Chapter XVII: The Oath
At noon, the warm sunlight shines through the window into the cottage. The pink decoration reflects the golden light, mixed with the fragrance of wood, and exudes a soothing atmosphere.
Lying on the bed, Jiqi struggled to open his eyelids, and a yellowing ceiling appeared in the retina that was restarted.
He looked at the pink lights overhead and knew it was a Welsh room. Turning her head slightly, the girl's quiet face appeared on the pillow, her slender black eyelashes were slightly upturned, and above her was a frowning brow, and the silk wrinkles seemed to be unsorted threads stirring in the center of her eyebrows, and under the small nose were half-open cherry lips, muttering as if she was muttering something.
Jiqi moved his body slightly, trying not to wake the tired girl, and he reached out and smoothed her brow with his slender fingers through his blonde forehead.
"Admiral, Admiral!" The disturbed girl whispered in a half-asleep voice, her expression suddenly nervous, and her hands clutched the sheets as if she were having a nightmare. She suddenly opened her eyes, looking around for something, and when she saw the awakened young man in front of her, she was stunned for a moment, and transparent tears slowly flowed from her eyes.
"Admiral, you're awake. I'm sorry, I'm sorry! The girl's voice whimpered, like a pet cat that had been wandering for a long time, and couldn't wait to pounce into the arms of her master and find the only safe haven.
"Admiral, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let you go alone, if it weren't for me, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be like this." Wales kept whispering apologies, and she slowly raised her head, tears streaming down her face, and the pear blossoms were distressing like rain.
Jiqi looked at the crying girl, quietly, without speaking, he felt that this was probably the truest side of Wales. He opened his hands slightly, took her thin body into his arms, took a deep breath, sniffed the fragrance in her hair, and said affectionately in his ear, "Wales, I like you, no, I should say that I am in love with you, from the moment we met in the shade of the tree." Jiqi said directly.
He didn't know how to express his thoughts, and he didn't know if it was the right thing to say, because he had never said such things to a girl, and no girl had ever been able to contain the throbbing in his heart. Perhaps this is the truest portrayal of the love in the dictionary that does not know what to do and goes deep.
"Hey, why, why do you say such a thing? Obviously, obviously you would never say that before. ”
The girl froze, her face burning. She was a little puzzled, obviously the previous admiral didn't even have the courage to face herself, and her eyes were always full of dodge. Now he has become so bold, and as soon as he wakes up, he reveals his heart to himself so directly. She looked at the serious teenager and was a little caught off guard.
"I just don't want to leave myself with regrets." Jiqi explained. "Sometimes I'm not dumbfounded, and it's not that I don't understand. I just don't think the timing is right. In my opinion, confession is a very sacred ritual, failure or success depends on the accumulation of the front, just like building a tall building, the longer the time, the stronger the foundation, the less likely it will collapse. However, for you, I can't wait, I don't want to continue to be silent as before. I'm afraid, I'm afraid, just like before, I won't be able to say those three words until I die, and I'll be buried in my heart all the time, unable to speak. I don't care about success or failure, I just want to express my truest thoughts to you, the decision is up to you, I won't feel sad to refuse or accept, at least I said what I wanted to say. I still remember when I was in the academy, the psychology teacher said when we were in class, there are some things, you must say it, don't always think that the other party will have a heart with you, if you don't say it, how will the other party know what you want. So, I'm saying it now, so, Wales, do you say no or accept? ”
Jiqi pressed the girl's shoulders, his eyes full of hope, waiting for her answer. He felt that these few seconds were the longest moments of his life, and they were also the most tense moments, and the deer in his heart jumped violently, as if he had taken drugs. Even when he took the stage at the graduation ceremony to face the thousands of people in the school, he didn't feel too nervous, but he just looked at the crowd strangely and didn't feel anything. Yes, after all, it is in the face of countless strangers, and there is no intersection with them, so there will be no nervousness at all.
And at this time, he seems to be standing in front of the crossroads that determines his fate, whether it is left or right, it will make him, a gambler, frightened. If Wales rejects his favor, he will smile and say it's okay, I don't care. But there will still be sadness in my heart, and I will even hide in the quilt and cry sadly in the dead of night. It's all said like that, and it doesn't matter if you say you don't care. But no matter what, people can't deceive their inner feelings, and this can't be faked. Perhaps, there is only one answer to what you want, and that is to hope that your beloved can accept you. There's nothing you don't care about, there's nothing you don't feel sad, in fact, you will care and be sad.
