January 1, 2345 AD, if nothing else, would have been the 216th year of the Wasteland Era.

However, due to a number of events, the timeline leading up to the abyss eventually changed.

The Orion did not fall into the hands of the Celestials, nor did the entire Azure Planet.

The survivors of the new era turned the tide and took the torch from their ancestors, and used it to dispel the endless night and welcome the dawn.

January 1, 2345 A.D.

The Orion, bound for the Lagrange Point space station, docked at Starport.

In addition to the heroes of the Burning Corps and the transfer of troops, it also brought 40,000 standard containers - a total of nearly half a million tons of cargo.

This is the first time in two centuries that goods produced from the surface have entered the docking orbit of the Lagrange point.

And just two years ago, dense orbital junk was flooding Earth's outer space orbit.

Only a very small part of these 500,000 tons of cargo is supplies, and most of the rest are aerospace materials, intermediate products and various parts and components produced by the Dawn City Industrial Zone, the Ideal City Industrial Zone, the Southern Sea Industrial Zone, and the Ravenca and Batoya Industrial Zones.

According to the previous contract, the Academy shared with the Alliance the technical drawings of the starship manufacturing in the era of the Human Alliance, as well as the logistics information of the former recovered from the wasteland to the Lagrange Point space station over the years and the "supplier's orders".

Referring to these data, the alliance can completely pull a group of allies to copy the entire "Lagrange point space station related industrial chain" in the era of prosperity.

In exchange, the Alliance will complete the first order for a "large civilian interstellar integrated cruise ship" for the Lagrange Point space station since the end of the Age of Prosperity based on the drawings and technology provided by the Academy.

Although the remuneration is generous, this order is not a small amount, and even the catalog part alone has a few gigabytes of data.

The sheer size of the industry and the wide variety of parts and components is undoubtedly astronomical for a wasteland that has just emerged from decline.

Thankfully, the Alliance isn't alone.

In addition to a large group of younger brothers, there is also the help of the eldest brother of Ideal City, who has gradually become a junior brother!

The industrial machines produced by Silver Wing Group greatly complement the shortcomings of the Alliance and its allies in terms of production quality, and the information processing technology of Endpoint Group provides the soil for the establishment of a more complex industrial chain.

It is worth mentioning that a long, long time ago, the Endpoint Group was not optimistic about expanding the endpoint cloud business on the wasteland.

And now, with the alliance's investment in information infrastructure and the growing demand for data centers, the board of directors of Endpoint Group can only say a word of truth.

It's been a long time since the upper class of the Ideal City has flowed, but the channels for flow still exist after all.

If Endpoint fails to keep up with the times, it will naturally be replaced by other emerging information technology companies that have seized the opportunity.

In particular, when the alliance is more inclined to provide more opportunities and create a healthy competitive atmosphere for emerging companies such as "Abu Aerospace", the sense of urgency of the former is even more aggravated.

Many of the technologies on the wasteland are readily available.

Not to mention that after the academy opened its database to the alliance, many cutting-edge technologies no longer have obvious barriers.

If you can't adapt to the times, you can only wait for the elimination of the times.

In this way, under the full competition and cooperation of all forces, the first batch of 500,000 tons of cargo sent to the Lagrange point space station was finally completed.

Even the Mammoth Nation, which had just experienced the baptism of war, contributed a batch of engineering exoskeletons, and the Batoya Alliance, which abandoned the title of the Southern Legion, received more than 100 orders for precision parts.

The Orion missile cruiser arrived not only cargo, but also nearly a thousand staff members from all sides of the Adhesive Community.

They are all experts in the field of the space industry.

Among them are the majority of Vault dwellers, especially those from the Alliance.

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They were useless in the Wasteland Age, but they finally waited for the time when they could show their strength.

These experts from the era of the People's Union of People will rely on their own experience and technology to restart the shipbuilding facilities of the Lagrange Point space station, complete the production of the first batch of standard cargo starships as soon as possible, and replace the Orion missile cruiser to carry out transportation tasks.

