Walking up the steps along the almost pitch-black passage and following the spiral staircase, Hotaru walked towards the top of the city wall.
Different from the daytime battle with the beast tide, it was quiet on the city wall. Only the occasional footsteps of patrolling soldiers could be heard. The stone walls were covered with white snow and heavy ice piled up. There was a soldier patrolling with a pyroxene lamp in the sky amid the snow. Seeing the figure of the silver-haired girl, he rubbed his eyes and looked again, but found nothing. He couldn't help but wonder if he was hallucinating due to fatigue.
Yingying walked slowly towards the direction of the contract induction, and not long after, she saw her master.
The light in the sky has completely disappeared, and dark clouds brewing for a blizzard have enveloped the sky above the fortress. The black-haired warrior stood on the edge of the city wall, looking at the white mountains and black forests in the distance.
Originally, Yingying wanted to happily go up to say hello and tell Joshua that she had brought the armor, but after seeing the look in his eyes, the silver-haired girl couldn't help but slow down, hold her breath, and approach gently.
Because what was revealed in those eyes was full of desire.
Master, what exactly are you longing for
This is a question that has been hidden in her heart for a long time. Ever since she was pulled out of the Sealing Blade Chamber, Yingying would have such doubts from time to time.
Kill the enemies, regain the territory, start from the main city of Moldavia, rush all the way to the fortress, kill the golden beast and drive away the demons, then rush to Moldova to defeat the beast tide, and help others defend the city... In the exciting battle In the midst of the killing and killing, countless people cheered and appreciated his arrival, offering their worship and trust.
Is there anything more a warrior can desire? Isn’t this the ultimate
No matter how much I guess, it's useless. If you have any doubts, just ask. Yingying slowly approached Joshua and stood behind him.
She asked gently: "Master... what are you thinking about now?"
What is it that makes you unable to sleep, but standing on the city wall in the dark, enduring the cold wind, looking at the mountains covered with frost and snow in the distance
"Firefly... you're back."
Joshua, who had already noticed the approach of the silver-haired girl, remained motionless after she asked, and then fell into silence for a long time, without answering the girl's doubts.
Blizzard filled the sky, and the howling wind did not stop. On this noisy and quiet city wall, a silence fell between the two of them.
This time was so long that the white snow covered the uppers of the shoes and the ice hung on the brows. Just when Yingying thought she would not get an answer and was about to stay where she was, accompanying her master in a daze, she was unexpectedly I heard a voice ringing in my ears.
"Maybe he wants to fight."
This voice came from Joshua, who was still looking into the distance. Goose-feather-like flying snow fell on him, and his cloak was blown wildly. The warrior stood in the biting north wind and said lightly: "Maybe it's desire."
After getting an answer, the silver-haired Miss Shenji became even more confused. Yingying couldn't help but ask: "But why? Master, you are not me, and you do not exist as a weapon... "
"I am eager to fight. I hope you can use me more to fulfill the responsibility and meaning of my existence. This is because I was born for this, but you are a human being."
Speaking of this, she recalled the broken weapons and tired soldiers in the fortress, the houses on the roadside that had lost their owners, and the armor and steel wreckage stained with blood scabs.
Although it is not appropriate for a weapon, everyone is running thousands of miles to make their homeland better. As a human being, we should not be so eager to fight... This is against our nature.
Yingying didn't say the last sentence, but she had already said it to this point, so there was no need to say more.
Joshua was silent for a moment and did not answer the question immediately.
Looking up, the snow on his black hair fell, and he looked at the sky. Although the clouds were still there and the moonlight was gone, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the clouds and look directly at the stars in the sky.
Later, he said to himself: "Human nature is different."
Wearing a hunting suit covered with snow and a cloak covered with frost and snow, Joshua slowly turned around. He looked directly into the eyes of his weapon and said seriously: "Firefly... not everyone wants to enjoy peace and harmony. There are always some people who are born happily, but they do not belong to stability, but to war and fighting."
"Without people like me to fight, and without people like me, how can we protect the world and create peace?"
This time it was Yingying's turn to be silent, her beautiful face frowning, as if she was thinking about her master's answer. This kind of question was still a bit too difficult for her.
The black-haired warrior stood on the city wall and looked at his feet. Traces of the climbing of monsters were everywhere. He could still vaguely smell the smell of blood in the cold wind, and the smell of gunpowder explosion and smoke had penetrated deep into the city wall. , occasionally seeping out a little, floating in the air.
Yingying's sudden question brought back some past memories, and Joshua recalled his life before time travel.
In his previous life, he was born in an ancient and simple gym. His mother died of illness when he was young. His father, who was the master of the gym, raised him up. That stern middle-aged man did not know how to care for his children. , I only know how to treat him in the harshest way.
As the heir to the future martial arts gym, Joshua learned everything about fighting with people in that ancient gym. As a place where killing techniques were passed down, he had no access to or need to be exposed to other things.
Exercise your body, generate power, then learn to control the power, learn to enhance the superimposed power, and learn to use this power... there are too many, whether it is the technology used for murder and infiltration, the technology of riding on horseback, or the technology of using all weapons. , he learned it all in the garden of the gym, which was not wide.
Although these trainings were extremely difficult, they were extremely interesting to him. Joshua seemed to be born for this. Before long, his father no longer had any skills to teach him, but he was still not satisfied.
In order to understand the structure and vital points, weaknesses and blind spots of the human body, Joshua even asked his father to hire a medical school professor to teach him specifically about human body medicine and understand from the most modern and scientific perspective what fighting is and how to be the fastest. Defeat, knock down, and even kill the enemy.
Because he was keen on fighting, he was so eager to learn all knowledge, training day and night, and tempering his body. Even at the age of seventeen, he defeated his father and inherited the position of the gym leader, and that stern The man also smiled with a mixture of bitterness and relief, watching his child surpass himself with the knowledge he had passed down.
For Joshua, fighting is so beautiful. It is the highest collection of human beings, integrating everything in human beings-no matter what it is, human emotions, will, ideals, future, as well as wisdom, technology, strength and soul. , everything is integrated into it.
In order to implement their own ideas or will, people will fight. This is an activity that blocks and integrates everything a person has. People use this to distinguish who is stronger.
But for Joshua at that time, everything he learned was meaningless, because it was already the Great Contemporaneity, and the original era of martial arts and war had ended and would never exist again. Humanity entered the In the golden years of peace, you can realize your dreams and get everything you want without fighting or hard work...
For humans, this is such a blessing.
But to him, it was so boring.
(End of chapter)