"Sign it here if you agree." Roland pointed to the blank space below the document, "The conditions have been given the best I can, and this is the only thing I can do for him."
Lux was dressed as a young woman in black mourning clothes. She hesitated for a while while holding the pen, but couldn't help but ask, "Is there really no way? Maybe it just fell into the atmosphere? If you look for it again, if you look for it again..."
Roland turned his head in reluctance: "The official statement of disappearance will remain unchanged, but we have other reliable channels to confirm it. Sorry, it may be cruel to say that, but it is almost certainly burned in the atmosphere. ."
"...I understand." Lux let out a breath and smiled reluctantly, "I will do what I can, which must also be what he expects."
"I'm sorry." Roland didn't know why he wanted to apologize. He took the document signed by Lux, "You are welcome to join us, Miss Lux, no, Mrs. Lingos."
"Roland Sayak, explain it to me clearly!" The door of the room was pushed open, and CC walked in with a face full of anger. She glanced at the other woman in the room and ignored her, "What is the government appointment? What's the matter? What's the matter with Mrs. Lingos?"
Lux looked at this beautiful woman with green hair and an air of indifference all over her body. She was a completely different type from herself. The two sides have not met, but she has a local understanding of who this is.
"It's just for the maximization of interests, this is the best choice to make under the current conditions of losing him." Roland was not surprised by the sudden intrusion, "CC, it's impossible for you and him, you and I It's very clear to me, so I've never been bullish on it."
"It's possible!" CC ignored Lux, went straight to the opposite of Roland and continued, "Lilith said he was not Li Lin, not Li Lin, do you understand?"
"It's not Li Lin?!" Roland stood up suddenly, staring at CC with wide eyes, "How is it possible, how is it possible? Isn't the last one..."
"If you can't figure it out, go back and ask your wife." CC took a deep breath and calmed down, "Forget it, it's pointless to discuss this now that no one is there."
Roland just stood there for a while, and after regaining his senses, he took out something from the drawer and handed it to CC with a complicated expression: "By the way, this is from Lund Bell, and there is a record of him. The last call. It has no practical effect, you can take it back as a souvenir."
CC took over the gadget and pressed the play button directly, and her familiar voice sounded in the room. The audio was edited, and no other voices appeared: "...Amuro, how many flags have you planted for me... I believe in your sister... CC my wife is so cute and cute, whoever dares to object will smash his dog's head!"
There were not a few words in the recording, and it was soon over, and then the room fell into an eerie silence. The scene was supposed to be hilarious, but no one in the room could laugh.
CC was silent for a while, then looked at Lux and sneered: "Mrs. Lingos, are human blood steamed buns delicious?"
Although Lux couldn't understand what she was saying, she could still tell the malice in her words. She figured out the meaning of the sentence according to the context, and looked at CC without flinching: "I'm doing my best to protect what he left behind. What do you think is your freedom."
"Secretary has changed, Mrs. Lingos, by the way, receive all his economic and political inheritance, um, you just cheer up faster and have better luck." CC turned around and walked out the door, "Ed really liked it. A strong and good woman, I wish you every step of the way."
Roland seemed to want to say something to Lux, but she shook her head to stop him: "Let's get down to business. Speaker Kahn has fulfilled his promise, and the first thing we have to do is to convince the outside world that Anaheim has lost him. It works as well, which is our economic foundation. The blueprints he left behind are locked in the computer in the office, and I need to know Alice's birthday... "
In the evening, Lux dragged her tired body back home—she had hardly slept for the past two days. Minerva sat cautiously on the chair in the living room, and when she saw Lux coming back, she trotted all the way to her, pointed to the closed bedroom door and said nervously, "There's an aunt—"
"I know, she's not a bad person." Lux touched Minerva's little head, "Are you hungry? Go do your homework first, and I'll make dinner."
Minerva struggled for a while to go back to her room to do her homework, and Lux started to prepare dinner for three. After the meal was done, Lux knocked on the door of CC's room. After receiving the signal, CC came out and sat on the table to start eating.
"The taste is not bad, I have worked hard and practiced." She tasted the food, "So one of the means is this, I understand."
Knowing that anything she said would be targeted, Lux simply kept silent.
"That, Sister Lux." Minerva couldn't stand the atmosphere and asked, "When will Uncle Ed come back? The teacher said that there will be a parent-teacher meeting next month, and parents of every classmate must attend. ."
"Maybe not in time for next month." Lux smiled softly, "You can see if I can-"
"Can't come back." CC interrupted her coldly, "Ed is dead and can't come back."
"CC!"
With a thud, Minerva's cutlery fell to the ground. Her eyes turned red in an instant, and her small mouth opened and closed like a fish that landed on the shore. She only endured less than five seconds before tears burst out. Minerva didn't ask "Is it true?" She was smart enough to get the answer from Lux's reaction.
"It was Char Aznab who killed Ed." CC ignored Lux's reaction and kept chattering on his own, "Aznab was arrested for crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. Crimes against humanity Can you understand? If you don't understand, go back and look up the dictionary. He just escaped from prison yesterday, and he is missing now, so it is impossible for him to come back to you. "
The little girl cried even more.
Lux hurried to Minerva's side, crouched down and hugged her, stroking her cheek distressedly: "Does it do you any good? Even Ed-"
"Ed likes her very much, I know." CC was expressionless, "so you're going to make up a new reason for her every month until it's exposed? Don't tell me that's how he educates children? Children who teach like this How do I join the Young Pioneers?"
