"Xiu, you're distracted again." Aguila sat back in her chair, "I'm sure you didn't even notice I stopped for a long time. ”

Xiu came back to his senses at this time.

"Do you need a cup of Mr. Marshall's tea?"

"Nope! No, no," Xiu hurriedly refused, glancing faintly at Father Marshall's location.

The old man didn't seem to notice the repair. He was still quietly reading the book, his legs covered with a blanket, flipping through a heavy book. There is still a small kettle next to him, and tea is boiling in it.

The old man seems to be so peaceful forever. A book, a pot of tea, and a person are the best portrayal of this old man.

"You've talked to Susanna, Elena, Father Marshall, and Father Augustine about your troubles, so... Would you like to confide in a decadent middle-aged man about your troubles? Aguila said half-jokingly.

"Teacher, can you tell me whether what I did this time was right or wrong..."

After a long time, Xiu walked out of the office door, tightened the pink scarf around his neck, and exhaled a soft white mist.

"Xiu, I think... You may have more than you think. Those things are in your heart, it's just that you don't realize it now, and one day, they will turn into a powerful force... All you have to do is hold on to your heart. Aguila stood in the doorway of her office and said to Xiu.

Xiu Hui smiled and said, "Well, teacher, I will remember what you said." Goodbye, teacher. ”

"Goodbye."

Xiu turned and left.

He's still wearing the scarf Luna gave her. Although the black color of the whole body made this pink incompatible, Xiu cherished this scarf very much.

Because it's a gift from a friend.

He went to the quartermaster and found that Mia was not there, replaced by another Valkyrie instructor who was not impressed. Xiu didn't stop, he took the horse grass and left.

The dark stables had been reinforced, and not only had the ventilation openings tightly sealed with wooden planks, but also had wheat straw tied inside to plug the gaps in the planks and keep the stable warm.

But when he opened the door to the stable, he paused for a long time.

Usually he would stand in the stable, or fall asleep with his head down, or tilt his head up, looking at him with big black and white eyes, and sometimes he would come forward and rub his face.

Now the darkness is a little difficult to shrink in the corner, very uncomfortable.

Of course, it's uncomfortable, there are more than a dozen people crowded in the already small stable, where can the dark stay?

When the door of the stable opened, more than a dozen pairs of bright eyes looked at Xiu, who no longer knew how to express the feelings in his heart.

He sighed.

"The stables are the place where I give my horses to sleep. You are sleeping, what will happen to my horses. ”

"We just stayed overnight... One time. Tomorrow we'll change the stables. Ness lowered her head and looked at him a little afraid to look at him.

"Get out of the way." Xiu said a little coldly.

Ness looked into Xiu's eyes, and she saw that her eyes were full of dissatisfaction.

These eyes are as transparent as crystals, and no emotions can be hidden.

"Is that so... Then we'll go now. Ness prepared to stand up.

"Sister, do you really want to go, only this stable is the cleanest," asked the little Valkyrie.

"This is someone else's place, we..."

"I'm asking you to give way, you're blocking me from leading the horse."

Ness froze for a moment, blinking as if she didn't understand.

Xiu directly forcibly squeezed out a way in the Valkyrie pile and pulled out the dark and difficult.

"I clean up almost every day, of course." He left the sentence and left.

The Valkyries looked at Xiu's distant figure, and their eyes were a little complicated.

"Sister, that's what I heard from the priest... Good guys? ”

Ness gently rubbed the little Valkyrie's hair, "Maybe...", she said uncertainly.

Xiu pulled the dark into the room.

He hadn't let Dark take him to his room for a while, because Dark preferred his own nest to his room. Now that it's so empty, it's still snorting with some dissatisfaction.

It was cold in the room as the fire had been extinguished. The residual temperature of the extinguished flame simply does not last long, and the dark wood does not leave embers behind after burning.

They are hard to burn, but when they do, they are hotter than any wood. Once ignited, the wind and snow will not extinguish them, and they will always burn out, leaving no residue behind.

After it got cold that day, a lot of black wood was distributed in the training camp, and the recruits stacked the black wood outside the door, and when they wanted to use it, they could just take it, which was very convenient.

