Interlude: A renewed promise
As usual, it was a very normal day,
From the mouth of the girl who visited the hut at night, she learned that the teleportation to Midnight had been prepared, which was just the right time in every sense.
made Fang Ran feel that it was really said that it would take a few days, and it was the excuse that Shui Linlang made to predict the follow-up development.
Thinking about the last thing to do before leaving,
Fang Ran teleported to the mechanical micro-city where 'You Ye' was located as usual.
"Ling?"
When he said unexpectedly, he found that the golden fairy-like figure was suspended in the air in front of him as if he knew he was coming.
"It's so late, why are you here without sleeping?"
With her back to Fang Ran, Ling seemed to be adjusting something, and her tone was light and faint, and she couldn't hear her feelings.
"Ah, that's it, Grandma Shui told me today that the teleportation to midnight is ready,"
Fang Ran looked at Ling's figure, scratched his head and thought of a reason.
"So before leaving, I'll report to you with Ling..."
"You're going to leave tonight?"
"Ah, it doesn't seem like I'm prepared, but I've been ready for a long time..."
Thinking back to the night when the crutch turned back into a silver broken dragon tooth a few days ago, Fang Ran thought about himself who didn't know that Ling would wake up in the past few days.
And hearing his answer, Ling's fingers on the virtual button did not stop,
It's just that the words stopped for a second before they sounded again.
"yes, I see."
looked at Ling's back and was slightly surprised, and thought that he would definitely be warned of all kinds of precautions, and told how many mysterious and unpredictable characters in the midnight could not be provoked.
None of these appeared, but it made Fang Ran feel a little missing.
A little disappointed that he couldn't see the Queen's prosperous beauty before leaving, Fang Ran looked at Ling and pressed the button quickly with his fingers,
Without disturbing, he turned around and said hello, intending to start the departure of the spatial teleportation...
"Then Ling, I'll leave..."
But it didn't work out.
In the mechanical micro-city where the night mecha stands, a light-blond girl stands behind the young man, raising her hand to grab his clothes.
Fang Ran turned his head in surprise and saw Ling's slightly lowered figure behind him,
didn't float off the ground like usual, and the height difference made him unable to see those light golden eyes, but he could see her biting her lip and struggling silently.
And the force with which she grabbed her clothes.
"Ahh What's wrong, Queen? ”
After a period of silence, Fang Ran asked tentatively, but halfway through speaking, he asked and answered himself, grabbing his head and smirking with a narcissistic look:
"Huh! Is it reluctant to give me up, ahaha, rest assured, I'm just going to midnight as a relation, and I'm not going to any dangerous place, I'll be back soon..."
"Don't go..."
Then after hearing Ling's slight words, the pretended expression stopped abruptly.
is still the clear voice of the queen, but the reluctance, struggle, embarrassment, plus the little girl's willfulness, coquettishness, pleading, and pretending to cover it all up as usual,
constituted Ling's extremely low-volume words at the moment,
It even made Fang Ran say loudly for a moment when he suspected that he had heard it wrong:
"Ling...."
Hearing that he was really stunned by his tone, the light blonde hair lowered his head to cover his eyes,
Ling's fingers clenched hard, not wanting to let go.
Let go of the shelf that you usually get along with, let go of the aura and face of being an A-level high-ranking night angel, and let go of the shame of saying such things to a young man who is several generations younger than himself,
Acting in the midst of struggle, not as the little girl in the past,
Ling returned to her normal speaking volume and repeated what she had just said again.
"Don't go."
The complexity in the words this time was really heard, and it was the first time I heard Ling speak to herself like this in my memory.
Fang Ran just wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Ling's silent whispering.
"Wouldn't it be nice to stay here like this..."
"Your family, your friends, your companions, the girls you have a crush on.... Wake up, go to school, and come home every day..."
Ling grabbed Fang Ran and counted all kinds of things in his daily life, those complicated emotions made her can't help biting her lip, and the more she said the words she retained, the lower her voice became.
