Four

"Hey——! get up, you lazy pig!" Michelia pinched Tegel's nose hard.

Awakened from his dream, Tegel sat up abruptly and rubbed his sleepy eyes, "Oh-oh my! How long have I been asleep?"

"I've been sleeping since noon!You can see ——! moon hanging on the treetops!" Michelia pointed to the cold moon disk outside the window, "Do you remember that you need to do something important today?"

"Of course I do!" Tegel got out of bed and moved his hands and feet, "I'm going to the comfort house* to ransom Bella today!"

"Just remember!" Michelia tossed Tegel's clothes to the other and sat down on a wooden chair beside her, "How's Jerry's sister?

Tegel stopped buttoning and turned his head to the side, "We have been on guard for three days and three nights, and we still haven't been able to get her back—her high fever has not gone away, and her internal organs have been severely failed......" His eyes suddenly moistened.

"Hey——! hey, look at me, look at me!" Michelia hugged Tegel's shoulders, and there was tenderness in her platinum-gold eyes, "Tegel, you did your best! Everything will be fine, and when you get back to Bella, we'll go to the Time Coast of Demacia!"

"Okay! Okay——!" Tegel bit his lower lip and choked back with sadness.

"Now—are you ready to planetravel?" "Michelia took Tegel's hand and smiled at him, "Only for a moment!"

"W-what do you mean?" Tegel looked puzzled.

"Secret Method: Phase Teleportation!"

Tegel felt like he was being grabbed by someone's arm and shook it around. Although it only lasted for a second, he swore that he would not want to experience a second ...... in his life

"You know what?" said Michelia as she held Tegel to keep him from falling off balance, "I threw myself up the first time I used teleportation! I was five years old and it was terrible!"

"Oh, my God——!" Tegel turned his head not far away, his eyes suddenly widened, and his body trembled inexplicably......

Michelia was at first a little puzzled, but when she saw the flames in Tegel's eyes, she quickly turned around, and was stunned by what she saw—the comfort room had been engulfed in flames, tongues of fire shot out of the arched windows, and some of those who were on fire jumped down the windows, too, to death. "How could it be—like this!?" Misheria immediately summoned the Nanmu Staff and slammed it into the ground, shattering the black slate there, as she closed her eyes slightly and whispered a guiding word:

"The Supreme 'Frost Angel' Enya, in the name of the Holy Spirit, I ask for your mercy. Please send the black ice and snow of the land of winter, freeze the flames of sin, condense, and make the world tremble!

As Michelia whispered, the air around her began to cool rapidly, and the fire in the comfort shelter gradually extinguished, leaving behind dark walls and smoking windows...... Tegel on the side was dumbfounded.

"Tegel! there's no time to be in a daze! let's go save Bella!" Michelia grabbed Tegel's hand, her long nails digging into the other's flesh, "Hold on to me, or you'll be thrown into another dimension!" As soon as her words fell, a golden light lit up all around her, and those rays slowly transferred to Tegel until she completely enveloped him.

"Deity: The One Who Wishes is Yes"*

In a flash of golden light, Michelia and Tegel appeared in a badly burned room, the wardrobe and single bed burned to the iron frame, and by the window, where the bedside table had been, curled up with a charred, thin body - apparently the body of a child......

Tegel seemed to have been struck in the back of his head, and his ears were suddenly deaf, and great grief drove him to move forward to Bella's body. In an instant, his will was completely broken, and he sat down on the ground with a thud, but he could not cry or cry out loud - "It's not you! Tell me, it's not you!"

"Brother, did you bring me chocolate?" Bella, blinking her big chestnut eyes.

"I'm sorry, Bella, my brother doesn't have money to buy chocolate!" Tiger squatted down and pinched his sister's cute little face, "Brother swears that one day in the future, Bella will be allowed to eat chocolate!"

"Well—we've got an agreement!" Bella cocked up her slender little finger and tried to hook it up......

"Bella, brother brought you chocolates—" Tegel pulled out a five-inch gift box from his pocket and placed it next to his sister's charred corpse, "Bella—I don't deserve to be your brother—in the end, you didn't even get a piece of chocolate—" Big tears burst out of his eyes, wetting his shirt and the cold night outside the window......

"But the Tao is also like a passing year, and the memory of being smeared by the sun has never been able to fade its aura, so that when I look back at it, everything is the same as yesterday, and it has not changed......

As soon as autumn arrives in Doha Village, the grasslands change their golden coat. The golden sun, the golden grassland, the golden years, and Bella in a golden straw hat...... As a child, Bella liked to run around the big tree behind the house, and she waved her two little arms to learn the posture of a swallow when flying. No one knows why a stout tree grows in the vast prairie. It's like no one knows why this four-year-old girl is so eager to fly. Whenever Bella practiced "flying", Tegel would sit on a haystack and draw his sister, the tree, and the grassland on paper, each with the same theme – happiness.

