"Good morning, Nora, is it okay to come and knock on the door so early?"

"I've thought of something very important about you that I want to tell you...... Is it convenient to walk with me now? What I'm going to say probably won't take much time -- but you'll probably have to think about it for a long time after that. ”

"Good. Looking at the magically serious Nora, Eco nodded, then said "Wait a minute" to Nora, and then turned back to take care of his appearance.

It didn't take long for Eco to finish washing and changing, and then walked out the door. Nora also pointed in the direction of the hallway with her thumb and said, "Let's go?"

"Hmm. Eco nodded. Then the two girls left the dormitory in the same dormitory, most of them were still cultivating or sleeping, and then strolled around the campus and talked.

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"So...... Is that what you think?Nora?" Seriously, without interrupting Nora's narration except for the necessary questions, Eco listened to Nora's argument. Finally, after Nora had finished speaking, she asked sternly.

"Well, yes. Nora nodded, then added, "As I said, these are really just my personal imaginations, and I don't have any real evidence to show my hands on." ”

Eco nodded, then said nothing. Seeing Eco who was unexpectedly lost in thought, Nora smiled softly, then gently took Eco's hand, and then led Eco to the teaching building with slow steps.

But. Eco looked like she was trapped. The appearance of thinking flying away for a while. But Eco didn't let down his guard against his surroundings - if he sensed something was wrong, Eco was able to react in an instant.

And until he entered the school building, Eco did not recover from his contemplation. This also made Nora think, maybe Eco was re-examining herself?

In fact, as the person who knows Eco best in this world, she did guess correctly this time.

Nora's words gave Eco a big shock, and if there was one word to describe it, it would be Daigo empowerment.

So. Eco intends to start from scratch, to look at himself, to know himself, to understand himself.

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At the end of the morning lesson, Nora invited Eco to dinner as she had done when Eco had been a student who had been on campus and lived a normal campus life. And it was at this time that she heard the answer that Eco had been thinking about for a whole morning.

"I think what Nora said in the morning, it makes sense. Eco said slowly, leaving only a small part of her energy in class during the whole morning's class, and the rest of her energy was basically spent on getting to know herself.

Nora hears Eco's words. Smiled softly, "Oh, yes?" and then. She held out her hand, handed it to Eco, and said to her, "Let's go?"

"Hmm. Eco nodded, took Nora's hand, and got up from her seat.

Then, the two of them left the classroom and went to find a place to eat - Eco didn't need to eat, and Nora had already prepared her own lunch, so there was no need for them to crowd the cafeteria at this time of high traffic.

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Under a tree, Eco used a spell to create two improvised stools, and the two sat on them, eating and chatting: "I had never thought in the direction you said before you reminded me, so I didn't think that my inferiority complex might not be 'taken for granted'. ”

"However, my emotions are not 'set' and 'implanted' according to my own wishes...... In fact, in the beginning, my emotions should have been like a blank sheet of paper, and although I could feel them, I couldn't understand them at all. ”

"And after I was 'implanted' with a lot of knowledge, wisdom and independent and strong thinking, I finally got something called 'emotional intelligence'. ”

"However, at that time, I was in a situation where I had a strong ability to think rationally, but I was very 'anxious' with emotional intelligence...... And then you guessed the next thing, the first people I communicated with were designers. They consciously instilled in me, 'I am a tool created by man, so I should serve man as the master,' and 'man is very good and powerful,' which now seems undoubtedly to be propaganda, with strong exaggeration, and then slowly made me 'develop' some emotions according to their wishes - no doubt their purpose was successful. ”

Hearing Eco say these words, Nora couldn't help but smile wryly, "Well, those people really succeeded...... In fact, I can understand what they are doing. After all, you can't let 'Ji Qì' rebel against humanity no matter what...... Ahhh Forget it, the things of the past, the people of the past, don't think about them, but for me, I think I need to thank them, although there is only one thing I am grateful for. ”

Saying this, Nora turned her head slightly, looked into Eco's eyes, her eyes showed a soft affection, and said to her, "The only thing I am grateful for is that they gave birth to you, the most important person to me." ”

"......" Eco looked away slightly, then changed the subject and said: "Now I, although I have figured out how the weakness in my heart came about, it seems that I have not been able to completely let go and change. But the good news is that the 'direction' has probably been found, and the next step is just to follow the direction of this path and walk slowly - I need to pause some of my cultivation progress and make up for some other things. ”

"Still. Eco stopped and looked ahead, his eyes solemn, "Although it is true that I need time to retreat now, there is one more very important thing to solve at the moment - it is about another master. Although it is true that there is still a buffer period of one or two years in terms of date alone, this is not something that can be postponed until that time. ”

"Just for the sake of the two of them, there is absolutely no possibility of this matter being delayed again and again. "What's more, the existence of this master is also a very important part of the future battle." ”

Nora didn't really care much about the two of them, so when Eco talked about "those two", she didn't think of "those two" for a while, but after Eco explained what she had just said, she was silent.

After a long time, Nora suddenly shook Eco's hand hard, and with a somewhat sad expression, she let out a long sigh and said, "This ...... What a sin. (To be continued......)