"Are you leaving Northshire? Angie! ”

Jack looked at the girl in surprise, a train ticket to other cities is not a big deal, most of the railways in the empire serve the military department, and there are very few civilian railway lines.

And death is expensive.

"Well, that's right, North County doesn't have what I'm looking for." Anjie pursues to join the army, and to do so, the role of a guide who can introduce her to the army regardless of her age is crucial. And such a person, An Jie estimates that at least he needs to be at the school officer level to do it.

The northern county town is too small, and being in the back means that there are not many opportunities at the same time as being safe. She has to try her luck in a frontline city.

"Okay." Jack agreed to An Jie's request with a dejected head, he had done a lot of things for An Jie.

"This should be the last time to help you, after all, you're leaving. I'll take care of the train tickets for you. Where are you going? ”

"Zeiss City, I'm going to Zeiss City."

"Zeiss! It's a frontline city, right? I remember that the big businessman from Zeiss said that until April, there were monsters all over the city! Jack exclaimed in surprise. It's too dangerous there! ”

"I know, but ......"

An Jie was silent for a long time before she spoke: "You have to go there!" The only thing I'm looking for is probably the only place where I can find the answer! ”

Zeiss, the front-line city in the northern part of the empire, is also home to the Northern Command, where the colonel-level officers and even a considerable number of general-level officers in the northern part of the empire are concentrated, and there may be one of them who can ignore her age, see her talent and introduce her into the army.

Fate here leads to two different endings.

First, An Jie successfully joined the army and became an imperial soldier, and she had to face a cruel war and an unknown future.

The second is that after 97 days, she is still an ordinary civilian, and the system judges that the mission has failed, and she will return to eternal nothingness.

She has to work hard! Although both endings are full of malice, in order to survive, she chooses to face the cruelty of the world!

That's her answer!

Jack looked at An Jie's determined expression and reluctantly agreed. "Alright! I know I can't stop you. But Anjie! Jack suddenly exclaimed, "When you arrive in Zeiss City!" You............ Be sure to be careful yourself. At the end of the sentence, Jack smiled bitterly and sent his blessing.

"Hmmm! I will! And you have to be careful! I almost ...... someone exploded today."

"Please don't talk about that again!"

"Eh~~"

An Jie's big blue eyes flickered, revealing a look that made Jack tremble.

"Anyway, the train ticket to Zeiss City is very expensive~ My deposit seems to be a little insufficient?"

"Please be sure to let the younger brother pay the rest of the money in advance!"

"What about the dry food we eat on the road? If you eat just cookies, you'll be malnourished............"

"Canned fruit, canned meat! Whatever you want to eat, the small ones will be ready in no time! ”

"I suddenly want to eat chocolate and say~"

"Buy, buy, buy!"

"The superlative."

“…………………… Buy! ”

Jack would love to take back the blessing he had sent - it would be best if this demon died on the front line!

Premium chocolate starts!

N canned fruits to start!

Canned pork n starts!

Essentials: Train tickets to Zeiss City!

An Jie put the things away close to her body and happily said goodbye to Jack, who had a dead look on his parents' face.

"Jack, thank you so much this time! I'm going back, I don't have to send it! ”

"Ah, haha, ha, slow down, slow down." Jack shook his wallet numbly.

"My business empire went bankrupt before it even started......"

………………

Premium Chocolate Lost!

"Anjie is amazing! This chocolate looks so premium! ”

The bear children who got the chocolates circled around Anjie. shouted excitedly, so greasy, so greasy. Anjie was very skeptical that they understood whether the chocolate was high-end or not, or was they so excited just because the packaging looked good...... She herself doesn't see anything good or bad.

However, it's not a big deal, lend Jack a hundred guts, and it is estimated that he will not dare to lie to her.

"It's the dean's birthday present! Don't eat it up again! An Jie warned.

"Hmmm! We know! The five imps replied in unison, "Then let's go, Anjie." "Well, go ahead. If nothing else, don't come to me! ”

After driving the imps away, Anjie returned to her bed.

"There are still three days before the train arrives, and two days later it is the dean's birthday. …… Do you want to say goodbye? An Jie rolled over on the bed. If you don't say goodbye, it's a bit too much, if you say goodbye, the atmosphere will be a little ............" An Jie writhed uneasily on the bed, and finally put the quilt on her head.

