"What the hell happened?!" In the thick smoke, the staff in the cabin scattered everywhere. Long, who left Gray's room, grabbed a person casually.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what's going on... Master Moreo's room suddenly turned into that..."
"What about the young master, how is he?"
The visitor kept coughing and gasping for a long time. "I don't know, I just happened to pass by..." Long let go of the person and rushed towards the smoke at the fastest speed. [These guys just run for their own lives at the critical moment, really... ] The choking smell continued to seep from the somewhat deformed door. Long reached out to twist the handle, but was bounced off by the heat wave. "Yadi, are you inside?!" The smoke was so smokey that he could hardly open his eyes, he gritted his teeth, grabbed the hot doorknob again and yanked it out.
One, one, another.
Not really, he started banging against the deformed door until it cracked a small gap.
"Yadi, are you inside? Answer me?!" Finally, the dragon kicked the door open.
"Don't... don't come here, please don't come here!! Woo, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo out from the corner of the room where the smoke billows, a faint voice of panic, "Go away, my body, my body is going to split NOW!! Something is coming out!!!”
"How could I leave you alone!!" The rope-like thing under his feet tripped over him who was about to pounce, "Yadi..."
"Don't come here, you'll be scorched when you touch me. Ugh---Hide that guy disappeared, it became like this, is this---the result of his transformation of me?" In the haze, Yadi's hair It seemed to be very long - meandering and dragging to the feet of the dragon, the sound of the strange metal objects colliding with each other became louder and louder.
"It hurts!! Ugh... go, it's about to crack..." The sound of Grid's gears spinning accompanied Yadi's screams one after another.
"Yadi!!" The smoke gradually dissipated, and the shadow of the huge monster trembled. The dragon was suddenly stunned by what he saw in front of him-innumerable gear bearings and other things swarmed out from Yadi's chest and back, and were still growing frantically, sparks splashing everywhere. [This... This is...] "I can't hold back anymore, Mr. Long, please hurry up and tell everyone to escape... This is the result of HIDE's transformation of my body... Because he suddenly disappeared, so... cough... run away, I My body will burst here..." A mouthful of blood flowed out of Yadi's eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, he shook his head desperately, motioning for the dragon to leave, but the young man strode over as if he didn't see anything. .
"Fool, how could you be left alone... um," he stretched out his hand before touching the gears, and an invisible electric current snapped him away, "Yadi... don't die."
"Don't touch me, you will really die!!" The boy looked at him pleadingly, but his body couldn't move.
"Well, it doesn't matter, I can't die..." Long smiled and hugged him into his arms, "You are like my dead friend... Calm down, even if HIDE has transformed your body, I believe you must be If you can control your body changes, you can definitely…”
"But... it's too late... I'm going to break through here... Mr. Long... It's too late... " Tears came out of his eyes, and the hand that held Long was gradually loosened.
"No, no, you won't be like him, absolutely not... um..."
They kissed—a sacred kiss with ascetic colors.
When Long woke up, he found that he couldn't help kissing the lips of the little boy in his arms. Those lips were as cold as ice, and they were even trembling slightly. The gear bearing and the like disappeared as quickly as a phantom, and only Yadi's eyes widened in shock.
"Disappeared... the monster..." After understanding Yadi's incomprehensible language, the dragon gently kissed his forehead again.
"Yeah, gone... it's great, really great."
[At that time, inexplicable sadness rose up in my heart. I don't know if it's because of the child in front of me or because of her. But one thing is for sure, she will carry a heavy burden like me - against the ethical laws of mankind, against the accepted justice, maybe, no, our existence is inherently a mistake. ]
[We are… monsters. ]
"You won, Leon," the boy's figure appeared on the screen, his silver hair dancing.
"I can't kill you, you win."
"Damn!!" He slammed the screen that had turned into a dark color.
It was the first time I felt pain—even the day the girl held his hand, shot herself, and fell in front of him, never had it...just intense sadness. Even if the WING star was destroyed by him, the anger that swirled in his heart at that time was far greater than the pain in his heart. However, he was wrong. The wound did not feel pain at the time because it was paralyzed. But the heart cannot be paralyzed forever, and one day it will wake up. Forgetting is only a temporary excuse.