I hope that the prince will accept me, Cinderella, as he thinks in his heart, and prays silently for himself with his hands folded in his heart.
Wales looked at Jiqi, without the usual arrogance and shyness, she looked directly at the nervous Admiral, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes did not dodge at all.
"What a stupid person, and said that he was not dull and mune, people clearly expressed it so obviously, can't you see it?" The girl said coquettishly, with a tone of hatred that iron does not become steel. She stretched out her slender hand, as if to complete some kind of ritual, moved it to Jiqi's palm, and opened the hand that grasped him, as if grasping the most important thing in life, tightly, unwilling to let go.
"Now that the contract has been made, we will be a couple from this moment on, the kind that will never be separated again. So, my answer is yes. The girl replied affirmatively, generously and without the slightest hesitation.
Jiqi's nervous expression instantly relaxed, and his nervous mood finally calmed down, and he smiled silly, like a child who has received a favorite toy. He had never waited anxiously for an answer from someone like this, and it was the kind of answer that would decide a lifetime. Fortunately, the ending was as he expected, and there was no deviation. He trembled and opened his hand, intersected his fingers with the girl's ten fingers, palms facing each other, and said with a smile, "I will always remember your answer today, and when the time comes, don't leave me, the cook, and run away by myself, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales." ”
"No, Lord Chef is so important to this king, even if he loses himself, he won't give you up." The girl replied with a smile, and the playful conversation between the two was full of tacit understanding. Wales's eyes were full of determination, and she said in a tough tone in her heart, Admiral, I will never let you leave me again, never, I promise.
The two naturally approached each other, snuggling up to each other, as intimate as a newlywed couple. The golden sunlight sprinkled on them like a warm blessing.
The closed door was slightly pushed open, and Noah's Ark, who was standing outside the door, looked at the two of them through the gap infatuatedly, and his pale gray pupils were full of envy. She sighed slightly, stroked her short hair, and carefully stepped backwards without making a sound. She looked at the bright sun overhead, and a sour feeling welled up in her heart, refilling her somewhat numb heart. She touched her face stupidly, her eyes full of confusion.
It's really a good match, I'm afraid I can only watch silently from the sidelines. The girl pressed her undulating chest and whispered.
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Weiss Islands
The long-haired girl sat by the roots of a coconut tree by the sea, her blood-stained sword on her outstretched legs. She held a handkerchief soaked in the sea, ready to wipe the blood away, but her slightly trembling hands in mid-air showed her uneasy heart.
"It's sad. Monsters without emotions only know to kill, and simply cannot understand the persistence of the name human. ”
"Oh, yes. I found out that you are in the deep sea, there is no emotion, and I don't know what love is. But I can tell you that love is the kind of thing that drives people crazy and makes you desperate to want to be with her. ”
"I desperately want to survive, I want to watch the sunset with my beloved girl."
Every little bit of blood seemed to reflect the stubborn face and unwilling expression of the young man, she struggled for a long time, but still wiped away the blood little by little with a wet handkerchief, and also wiped away the memory that made her heart numb.
Is it true that I have no emotions and can't understand the thing called love, as he said? The girl looked at the blade that was as clear as clear water and asked herself silently.
She was born in a darkness full of blood and carnage, and only those who survive to the end are qualified to retain the ability to think, and the rest have become irrational Deadpools, who can only be at the mercy of others, as cannon fodder to rush ahead, and play a role in opening the way for the follow-up troops.
And he climbed up step by step from that cruel hell, using the knife in his hand to cut off what stood in front of him, no matter what he was, as long as he stood in his way, then wipe it out. The girl who came out of that environment inevitably carried the breath of death. Every time he obeys orders to kill an enemy, he will always carefully clean the ship's sword, which is equivalent to his partner, and wipe it spotlessly. But this time it was completely different, I hesitated, and the hand holding the handkerchief was shaking for some reason.
The girl didn't know what was going on, the same Admiral's blood, the same face of death, but she had different feelings for him than others. She stared at the sea in distraction, and a smile of relief came to her mind.
"You won, you really won." The girl whispered, slowly rolling up her sleeves, and a wound that had not yet fully healed appeared on her white arm, where blood was still oozing.
She touched the wound and her eyes were confused, as if she was asking and answering herself. "He must have suffered a thousand times more than I did, and what sustained him to fight with himself for so long in a mortal body, is it the love he speaks of?"
"Could something as powerful really exist in a weak body?" She raised her head to the sea and asked questions, and she was answered by the howling waves and the screaming of the evening wind.