"Don't cry..." Augus walked over quickly, stretched out his hand, took the little girl down from the stairs, held it in his arms, took out the handkerchief from the bag and carefully wiped away her tears.
The young man's smoky gray eyes looked at the little girl in his arms tenderly, sighed slowly, and said softly, "If you don't like it, then don't do it... Leave it to me."
Little Marianne raised her head and looked at him with tearful lake green eyes: "Really?"
The young Augus looked at her, was silent for a while, and nodded: "Yeah."
The little girl reached out and hugged his neck, leaned her head on his shoulder, bit her lip and smiled.
Augus hugged the person, walked up to the second floor, opened the door to the third room, went in and placed her in the large soft chair by the window.
Li Xin walked in behind him.
This room is very big, covered with white fluffy carpets, tables, chairs, sofas, bookcases and beds. Most of the furnishings are white and soft green, which looks fresh and gentle.
On the porcelain-white table are many vases with flowers of various colors. The sun shines in from the open windows, delicate and warm.
Augus stroked little Marian's braided head lightly, took the bottle with purple-yellow flowers from her arms and put it on the table.
Marianne was lying on the big chair, pulled over a big pillow and hugged it, tilting her head to watch him move.
"You have to do it by yourself, Lianne." Augus said, frowning, "...Or, maybe I can go with you?"
"No, Oger, I'll go by myself." Little Marianne shook her head and looked at him with her big eyes flickering, "The teacher won't allow it, and I know you're very busy. I'll go with the guards myself tomorrow. "
Seeing that Augs frowned, the little girl began to reason: "Only I can open that scroll, the teacher is right, this is my responsibility, and I will do it well. Brother..."
"Yeah." Ogus finally nodded slightly, but his brows were still frowning. He put his hands behind him and walked around the room. After a moment of recollection, he said, "The scope is... Hanyuan City, Guhu Town, right?"
Seeing little Marian nodding, Augus frowned and walked a few more laps, with a worried look on his face: "The frame, just use the Pegasus and pestle I often use... Guard, I'll pick a team out later... Alchemy scrolls, potions, I'll find someone later - I'll bring them here myself, this is the first time you've traveled alone..."
"Yeah!" Little Marianne nodded again and again, interrupting his rare babble-style superposition of long sentences, and the silver braid shook, "I know it all, senior brother, go get busy."
"... Hmm." Augston paused, then lifted his legs out of the door and strode away.
Li Xin stepped on the soft carpet, watching little Marian who jumped out of the chair as soon as Augs left, watching her hurriedly running to the window, and watching the back of the youth's robes billowing in the yard.
Under the sun, the little girl's clear lake-green eyes once again revealed a kind of sadness that was very incompatible with her age, and there was also a faint anxiety.
The two separated, and just as Li Xin was considering whether to chase Augs or stay with Marianne to see what she was going to do, everything around her suddenly fluctuated like water, and was then submerged by the thick fog coming from all directions.
In the vast expanse of whiteness, Li Xin quietly stopped in place, holding a staff and observing the surroundings vigilantly.
After a while, the white mist dissipated as suddenly as it had come.
Li Xin looked around and realized that she was still in that room. The rug, the bottles and flowers on the table, the large soft chair, belonged to little Marianne's bedroom.
There were faint voices coming from downstairs, Li Xin gently opened the door, stood in the corridor and looked down.
On the sofa in the downstairs hall, Marianne and Augus sat opposite each other.
The two braids of the past were spread out, and the long silver hair like moonlight was tied into a gorgeous and delicate bun, and she was wearing a slim long dress in gold and white, and dignified and elegantly lowered her eyebrows and made a cup of tea.
It seemed that this Marianne was already fifteen or sixteen years old.
The face of Augus sitting opposite her remained unchanged, but the seriousness and indifference between his brows and eyes became deeper, and the power on his body became stronger.
His gaze at Marianne was still warm, but the warmth was more subtle.
The two drank tea relative to each other, and neither of them spoke for a while.
After a long while, Marianne's slender brows were lightly frowned, and she sighed softly, "Aug... Teacher brought it up again today."
Augus held the cup's hand for a while and said solemnly, "You don't need to worry about it. I said, leave it to me."
Marianne sighed again, looked up at him, a kind of understanding and worry in her green eyes, "You don't have to hide from me, you're arguing with the teacher again today. You've been carrying it for me for seven years. , Oger, I know that the teacher has reached the limit of his patience."
Raising her hand to stop what Augus was about to say, Marian smiled, "He takes you as his successor, Aug, I don't want to leave an irreconcilable rift between your teachers and students because of me."
