【Lenke】Old Box

Tingen City, Blackthorn Security Company.

The captain of the Tingen Nighthawks team, the black-haired and blue-eyed "Corpse Collector" Frye received a telegram from St. Samuel's Cathedral in Backlund.

According to the telegram, two Nighthawks will be assigned to Tingen as non-staff personnel, and they will directly perform the tasks of the headquarters, but the Tingen Nighthawk squad can seek military support from them.

The telegram made Frye frown slightly. Thirteen years ago, Tingen encountered an incident of the advent of evil gods and suffered heavy losses.But Tingen has been very peaceful since then, and combatants have been replenished one after another. The sudden appearance of "non-staff personnel" made him wonder if this was a signal of some incident.

Three days later, when the two familiar figures in formal attire got off the carriage, Frye's gaze froze slightly, as if he had returned to 13 years ago in an instant.He immediately recognized the young man with black hair and brown eyes. Although they had only been colleagues for two months, he left a deep impression on Frye.

It was he who taught Frye how to quickly master the potion and avoid getting out of control; it was he who sacrificed himself in the event of the evil god coming and saved Tingen.

And the other person is more familiar to him. He knows that Leonard is already an angel of the Church of Evernight, and his churches have spread all over the continent, and he doesn't know why he returned to the Church of St. Selina to be a "non-staff member".

After the three of them came to Frye's office, Leonard immediately explained: "He was favored by the gods after 'that incident', that's why he came back from the dead, and since then he has been secretly carrying out the mission of the gods, Unable to identify."

Frye shook his head: "There's no need to explain, it's not surprising what happens in the Extraordinary World, Klein, I'm glad to see that you're still alive."

Klein also felt a little emotional in his heart: "Thank you for always guarding Tingen and this place."

"This is what I should do." Frye nodded indifferently, but Leonard, who was familiar with him, knew that this was already considered a smile to him.

……

After dealing with the relevant matters, Klein and Leonard came to the street.

Compared with the past, No. 36 Zouterand Street has not changed much, but the building of the Blackthorn Security Company has been rebuilt, and the street vendors have changed a lot.

Klein just walked slowly on the street, and felt a burst of satisfaction. It's been a long time since he walked in the sun undisguisedly and freely.

"Klein, where do you want to go?" Leonard turned slightly and asked with a light smile.

Klein thought for a while, and immediately replied without hesitation: "Silver Crown Restaurant."

As expected of him!Leonard couldn't help laughing out loud. He had been missing the most famous restaurant on Narcissus Street for a long time. It seemed that he really regretted it.

Suddenly, Leonard thought of a somewhat serious question: "Klein, do you have money?"

Klein recalled that before he became a "Master of Miracles", he had donated all his belongings, and there were only thirty or so gold coins for divination left on the gray mist.Besides hiring Miss Messenger, Ruen rarely used gold coins in his daily transactions.

Then, he looked at Leonard in surprise: "You don't either?"

Leonard shook his head: "I'm a 'sleepless'. I don't need to stay in a hotel when I go out to perform missions. After becoming an angel, I basically don't eat much, so the money is handled by my subordinates."

Klein looked at him incredulously, and said again: "Many poets died young because of poverty."

"My poetry collection still earns a lot of royalties." Leonard immediately retorted. It can be said that he is poor, but his ability as a poet must not be questioned!

Klein smiled, and suddenly there was a tiny door of light in the void in front of him. Klein reached in and immediately pulled out several 10-pound banknotes.

Dazed for a moment, Leonard patted Klein's shoulder helplessly: "Klein, even if you master the uniqueness of 'error', you can't just steal things casually like Amon."

"You are Amon." Klein said angrily, "This is the money in the donation box of the Church of Fools."

"..." He almost forgot that his good friend was still a part-time evil god, tsk tsk, it's convenient to have followers.

The two identified the direction and walked leisurely all the way to Narcissus Street.

Leonard suddenly thought of something, and immediately asked: "Klein, you didn't promise to return the 'uniqueness' and Extraordinary characteristics to Amon, did you? 'Original' said that Amon might distort your language to form a contract, so as to Take back the 'uniqueness' and Extraordinary characteristics."