Chu Guang's ambitions for this space station were much more than just a colony ship.

In addition to the Academy's order, he also threw out the blueprint of the "Solar System Revival Plan" at the Adhesive Community Conference.

The plan is jointly formulated by the scientific research team of the alliance and the relevant units of the scientific committee of the college.

In accordance with the steps in the blueprint, the Alliance will gradually recycle the outer space facilities of the Human Connection era in three phases.

In the first phase, the alliance will rebuild the Martian colony and try to repair the mining facilities located on Ceres, establishing a mining station in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

In the second phase, the alliance will continue to expand its range of activities, establishing habitation stations on asteroids where people such as Europa and Titan have been active, and restoring production as much as possible while archaeological pre-war facilities.

In the third phase, the alliance will return to the Kuiper Belt and complete the recovery of all the legacy assets of the Alliance.

The entire program will be progressively implemented on a five-year cycle.

In the process of advancing, the plan will also gradually feed back to the reconstruction of the surface world.

All products related to the Solar System Revival Program and all kinds of derivatives will enjoy the highest tariff reduction and exemption of zero tariff in the market entering the Alliance.

In addition to the alliance itself, the alliance also welcomes all the contracting forces of the community to participate in the solar system revival plan, and share the benefits while contributing production capacity, so as to exchange information for the common good of all mankind.

With the success of the Sticky Community ahead, it is almost foreseeable that the survivors will take over the almost completed historical mission of the Sticky Community in the near future, and become the cornerstone of a new global cooperation framework and a new era of order.

And in the time to come, this blueprint that gradually took shape did prove it.

In order to commemorate the merits of that person, future historians studied this glorious period and finally took the beginning and end of the "Solar System Revival Project" as a clue, and officially named this blank memory for the future "Dawning Era".

It was he who they remembered.

And it's not just him.

But that's for later......

……

Just after seven o'clock in the evening, the Pirate Cove Tavern in Boulder City is at its busiest.

There were no pirates or ships, just holographic televisions hanging in the corners and a group of drunken workers.

In the not-so-distant Wasteland Age, what people produced here was nothing more than a pile of cans without dreams.

Today, while many people still work in canneries, those cans that don't have dreams have been sold to the distant Lagrange Point space station.

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In the "Awakened Football Tournament", an advertisement for a canned food brand in Boulder City is interspersed, and the general content is that a large amount of wonderful cans are full of cans that send a taste of hometown to the tin cans who are on a mission in Lagrange Point.

The humorous image amused everyone in the tavern, and the sudden burst of laughter made Kent on the bar shake his shoulders and straighten up.

The man who had been drinking with him had already gone home, but he was still on the topic before the break, burping and shouting in a loud voice.

"Actually—I've long seen that the manager is a really good man."

The sound was so abrupt that it was as if someone was running to bet on the winner after the game had been decided.

There was silence in the tavern for a moment, and then the crowd burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Kent, if your dick were as hard as your mouth, maybe your wife wouldn't divorce you."

"That said, '

It's all the same, "Who is the person?"

"Relax man, you don't have to pretend to be like everyone else, even if you don't love him, we won't force you to kiss his ass, let alone whip your ass."

"Hahahaha!"

Kent blushed, but he couldn't say anything to refute it, so he took a sip of wine and muttered to himself.

"If you know what happened for three days, there are no more people in the world...... Who knows what will happen later."

Who would have thought that the giant tower that had stood for a hundred years would collapse suddenly, and who would have thought that the grass platform team erected by a few carpenters was no worse than the noble Lord Sid.

Who would have thought of this......

And that house who ran to Bougerra to continue farting.

Isn't it said that if the purge is not complete, the old aristocracy will eventually return and take away the false victory of the workers' union and punish the betrayers?

Why didn't you wait for the explosion of Boulder City, and Bougerra himself slammed the fireworks first!?

