There Is No Afterlife

The staple food for breakfast is walnut pancakes. The fresh walnuts are tender and delicious. Olivia and Mugen both like to eat them.Five walnut trees were planted in the enlarged backyard. Thanks to the careful care of Papa Little A and the unicorns, they grew well.Before the season of walnuts ripens, Uncle Alpha will gather several robots to smash all the walnuts together, distribute some to each of the neighbors, give some to the professor of Mugen College, and give the rest to Olivia Raw walnut oil is pressed.

After adjusting the batter, sprinkle fresh walnut kernels in, spread a layer of oil on the pancake pan, and then pour a spoonful of batter on it... After a while, the fragrant walnut cake is ready.Olivia chooses the local flour of Bailu Star, mixed with a little bit of flour ground from Mugengrass rhizome, bites, the taste is crispy, and it is not dry at all, with a large amount of affordable walnut kernels, the taste It couldn't be better!

Early in the morning, Olivia was busy climbing to the tree to pick fresh walnuts, peeling the walnuts and making cakes.

Mu Gen was not idle while he was making breakfast. Together with Sigma, they polished the whole body of the robot little A to a glossy finish, and tied a bow tie around his neck. Most importantly, in the past few days, under Alpha's suggestion, Mugen and Sigma even used their only remaining materials that were not worn out during the process of crossing the star gate to create a body for Mengmeng.

Today is Olivia's graduation day.

The graduation ceremony that was supposed to be held half a year ago has been postponed for more than half a year!This is the wish of all the graduates, who hope that the graduation ceremony can be held after the return of the chief.The college accepted their collective request, but also set a time limit, and Olivia returned safely just before this time limit.

"Little Ollie, I've ironed your dress for you!" There was a knock on the door, and before Sigma jumped down to open the door, Miss Maria's voice came from outside.

Although Miss Maria looks like a lady and behaves like a lady, her voice is really loud!

She is also very strong, without anyone's help, she came here with a smile on her shoulders carrying several big boxes, but she was wearing an elegant long skirt and a pair of stiletto high-heeled shoes on her feet, and she was able to carry such a big box. Many things are still walking so steadily!

She has been familiar with this for a long time, and Mugen hurried over to take the box in her hand, and Olivia also came to help. Seeing the small eyes of Miss Maria looking at the walnut cake on the table shyly, Olivia Ya hurriedly invited Miss Maria to taste her special walnut cake.

"Oh! I'm losing weight... and I've already had breakfast today..." Miss Maria hesitated for a moment, but in the end she couldn't resist the aroma attack of the walnut cake.Sitting swayingly at the dining table of Mu Gen's house, she said that she just wanted to taste a little.

Then, with this taste, Mugen and Olivia were all full, and she continued.

As a lady, or a young and beautiful lady at the age of courtship, Miss Maria achieved the task of "cleaning up" on the table gracefully (← liquidating, specifically refers to wrapping up leftovers and eating up all Anti-waste behavior, at a dinner table, it is often the male who completes this honorable task).

Satisfied, she ate the last piece of walnut pie, and Miss Maria hurried over to help the two young people try on the dresses.

Mugen's dress is just an ordinary dress, and today's protagonist is Olivia.

As early as the end of the internship, the Imperial Military Academy customized formal dresses for graduation ceremonies for each student. Olivia also had a set, and the dresses were customized according to the body size in their last medical report before the internship. Yes, but after the disappearance, Olivia, who returned home, grew by 5 centimeters, and her hands and feet became longer. Naturally, the original dress no longer fit. Miss Maria, who opened her own clothing store, took the initiative to accept it. Passed the task of helping him re-make the dress within three days.

The dress is very particular, especially the military uniform: the wearing position of the medal is very particular, and there is a special manual to explain these!Every detail must be meticulous, and this is the first time for Olivia to wear such a complicated dress. Even though Mugen has been helping, half an hour has passed, and there is still something wrong with Olivia's dress.