"No." Klein smiled subtly: "I will pay special attention when talking to him, and will not leave loopholes in his favor. But I only guessed that he would not be so kind to help, but I didn't expect him to be so kind. With this method... If He hadn't taken me to the Land Abandoned by God this time, I might really have been fooled, but it's a pity that He himself made me have the highest level of vigilance against Him."

... It's really worthy of him, and fortunately, I didn't change his fate casually.After sighing, Leonard asked again: "Has the 'original' will completely dissipated?"

Klein shook his head: "The 'original' will will never dissipate, He has become a conceptual existence. However, this failure is also a serious blow to Him, and Extraordinary people can not worry about it for at least ten years The 'primordial' awakens."

After hesitating for a moment, Leonard asked another question: "Captain and the others...are they still living in that world?"

Klein smiled and nodded: "Yes, my 'Worm of Time' clone and your projection have now visited the captain together just like we visited Frye just now."

After a moment of silence, Leonard smiled relievedly: "That's fine."

Before they knew it, they had already reached the gate of the Silver Crown Restaurant.The waiter guided them to the window seat on the second floor, and quickly ordered food.

Silver Crown Restaurant is worthy of being a well-known high-end restaurant. The dishes are small but exquisite, quite Intis style.Klein likes their lemon cheesecake very much. It is sweet but not greasy, and the slight bitterness can bring out the fresh aroma of lemon.He plans to buy another copy to give to Melissa later.

Of course, he would also pack an ice cream for Will, and by the way, ask him if this is an opportunity to accommodate the "Dice of Probability".

Suddenly, a girl with blond hair and blue eyes appeared at their dining table wearing a beige lace thin skirt and leading a big golden retriever dog.She seemed to have been sitting there from the beginning, and no one noticed anything unusual, and no one thought there was anything wrong with a big golden retriever dog suddenly appearing in the restaurant.

There is no doubt that the girl in front of her is precisely Miss "Justice" Audrey Hall who has been promoted to Sequence 2 "Seeer", the economic pillar of the Tarot Society.

Audrey's appearance has not changed at all, she still looks like a young girl who has just grown up.But there is a mysterious and distant aura hidden in her emerald green pupils. Whether it is an ordinary person or an extraordinary person, as long as they meet her gaze, they will unconditionally believe in any of her words.

She still had an innocent and pure smile on her face. She stood up slowly, held up the hem of her skirt, and saluted Klein as she did in countless Tarot clubs in the past: "Good afternoon, Mr. Klein."

Klein smiled and replied, "Good afternoon, Miss Audrey."

Leonard recalled the "Original" statement: people in the real world's response to that side depends on the level of their personality and the closeness of their relationship with Klein.And Audrey is not only an angel of the "spectator" path, her fate has also changed to a great extent there, and she will obviously see more things than Emlyn White.

Sure enough, she immediately turned around and said to Leonard: "Leonard, does it still count if you promised me a request in the world over there?"

Klein raised his eyebrows. It seems that these ten years of travel have changed Miss Audrey a lot. She has actually stopped calling her name with honorifics.It seems that I also need to work hard to improve my goodwill, so that Audrey can take off her honorific name as soon as possible.

Leonard nodded: "Of course it counts, but I can't beat you, what else can you use my help for?"

Audrey smiled mysteriously: "I think your 'Tingen Special Operations Team' may need an excellent detective."

Special Operations Team?Miss Audrey is very good at choosing names... Thinking about it carefully, it seems that Miss Audrey also chose the name of the Tarot Society.

Leonard looked at her strangely, and suddenly said, "Detective... are you referring to Susie?"

"Do you want some spiritual plague?" Audrey kept a kind smile.

"No need, no need." Leonard immediately raised his hands in surrender.

Looking at them, Klein couldn't help laughing.Thinking about it carefully, Tingen's "Nighthawks" team suddenly has two old angels, he can't help but want to offer a stick of incense to the criminals and cultists in Tingen...Of course, there is no such saying now Yes, but Klein felt that the description of "holding a requiem ceremony" was a bit of a misnomer.