The more Kent thought about it, the more angry he became, and he hated the bad guy, and poured another sip of beer into his stomach.

But then again, the beer in this fries port is not as mellow as that of Boulder City, but it also has a different flavor.

I don't know if it's an illusion or the work of the tree of life.

Kent couldn't help but think, wait for a few days of annual leave, and go there to live for half a month......

……

New Year's Day, which falls on January 1 every year, is a national holiday of the Alliance.

Although Boulder has not had a tradition of celebrating the New Year for the past two centuries, Elisa, who was studying at Camp 101, was so sick of nostalgia by the festive atmosphere that she decided to return home.

Not far anyway.

Today's Qingquan City is no longer the dangerous hell it used to be.

The previously paralyzed underground passage was restored shortly after the Alliance conquered the brood.

Boulder City, which has emerged from its debt crisis, renovated its subway station outside the city a year ago.

Since then, the express train from Dawn to the South has taken only an hour to reach Boulder, and even the steps to transfer have been omitted.

Alyssa, who was carrying a suitcase, stood at the door of the house, and suddenly felt a little homesick for a while, but she still mustered up the courage to step forward and knock on the door.

The door slowly opened.

However, what Alyssa didn't expect was that it was her eldest brother standing at the door.

The tall, thin man had a pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and the sternness between his eyebrows was even more like her father's.

Although their family has fallen, the tiger in distress is still a tiger after all.

Especially the eldest son of the Malvern family, even if he no longer talks about the revival of the family, he still carries a sense of nobility and calmness that the drunkards of Boulder City do not have.

Staring at the sharp gaze, Alyssa instinctively shrunk her neck, but eventually straightened her back.

She's not the little girl she used to be who couldn't do anything without help.

Now she has more than just a group of reliable partners, she is her own strength.

As if noticing her growth, the sharp gaze gradually softened a little.

Warfitt said in a soothing tone.

"Coming back?"

"Uh-huh......

Alyssa nodded cautiously, quietly moved the suitcase an inch towards the threshold, and whispered a greeting.

"You...... Are you alright?"

Since he slapped her in the square that day, the two have never communicated face-to-face like this, but have maintained communication in the exchange of letters.

Warfitt looked at her with complicated eyes, both relieved and guilty, and there were many things that could not be said.

But perhaps not knowing how, he finally swallowed the words back into his throat and just said them flatly.

"I, okay...... What about you? Are you used to it?"

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Well! I'm all right!"

Seeing that her brother had finally said more to herself, Alyssa finally showed a heartfelt smile on her face and happily opened the conversation.

"Since I went to Camp 101, I've learned a lot of things I've never heard of before, and I've made a lot of friends......

Looking at his cheerful sister, Warfitt's face also showed a heartfelt smile, and he reached out and carried in the suitcase that had crept to the edge of the threshold.

"Don't stand in the doorway...... Come in and talk about it."

"Hmm!"

Nodding vigorously, Alyssa happily entered the door, chattering about her experiences at Camp 101 along the way.

Hearing her daughter's voice, Gornys, who was cooking in the kitchen, ran out of the kitchen excitedly and took Alice in her arms.

"Alyssa! My baby girl, Mommy misses you to death! You're suffering outside!"

There were a few wrinkles on that still charming face.

Perhaps because of the ups and downs of family changes, or perhaps because of the ups and downs of life, she has gradually become an ordinary old woman.

Looking at her much older mother, the bridge of Alyssa's nose couldn't help but sour slightly.

If she is most sorry for whom, I am afraid that only her own family is her.

However, she didn't really have much to do...... Just like so many people who stood with her that night.

Whether it adapts to the changes of the times, or is it run over by the wheels of history.

Standing at the crossroads of stormy and stormy, she can only follow her own heart and make a choice.

"Mom...... I'm out there and I'm doing well...... What about you? Are you still used to life?"