"Let me do it." After washing her hands, Miss Maria smiled and took over the work in Mugen's hands. While explaining, she put the epaulettes on for Olivia again, straightened the ribbons, and then put the medal's The position has also been adjusted... After 10 minutes of effort, Olivia looked completely different!

Putting her hands on both sides of her body, Miss Maria looked at her "work" proudly, it was so perfect!

If the previous Olivia was still a child who had just grown up in her eyes, then the current Olivia is already an aggressive "adult male".

The black dress was completely tailor-made, which perfectly outlined the young man's broad shoulders, thin waist, and slender and tight calves wrapped in black military boots. It was perfect!

This is the back view.

And when he turned around, anyone would fall into those golden eyes in an instant.The strangely colored eyes embedded in that handsome face faintly added a layer of majesty to the young man. He only had a short layer of blond hair on top of his head. Such a simple hairstyle made him look more like a soldier——

"Oh my God! Little Ollie, you look great!" Miss Maria exclaimed with folded hands, and handed the black military cap in her hand to Mugen, who motioned Mugen to put the hat on to Olivia on the head.

"Formal gowns need other people's assistance to wear. Little Ollie will inevitably participate in such occasions in the future. Little Mugen, you have to learn how to help him." Miss Maria said while instructing the angle of the brim of the hat, and How to wear the hat will not affect the hairstyle after removing the hat.

Mu Gen listened carefully, and was stunned when Miss Maria's explanation was over and he wanted to operate: Uh... Ollie... Ollie is so much taller than him now, what should I do?

Raising his head, Mu Gen caught a glimpse into those golden eyes, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, and Ollie was looking at him with a smile.

Mugen tugged at his sleeve, and then Olivia bent down obediently. Mugen put the hat on his head very neatly, looked at it carefully for a while, and then motioned for Miss Maria to check it out. .

"Very good." She gave Mu Gen a thumbs up, and Miss Maria hurriedly ran to the robots.

After the whole family packed up, the neighbors drove them to the port and watched the Mugen family get on the military spaceship bound for Heng Tian.

At 394:2 on February 1, 13 in the astronomical calendar, the sun is the hottest time, and people can smell the elegant fragrance of Biyuhime blowing in the wind. Graduation ceremony, there is one hour.

As the only day in seven years that parents can visit their children's campus, today the Imperial Military Academy is full of cars and people.

Since the parents of most of the cadets are current high-ranking military officials, the graduation ceremony looked like another military meeting.

In previous years, the annual graduation ceremony was held in the First Student Auditorium of the Imperial Military Academy, but this time the graduation ceremony was different. The addresses on the invitations issued by the academy were all Imperial Military Academy King Louis I Royal Auditorium, In the entire empire, there is almost no one who does not know the origin of this auditorium!

This is the auditorium supervised by His Majesty Louis I when he founded the school!It was specially built for the school founding ceremony, and the first ten graduation shops of the Imperial Military Academy were held here!All the honors obtained by the Imperial Military Academy are displayed here, in addition to the portraits of the past deans. Due to too many precious items, the academy had to build another auditorium, and the Royal Auditorium of Louis I became a museum of honor. Standing quietly in the northeast corner of the Imperial Military Academy, it is a heavily guarded place where students are not easily allowed to approach.

Knowing that this year's graduation ceremony will be held in this auditorium, many parents of students were shocked!

You know, most of the parents of these students are graduates of the Imperial Military Academy, even their parents!However, no one's graduation ceremony has ever been held in the Royal Auditorium of Louis I!

Due to the change of the venue for the ceremony, this graduation ceremony has gained extra weight in everyone's hearts before it even took place!

The parents of the students all came, and those who couldn't come had to ask for leave. The immediate family members who were qualified to participate in the graduation ceremony could come as many as they could. The Imperial Military Academy was almost overcrowded.

Fortunately, the auditorium changed for this graduation ceremony is big enough!Fortunately, 50.00% of the people who came were soldiers, so everyone had enough control to keep the scene in order!

