Chapter 1 (2) Colleagues

There are three other people who work with Chaoge: the unknown train conductor, the conductor Phoebe, and Angelo, the man who works in the dining car. The conductor was a middle-aged man with a thin build, a beard, and unkempt hair. He usually stays in the last carriage, always muttering something, in short, a strange person. Phoebe was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was born very beautiful, beautiful, not beautiful. This kind of beauty is like a playful little girl in an oil painting, it is a classical beauty, and when Chaoge first met her, he thought of Artemis, the goddess of the moon in ancient Greek mythology. Phoebe has eyes as blue as the sea and long hair as beautiful and silky as gold threads, like a fairy frolicking in the mountains outside the world, never belonging to the mortal world, but her big smart eyes betrayed her, she did once belong to the world, her eyes revealed curiosity about all things in the world, that is the desire for knowledge only human beings. From Phoebe's appearance, it can be inferred that she should have grown up on the European continent during her lifetime, and as for which country and nation it is, Chaoge has no ability to infer it. Angelo, who could not tell his age from his appearance, could say that he was seventeen or eighteen, or early twenties, or even twenty-five or sixteen. He combs his fresh hair and has a delicate face, but he is not the delicate spirit of a little girl, it is a mixture of youthfulness and maturity, maybe it is official, so that people can't see their age.

The job of Chaoge is very simple, that is, to register the guests who get off the train every day, ask them about their wishes, and if necessary, go to the sixth carriage to look for the memories of the guests before their deaths, and provide the guests with clues to realize their wishes. Because there are few carriages, there are few rooms for guests to rest, and there are no customers to take the train, so all the work is usually very leisurely. Although the work is simple, in order to adapt to the work, Chaoge has spent a lot of effort to adjust his schedule. Chaoge needs to get up at 5 o'clock every morning, spend two hours to prepare, and start work at 7 o'clock. may be influenced by the habits before her death, at first Chaoge felt that getting up at five o'clock was simply a devil's trial, and she was particularly repulsed, but over time she got used to it. She complained to her colleague Phoebe, who agreed, saying that she had done the same when she first started, but now she got used to it, after all, she had been working on the train for three hundred years.

Three hundred years? Chao Ge was surprised and asked, "Won't people in this world die?" But Chao Ge thought about it, this is already the world after death, and it is even stranger to talk about death in the world after death.

"Hmm...... It won't die, but it will disappear. Phoebe blinked her big eyes, "People disappear and become part of this world after fulfilling their wishes." ”

"Will the person who has no regrets in life always 'live'?"

"If you have no regrets, you will disappear as soon as you come to this world, and about 400 years ago, I saw people with a very short 'lifespan' when I first came here, and I still see them from time to time."

"Wait, four hundred years ago," Chaoge felt that this was a bit beyond her realization, "wouldn't you live in the Middle Ages?" ”

"Huh?" Phoebe seemed to realize something, "I guess it's the Middle Ages you are talking about, I was wearing different clothes when I first came here, and most of the knowledge in my mind is about the papal church nobility and the like, and magic or something, it may be a little strange for you......"

"Magic?" Chaoge's worldview was shocked again, and if it wasn't for the fact that Phoebe had lived for more than 400 years, she would have wondered if Phoebe had some mental problems during her lifetime.

"Why are you so surprised?"

"That'...... What kind of magic do you know? Chaoge tried to calm himself down, after all, he had only just arrived, and he spent most of his time on the train, only his colleagues and a small number of guests, and there must be all kinds of strange things outside the train.

"I know some magic, but it's not very powerful, but I can fly in the sky on a broomstick."

"Can you prove it to me?"

"Hmm." So saying, Phoebe trotted to her room and got a broom, on which she sat reclined, but in a few seconds she slowly floated, and after a few more she could touch the top of the train.

Witch, witch no doubt. Although he thought it was incredible, Chaoge quickly accepted this fact, after all, the existence of this world was already incredible. In this way, there are witches even in this world. Because I haven't seen it myself, I can't affirm the existence of the witch, so I subconsciously deny the existence of the witch, which should be regarded as arrogance. I accidentally committed the sin of arrogance among the seven deadly sins, and it feels really bad, Chao Ge laughed at himself. At the same time, there is some faint uneasiness in my heart, European, medieval, witch, these words are put together, and people always think of some evil and cruel things.