Looking at her daughter's immature face, Gernice showed a comfortable smile on her face and pinched it gently and dotingly.

"Mom is very good, your dad and I have long been used to it. By the way, Mom has recently learned a lot of good dishes...... You and your brother wait a while, and I'll bring it out for you to taste!"

"Hmm!" Holding back the tears that filled her eyes, Alyssa nodded vigorously.

Kissing her daughter on the cheek, Gornice went back to the kitchen and prepared dinner with her eldest daughter-in-law.

Not only her mother, but her sister-in-law also came out of the shadows of the past.

However, apparently she didn't forgive her, but she didn't turn her face because of the face of her relatives.

There's no way around it.

"Dad is coming back from the library soon, let's go to the living room." Warfitt gently patted her sister on the shoulder and led her out of the hallway in front of the kitchen.

The two went to the living room and sat in front of the TV and talked for a long time, until their daddy, Malvin, came back from the library in Boulder.

Although it was a holiday, Malvern was used to being in the library sorting through the literature, spending the whole day there during working hours or not.

Seeing her daughter come home suddenly, Malvern's reaction was not as strong as that of Gordonys, and she just muttered "grown up" and "grown taller" repeatedly in surprise, and the incoherent appearance made everyone in the family giggle.

It's finally time to start eating.

Alyssa also sat at the dinner table and learned from her mother that while she was away studying, her eldest brother had actually gone on a trip to King Gallen Port to open up a branch on behalf of the Rock City Bank.

As a result of his outstanding business performance in the region, he has risen from an accountant to the vice president of the Port of Gold Gallen branch.

Now that the business at the Port of Kingalen branch is mature, he has been transferred back to the headquarters of the Boulder City Bank to open a new business in the Free State of Bugra and participate in the restructuring of the local debt.

This time, he will be the branch president.

To his credit, Boulder City Bank did not deliberately suppress her eldest brother's promotion because of his sensitive status.

And her eldest brother can be regarded as reciprocating the favor and pushing away a lot of olive branches thrown by other banks......

Even with this excellent resume, there may be better development after changing jobs.

According to Warfitt, the civil war in Bougerra was a complete victory for the burghers, trampling under their feet the "company dogs" who had once ridden on their heads.

However, unlike in the past, Otto did not immediately support a new company to replace the Flint Group, but under all the pressure, he introduced an "anti-monopoly law", banned the chaotic private armed forces, and re-regulated the out-of-control order.

This is a good opportunity for "revenge" for Boulder.

Previously, Bougerra took advantage of the turmoil in Boulder City to bite off a large piece of flesh from them, and at that time they could do nothing but be helpless.

Now at this moment, it is the turn of Boulder City to recover this debt with interest.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the local citizens, but mainly against the Flint Syndicate and the garbage who have taken advantage of the fire to rob the inhabitants of Boulder City.

The jackals that eat people and don't spit out bones are the common enemies of the citizens of Boulder and the inhabitants of Boulder City.

No matter how skillfully these captive househouses weave the lie that man and jackals should be united, no one will listen to their nonsense anymore.

Looking at the eldest brother who grew up and the high-spirited appearance that reappeared on that face, Alyssa was also relieved in her heart.

Although the process is full of twists and turns, at least the end result is not bad.

Looking at the heartfelt smiles on the faces of her family, she suddenly found that the estrangement between her family and her family had melted a lot.

Including her sister-in-law, who never looked at her properly, her attitude towards her has also eased a little.

Time is a good medicine.

Unconsciously, they felt a lot less guilty about each other.

"Speaking of which...... What about the basics?" She suddenly thought of her second brother, if only he was here.

Hearing his brother's name, Warfitt's originally high-spirited expression darkened slightly, with a hint of complexity between his eyebrows.

"I don't know, that guy is like the world has evaporated...... I've inquired, but there's no news, except that he's left Boulder and headed east."

When he said this, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"This cowardly fool...... I don't know what's going on in his head."

