Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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"Do as the Romans do?" Xiu asked puzzled.

Carmelita took a big bite out of the bread, pointing to the paint on their faces as she chewed.

Xiu stretched out his hand to touch his face, then looked at Seth again, and said with some guilt: "Oh, this, it was accidentally put on."

"Careless?" Carmelita sneered, "The shapes and sizes are all in pairs. Do you think the two holes on my nose are for breathing?"

It's not easy to explain too much, but Seth generously showed off the traces of paint on his face.

Carmelita said: "Flirting straight up, I don't blame you."

Xiu's cheeks turned red with the naked eye, Seth chuckled, stretched his arms around Xiu's back, and poked him on the waist.

Kafka saw their small movements, and said with a sour smile, "Hey, it's good to be young after all, the two of you are eyeing each other all day long, wishing to stick together for a while."

"You're not bad." Carmelita glanced at Kafka, "They are young, but you are old and rejuvenated."

"kindness?"

Kafka felt baffled, subconsciously touched his face, and touched a hand of black paint: "I'll go, who did it! Who of you is making fun of my old man?!"

"Who else, you yourself."

Ismail laughed and said, "I told you to drink so much wine and go back to the house to sleep when you're sleepy. You have to stay here. The paint on your face was stuck on by yourself when you took a nap just now."

Kafka looked at the brush in his hand, paused for a few seconds, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm old, I'm old, it's easy to forget things when I'm old, hehe."

Carmelita finished eating the bread, drank the rest of the wine in the glass, and belched contentedly: "Huh, I'm full, let me see what you drew."

Carmelita took away the wooden block from Xiu's hand, and Xiu hurriedly wanted to take it back, but Carmelita blocked it with her arm: "Don't worry, I won't look at the back, I see how nervous you are."

Xiu reluctantly agreed, but still stared nervously at Carmelita's hand.

"Is that the whale you drew?"

Carmelita glanced at the black whale on the wooden block indifferently, and threw it back to Xiu: "It's not in vain that it chased you all the way to Tinis, you have a conscience."

Xiu quickly hid the wooden block, and asked Carmelita, "How do you know about Nemo?"

"Your mom gave me a painting," Carmelita said, "that has the four of you and this black whale."

"painting?"

Xiu asked eagerly: "Did my mother draw it? Can you show me?"

Carmelita tapped her forehead and thought for a while, then said perfunctorily: "Well~~~ It's been too long, I don't remember where I put it, maybe I threw it away as waste paper."

"threw?"

Xiu's eyes widened, and a burst of anger suddenly surged in his heart, and he almost shouted: "That's our family portrait, how could you throw it away!"

The surrounding villagers immediately looked to this side, and the aunt was also worried and hurried over.

"No, it's okay, a little misunderstanding, it doesn't matter."

Kafka played sloppy eyes with the aunt, Seth hugged Xiu, pulled him into his arms, and whispered in his ear to comfort him: "Xiu, baby, calm down, everyone is still celebrating the holiday, if we have something to say, let's go back and talk about it later .”

While persuading Xiu, Seth made eye contact with Carmelita: "Is that so, auntie, you just misremembered, you might be able to find it if you look for it."

Carmelita shrugged, as if it had nothing to do with her: "Maybe it's still there, maybe it's not, I can't remember, but I probably threw it away. Besides, this is something your mother gave me, Is it related to you?"

"you......"

The fire that Xiu suppressed came up again in an instant, Seth hurriedly hugged Xiu tightly and covered his mouth.

Xiu bit his hand, and Seth almost cried out in pain, but he held back in time, blocked the line of sight between Xiu and the villagers, and stared at Carmelita desperately while turning his head.

Carmelita supported her head as if nothing had happened. After a while, she smacked her lips impatiently, waved her hand and threw a small bottle at Xiu.

"Troublesome brat."

Xiu subconsciously caught it. It was an ordinary small glass bottle, half a finger long and one finger wide, filled with off-white powder.

"Here are the ashes of the whale," Carmelita said. "Don't ask me what's only a little bit. Who can lift such a big thing? I took a bone from the carcass before I pushed it back into the sea. , I came back after burning and polishing a little bit, and I will treat it as a meeting gift for you."

After finishing speaking, Carmelita got up and clapped her hands, holding the antler headdress: "I'm sleepy, go back to sleep, and hurry back after you burn the wood."

"Auntie..."

"I have something to say tomorrow."

Carmelita left without saying a word, and the villagers also dispersed one after another. Arthur flapped his wings, followed Carmelita's direction, and flew into the darkness.

"Okay, don't look at it."

Seth patted Xiu: "After burning the wood, let's go back to rest early."

Several people came to the campfire together and threw the painted wooden blocks into the campfire.