"All the daily life you wanted in the past is now by your side, and you have been living the life you have today, don't go to midnight, isn't it okay to stay here like this?"
"No... Ling, what are you talking about, I'm just going out a little bit and I'll be back soon...."
"Don't play dumb, you know what I'm talking about...."
Even the usual scolding was gone, Fang Ran looked at the queen who was just holding on to herself, and her momentum was unprecedentedly delicate,
opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a while,
Finally, he sighed helplessly, lowered his eyes and said softly:
"Indeed, all the daily life I wanted to protect in the past is now by my side, and I have a happy, lively and interesting life every day."
"If I had been two months ago, I would have been very satisfied."
There was a certain nostalgia in the tone, but after saying this,
Fang Ran raised an incomparably clear chuckle, and said to Ling in a serious tone and a cheerful voice:
"But when I was in Europe before, I slowly discovered along the way, no matter how I tried to cover up, how to escape, how to persuade myself with the reason of 'don't be in secondary school anymore',"
"In the end, I can't even deny that I still have something in my heart that I want to do, and I have something that makes me excited just thinking about it,"
Reminiscing about the experience of Europe for a moment, the extraordinary things that activated the ability to escape, fight, execute the plan in the night, and finally find the things at the end...
Fang Ran grabbed Ling's hand and released the clothes in his hand, slowly half-knelt down and looked up and smiled:
"I don't want to waste this once-in-a-lifetime wish to make it happen."
Only then did he see Ling's face, and sure enough, there was some embarrassment and worry.
"It's all participants too, Rei, you must know what that feels like, right?"
I understand, of course I do!
As an A-level participant, Ling certainly knows the meaning of 'wish' to participants, which is both the starting point and the end point, driving the actions of every participant.
Like her, even if she knows how 'willful' and unreasonable her demands are at the moment, she puts down her shelves, shame, and so on.
is also out of fear that the young man in front of him will disappear one day if he continues like this,
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The desire to keep him.
"Speaking of which, after escaping from that border town a hundred years ago, when I was ready to ignore the lives and deaths of the people there,"
"Ling, you can see through it all at once."
In the mechanical micro-city of future science fiction, the young man squatted half-kneeling in front of the girl who didn't look like a girl, and said with a smile that time,
She urged herself to do what she wanted to do and not go against her heart.
"I don't know! Also, when I was a kid, I didn't understand anything, and I'm not that kind now! ”
Only this time, the girl wanted him to stay.
"I'm an A-class loiter! Selfish, arrogant, unreasonable, self-interest first, other people's lives and deaths are my business, I don't care what your wishes are..."
As if she was making an excuse for wanting to forcibly leave him, Ling looked away from his cold voice, and put on a look of indifferent and disdainful contempt on her delicate face,
Then when Fang Ran sighed helplessly and stretched out his hand to hug her, he turned into a fawn-like panicked look.
Wrapping his hands around his back and waist, the gap between his body disappeared, and the fair skin on Ling's face revealed a touch of crimson, symbolically resisting,
"Don't speak ill of people important to me."
When he heard Fang Ran laughing softly, he couldn't help but bite his lip lightly and his face was hot.
Being hugged by Fang Ran, there was no way to say unreasonable words, Ling told herself not to be deceived by this kind of child's rhetoric while hating and thinking,
This damn fool is only so smart at this time...
"However, in order to avoid Ling worrying about you, and to prove that I don't care about my daily life,"
"Let's make a new pact."
Holding his queen in his arms, the pupil of Fang Ran's right eye lit up with a deep and quiet bright gold, I don't know what he was thinking at the moment,
A promise is made softly like an oath.
"No matter what happens in the future, I will definitely come back."
Hearing that he could even say such a thing, Ling finally opened her eyes and reluctantly whispered.
"Nobody cares about you..."
Fang Ran laughed silently, then felt the slender and soft waist and chest in his arms, and rubbed his cheeks against the light golden fluffy hair and smiled.
"Anyway, sure enough, Queen, you are very comfortable to hold when you grow up."
The girl he was holding didn't speak, didn't send him flying...