When he knocked on the door of Hughton's house on Rio Avenue, the old alcoholic jumped into Allen's eyes in the same half-drunk way.
"Alan? Come in."
Hughton opened the door and let Allen in. On the second day after returning to Ugal Fort here, Allen visited, of course to learn about the Rubik's Cube sequence. It was morning, and even though it was late, it seemed that Hughton had just woken up. Let Allen sit in the living room while he ran to wash up. When he walked into the hall again, he casually picked up a wine bottle placed by the table, and poured a gulp of spirits into his mouth.
Then he exhaled a strong smell of wine, and the whole living room was filled with the aftertaste of wine. Allen frowned and said, "Mr. Hughton, strong alcohol is harmful to your health, so drink less."
Hughton rolled his eyes, and sat down on his apparently faded sofa: "What do you know, I wouldn't be able to live without this good thing."
"Speaking of which, I heard that you were ambushed a few days ago?"
Allen nodded.
Hughton murmured: "Who is so courageous to play Beth Keld's idea? You don't even know that that old lunatic Horn is now offering a full bounty for the murderer. The entrusted platform of the hunting group and the black list of the underground assassin organization Above, it’s all about your Bethkind’s reward announcement. If I were the mastermind behind the scenes, I would probably have to hide in a remote corner of the surface and stay there for ten or eight years, hey.”
Allen marched, but he didn't know Horn's such a big move. Before that, he saw that even a few words of Horn were handed down by Butler Hai Xin, so he thought he didn't care about the attack on the ramp. Now it seems that it is outrageously wrong.
"Don't talk about that, I heard that Old Horn has arranged for you to study in Dawn Blade?" Hughton changed the subject and said.
"Yes, I have to report to the academy next Monday."
"Very good, the Rubik's Cube sequence involves a lot of things. For example, mathematics, space science, source power system, etc. If you don't have a little foundation, it will be difficult for me to guide you in this area. Dawn's Blade is the highest-level institution in Babylon , you soak in it for a year and a half, and after reading through those basic theories, it will be much easier to learn the Rubik's Cube sequence." Hughton paused for a moment before saying: "I have one more thing I want to entrust to you. Treat it as your tuition fee.”
"What's the matter?" Allen hardly thought about it, and chose to agree.
Hugh patted him on the shoulder: "Come with me."
He led Allen to the second floor, walked up the stairs, and there was a corridor. The two walked to the end of the corridor and stood in front of a door. Hugh tapped on the wood and said, "Vera, it's grandpa."
There was no movement inside the door, so Hughton sighed and opened the door.
The door is obviously a girl's room, from the furniture to the color of the decoration, there are large swaths of pink. However, there is a very incongruous scenery in this room, that is the girl standing by the window and painting. Long black hair, black eyes, long black dress... The girl's first impression on Allen was that she was as dark as ink, but she had a suffocating sense of heaviness on her body.
As if there was a space where she was, even the air became as heavy as lead.
Look carefully, her facial features are extremely beautiful. Those eyebrows as thin as willow leaves, that straight nose, and those tightly pursed lips made her look calm and classic. However, her eyes were lifeless.
Ellen has seen many moving eyes, like Lucy's green eyes full of vitality, and Adele's domineering windows to the soul, they all have their own characteristics. There is no doubt that the eyes of the girl in front of me are also very characteristic, but what they convey is unimaginable despair, emptiness, and loneliness. Just being stared at by these eyes for a moment, the weak-willed will probably not be able to stand the depressive depth in these eyes and will scream wildly.
What kind of painful heart is it that breeds such a pair of eyes
The door closed slowly, blocking the black-haired and fair-skinned girl from Allen's eyes.
As if he didn't know how to breathe until the door was completely closed, Allen took a deep breath, and then asked in surprise, "Is she?"
"Vera...my granddaughter."
Walking towards the direction of the stairs again, Hughton's back looked so old at this moment. Back in the living room, he drank a few more sips of spirits, and then said: "Seven years ago, Vera's parents died in the Outland War. Since then, Vera has closed her heart and become like As you saw just now. She is very sensitive and fragile, and I have been taking good care of her. But even so, the situation does not necessarily improve. So I plan to let her go to Dawnblade to study, although the academy recruits She is a child of the family, but there is also a quota for self-funded students. I still have some savings, which can be used for her study."
"I hope Vera can go out and meet more friends. After all, she still has a long way to go in the future, and I, an old man, cannot accompany her for that long." Hughton glanced towards the second floor: "It's just that she rarely Less contact with people, I may feel a lot of discomfort when I first arrived at the academy, I... "
"I'll take care of her." Allen nodded.
Hughton laughed and said: "I like this about you. You know everything, so you don't need to waste your time. Then Vera will help me to watch more, but don't have to stand up for her in everything, otherwise she will never get out of her heart." That shadow."
