[Phantom of the Opera] In Praise of Iris

Thanks to the reputation of the "sexy girl" Meg Giri who toured with Phantom Paradise, when the tabloids on the island put the headline "Nearly drowning on the eve of Phantom Paradise Pillar Show", they were immediately sent by Phantom The manpower took it back to Phantom Paradise.

"Ferry, Gustav, are you feeling better?" In fact, the two children had already had dry clothes provided by kind people before they were picked up, but they didn't wait until Gustav woke up from a sleepy sleep. , Phantom's calm voice all year round still has a bit of trembling—God knows how he finished reading those sensational news in the newspaper a few hours ago!

"Don't worry, we're fine." Although Ferry put in the most effort before, he woke up earlier than Gustav. At this time, he had already consciously crawled into his father's arms, using his body warmed up in sleep to comfort Phantom to the maximum extent. trembling mood.

"Yes, Mr. Y, we are fine, although I don't seem to be able to help you." Gustav, who had just woke up from a deep sleep, replied sleepily. The boy's expression was a little shy at first, and then turned into Out of sheer concern, "It was Aunt Meg who almost had an accident... By the way, where is Aunt Meg? How is she?"

"She should still be asleep—I'll wake her up a little earlier before it's her turn to perform." Phantom's expression froze slightly—before he was only worried about the two children, knowing that Meg didn't After her life was in danger, she ignored the news over there and only arranged for Freck to take care of her.

"Honestly, don't you think Aunt Meg is the one who needs the most care right now?" Ferry looked at him disapprovingly, and before he could shirk, he turned to Gustav and said, "Did you sleep well? Sleep well Then we'll go see Aunt Meg together."

"Okay, Ferry, wait for me." Gustav still looked uninspired, but he obviously didn't plan to stay on the bed any longer.

When Ferry and his party passed by, Meg was about to get out of bed.Her slender body looked precarious, with a lot of fluffy blond hair dangling behind her head. Obviously, she didn't have much energy left after waking up, and Miss Freck, who was inconvenient to support because of her short stature, was worrying beside her. watching her.

"Meg, I think what you need now is more rest." Phantom's tone was almost stern, but Ferry didn't miss the fleeting worry in his eyes just now.

"I'm really sorry to scare you, Gustave, Ferry," the French girl greeted several people with a calm expression. The haze that had been hanging over her body since two days ago seemed to have completely disappeared. She looked at Ferry inexplicably, then cast a gentle glance at Gustav, who looked concerned, and finally turned her gaze to Phantom, and added in a slightly lowered voice, "And...Master."

"It's okay, but Aunt Meg, you really need a good rest - don't worry about the opening ceremony, I think Mr. Y doesn't mind using your new dance code as a stage show." Ferry pushed him back on the bed without hesitation , Then he winked at his father, and pulled Gustav back out.

"Ferry?" Gustav asked suspiciously outside the door.

"Come on, let's go to the backstage and report to Mr. Squidge, I'm sure he's just freaked out - and we can practice the piano there by the way." Ferry always had reasons for Gustav to agree with her Opinion, she led Gustav to the backstage briskly, and she didn't know what to think of, and a narrow smile flickered in her eyes from time to time.

"I also think Meg needs a good rest—she must be terrified." Immediately afterwards, Miss Fleck quietly retreated to the corridor, and met Gustav's questioning eyes, seeming to explain sincerely .Miss Flack is not young anymore.At this moment, those half-weird and half-funny makeups disappeared from her face, and she immediately showed a kind of amiable temperament.

Inside the door is another atmosphere.

"Master? (Meg)..." Finally, the two spoke at the same time, and fell silent at the same time.After the French girl was pushed back to the bed by Ferry, she didn't bother, and looked up to meet the eyes behind the Phantom's mask.She did not hide the pious admiration in her eyes, but it was the first time that the blue pupils showed a magnanimity similar to the ocean she loved so much.

Fleck called him "Master" first, Kango and Squidge, and many others called him "Master" later, and almost everyone in Mirage Paradise who was qualified to stand before him called him "Master" respectfully He is "Master"... "Master", this title is not surprising to Phantom, so much so that he only realized today that when Meg called him, there was a lot of tenderness hidden between her lips and teeth.

