After admiring the paintings collected by the old emperor, Lulunaka soon turned her interest elsewhere. She's not a scheming person, and she's not just interested in something, so the words about painting herself don't appeal to her too much - the story behind the painting is pretty much said to the old emperor, there is nothing worth talking about, and if you say it again, it will become an old account.

Lulunaka was most interested in the jewel hourglass that was about the same height as herself, she returned to the hourglass, climbed up and sat down, facing the old emperor, "I have said a lot about things before, I hope you can stop asking, it's all boring things." ”

"I think it's a very meaningful thing to hear the real deeds of my ancestors. The old emperor said, to which Lulunaka snorted, "What is the value of listening...... Heroic stories, the aspirations of the people, the rise of the country, the divided empire, the declining empire...... Isn't the rise and fall of a country just such a process? From the past to the present, nothing has changed. ”

"Is there really nothing that has changed?" asked the old emperor. The question was a bit inexplicable, and if it were someone else, he might not know how to answer it at all—but in front of him was Lulunaka.

"I don't know how to answer such a complicated matter. Lulunaka's answer was very simple and crude, rather than answering the old emperor's question at all, "But you are doing a good job, and you are changing the world well, which is already a great thing." ”

The old emperor smiled: "Is this a question that avoids me?"

Lulunaka tilted her head, looking dumbfounded, "I'm pretty honest, there shouldn't be any questions." ”

The old emperor didn't go any further, which would have made him too uninteresting, and he didn't want to upset Lulunaka. The two changed various topics and continued to talk, like friends of a very different age, and talked about all kinds of things, although most of the time, it was Luluna who was talking and the old emperor was listening.

It wasn't until the night got darker that Lulunaka could see that the old emperor's spirit was a little overwhelmed. Even if he has energy, he is no longer an energetic young man, which is not a strange thing. "I've been bothering the old man for so long, and it's time for me to leave. Lulunaka jumped off the hourglass and said to the old emperor, "I had a great time today, thank you." ”

The old emperor didn't mean to keep Lulunaka, he sat at his desk, looking at Lulunaka who was arranging her collar, "Are you already leaving?"

"You can't stay here all the time, or you're going to get a lot of trouble. "Probably the most helpless thing in this world is that no matter what you do, someone will always add some strange reason and symbol to your behavior. I don't want to be a statue behind the altar. ”

"For me, it's not a bad thing. ”

"Of course, you are these natural leaders, as long as you can use something, you will use it without hesitation, without any scruples. Lulunaka laughed, "But people who can even use 'gods' should have such courage, right, the shadow of the moon god?"

The old emperor laughed, "That's just a kind of propaganda, religion...... You get the idea, right?"

"Just because I understand doesn't mean I really like it. "But everything in this world is only known after comparison to what is good and what is ugly—if I had to choose between a true myth and a false religion, I would choose a religion that humans can control." At this, Lulunaka seemed to remember something, and was startled, "Oh, yes, you can't talk nonsense......, can you! Or in front of you, it's a capital offense, right?"

For others, it is. The old emperor said, "But you are qualified to say such things." A man who goes before the prophets, no one in this world can judge you, right?"

"That's hard to say. Lulunaka laughed.

Before Lulunaka was really leaving, the old emperor asked one last thing, "Why me?"

"Why?" Lulunaka repeated. The old emperor didn't care about Lulunaka's pretending to be stupid, "There were many people sitting in this position before me, why am I the only one who has such luck to meet someone like you?"

Lulunaka stretched out her finger and nodded her lips with a thoughtful look, "Why...... It's just a coincidence, if you want to see me, if you don't want to meet, even if it's such a distance, I won't let you see me. Speaking of this, Lulunaka smiled brightly at the old emperor, "But one thing is for sure, I will never meet boring and mediocre guys. ”

Lulunaka just left. Pushed open the door of the study, and said "good night" to the old emperor before closing it, and when the door was bare, the old emperor was the only one left in the study. Without Lulunaka, who was active and active, the study suddenly became quiet, but something in the air was more active than when the two of them were alone. It's as if after Lulunaka, the existence of Lulunaka, left, all kinds of things that could not be avoided returned to the old emperor's side.

For the old emperor, spending time with Lulunaka may have been a rare moment of tranquility since he succeeded to the throne at a young age, and now, the things that had been with him for decades returned to him and filled his soul.

The old emperor picked up the hookah again and smoked it slowly. He wasn't a great warrior in the first place, and when he got old, he didn't have a chance with the realm pursued by those warriors and mages, but as an emperor, the feeling he had cultivated over the decades still existed. The things that had been spreading around him to protect him were back. Rights and duties, responsibilities and missions, had been wrapped around him for decades—but there weren't many days left, and the thought of them made him feel a lot more relaxed.

While the old emperor was leisurely smoking a hookah, someone knocked on the door of the study.

"Come in. ”

As soon as the old emperor's voice fell, the knocker at the door entered. It was an old man in loose mage robes, his pointed hat that kept half of his face in shadow.

"Is there anything important about visiting at this time? ”

The old man, known as Kai, bowed slightly to the old emperor, and then whispered, "She's gone?"

"You know better than I do. The old emperor said, "You are the core of the palace's defense, even if there is an ant, you know it very well." I thought you'd show up. ”

"She doesn't like to be disturbed. Rozevin Kay said to the old emperor, "I don't want to make her angry. ”

The old emperor also smiled, "That's right, I don't want anyone to disturb me either. In the last days of his life, to have such an adventure is not in vain in this life. ”