"I know what to do."
It was almost noon when he left Hugh Dun's residence. Alan felt something when he walked out of the small garden in front of the house, and turned to look in the direction of the second floor. Behind the window of the room on the second floor, a black-haired girl stood in front of the window. Surprised that Allen turned around, he quickly flashed into the shadow behind the window, like a frightened kitten.
"Vera!" Allen suddenly yelled, "See you at the academy."
Leaving a sunny smile in that direction, Allen left. After the magic speed car drove away, the girl walked to the window again. He glanced in the direction of the street, and then his eyes wandered to the easel by the window. On the canvas is a figure painting. In the center of the picture is a man holding a giant blade with his back to the viewer, turning his head only halfway, leaving a side profile.
Under the man's feet was a mountain of dead bodies, and in front of him was a figure of Chuo Chuo. The enemies, like mountains and seas, have all kinds of strange shapes, but they rush towards the man without exception. The background/scene in the distance is represented by a large block of rich black and red color blocks, and the meaning of absolute tragedy emerges spontaneously.
The girl's eyes fell on the man's side face, and the lines of that side face were somewhat similar to Alan's!
A week later, when Allen stood in front of the towering arches of Dawn Blade Academy, the boy's mind was shocked again, just like when he first saw Ugal Castle. The difference is that the castle gives Allen the feeling of being immersed in the vicissitudes of time, while the blade of dawn brings him a warm feeling.
The feeling of blood boiling.
The housekeeper, Haixin, accompanied him through the arch of the college, and the world before him suddenly opened up. Under the light of dawn, the first thing Allen sees is a vast green land, which is divided into several areas by main roads, branch roads, fountains, statues, etc. Go straight along the main road, and you will see a pair of stone carvings on the way.
The work is actually very monotonous, on the towering pedestal, some gravel seems to be piled up in a disorderly manner. Just to the left of the pile of rubble, there is an old Broken Blade. The simple and rough composition brings a huge sense of spiritual shock to every newcomer to the academy. From those gravel and broken blades, the viewer seems to be able to feel an indescribable desolation and tragedy.
In the middle of the abutment, there is such a line engraved: blood is the blade, faith is the shield. Cut through the night, usher in the dawn, and shed the light of hope!
Looking at this line, Allen felt as if there was a flame burning in his chest, which made him almost want to roar, so that he felt comfortable. Hai Xin stood behind him and said: "This is the motto of the two academies of Dawn Blade and Hope Shield. The purpose is to remind future generations not to forget that tragic war. The difference is only the theme of the sculpture. It is Broken Blade, and the Shield of Hope is a broken shield. Broken Blade and broken shield represent blood and sacrifice!"
While Butler Haixin was explaining the meaning of the stone carvings and words to Allen, a pretty and tall girl stepped forward. She called herself Julie, was a student of the academy, and was responsible for leading Allen to visit the academy. Julie has long fiery red hair, and her personality is as hot and enthusiastic as her red hair. The plump breasts and long snow-white legs indicate that she is mature in some way.
Butler Hai Xin handed Alan to Julie, and said: "Miss Julie is a self-funded student sponsored by our family. She will be responsible for showing you, Master Alan, to familiarize you with the entire academy. If you have any questions about the life of the young master in the academy If you need anything, you can also ask Ms. Julie for help. Then, I will take my leave first, and the driver will come to pick up the young master on the weekend."
"I'm sorry to trouble you, Mr. Haixin."
After Butler Haixin left, Julie saw Alan's eyes sparkle. She is a self-financed student funded by Beth Kede. As a commoner, her ideal would be to find a certain nobleman in the academy, which would completely change her fate. Otherwise, after leaving the academy, the best result would be to work in a company under Beth Keld's name, and marry a potbellied company executive in the end.
So when Heissing contacted her and asked her to be in charge of Alan's admission work at the beginning of school, Julie seemed to see the god of luck beckoning to herself. Even in terms of Alan's identity, he is always declared to be an offshoot child. But Haixin, the family steward, is needed to take care of him, so even if Alan is not as noble as his direct blood relatives, he should be an important elite cultivated by the branch family.
In fact, such a person is Jolie's ideal marriage partner. After all, the direct descendants of those aristocratic families, when it was her turn to be a commoner like her, some ladies from noble families with roughly the same background/backgrounds were already divided up.
What's more, the young master in front of him is younger than himself, but his height has already caught up with him. Ignoring the faint childishness between his brows and looking at his figure alone, he is no different from that fourteen or fifteen year old boy. Julie felt that maybe she could be a special mentor to this young master in some aspects. No matter what, this young man with masculine silver hair is much more pleasing to the eye than Vincent, who is also from Bethkind!
(end of this chapter)