Heirs of the Stars Chapter 57
Gathering place No. 3.
A thin figure was busy in the large, empty cafeteria No. 2, the dirt firmly attached to the gray floor tiles was as dense as beads of sweat on her forehead, and it always took a lot of effort for her to wipe off the tiny, tiny tile with the worn-out tools in her hand.
Only then does the jet-black, disgusting tile briefly reveal its original color—which is white—the color of purity.
Angelica wiped the sweat from her face and struggled to scrub the brush in her hand with a particularly dirty mass of dirt that stood out from the filth—maybe some hapless guy stepped on shit years ago, or maybe some fool fell to the ground, trampled on by countless people and lost its original appearance—who knows?
"Angelica—" A man suddenly patted her on the shoulder, and freed her from a demonic and strenuous behavior that she couldn't get by.
Angelica glanced back and tried to stand up straight with her brush, but a sharp pain from her spine soon made her cry out, "Damn...... Hiss-"
"Are you alright?" Her only friend in the army, Singularity, shoved a glass of warm water into Angelica's hand.
This dark-skinned girl is really a very considerate and gentle person - but she is not often bullied and ridiculed by her female soldiers because of the slight freckles on her face.
How miserable is it?
Singularity never spoke to her about these unpleasant things—but before they became friends, Angelica could often be seen at the door of the bathroom, by the closet in the locker room, or even in public places like the army cafeteria, departing in embarrassment from laughter that could almost lift the roof - some energetic scumbag always likes to base his own pleasure on her own pain.
But since Singularity took the initiative to extend his kind right hand to Angelica, who had fallen on the hot concrete floor, after a training session, the miserable days of being bullied have improved a lot.
No one had dared to strike up a conversation with Angelica before this—probably because these unregular soldiers always had a slight hint of jealousy and displeasure in their chests when they saw Angelica's sweet smile, or because she had dislocated her jaw when she had an "argument" with a "gentle", "generous" and "angelic young lady who had never been angry" in her row.
Since then, no one has dared to mess with her – which is a good thing – but she's lost the few friends she had.
Angelica had tried to explain the reason for her actions to her companions, but unfortunately no one had ever been willing to spend just a few minutes patiently listening to her—perhaps with her fists could easily make the abusive soft-bastards sit in front of her for hours, but she was unwilling to do so—Angelica hated bullying the weak, and for more than twenty years had tried to avoid becoming the kind of garbage that was harmful to society.
It is a strange miracle that such an upright and lovely person as Angelica can be born in this chaotic and filthy land.
But Angelica doesn't have any like-minded friends in the first place—and that hypocritical doesn't have a beating—and if God gives her another chance, Angelica will surely break the jaw of that "lovely" and "violence-hating" young lady so that she can no longer stay in a dark corner with a bunch of like-minded "rats" who slander and slander others.
"Thank you." Angelica grabbed the cup in her hand, drank the warm boiling water inside, and handed it back to Singularity.
"What's wrong with you? Why was he ordered by the captain to stay here and clean the cafeteria? Singularity took the little iron cup and looked at the petite girl in front of her with distress—but she didn't take the tools from Angelica's hand to help her friend complete the captain's punishment—this kind of stupid behavior, if looked down upon by someone with a heart, would only make the current situation slide to the worse side.
"You shouldn't know," Angelica just shook her head, continuing to fiddle with the brush in her hand - but her absent-minded movements made it clear at a glance that she had fallen into unpleasant memories.
"Is that damn Adeline? She's looking for someone to get revenge on you again? Singularity slowly wiped away some of the sweat from her face with the towel she had brought with her—a towel that had inevitably shed and dried out over time, but at least it was clean—and its owner could see that he cherished it.
Angelica just pursed her lips and shook her head slightly.
"Then it must be Jace's goddamn dude!" Singularity raised his eyebrows and said categorically: "Did that nasty person-scum insult you again?" ”
Angelica didn't nod, but she didn't shake her head either, thinking that she had guessed by the singularity.
This simple-minded girl had few overnight troubles on her mind—except for the small-minded Adeline and Jacks, who had been haunting her since she was confronted by Angelica.