The flames flickered, and the paint on the wood blocks dyed the fire in different colors. Nemo's appearance was gradually swallowed by the flames, and the surging heat waves rubbed against Xiu's cheeks. The light smoke rising from the fire seemed to gather into a It looked like a whale, slowly rising while cruising, and disappeared into the night sky.

"Nemo..."

Xiu looked at the night sky, tightly clutching the glass bottle in his hand: "Goodbye, my friend."

Seth stayed by Xiu's side until the wood was burnt out and turned into a handful of ashes.

Xiu lowered his head, and after a long time, took Seth's hand.

"Seth."

"kindness?"

"I don't want to go back yet," Xiu said, "Can you walk with me for a while?"

"it is good."

Seth looked around, took Xiu's hand and went to the back of the village: "I'll take you to a place."

"kindness."

The two walked side by side on the snow-covered mountain path, the air was clean and clear, and the cold moonlight guided them.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, there was nothing around except the forest and snow.Looking back, you can see the lights lit up in the wooden house on the hillside, a little far away from them, like twinkling stars.

"Seth, where are we going?"

"Just follow me, right away."

General Xiu followed Seth suspiciously, and Seth stopped in front of a bush.

"Are you there?" Xiu asked.

Seth looked back at him: "Well, you close your eyes first."

Xiu didn't move, and looked at Seth with drooping eyelids: "What do you want to do?"

"Trust me, you close your eyes first."

Xiu hesitated for a moment, then closed his eyes helplessly.

"Give me your hand."

Xiu put away the glass bottle, stretched out his hands, and carefully followed Seth through the bushes.

"Okay, open your eyes."

"Mysterious."

Xiu opened his eyes, and in front of him was a wild hot spring in the mountains.

"This is......"

"I asked my aunt before," Seth said, "When you are in a bad mood, besides eating, taking a hot bath is also very beneficial."

Xiu seriously suspected Seth's purpose of bringing him to this wild hot spring, he stared at Seth, but Seth began to undress openly: "Why, we both have seen everything we should and shouldn't see. , what should have happened and what shouldn’t have happened, don’t tell me you’re shy.”

"Tch, who is afraid of whom?"

Xiu also took off his clothes in twos and twos, and followed Seth into the hot spring.

"Ah~~~comfortable~~~"

The hot spring here is much deeper than the one in the tiankeng. The two stood side by side in the water and leaned against the hot spring. The spring water was so clear that it didn't pass near their chests. A faint mist floated on the water, surrounded by snow shadows of trees, The moonlight was a little less harsh and more hazy.

"Life is like this, what more can I ask for."

Soaking in the water, Xiu leaned his head on the boulder by the hot spring: "Are you satisfied after taking a bath?"

Seth smiled, and stretched out his hand to pull Xiu into his arms: "It's not enough to take a bath, but I'm pretty satisfied with you taking a bath with me."

"Fool."

Xiu leaned on Seth's shoulder, looked at the moonlight, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"What are you thinking about?" Seth asked. "Still thinking about Nemo?"

"Well," Xiu said, "I'm homesick."

Seth kissed Xiu on the forehead: "Think about it, I'll think about it with you."

Xiu looked up at Seth: "Are you missing your parents too?"

Seth shook his head: "My parents were both soldiers of the Temple Tower. They passed away when I was very young. I don't have much impression of them. For me, only Carol and Pullin."

Xiu nodded: "I don't know how Prin is doing in Avalon."

"Whatever he does, that kid must be playing crazy in the sky."

"Here it comes again," Xiu said, "You're so worried that you're going to die, why are you trying to be brave in front of me?"

Seth smiled wryly, and hugged Xiu tightly: "I miss him, but every time I think of him, I feel ashamed."

"Because of Carol?"

"Well," Seth said, "it's been so many years, not to mention finding out the cause of his death, I almost lost the city of Tinis, and even killed the old man...Forget it, let's not talk about it."

Seth took the cup of water and rubbed it vigorously on his face.

Suddenly, a bright light quickly slid across the distant night sky.

"Seth, look quickly, it's a shooting star."

"Then why don't you hurry up and make a wish?" Seth smiled.

"I promised," Xiu said, "My wish has been fulfilled by the bonfire."

"Can I ask what your wish is?"

Xiu said: "I made two wishes, one is that Nemo can forgive me."

"Xiu, I think Nemo never blamed you."

"I know, but I still have to apologize to him." Xiu looked at the clothes by the hot spring, and could vaguely see the glass bottle. "Without him, I might not be in this world long ago."

"Well, speaking of it, he also saved me once, so I have to say thank you to him."

Seth asked, "What about the other wish?"

Xiu turned his head to look at Seth, held his hand, and clasped his fingers tightly: "I told my parents and brother about you, I hope they will be satisfied with your 'daughter-in-law'."

