448

After Byam regained his composure, Azik, who had witnessed the whole process with Crane, softly said goodbye and prepared to leave.

Crane hurriedly stopped him.

"Mr. Azik, I have something to ask you." Crane hesitated, but still spoke about the troubles and pains that had been in his heart for a day and a night.

Azk replied softly, "What's the matter?" ”

"I'm sorry, maybe my scars will be revealed......"

"There were things going on in me that made me realise that Edward Vaughn wasn't cheating on me, I did, I did...... I really come from an ancient era, a world of the past. "It took a lot of effort for Crane to say this, he was no longer the face of a mad adventurer, he was young and like an ordinary college student," ...... I always thought it was another world, that my family, my friends were still waiting for me, so I tried to find a way home...... As a result, I now suddenly learned that I may have been brought from the 'Source Fort' to the present, my family, friends, and everything is gone......"

Listening to Crane's increasingly deep and ethereal voice, Azik realized.

“…… Time. "In the countless times I have lived in the past, I have rarely had the opportunity to miss the past, because when I think of the past, my life has come to an end." ”

"I've become cold, unforgiving, and can't feel sadness or joy."

It has existed for a long time, but it is only to live for the sake of existence, and perhaps it has had some wishes and goals in a long life, but in the end it has been silent in the darkness and cold. Life after life often ends too quickly, and just a few decades are not enough, and he organizes everything into a book after each memory recovery, and can only repeat the endless confusion and confusion.

Azik originally thought that this was his problem, but only now did he gradually realize that there was a shadow behind the scenes in every part of his life.

Just as the god-like self has been standing in the shadows and staring at him, whispering to him to go to the Southern Continent, to the Raging Sea, to respond to the believers there, to follow the call of spirituality and fate, and to do something important that he can no longer remember.

However, these whispers and calls did not make him close to the Southern Continent, but only made him reject his true self even more, and only wanted to live for those memories that still had warmth even if they were conspiracies. The wives, friends, parents, and children they once had were real, and even if they wanted to hate them, they would not fall on them, but for those who took advantage of their kindness and beauty. Azik kept thinking back to those memories, against the calls in his ears and instinctual thoughts, and the only memories that had accompanied him for countless years.

It turns out that this is loneliness, this kind of loneliness after walking for a long time, only to find that there is no one behind you when you look back.

Zhou Mingrui...... What do you think of Melissa and Benson? ”

He pondered his words.

"Is there even a moment in this world so far that makes you want to stay?"

"Do you want to stay......"

Crane whispered bitterly.

Actually, Mr. Azik, the first thing I wanted to do when I woke up was to go back immediately with a transfer ceremony, because their brother and brother "Crane" had already died. If I live and die one day, I will only do secondary damage. I didn't want to deceive them, and I didn't want to stay here, I just wanted to go back to my real family and friends, and I ended up contacting Fort Gen by mistake and becoming Mr. "Fool......

Since waking up, it has only been more than seven months, and in this short period of time, it is still full of detailed goals such as "revenge on Lanrius", "becoming stronger", "revenge on Ince Zangwill", and Crane has been busy, his feet do not touch the ground, he has not had time to think, and even deliberately avoids finding a way to go back.

After being woken up by the real creator's hammer "This is the earth in thousands of years", he was like a person who had been in a daze suddenly being splashed with ice water, and at the same time it was cold from top to bottom, and he also spent the first quiet night.

Thinking of this, Crane felt a little guilty about the true Creator.

"In my time, there were a lot of fantasy works that told stories about people who suddenly went to another world one day......"

And it's a pretty popular subject, even if you haven't seen it, you probably know what's going on.

Azik understood: "So, you behaved well that day, Melissa and they didn't send you to the Church of the Night." ”

Crane smiled bitterly, "Yes. ”

"And what about after that?"

Melissa...... Melissa is a good boy, well-behaved and sensible, even a little too sensible, accustomed to a hard life, and when happiness comes, she seems to tremble, always worried about the future......" Thinking of the girl who was young, but wore old dresses with old colors and outdated styles all year round, Crane's emotions were slightly mobilized, and he gradually talked a little more, "Benson is also a good brother, worked hard, supported his two younger siblings alone after the death of his parents with a meager salary, and also gave his sister a basic school education…… I didn't have any siblings in the past, but I knew it would be hard for me to do as well as Benson. ”

The siblings' father was an army sergeant, and after his death, almost all of the grants were used to pay for Crane's schooling.

