In a corner of the shopping street, in a jewelry store that has hardly seen customers since it opened, two idle empire leaders and a slow-wielding woman named Sylvia are leisurely enjoying the coffee time after work in the afternoon .
The girl in front of her with long silver-white hair, always smiling harmlessly to humans and animals, and whose mind is always half a beat slower than the real world, is named Sylvia Lustein O'Shalier, an image that sounds similar to her. The completely inconsistent aristocratic name makes people wonder if this is a princess who lives in the palace and is ignorant of the world. Of course, this is impossible. The Welfare Protection of Sono City, the manager and the only clerk of a small jewelry store that has not received customers a few times since its opening, his business ability and poverty level are even comparable to those of other imperial officers who run a flower shop The twin sisters who take turns helping each other are comparable.
To be honest, although she is a little rude, with her slow temper and her brain that is almost independent of the real space, she has survived until now and has not been starved to death. I should say that the welfare system of Academy City is one of the most exciting Is it shocking
"There are usually no guests here—" Sylvia narrowed her eyes while sipping the coffee in her hand slowly, "So it will be very quiet now—"
"Uh... is it..."
With cold sweat on my forehead, I agreed awkwardly. It is really a miraculous creature to be able to face the bleak business situation so calmly.
It is already a miracle that she can open a jewelry store like this.
"Ah, speaking of which, are you also students here?" Sylvia gently blew into the cup, then raised her head curiously, "It doesn't look like it."
"Oh, we work in a certain research institute," Lin Xue nodded, half-truthfully, and asked strangely, "By the way, you should be a foreigner, right? Sylvia or something, this Your name sounds like an Englishman, but your face looks like an oriental, are you a mixed race?"
Sylvia shook her head gently: "No~~ I don't know where I was born~~ It seems like an orphan adopted by Academy City a long time ago..."
The silver-haired woman spoke unhurriedly, as if time would never be able to act on her, Lin Xue and I immediately changed into a more comfortable sitting position: Listening to Sylvia speak, you have to have the mentality of living, to won't be exhausted.
"I've been living here since a long time ago~ I grew up in a certain orphanage, it seems that I was adopted by a couple of researchers~~ But to be honest, I don't remember much about it... Because those memories have disappeared... It seems that since I was very young, I have a tumor in my brain. Although it is not fatal, it makes it difficult for me to remember things and concentrate... just often Amnesia... and it took a long time to learn to speak, and even if I learned it, it was as clumsy as it is now. Although my parents are researchers, the tumor is very special, and even the equipment of the research institute can't do anything, and then... my parents passed away Afterwards, because they made great contributions to Academy City, I was taken care of by the council... You see, I am very clumsy, and it is difficult to live alone, although now I am trying to open a small shop, but it seems to be a failure... By the way, do you want another cup?"
Sylvia said so with a quiet smile, then stood up, and took the coffee cup in front of me without waiting for an answer, but I am no longer surprised by her behavior.
"And then? Is that tumor still there?"
Lin Xue asked with some concern, and I also pricked up my ears. If, as Sylvia said, the frequent amnesia even reached the point where she didn't even know where she lived yesterday, then she is completely It's just a disabled person who can't even live independently! Although there is the care of the leadership of Academy City, it is really not easy for this girl to survive until now...
If it was the BT-level "life support warehouse", it would definitely not be a problem to treat Sylvia's brain tumor.
But it seems that our concern is superfluous, Sylvia smiled calmly, and slowly shook her head: "There is no need to worry... Academy City's technology is developing very fast... A few months ago, because of the relationship between parents The research institute that has been taking care of me has funded me to receive treatment, so the tumor is gone... Although I have no memory of the past, I can only guess based on those diaries and photos. It's frustrating, but it will get better in the future... "
Yeah, so now you're just habitually slow-speaking, right
I was drowsy because of listening to this slow girl talking, but I still have the energy to complain. Sure enough, if I don’t complain, I will die. Did the virus invade my brain cells
Everyone has a story. After listening to this ordinary and a little clumsy girl tell about her past, I suddenly had such a feeling, and then—it was getting late.
"It's already at this time. If you don't go back to your family, you will be worried."
Lin Xue glanced at the sunset outside, drank the coffee in the cup and stood up.
"Thank you for your hospitality. We will come here often in the future."
Why was this girl never so polite to me!
"Well, goodbye then—" Sylvia stood at the door of the store, smiling warmly at us, "I must come if I have the chance—"
"What a fun girl."
While waiting for the tram, Lin Xue suddenly sighed in a low voice, her slightly narrowed eyes reflected the brilliant afterglow of the distant sunset.
"Although there is deep darkness, there seems to be a warm place in Academy City," I nodded, feeling inexplicably happy, "It's just that after talking to that girl for a long time, it seems that I will soon Then I fell into a kind of slow and weird state, and now I have to swipe the screen in my mind for a long time before I can speak."
