rice to his mouth. Some vague remarks made Ellie's somewhat forced smile more unhappy.

"Randy, don't talk while eating."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry~"

"However, it does feel like it's been a long time. Brother You is always in the kitchen. ”

Theo calmly explained, quickly stirring the vegetable soup to cool it down quickly.

"Ah, where did You Jun go?"

Ellie asked.

"Oh, I contacted him, it seems that he was helping out in the Rainbow Theater, and he was caught by Miss Eliya."

Before Lloyd could finish speaking, Randy slapped the table excitedly and stood up with a bang.

"What?! Are you serious?! This kid! Don't call me for Mao! ”

"Big Brother Randy, bad."

Theo glanced at him coldly, and Randy leaned his head over unconvinced, with a look of devotion that wanted to give Theo a pious look: "I said little Theo, that's Illya Platier!" A hugely popular idol! And Miss Lixia is there! Wow! This damn guy, I'm going to report it to Noelle! ”

"Illya? Pratier? ”

The naïve Kia heard a name she hadn't heard before, her watery eyes were watery, and her face was full of curiosity, so Randy had to explain: "Well, it's a big star of the Rainbow Theater!" It's so long, so long—so long, so long blonde hair, and big—"

As soon as Randy put his hands on his chest, wanting to express something, beside him, Ellie immediately slapped his hand away, interrupting his stupid action: "Don't teach Kia badly! ”

"Huh? Big what? ”

"Great ambition! Ambitious! ”

It was Ellie, who quietly forced the originally somewhat obscene topic to be very serious, and thanks to Qi Ya's innocence, she nodded seriously to express her understanding.

Really, it would be too bad to teach her strange things, this kid doesn't have the cognitive ability to distinguish between good and bad words!

After this little episode, the atmosphere became silent again.

It can be seen that everyone is forcing a smile. Randy wants everyone to think that he is okay, so he forces himself to joke about it, and it turns out that he goes overboard, which he wouldn't normally do. Ellie, Tio, and Teo were all horribly silent. Only Qi Ya continued to eat without realizing it.

"That, everybody...... X4

"Ah, no, no, you say ...... first" X4

It was very tacit, and everyone said in unison, which made people wonder if they had rehearsed in advance.

Qi Ya raised her head from the dining table and looked at everyone curiously, showing a strange expression. She was too young to understand what everyone was doing, and thought it was some rehearsed fun game.

"That...... Females and ladies are preferred! Come on, two young ladies first, please! ”

Randy hurriedly threw the question to the two young ladies, obviously he had made up his mind to say it before, but ah, there was still a certain gap between making up his mind and really saying it, and as soon as he was interrupted, his instinctive retreat came out.

Ellie sighed, "It's like a gentleman's action at this time." ”

Theo also hung his face helplessly. Of all the people, she is probably the calmest. The little man took the lead and said, "Well, I'll talk first." Hexu invited me back to the consortium......"

I don't know why, but hearing Theo's words, everyone's expressions became very subtle.

It's a pity, right, but I feel a little sympathetic? In short, it's a mind-scratching expression.

Ellie smiled wryly and continued, "Actually, so am I. I am hesitating whether to go to the government or not, and act as a politician for a while......"

"Hey-what a coincidence, I've also been invited by Mi Lei Yu to meet the guards......"

Randy is also embarrassed to say his own problem. Human beings are always like this, unwilling to be the "first", but when they see someone starting, they are very willing to follow suit.

The three of them looked a little embarrassed, they were not too embarrassed to look at Lloyd, in their hearts, their actions were probably against the support department, and they were betrayed by Lloyd.

"I see. So I said it. Actually, I was also invited by Dudley Investigator to search a section. ”

“……”X3

"Oops!" X3

"Isn't this just the only person left downstream in the Support Division?" X3

Everyone was equally surprised.

Immediately after that, everyone said at the same time: "No, no, in fact, I am not sure that I must return to the garrison", "I haven't decided whether to go to politics yet", "I haven't decided whether to return to the consortium or not".

Because this time the sentence is finally different, the neat voice has instead formed a state of confusion. Seeing this, Lloyd burst out laughing.

"What, what are you laughing at, Lloyd."

Randy looked at him for some reason, wondering if he had been hit too hard, and his mind was amused.