"Sleep!"

Two days passed in a flash.

An Jie is cleaning up with the busy nuns and imps to celebrate the birthday of the abbot's mother-in-law.

Dean Jessica is 67 years old, an incredible age, and one of those people who lived a long time during the war years, when life expectancy was around 40 years. Those who have received her favor in previous years gather here on this day to celebrate the longevity of their beloved Dean.

An Jie saw a lot of "seniors" among these people. Just like the orphanage in the previous life, the children who come out of the orphanage, whether they are doing well or badly, will always come back to see the place where they grew up.

Thanks to the fact that the North County Monastery is a war orphanage, An Jie can meet many imperial soldiers who have inherited the will of their parents among these "predecessors".

"It's a pity that the highest rank is only a lieutenant, and several of them are familiar faces."

"Anjie!"

"Huh?"

It is Sister Lucy, and everyone says that she will inherit the position of dean, and this statement is also inseparable from An Jie's opinion. After all, Lucy Xiu is a beautiful woman, has a gentle personality, and can endure all kinds of naughty mischief of the bear children when she cooks good food.

"What's the matter? Lucy. ”

Sister Lucy smiled softly at Anjie, and she always had this expression. "The Dean has something to look for you, and she's in the office right now."

"The Dean is looking for me? Well, I see. ”

She said goodbye to Lucy and headed to the office alone.

Tuk Tuk ......

"Please come in."

"Dean, are you looking for me?" An Jie pushed open the office door, and an old figure met her eyes.

"Oh, it's Anjie. That's right, I have a little thing to look for you, please take a seat. When An Jie came in, the abbot was reviewing some documents, and she glanced at it, it was the monastery's income and expenditure statement for July.

"Thanks to you, the life of the monastery has been much better than before."

"Where, this is what I should do. After all, this is my home. ”

"Home...... ? The dean smiled, "Anjie, you must be very strange, why did I ask you to come to me alone, right?" ”

An Jie replied honestly: "Yes." ”

"Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that my old woman suddenly had a feeling today and wanted to talk to you." The dean said with a smile. "If you don't mind, let me tell you a story."

“…… Good. ”

An Jie is a little confused, telling stories, and calling herself alone to tell stories? Although she didn't understand what she meant, she listened patiently.

The story of the dean begins.

"A long time ago, probably more than forty years ago, when the war was not as fierce as it is now. In a small, nameless village in the middle of the empire, lives a young couple, who work at sunrise and rest at sunset. Taking care of their fields and watching their children grow up healthy and strong, they thought they were the happiest people in the world. ”

An Jie quietly listened to the story told by the dean.

"Later, the war broke out."

The dean paused at this point, and then continued:

"The army of the empire came to the nameless village, found all the adult men, and said to them, 'Fight for the empire,' and the husband of the young couple joined them without hesitation, and no matter how much his wife wept, he replied: 'This is my duty.'"

An Jie had already vaguely guessed what was going on in the back of the story.

Sure enough, the dean said, "My husband died on the battlefield. ”

An Jie was silent.

"On the day her husband died, the wife held her children and wept and said to them, 'Your father is a hero, I am proud of him' and her children choked up and didn't speak, but hugged their mother tightly. In this way, the mother and her sons are together and depend on each other. In the blink of an eye, almost ten years have passed, and her children have grown up. But fate played a joke at this point. ”

"War...... Is it another outbreak? An Jie said softly.

"That's right." The dean smiled, and the smile looked so sad.

"War has broken out again, and this time, it has taken the lives of young people. When her sons' ashes were sent back to their mother along with the medals, she broke down. ”

The dean slowly told the story of the poor mother.

"Dean's ..............."

"My mother had lost everything, and she wished she could have stopped her husband and her children from running to that cannibalistic hell in the first place! It's a pity that there is no if in the world, her husband died, and her children died. She lived in a nightmare every day, the people in the village took pity on her and wanted to help her, and some people persuaded her to remarry, but she refused. ”

She had no love, and she had an idea: she was going to the battlefield to see what kind of magic was in the place where she had taken her husband and children. Let so many people follow one after another, willing to die? ”

An Jie's eyes widened suddenly when she heard this, she was not stupid, she already knew in her heart who the dean's story was about.

