The lighting system takes over the morning bell from the outside world, and the dim light turns bright, and the world inside the spiritual place opens up a new day.

There was no trace of Promise in the room, and there was no abnormal residual temperature in the air, and it seemed that the person had been gone for a long time.

Before dawn, Nou had already woken up and was ready to step into the training room while everyone was still asleep.

There was a pungent smell in the air, emitted by the machinery that had just begun to operate in the cloister every morning, mixed with steam, coal, and unknown gases.

Nou walked down the cold corridor and swallowed the last piece of bread he had pinched in his hand, which he had taken from the incubator in the dining room.

In order to prevent the need to work overnight for research or repairs in an emergency, the spiritual center usually keeps some food in the incubator and gives people who stay up all night to restore energy and physical strength to help them stay in better condition.

But there's not just one person in the training room.

Two metal doors facing each other slowly opened.

A white-haired man entered the training room with Nuo at about the same time.

"You're here."

Greetings echoed in the air.

"I guessed you'd come early, and since you accepted my invitation to fight, your dignity wouldn't allow you to fall behind me."

Jan looked at No, and the voice that had not yet opened his throat in the early morning was more muddy than usual.

"You are a worthy opponent."

The corners of No's mouth curled, and the nerve cells were already rejoicing in the coming battle.

"No, that's what I call you, right?"

"Of course, please."

"I've requested your armor from Professor Florian in advance, and it's now placed in the center."

No's gaze moved away from the man, focusing on the two mechanical creations on the round platform, one black and one white, reflecting each other.

Yang walked up to the round platform first, took the remote control button on a marble table next to him, and after pressing it, the middle of the black armor slowly separated, and the door compartment was pulled up, revealing the internal control room.

"This is the button that externally controls the internal drive switch of the armor."

Nou followed Jan to the round platform, and Jan handed him another button.

Nuo took a closer look, a palm-sized instrument, without complicated and superfluous buttons and shapes.

Nono pressed the button, and the white armor's internal drive turned on.

"Once inside, equip yourself with the equipment and instruments, the door will automatically close, and then calm your mind and connect with your white armor like in the last experiment, don't worry, there will be no mental impact this time, only a stimulus like a needle piercing your cerebral cortex."

"I asked Professor Florian that today's knight duel won't be very disturbed."

"Maybe you passively forgot the memory of the last duel, but your armor will not forget, your heart will not forget, and the one in your heart will not forget."

"Begun, No, in the glory of knighthood."

Jan finished his pre-battle confessions and stepped into the armor first.

The black-armored doorway slowly closed.

"He?"

Nou chewed on Yang's words, but now was not the time to think about it, and when the knight duel was over, he would ask him everything he wanted to know.

Familiar scenes, familiar darkness.

There was no glimmer of light inside the armor, and No's eyes were almost useless until the connection to the armor was completed.

Noh fumbled around and put on his headdress, but the cable behind him was not connected, because there was no need for all-round monitoring like during the experiment.

No's mind sank into his mind, in a void of space.

Suddenly.

Like being bitten by a mosquito's sharp mouthparts, No's body shook involuntarily.

Under No's closed eyelids, her dark blue pupils began to turn endlessly.

Without any unnecessary discomfort, No's eyes regained their light as he waved his hands, searching for the feeling of loss.

Jan was ready, and he stepped off the round platform and stood in the middle of the training ground.

It only took him a minute or two to get used to it, and he walked towards Yang with his feet up, standing face to face from him.

The two of them were not connected to the communication channel and could not hear each other's voices, but they seemed to have a tacit understanding, and a standard knightly salute appeared on the huge mechanical armor, and then, pulling out the swift blade at his waist, he took the standard starting hand.

Two blue rays of light converged in the transparency, and between the electric lights and flints, steam sprayed out, and the figures of the two people quickly flashed and disappeared to the other side.

The seemingly bulky mecha was like a dragon under the control of the two.

The gilded blades collided with each other, emitting a glimmer of golden light, and the two of them fought each other with knives to complete a complete set of moves in an instant.

Although Nuo has not been systematically trained, let alone learned the optimized combat skills of armored knights, he has also memorized the knights' fighting methods in the short study of knightly etiquette in the past few years, although he is a little rusty, but he wields them in a good way.

But after all, Jan is an armored knight who has been trained for a long time, and with years of physical training, his power is even faster and more powerful than No.

Nuo soon could only fall into the parrying link, carrying the swift blade to constantly block the continuous slashing like a storm.

Suddenly, Noh seized the opportunity and dodged Young's stab in time with a sideways turn, and the swift blade spun around in his hand and attacked Young's waist.

Jan dodged quickly, but the sharp blade still sliced through a small cut in the black armor.

Jan didn't panic in the slightest, he turned around with the power of retreat, and slashed at Nuo with a knife in both hands, and the rapid attack caught Nuo by surprise, trying his best to block, but it was difficult to resist, and his left shoulder was slashed straight in, bursting with electricity.

