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Chapter 32: The Journey of Destiny Will Begin

The pink girl was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, she didn't look in pain, as if she was asleep.

But the gentle and slightly lively pink in daily life, in this sleep-like silence, there is a touch of fragility that cannot be seen in ordinary days, which makes people feel distressed.

"........."

Li Xiang was silent, he watched anxiously as the centaur sage held her wrist tightly beside the girl, and an invisible air flow flowed into the girl's arm along Chiron's big hand.

After a while, he let go of Matthew's hand, stood up and covered her with the quilt.

"Teacher... what happened to Mash...?"

Li Xiang looked at the teacher, his pupils narrowed abnormally, even he couldn't notice it, his voice was trembling now.

No, it can be said that the whole body is trembling.

"Lixiang..."

"Teacher, don't talk about those useless things, what happened to Mash...?"

Lixiang said "calmly".

"..."

Chiron looked down at the innocent girl who seemed to have fallen asleep in a somewhat complicated manner, and said, "Mashu...she can live for another half a year at most."

"Half... only, only six months..."

Lixiang's reaction was not intense, and he didn't even have time to show any expressions of anger or sadness, his face was immediately covered by dead gray.

His body trembled and he almost lost his footing.

"Her body began to fail uncontrollably and accelerated, not a disease, nor an injury. From the perspective of ordinary people, this is the same concept as the old man who is dying naturally."

Chiron said, he watched Li Xiang remain silent.

"...Yes...Yes, Mash can only live at most...16 years old...16 years old..."

After a moment of silence, Li Xiang lowered his voice and whispered, he remembered what his original anxiety and fear were, he remembered everything, and now he might have to pay the price he had to pay for being too stupid .

I was so stupid, I was dazzled by the comfort in front of me...

If I had thought of it earlier, would it be possible... at least... at least I could hold on a little longer...

"Snapped!"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but slap himself.

"What are you doing?!"

Chiron frowned, and grabbed Lixiang's wrist.

"I……"

"You are really stupid, Theasius."

Chiron interrupted Lixiang, he frowned, this was the first time he spoke to him in such a harsh tone, "Your stupidity lies in the fact that you only know how to blame others and yourself, but don't Knowing to try the last bit possible."

"——You have been studying here for more than a year. Your originally weak body has been nourished by the fruits of the true ether and the goddess of the earth. Matthew's body has been supported in this way for more than a year. Time won't last."

"That...that!"

Li Xiang slowly opened his eyes wide, as if a drowning person suddenly grasped the last straw: "Teacher, can you save Mash—?!"

"With my medical skills - I can't heal people who are naturally aging, not to mention that Matthew's body is failing quickly - her body is like a wooden barrel with a big hole in the bottom, no matter how much water is leaking of."

"so what should I do now?!"

Li Xiang couldn't help but grasped the teacher's arms tightly.

"—I have a student named Asclepius, he learned my medical skills, but his medical skills are better than mine, maybe..."

"Then where is he now?! I'm going to find him now!"

"Don't be so impatient, no matter what you do, don't be so anxious that you get carried away."

Chiron's arm stopped Lixiang, and he warned Lixiang seriously.

"Yes Yes."

Li Xiang nodded dully.

"...Asclepius is not here now, he has left now - I can no longer teach him more medical skills, his medical skills are more exquisite than mine, so he left, and there is no way to come back How likely it is."

Chiron glanced at Lixiang in a somewhat complicated manner. Fate really can play tricks on people. Asclepius had only left for a month, and there was a situation where even his medical skills could not do anything.

"Then...then I will find him! No matter where I am, I will find him... find him... find that... Asclepius..."

Li Xiang said almost reflexively, he whispered and repeated, but he was extremely firm.

"...Are you really going to find him?"

The wise eyes of the centaur sage stared at the whispering young man. He paused and asked slowly.

Chiron looked at him and didn't feel any surprise. After all, Lixiang is such a person. If something happened to Mash, he would not be able to sit idly by.

"Um……"

Lixiang nodded mechanically, then turned his head and looked up at Chiron, the bright pupils of the sea of ​​stars were full of determination.

"Have you decided? You already have the ability to protect yourself, but do you really have the confidence to face everything you will face?"

Chiron didn't say anything like not letting Lixiang go, nor did he try to dissuade him, he just explained the facts he saw.

"—Once you leave from me, it means that you have graduated and become another hero, but, can you really become a hero?"

"Do not."

Li Xiang shook his head lightly, he saw this kind of thing very clearly, he knew what was more important than the vanity given by the outside world, "I am here to find Asclepius, save Matthew, I don't want to be a hero anymore."