After finishing his meal, Klein packed his ice cream and went to the home of Dr. Alan Kress in Backlund.With Audrey around, Klein didn't need to create illusions at all. Soon they saw Will Auceptin, a handsome young man who had lost the baby fat and looked a little handsome in the backyard of Dr. Allen's house.

To Klein's surprise, "Magician" Forsi and "Judgment" Hugh were also in the yard. They should also be visiting Will, but Klein guessed that the more likely reason was that they just brought ice cream Come and get lucky.

Seeing the three people walking out of the light gate suddenly, Forsi was taken aback. She immediately recognized that this was a high-level ability of the "gate" path.She has become the "Planeswalker" of Sequence 2, and should be the highest existing person in the "gate" pathway, but she has never seen this strange light gate at all.

After confirming the appearance of the person who came, Fors immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She saluted Audrey first, and then sighed helplessly to Leonard: "Hugh and I thought you were going to die! Ok you're fine..."

Then, her and Xio's gazes naturally focused on Klein. Before they could ask any questions, Klein smiled and said, "Good afternoon, two ladies, I am 'World'."

"'World...world?!'" Fors instantly stood up straight and took a big step back.

"Am I that scary?" Klein looked around Leonard and Audrey strangely.

Leonard and Audrey directly ignored him, and cast a sympathetic look at Forsi.

"Mercury Snake" Will Auceptin, who was wearing a white shirt, overalls shorts, brown leather boots, and a delicate bow tie, walked over, glanced at Klein, and said helplessly, "If you are here to send Ice cream, please allow me to refuse. Over the years, these ladies around you have learned to come to me... My favored one gives ice cream, even if it is delicious ice cream, he should be tired of eating it!"

Audrey immediately avoided Klein's sight, obviously she was the culprit.

"This is Tingen's ice cream. It is said to be a brand-new recipe, with Earl Gray tea added in it. You really don't want to try it?" Klein looked at him with some amusement.

Will Auceptin immediately snatched the packing bag from his hand: "Okay, I'll ask him, I won't bother you to catch up."

After speaking, he ran away.Klein looked at the direction in which he disappeared in surprise. Isn't this an opportunity?However, Klein soon guessed that it was probably because he didn't want to lose his childhood life, anyway, now that the sky is falling, he, his old self, is holding it back.

Klein smiled and shook his head. This "Mercury Snake", who has lived for an unknown number of years, is really "conscientiously" being a child.

Afterwards, Xio began to explain: "After we sensed that Mister 'Xingxing' was in danger in that mysterious space, we came to seek help from Your Excellency 'Mercury Snake', and he said that if we come here to visit him again today, everything will work out." .”

It really deserves to be the "Snake of Destiny"... Klein secretly admired it.

Klein briefly told them what happened, and revealed that the next Tarot meeting would be hosted by The Fool.

Klein repeatedly assured Fors that the current state is his real appearance, but Fors still trembled at him, and in the end, he was severely laughed at by Leonard.

Seeing that it was getting late, Klein bid farewell to Xio and Fors, sent lemon cakes to Melissa and his little niece, and then returned to Tingen.

"Maybe our 'Tingen Special Operations Team' needs a stronghold!" Audrey immediately suggested excitedly. After thinking about it, Klein led them to an unowned forest not too far from the city center. .

Klein looked at Leonard and asked, "I made you a wish before I fell asleep, have you made up your mind now?"

"I..." Leonard hesitated to speak, but finally made up his mind and said, "I hope you can always live the life you want."

Klein looked at him in astonishment, and nodded after a while: "Your wish will definitely come true."

Leonard felt that he was hopeless, he almost said "I hope to be with you forever", but he has always hated those existences that engulfed Klein's fate, so how could he let himself be Klein? bondage.

Immediately afterwards, he saw Klein snap his fingers and said, "I hope there is a well-equipped manor here."

All of a sudden, a quaint villa rose from the ground, and the chaotic woods turned into a neatly manicured garden square.Then, a transparent book appeared in front of Klein, and there were more than a dozen mechanical maids in the square in an instant, and they began to clean the courtyard by themselves.This is the "mechanical expert" ability he recorded from Melissa - create mechanical puppets.