"Bella, it's time for the little swallow to go home!" Tegel shouted at his sister.

"No——! little swallow wants to train her wings to be strong, and then fly with her family!" The sunset fixed the purest smile in the world on Bella's face, and also fixed on the eternal golden years......

"The tragedy of things in the world, every time you recall the past, you will feel the coldness and despair of reality...... You never know how long this coldness and despair will last, because half of the second has passed since it was a memory......."

The solemn night brought the most bone-chilling cold into this room, and the last trace of Bella's breath left here did not disappear, only the black corpse, dry hair, and regret and nostalgia that could not be dispelled for a long time...... Perhaps, the moment Bella curled up to meet death, she was full of hope, she firmly believed that her brother would come to save her, and she firmly believed that her brother would not abandon her...... However, this young soul still embarked on the road of death alone after all, and every time she took a step forward, she would turn around and look back at the world with a feeling of attachment, because—

"I don't want to leave!" Bella looked up at her parents, her big maroon eyes filled with tears, "I want to stay here and fly around the trees—"

"Bella—" The father crouched down and hugged his daughter's shoulder, "we're going to the War College! There's a bunch of people there who can fly, and they'll teach Bella how to fly!"

"Really?" Bella wiped tears from her eyes and cracked her mouth and laughed, "Will Bella fly in the sky like a swallow?"

"Yes, it will!" The father picked up his daughter and kissed her on the cheek. 」

......

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault——! I should have picked you up earlier!

The cold lunar disk hangs high in the night dome, just like three years ago, and only you and me have changed. Three years and four seasons of reincarnation, with "life and separation" as the starting point, a lot of painful expectations, how did you expect that when you return to the starting point, life and separation have become a death farewell. And the goodbye three years ago became a farewell word.

"Brother——!" Bella smiled and patted Tegel on the shoulder, "Are you coming to pick up Bella?"

Tegel, who was already crying, turned his head slowly, and he saw Bella—Bella had grown taller, her brown hair was tied in a long ponytail behind her back, and her chestnut eyes were still as clear and beautiful as before. "Bella—brother is coming to pick you up!"

"Brother, Bella can't go back with you, Bella is leaving, can you hug me-" Bella opened her arms and waited for Tegel's hug.

Tegel nodded desperately and gently hugged Bella's thin body...... However, for some reason, Bella's figure suddenly turned into pieces and disappeared in front of him......

"Brother, goodbye, Bella will miss you-"

"Goodbye, it turns out that goodbye means goodbye......

"The misery of things in the world, Gai Wei said goodbye, but he can never see each other again......

[Author's Note]

*Comfort Houses: Most brothels in Noxus are used only as a pastime for Order Party officials and military officers, and are officially called comfort houses.

*In the text, the spell used by Michelia, "The Wisher Is", belongs to the "gods", and is a terrifying ability that surpasses the power of magic and cultivation. Because of the frequent occurrence in the following text, it is only mentioned here, and it is not detailed. Michelia and Aques's ability to teleport objects at will if they know their names is an incomplete manifestation of this spell.

Four

Time: Early evening

Location: Noxus, Tegel's home

Characters: Tegel, Michelia, Fawkes

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(¤Tegel reclined quietly on the bed, looking at the gift box in his hand.) Just then, Michelia pushed the door open and walked in, grabbed a young man by the collar, and threw him in. )

Michelia: Tegel, I've found the arsonist!

Young man: Why are you arresting me? I'm burning bad guys! Those soldiers and officials of the Order Party, their hands are stained with the blood of civilians!

Michelia: That's right—the Order deserves to be killed, but you didn't think there were innocent people in the comfort house—like the prostitutes, who were just trying to survive! The sister of Mr. Saint, a nine-year-old girl, was also set on fire by you!

Young Man: That's—I really didn't think of it!

Michelia: What's the difference between you and the Orderers? Noble reasons are in fact unscrupulous to achieve their ends, even to the point of killing innocents!

Young man: What can I do!? My father was killed by the officer, my mother and sister were raped by him, and I was banished to the Bad Neighborhood! I hated him! I hated all the Orderists!

Michelia: Well—what's your name, arsonist.

Young Man: Fox!

Michelia: Well, Fawkes, you should at least apologize to Mr. Saints! I could have killed you!

(¤Fox turns his head to Tegel, and the two look at each other)

Fawkes: I'm sorry! Saint Tegel! I didn't mean to!

(¤Michelia flicked Fawkes on the head, and Fawkes screamed in pain.) )

Michelia: No sincerity at all!Believe it or not I'm turning you into a toad!?

Fawkes: (glaring at Michelia) What a weird woman!