I already have Christine.Phantom tried to recall his beloved Angelic Voice, but the French girl's affectionate eyes never left him for a moment.Such deep and passionate affection, even if Phantom still stubbornly trapped herself in the fence named "Christine" for a whole ten years, she can no longer pretend to be ignorant; he was terrified of it , getting annoyed because of this, and even deliberately avoiding Meg's gaze because of this moment... so much so that before today, before this moment, he had never felt the affection from this French girl so intuitively—at the first touch, it was like a raging fire Burned himself, and he had nowhere to hide.

That's different, Christine and Meg.He heard a small voice in his heart: and there is only one kind of true love among them.

"Don't worry, master." On the contrary, Meg seemed to be extremely relaxed, her blue eyes seemed to have been wiped out in an instant, and there was even a faint aggressive sharpness, "The heart always seems to be easily deceived, but even We are determined to deceive ourselves, and it will never deceive you—so be it, our self-righteous infatuation! Who is deluding itself? You or me? Or Christine and her handsome and rich Viscount lover?"

"Let's stop here, these ridiculous lovers, who is deceiving themselves and others, we will see tonight!" Finally, the slightly haggard face of the French girl burst into an astonishing brilliance.This time, she got up from the bed and passed the man behind Senbai's mask without turning her eyes, leaving only a fluttering sentence, "The opening ceremony is about to begin, then, I will rehearse my new dance code for the last time." Go—Master." The last word still has a lingering ending, and it lacks a bit of respect and caution, but it can arouse some kind of charming associations in the opposite sex.

Phantom hesitated for a while before deciding to go to the backstage to have a look, and then immediately attracted the attention of the Fei Rui siblings kneeling on the piano bench, and the angel who was smiling and listening to the voice.He was a little thankful that he hadn't completely left Mirageland business altogether for a while—so he didn't have to bother explaining his occasional missed appointments with Christine.And the soundtrack of Meg's new dance code faintly came from farther away, maybe it was the illusion of the phantom, it seemed a little more lively than before.

Christine was a little late noticing the mentor's arrival.She listened to the moving melody of the phantom song flowing from the black and white keys under her son's fingers, and a girlish smile appeared on her still beautiful face—she used to be afraid of her mentor's music, even when it reappeared through the mouth of a child All made her anxious, afraid of breaking the peaceful marriage she tried her best to whitewash with Raul; but after half a month of tenderness, her love for music and perhaps her mentor revived again, unknowingly becoming a prairie fire , as if it can no longer be stopped by anything... And she has long since realized that this melody, such a beautiful melody, is the pious voice of the ghost hidden in the shadows.

She is no longer afraid of the weird face under the mask of the Phantom. These days, the deception of the Phantom and the haze of being entrapped in the years of the Paris Opera House no longer bother her—even though she never intends to abandon her family. The identities of wife and mother, but, should it be allowed to secretly enjoy a moment of happiness?In just a few minutes, the moving melody was coming to an end, and Christine recalled the wonderful feeling of singing with her mentor, and even secretly recalled for a moment the only lingering lingering with the phantom ten years ago that did not end in spirit. It is rare to let the morality of the heart sleep.

"Okay, Gustav, and Ferry, the opening ceremony is about to begin, you can go to the box now and sit down." When the song ended, Christine's well-maintained cheeks showed a peaceful pink color, and she said to Phantom cast an almost shy glance, and then looked at the pair of children—including Ferry—with love, and said in an unbelievably soft tone, "Daddy should already be waiting for you there."

Nonsense, dad is not here!Knowing what Christine meant, but seeing the slightly dim eyes behind the dark white mask, Ferry couldn't help expressing his childish anger in his heart.The little girl cast an apologetic glance at the phantom, and then, in his unobtrusive eyes, led her brother to the box that Squiqué had prepared for Shani's house early.

The opening ceremony of the new theater in Phantom Paradise perfectly followed the novelty and gorgeous performance style of the park when it was used as a circus in the past, and did not disappoint the old and new guests who came here admiringly.But the doors and windows of the box at Shani’s house were closed tightly, and there were three people, one big, two young, and two small, two of whom were drowsy, and the remaining one was walking around restlessly.

"Gustav, acrobats from the East, and all kinds of rare birds and animals, what a wonderful combination, you were not the most interested in these in the past?" He sipped the fruit juice drink provided by the box without a break, with jokes in his eyes.

