Chapter 201: The End of the Play
"Headmaster, are you awake?" Scar, who was standing in the doorway, walked in and helped the old man to sit down. Although he didn't know when the principal woke up, he could clearly feel that the other party's current state was very bad, and compared to the energetic appearance before, it was completely different.
"If I don't wake up, I'm afraid I'll never wake up again." Macallen leaned back on the couch and sighed as she looked at the ceiling above her. "How long do we have to return to Siberia now?" He asked softly.
He now wanted to know how far he was from the end of this journey home, to see if he could make it to the end, to fulfill his last wish, to see Restan for the last time, and to tell the old friend with the last of his strength that he had failed as he wished.
"Now we have about a day before we get to Siberia." Scar hesitated for a moment, then bent down to answer.
He knew that this old man had reached the point where the lamp had run out, and it was very likely that he would not survive the time he had said. After all, taking evil words is tantamount to suicide, and the power of burning life in exchange is no different from drinking a donkey to quench thirst.
"Is there another day?" Macallen shook his head weakly, his withered face showing a helpless wry smile. A day seemed to him before to be just a blink of an eye, but for him now, every second seems so long, and every second of life is a kind of happiness.
"Scar, do you think we're going to have a successful day?" He looked at the young man in front of him and asked softly. "Didn't you feel like we had any hope of success from the start, right?"
"Not really," Scar shook her head, "I was shocked and unbelievable when I first learned about your plan, Headmaster, but then I felt that it was just a great cause that could be spent my whole life, and it was worth sacrificing for it. As an adventurous nobleman, he naturally had a keen interest in such crazy ideas. So from beginning to end, he didn't regret it.
"Really?" Macallen chuckled, her old face tinged with a hint of relief. "Yes, this is indeed a great undertaking that can be spent on a lifetime, but the final outcome is not as perfect as imagined. Doing such crazy things is like gambling, losing and winning are unknown until they are revealed, but once the outcome is known, there is no possibility of a comeback. Now we are like this, knowing the outcome of failure, there is no chance. ”
"So, in your opinion, Headmaster, we've lost completely?" Scar didn't understand, it was clear that this was just a promising temptation, and a temporary defeat didn't mean anything.
"yes, we've lost completely." Mercaren nodded, "Yamato lost to Jiqi, and then the king himself will be able to completely destroy that new star." ”
"So don't we still have a chance? As long as the king is willing to do it, we still have a chance. Scar said forcefully, his young eyes filled with confidence. He has never been one to give up easily, he has always believed that man can win the day, so when he got the news of Yamato's defeat, his first thought was not to give up, but to fight to the death.
It's like the rising sun, always believing that your light can illuminate everything.
"That king is completely different from the one before her, I don't see any ambition or desire in her eyes, she has no interest in fighting, and she has no interest in our cause." Mecaren shook his head pessimistically, recalling the scene when he met the girl, and he smiled weakly and bitterly. "Maybe in her eyes, our plan is not as interesting as a few comics."
The other party is called the king by countless deep sea honors, but he has no ambition and spirit of the king at all, but he is like an ordinary dead house girl, who likes games and comics. is full of disgust for fighting and killing. Perhaps this is the so-called laziness of the king, lazy enough to ignore everything.
"We can trade what the person likes, and it's not necessarily impossible for her to get her to do our job."
"Do you think it's possible?" Mecaren looked at the innocent young man in a daze and smiled contemptuously. "A king without ambition can never be the first to provoke a fight, so from the very beginning, we have not much chance of winning."
"Alright, Scar, now I don't want to dwell on this issue anymore." He shook his head, not wanting to continue the discussion on this issue that had already become a fact, failure is failure, loss is loss, and everything is like an excuse.
"I know the headmaster." Scar bent over and nodded, and as he looked at the old man, who was already dying, he knew that the countdown was on the way for him to have the rest of his time. There is a possibility of dying at any time, and discussing his faults with a dying man, Scar thinks he can't do such an immoral thing.
"Actually, I was just an ordinary admiral at the beginning, a confident admiral." Macallen recalled her past self, and her tone was full of embarrassment. "At that time, I always believed that I could wipe out all the deep seas with my own ability and become a hero who could go down in history."
"Heroes?" Scar was a little puzzled, he had never thought that such a madman would have a hero's dream.
"Yes, hero, a dream that almost all children have, at that time I always imagined that if I took the ship girl to completely wipe out the deep sea, and then take back all the territories that mankind had taken away, how many girls and people would cheer for me and applaud me when I triumphed." Macallen squinted slightly, and her voice grew faint little by little, as if a tired old man was about to fall into a deep sleep.
But Scar knew that if he really fell asleep like this, he would never wake up again. The effects of the evil words had invaded the blood of his body, spreading the deadly poison all over his body.
"And after that? Why did the principal change his original intention? Scar looked at him stunned, hesitated for a long time, and then asked.
"After that, after that, I ...... Lost, I took my ship's mother to face the deep sea, and the end was a fiasco. Mercaren's lips twitched, and she slowly told the story of the past, but her tone was deeply powerless. From that moment on, I knew how ridiculous my heroic dreams were, and how ignorant I was about the deep sea. He closed his eyes and recalled the past, and countless memories seemed to be a surging tide that overwhelmed him, making his body heavier and heavier.
"And now...... The protagonists of this heroic dream have become Jiqi and Xu Kai, and I am just a villain who sets off their greatness...... Bad apple. He muttered softly, with a heavy snort with every word, as if every word required a great deal of his strength. Maybe that's how I ...... Only...... I have to go to hell. ”
Scar was silent as he watched at Mercarron, who was hovering on the brink of sobriety and death, but there was a faint mist in those eyes full of high spirits. Although he always called Mercaren the headmaster, in his heart, this old man was his respected teacher.
"Ska, when you return to Siberia, you will be buried in ...... Theodore's side. "Mecaren explained what happened to him, he no longer had the strength to fight death, he could only give in little by little." You also go back to your family to be a reassuring young master, and then ...... Find a girl you like each other and spend your ...... For a lifetime. ”
Scar crouched down and nodded vigorously in reply, though he didn't know if the other would be able to see his answer.
"Xu Kai, I've always envied him...... That guy kept running away, but ...... The girl who loves him has been waiting. Macarron recalled the heavy rain that completely washed away the corporate academy and smiled stunned. It's the same with Jiqi, there are so many ship girls behind him to support him, and I'm ...... It's always been ...... Alone, so Scar I don't want ...... You're like me, don't ...... Alone ...... Age. As if having said all that had to be said, Mercaren finally stopped breathing, and at that moment the whole cabin became extremely quiet, as if the air was also frozen by this faint sadness.
Headmaster, I will, I'll listen to you, I will. Scar closed his eyes and held his head high, trying not to let his tears fall, but the tears that oozed still shimmered in the sunlight outside the window, like the end of the play.
Thank you for the heart and prosperity of the monthly pass