Even though I said this, there seemed to be a rather peaceful atmosphere around Sylvia, as if the last piece of pure land with a leisurely afternoon sun in this increasingly tense city, although it was only the second Meeting for the first time can give people such a sense of relaxation as if chatting with an old friend after dinner. Such people are rare now, and it is precisely because of this that Lin Xue, Xie and I get along with each other for a short time. Sylvia has become a friend.
"A person without a past..."
Lin Xue suddenly sat on the railing behind her, leaned her whole body back vigorously, stretched her muscles and bones with a balance mastery degree of difficulty factor of 9.9, and lamented Sylvia's past time of constant amnesia.
"And, Wood, you know what?"
Lin Xue opened her eyes, raised her bracelet-wearing right hand, and clenched it tightly against the gradually setting sun.
"She has no future either..."
After a few seconds, I finally reacted.
"What?! Girl, you said she has no future?"
The Prophet waved his hand here, with a look of contempt on his face: "The reaction is really slow, and the voice is quite loud."
"Ahem... you damn girl... you say you can't see Sylvia's future?"
"It's not that I can't see it," Lin Xue shook her head while continuing to study the bracelet on her hand, "For me, even if it is an invisible future, there should be chaos, but in that Sylvia On my body, what I saw was a blank, nothing, not even chaos."
"Why didn't you say it earlier?"
"Is there a difference between what you said earlier and what you say now?" Lin Xue curled her lips, "Could it be possible to arrest him and slice him up now?"
"That's true," I nodded. There are too many strange people and strange things in this world. It's hard to understand the existence of an existence that Xue Lin can't see through, but... eh? Speaking of a human being who even Lin Xue can't see through, could she be the angel that the Christianity is looking for
But as soon as this idea came up, I was rejected by myself—it seems that I was a little nervous these days because of that hide-and-seek angel. Although that girl is a bit special, my energy sensing ability is still Impossible to go on a business trip, Sylvia doesn't even have the slightest fluctuation of abnormal energy on her body, she is completely an ordinary human being, and creatures of the level of "angels", even if they pretend to be human, it is impossible for them to have no energy Fluctuating, this is something that even the person who dares to call himself a master of the energy system can't do.
"Mysterious man again," I breathed out, "There are so many unknown things in this world."
"What's the matter, Wood, suddenly the philosopher got up? Was it traversed?"
You won't allow me to sigh about life, will you? After all, the person in front of you is the head of the empire, does the head of state understand? Three levels higher than you, a dog-headed strategist who eats and eats, bastard!
Just now I protested in my heart, the tram I had been waiting for for a long time finally arrived.
Due to the long distance, it was completely dark when we returned to the institute. Viska was exhausted due to the loss of mental control in the previous runaway incident. Let her go back to the room to sleep first, but this girl insisted on waiting for me to come back, so she just fell asleep at the table. To be honest, this kind of plot unfolds like a late father and a tired daughter who fell asleep. Weeping sadly...
Pandora, on the other hand, was biting a lollipop, sitting motionless next to Viska, looking at her sister without blinking—after learning about the incident, she almost didn't directly lead someone to take the "Absolute Power" All the people involved in the "Player" plan were slaughtered, and it was thanks to the elder sister who stopped the Academy City in time to prevent the blood from flowing into rivers.
"Ah Jun! You are back!"
Accompanied by such a cheer, Qianqian has already jumped into my arms like a light butterfly, gently embracing the soft body in my arms, I am deeply moved.
Just going out for a while, are you so worried? Silly girl, isn't it a dangerous place...
"It's finally time to eat! My sister said that I have to wait for you to come back before eating..."
Putting down the girlfriend in my arms, I faced the setting sun with tears streaming down my face.
"Tenko has gone back?"
I didn't find a girl with vitality wandering around in the research institute, so I asked casually.
"Oh, I'm going back, come over to hold the award ceremony tomorrow."
As I was about to face the dining table, my steps froze, and then I turned my head in a daze: "Award? What is that?"
Qianqian pointed in the direction of Pandora: "I didn't know about this at first, but Pandora told me that Saenko had been recognized by some soldiers of the empire and had reached the standard of becoming a full-fledged commander: undergoing basic training. Commander training course, possess at least the strength of a junior commander, respond to the call of the empire to participate in an actual battle and lead the soldiers to victory or complete the task, be recognized by the soldiers he leads and make a certain contribution to the empire - these conditions Saten Ruiko all Already met, especially when she led a group of soldiers to successfully fight against a leader-level officer. Such an achievement would be considered an outstanding record even among the commanders of the Xiling Apostles—if so many cheating points can be eliminated As for why Saten Ruiko should be listed as the commander, one is Pandora's suggestion from the perspective of 'the empire's military power should not flow out', and the other is to protect her. Words are not necessarily a good thing, if she is classified as an imperial soldier, it is only natural to launch a war in an emergency, isn't it? Of course, it is impossible to give her military power... except for the necessary guards."