Luke died, and the memories that should not be remembered also woke up... Carrying the memories of himself and Luke. The lacrimal glands dried up in an instant, and he understood everything, and he was just a prop in the hands of others.
Can't get angry, can't cry, everything seems to be uprooted at the same time as it is obtained. In the irreparable void, gusts of wind poured into it.
"Everyone's existence has his reasons and the meaning of birth... Seeing and pretending not to see things, the answer lies in your heart - angels choose you because you have things you haven't discovered and want to Something to protect!"
What else can be guarded... What can be worth guarding
"Leon is an idiot! Everyone, everyone is working so hard, we are all watching you!!"
"Leon, you have to fight, because everyone is fighting, in order to prove yourself in the best way!"
"...I really hope that Leon's injury will never heal. So, so that Leon can be with Karl forever?"
"Even so, I have to survive!" Another voice burst out from the bottom of my heart, "In order to protect myself, I must fight, only by fighting can I survive, there is no other choice!"
…
"Yadi, it doesn't matter, right?!" When the old man hurried to Yadi's room, it was beyond recognition. With the help of the dragon, Yadi has stood up, "Are you injured?"
"HIDE is dead, grandpa," he said briefly.
"..." The old man sighed deeply, "Don't say anything, I already know."
"Professor, what the hell is going on?! Why did HIDE in Yadi die suddenly?!"
"It's because of my negligence..." The old man said intermittently, "Probably when Yadi and the others left the storage warehouse, someone drove a lifeboat close to the transport plane and asked to board the plane, saying that he was Lyon and was seriously injured. .Because the man has the same face as Leon, and black hair, I let him come up first without checking my identity. As a result, he knocked me unconscious as soon as he got off the lifeboat, jumped on HIDE, and there were a few jobs present. The personnel were forced to open the cabin door and watch him run away in the Angel..."
"He's Luke, right. Then..."
"He was...killed," Leon's hoarse voice caught the dragon's attention, "because of me, the angel and Luke were crashed together."
"Lion... , that's not your fault," Long put his hands on his shoulders, "so don't blame yourself. Maybe, Luke wants to settle with you in this way."
"...Really?" Leon turned his head, and his eyes just met the dragon's.
"Yes," Long nodded firmly, "you have been flying for a long time, the energy consumption of the angel has indeed reached its limit, and it will be dangerous if you don't return..."
"Let's take a rest, I'm afraid we don't have much time left, and now we have lost an Angel..." The old man nodded, and Leon bowed knowingly and walked away.
"The situation is a little bad... Since Luke can find us, it means that someone has been eyeing us, and he has also noticed the existence of angels." Long said.
"Well, I also thought about it. When Lucian from the fire team appeared that day, I felt an invisible eye watching us all the time. Moreover, recently, I felt that it was getting closer and closer to us."
"Will an angel fall into their hands?! Including the damaged HIDE, we only have three angels, and the whereabouts of the other three are unknown. Besides, we have lost contact with the WORLD executives on Earth for nearly a week. Say, we don't have a very clear picture of the state of the organization."
"No, it's already... coming... soon..." Yadi suddenly interrupted their conversation, "Head, it hurts... Grandpa, they're coming, soon... everyone... will die."
"Yadi?!"
"It's less than a thousand light-years from here...may catch up with us in 24 hours. I...can feel...well, my head hurts...here again..."
"Yadi, you..."
"I don't know what happened, but I know... not one or two warships, but thousands of them, and they want to wipe us out. Even if we have three angels, it won't help, because the angels are not without The limited ground is ineffective against all weapons, it has a certain damage value... If the enemy's firepower is too violent, the angel will be shot down... Everyone, all will die, absolutely... woo, woo... head... It hurts, no, no, No... I... stop! What exactly is HIDE's transformation on me... why... it hurts... I really want to... kill... uh... no..." Her sharp fingernails tore the shirt on her shoulders, and several bloodstains appeared. on white shoulders.
"Yadi... , Professor!" Long supported him and cast a look of help at the old man. In response, the old man lowered his eyes and shook his head.