Nou gritted his teeth, enduring the tidal wave of pain in his mechanical shoulder through brain signals.

But the more this is the case, the more patient it becomes.

Nuo quickly adjusted his state, not disturbed by the painful nerves, and his right hand gathered his energy, absorbing the violent energy from the power source.

Flowing gold surged wildly through the mechanical armor's body, spewing out cloud after cloud of gas.

No, with his right hand gripping the swift blade, rushed towards Young's black armor, two silver hilts reflecting the two charging armors.

Nuo pretended to fight with Yang with brute force, but in fact, he held a swift blade in his hand, and the blade scraped over Yang's handle, and then instantly completed the accumulation, and the swift blade that shook Yang like a tiger was about to be inserted into his chest!

At the last moment, Jan put the swift blade on his chest in time, accurately resisting Nuo's blade, and avoided the humiliating failure of opening his chest and breaking his chest.

Nuo seized the opportunity, saw that he couldn't do it, put away the knife in time, and stabbed Yang in the neck again.

But Jan was also not slow, and returned the favor with the same moves.

Almost at the same time, both of them were held up by a swift blade on their shoulders.

The two mobile armor bodies stood still, silently watching each other.

Time seems to freeze, and the world freezes.

"It's over."

"Knightly duels are always about winning and losing."

"But we're not knights at the moment."

“……”

"The Knight of Armor is just a title in name, we are just killing machines on the battlefield."

"It's up to you to decide whether it's a killing or not."

"But you're still commanded to kill."

"Then take your own destiny!"

No one made a sound, only two pairs of dark blue eyes, looking at each other through the layers of reinforced mechas, and in silence, the spirit seemed to be communicating and talking.

Who's making the question?

Who answered?

Only Promise and Young knew.

There was silence for a long time, but it seemed like it was only for a moment.

The two of them unanimously lifted the swift blade in their hands and put it down, inserted it into the scabbard at their waists, and walked onto the round platform, leaving the spiritual link with the armor.

Two hatches opened, revealing two figures.

"It's a pity that the winner wasn't officially decided, but as you said, it's really over, and my training day after day doesn't beat you, which is also my failure."

Nuo just shook his head: "I think you understand, I won't be greedy for this so-called victory, and if I continue to fight, the defeat will only be physically exhausted, not to mention that this is not a duel between life and death, if I was on the battlefield, maybe I would have died." ”

Yang straightened his face and said solemnly: "No, you are the most talented armored knight I have ever seen, although your skills are still a little stupid, but this is just a lack of sufficient training, the most surprising thing to me is: this is the second time you have come into contact with armor, but you have used it so skillfully, just like using your original body, it seems that you have always been familiar with and manipulated armor." ”

"I've had some bold guesses, and I wanted to tell you when you said that your memory was missing, but because of Professor Florian's status, I decided to wait until today to discuss it with you."

Nuo exhaled and steadied his breath, Fang Cai's duel was actually very draining on him: "You say, if I know something, I will not hold it back." ”

"Hmm."

Yang clasped his hands to his chest: "To tell you the truth, I have also experienced this situation, the same as you, it was also the memory loss that occurred during my first round of experiments, when I fought against an armored warrior in the spirit center, at first I was almost infinitely defeated, and I had no power to fight back, and then my brain fell into a coma, but deep down in my coma it was as if someone else was talking to me, I forgot what I said, but until I woke up the next day, people told me that in the end I was victorious. ”

Nuo's brows furrowed: "Another person? Deep down? ”

Nou suddenly remembered something: "Yes, another person, deep down, he asked me if I wanted to win, I told him: I don't want to accept defeat, and then my memory was broken. ”

"That's what you said about Him?"

Nou remembered what Jan had said before he entered the armor.

"Yes, I guess, there's a Him."

Jan nodded affirmatively.

"Although I was invited by Professor Florian to join the Spiritual Institute, and have the right to use the training ground and the second-generation armor in the Spiritual Institute, I do not belong to the spiritual center, my family died tragically in the war, so I hate the war, and I hate to join the war myself, but I want revenge, revenge for the Papal States that killed my family."

"So you finally joined the spiritual place, kept exercising yourself, and kept looking for opportunities, aren't you afraid that I will expose you?"

Noe laughed as he spoke.

Jan also laughed along: "I believe in my vision, No, although I don't know your details, but you will definitely keep it a secret for me." ”

No put away his smile and said, "Yes, I will, I can also tell you that I came here from the other side of Prison Island, so I will try to find an opportunity to leave." ”

No's voice was very obvious, and he had already begun to invite Jan to join him in his plan to escape from Prison Island.

Jan lowered his head seriously and thought about it, and finally refused: "I admire your bravery, but this may be your timing, not mine, I believe that we will one day be able to escape from this strange place together, the place where the spirit is not a good place in my eyes." ”

"Me too."

The two looked at each other, smiled heartily, and clenched their fists and hung each other's chests.