"He's also your teacher." Augus frowned.
"Augus." Marianne looked at him helplessly. "You and I don't understand, why should we deceive ourselves."
"..." Augus was silent, without denying any more, he only took a sip of tea and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Fifteen or sixteen-year-old Marianne is like a flower that first blooms in the morning light.
She stood up and walked to the window facing the flowers in the yard, her soft skirt swaying gently.
"Ogg, I really appreciate you." Marianne said in a soft voice, more moving because of the sincere emotion contained in it, "I know, in fact, you still don't understand why I refuse to integrate... , Why would I not do what every Legus has done that seems to do no harm?"
Marian's slender fingers stroked the light green window sill, turned around and looked at Augus on the sofa with a smile and tears: "You don't understand, but you still helped me refuse for seven years. Every time I look at the pressure you endure, As the conflict with the teacher became more and more intense, I felt that I was really selfish."
The girl's skirt and hair fluttered gently in the soft light, her eyes were like fog, and her beautifully curved neck and waist were slender. Augs looked at it and didn't return to his senses for a while.
"Have you met my mother? Quelia Leggs." Marianne asked.
Augston realized what she was asking after a moment, nodded and said, "Yes. I was about ten years old when your mother died."
"Then what kind of person is she in your memory?" Marianne smiled and asked again.
Augers pondered the words as he recalled: "Wise and gentle, amiable... kind and selfless... strong, hard-working... admirable."
He probably seldom praised people, and a few words made him stumbling and stumbling.
Marianne laughed again, "Perfect, right?"
Augus recalled for a moment, and found that the former head of the oracle church did not seem to have any flaws.
So he nodded: "Yeah."
Marianne looked at him and said softly, "But there is no perfect person in this world."
Augs was startled.
"Look... For thousands of years, we Legos have only had one descendant, and only women, all of whom are hall masters. And every Legos is kind, gentle, powerful, and wise, all perfect, and devoting their lives to Be a just and selfless sect master." Marianne whispered softly, pulling off the pendant around her neck with her backhand: "Don't you think it's strange? Oger. How can people be perfect, perhaps, in the eyes of the world? Lerice Leggs is perfect, but why are Legos from generation to generation so-called 'perfect', without exception? Do you know why?"
Li Xin's eyes fell on the silver pendant in her hand. In her memory, she had been wearing this pendant ever since she met Marian in Lone Fox Town.
Augus also looked at the pendant, his eyes shaking.
"Yes, that's it." Marian's lake green eyes flashed with broken water, and she raised her hand and threw the pendant on the table, "It gives us the power of Regus, and it also erases that we do not belong to Regus. character."
Augus stared at it deeply, and remained silent for a long time.
Marianne walked back to the table and sat down, and the momentary mood that had appeared when she threw the pendant had calmed down.
She stretched out her hand, slowly took the pendant back into her hand, and recounted the old story: "I was able to integrate it when I was five years old."
"You know better than anyone, Ogg, that our Church is the fusion agent of the four continents, the guardian of peace and freedom. The purpose of Ms. Lailis's legacy is absolute neutrality, absolute selflessness, and absolute end to war."
"But as long as it's a human, how can it be selfless and absolutely neutral. So, she left this."
"That's great, Ms. Lerice. Not just herself, but generations, and all her descendants as well."
Marianne picked up the pendant, and the thin silver chain that flowed down wrapped around her arm.
"You know, Ogg, I have a diary of my mother."
"It was written down before she merged. After I saw it, I realized that she used to be a very lively person... It was written that she secretly raised a litter of rabbits in the house at that time, and copied it after being caught. A hundred times the "Rules and Regulations of the Teaching Church"."
"She gave birth to me, but I've only seen her twice."
Transparent tears fell on the white tablecloth, soaking into a small piece.
Augus stood up, went around and hugged her, the distress in his eyes almost overflowed.
He took out a light gray handkerchief from the pocket of his robe, and wiped her tears with gentle movements as he had done with her when he was a child.
"Let's go." Augus' voice was low and decisive, "Lian, go to Lone Fox Town."
Marian froze for a while, raised her face, and there were bits and pieces of light in her eyes.
Augus reached out and stroked her hair gently, "If you go there, he won't have any reason to call you back."
"I will prepare it for you if you order it, and I will leave tomorrow."
Leaving this sentence behind, Augs stood up and walked out the door.
"Ogg!" Marianne on the sofa stopped him, worried: "Then you..."
Augus stopped when he walked to the door, turned around and gave her a soothing look, and said, "You go first. I... will try to transfer to Hanyuan City in a while."