"HIDE is not made by me, so I don't know what will happen after the technician is transformed by it, and I can't deal with it... Unless I ask the person who made it. Maybe even that person doesn't know. What should I do, at least I don't know the final form of Belial's evolution, all I know is that its Master will suffer considerable pain, both mentally and physically. The tempering of the soul. In the angels, there is the mind of our maker."
"Uh... no..."
"But, do you have the heart to watch Yadi suffer like this? I don't understand, can you resolve her pain with a single sentence of ignorance!? If it is you who is suffering, others say, Will you accept it too?!"
"… "
"Ugh..." In his madness, he bit the back of the dragon's hand in one bite, and blood spurted out of his teeth. "Kill me, kill me, it hurts, please, dragon, kill me!! Kill me, fast! Just one shot, just point the gun here... Just one shot..."
Because of the pain, the dragon suddenly let go of his arms. Suddenly, Yadi, who had lost his fulcrum, swooped forward and stopped when he was about to hit the charred wall. poured out.
"I can't take it anymore, please kill me! Kill me!! Please!! Otherwise, I will become the same as before, woo... hurry up, kill me, while I am still awake! Otherwise, I will Kill everyone!! Please, dragon!"
Kill me, Dylan, or I'll kill you.
Long slowly pulled out the pistol from his waist, which was originally a very simple action, but in the eyes of others, he seemed to have spent a lot of effort.
Dylan, kill me.
Kill me, Dylan. Otherwise, otherwise...
Kill me, even if I beg you—good—painful—so painful—"Quick, it won't be late! Dragon, be quicker! Woohoo..."
He raised his wrist and aimed at the Yadi gun but kept shaking. "I, I clearly said, you won't be like her... , I said just now... ah!"
"Hu... hu..." Someone broke into the door at the same time as the gunshots rang, "Yadi!"
"Yadi!! Don't!" It was Gray who was covered in gauze all over his body. "How did this happen, why, why did you shoot him!! Dragon!"
"..." The dragon threw down the weapon that let the boy get a fatal blow, and silently endured Gray's anger.
Holding Yadi, who was gradually getting colder, Gray called out her name with her eyes closed, "Yadi, Yadi! You were still alive just now... Long, you bastard! Return him to Give it to me, give it back to me!"
"Yadi, he won't be so painful anymore," Long said with a strange smile, "No pain, no sadness, no... You can go anywhere you want, and do whatever you want. … ,so good… "
Gray picked up the gun on the ground, the index knuckles of both hands on the trigger together. "Give him back to me!"
"Shoot it, why are you still hesitating... Even a monster of the same kind will occasionally take revenge for his own importance? The essence of this is no different from a natural person."
"similar?!"
Long took off his black contact lenses, and his eyes were the same color as Gray's. "There seems to be no need to hide from you, Gray."
"… "
The tight trigger pulled back a little, and Gray closed his eyes.
Bingo, then I'll think about this when you're almost out of breath...
You can't be stupid, but I know your strengths very well - besides, why beat you if it doesn't hurt? !
You said that I didn't feel your tormented mood
This is the iron fist of love, love! !
No, this person in front of me is not someone I know, a man who is gentle like a woman, takes care of me carefully, and teaches me how to fight like a father! No, this man who easily took someone's life is no longer the dragon I know! ! But... but why, why, even so, I...
The air condensed inch by inch.
The burning room was still smoking everywhere, at a loss, the old man standing there, looking at the dragon with a gun pointed at him, with his eyes closed, Gray, who could never press the trigger, and Yadi who fell to the ground ──The picture seemed to be frozen, and all the sounds were annihilated by "quietness" in an instant. Only a slight friction sounded rhythmically.
Time passed by like this.
No, it's not so much that time is passing, it's that people's dazed hearts are slowly being eroded by time. Can't cry, can't mourn, can't do anything, can't think of anything, just stand, long, long. People who can express their emotions are happy, even if they are seen as weak... It is the real misfortune to suppress themselves and carry everything in their hearts. Ironically, most people will call the latter strong and praise the so-called spirit of these people, but who can understand the pain in their hearts that they cannot face
"Shoot."
"..." His weak fingers never left the pistol, "No, no! Li said that although our bodies are replicas of others, we, we are not replicas of other people's fate! We are human beings!"