"But now you're doing what a hero would do."

Chiron raised his hand, patted Lixiang on the shoulder, and said: "If you encounter an irreversible disaster, ordinary people will only lament and accept their fate, but only heroes—only heroes will rise up and resist."

"This is what I think and what I hope you can do, Theasius."

"The road to becoming a hero is very long. You still have too many things to understand. Now you just have the power to protect yourself. How to be a hero, how to be a good hero, what kind of hero to be ——You haven’t come into contact with any of these.”

"You are too young and too fragile, child."

Chiron touched Lixiang's cheek, which was still full of greenness and innocence, but he chose to walk out of his own arms and protection - this made him deeply sigh and regret.

"Now you will fall into a stalemate even if you just encounter such a thing. Can you really walk in the extremely complicated world like this?"

"I……"

Chiron seemed to be asking Lixiang, but Lixiang couldn't answer any of his questions.

"I still have many, many things that I haven't taught you, and I haven't taught you, the most important of which is how to be a hero and how to face everything in front of you."

"——I can't help but feel a little regretful. You are too kind, unlike my other students. I am also very glad that you are so kind and completely different from your seniors."

"I know that you have decided to leave, so I won't keep you anymore. If you are ready, then go... You should really start your journey."

As he said that, Chiron walked out of the cave slowly, and there were only two people in the cave, Lixiang and Mash who were silent.

"...Lixiang."

Suddenly, a figure came from behind him.

"doctor."

Li Xiang said calmly, but his attention was not on the projected blue screen at all, but on the sleeping girl in front of the window.

"Mash's matter..."

The doctor hesitated, for a moment he didn't know how to tell Lixiang such a thing.

"...Actually, I know everything, doctor, I don't blame you for this matter, and I don't blame everyone in Chaldea. After all, this matter has nothing to do with you directly."

Li Xiang couldn't suppress his emotions a little bit, he couldn't help lowering his body, sitting in front of Matthew's bed, his voice was trembling slightly.

He knows, he knows too much, too clearly, it's just that it's been too long, so he basically almost forgot all about it.

If he could, he really hoped he would never remember.

Because sometimes, remembering is really a very painful thing.

"This is a mistake we made together..."

The doctor slowly lowered his eyes, and he could also feel Li Xiang's pain now.

"Okay—it's okay, doctor, turn off the communication, so as not to waste time now."

Lixiang lowered his head, he couldn't listen to anything the doctor said now, and he was also afraid, afraid that he would accidentally say something particularly hurtful when he was emotional. He knew that from a rational point of view, Matthew's current suffering and the doctor's They are not directly related.

——But man is never a simple rational creature.

The doctor looked at Lixiang who lowered his head and held Matthew's hand tightly, sighed softly, and then turned off the communication.

Maybe Lixiang should really be quiet now.

"Original... so, I think our time will be very long, very long... Matthew."

Lixiang whispered, his five fingers clasped tightly with Mash's right hand, but in fact, he was just gently clasping the girl's hand.

He brought Mash's hand to his cheek, wanting to feel the girl's temperature, but when it was pressed against his face, it was icy cold.

"Ah...Although I have known it for a long time, I have known it for a long time...Why did it become like this? Why is it you? Mash..."

Lixiang looked at the sleeping beauty-like girl in front of her, and the vision in her eyes gradually blurred.

——Achilles said that a hero is a person with lust, and those whose temperament is far beyond ordinary people are called heroes.

They always have desires of one kind or another.

I will also become a hero... as the teacher said.

However, I have only one wish, only one desire that I can't wait to fulfill.

——I want to save you, Mash.

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Chapter 33: The Journey of Destiny Will Begin

"........."

Under the soft light of the cave, the girl slowly opened her eyes.

In front of him is still the familiar ceiling.

She couldn't help covering her forehead. She felt a little dizzy just after waking up, but it didn't take long for this dizziness to gradually disappear, and even dissipated.

I... did I just fall asleep?

The pink-haired girl stood up slowly, and immediately saw Tachika who was packing up her things.

"Senior? What are you doing?"

Matthew couldn't help asking, Lixiang's body suddenly stopped.

"...Mash, you're awake."

Li Xiang forced a smile, then picked up the fruit basket and put it in front of her: "Thirsty? Do you want some fruit?"

"Uh... well."

In fact, Mash didn't feel how thirsty she was, but the senior's expression in front of her was really worrying, so she nodded slightly.

Seeing Matthew nodding, Lixiang finally felt a little happy on the reluctantly meaningful smile on his face. He took out a berry from the fruit basket and put it near Matthew's mouth.