"No, I just think that everyone cares about our support department. It's wonderful. ”

"Well, that's not a matter of course. Lloyd, you too, right? Are you ready to refuse Dudley's request? ”

Randy smiled lightly and patted his head affectionately.

"I'm ready to take it."

"Haha, you're not the same...... Ay?! ”

"Accept?!"

"Brother Lloyd, are you leaving us?"

The three of them were stunned, and their stunned appearance made Lloyd feel a little unbearable.

After all, I have to say goodbye to such a group of people.

"Everyone, I didn't make a decision casually. It's not just that you feel that there is better development over there to agree. ――In the past six months, our Support Division has solved many cases, but it is precisely because of this that I have truly recognized my powerlessness. ”

Everyone listened carefully to Lloyd's words, and looked at this boy, who always had an uncertain expression, saying firm words so seriously.

"That's why I realized that with my current strength, it would be impossible to overcome the huge barrier of Crossbell. It's like having plenty of rest in order to go further. In order to overcome the bigger obstacles, I felt that I should be stronger. What's more, even if I continue to stay in the Support Division now, what I can do is a drop in the bucket. As you can see, we don't have a job, and even if we barely stay in the support department, we're just bored all day. As the Speaker said, we should also do the things that 'we want to do, we should do, only we can do', right? Therefore, I would like to go to the first section of the search department to re-train my skills as a search officer in order to prepare for the more severe tests in the future. ”

Royd closed his mouth and bowed to the crowd very formally.

Ellie smiled wryly, her slender fingers fiddling with the long gray hair draped over her chest, and smiled, "Lloyd is still the same." Always so serious. ”

"I'm sorry."

"No, it's not a condemnation. And it was from what you said that I was able to make up my mind. I also want to help my grandfather for a while. Go to the council to help. Lloyd, you also said that in the face of huge obstacles, your own strength is not enough...... That's what I thought, too. Now I'm too weak. Moreover, I felt that it was time to repay me for quietly supporting my wayward departure from my family and becoming the foreign minister of the police, and now, in the council, I can do more, and only I can do. ”

Ellie said, somehow, her eyes moistened slightly, and she stopped talking, and gently wiped her tears with the gentle smile she always had before.

“…… Then, I'm going to go back to the consortium once. ”

Everyone made up their minds one by one, and Theo quietly told his thoughts.

"The current support department doesn't need me anymore, and we don't need it anymore. Indeed, as Brother Lloyd said, instead of forcing himself to stay here, it is better to do something more meaningful, to do what only we can do, to silently accumulate strength, and to reunite one day in the future. I'm going to go back and come up with a good plan for optimizing the Wizard Wand, as well as the system of Hexu's tactical shell, and there are also places I can help. ”

"Hey—everybody's leaving. Then why am I staying here, it's not boring to death. ”

Randy said things that didn't fit his image, and his tone was the same as before, but, judging from Randy's previous decadent behavior, he should really like the support department by himself, because he didn't have to worry about someone taking care of him.

"Then, I'll go back to the garrison too. It's time for Commander Sonia, watch my Uncle Randy train them well, and the new garrison will definitely open everyone's eyes! If that barrier is that big, we can't just get stronger, right? ”

Everyone made the same reply, Qi Ya looked at everyone as if she didn't understand, and asked weakly, "What, everyone, are you leaving?" ”

Subconsciously, she already understood that everyone in the Support Department was about to go away.

"No, it won't. This is only a temporary separation. Soon, everyone will get back together. Moreover, although Theo is going back to the consortium, Randy Ellie and I are in Crossbell City, so it is easy for everyone to get together. ”

Lloyd comforted her, and Kia nodded, giving everyone a full of energetic expression: "Hmm! Kia will be patient! Everyone, don't worry about Kia. ”

"It's so sensible, little Kia~"

Everyone laughed and touched her head, and this intimate action made Kia proud.

"So, when you come back, tell him about our decision."

Lloyd summed it up.

"Ah, that guy, I feel like he's going to say something 'I don't agree with you, there's no reason to disagree with you.'" Something like that~"

Randy grinned and teased someone who wasn't here.

However, Lloyd's expression suddenly became heavy.

"It would be great if you could really say that."