Seeing his mother's gently trembling shoulders, Warfitt suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he didn't want to take it back, just glanced to the side in silence.

"Maybe it's back to Ideal City...... Let him be." Malvin muttered, not wanting to mention his youngest son's name.

That was the only shame that the Malvern family had not washed away.

However, it was his own flesh and blood after all, and he really couldn't say anything bad about that bastard.

If you have to blame, you can only blame yourself for not teaching him well.

Warfitt coughed lightly, turned his gaze to Alyssa, and changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, what have you been up to lately?"

"What ...... me," Alyssa was stunned, and in the face of her brother's stern eyes, she accidentally lowered her voice, "In addition to the management course, I have been helping my teacher sort out historical documents recently...... He said I had a lot of talent for it."

Warfitt raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Who is your teacher?"

Alyssa replied truthfully.

"His name is Meng Jie."

"Meng Jie ......"

Repeating the name, Warfitt always felt that he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.

And Daddy Malvin, who was sitting next to him, had a touch of surprise in his eyes.

"Is that him?"

"You know?" Warfitt looked at Daddy with a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Kind of acquaintance, he's visited me a few times and talked to me about the past in Boulder City......" Malvin looked at his daughter and said, "He's the former president of Mammoth University?"

"Hmm!"

Alyssa nodded, smiled a little embarrassedly.

"He said that I had the shadow of an old man he knew, who was much older than me, and who was more powerful and wiser than me, and who was almost the same as I was when I grew up. It's fate, Mr. Meng wants me to sort out the information about that person......

Although Alyssa didn't mention the man's name, this time Warfitt seemed to understand.

"Is that man's name Ischer?"

"Yes! How do you know?" Alyssa looked at her brother in surprise, her eyes flashing with surprise, "Brother, do you know him?"

"Huh...... Well, when I was working at Port Goldgallen, I read him in the newspaper a few times."

Warfitt pursed his lips and snorted softly.

"This guy wasn't hung on the city wall by five horses, purely because he died early."

He'd never seen anyone luckier than that guy.

escaped from the tragedy of Xifan Port and escaped from the rebellion of the Heavenly King...... And he retreated with everyone around him, and then fought back and forth with a group of experienced veterans of the Southern Army.

That guy's life is like a hanging, as if he has really been blessed by the goddess of the silver moon.

Even at the end of life.

Compared to the rest of Absek's subordinates, he was probably the most decent one.

At least he died on the battlefield.

Speaking of this, he looked at his sister who was full of astonishment in his eyes, and said word by word.

"You know what? You're almost almost like that guy."

The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly cooled, and it went from one heavy topic to another.

Looking at Alyssa with a sad expression on her face, Warfitt's wife also showed a trace of unbearability on her face, shook her husband's hand under the table, and scolded him with her eyes for going too far.

Although Alyssa has grown up, she is still a child after all...... At least yes for her.

Warfitt also realized that he had said something he shouldn't have said, even if he didn't think it was wrong.

The person she should protect more than those unrealistic things is herself.

It doesn't matter if you hate him, but he won't take it back.

He didn't want to watch her burn like that fool, like a matchstick, and in the end nothing changed but burned herself in vain.

"But...... That kind of thing...... Didn't it happen after all?" Alyssa lowered her head and said with some sadness, "Are you still haunted?"

She was most worried about his eldest brother, the one who would rather sacrifice himself than revive the family.

She's been through her own crossroads, and it's unlikely that she'll ever encounter the same thing again.

But he's different.

He is the eldest son of the family.

If he was still alive in the Great Stone City of the past, the senseless sense of duty and loyalty to the old times would sooner or later drag him to hell......

"I'm not dying, I'm just worried about you."

Warfitt turned his face sideways and said in a hoarse voice.

