When the expedition arrived at Lake Mochizuki, the people of the station, led by Nina and Eugene, greeted them from as far as three miles away, while others blew the horns used for the battle charge, and the melodious and long trumpet sound seemed to bring them back to the city of Karta. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It won't be long before the North City will become the greatest city in Sumer. Kenny sat in the saddle and told Allen, "It will be the center of this continent, the gateway between north and south, the bridge between east and west, and it will be more magnificent than it is as old as Assyria and more than it can remember!"

Allen's mind was clearly not on the people who came out to greet him, nor on Kenny's rhetoric and vision for the future, and even Linde, who was in a coma, was temporarily thrown aside. A week earlier, when Morris had led tens of thousands of soldiers of the sun to say goodbye to them in the vast plains of Quells, he had asked him if he would go to meet the lord. “..... In any case, you should at least thank your lord in person, as far as I know, she lent you a third of the strength of Sunlight City. ”

Kenny thinks he should say thank you, or ..... Individual.

In the end, Alan chose to remain silent. The middle-aged knight left with a belly full of rage, vowing that the next time he saw Allen, he would have a head-on duel with him, and then, in a man's way, he would teach him the most basic manners.

So, this team of tens of thousands of people became a small team of several hundred people, and continued to move east. When they arrived at the Assyrian border, the bitch Mira and the thief-eyed man left the group, and Kenny wanted to send someone to protect him, but a guy named Jaime Dondelion was already waiting at the border, with a thousand well-trained Iron Forest troops, which left Kenny and the bitch with no chance.

After Mira Kellyn left, the group headed north, along the edge of the Shadow Forest, until they crossed the Assyrian border, and after two more days of northward travel, they vaguely saw Lake Mochizuki, which Kenny had been talking about all the way, and the North City, or someone in the North City, whom he had been thinking about.....

That hug was probably the least Kenny felt like Alan had ever felt like Kenny since he met him. He watched as Kenny dismounted, sword in hand, and strode towards Nina, then hugged her tightly, burying his head in the waterfall-like maroon curls, followed by a long kiss that grew so long that Alan lost his patience and wanted to interrupt them. Of course, he didn't do that until the two left hand in hand.

A sumptuous dinner washed away the fatigue of the people on the expedition to the west. Kenny sat at the head of the long table, Nina beside him, Selsi and Mike sat on the left and right, and Camille, Eugene, Winnie, Mio, and Aiden were below..... Alan picked a spot at the end of the long table and backed the night behind him.

They enjoyed appetizing prunes in wine, followed by sweet corn soup and steak sprinkled with black pepper, served with a dash of fine ham and roasted swan, followed by plates of wild venison stewed with beer and barley, and finally a hot dish of Nippur's specialty roasted lamb's trotters. For dessert, the servants brought out plates of kitchen pastries with cream cakes, sugar unicorns, rose-shaped lemon cakes, spiced honey biscuits, blackberry cookies, apple crisps, butter cheese, and more. It can be seen that Nina has worked hard for this dinner.

After the meal, Kenny asks Eugene and Neo about their construction in recent days, and the two of them recount the problems they encountered and their plans for the future, and the group talks about the future of Northtown while peeling off the nuts. What followed was a continuous discussion that continued into the night. Kenny gave everyone present the right to speak, and in the process of expressing their opinions, sometimes quarrels, sometimes disagreements, sometimes they resolved them by a show of hands, and later, on the table, they either cursed loudly, or joked, or bargained, or yelled, or reasoned, or slapped the table with a cup, or even coaxed, or coaxed, and the unspeakable Sersi even left the table angrily, but after a while, he returned to join the discussion with a calm face. Among them, Alan just sat at the end of the table and listened quietly, rarely spoke, and did not even participate in voting.

When the time came in the second half of the night, and brought a spring rain as thin as a cow's hair, the candles of the tent were blown out by the wind, and all the strife was carried away, and the people went back to their tents, hoping to dispel the fatigue of the journey with a long dream.

The night rain evokes a thousand sleeping smells and makes them ripe and alive. Grass and thorns, dirt on the ground, worms, rotting leaves, reeds on the shores of Lake Mochizuki, and water snakes and gophers that burrow in and out of them..... Everything is clearly recognizable.

Alan was standing in a warm tent with a fire, Lind's eyes still tight and shivering on the bed. Obviously, the fire did not remove the cold from his body, and even the flame sword inserted in the side did not bring him warmth. The tent was filled with cyan flames, overshadowing the orange of the candlelight overhead, making all the furnishings strange here.

"Found the answer you were looking for?"

A familiar voice slammed into his ears. Eren turned around, looking for prestige. There was no one around, only the wind blowing the tent curtains, the rustling sound of the rain hitting the tent roof, and nothing else.

"Idiot, here. The voice said, "Behind his sword." ”

Eren turned his head and turned around. He looked at the burning flame sword, the cyan flames swaying in the wind, and a human face faintly appeared in the firelight, sometimes scattered, sometimes clear. It was a face he knew all too well. "Got the answer?" The flame flickered a few times, like the lips of a human face squirming.

He shook his head and sat down cross-legged.

"How long?" the voice asked him, "does the answer matter that much?"

He nodded, his chin propped up.

"If you want me to say, the answer is not that important. The voice smiled softly, "If you can't find it, come back as soon as possible." Everybody's waiting for you, don't mind the gossip, no one questions you, except yourself, even if he-"

"Alan, what are you doing?"

The face of the man in the flames disappeared instantly, and the sound stopped abruptly, and Eren turned his head sharply, and a green figure crashed into his field of vision. He felt that these two heartbeats almost shattered his sternum, and even his crossed legs no longer obeyed, and after swallowing two mouthfuls of saliva in succession, he watched the figure gradually approach and said, "Don't go with Nina?"

"What are you doing?" Kenny looked at Alan with a strange look and the sword in front of him, "I just saw you shake your head at the sword and nod your head....."

"Nothing. Alan stood up with his hands on his knees, "It's just..... I hope..... To find some clues from this sword, Lind can't sleep like this forever, Eugene has no good way, Assyria doesn't know if anyone can save him, if not, I'm afraid we'll have to go to Elidu to find a chance, or Uruk, anyway..... Damn it....."

"There's always a way, this little imp is still alive, isn't it?" Kenny patted him on the shoulder, relieved, "Rest early, it's been a hard journey, man, you've worked harder than anyone else." ”

Alan smiled and shook his head, then took Kenny's outstretched hand, and the two of them walked out of the tent together.

A drizzle was sprinkled on his face, and Alan had never felt so warm. He let the rain lap against his skin, and before turning to his tent, he took one last look at Linde's tent. The cyan flame turned into a familiar face again.....