[Phantom of the Opera] In Praise of Iris

"There is no wind or waves on the sea, endless dust, it will wash away everything..." Ferry was sure that Meg recognized the footsteps of himself and Gustav, but she did not turn her head, but continued to stare straight at Facing the sea, he sang an unfamiliar ballad - as usual, not very skilled, but it was very different from those gorgeous songs and dances starring Meg that perfectly catered to the aesthetics of New York that the two of them occasionally saw these days , This ballad has a lingering rhyme, with a French tenderness that Ferry has never heard for a long time.

"Gustav, Ferry, do you want to go swimming?" Ferry pulled Gustave and sat down on the ground beside her silently. When the comb in her hand was about to touch the messy blond hair of the French girl, Meg Only then did he turn around suddenly, a look of intoxication like a dream appeared on his haggard face.

"Now?" Meg's proposal was expected by the siblings, but Gustav instinctively sensed something unusual.

"Sink into the deep sea, feel the blue, the coldness and the tenderness, and then I can fall into a deep sleep, let go of the past... forget the sad things..." But Meg immediately turned back, her face becoming more and more serious. A strange tenderness.

"A good proposal. In fact, after Gustav and I decided to come to the beach, we have already worn swimsuits under our regular clothes. Facts have proved that this is the right decision." Ferry gave Gustav a soothing look, The tone was brisk, "And, Aunt Meg, I guess you changed into your swimsuit too?"

The French girl nodded silently.

"Then, let's go faster, I know there is a piece of pink-purple sea water nearby - I can't wait to be caressed by the waves and sea breeze!" Ferry still maintained that carefree look, turning his head As a matter of course, he instructed his younger brother, "By the way, Gustav, don't forget to tell Uncle Squid first—he should still be waiting for us on the plank road...Maybe we can ask him to help bring condiments and grills , put it in the old place."

Ferry got up and put one hand in the French girl's while nudging Gustave's back with the other, signaling him to move quickly.She winked at her younger brother, with a kind of joy in her voice that was completely different from the leaden gray sea in front of her, "Come on, Gustav, if our luck is not too bad, we can bring the dishes with us when we go ashore Went there for a BBQ."

"Barbecue?" Meg subconsciously stood up following the strength of Ferry's arm, and asked suspiciously.She seemed to temporarily pull out her thoughts from her own world.

"Yes, a delicious seafood barbecue, Gustav wants to learn to swim more than half of it is because of this." Watching Gustave walk to the seaside plank road, the smile on the corner of Ferry's lips relaxed a little, " But Gustav can't swim that far, and I've got to keep an eye on my brother—Aunt Meg, you won't let our barbecue plans go to waste, will you?"

While talking, Ferry and Meg had already taken off their coats, revealing their brightly colored swimsuits: Ferry's was a conservative one-piece swimsuit, but the light green lace skirt only covered the knees; For Meg, the two pieces of light red cloth on her body were barely enough to cover the most intimate parts of a woman's body, so that Ferry could easily see the countless dazzling ambiguous marks on the French girl's body.

Meg didn't care about Ferry's scrutiny. Perhaps in her opinion, Ferry was far too young to understand the meaning of these marks. Besides, there were even some "fierce battles" on the beach in Coney Island. couple, a beautiful girl who has some traces of proving her charm can even be proud of it?

Taking off the cumbersome coat seems to have made her take off some compelling barriers. The French girl kicked off her shoes, stepped barefoot on the not very delicate sand, and pulled Ferry to walk towards the little girl's favorite destination in a relaxed manner. Go——she should know about the pink and purple sea, and even, didn't her reputation as Meg Gilly's "sexy girl" really spread from that beach with the most tourists?

"The old place?" She didn't know what to think of, and her expression suddenly became gloomy again, "You have gathered like this many times? With your parents? Or... who else?"

"Well, but it's not the same parents—you know, Christine is busy treating her vocal cords, and Father Lauer, the bar on Coney Island must welcome such a bold guest." Ferry also kicked off his shoes, no matter what Added a sense of loneliness to his worried expression, "It's Uncle Squibbly. When Mirage Park was too busy, he took our father's place and took us around Coney Island..."

Of course, the actual situation is that someone has been afraid to face Gustav since the night in the maze of glass columns, but the security of Coney Island, which is mainly black and belongs to the summer sanctuary of Americans, is not completely irritating. Don't worry, so just in case, and to let the two children have more fun, besides peeping, someone also arranged for the agile and strong Squid to lead the Ferry siblings to play. It is well-intentioned.

"Viscount Shani and Squidge had friendship before?" It wasn't the expected name, Meg felt a little better in her heart, she held the little girl's tender palm back, and pulled her to dip her ankle into the cold sea water inside.