"You, you really..."

Seth was so moved that he didn't know what to say, hugged Xiu and kissed again and again.

"Okay, okay, tell me about you, what wish did you make?"

"I may have two wishes," Seth said, "one is that Prynne can be safe in Avalon."

"Well, what about the other one?" Xiu asked.

Seth looked at Xiu and said seriously: "The other is that I hope that in the rest of my life, I can be by your side every day, every minute, and every second."

"Hey, you're so disgusting." Xiu said with a smile, "My aunt is right, you are really dirty and greasy."

Seth stared at Xiu unhappily, and tickled his waist with both hands: "Hey, what's the matter, you, I finally mustered up the courage to say a few words of love to you, that's your attitude."

"Pfft, haha, hahaha, I was wrong, I know I was wrong, Seth, husband, please forgive me, hahaha!"

Seth froze suddenly. He looked at Xiu and slowly widened his eyes: "You, what did you call me just now?"

Xiu also realized the two words he blurted out, and immediately covered his mouth, his face turned red instantly.

"I, I just..."

"Call again."

Seth held Xiu's face reverently, surprise and disbelief almost overflowing in his eyes: "Baby, Xiu, call me again, okay?"

Xiu looked at Seth, his heart was beating faster, and his face was burning like fire.

However, he did not evade, he did not make the same mistake as last time.

He put his arms around Seth, and said slowly: "Old man...uh..."

Seth kissed Xiu's lips fiercely, Xiu responded without reservation, and the two kissed deeply under the hazy moonlight, until they were almost hypoxic before parting reluctantly and hugging each other tightly.

"Xiu, I love you. I've never loved someone so much in my life."

"Nicky," Xiu couldn't restrain the smile on the corner of his mouth, "But, I love to listen."

Seth followed him with a smile: "Sometimes, I find you are quite naughty."

"With you, you can't be skinny at all."

Xiu looked up at Seth: "Hey, I wanted to ask before, when did you start to fall in love with me?"

Seth put his arms around Xiu and thought about it: "Your head is covered with blood, the night I carried it to the abandoned building..."

"so early?!"

"No, no, listen to me."

Seth held down the excited Xiu, and continued: "I admit that the purpose of approaching you was impure at the beginning. I suspected that you might be a survivor of Albion, so I stuck to you."

"I know that." Xiu said.

"Later, after getting along with you for a long time, I found that you are surprisingly innocent, so I just wanted to tease you. Seeing you angry and helpless against me is very cute."

Xiu rolled his eyes at him: "Is it too late for me to regret it now?"

"That's too late."

Seth hugged Xiu tightly, and pecked lightly on his lips: "To be honest, the first time I was moved was at the [-]-day defense line. You stopped in front of me on a motorcycle, and those long legs seemed to be stepped on. on my shoulder, then took off the sunglasses, and said that sentence coolly and tugging: Hmph, it turns out that the red-tailed scorpion is nothing more than that."

Seth imitated Xiu's accent at the time, which made Xiu's skin crawl: "So you are really a jitter."

"That's you. If it were someone else, I would have broken his leg long ago."

Seth asked, "What about you, when did you fall in love with me?"

"Let's think about it," Xiu said, "it should be the time you jumped into the sea without thinking about your own safety. You didn't know how to swim, but you jumped into the sea resolutely to save me. At that time, I really fell in love with you."

"Damn! I lost my life, so you only moved a little bit?"

"That's right," Xiu said as it should be, "Your purpose was not pure back then, you liked to fight against me when you had nothing to do, and you even sexually harassed me every day. It's not bad that I can fall in love with you."

Seth laughed dryly: "Heh, heh, thanks to my patience, I am willing to risk my life to chase you."

"Yes, thank you for willing to jump into the sea for me."

Xiu smiled, then sighed: "Actually, there is another reason why I restrain my feelings for you, because I'm jealous."

"Jealous? Who? Carol, but he's..."

"I know he's your family," Hugh said, "but when I saw you crying for Carol, I was very distressed and really jealous. I also thought selfishly, when will you be able to help me Cry once."

Seth was a little dumbfounded by the repair method: "You, your thoughts are quite deep."

"But later, when I saw you hugging me in the harbor, I realized that I don't want to see you cry, what I like is your gag, nonsensical look.

Seth twitched the corner of his mouth: "Is this the only virtue I have in your eyes?"

"That's right," Xiu smiled, wrapping his hands around Seth's neck, "Because what I fell in love with was not a soldier or a supernatural being, but a bandit."

"Then do you know what bandits like?"

"I don't know." Xiu said.

"Bandits... like to eat meat!"

After speaking, Seth sneaked into the hot spring with Xiu in his arms.