The last meter extinguished the fluorescence, and all the equipment erected in the space was finished, a secret modern ritual that was quietly completed for many people, a figure approaching in the dark depths, and the pipes connecting the body were torn open. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Born stood far away, not daring to influence this, a turning point in the new life for all of them, as he listened to the roaring instruments finally fall into a deep sleep, and the man sitting in the center of the ritual approached him, stepping into the light, his exposed skin with a new texture.

"The reorganization is complete," Novaz said to the man standing in the light, leaning against the instrument panel in the dark, removing the goggles to confirm the accurate data, "everything in the past ten years has made this technology now have a 99.9% success rate, and your body will be more stable than Dick back then, and it can almost reach its full potential." ”

"Congratulations, from the time when you were lying on the ground with an expression that life is worse than death, to now, you are one step closer to your dream," the heavy wrinkles on Novoz's face shook up and down as the corners of his mouth swayed, "Rejoice, you have waited so long for this day, and for the day that is about to come." ”

"Isn't your thirst one step closer," the man who was called empty replied as if sneering, and walked to Bohn, who was standing on the other side, "This kind of thing that betrays the principles of heaven is actually not worthy of being counted as dreams at all, it is better to say that since I was lying on the ground with that expression, I no longer have the strength to have my own dreams." It's just a child sitting on the ground and longing for the sky, giving a shot and trying to touch the sky a little. ”

"I'm a person with no dreams. He shrugged.

"And for that," he said, standing in front of Born, patting Born on the shoulder, "I've lost it, too much." ”

"Feeling tired?" asked Beaune.

Through the faint light, Born could see the man's expression, although Novoz said it on the side, but there was no trace of joy on the man's face, just the tiredness that he wanted to hide, and the sadness that he couldn't hide at all.

"I don't know, I'm numb to this feeling, every time I feel like I want to run away from it all, or I have a little bit of that thought, I want to forget all about ordinary life. Everyone's faces will pop out, and it will be clear that they are standing in front of me. ”

So I remembered again, remembering that I shouldn't run away, and I couldn't run away. ”

"Although I would feel stupid to say such a thing now, I just want to ask," said Bohn, "and since I feel tired and have a lifestyle in front of me that can make it easy for me, why do I continue on the same path?" ”

He looked away when he spoke, unwilling to look at his best friend in front of him, and he didn't understand whether he was asking empty questions or asking himself questions.

"I think we are the same, so you should understand me best, it is better to say, the only person who can understand me is you," said Kong, putting it on Bohn's shoulder and couldn't help but increase his strength, Bohn felt pain, but he couldn't bear to say it, he didn't have the ability to enlighten others, at least he could use this to let this best friend vent his heart, "I have, nothing, everyone, it's gone." ”

"Yes, from the time I volunteered to join the Knights until I came back today, and suddenly you were the only one closest to me," said Bohn, "but it is also true, even if you do leave this path halfway, no one will come forward to accuse you." ”

"What about you, Vaughn, to live forever as a Knight Captain, satisfied," Sora asked, "Actually, that's not bad, at least a normal way of life, if you really choose that, I will bless you, I just wanted all of us to live a life that we feel satisfied and happy with." ”

I, are you satisfied?, Born was silent, and he asked himself inwardly.

He began to think back, thinking back to the time when the war was not over, thinking back to the time when he was an orphan, one day he was picked up by a group of children who called themselves knights, and he remembered that he was sitting with that group of people under the sky by the river, and the boy who was the leader of the team stood up in the crowd, and they looked at the boy together, looked at his leader, and watched him point to the sky and say, that one day, they will live in a truly beautiful world, and there will be no one who will not be unable to eat, and no one will be lying in the snow and endure the cold.

He will not forget such a time.

But...... Can he forget about the time he lived as the head of the knights, even if he would eventually return to everyone, to the squad of knights who longed for the future in the first place, the squad that no longer existed.

The kind of subordinates who temporarily put down everything, leaned on the edge of the table and chair, and reported the situation slammed open the door roughly, while controlling his strength to teach the rude subordinates, while thinking in his heart, dinner for these stupid big men who have made meritorious contributions to add more ingredients, and then sit comfortably, he turned his head to look out the window, the sky is now no longer the past when there were dark clouds for many years, the stars and the moon are shining, it is the real night sky.