Xiu Cong brought in several black woods, and used some secretly eaten hay to ignite the flames, and then slowly ignited the black wood, and the fire slowly ignited.

When Kuroki was fully ablaze, Shuri hung up the kettle and filled it with half a pot of snow for it to melt.

After all this is done, all the chores that should be done are done. He opened the sack of horse grass for the general to eat, while he sat on his bed, looking at the book that Father Marshall had given him, with this little candle.

It's like he's forgetting that there's another person in the room, doing one person's thing.

The forgotten man also seemed unaware of the return of the owner of the room, still lying on the bed of the owner's former friend, without a trace of movement.

"Aren't you ashamed that your teammates are hiding in the stables outside, but you are hiding in your room." Xiu finally couldn't help it.

"Can you please carry me out?" The girl said calmly, "They don't want to take me away, and I... I can't move now. ”

Xiu thought about the half of the blood that Shalena had brought out during the day, and then thought about how he had lost blood before.

She really doesn't have the strength...

"Why don't you let them eat?" Xiu put down the book, jumped out of bed, and walked over to the girl, "They haven't eaten for a day!" ”

"It's nothing. We used to go four days without eating. ”

Do you want to express that it's okay even if you don't eat? Xiu frowned.

"Do you just care about eating?" The girl asked suddenly.

The repair office nodded of course.

The girl froze for a moment. Then he laughed a little mockingly.

"Your world is so simple."

The thick quilt shook slightly, and then regained its calm.

"I really want to sit up, but I can't move...", she looked at Xiu, "Can you help me?" ”

Xiu looked at her, thinking of seeing the bandages that Salena had tied during the day, and shook his head in refusal.

"Really—" She turned her gaze back to the ceiling.

"If I don't make it clear to you, I probably won't want to talk to me."

Xiu didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"It starts with our chief Dimmert," she breathed a sigh of relief, "and it's not a good story... Where do I start? ”

She thought about it for a moment.

"We're different from other camps. You're trained to fight Honkai and protect humanity, and we're trained... It's to kill humans. ”

Xiu's eyes changed.

"That's right, it's to kill people. Humanity is not united, there are many people who do not know the existence of Honkai, they do not know that this human enemy is the common enemy of mankind, so their enemy is the other human beings themselves. ”

Xiu sat at the end of the bed with his elbows on his knees. The hair on his forehead was already long because it was not trimmed, just enough to cover his eyes, making it impossible to see his eyes.

"Although the Mandate of Heaven is a transcendent organization against the Honkai and a spiritual leader in the human world, but... The real rulers have no faith. They can do anything for the sake of profit... It also includes against the Mandate of Heaven. She looked at Xiu, who was sitting next to her.

"We were born to clean up such people. Xiu, you are the knights of light, and we are the warriors of darkness. You are fighting to protect humanity, and we are killing humanity to protect you..."

"Don't say it so nicely." Xiu suddenly interrupted her.

The girl was stunned for a moment and smiled faintly.

"yes, no matter how you say it, it's just to kill people."

"No, I mean, don't say that we sound so nice." Xiu's words made the girl not understand at all.

"You kill people, and we kill Honkaimon. Aren't we all butchers, where is there any distinction between high and low..."The girl saw the boy Xiu raise and look at herself, "Isn't it all to protect something?" ”

His eyes were still as clear as crystal, with a faint smile.

She smiled.

"Have you ever killed someone?" Xiu asked.

"Not yet." The girl replied.

"What about the companions?"

"Not either."

"So... What are you doing when you say you're so dirty? Xiu stood up and walked over to the girl.

"But, I don't think I'm averse to killing anymore." The girl seemed to want to justify something: "Everything that Demert has done to us is to numb our physical and mental pains, and he has trained us as tools to kill. When we're completely numb, we don't care about anything. We... In the end, I can't escape that identity, that blood, that ... Destiny. ”

"What did he do to you?" Xiu moved to the head of the bed and sat down in front of the girl.

"Everything that can make you feel pain." She muttered, "All! ”