The students entered the venue early, and the parents lined up in a long queue until 15 minutes before 14:[-], the college finally arranged for them to enter the venue.

Mugen is also one of these people.

However, although he was wearing a high-end dress that was not much different from the others, he still looked out of place with the surrounding environment. There was no other reason: the big robot head he was holding in his hand!

Having experienced the adventure of traveling through the star gate, the only people in the family who can stand now are Mu Gen, the robot A, Sigma (with his spare thighs which he is more satisfied with), and Mengmeng (whose body has been temporarily assembled).

The other five robots with only their heads left are now held in front of them, following the crowd, waiting to enter.

The people around looked at them with strange eyes: there is only one serious human being, and he is still so young, and the rest are robots, etc.!Are robots also eligible for admission?Could it be a bodyguard robot?But these robots are broken and old, and they are not high-end goods... How did these people get in?

Not caring about the eyes of others, Mugen just stared forward firmly, but in the end, it was Sigma who felt that something was wrong.

The Youguang Screen turned around, and he didn't understand why the surrounding humans were looking at his family with such strange eyes.

He tried to say hello to the people around him, but got no response.

Mugen patted his head reassuringly.

At this moment, a voice of greeting suddenly came from behind Mu Gen:

"Good day, is this Augustus's family?"

Mu Gen turned his head in response, and saw that the person greeting himself and Sigma was an old man who looked very stern. He was also wearing a formal military uniform. Will.

"I'm Paul's grandfather. I don't know if Augustus has mentioned that child at home..."

Complete, complete, not, mentioned, passed, yet——Mulgen quickly flipped through his memory.

What he can do is easier for a robot to do. Before Mugen could react, the Sigma Gloom screen, which had just tried to greet people but failed, flashed for a moment.

Not good - it would be bad if Sigma told the other party that Ollie hadn't mentioned that classmate at all!

Just when Mugen wanted to stop Sigma, Sigma had already taken over.

"Good day, Olivia often mentions classmate Paul at home! Classmate Paul's mecha score is very good, and he will definitely become an excellent fighter in the empire's first mecha battalion in the future..."

Mugen: ￣▽￣?

It was only then that Mugen remembered that because he was concerned about Olivia's learning environment, he had carefully insinuated about Olivia's surrounding environment, and had carefully memorized the names and general conditions of Olivia's students in this class. As a good brother who is always inseparable from Mu Gen, Sigma naturally assisted him from the side.

I always feel that Sigma’s behavior pattern of saying good things to others looks a bit familiar——As soon as this thought passed through his mind, Mu Gen smiled and watched Sigma chatting with the old gentleman.

That old gentleman probably has a lot of knowledge. When he was talking to the Mu Gen family, many people around him came to greet him one after another. As more and more people came over, they looked at Mu Gen with strange eyes. There are fewer and fewer people in the family.

Soon it was time for Mugen's family to enter the auditorium. After saying goodbye to that gentleman, Mugen and his party stepped into the legendary auditorium!

"(*@ο@*) Wow..." ← After entering the auditorium, Mu Gen's expression has always been like this!

However, in order not to embarrass Olivia, he barely suppressed his excitement, and while walking towards the seats under the guidance of the hospital staff, he observed the venue without a trace.

Mugen has never seen such a beautiful place!

The roof of the entire auditorium is a huge arch, with countless square portraits embedded on it every step of the way. This is the portrait of the famous people of the Imperial Military Academy. Under the portrait, the person's name, honor and simple resume.

The background color of the auditorium is white, the frame of the portrait is full of golden reliefs, with scarlet curtains and seats, the simple three colors make this auditorium extremely spectacular!

This is a rare royal architectural style in recent years. This kind of gold, this kind of red... are colors that are only allowed to be used by the imperial family!

While watching, Mugen recalled what he had learned in art appreciation class.

In the end, the group of them was ushered into the front row, which is the best position in the parents' area.

