Zach couldn't believe that when he was feeling sad about the world, it was James who was 'enlightening' him.
Never mind that quotation mark, James came to Grande after Amelia left, and he was assigned the task of patrolling the carnival by the North District Police Department. After seeing Alice and Maya's group of high school students, he felt that staying at the carnival was a waste of his professional enthusiasm, so he left the job to Wes and ran to Grande.
James may have originally planned to quarrel with Zach, but when he arrived at Grande, he saw Zach squatting in the kitchen scrubbing the floor as if he was autistic, so he slowed down his original intention and asked Zach. What's going on
Zach summed it up in one sentence: "Emilia, who hates aliens, wants to become an alien."
First of all, I want to make one thing clear. Zach has no objection to humans becoming aliens. Zach supports Logan’s idea of becoming an alien, right? Not to mention Louise, who is directly invited by Zach. Becoming an interracial girlfriend.
Emilia's situation, in Zach's opinion, is very similar to Caesar's. It's not a prejudice, it's a fact. Children are children. It is simply childish to decide how to go about your life before you have correct values for the world. Caesar is a representative of this aspect, and his pursuit of novelty is fueling his immaturity, causing all of Caesar's requests to feel willful and irresponsible!
Don't compare Western Dog Brothers to Caesar. Goudi's vision and attitude towards the current situation are not comparable to Caesar's, who only pursues novelty. Moreover, even though Goudi is a very suitable person to become Toledo, Zach lets Goudi grow up first.
Although Amelia is an adult, her mind is much more mature than normal people. After all, she majors in psychology. But it is this maturity that makes Emilia's change in attitude towards aliens feel uncomfortable - it is not because she feels that human life forms are not suitable for her, nor is it because she feels that alien life forms are suitable for her. In Emilia's mature judgment, she only came to one conclusion, that is, she no longer cares about the form of life, she only cares about what she wants to do, and the human race has simply become a burden. Emilia did not fall in love with alien life. On the contrary, she just added humans to the things she hated.
You see, this is the sad story of Zach. Zack, who has lived as a vampire for four centuries, still doesn’t hate humans, but Emilia has already begun to hate humans...
James' 'enlightenment' looks like this -
"Are you happy now! Everyone around you no longer wants to be human! Are you satisfied?! This is your greatest contribution to the world, right! You let all humans be bewitched by your alien life attitude! Everyone wants to Give up on humanity! Become like you!"
Well, James' original intention was fulfilled, he was looking for a fight with Zach.
Zach was already a little autistic. After hearing such accusations, "Do you think this is my fault? I have such a face, I have an excellent upbringing, and I work hard to let everyone coexist peacefully in Barton. This Is everything my fault?"
This trick of praising himself from the inside out while pretending to be aggrieved is completely useless to James.
"Yes, yes! You're right! You're right about everything! It's other people's fault. It's because others can't be a better version of themselves and can only be deceived by your hypocritical 'goodness'!"
Zach heard the point, allowing James's pure self-disclosure to become the point of enlightenment.
"You're right, it's 'others can't be better themselves', it's not my fault." Zach stopped being autistic and quickly swept through the kitchen, finished the housework, left the kitchen and went to the office.
Of course James followed, "What are you going to do?!"
"Call Amelia." Zach answered.
"You are sick! Can you let Amelia go! Haven't you affected her enough?!" James also has a good impression of Amelia. Amelia has been James' Remember the psychological counseling.
"It's indeed not enough." Zach agreed, "As you said, I seem to have only shown her my 'hypocrisy'." When Zach said this, he glanced at James who was pulling the corner of his mouth, " Now it is necessary for her to see the 'true evil' of vampires."
Zack is dialing.
The idea is simple, it was James who reminded Zach that as a vampire, Zach has become a better version of himself.
This is what attracts others to Zach, but others cannot misunderstand him and mistakenly think that Zach is like this. No, Zach was originally just a creature that survived by stealing the blood of others. This fact has not changed and will not change! The Zach everyone sees now is just Zach working hard to do better in a fact that will not change!
Every living thing can do this! Emilia is already doing it, she doesn't have to start over with the life of another race! Oh, let alone choose the 'evil' race of vampires!
After calling the number, the waiting tone that Zach expected did not appear. Instead, there was a prompt: "The number you dialed is unavailable, please check before dialing."
Zach blinked. Under James' gloomy gaze, he hung up and dialed again, "The number you dialed is unavailable, please..."
Zach put down the phone.
James seemed to have misunderstood something, "Very good! It seems that Amelia has awakened and knows that she should block people like you..."
Zach interrupted James, "The number is empty."
James paused and said, "Amelia lives with Harrison. Did you dial the wrong number?"
"No."
Zach glanced at James. James was also quite funny. He was probably on the side that didn't want Zach to call Amelia. Maybe James forgot his position for a moment. This kind of thing happens often around Zach~
Zach thought for a while and shook his head helplessly. Zach remembered that he was the one who suggested Harrison change his phone number. Well.
Forget it, Emilia will definitely appear in Grande again, so there is no rush.
Zach looked at James, and then asked, "Why are you here again? Is this how you live your married life?"
It was also at this time that James remembered that he had come to Grande again... There was no special reason... His face turned dark red several times, "Kate knows that I have a job in Paising."
"But this isn't Paisin." Zach looked at James. It was okay anyway, "You know what." Zach tilted his head and crossed his arms, "You really need to improve in some areas. It's time to start a family and mature." Without waiting for James to respond, "You can't forcefully say something that you don't believe in order to refute me. For example, just now, you said that everyone around me wants to be a foreigner. , you are wrong, you don’t want to, right?”