In an age where a single illness can send the middle class into the slums, knowledge is the only means of changing the class.

"Crane" also worked hard, went all the way to college, and finally graduated, and was good enough to stay in school as a lecturer. He would be the new mainstay of the family, a pretty good salary enough for the Moretti family to slowly move out of the squalid and cramped rental apartment......

“…… If the family that has been with him for so long disappears together with the hope that life will get better, his brother and sister will definitely be very sad, right? Even as it is written, it is not impossible to die of a serious illness...... So, now that I've become him and have his memories, I'm even more at ease with the two of them. So I decided to take on the responsibility of supporting the family for the time being, at least — I don't know when I'm leaving, and I think, at least after I'm gone, so that they can live the rest of their lives in peace. ”

The clouds outside the window gradually dissipated, the sky gradually brightened, and Azk sat across from Crane, listening patiently.

"You're really a good and kind boy." He sighed again, "I am extremely glad that I chose to trust you at that time." ”

Crane, of course, knew when he was talking about, smiled embarrassedly, and simply followed Azik's words:

"After that, it's the Source Castle."

"I disguised myself as a god in Source Castle...... Cough! Sure enough, I feel ashamed to say this whenever I say it. ”

He recalls the first tarot meeting more than half a year ago: "At the beginning, there were only two people, Miss 'Justice' was an aristocratic girl, with kindness and sensibility that did not match her class, perhaps also brought about by her superior carefree life, but it was always a good thing. ”

The image of a girl smiling in a garden in a beautiful long dress came to Azik's mind, slightly overlapping with the little girl he remembered.

"Mr. 'The Hangman' is a seasoned captain, but a bit uncooperative, and at first a hedgehog, always reluctant to expose himself too much, or show a slight dependence on the other members, which is supposed to be the result of pirate life. At first, I thought he was always too sensitive, overreacting, and thinking too fast, but it wasn't until I came to sea and experienced so many terrible events that I gradually understood the reason for his character, the world...... It is true that you need to be vigilant at all times to protect yourself. ”

The world is so colorful and so dangerous because of extraordinary abilities.

Even if you have the strength, you can't avoid the convergence of extraordinary traits, and maybe one day you will be gathered to one of the powerhouses of this path, and you will lose your life in vain.

Or maybe you're strong enough to protect yourself and the people you value, but there can always be a disaster when you're not around them. It's like ordinary people in this world, just living normally, suddenly become victims of some rituals. Afterwards, you can only go to the grave to mourn except for revenge, and it seems that power may not be able to protect anyone.

The more I walked, the more I looked, and the more I could understand Mr. "The Hanged Man" style...... Be in awe of all unknowns, always keep your passion for power, and preferably be alone again, so that you can fight and die without worry......

"But I don't regret the path I've always taken."

"And I need the strength now, the power to take revenge on Ince Zangwill."

Listening to Crane's gradually active tone, Azik smiled heartily:

"Looks like you're getting along well with them."

Crane laughed too, grabbed his hair, and joked, "After all, I'm a god in their eyes." ”

Then, with his hands folded and his eyes looking out the window at the wide sea, he recalled:

"Later, we gradually welcomed other members...... The 'magician' who was plagued by the murmuring of the full moon was accidentally rescued by me, and the source castle is really powerful, and can bring all the people of the Godforsaken Land, so Tarot will have a 'sun'...... Finally, there is the 'Hermit' lady who has just arrived, she is stronger than me, much more sophisticated than me, and I always feel a little nervous in front of her. ”

After all, even in the past time-travel, there are only a few people who can return to the original world...... Crane was not completely unprepared, on the contrary, after figuring it out, he wanted to thank the true Creator, if he learned the truth after decades or even hundreds of years of hard work, then he was lucky not to go crazy and die on the spot.

Seeing that he was getting better, and gradually began to get closer to a sad person rather than a desperate person, Azik spoke:

"Do you have any future goals?"

"For example, when you go to the sequence, do you want to go back and say goodbye to Melissa, or do you want to explore the reason why you survived."