One head took a seat, and after signaling to Dad and Mengmeng to take their seats quickly, Mu Gen and Sigma also sat on the scarlet chairs.

After they took their seats, the parents who entered the arena went one after another and sat in the seats behind Mugen's family. They didn't need to look back to know that there were countless people staring at them. Mugen put his hands on his knees awkwardly, completely I dare not look back.

This occasion was too formal, and everyone was dressed too formally. The surrounding situation made Mu Gen nervous.

It was at this time that the host announced the official start of the ceremony. When the national anthem sounded, the scarlet curtain in front of the main stage fell instantly, revealing a portrait of a person in the background as the main background: the protagonist of the portrait is a man in black military uniform A man with long golden hair and golden eyes, he is—

Louis I!

The moment the portrait was revealed, without any instructions from the host, everyone stood up silently, took off their hats and saluted for 1 minute, and then all sat down.

Mu Gen, who didn't know what was going on at all, could only follow suit and felt his heart beating faster and faster.

Fortunately, the following ceremony was similar to what he had experienced. After the lengthy rhetoric, the host successively invited the dean and professor representatives of the college to give speeches.

Mr. Argos looked quite serious when he was in the academy - when the dean gave a speech, Mugen still had the heart to think so.These are regular speakers, and the atmosphere is very calm.

The atmosphere reached a small climax when the host invited the guest to give a speech:

This time, the Imperial Military Academy unexpectedly invited Marshal Rothsay as a guest! ! !

This is too grand!

The atmosphere at the scene became more serious. After Marshal Rothsay's speech, the applause was so loud that Mu Gen almost felt that his ears were going to be deaf.

According to the usual practice, after the speeches by the guests, it is time for the speeches of the graduate representatives. Mugen couldn't help raising his spirits and was always ready to applaud Olivia. However, after Marshal Rothsay's speech, the second The person who came up was not Olivia, but another person Mu Gen also knew!

"Mr. Sisser?" Mugen was stunned.

When Sissy Luo Nashkill stood in front of the portrait of Louis I and began to speak, the atmosphere in the venue was so enthusiastic that it was about to explode——

As the boss of the enemy of all the military personnel present, Sissery Luo Nashkir had not set foot on any land that belonged to the military's sphere of influence for 150 years, and the Imperial Military Academy was naturally within this range.

The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, waiting for the atmosphere in the venue to return to the range of voices that could be spoken, and Sissyri began to speak.He first praised the auditorium where the graduation ceremony was held at this moment, and then recalled the glory of the era of Louis I, the gorgeous rhetoric, and the slow speed of speech. Given the impression, the people in the audience didn't know why he appeared in this place at this time. Just when people thought that he would not praise the Imperial Military Academy at home, unexpectedly, Sissy Luo Nashkill earnestly praised the Imperial Military Academy.

"...this is a good college where young people can gain strength and a brave heart."

"I would consider sending my children here in the future."

Everyone knows that this adult is a Kantas. As the number one fanatical supporter of recreating the prosperity of the Kantas race, all his "children" are Kantas.

As an academy founded by Emperor Louis I of Kantas, the Imperial Military Academy is deeply marked with Kantas, and even - the Imperial Military Academy has a black Kantas on its badge. However, in recent decades, this The college never welcomed a Kantas student again.

It's not that there are no Kantas, but that the lord has gathered all the new Kantas into his sphere of influence.

But now he actually—

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Sissy Ro Nashkill finished his speech, and then, just as he was about to exit, he suddenly stretched out his right hand in one direction.

It's an inviting gesture, completely egalitarian, and gracious.

Sissy R. Nashkill was heard saying, "Come up, my boy."

When the tall young man was standing on the podium, people recognized his identity as a student of the Imperial Military Academy from the uniform on his body. When he came to the stage at this time, he should be the most outstanding student of this year and also the representative of the graduates. .

but--

What is the relationship between the graduate representative of the Imperial Military Academy and the lord of the Government Council?

All doubts stopped at the moment when the young man raised his head and took off his military cap.