Michelia: Ha——!? actually called me a weird woman!?

(¤Honey Shiria flicked Fawkes' head again.) Fawkes stood up angrily, squinting at Michelia. However, Michelia just crossed her hands over her chest and tilted her head towards the other. )

Fox: Can I go? I still have a lot of work to do, and I don't want to waste my time here!

Michelia: Tegel, I hate this guy so much! Do you want me to help you kill him and avenge your sister?

Fawkes: Kill one Fawkes, and there are thousands of Fawkes in the Bad Neighborhood!

(¤ Both Tegel and Michelia look at Fawkes in surprise)

Fox: Have you ever thought about it? On the surface, I killed Tegel's sister, but in reality? What is the real murderer? It is the system of Noxus! No one knows about the existence of the Bad Neighborhoods on Liuli Street! Even some Gentiles think that Noxus is a paradise! The high-ranking officials of the Order Party live a life of drunkenness, while we in the Bad Neighborhoods want to eat the corpses of the dead! The more people do not resist, the more they will become even worse!

Michelia: Is there a way you can change?

(¤Fox pulls out a tattered notebook from his coat pocket)

Fox: This is my book, called "Bad Neighborhoods", and my dream is that all the people in Valoran know about the Bad Neighborhoods and know what kind of life we live!

Michelia: (snatches the notebook and flips through it) Well, well, the words are very beautiful! I really didn't expect it, I always thought that the inferior areas were a group of poor people with no education!

Fox: There are a lot of people in the underdog who have special talents, and there are also people who have valuable jewelry. However, because of our humble status, the abilities we have and the jewelry we have become worthless!

Michelia: Well, Tegel, I agree with him! But even if everyone knew about the bad part of Noxus, what if you weren't expecting a whole bunch of saints to give you meatloaf!

Fox: People need hope and faith to live!

(¤ Tegel frowned, staring at Fawkes, he saw in the other man's eyes, hope burning like a flame, it was a powerful ......)

Tegel: Fox, I accept your apology! You're right, we can't lose hope, we should believe that the voice of justice will always exist!

Fox: Even if the voice of justice really disappears, I will become the last justice in the world! I will use my words to interpret this last justice! Bring hope to all the people in the darkness!

(¤Honey Shiria looks at Fawkes with a sweet smile)

Michelia: Hey——! that sounds good! How about I help you make that dream come true?

Fox: I don't need to blame the woman's help!

Michelia: Cut——! okay, okay, I apologize to you for what I did!

Fox: How can you help me?

Michelia: I can teach you how to protect yourself! Think about it, if you really publish this "Bad Folk District Experience", will the Noxian leadership let you go? When the time comes, you will probably have to deal with the Assassins every day! With your strength, you will not die a thousand times!

Fawkes: (snatches back his notebook) I'm going back! The guy I live with is sick and I need to take care of him!

(¤Michelia picks up the paper bag on the table next to her and stuffs it to Fawkes, which is full of meatloaf)

Michelia: When I've formed the Society, I'll go to you! You can't starve to death until then!

Fawkes: I can't ask for anything from you!

Michelia: (glaring at Fawkes) How dare you refuse me!? I could really turn you into a toad!

(¤Fox holds the paper bag and walks straight out of the room......)

Michelia: Oh yes! I don't say goodbye when I leave, I don't know how to be polite at all!

Tegel: What do you just mean by "community"?

Michelia: Do you think the Noxian government is hiding only from the Bad Quarters? There are so many shady Orderists and a lot of people like Fox that I need to get these people together and start a publication so that I can be influential!

Tegel: You're such a capable man!

Michelia: Needless to say, why would everyone call me Queen?

Tegel: Thank you, Michelia, I don't know what I would have done without you!

Michelia: It's incumbent on me, it's incumbent on you, I'll live on yours, eat yours, and do you a little favor once in a while! But then again, you have to learn magic! I can't be tied to you all the time, you have to learn to protect yourself!

Tegel: After all this, I finally know that only by making myself strong can I be able to protect my loved ones!

Five

[Announcement of the 10th issue of "Summoner's Diary"]

Loma Cross, once a symbol and synonymous with corruption in Noxus, led to the emergence of a bad district in Noxus, a place that would never be touched by the sun. Today, we will comfort the souls of the dead, to those who died in misery, but at this moment in heaven, do you hear the shouts from the earth?

Thanks to the efforts of the members of the Summoner's Diary community, we have gathered evidence of Loma Cross's corruption for nearly three decades: secret letters, government documents, and a large number of witness confessions. At the same time, we also secretly arrested seven of Loma's lovers, all of whom were prostitutes from the bad neighborhoods of Noxus. As soon as we had sent all this to the governor's palace in the southern province of Weungart, Lord Ankaria sent us a letter saying, "I will dispose of this evidence properly and guillotine Loma as soon as possible!"