On the contrary, Ferry looked at Meg in surprise—she remembered that Mrs. Geary should have heard Christine admitting to the Phantom that she and Gustav's backgrounds, but Meg didn't know anything about their backgrounds ?

"Ah, I'm not talking about Raul's father, but Mr. Y, the owner of your Phantom Paradise: he is kind and funny, and he is very patient with me and Gustav, and he is willing to show us all about Phantom Paradise in advance Wonderful—I think he is just like my ideal father.” The little girl immediately made amends—she softened her voice, and at the same time quickly put a shy smile on her face, “And you, Aunt Meg, Gu Staff secretly thought of you as another mother."

Ferry's voice had dropped low enough when it came to his feelings for Mr. Y, but Meg had no trouble hearing it all.The French girl turned what she had heard in her mind completely, and a cluster of lights couldn't help flashing in her eyes, but it was immediately annihilated in a stubborn haze.After a long silence, Ferry heard her almost whispering whisper: "I give everything I can, and my conscience has not cleared up for a long time... But look at your mother, Christine, a world-renowned daughter. Singer, lover of ancient nobles... She is as noble and beautiful as a queen, who can not be fascinated by her?"

Of course, Meg's singing voice was not as stunning as Christine's, but it actually carried a hint of Phantom's charm.

At this time, the short and strong Mr. Squid was already walking towards them not far behind Gustav. When he saw Meg, he took off his hat smoothly and saluted. They concealed contempt like they did when they were in the Ni family, but it was full of respect mixed with a bit of magnanimous pity.

"Ferry, Uncle Squitt said he has no time to attend our event because he's preparing for the opening of Mirageland." Gustav said a little regretfully, but his dark brown eyes immediately brightened up. "But Uncle Squid is willing to have someone bring the grill over there for us then."

Squidge nodded in agreement, and personally apologized to Meg and Ferry for not being able to accompany them.

When Gustav piled up the clothes he had taken off with Ferry and Meg's, and jumped up and down to catch up, Meg took him with one hand and Ferry with the other, and walked slowly towards the bustling area. Go to the pink-purple waters.

"Gustav, if you and Aunt Meg are both tired from swimming and haven't landed yet, call out my name, and my sister will come to rescue you right away." When the three finished their warm-up activities, they began to splash When the sea water got used to the temperature, Ferry suddenly smiled and promised, but her expression looked too lazy, making people subconsciously feel that this was just the little girl's self-boasting.

Gustav also agreed with a smile.He also took it as a casual joke from his sister—in Gustav’s impression, Ferry had never been very interested in playing in the water. He only splashed in the sea a few times when he first learned to swim, and later he would rather Take a nap under the sun umbrella and don't want to let the sea soak over your head.Oh, except when Mr. Y invites.But even then, she steadfastly rejected Mr. Y's offer to take a shallow dive for a view of the ocean floor.Therefore, the boy always thought that it was a great thing for his sister to float on the water alone without sinking.

But when he was taken by Aunt Meg to swim too far, and there was no one around, the first thing that came to mind was his sister’s name—at Shani’s house, Lauer never had much patience for company Sons and daughters, peers during entertainment are meaningless except to expose his weak nature; and mother, Gustav is not unable to feel the hidden melancholy and even vague fear behind the gentle pampering, not to mention the mother's weakness to his father The weak persuasion naturally left a shadow in the boy's heart that he could not be relied on. In contrast, his sister, who was about his own age but could handle both his father and outsiders, was extremely reliable.

Gustav recalled that some time ago, when his father was tricked into playing at the Monte Carlo gambling table, his sister decisively stopped the loss and fought back.Afterwards, it was the first time that my father had honestly thought that it would be more appropriate for the family finances to be left in Ferri's hands than to remain in his own hands or to be left in the hands of his mother.

But now my sister should rest her head on the gravel by the sea and lazily bask in the sun, right?Or still looking forward to the seafood they might bring back?Gustav was bitter, but he still tried his best to chase after Meg—God knows why Aunt Meg started to move forward recklessly shortly after swimming out, and he was thrown away so much that now I can only watch helplessly as Aunt Meg's water surface suddenly no longer has the familiar golden hair regularly surfacing, but only a series of weaker and weaker bubbles churning up...

As a person who often swims in the sea, Meg certainly knows that it is easy to get cramps when swimming fast like herself, but when the uncommon pain spreads from all limbs to her heart, she still thinks it is God's will .Meg didn't want to struggle, but the salty sea water poured into her body aggressively from her mouth, nasal cavity, or any other place that could be invaded. The feeling was far from as peaceful as she thought before. Taft's anxious voice... Meg finally struggled subconsciously, but the increasing oppression in her lungs and long-term physical exertion made this beauty who was used to playing in water unable to move...

