Atago stood under the tree around the corner, looking at Jiyu as he disappeared into the alleyway, hesitating to follow up. After all, the narrow alleyway is not as wide as the street outside, and there is no shelter to hide your figure, so you can easily be discovered.

She hesitantly approached the corner of the turn, sighed slightly and followed, like a stubborn child, continuing on the path she insisted on.

If the shadow does not follow in the footsteps of its master, then it is not a shadow. She tightened the white admiral uniform on her body and walked with firm steps.

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"The commander came with her, although there is no malice, but I smell a familiar smell from her, let's not look back now." Bismarck whispered in Jiqi's ear, silently feeling the approaching aura behind him, ready for battle.

"Can Bismarck see who the other person is?" Ji Qi leaned over and asked in a low voice, he couldn't turn back now, for fear that if he turned around, he would scare away the shadow who had been following him, after all, he also wanted to see who had been following him.

Bismarck shifted slightly, leaning on Jiqi's shoulder, cautiously peeking back. "The commander is in the deep sea, and although he covers his own smell well, he can still smell the smell of the other party clearly at such a close distance." She said solemnly with a slight squint. Although she didn't feel any malice from this deep-sea girl, she looked at the bloodstained admiral uniform on the other party's body with a solemn expression.

"Deep Sea?" Jiqi remembers the scene when he promised Yamato when he was on the front line. The other party said that he would come to his town guard mansion at the right time, could it be that the deep sea behind him came to fulfill this promise? He wondered in his mind.

"It's the deep sea, and she's wearing a blood-stained admiral suit." Bismarck replied in a whisper. Now they had reached the end of the alleyway, and in front of them was a solid wall with no exit, completely blocking their way on.

"Blood-stained admiral's suit?" Jiqi frowned and muttered softly, always feeling that the other party was not the deep sea sent by Yamato, but another girl who had met him, the deep sea who carried a knife to give himself death at midnight.

He turned his head suddenly, looking at the girl standing behind him in a white admiral uniform, her long black hair flashing silver in the warm sunlight, and her delicate face looked at him in a daze, not wanting to be as indifferent and expressionless as before, but a little panicked, the petite body wrapped in a black kimono trembled slightly, and the clogs under her feet moved in the direction behind her, as if trying to escape.

"Is that you?" Jiqi's mouth opened wide, his eyes revealing disbelief.

He had thought about countless possibilities, and he didn't expect that the one who followed him was actually the deep sea that gave him death in the Gelster Town Guard, although now she is more like a human girl than before, she can cry and laugh and be so panicked now, but the cowardice on her body at the moment is a look that Ji Qi has never seen before.

"Hug ...... Sorry, you recognized the wrong person. Atago didn't know what to do now, so he turned his head like an ostrich buried in the sand and prepared to escape. She was just a shadow following others, and she had no qualifications to appear in the sun at all. Atago hung his head and looked at his trembling figure in the sun, his inky pupils showing panic at a loss.

She was originally a puppet with a string of threads, dancing with the footsteps of Jiqi, and now the other party has cut off all the invisible silk threads, and as a puppet, she has no idea what to do next.

"I'm definitely not mistaken, it's you, the girl who appeared in the Gelst Town Guard Mansion that night." Ji Qi looked at her back and said loudly, his tone full of affirmation.

He believed that he had never recognized the wrong person, because it was the first time that he could not afford to have any hatred for the girl, and the other party was completely like an emotionless puppet, carrying out orders from his master, and the wielded ship knife in his hand revealed her unintentional sorrow.

Atago didn't answer Jiyu's question, just hung his head and sobbed slightly. She wanted to use her next years to compensate for the young man who had been deeply injured by the sharp long knife in her hand, and said that she would be a shadow behind him for the rest of her life, protecting and watching him in her own way in the darkness that he couldn't see.

But now everything is like a mouse bursting in the sun, and she can only curl up her body and dare not look directly at the other party's warm smile. After all, I still don't have the courage to stand in front of him, and I don't have the courage to face him after all. Obviously, he is the murderous deep sea, and the other party is a harmless admiral, but why don't he have ...... Don't have the slightest urge and courage to turn back? She screamed hoarsely in her heart, numb herself, but the body did not react or move like rotten wood.

She bit her lip and closed her eyes hard, clear tears seeping down the slits of her eyes. Maybe from today onwards, I don't have any meaning to exist, I shouldn't be in the sun, I have been burned by this warm light, and there is no point in continuing.

She sighed in her heart, and her moving steps were full of reluctance.

"I'm sorry, but you were supposed to be a ...... The last good thoughts of the redeemer. The girl said with her back in a choked voice, but the once incomparably strong body was now moving slowly like a dog with a broken spine, and her back was gloomy and lonely.

"I didn't mean to blame you," Jiqi took a few steps forward and grabbed Atago as he was leaving, "I know you're still feeling sorry for what happened before you, but honestly I never blamed you, because I know it wasn't what you intended. ”

There is nothing wrong with a sharp knife, but only the person with the knife is at fault.

"But I'll always blame myself!" Atago roared back in a hoarse voice, her delicate face moistened with tears, and her inky eyes were filled with deep despair and powerlessness. "Every time I think of your mocking smile when you fall, I think of the affection and nostalgia in your eyes. I know I'm like you say, I'm a monster who doesn't understand anything with no emotions! I don't deserve your forgiveness at all! ”

She always remembered Jiqi's evaluation of her and the deep mockery in the other party's eyes. "Oh, by the way, I found out that you are the deep sea, you have no emotion, and you don't know what love is."

Yes, she didn't understand it in the past, and now she only knows a little about it. Every time she saw a couple kissing me on the side of the road, she would always listen carefully to their conversations with each other, trying to understand from their sweet words what love is and why such things can make people live and die.

But even if you understand it, it's too late. As a murderer, she has no qualifications and power to say any words of her liking to the young man in front of her, and the admiral uniform that was cut by her sword still has traces of the other party's blood, which seems to remind her all the time to warn her that the deep sea has no power to love others, and there is no possibility of being loved by others.

She looked at the boy who had appeared in her dreams countless times with a blurred vision, and smiled tremblingly, as if she had lost all her children. It was as if the whole world had returned to the majestic rain of that day, and she was just a sad scarecrow, who could only stand silently in the rain and look at each other, but she had no ability to tell him. I've always loved you.

The emotionless monster who once gave you death with a knife has been, always been deep in your invisible corners, expressing her love for you with her remaining stubbornness.

Perhaps this is the biggest joke in the world, the deep sea falls in love with the Admiral, a Admiral she once killed with her own hands