"Dean, you ............"

"My mother joined the army and became a medic."

The dean interrupted An Jie's words with a smile, and just said to himself:

"As a medic, she doesn't have to be on the battlefield all the time. At that time, she stayed in the field hospital every day, bandaging the wounded soldiers, cleaning the wounds, and doing what she could, and her mother relied on the hatred of the war that took everything from her, living with difficulty, bandaging the wounds of the soldiers with broken hands and feet, cooperating with doctors to operate on the soldiers who were shot, and sometimes risking death to rescue the wounded ordinary soldiers on the front line. At the height of the fighting, people died every day, and then the next day, new soldiers were replenished. She didn't understand why the war was so brutal, but there were still so many people who followed each other. ”

"So...... Why? Dean's mother-in-law. ”

"She didn't know, and she couldn't find an answer, and one day, when she couldn't take it anymore, she stopped a soldier who was about to go to the front and asked, 'Why are you here to fight?' Is it the Empire that persecutes you? Or is there something else? ’…… Do you know what the soldier said to her? Angie? ”

An Jie thought for a while and shook her head: "I don't know, I can't imagine what kind of mood he had on the battlefield. ”

The dean did Anjie's side and took the petite girl into his arms.

"He said: 'In order for my children to live in an era without war'."

"Mother didn't believe what he said, and she went crazy and asked the others: 'Why did you go to war, why did you go to war if the empire didn't force you!'"

"For the sake of the children."

"For my father to live safely."

"For my wife and newborn child."

"I'm for my own ambitions, I want to be the marshal of the empire!"

"Me?" One of the young soldiers replied, "For the sake of the peace of the most important people." ”

The mother fell to her knees crying, and she finally understood why her husband and children had stepped into battle. It is precisely for the important people to be safe, her husband to protect her and her children into the battlefield, and her children to enjoy her old age in peace. Since then, she has done her best to rescue every soldier, and her efforts have paid off, and the brutal war has finally ended. She received a large sum of money from the army, which she used to open an orphanage in the north, and although her husband and children had left her, she was not alone. Because, she has a new family. ”

The dean hugged An Jie tightly.

"Anjie! You are also my most important family! ”

“……………… Well! ”

Faced with this situation, An Jie didn't know how to respond, and she fell silent after responding.

In the end, it was the dean who opened the topic:

"How's your preparation for leaving?"

“！！！”

An Jie raised her head in surprise: "You already know?" ”

"You can't hide it from me." The dean smiled kindly, "Anjie, the story I told you is not to discourage you from leaving, I just want to say - no matter where you are going, if you are tired, come back and see, no matter when, this is your home." Your pain, your exhaustion, your worries, there will be someone to confide in here. ”

"Hmm!"

An Jie was also a little choked up at the moment, after all, she had lived here for nine years, although there were many embarrassing things, but here! North County Abbey! It's her home for Angel Scarlett! Home is not a place to live, but a place where someone is waiting for you to be called home, and in this helpless world, she has a place to go back.

"Go back, Anjie. You have to wake up early tomorrow, and the train ticket you hide under your pillow shows the departure time tomorrow. ”

"Yes, that's right. ……………… Dean, how much do you know? ”

"Oh, all. Alright, go back, Lucy, they're still waiting for you. ”

“…… All right. ”

An Jie pushed open the door of the office and left.

The dean looked at An Jie, who was leaving, and smiled silently.

(See the world with your own eyes, Anjie.) Whenever I am, we'll be waiting for you to come back)

A night of partying. The orphans tossed and turned with their "seniors" all night, and finally the nuns who were in charge of cleaning up were tired enough. Everyone wantonly vented the unhappiness in life, and the dean just looked at her "children" quietly and gently.

The next day.

Anjie put the packed luggage on her back and tiptoed out of the room.

Without alarming anyone, Anjie left the monastery without incident, and she looked back at the place where she had lived for nine years one last time.

"I'm leaving!"

The curtains of the abbot's room in the monastery were suddenly opened, and the elderly abbot appeared behind the window, and she glanced around to find An Jie's figure outside the large iron gate of the monastery.

“————————”

The dean said a word, and An Jie couldn't hear the sound here, but this did not prevent her from reading the meaning of the sentence from the other party's mouth.

The Dean said:

"Be careful on the road."