Klein, who has been influenced by the brilliance of socialism since he was a child, is really unwilling to hire servants if it is not for pretending to be a nobleman.

Without Klein's reminder, Audrey immediately arranged a solidified psychological suggestion covering several kilometers nearby, so that everyone who saw the manor would not find it strange that it suddenly appeared.

After finishing all this, Audrey nodded in satisfaction, and then slightly saluted Klein and Leonard: "Okay, then I will take my leave first, I will come over during 'working' hours, and I won't disturb you from now on The world of two people."

After speaking, her and Susie's figures disappeared out of thin air.

The remaining two looked at each other, Leonard immediately pretended not to hear anything, coughed a few times, turned and walked towards the villa, Klein followed with a chuckle.

After entering the villa, Klein took out a small silver mirror that had been in his pocket and placed it on the low wooden cabinet next to the reception room.

At night, the two of them sat in the pavilion by the garden, blowing the cool night breeze, and drank the red wine grabbed from the historical pores.

Looking at the crimson moon hanging in the sky, Leonard suddenly said: "Klein, the silver moon in your hometown is really beautiful. Its light is soft and peaceful, unlike this crimson moon, which is just far away. It’s dangerous to stare at.”

... Is this the "Moonlight is Beautiful" of the new era?Klein complained secretly, and said, "If we can survive the doomsday, maybe the silver moon will return to the sky."

Leonard turned his head to look at Klein. He hesitated, but he still asked, "'Original' once told me that it would be cruel for you to let you fight against the doomsday. To be honest... Heard I was really shaken for a moment when I said this. Klein, come back to reality, will you regret it?"

"You still ask this at such a time?" Klein was suddenly speechless.

"This is indeed a boring question..." Leonard smiled reluctantly: "But sometimes I always think that your soul belongs to that peaceful world with a civilization far beyond the present, with silver hanging in the sky. The world of the moon. You don't have to go to the cruel war in the future for us in this era."

"In the past, I did always want to return to my hometown, but after this wish was shattered, I didn't feel like I was trapped in this world, and this is also the place where I lived." Klein said seriously: "Now, I just want to protect this world where you are here."

Slightly dazed for a moment, Leonard smiled and raised his glass to Klein: "Then as long as you need me, I will always stand by your side."

"It's a deal." Klein also raised his glass and touched him.

After taking a sip of the dark red wine, Klein couldn't help asking again: "Leonard, what is your honorable name?"

This time, Leonard didn't hide anything, and he didn't feel embarrassed. He read very calmly and slowly:

"The personification of night and mystery;

A bard who wanders through history;

Guardians of mystical fate;

Seekers of all chaos and evil;

Pious Leonard Mitchell. "

……

"Dear Mr. Azik:

I have read all the letters you sacrificed to me, and I am glad that my letters can help you restore your memory again.

I have awakened from a long slumber which was both a dangerous test and an important journey to help me re-examine myself so that I do not get lost in divinity.

With the help of a trustworthy companion, I gained a solid anchor of humanity, and when I returned to this world again, I no longer felt tired or heavy.To take on a heavy responsibility is not necessarily a bad thing sometimes.

For a long time, I have always unconsciously separated myself from the world, so that I lack a sense of belonging and can only move forward alone.But it is precisely because of your help and love that I have become what I am now. My relationship with this world has long been inseparable.I'm ashamed, I didn't realize this clearly until now. From then on, I hope to share my sorrow and joy with all the people who care about me, and face the unknown challenges from the future together.

If I have the opportunity, I will visit you soon and wish you all the best.

Your eternal student, Cline Moretti. "

THE END

PS: add an easter egg

In the future, Lun and Audrey have cooperated many times, and they are very ptsd to the audience's abilities, so they say that they can't beat Audrey. In fact, the two of them have never fought.

In the past, Wen Lun wanted to switch audiences many times because he had been sour on audiences for a long time (??)

And the relationship between the two of them in the future is really good, because only they share the memories of Klein.