Crane's gaze went down, and after a moment he raised it again, "Not yet." ”

"I'll take my time to think about these things, I need time...... It takes some time to think it through. ”

Will I become a demigod? Or will you die uncontrollably on some future adventure? If you really can't go back, it's not too bad to accompany Melissa and Benson for the rest of your life, or to be a good neighbor in the distance......

Azik nodded in agreement:

"Yes, Crane, you need some time to think."

But there's not just one choice in life, and it's even more so for you. You can find the lifestyle you want according to your preferences, do countless things you want to do, you are still young, and your life has infinite possibilities. ”

"If you live with the mentality of 'one day we will be separated, so it's better not to have too many connections', then you may not be able to live an easy and happy life."

Crane replied thoughtfully, "You're right, Mr. Azik. ”

He smiled: "Actually, I have been engaged in boring work in the past, but after coming to this world, I have really gained a lot of new direction and happiness in life. I thought, if this could really end, maybe I'd go open a bakery and live my life in peace. ”

At the end of the conversation, Azik stood up: "I'm looking forward to that day. ”

Crane followed and stood up and said goodbye to him.

After the two said goodbye to each other, the void around Azk rippled like water, and the figure disappeared into the room.

Crane stood still, speechless for a long time.

He shook his head and laughed silently at self-relief, "Maybe by then, I will already be a powerhouse of the angelic rank, and I can establish an antisocial personality treatment hospital with Miss 'Justice' as the attending physician......"

Gathering his thoughts, Crane sat down, thought quietly for a while, swept other things out of his mind, and began to habitually reminisce and review this assassination of the "Sick Lieutenant General":

"I originally thought that I could herd a 'Witch of Pain' and get further clues about the Grim Reaper's Documents and the Missing Persons, but who knew that the development and outcome were not expected, and I could only complete the most preliminary goal."

"Well, I can't instigate Mr. Azik to do it, after all, he is not fully recovered, and there is a backstage ...... on the other side Or is it more important to be strong yourself, it's better to ask for others than for yourself, hehe, think about it carefully, I am indeed begging myself many times......"

"The disappearance can be started with the clue that Tracy provided at the time, the 'crazy captain' Connors Victor."

Crane changed his sitting position, nodded to himself, and whispered inwardly:

"The biggest takeaway this time is that the principle of Faceling's role has been initially established, both integrating and detaching, and overcoming the psychological barrier and being alert to the problem of addicted characters.

"In this way, the potion that can be digested for a year or two by relying on simple normal reality may be completely absorbed in another three or four months, and another half a year......"

After introspection, Crane prepared to go to Fort Source to take the radio receiver off the gray fog and contact Arodes the Magic Mirror.

After taking four steps backwards, his spirit body ascended to the Source Castle, and the eternal gray mist filled his side, and Crane couldn't help but whisper:

"What kind of secrets are you hiding?"

The wireless telegraph machine from which the "magician" had been sacrificed was placed in the clutter pile in the corner, and Crane did not rush to get it, but first divined whether it would be dangerous to communicate with Arodus.

After receiving the "safe" answer, Crane sat in silence for a while and wrote down the next divination question again:

"I don't have any marks on me"

As he finished writing, he felt his back sweat burn, and Crane took a deep breath and mustered up the courage to perform ordinary divination.

His eyes were fixed on the pendulum, only to see that the pendulum was silent for a short moment, then turned clockwise with difficulty, and then stopped.

In this case, it is a level 0 seal or even stronger confrontation...... Well, at least for a split second......

Crane wiped away the cold sweat that wasn't there, and reduced the pen and note to a mist.

There was silence on the source fort, and a few seconds later, the gray mist flew up with a wireless telegraph and landed in front of him.

449

Republic of Intis, the seaside city of Philen.

Trainor stopped in front of a securities firm, flicked the messy black hair on his head to the sides a few times, exposed his forehead, and lowered the suitcase he was carrying to the ground, which made a tinkling sound.

A red shadow peeked out of the glass door, and Medici stood next to Trainor's reflection, hooked shoulders.

"How do you get this way?"