"You're too young, including your friends. When I was in Golden Gallen Harbor, I saw so many people from Boulder who were passionate about helping the locals and replicating their success in Boulder, and the result? All those who were carried away by the victory were given a kick in the ass and fell in different positions...... Of course, the people who kicked their butts didn't end well in the end, and they deserved to ask for their own hardships, and they couldn't blame anyone."

"I don't want to dampen your dreams, but I don't want to do dangerous stupid things in the future, and I have to be cautious as a last resort...... Remember, I am the future head of this family, and I am not yet in the coffin."

The current head of the family, Malvern, was silent, apparently acquiescing.

After a pause, Warfitt opened his mouth with some embarrassment.

"And ...... My tone is not very good, this thing is ...... I apologize to you, I'm sorry."

He is not a person who is good at admitting mistakes, and this sentence seems to have used up all his strength.

But after hearing this, Alyssa's face bloomed with a smile of surprise.

It dawned on her that the thorn that had been stuck in her heart had never existed in the first place.

Her family never really hated her.

It's more in love than anyone else in this world......

……

The wind and snow howled outside the window.

Without a roaring fireplace, plumbing pipes and fins aren't necessarily as warm as a fireplace.

And perhaps because of the small size of the room, Alyssa suddenly noticed that the family was sitting closer together.

Just when the family was happily celebrating the reunion after a long absence, the doorbell suddenly rang at the door.

"I'll open the door!"

Alyssa jumped out of the chair, stepped on her slippers and ran to the door, and when she opened the door, she saw a strange girl standing at the door.

The girl was dressed in a lilac down jacket and carrying a simple travel bag, about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same age as her, with fluffy blonde hair and a little green on her young face.

She doesn't seem to deal with people very often, and she always unconsciously avoids her gaze and is afraid of making eye contact with others...... Even if it's her peers standing in front of her.

Camp 101 occasionally has a few Free State students, most of them.

Seeing the prosthetic text on the side of her cheek, Alyssa was almost certain that she was from the Free State, and the only thing she was confused about was why she was here.

She didn't remember seeing the face.

"Are you here for Mr. Warfitt?"

Come to think of it, only her eldest brother might know someone from the Free State.

After all, he was about to go there to take up the post of president of the Boulder City Bank branch.

The girl shook her head hastily with a blank expression on her face, then bowed sharply as if she had come to her senses, and then took out a black box from her bosom and stuffed it into her chest with several crumpled letters of paper.

「…… I'm sorry!"

Desperate to shout this sentence, she closed her eyes tightly, ready to be scolded.

And that's not all—

Her shoulders trembled slightly, as if she were holding down her grief.

Alyssa looked at her in astonishment, at first confused as to what she was going to do, but gradually read the weight of the box in her hand from the ice slag frozen on her eyelashes.

With a slight twitch of her fingertips, Alyssa unfolded one of the letters, and sure enough, she saw the familiar handwriting......

[Elisa, my sister ......]

[Please forgive your cowardly and incompetent brother for not apologizing to you in person...... Although I did think so, by the time you read this letter, I was probably dead. 】

[It's not that I haven't thought about washing away the sins I once committed, but the family I want to apologize to the most is long gone in this world. 】

[If you think about it, the old man who begged me to take responsibility for his daughter may be the last chance the gods gave me...... It was also my last chance. However, I was stupid and did not realize my stupidity, and instead of having any intention of repentance, I tried to escape from my sins, and set them on fire to death. 】

Since then, I have become a demon. It was never you who really destroyed the Malvern family, but the stupid me. 】

[Including the collapse of the inner city of Megalith, it has never been about those who are as kind and brave as you, but countless people who have fallen into demons. 】

[I didn't have the face to face them, I tried to find answers in the wasteland, but in the end I just lived in a mess, and I didn't even have the courage to end myself. 】

In this way, I repented of my sins and walked in the direction of the ideal city, fantasizing about what to do