"Ferry!" Gustav blurted out in surprise as he watched the familiar figure passing by through the water beside him.

"It's not uncommon for both shoulders and arms to cramp at the same time, Aunt Meg?" She was obviously only a girl in her early teens, but Fei Ruixue's white skin only flashed from the waves for a moment, and then plunged into the water without fear , The next moment, the French girl's slender chin was gently lifted out of the sea by a tender palm.

The little beauty who came out of the water completely lost her usual sleepy and lazy posture in the water. Her dark brown curly hair and white jade-like skin gleamed under the sunlight, and the playful corners of her lips The smile reminded Gustav of the Daughter of the Rhine in Norse mythology.

When her lungs were filled with air again, Meg was already in a dangerous semi-comatose state——Ferry didn’t want to be a fool who put himself in it after failing to save others, in order to avoid being dragged into it together by the vigorous entanglement of the survival instinct. In a dangerous situation, the undersized little girl was annoyed that she couldn't knock Meg out neatly and neatly from a safe distance, and on the other hand, she chose to wait for Meg's struggling movements to weaken before leaning over to rescue her without hesitation.

"Gustav, are you almost out of strength? When I come over, you can pull me to borrow strength—Aunt Meg had cramps and almost drowned, we have to go back to the shore quickly." Ferrito said to Meg Not far away, Gustav, who was stepping on the water, swam away. "Come on, you want me to drag two cramped fools to shore later?"

So Gustav cleverly supported Meg with one hand instead of his sister, and grabbed Ferry's shoulder with the other hand, and was amazed at Ferry's vigorous swimming posture even with the buoyancy of sea water itself. Helping each other, this is also a very good skill - otherwise there are so many tragic heroes who dived to save others and put themselves in it...

"Ferry, why are you there?" They swam for a long time, and finally other tourists gradually appeared in the sea.Seeing that several strong black men were paddling towards him, it seemed that they were planning to come over to help, so Gustav asked curiously, regardless of saving energy.

"I think Aunt Meg is not in the right mood. I'm worried that you won't be able to coax her well. I originally planned to make a selfless contribution, but I didn't expect to encounter Aunt Meg's cramps—fortunately, she didn't move forward perpendicular to the general direction of the coast, but went sideways. The included angle is quite large, otherwise we might be buried in the belly of the fish." Ferry replied without thinking.She did follow Meg quietly because of Meg's abnormal mood, but she was worried about Gustav's safety—even if she wanted to pull Meg, if it didn't work, would she let her good brother become Meg? A suitable funeral object?In the final analysis, just as the person Gustav trusted the most in Shani's family was actually his sister, Gustav was the only person in the entire Shani family who was really taken under Ferry's wing.

"Then...then why are you swimming so well?" Before going ashore, Gustav asked another question.

"Because I'm in a hurry to save people." Ferry looked at Meg, who looked paler and more fragile being supported by the big hands of enthusiastic tourists, and his younger brother who was still holding his shoulders with a curious face, and replied casually, his eyes fainted. With a soft smile, "You know, usually I don't like to have water over my head..."

Ferry hated being submerged in water the most, because it made him the most arduous and cruel kind of training in the mercenary training that he and she had participated in to protect themselves when they were the leader of Penny.After becoming Ferry, because she grabbed Shani's family's finances, she picked up those inhumane trainings again. Fortunately, she couldn't bear to lose the abilities she once had, and she didn't even miss the training she was most reluctant to do. , otherwise, where is the ease at this moment?

With the enthusiastic help of the tourists, the three of them finally reached the shore successfully. Of course, it was quite a distance from the original shore.When Ferry wiped the exhausted Gustav with a dry towel he begged from a visitor, Meg gradually showed signs of waking up.

"Meg, don't tell me, you still think that death can be a refuge for the cowardly..." So Ferry quickly took care of Gustav, covered Meg's wet blond hair with a towel, and then leaned over , dropped an almost cold sentence in the French girl's still somewhat chaotic mind.

The author has something to say: I tried my best to get into EMCP, but it seems that I can’t make up QAQ. This chapter seems to have turned into an empty air again by accident. I have to save the good tricks for the next chapter, but probably the next chapter will be able to Finished green olives... huh?And, the Phantom of the Opera baby on Broadway gritted his teeth and brushed his teeth for a short time, the music really sounded familiar, but the video quality at station B was impressive, and there was no subtitle QAQ, the baby really had indigestion...