After listening to the shallow explanation, I remained silent for a long time.
The super ability that fell from the sky, as soon as the training is completed, you can box with the experienced imperial officers. The boss you encounter for the first time in actual combat is still a severely weakened half-disabled version, and there are a group of soldiers with the names of soldiers around you. The Bronze Saint Seiya to help, after the task is completed, a group of powerful people will go up to the pole to award honors...
Couldn't Saten Ruiko transmigrate from some corner, right
I sighed in my heart about the YY experience of the girl named Saten Leizi, and I still listened carefully to what Qianqian told me about the award ceremony, because she just said one sentence: "I don't know, ask Your sister is going."
… I didn’t ask anyway.
In addition to our family, there is one more person on the table tonight: the clone who was rescued by us, Misaka 10031.
Although it has been confirmed that the "Absolutely Capable Person Project" is about to terminate, and Misaka sister is safe now, but since she was rescued, we definitely have no reason to send her back to the research base, and my sister and Qianqian are being killed by my sister. Our misfortune was moved by Luan, and the result was that Misaka sister named Misaka 10031 was unceremoniously classified as the property of the Xiling Research Institute by us, and according to Qianqian's meaning, in the next few days I still have to complete the handover of the remaining 10,000 younger sisters...
Because it was a mass-produced tool for experimentation, the Misaka sisters were all forcibly shortened in their growth cycle and unified and customized their personalities based on the kao learning device. This caused their life span to be much shorter than that of ordinary people, and even only A quarter, in the original "script", when everything was solved by Kamijou boy, these sisters all received physical adjustments, thus restoring most of the human lifespan, but from a sociological point of view, Xiling Technology It must be more accurate than the technology of Academy City. Since we have decided to intervene in this matter, it is better to let the Misaka sisters accept our treatment—provided that those unqualified scientists are not encouraged by some lunatic Really put together a clone armored regiment for me.
Although it is called a research institute, it is fundamentally a place where a boring family has nothing to do and has nothing to do. Except for the serious research atmosphere when Renzi comes here every day, this place is almost regarded as home by us. At this time, you can see the shallow foresight. Although this girl's craftsmanship is at the same level as mine, the integrated kitchen she brought has solved the problem that my sister is not used to unfamiliar kitchen utensils. Xiling Research Institute Misaka Mikoto and the others have always been curious about the table time every day—she has never seen a working meal in a research institute that is as enjoyable as eating at home.
In the past, it was only used as an experimental tool, and you had to eat with other "tools" every day, and you ate meals according to the precisely calculated method and portion. This must be the first time you feel the atmosphere of a family sitting and eating together, right
Looking at Misaka 10031, who might be a little nervous, looking around, I thought so.
"Okay, okay, the dishes are ready," my elder sister finally heated up the last dish and put it on the dining table, and then stood by the dining table and said with great momentum, "Everyone go wash your hands—Ah Jun, you too! The girls are more conscious than you."
Then the head of state led a group of lolis to the kitchen to line up to wash their hands...
"Misaka 10031...is that the name?"
I turned my head to look at Miss Misaka, who was washing her hands seriously, and the latter raised her head, with no expression in her big gray eyes.
"How do you feel now? The feeling of weakness should have disappeared, right?"
"Everything is normal. That is really a miraculous medical technology. I am very grateful for your help. Misaka 10031 sighed with amazement at the miraculous technology that allowed him to heal within a day, and expressed his gratitude to his savior."
"Well, that's good..."
For Miss Misaka's very special way of speaking, it is really troublesome to communicate, because you have to add a language translation mechanism to yourself instead of analyzing their expressions...
My sister's craftsmanship is unquestionable. The most obvious example is that Pandora will fight with Viska for a piece of braised pork ribs at the dining table for a long time. Immediately after the dishes were served, her eyes grew, and then the wind began to rage. I really don't know if she would be suddenly aroused if the little ghost who was beyond the housekeeping ability came over.
While I was eating, I also roughly talked about the process of meeting Aleister today. I felt helpless towards the other party's somewhat strange conniving attitude, and even the "deal" proposed rashly. I understand, but it’s not bad for us anyway, Aleister’s meaning is obvious, as long as Academy City is not demolished, and if necessary, we can help protect the city, then our identities are suspicious He won't interfere too much with what the outsiders are doing here, and as for conspiracies or something—then there's no need to worry about it.
Qianqian and her sister are also very interested in the Sylvia I mentioned casually, who has no past and no future. Although Lin Xue judged that the other party could not be an angel, this did not stop the two girls' wild imagination At the beginning of dinner, Sylvia was still an ordinary orphan raised by Academy City. By the time we finished eating, the other party had almost turned into a big Luo Jinxian who was demoted to the lower world. Hurry up, I want my sister to serve two more dishes. I guess the topic will involve the common points between the Queen of Blades and Vashki... V