Three days before we went to press, a piece of exciting news for the poor people of Noxus came from the capital city of Noxus: Loma Cross was beheaded in the Orderly Square!

Brothers and sisters! This is not only a victory for the Summoner's Diary, but also for the lower classes of the whole Noxus, this is a just war, this never-ending war! As long as there is corruption and corruption in this world, and as long as there are people in this world who will die of hunger, there will be us, and all those who dare to fight like us!

O poor people, what reason do you have to despair!? What reason do you have to weep!? We have lost all our precious things, and now they want to take away what little dignity we have, and this is simply a loss of conscience! Fight, fight for survival! If you don't die in the struggle, you will be reduced to dust in hunger!

- Fox "The Knife".

【Noxus Southern Administrative Province of Weingart, Governor's Palace Secret Letter】

Dear, Michelia,

I am Governor of Weingart, Ankaria, one of the four leaders of the Order of Noxus, and after a long period of observation, I have decided to fund your society, for no other reason than to calm my heart. Many times, we also realize that some things are wrong and sinful, and it is just that we are in our position and it is difficult to maintain the righteousness in our hearts. Gradually, those of us in high positions of power have lost our hearts and consciences. If I had the chance, I really wanted to say sorry to the people in the bad neighborhoods, if it weren't for us, they wouldn't be so miserable. When I read your report, my eyes were full of tears, and I never believed that there was a group of people who would cry out of happiness because they had meatloaf to eat in the morning, and I didn't believe that anyone would eat the flesh of the dead! But this is all true, these are facts that we cannot argue! It is precisely because we consume most of the wealth of society that there is poverty and hunger!

I support you because you can do what I want to do but can't do instead of me. There are frequent internal strife and factions in the Order Party, and many people will do whatever it takes to bring down their rivals for their own interests. You can be used or destroyed, so be careful!

If I could, I would like to be your friend and invite you to my home. Oh, and that Mr. Fox "Sharp Knife", whose motto I love: "The measure of whether a nation is still rigid is not to see how many people choose to fight, but how many choose to remain silent until they die." ”

– Anna Ancalia

[Demacia Measurement Report]

Today we are going to introduce you to a publication called "Summoner's Diary". No one in Noxus does not know it, a collection of texts born in the slums and created by a group of protesters. Don't resist it just because you're from Noxus, if you're a commoner, you'll find the motivation to live through this publication, and even if you're an aristocrat, you'll reflect on yourself because of it. We have reason to believe that "Summoner's Diary" will become the vane of Valoran's public opinion, the self-reserve of justice, and bloom with a dazzling light of hope in the dark era!

His Highness Garvan: That's right, I've read that publication, and they're great! After seeing the ugly face of the Order of Noxus, I became even more determined to be a good leader!

Master Galen: Ever since I had the Summoner's Diary, the soldiers have been saying to me every day, "Boss, how about we go and liberate Noxus?"

Mistress Lux: I go to the slums of Demacia every day to make sure that no one dies of hunger. The report in "Summoner's Diary" is like describing a hell on earth!

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Tegel, dressed in a gray robe, stood in front of a tombstone in the cemetery, looking at the words on the tombstone: "Flying little Bella sleeps here". He sighed, bent down, and placed the bouquet of white flowers in his hand under the tombstone, "Bella, my brother has come to see you-" He turned his gaze to the two tombstones next to him, "Father, mother, how are you doing? There are fewer and fewer beggars in the inferior areas, what I am doing now is to prevent more families from being as miserable as us, the world needs people like me!"

"You forgot this!" Michelia suddenly appeared next to Tegel, she leaned down and placed the gift box in her hand in front of Bella's tombstone, "Bella-Sister Michelia has come to see you! This is your favorite chocolate, your careless brother forgot it at home!"

Tegel turned his head to look at Michelia, "If Bella was still around—she would have eaten chocolate every day—" He choked and bit his lower lip in an attempt to choke back his sadness.

"You're still guilty of Bella's death, are you?" asked Michelia

"All the time—" Tiger replied.

"Some memories are sad because they carry irreparable regrets—" Michelia patted Tegel on the shoulder and pointed to the eastern canopy, where a red sun was rising, "so—we must not leave regrets today!"

"Yes, you must not have regrets today!" Tiger smiled with tears as he glanced at Michelia's left hand, which was only three inches from his right, "You're right, Queen!"

"Now—we're all wanted!" Michelia squinted at Tegel's cheek, "Maybe one day we'll be killed by the Assassins, just like you and Bella - saying goodbye might be goodbye!"

"I won't say goodbye to you! never!" Tiger replied to Michelia with a determined expression.

...... the memories of "Saint" Tegel continue?