Adeline didn't have much to say, this woman who turned black and white upside down and was a good hand at telling right and wrong in order to isolate Angelica could even drop herself on the floor of the locker room and dislocate her jaw and cry as if she was beaten crooked by Angelica with her fist - why did the singularity know, you ask?
She was being bullied by Adeline and her companions in the dressing room that day – just like in the past – the brutality of violence seemed commonplace, and it became an easy way for the female soldiers to release the stress of training after a day of practice, except that Angelica intervened.
Angelica, who was quite popular at the time, suddenly pushed away the tall girls and regained her underwear that had been tossed around like a ball in the air by several people for Singularity.
Angelica reprimanded the bullies after returning her underwear to the Singularity - Adeline, who was usually used to being powerful, naturally did not allow anyone to contradict her - and then the laughable fool slipped and fell to the ground when Angelica was not paying attention to push her down, dislocating his jaw.
The singularity that was curled up in her underwear was all visible—and she had tried to defend her friend after that—but the singularity and Angelica's voices were like two small, lonely raindrops in a rainstorm that disappeared into the air without making a sound.
As for Jace?
Singularity is sure it's a damn stallion who would rather leave his upper body to his lower body than use his brain a little bit - almost every female soldier who joins the army has been subjected to his frivolity and flirtation - unless your appearance really makes him afraid to compliment.
While most of the mature, sensible women are able to face the sugar-coated shells that pop out of the mouth of this carrot, there are always ignorant girls who have just joined the army to escape poverty and hunger and fall into Jace's endless sweet words - and the fools who blindly pursue romance and love usually don't end well.
The reason why this spurned person-scum can still stay in the army and enjoy himself is all because of the "secret" help of his dear brother Captain Latte.
Like his incompetent brother, the blind Captain Latte was a pure man-scum who spent his days idling around - and although he often pointed to his black blindfold and boasted to the recruits about the brutality and horror of the battle that took his left eye, everyone knew that Latte's left eye had actually been stolen by a rusty steel bar in the ruins during a night march a few years ago - but no one dared to say it to his face, unless you wanted to be sparked by the greasy hand of the latte. A few hard whips on the well-maintained whip.
Believe me, the violent latte is happy to wave the long whip in his hand to give the soldiers who contradict their superiors a "small, basic lesson" - there are not many opportunities to be able to beat subordinates in the army, and the latte who is most willing to see others in pain will definitely take this opportunity to repair you.
It is said that there was once a hard-mouthed soldier who was finally whipped to death by the captain latte with a whip in his hand, but looking at the captain's relaxed and comfortable appearance now, Singularity estimated in his heart that the unlucky guy who died tragically was probably just a rookie recruit who had just joined the army and no one cared about - in the cruel No. 3 gathering place, most of the recruits' lives would not care.
But at least the two unpopular brothers were brothers, and Captain Latte took advantage of his position to suppress a lot of complaints - Abbush and Fett, who had gone to Captain Latte's office to tidy up his desk, said that many of the half-human-tall complaints about Jace's despicable behavior had been molded by the unbearably harassed female soldiers—and the rest of the complaints scattered in the dark corners were all about the size of jelly beans, with several layers of slimy cobwebs.
Judging from Angelica's reaction, the reason for her punishment is already obvious—the wise reader will understand that this matter has nothing to do with Jace and his brother Captain Latte—most likely because the strong-natured Angelica arrogantly insulted Jace's filth that can only be bred in a dark corner, and then both of them were severely and "justly" punished by Captain Latte, who rushed to the scene.
And as the Captain's only younger brother, Jace, who was nominally severely punished, didn't have to stay in the cafeteria to clean up the dirty floors that hadn't been seriously mopped by the cleaners in years—in fact, the celebrity-scum was now dangling in the bright sunlight of the troop playground with his sinister triangular eyes looking for his next easy target—which was ironic.
"So did I guess right?" Seeing Angelica's singularity slowly stop what she was doing, she sighed softly, but she couldn't find any words to comfort her friend—what could she say? What could she do?
The dazzling midday sun was cut through the narrow window of the cafeteria, and it fell on Angelica's body with great affection, making the tired, sweaty girl glaring in the eyes of the singularity.
Angelica doesn't think she's a good-hearted person—so she swears in her heart that one day she'll make Jace pay for her frivolous and bullying words—along with his cheating, cruel shit brother.