"How do you know?!" Lux raised her head sharply, "He just said it once, I don't even know what that means..."
"It's his words that will definitely say such things, how could I not know?" CC put down the tableware and sneered, "Mrs. Lingos who doesn't know anything, why don't you ask the magical conch?"
"What's the point of showing this off now?" Lux looked at her sadly. "It will only make those who are left suffer more, right? You are torturing me and you are also torturing yourself, why bother?"
"So, let me shut up? This house is already yours, are you going to kick me out next?" CC looked at her defiantly, "You don't need his stuff either, how about you? By the way, I am the first in line to inherit Anaheim shares, I'm sorry."
Lux just shook her head blindly while holding Minerva, refusing to answer.
Looking at Lux who didn't resist like this, CC suddenly felt dull. She got up and walked back to her room, slamming the door behind her.
Lux looked at the direction of the bedroom for a while, then lowered her head to comfort Minerva in her arms. It was when the little girl was growing that she let Minerva finish her dinner. After the meal, Minerva with red eyes silently went back to the room to take out the workbook, and Lux started to clean up the dining table. CC only took one bite, and she reluctantly threw out the wasted food.
At night, Lux lay on the familiar bed, hugged Minerva, and sang to her in a low voice. The little girl lay in her arms and sobbed for a while, until she was tired of crying and finally fell asleep amidst the singing. She could see that the little girl was finally less hostile to her, but the price was too high.
She let go of Minerva carefully, for fear of waking her, and walked lightly into the living room. The girl casually threw her body on the sofa, found a comfortable position, and stared at the dark room in a daze.
I don't know how long it took, maybe a few hours in the morning, when she heard the sound of the bedroom door opening. Then a figure passed by her, entered the kitchen, made some noise, and sat beside her when she came back.
"...Aren't you asking me what I'm doing here?" Lux took the initiative to ask, seeing that she had been silent.
"It's never boring enough to act sad here to win my sympathy, this kind of thing can deceive him." CC's expression was not clear in the dark, "I won't change rooms with you, in There's no way to sleep in that room."
"Don't you understand very well." Lux muttered to herself. "You know, he's—"
"Mayu said it."
"...That's it."
CC was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "Are you pregnant?"
"… No."
"It's useless." CC paused, "Maybe it's reproductive isolation."
Lux didn't ask or refute, and there was another embarrassing silence.
"It's like this at the beginning, just get used to it. Time is cruel, you can forget everything." CC broke the silence again, "Change the environment, meet different people, and then you will naturally figure it out. Yes. It may take a few months, some may take a few years, but it will pass, this is a matter of experience.”
"I want to stay here." Lux's tone was firm, "I want to protect what he left behind and what he cherished."
"... It seems that he is not too blind." CC said to himself, "Move now, I can't stay in this place for a day."
"Aren't you leaving?" Lux added immediately, "Not to drive you away, just—"
"I will leave, and I don't want to see you." CC got up and walked to his room, "I will leave after teaching that little girl what he imagined."
Lux stayed alone in the living room for an unknown time until it was almost dawn when she crept back to bed.
"Sister Lux," Minerva suddenly hugged her, startling her, "Aren't you sleeping?"
"I'm sorry, did I wake you up?"
"No." Minerva shook her head in her arms, "Don't be sad."
Lux tightened the little girl in her arms, not knowing what to say.
"You all said that Uncle Ed is dead." Minerva looked up at her stubbornly, "I believe him, Uncle Ed promised me."
"Minerva..."
"If you can't come back next month, there will be next month, next month, next year, and next year." Minerva's tone was full of confidence, "Uncle Ed will definitely come back, he promised me Understand."
"Then you have to study hard." Lux pressed Minerva's head back into her arms, preventing her from seeing her expression, "Otherwise Eddard will be angry when he comes back."
"I got good grades, and the teachers praised me too."
"That's great." Lux bit her lip. "She's not right, not at all."
"… Sister Lux?"
"My life is only so short, and this matter is so important, how can I forget it?" She touched Minerva's hair pitifully, "Well, I will never forget it."
The second volume, the inspiration of the stars is love, finished.
Second volume preview
Where do we go from where we go,
"Let this old man tell you what justice is."
Seeking a dwelling place for pain,
"If you don't resist, you won't die, why don't you understand?"
Encounter with the illusory beauty of despair,
"Shameless, ghosts and animals, maddened, inferior to animals!"
Competing with shattered hopes,
"The moon finally came out..."
In the scarlet memory,
"You don't even dare to say that you love her?"
He embraces the darkness alone,
"Existence is reasonable, even if it is a god, I will kill it for you!"
The second volume, the final love song.
"I hate you the most, the most, the most, the man who can't push people up and down and doesn't dare to push!"
Author's message:
PS: The last volume of PV was all recycled and scattered~ Some lines were recycled more bluntly because the rhythm of the plot was not handled well, and when I wrote it, I felt that the level was insufficient. Comfort yourself, after all, it's a new writer hahahaha, let's see if I can grow in the next volume.
PS2: From the beginning to the end of the second volume, I pulled eva out for a walk from time to time, just hoping that in the end, everyone would be more accepting. This is related to the core setting of this book, and it depends on it to turn around various magic sticks. It is impossible to change it, and I really can't accept it and I can't help it.
PS3: I have also repeatedly tested the lower limit of your ability to accept bereavement in other places that you may not have noticed. The third volume will see the results. Students who can't accept it at that time, please silently withdraw, and don't report me.
③ The Last Love Song