If you can get there, you say

The gods forgave my sins. And if not, it also saves me from doing it myself. 】

[Ridiculous, isn't it?] I can't even get human forgiveness, but I'm still fantasizing about being forgiven by the gods. Perhaps it was my arrogance that led to the punishment of fate, and before I even left the city of Clear Springs, I ran into a group of slave traders who were sold to the notorious Free State of Bugra. 】

[If there is such a thing as hell in this world, it should be one of them.] I thought that maybe that would be fate's punishment for me, and I thought it would be better to rot there. 】

And just as I was thinking this, fate played a joke on me again, and a beam of light actually shone into that dark hell. A demonic puppet suddenly broke free from its shackles and said that it would lead us to resist. 】

[That man is the mayor of the Free State, maybe you've heard his name on the news...... But I'm not talking about that guy, I'm not his soldier, I'm talking about the girl standing in front of you, whose name is Lala. 】

[We met in a makeshift shelter near a war zone, and we were civilians caught up in the war. Her father, who was lying on a stretcher with his last breath left, entrusted her to me, begging me to take her out of the city. 】

[I don't know why he believes me as a rotten person, and I don't know where I got the courage to agree to him...... But for a moment, it dawned on me that this might be my only chance, even if it wasn't something earth-shattering. 】

[I'm going to take her out of that hell, no matter what......]

[I don't pray for the blessing of the gods so that I can live to the end, I just hope that the person who gives you the letter is her, not the homeless or other charity.] Please, this is the last time I pray to the gods so that I can do something at the last moment of my life, when I have achieved nothing. 】

[-Your bastard brother who has achieved nothing, the devil of Boulder City, the eternal shame of the Malvern family, Jixiu]

Alyssa read the letter to the end, and tears fell uncontrollably and dripped onto the letter.

Maybe she waited until the end and didn't wait for the imaginary scolding, but the girl with her head down raised her head.

Looking at the heartbroken Alyssa, she was stunned, and then saw the location of the tears dripping on the paper, and couldn't help but blurt out.

"He's not a rotten man!"

She had apparently read the letters.

And I've read every one.

Looking at Alyssa, who looked up in astonishment with tears in the corners of her eyes, the girl quickly avoided her gaze and continued in a hoarse voice.

"He told me that he used to do a lot of bad things...... But what I saw was not that kind of person......

Biting her lip, she continued.

"He's tried so hard to live, and he can live...... It's all about saving me......

She would rather die to herself.

She doesn't have any family anyway, and he still has so many families waiting for him to go back......

Unable to wipe away her tears, Alyssa slipped the box and letter into her pocket and took the sobbing girl in her arms.

After a long time, when her mood stabilized, Alyssa said in a gentle voice.

"What's your name?"

「…… Lala."

"Lala...... Thank you."

Thank you?

The girl's eyes widened, not understanding why the gentle sister in front of her would say this.

Looking at those stunned eyes, Alyssa tried not to rub the sand from her eyes, but just looked at the girl sincerely.

"My brother who has achieved nothing...... Maybe it's really done a great thing. Please take his place and live well in the new world."

Looking at the gentle smile, Lala suddenly sobbed again, couldn't cry for a while, threw herself into Alyssa's arms and cried.

The grievances along the way all fell in the snow.

"It's all right......

Alyssa patted her shoulder comfortingly and whispered softly in her ear.

"You haven't eaten yet, have you? It's so cold outside, come in and talk...... By the way, can you tell me about him? If you don't have any other place to go, you might as well stay with me until the winter passes."

「…… Thank you."

With tears of gratitude in her eyes, the girl nodded vigorously and followed her timidly into the house.

Living in the steel jungle, she had never seen such a kind person.

I am actually ...... Have you arrived in Heaven?

I heard that at the time of the Civil War in the Free States, the Wasteland Age was over.

She's finally believing it now.

"You're welcome."

Looking at Lala, who was still embarrassed, Alyssa smiled and said softly.

"Feel free to make this your home."

"If you don't dislike it, I'll be your family from now on."

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