He will sigh in his heart, ah, yes, now, it is an era of peace, there will be no more children who die of hunger and cold, there will never be innocent children who have the same childhood as himself.

But it was also at this time, when he felt most comfortable and relaxed, that little boy who existed in the past kicked him in his heart again, looked at him, and made him never forget that he was an old thing that did not belong to this new era.

"Probably, it will feel good enough," said Bohn, "but I think I'll come back to you in the end, because this is where I belong." ”

"If that's what you think," Sora said, turning his back to him, walked forward, "Me too, there are two plates in front of me, one is a blood-stained knife, the other is a delicious sweet potato, everyone will choose a sweet potato, it will fill your stomach, what can the knife do? ”

"Because on the handle of the knife, everyone's former temperature has been left," Sora clenched his fist and suddenly gritted his teeth, "If I forget all this and choose to give up, I won't forgive myself!"

Born looked at the lonely back of this man, he couldn't help but look up to the sky, although all he could see was the thick stone wall, he began to slowly recall in his heart that he could still remember everyone's faces at the beginning. Is the owner of that face always in the sky, watching the two of them?

"That's what you're carrying on your back, what's been pressing you down. Vaughn read softly.

"There are still two pieces left," the empty voice resounded in this space, "the body that is most suitable to contain the power of the Apocalypse is already there, and the rest is the fusion of the Apocalypse." ”

"You start too, I'll go outside and blow the cold wind, the rain will stop tonight," Sora walked past Vaughn, who could feel the emptiness and weariness wrapped around the man, "I want to be quiet, and when you're done, we'll take a moment to drink some clear bars, and we're still more than an hour before we start." ”

"Well, I don't know if there is any good wine in the human world," Bohn smiled, "and if there is any appetizer?" ”

"I'm not used to the so-called appetizers here," Sora said, "Do you want baked sweet potatoes?"

"Good. Vaughn nodded.

Empty hammered down on Born's chest and walked away.

After walking more than ten meters away, he stopped again.

"Born, this is really the last, I ask you one last time, do you regret it, regret that you have given up everything that has been established in the Knights for so many years, and come here, and my side has long been desolate. ”

"Isn't there still you, and I'm sure everyone is still with us," said Bohn, "and it is true that the more we live to the end, the more confused we become, but there are some things that he has always engraved on our hearts, so deeply. ”

"I won't regret this only thing," he said without thinking, and his tone was firm, "I admit it, I'm a little reluctant to live like that, but in the end, I'll still go with you, otherwise, why would I come back." ”

"Yes," Sora sighed and walked away, "yes, yes, it's good that I can still have a family by my side now." ”

Novoz looked at the empty back, and snorted coldly in his heart, as if mocking.

Is the sky that everyone longs for, or the emptiness that is empty?

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"Is it when I first greeted you, or is that expression now, the real you?" asked Novaz, and by this time, Sora had already gone away, but Born was standing in front of the instrument, refusing to step forward.

"It's been a long time since I've looked in the mirror, what was my expression then, and what am I like now?" Bohn asked rhetorically.

"At that time, you were smiling, laughing like a wax man with fixed facial features," Mr. Novautz said, "Now you are expressionless, but you don't feel sad, I admit that you have a conscious expression now, but such a face is not able to smile after all." ”

"Maybe, I can't tell, but I'm not uncomfortable at all in my heart now," Bohn turned around, "Many people say that I used to wear a mask, a mask of smirk, and the mask was used to hide the opposite heart, just like the heavy makeup of a clown, but does anyone really know, under the mask, am I really crying all the time, I don't know." ”

"Two completely opposite lives are forcibly mixed together, you are already alive, some personalities are divided, and the current you are not the same as before at all," Novoz looked at the back of Bohn as he was about to leave, "There is no time to waste for you, your body also needs to be reshaped, if you still want to catch up with the next drinking game, I have mercifully helped you do so much, but there is no more obligation, even if you little devils are willful." ”

"Then let me use this old skin to attend the banquet directly," said Bohn without looking back, "I will not choose to reshape my body, with the hope of all of us, the person who climbs the steps of that ideal country, it is enough to have one free, although this may be a bit too much for him, but I am also the one who will leave sooner or later." ”

"Whatever you want, I have nothing to do with you," said Norwertz, "and I'm just a helper standing in another place." ”

"I'll try to walk with him a little longer, and I don't know how far away I will be from that staircase. Born pushed open the door to the room and left the place.