James' face was as wrinkled as a rag. If he continued to be childish, he would be provoked to say 'I think so'. But apparently that's what Zach meant. James should be more mature than this. He can no longer say such childish words casually.
Zach looked at James for a while, felt it was boring, got up and left the office, looking for Hank.
The fact that the reason for looking for Hank is that James is here is a testament to how safe the Paisin Carnival is now.
Zach was thinking this might be an opportunity to take the role of a halfway house to a higher level. Take these Grande employees to truly experience the city.
"No!" Hank refused very simply, "I'm too lazy to be a babysitter for these people!"
"Everyone is at the carnival, demons, wizards, vampires, Alice and Maya, the police..." There are so many people who can be Grande's nannies, "Don't you want to? You haven't been out of Grande for how many years, uh , except for going to Winston, you are no longer an old man waiting to die at any time, Hank, you still have eternal life to consider how to live, go and relax."
Hank was clearly showing signs of loosening his grip.
Zach added to the fire, "And think about the significance of you attending the carnival as Lesembra. You have already snatched the authority from Root to investigate the flow of aliens. If you do this kind of thing again, Lesembra What Bula would never dare or would do—go to an Indian cultural promotion event held by the wizard, think about it, Hank, this will be of great help to your future reputation in the Sabbat!"
This is a fact. The continuous incidents related to wizards have shown the Sabbat that wizards cannot continue to be ignored. Zach already had a close relationship with the wizard in Barton, and no matter what Zach did, no one in the Sabbat would be surprised. But Hank, who has the blood of Lesenbra's ancestors, is different and has a different meaning.
"Hmph!" It's so typical. Hank has already left Zach behind and went to the living area, "I don't need you to teach me!"
He said no need, no need~ Zach watched Hank enter the living area and said hello, a group of employees gathered like crazy, "Can we go outside?!!"
When the employees were getting ready, James also came out of the office. Glancing at the backyard, Hank, who was already ordering employees to jump on Grande's old truck, automatically stood next to Grande employees, put his hands on his hips and showed his police badge and said, "I will keep an eye on the whole process. Yours!"
This is commendable, James has matured. If you know what you can't change, just do what you can and be a better version of yourself~
Zach watched Hank, the staff, and James leave. By the way, the Bain family also went to the carnival. They went earlier and were invited by Pochi—
Porch took Zach's advice and sought out experience from others with the same parenting needs. We also know about Boqi’s social circle, but he feels lonely if he talks about it too much. He only knows the Bain family here in Grande.
But after all this was over, Grandry was completely empty.
If before, there was Ryan, who was usually ignored, in the center of the backyard, but now, Ryan is no longer there either.
Zach walked around Grand's backyard and said, "It's so quiet~" He was in a good mood. He looked up at the clear starry sky and played counting stars~ In the eternal life, a little game that will never go out of style~
1,,,4…10,10,104…14,14,144—
"Thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty..." Zac protracted the last note, raising his face, and the shining light and shadow became clearer and clearer. The star that Zach was counting fell in front of Zach, "...five."
Zach looked at the 'burning' stars in front of him expressionlessly, "Hello, the 145th star." He looked up again and couldn't count anymore. The sky was filled with stars. Zach couldn't remember where he had counted.
"Hello, vampire." 'Burning Star' spoke, the dazzling light slowly fading away, "I am not a star."
Zach lowered his head. As the flame-like brilliance faded, a humanoid thing gradually appeared. One of his eyebrows began to raise, "Harrison?"
Harrison's face, Harrison's body, Harrison's...
"I'm not Harrison." The flames stopped constricting after reaching a certain level, and a film like liquid magma stuck to the skin of this guy who was 'not Harrison', "I am an angel. "
Zach's other eyebrow rose because—
"An angel who is about to die in the world's punishment..." The other party swayed in front of Zach.
Zach did not reach out to help him, because if what the other party said was true, Zach would commit suicide if he helped him.
"I..." The standing guy who claimed to be an angel and had Harrison's appearance changed from standing to half-kneeling. He seemed to have lost most of his strength and could barely hold on, "I need my body..."
Zach subconsciously glanced around at the empty Grandery. The only living thing was probably himself, the vampire. "Where is your body?" Zach could only ask.
"He, he changed his phone number..." Angel raised his head hard and glanced at Zach, "He refused to communicate with me..."
Well…
"Harrison is your body?" Zach felt that he was not testing, but asking a question that he already knew the answer to.
"Yes." The angel changed from half-kneeling to lying limply. The smell of anxiety came from the ground in Grand's backyard. The angel was still trying hard to speak, "So I'm here, using my last strength to find he… "
With his face leaning against the land, he looked at Zach, "This is the limit I can reach... Vampire, it's an honor to meet you, the Toledo everyone talks about..."
Zach's eyebrows could no longer satisfy his emotional state, and Zach's mouth changed from tight to slightly open, then to half open...
"Farewell, world..." Angel closed his eyes, "That's fine, my life with no place to rest is finally coming to an end..."
A faint smell of burning, an angel wrapped in a scorching flame film, no longer moving, the quiet Grande. That's all the information in Zach's senses right now.
Three minutes later.
"Are you dead?" Zach looked at the angel who was still burning the land in Grand's backyard.
"It seems not yet..."
"Oh." Zach nodded and asked, "Can you stand up?"
"Well..." With a forceful voice, the angel's body squirmed, "I'm sorry, it seems I can't..."
"Then can you float like a normal soul alien??"
"Can't... The punishment of the world's laws limits my body..." That burning membrane.
"Oh." Zach was lost in thought, and then, "You can't lie here forever."
The same silence as the previous three minutes of silence came. Another three minutes passed, and Zach ended his meditation and sighed in an anthropomorphic voice, "How can I help you, angel."
"Let Harrison come to see me..." (To be continued)