"The Iron Cross still has your useful body stored here. Or do you prefer to float? ”

After tidying up his appearance, Trainor pushed open the glass door and entered the lobby, walked around the staff and guests walking back and forth, walked straight to the office hallway on the first floor, and walked into the wall while no one was around.

As soon as I walked into the office building of the Predator-Blooded Cross, a scorching breath came to my face, and several arsonists were tied to the wall, with small wooden signs around their necks that read "Civilized Friendship, Harmonious Living", and bright flames burning on their heads, like oversized candles fueled by hair, probably engaged in some kind of performance art such as human body lighting.

The Faceling's clothes squirmed a few times, conjuring a hat out of thin air, and Trainor lowered the brim of his hat and walked through the stairwell.

As soon as I went up to the first floor, the sound of the friendly exchange of hunters was already rumbling

"Good morning! Annie, you're getting more and more manly! ”

"Edel, did anyone tell you that the girl you spent the night with last night was a witch?!"

The exchange of hunters is just so unpretentious, warm and friendly.

Trainor passed by the lively exchange scene, his eyes staring at the ground, which was pasted with provocative quotations from the mainland. Behind the scenes, Medici was intrigued by the vibrant picture, and from time to time he joined in to add fuel to the already scorching office building, striving to make the Predator's ledger as ugly as Raymond's expression this month.

"Why do you always provoke Raymond? Let's change someone. ”

After seeing the fire set by the evil spirit to decompose a wall, facing the early morning sunlight that penetrated through this gap, Trainor, who called someone to repair it, felt that his mood was also very strange: "In the end, it will be presented to the Aurora Society." ”

The suitcase in his hand clanged, and Medici said a few words—there were so many people that he didn't hear clearly.

Around the corner, Trainor suddenly moved, his footsteps stopped, and a hunter with a high nose and blue eyes walked in front of him, followed by several subordinates with short brown hair, his face was not good, as if someone owed him tens of thousands of Fergin.

Tony Towne's eyes narrowed as he saw the dark-haired stranger standing in the corner, his eyes narrowed, and his expression became even more vicious.

"Who are you?" He said in a deep voice.

Trainor continued to press the brim of his hat and said casually, "Come and get the seal for His Royal Highness the Red Angel." ”

Hearing the Red Angel, Tony Towne's expression softened a little: "Do you have any formalities?" ”

"Nope."

Trainor took out a mirror and held it up next to herself: "But there are red angels." ”

Medici's image appeared in the mirror, leaving Donn stunned. Medici smiled and appeared directly in the real world, waving his hand meaninglessly at the blue-eyed War Bishop, and said hello.

Seeing the latter bow flattered, Trainor walked around the side and continued on his way.

After taking two steps, he suddenly shook to the side, and a ball of fire smashed into the place where he had just stood, burning two or three marbles into lava.

"The cost of repairing the ground is 45 Filkin, which is deducted from your subsidy." Trainor turned his head and frowned: "If you're bored, you can go and make the financial statements, don't waste my time." ”

A hideous smile appeared on Don's face: "Sure enough, it's you!" ”

"I'll just say which War Bishop can fight alongside the Red Angels in Byam! It's really you! ”

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

Trenor plucked out his ears: "This blessing is for you, and my two charms will hit back an octopus tentacle." ”

Don's face turned gloomy: "You actually don't care about this kind of glory. ”

"Yes, yes, can you get it open?"

Medici crossed his arms and watched the show, not intending to join either of them. Seeing that Don couldn't hold his breath and launched an attack first, Trainor moved his fingers to open the buckle of the suitcase, and took out one of Medici's hands the moment he dodged sideways, and tied the connecting belt to Donn's fist with lightning speed, and then turned on the switch, kicked open the window and pushed Donn down.

A few minutes later, the Steam-powered Arm scurried through the air outside the Predator-Blood Cross with Tony Towne.

"It's a hassle to talk to people like that."

"The repair cost is 70 Fergin, which is just enough to deduct his entertainment allowance for this week."

As Don reacted and began to untie the straps on his hands, Trainor took the opportunity to put away all the parts on the ground, and dodged into the corner of the stairs, turning into a ray of fire and heading straight for the fast passage to the warehouse where the extraordinary items were stored on the third floor.

TBC

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Treynor: This blessing is for you, do you want it?

Donn: Can't wait, give it to me!