"You also said that was in the past." Gustav squinted at his sister, and his immature childish voice was calm, "I don't think those strange... those beings that are different from ordinary people are willing to work with the animals in the circus. To be watched—even if you wanted to, wouldn't it be more exciting than what Mr. Y has shown us these days?"

Fortunately, this kid's aesthetics managed to keep up with her sister's footsteps.Ferry nodded with satisfaction—in fact, it’s still hard for her to describe the strange scenes that the Phantom was playing in the maze of glass columns... But Raul’s father, who was pacing restlessly in the box, suddenly stopped, and the handsome man The expression on his face was sullen, like a beast that could choose someone to eat at any time, "You've been with Mr. Y for the past few days? Who is that guy!"

is our true father.Ferry wanted to say subconsciously, but in the end she changed another sentence with a cold expression: "When you are drunk and dreamy at the tavern or at the gaming table on Coney Island, you enthusiastically accompany us around and take us to appreciate the wonders and wonders of Mirage Paradise. People with island scenery.”

"Forget it, whoever is that guy who hides his head and shows his tail, I can't let my wife stand on the same stage with these weird things, performing for those vulgar and low-class people!" Raul's expression seemed to stiffen , but he seemed to be urged by some urgency, and he even omitted the usual anger, "It just so happens that I have already booked a boat ticket for our family to Queen Circe's Castle - Gustav, Ferry, Have our luggage been packed? Come with me to find your mother, before her noble singing voice is defiled by those vulgar low-class people, we will leave here immediately, leave this filthy air!" He was still handsome His face was tense, as if he was trying to express his dissatisfaction with this place, but when he said the last sentence, there was an untimely lightness in his tone.

Raul did not play a reliable role in the Chaney family, but when Ferry was silent, he could still exercise authority as husband and father to Christine and Gustave respectively; but For Ferry, apart from a bit of guilt stemming from the brother Raul in the previous life, there is only contempt for the alcoholic who almost lost all his family property at the gambling table in Monte Carlo.

Perhaps when he first came to this world, Ferry did have the idea of ​​treating him and Christine as parents. After all, she was so doted on, but when she found that she was faintly feared for showing similar characteristics to her biological father Even when she was on guard, this thought disappeared easily—just like Meg was not soft-hearted and made up for it when she was implicated for no reason at the beginning. She chose the former without hesitation between keeping the imprint of the Phantom and pleasing the Shani couple.Ferry admits that his heart is always very biased, maybe he is not confident, but unexpectedly firm.

"If you really find it unbearable, you can leave first, and we will bid farewell to Mr. Y for you—although the performance style of Phantom Paradise is questionable, you should know that breaking a contract is not an honorable act; From the perspective of Shani’s family’s financial health, if there are no urgent matters and you still want to fill up the wine cabinet, it’s best not to disappoint your mother.” Ferry looked at Gustav and wanted to speak He paused, chuckled, and explained to Raul almost arrogantly, and finally softened his tone a little at the last sentence, "Besides, I don't think your wife may be willing to miss this rare opportunity to perform on stage? And I and Gustav still wants to hear his mother sing."

The confrontation between the father and daughter unsurprisingly ended with Ferry winning, although Lauer repeatedly emphasized that as soon as Christine's performance was over, everyone would leave by boat immediately - just like Ferry told the Phantom Regardless of the natural suppression of the father-daughter relationship, the daughter of the viscount, who controls most of the financial power of the Shani family, undoubtedly has more say in the Shani family than most of the underage noble children.

"If possible, I'd like to watch Aunt Meg's performance before leaving." So Raul reluctantly sat down on the armchair in the box again, while Gustav heaved a little sigh of relief and felt a little regretful Whispering to her sister, the Phantom took Ferry's suggestion and made Meg's new dance the last of the night, right after Christine's aria.

"Don't worry, Gustav," Ferry suppressed a smile and glanced at Raul who started ringing the bell and calling for red wine, "I asked Mr. Y before, and it will be the last time today on the Queen of Surcyborg." If we set off, we won’t return until dawn at least—father will never take us all the way back to the north, will he?”

The author has something to say: this time it's a proper EM, right?Although the habit is a little bit late, and there is another chapter to come...but finally, the fine outline is smooth, and the dawn is just around the corner!The stupid baby finally dared to pat his chest and say this is the HE ending of EM 23333 (laughing wildly on his hips)