Phoebe is a lovely girl who loves all the people and things around her. The Ariadne train doesn't run all the time, stopping for a few days in a new town, sometimes in a place with a pleasant view. At this time, Phoebe is always excited, she will go to the town to buy big purchases, but she always buys strange things, and recently, she even bought mandrake seeds, which makes Chaoge feel a chill down his spine. Contrary to Phoebe, Asaka doesn't like to go out, she likes to stay on the train and look out the window. She loves beautiful things, but she never seems to want to be able to embrace them.

Beautiful things are always fragile and ephemeral, flowers will wither, leaves will fall, colorful clouds are easy to disperse, the moon is rare, and the morning glow and sunset are fleeting. The world can't keep the eternal beauty, looking at Phoebe's face that is only fifteen or sixteen years old, it seems that the world can't keep Phoebe.

Chaoge and Phoebe go to the dining car for breakfast every morning after washing, and at this time they will meet Angelo, who will always smile softly and say good morning to them. However, Phoebe and Angelo's conversation always makes Chaoge feel incredible.

"Good morning, Phoebe."

"You are?

"I'm Angelo, you can look at the notebook in your pocket."

"You're Angelo? The notebook says I'll forget you. ”

"I'm Angelo, and this is my forty-eighteen, one hundred and thirty-first time to say good morning to you."

"I'm sorry, I don't remember you......"

"It's okay, we can get acquainted again, I'm a very reliable big brother."

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At first, Asahi thought that pretending not to know each other every day and then getting acquainted again was a game between Phoebe and Angelo, but for three months, this "game" has not been interrupted for a day. Phoebe really doesn't remember Angelo, Phoebe's memory of Angelo can only last for one day, and the next day it will all disappear without leaving a trace, so Phoebe will record some things about Angelo in the notebook she carries with her.

It's a world without memories, where everything called memories needs to be re-accumulated, but Phoebe can remember four hundred years of life here, but she can't remember Angelo. Chaoge wondered if it was because Angelo and Phoebe knew each other when they were alive, but for some reason Phoebe forgot Angelo before she died, and after coming to this world, Phoebe inherited the consciousness she had before she was alive, so she still couldn't remember Angelo in the world after death? However, this doesn't make sense, Angelo has only been in this world for more than a hundred years, and Phoebe is three hundred years earlier than Angelo. If Angelo and Phoebe had known each other during their lifetimes, Angelo could not have died three hundred years later than Phoebe. Is that Angelo's immortal youkai? No, Angelo is just an ordinary human, he can't fly, he can't use magic, and he doesn't have superpowers, just a very ordinary human. Chao Ge analyzed, she has only been here for three months, and she can be sure that her time in this life ends in the twenty-first century, and there is no time machine in the twentieth century more than a hundred years ago, even in the twenty-first century, so Angelo cannot travel back in time and space...... No matter what Chaoge thought, he couldn't get a satisfactory explanation. Angelo says he doesn't care about getting to Phoebe every day, so there's no need to think about it. Is this a lie? No, or in these long years, the swamp people without memories have long taken the loss of memory for granted......

"Good morning, Phoebe."

"You are?

"I'm Angelo, you can look at the notebook in your pocket."

"You're Angelo? The notebook says I'll forget you. ”

"I'm Angelo, and this is my forty-eighteen, one hundred and thirty-second time to say good morning to you."

"I'm sorry, I don't remember you......"

"It's okay, we can get acquainted again, I'm a very reliable big brother."

Forty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-two times say good morning, forty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-two forget, more than a hundred years, Angelo repeats it every day, he has only been here for more than a hundred years, and the encounter with Phoebe is like a calculation, as if he came to this world to see Phoebe.

That morning, it was raining lightly, the drizzle was broken on the green-shelled train, and a slight chilly breeze blew through the bouquets of flowers on the windowsill of the dining car, wrapped in the apricot petals brought from the window, and the wind chimes jingled and jingled, and the carriage was filled with the smell of flowers. Angelo smiled and said good morning again, without a trace of boredom, and the girl reflected in her pupils was like a lost treasure, full of joy of reunion after a long absence.

At this time, the world should be in spring, peach and willow green.