The Soul Hive is a huge honeycomb in the shape of an inverted bowl.

In its deepest recess, Duck listened silently to Enya's last words.

"Dark, we don't seem to have talked to each other before. I really didn't expect that this would come to an end? I am not reconciled! I like you so much, you are the most important person!"

There was no one around, and George waited honestly outside the heavy gate.

Duck indulged himself and let the tears flow unchecked.

"Actually, I don't know what love is. Giant spiders do not have this concept, and even female spiders who have finished copulating themselves will eat male spiders as a snack. Listening to Riley, love is a high-level emotion unique to human beings, and I feel like I'm already a human being, but I still don't understand what love is.

"The older generation of the Spider Queen was a careerist who forcibly turned me into a human in order to get rid of you and me. When I came out of the cocoon, I luckily met you.

"You have taught me many things, such as not eating human beings and drinking human blood, girls must know how to love themselves, and do not retreat in the face of strong enemies. You taught me when I didn't understand anything, you comforted me and encouraged me when I was most afraid, you were happy when I beat my opponents, you were sad when I was hurt, you were like my mother - ah, you are a male, no, male, or like a father - like my brother, like my friend - there is no such word in the giant spider family, they only have the concept of 'eat' and 'when to eat' for their own kind.

"I like you very much, I can't do without you. Like food in your mouth, like the ground under your feet, like a gentle wind. I like you more and more, I miss you every day, I want to see your face, I want to hear your voice, even if I don't say anything, I don't do anything, I become a dumb cocoon, next to you - is this love?"

Duck gently rubbed his forehead against the cold, hard steel wall, as if it were Enya's face: "Fool, you fool!"

"I don't have a father, and I don't have any siblings—maybe they've all been eaten by the older generation of Spider Empresses, and if I hadn't met you, wouldn't I have been turned into a villain who only knows blood and slaughter?"

"Yes," Duck whispered to his lover, who would never hear him respond, "George, Isabella, Riley...... Even Wilde, all the same. ”

"George said I'm like a blank sheet of paper, whatever color I put on it — I like your color! Including that Wilde, I hate him so much!I deliberately said those things to be angry with you!" At this point, her voice suddenly stopped, and she said in a low voice, "Then I thought, actually, it's scared, I'm really afraid, I'm so afraid that you won't like me, don't accompany me, no, not only that, I'm afraid that I won't even be qualified to miss you." That's the only way you're going to think about me, right?"

Duck was dumbfounded.

Hearing Enya herself deny her relationship with Wilde, he was not thrilled at all.

Like companionship?

If I love someone else, I will definitely leave her, and I will not be able to be with her anymore. She can't be with me anymore, and even thinking about me becomes a sneaky thing.

Is this love?

"I thought, it's not love, is it?

The sound of snorting sounded, and Enya seemed to cry: "I talked to Miss Isis. She lost her father in the battle of Jerusalem, then Captain Arrin, then you, and then Royce—she spoke little, but she was happy. She met good people, and she was full of gratitude and love for them, but that kind of gratitude and love was definitely not the kind of 'love' I wanted!

Duck sat down with his back to the wall and feebly: "You fool......"

"Father, brother, friends, and—lovers, it's so complicated, I don't understand at all, is this kind of 'attachment' considered 'love'? It's really hard to be a human being! I'm sorry, I said very willful things. I'm sad, but I don't regret it!

The sound of snorting gradually became quieter, and Enya continued: "I have a little fantasy that you and I, just the two of us, are together. You are mine, I am yours, and no one is allowed to touch it—is this 'love', or is it only an illusion of 'love'? because I don't know what 'love' is. It's a pity, maybe you'll teach me, and when you teach me, I love you, you love me, how good it would be! But it's too late......

Duck was silent.

It turned out that she didn't understand what "love" was all the time. She confuses the love of her loved ones with the love of her lover.

It turned out that it was just my wishful thinking all along.

He remembered Riley's words scolding him: "Is Enya your private property? Why can't people change their minds? Why can you make decisions for others?"

Riley, you're right.

Is the exclusive desire for beautiful things blinding me and mistaking a girl's attachment to me for love?

I thought it would break her heart if I rejected her, but it turned out that she didn't understand what was going on at all!

It turns out that the poor guy is myself.

Darker sat quietly with his back to the wall, motionless.

"Mr. Canedy said you are in danger and that you may be killed if you go for it, but I will definitely go, no matter what the outcome will be. I'm gone, goodbye - ha, I don't know if you can hear these words. Anyway, I'm in a much better mood now, and I don't have any regrets. ”

Then there was a long silence.

Duck slowly got up and staggered out the door.

He knew he had lost her forever.

He didn't know that after the door was sealed, Enya's voice sounded again: "I heard that the highest state of love is to sacrifice for the beloved, if I sacrifice, will I understand love? A lover I may never touch!"

As soon as he went out, George, who closed his eyes and recuperated, immediately opened his eyes: "Finished listening?"

Darker nodded silently.

"If only you were to listen patiently...... Don't you need it?"

"There is no difference. Now, even if she comes back alive, ...... No way. ”

"Do you have time for the evening, go drinking?"

"Aren't you not drinking?"

"I drink tea, you drink. ”

"Get out. I went to the beach by myself and told Riley not to bother me. ”

"It's okay, at least I saved money for a drink - don't stare, I'll go, I'll go. ”

Two hours later, Duck once again ascended the cliff at the highest point of the Whiskening Ice Field. This time, his gaze was much calmer.

The raging and roaring waves gradually subsided, and under the bright starlight in the sky, large pieces of ice floe snuggled in the arms of the pale blue sea of ice and fell asleep.

The layers of fish scale ripples emit a dancing silver light, lively and agile, like Enya's eyes.

"You didn't have time to love me when I didn't have the courage to love you, and when I mustered up the courage, you were gone. ”

The waves gently caressed the reef below the cliff, making a gentle whistling sound, like the whisper of a lover.

"You say I have given you a lot, why don't you give me a lot? my daughter, my sister, my friend, oh, and, as you say, my love, who may never be touched. ”

Duck shifted his gaze from the pale blue sea to the pure black night sky, gazing at the countless brilliant diamonds sprinkled on the black velvet.

"Is it attachment? Is it love? Is it unrequited love? Not every ignorant relationship is called love. But at least, we snuggled up to each other, supported each other, and missed each other. Goodbye, my beloved girl, under the night sky of the Northlands, in the waves of the icy sea, go back, to the home of the jungle in the South. I'll go see you. ”

Muttering to himself, Duck couldn't hold back his tears.

In the hazy eyes of tears, he seemed to see the heroic silver-haired black-clothed female swordsman again.

"Farewell, Enya, I will always leave a small corner for you in the bottom of my heart. ”（）