Like a fish out of water, opening and closing its lips and cheeks, hoping that the air that envelops it will keep it alive. But a fish is a fish after all, and evolution doesn't happen at the moment when the fish is pulled out of the water by a fisherman. Despair doesn't happen at the moment when the fisherman's net begins to shrink, it happens when the fish thinks it can live in the water forever – the life of the fish in the water.

"That's why Dale started killing hostages?!!" Wes yelled at Oz the mind reader. Right after Oz explained what he had read from Dale's head.

Oz stopped responding to Weiss and looked out the window.

Obviously, this is not Barton, but probably a highway between two cities in the middle of the Union, flanked by the usual scenery of the winter countryside, a bit like Barton's Route 27 in the South End. But there will never be such a convoy of military armed forces on Route 27 in Patton.

As if 'listening' some uneasiness, Oz the mind reader withdrew his gaze from the window looking out the window, and his gaze fell on the man in glasses sitting with a bunch of GIs, "But he will never hurt you." ”

"Because I'm his brother?" said the man with glasses...... I am trembling.

"No, but yes. Because in "Cain of God's Punishment", the first vampire Cain was punished by the Holy Lord for killing his brother and became a vampire. Oz continued to look at the scenery, "We have successfully forced Dale to start killing, and the psychological balance that Dale and James have maintained all the way has been successfully broken by us, both of them, are on the verge of collapse, and you." Hehe, Dale's younger brother, is Dale's last bottom line to distinguish whether he is a human or a monster. ”

Oz said the last sentence, "Wes, I know you called Grande, but since Zach believes me, you should trust me too." "Laughs.

The convoy continues.

And our story, after this non-Patton progression, it's time to go back to Patton's side. I just want you to see the point - "We've managed to force Dale to start killing, and we've managed to break the mental balance that Dale and James have maintained along the way." That's how mind readers do, don't judge.

Grandrie, well, quite calm. The snow is still falling, and the weather forecast says that the snow is expected to stop in two days, which will be the last snow of the year. Believe me, this is a snow that symbolizes hope~ because when the weather is over with white flakes falling from the sky, everyone can start to welcome the spring of the new year~

At lunchtime for humans, Emilia runs back to Grande. Just when Zach and Louise thought that after Miley was gone, Grande didn't need to prepare food for humans anymore.

Of course, Amilia's reasoning is very convincing, "I don't want to have lunch with a bunch of criminals." ”

As everyone expected, Amilia's treatment hit a bottleneck, and before eating the lunch made by Zach, she borrowed Grande's phone and postponed the afternoon's schedule.

"You don't have to be so positive. Zach was very sincere, "If you can't cure Evan today, you can continue to ...... next time"

This kindness was interrupted, "I don't want to run to you again!

All right. Since professional doctors have said so. Hehe, if all mental illnesses can be solved at one time, the world will be a lot better~

Then Zach found out that Emilia was even more difficult to serve than Miley, and the psychiatrist was a vegetarian, uh.

Zach had nothing to complain about except admit that he was unlucky enough to reprepare Emilia's lunch. But Louise was very curious, "Why~" She sat at the table with Emilia and waited for lunch, "How do you usually distribute food with Harrison at home?"

"Nope. Emilia probably needs this so-called 'homely' conversation to relax the intense treatment, "so that it's convenient, his food is his food, and my food is mine." We can't make a mistake. The tone was extremely relaxed, and there was a little smile, "Can you believe that I ate his food, hehe~ The reverse is the same~ So it's good to separate like this." ”

"Oh. Louise nodded, "Did you ask, then, why doesn't Harrison eat what is alive?"

"Yes, I asked once. Emilia pouted, "Sometimes I'm curious. But. She shrugged, "He replied evasively, and then I knew it wasn't a conversation between him and me that was supposed to happen, so I didn't ask." "It's nice to have a girlfriend who specializes in psychology.

"Oh. Louise nodded again, "I do find that I never thought about why vampires can only ......" blinked blankly, "Suck blood." I just ...... "my eyes focused," and I thought, 'That's it.'" ”

"It's normal. Emilia is still a professional, "When people find something completely different from themselves, there is this normal process of psychological acceptance. Emilia tilted her head, "Of course, I'm talking about the kind of sincerity that recognizes the other person differently than I do. Not that hypocritical statement of 'oh, you're not like me'. ”

Louise nodded quickly, "I understand this." "Motioning for Emilia to continue," you say. ”

"It's like when we go buy something we've never seen before, we're the first to look at the manual, like, uh, the camera. Emilia made an analogy, "If the instructions say that you can take a picture by pressing a button, we will only remember that button is a photograph, and we will not have any doubts about why that button can be photographed." ”

Louise thought for a moment, "Equivalent to, in the face of the utterly unknown, we belong, well, remember what it means? Like a baby remembering that one plus one equals two." ”

Emilia smiled, "Yes~" looked sideways at Zach with salad in the kitchen, "I like Louise~" This sentence probably means 'you don't like it that much'. Emilia continued to chat with Louise, "Remembering what we don't know is the beginning of accepting something we don't know. Then, very later, we become conscious of the question of 'why one plus one equals two?' Emilia shrugged, "And most of the time, most people never realize the question of 'why'. This is very normal and very healthy. Emilia held up a finger, "Because most of the time, the question of 'why' is too early and only hurts." ”

Louise smiled, "It's like a one- or two-year-old chasing after his parents and asking why one plus one equals two~hehe~"

"That's exactly it~" Emilia smiled, "The standard of health is the indicator of the majority~ Not everyone is the very small number of 'truth seekers', the vast majority of people are in the stage of 'just remember'......"

