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He checked with the clerk of the store that as an employee, it was impossible for Phil to leave the island without Sunset Express' permission.

"Sunset Express naturally has a way to restrain the employee! He must still be on this island!" said the clerk.

Although Lukka didn't believe it, this island was his only clue now, and he decided to search the island now.

The island of Atto was not large, and the harbor area was even smaller, so he assigned everyone to take charge of one area, and by night he had turned over almost every stone on the ground, but still found nothing.

The only place on the island that has not been found is the granite castle perched high on the cliff of the coast.

The Red Shield Fort is now home to the Imperial Navy, and since Luca's escape from here, the defense has increased by several levels. Now, not only are there more soldiers patrolling day and night, but there are also many more sentry posts on the road to the castle.

Even if the bear child hid, it would be impossible for him to hide in the heavily guarded castle and leave. Lukka judged so, but if he still didn't have a clue tomorrow, he would have to try his luck at the castle.

In autumn, it gets dark earlier and earlier, and not long after dinner, the pier gradually falls into darkness. Although most of the crew could see at night as much as they did during the day, Lukka told everyone to take a break.

As the night wore on, perhaps because he had eaten too much for dinner, or perhaps because he was thinking about the next day's search, Lukka had an unprecedented insomnia.

He put on his clothes and pushed open the hatch, trying to go to the dining room to find a bottle of ale to soothe his spirits.

The captain's cabin is not connected to the bilge, and in order to get there, you need to cross the entire deck. Lukka walked absentmindedly in the moonlight, thinking about his plans for tomorrow, and was startled by a figure sitting on the railing of the side of the ship.

"In the middle of the night, why don't you sleep and run out for a stroll?" Ollie asked first, she didn't look back, and her voice seemed a little more melancholy than usual.

"I'm just going to ask, you're sitting here in the middle of the night......" Lukka got the second half of the question stuck in his throat, and he suddenly realized that the direction Ollie was facing was the Red Shield Keep towering over the cliffs, where she had grown up.

Lucata forgot about the ale in the restaurant, and walked over to lean against the railing, and after thinking for a long time, he finally found a topic: "The castle has changed a lot from then, hasn't it?"

Ollie shook her head, "I don't know. ”

Her eyes were full of what Red Shield Keep looked like back then, and from the outside, it didn't look like anything had changed.

"Just go and see?" said Lukka suddenly.

"What? now?" Ollie looked back in surprise, only to find that Lukka had walked to the gangplank next to the boat.

"yes, now, let's go for a spin. Lukka stopped and waited for her.

"But, it's all around with patrolling navy soldiers!" said Ollie, who had already jumped off the side of the ship.

"As far as the two of us are concerned, it's not a big problem. "After this period of rest, although there is no staff to help, but to cast some invisibility and other magic on two people, Lukka can still do it.

Half an hour later, in the Red Shield Keep, Lukka followed Ollie breathlessly.

It's not that they walked fast, but that all the stairs of this castle couldn't get past him. Each step was frighteningly high, and Ollie's bedroom was on the top floor of the castle's tower.

"It's been made like this!" Ollie frowned at a room full of clutter that had once been filled with laughter and laughter and was now a pantry for cleaning supplies.

She wanted to look any further, but every two steps she took was blocked by a few brooms lying crooked on the ground.

"Forget it. She sighed and gave up on the idea of finding the window under which she had looked at the stars and longed for her future.

"Let's go to the top of the tower. Luca said, for some reason, he just thought that maybe the sea breeze above would make people happy. But after a few minutes, he regretted the higher steps.

The towers of the Red Shield Keep are not spires like the Temple of the Sea Knights, but have a flat roof, forming a balustrade-enclosed terrace on the top floor.

Here, Ollie used to spend eleven years eating snacks with her family, tasting afternoon tea, and watching the ships coming and going on the sea from afar.

But now, the Imperial Navy presumably used this place as an open-air material dumping place, and the original delicate furniture had been dismantled into wooden planks and stacked casually, and the granite floor was covered with large sumps of wood chips left over from the disassembly.

Ollie stepped over the sawdust on the ground and walked over to the fence.

The pier to the south was lit with dim lights, but she wasn't looking in that direction. She faces the northwest side of Al Tow Island, where there is a large area of gentle meadow.

"In the spring in the grass, hyacinths of all colors bloom in the grass, and it looks like you've knocked over a paint bottle. Ollie pointed in that direction and said, her voice trembling slightly, "Unfortunately, it's autumn, and it's night, so you can't see anything." ”

Lukka had never seen Ollie like this.

In his impression, Ollie was always full of energy, and the sorrows and melancholy that belonged to the little woman never seemed to have anything to do with her. Even on the gloomiest of days, just one glance at Ollie's smiling face will make you feel as if you have a sky full of sunshine.

But today, he saw an ordinary girl shivering in the autumn wind, desperately trying to get rid of those suppressed thoughts, but still couldn't hide the loneliness brought out in her voice.

He began to regret bringing Ollie to this sad place, and Lukka felt that his brain must have been in the water.

There must be a remedy, he thought.

He walked over to Ollie, bent down and grabbed a handful of sawdust from the ground, and gently recited a spell.

The sawdust began to glow in Luca's hands, not the usual single silver light, but flashing with colorful light.

He spread his hand, and the light drifted away in the wind, flying towards the meadow that Ollie had mentioned.

Lukka threw out points of light, and soon, the meadow was covered with colorful flashes.

"Glowing hyacinths, blooming just for you. ”

He took Ollie's hand.

Ollie turned, and Lukka looked her in the eye, reaching out to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes.

He bowed his head.

In the flying dots of light, the lips of the two people touched together.

"I say, can you pay attention to the influence?" an impatient voice sounded from the corner, "There are minors here!"