Standing in front of the portrait of the emperor with golden hair and golden eyes, the young graduate representative revealed his golden eyes.

***

The young man, who was very consistent with the emperor's appearance, started his speech gently, without any draft, and he always faced everyone.

He talked a lot.

He talked about the excellent instructors of the academy, the director of Argos who brought him to school, and the unique restaurants of the Imperial Military Academy...

Then he grandly recommended restaurant No. 3's dishes that taste like fish without using fish (everyone laughs).

Just like an excellent junior, from his speech, people can hear his memories of the Imperial Military Academy, his impressions with the faculty and staff of the academy, and his feelings with his classmates.

There was no doubt that he had a deep affection for the Academy.

Then the topic changed, and from the meal in No. 3 canteen, he mentioned part of his experience of disappearance.

Hunger, and how he survived that disaster with his colleagues using the precious recipes from Canteen 3.

He didn't mention much about that mission. All the parts that he said at the moment are things that can be said. There is no one present who doesn't know about his experience. Instead of hiding it, it's better to let everyone know The self who is speaking now is that person.

The military department is very complicated, and the Government Affairs Council seems to want to get involved in this matter. In order to get the highest benefit, Olivia used this occasion to push herself in front of everyone.

What could be a more solemn occasion than the presence of the bosses of the military department and the government affairs council at the same time?

Olivia was smiling throughout.

Like Miss Maria said, he looks great!

From the moment Olivia came on stage, Mengmeng became very focused.

He stared at Olivia on the stage with the dim light screen very hard, and Mugen guessed that he was probably recording the whole process.

Just when Mu Gen withdrew his gaze from Mengmeng, Olivia saw Mengmeng suddenly turn her head.

"Mulgan, Olivia looks so strange."

"Ok?"

"He looks so advanced now." Mengmeng chose an adjective that is more in line with the habits of robots.

"I'm so tattered now, tell me, will Olivia abandon me?" the colorful Mengmeng said cautiously.

Mengmeng tilted her head, looking a little pitiful.

Gently touched Mengmeng's body, and Mugen smiled.

"No, you are Mengmeng."

"For Ollie, you are unique and cute!"

Mu Gen smiled, and his smile was faithfully recorded by Mengmeng, who was still in camera mode, in the video record of the day, and was finally seen by Olivia.

Of course, this is a later thing.

And not long after Mu Gen comforted Mengmeng, Olivia on stage finally changed the topic to her family.

"...I am a soldier. From the moment I entered this academy, I knew what my future destiny would be."

"Different from Lieutenant General Burfat Rhein, who hoped to end up in the starry sky, I hope to die in my own home, surrounded by my family, and leave under everyone's gaze."

"At that moment, I just wanted to bring everyone back."

"I don't want to die in a strange star field. Even if I die, I want to die in my own country."

"I love my country."

"Thank you again to my family, thank them for coming to me when I was desperate, although they are not senior military officers, or even people from the military department, but they tried their best to come to me when I was most desperate, regardless of everything. "

"I love you."

Olivia's speech ended with a thank you and a deep bow.

Anyone can say beautiful words, but Olivia is especially good at it.

The speech that made him feel like a duck to water at the same time in the military department and the government affairs council was studied repeatedly by later generations.

It is believed that Olivia from this time is already a qualified politician.

In a speech, he not only introduced his relationship with the military, but also acquiesced in his Kantas identity, and this identity won him the support of the Government Council.He also introduced his achievements, stated his patriotism, and finally used the introduction of his family to show that his family is very ordinary and does not belong to any power.

It was a beautiful closing speech, and it marked the end of Olivia's school days; and at the same time—

It is also a very, very beautiful opening speech. After this graduation ceremony, this big man who has finally left his name in the history of the empire through the ages officially boarded the stage that only belongs to him!

How much of this speech is true and how much is false, maybe only Olivia back then knew.

The Olivia back then was staring deeply at the row of people sitting in the front row of the parents' seat, and then smiled brightly at them.