Zach came out with a bowl of salad, "No, most people know the truth. Zach actually just wanted to refute Emilia - his girlfriend was having a good time with someone, and as a boyfriend, he had a sense of crisis.

"Oh. Amilia's smile immediately turned to impatience, "Tell me, what truth do most people have?" picked up a fork and began to stir up his lunch.

Zach pursed his lips, "Give me a hundred years, I'll tell you." ”

Emilia raised an eyebrow at Louise, "Proof of my point~" and began to eat lunch.

Zach pouted speechlessly and looked at Louise, "I'll go take a look at the living quarters." ”

"Ask Evan about it?" Louise raised an eyebrow, "Forget it, no one will thank you." "Truth be told, no one has taken Zack's concern for a long time as a real concern. Although Zach didn't really care, it was more like a dummer.

"Actually, I wanted to see Bane. Zach shook his head, "Yesterday he seemed to blame himself a little, I wasn't in a good mood, so I ignored it." ”

"Bane?" Emilia still had food in her mouth, "the employee who lives here with his wife and children?"

Zach looked at Emilia and nodded.

"He ......" Emilia frowned, "you don't have to worry about him, he came to me when I was resting, we talked for a while, his psychology." Rolling his eyes, "I have a lot of awareness that I live in a vampire's house." Immediately, he glanced at Zack, "I heard something about the Bane family from Muen, what kind of agreement did you make with their family?"

Everyone should have noticed that the people in Grande who belong to Zack's side went by themselves, and Zach arranged to go...... Zach is almost no one with him now, except for the Banes.

"Nothing agreed. Zach shrugged, but since the psychiatrist said that Bane was fine, Zach was not ready to look for trouble, "It's just a labor contract and a housing contract." ”

"Hmph, no way. Emilia gave a roll of her eyes, "Muen told me that Bane's wife didn't know about the existence of aliens, but Bane knew. Bane doesn't look like a dull man, he must have made some pact with you, otherwise I think he'd like to stay in Grande's environment. ”

"Well, we do have a ......" Zach just didn't want to say the word 'engagement', skimming, "it was Bane's own decision, he wasn't ready to leave Grande, even after I left." ”

Louise answered, "Alice, Bane is willing to help Alice take over Grande in the future." ”

Emilia tilted her head, shrugged her shoulders and didn't say anything.

"Grandri needs some normal people. Zach touched the bottle and poured it for himself and Louise. It feels like Emilia is a woman who can make a reasonable food distribution plan with both ghouls, and she shouldn't have any problem eating with vampires.

Emilia really didn't care about the image of the two vampires eating, just chewing the food in her mouth. That long chewing session made Zach wonder if the food he was making was really bad. Emilia spoke, "Actually, I don't think Grande has a future. ”

"Huh?"

"This halfway house project. Emilia glanced at Zach, her gaze quickly retracted, "And what I heard in the living area today." In a few years, I believe that Grande will just become a, uh, I don't know, a socially functional institution. ”

"What do you mean?"

"When I didn't say it. Emilia shook her fork, "I'm a psychiatrist, not a prophet. ”

Suddenly, the table, which had been a fairly brisk exchange, became quiet, and the atmosphere began to be awkward, with only the sound of vampires swallowing and humans chewing, as you can imagine.

Louise was really great, "So why do we only drink blood?" found a question from the previous topic.

"I didn't put this information in your blood?" Zach is a little suspicious of life, how derelict he was when he transformed Louise??

"Well, you've put in hundreds of ways to tell if a creature's blood is alive or dead, but, uh, there's no why. Louise replied, casually alleviating Zach's self-doubt. Anyway, Louise is awesome.

"Okay. Zach had already seen Amilia's sneering, "But you've read the Holy Scriptures, you grew up in the Academy." The story of Cain's punishment for killing his brother. ”

"No, it won't. Is the story in the Holy Book really?" Louise was surprised.

"No one knows if it's true or not, but that's the story that all vampires know. Cain was punished by the Holy Lord, abandoned by the world of faith, and can only exist in this world. Zach spread his hands helplessly, "I said last time about the book written by the saints, remember?" ”

"Cain the Divine Punishment?" Louise blinked, a little disappointed, "so the Lord has decreed that vampires can only live on blood. "That's a too, too much, old-fashioned answer. But soon, "But there is only one section of this story in the holy scriptures, at least there are more of them in that book, what does the book say, what is the complete story?"

"It's actually very boring, the books of that era, full of religious symbolism. The book of the saints is used for preaching, so in today's version of the holy scriptures, the condensed stories are more in line with people's reading perception. Zach inexplicably made a comment. Knowing that Louise would not be satisfied with this response, "You know that the holy scriptures say that Cain's younger brother was a shepherd, so the tribute to the Holy Lord was meat, and Cain was a farmer, the vegetables given, and then the jealousy caused by the Holy Lord's favoritism, caused a tragedy. That's right. ”

Louise nodded.

"Shepherds have a special symbolism in the faith of the Holy Lord, can you think of it? Zach looked at Louise.

Louise blinked, but didn't speak. It was Emilia, who stopped eating, "The shepherds are not without symbolism. She looked at Zach, "Symbolically the lambs grazed by shepherds, humans. Man is the Lamb of the Lord's faith. ”

Zach nodded, "The Lamb is Cain's brother, a tribute to the Holy Lord. Cain killed his brother, who had won the favor of the Holy Lord. ”

Louise froze for a moment, then opened her mouth, and a cold breath poured into her chest unexpectedly, "Cain!

Zach waved his hand, "I wouldn't say Cain was protecting humanity. I will only say that Cain chose a profession that was not destined to be favored by the Holy Lord, the farmer, and then usurped the throne, which was not accepted by the Holy Lord. ”