Chapter 155 Holy Sound

One month later.

Yuri stood in front of the Sword of Order, which was as majestic as the Tower of Babel, and lit a cigarette for himself.

"Do you smoke during work hours now?"

A female voice came from behind him. Yuri turned around and saw Ina standing behind him with her hands folded, looking very leisurely.

"I am a civilian now." Yuri shook the cigarette in his hand, "Besides, the Devil Army has been disbanded, right?"

"……yes."

Ina walked up to him and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

From their current position, they could overlook most of the Lyra City.

The divine disaster a month ago destroyed almost everything in this city, but now it is much better and the reconstruction work is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Ina raised her head and looked at the Sword of Order.

The huge sword cut off the scorching sun, allowing them to stand in a cool shadow, where they could smell the warmth of the sun without being too hot.

"Lyra no longer needs the devil," she said softly.

After the disappearance of the Immortal God (from their perspective), the pollution in the contaminated area began to decrease significantly, and the abyss that once seemed to have no end was also shrinking greatly.

If this rate of attenuation is maintained, the polluted area will disappear completely within a few years.

Then there would no longer be a need for pioneering forces like Eve and the Devil. After all, everyone knows what is in there, and no one wants to experience such a disaster again.

However, what Tianqin needs now is not an armed force but a pioneer force.

On the contrary, now is the time when armed forces are most needed since Tianqin was founded.

Because in the divine disaster, the god of Lyra was also seriously injured and his power was greatly weakened. The five Towers of Babel and their branch towers that once stood in this city all collapsed, leaving only the final Sword of Order as the greatest symbol.

They are still able to use mechanical creations, but the proportion has been very small. The gear trains have all been destroyed, the heavy machinery has basically stopped working, and even the prosthetic limbs of every Lyra have lost the ability to "overload", so they can only retain the most basic functions, and they dare not even use them too much.

Because the source oil has run out.

So right now, Tianqin is at her weakest.

Yuri raised his head and looked into the distance, which was the direction of leaving the city.

There, many people were limping away with their families, like a colony of migrating ants.

"Are there still so many people leaving?" Yuri asked.

"Compared to the beginning, there are fewer people now," Ina said, "but there are also hundreds or even thousands of people leaving every day."

Yuri sighed softly.

After the divine disaster, people were leaving the city every day.

There are many reasons for leaving, but the main one is that the city no longer restricts people.

So after experiencing a series of things like this and that, the people of Tianqin finally wanted to go out and see the world.

"Do you think they will come back?" Ina asked.

"I don't know." Yuri shook his head. "I've been to other cities. If it were in the past, I can say with certainty that Tianqin is the best, but now..."

Ina didn't say anything, but she understood what Yuri meant.

Today's Tianqin has weakened its power, its technology has declined, and a large number of people have even been forced to become disabled after their prosthetic limbs were destroyed and could not be repaired.

No one knows what the future will be like.

"So, why don't you leave?" Yuri turned his head and looked at Ina. "You should be the first group of people to leave, right? You and the child you adopted have not received too high a degree of mechanical transformation... The child has not even received any mechanical transformation at all. You can definitely go somewhere and start a new life."

Ina said calmly: "Are you looking down on me?"

"You know that's not what I meant." Yuri shook his head, "I just think that your family has already given too much to this city... I heard that your father left a letter for you."

Ina said “hmm”: “He told me about his brother.”

She paused.

"I just now know who the person who talked to me in the archives room that night was."

Although Ina tried hard to cover it up, Yuri could still hear the unnaturalness in her tone.

So he wisely turned his head away and waited for a while before looking back again. By this time, Ina had returned to normal.

"Your brother is also a great man." Yuri said, "If he hadn't fought hard, the divine disaster would have happened earlier, and something worse might have happened."

"Do you really think so?"

"certainly."

Yuri understood why Ina asked that.

Because some people also think that whether Ian was willing or not, he brought Yongxin back from the polluted area, making the situation even more uncontrollable.

But such a statement undoubtedly sounded absurd to Yuri.

"Only those who have never been to the contaminated land can say such things." Yuri said in a deep voice, "Those people don't know what we are facing in the contaminated land... Facing such idiots, my advice is to just punch them."

Ina laughed: "This is not like you before. Hitting people is too illegal."

"The past is the past, and this is now." Yuri said calmly, "The chains that bound us are no longer there. Some idiots who talk without restraint think that nothing can restrain them. I have to tell them that this idea is stupid."

Yuri's words also pointed out a very serious problem existing in Lyra City at this time.

That is, the two "locks" of the Lyran people's body and mind have disappeared, which means that many things that the Lyran people would not think about or do before will now be thought about and done.

During this most difficult reconstruction period, robbers, thieves, and robbers, terms that had nothing to do with Tianqin in the past, finally appeared in this city.

Obviously, the divine disaster a month ago not only caused them to lose their machinery, but also caused them to lose order.

Now, they have to defend more things by force, like other cities.

Therefore, although the Devil and Skeleton Corps were disbanded, the new security force needed more manpower.

After all, whether internally or externally, the Lyrans now need to protect themselves.

"Yeah, if you meet an idiot, just beat him up." Ina shrugged and agreed with Yuri, "To be honest, this is pretty good. If I could do this in the past, I would have beaten up those guys who accused my father. Ah... it's about time."

She looked at the pocket watch in her hand. It was one of the few creations that did not require Lyra's divine power to operate.

"I have to go pick up the kids." Ina waved her hand and turned to leave, still complaining, "This school's dismissal time is getting later and later. There's something wrong."

Seeing Ina's carefree look, Yuri couldn't help but smile.

But he still stopped Ina: "You haven't answered my question just now."

"Hmm?" Ina stopped and looked sideways at Yuri, "What?"

"I just asked, are you really not leaving?" Yuri asked.

"Tsk, my father and my brother are both here, how can I leave?" Ina gave a reply that did not surprise Yuri. Then she raised her head and looked at the Sword of Order that was shielding her from the sunlight. After squinting her eyes, she said softly, "Besides, I always feel that he is watching me."

After saying this, Ina smiled at Yuri again, then turned around completely, walked out of the shade covered by the Sword of Order, and stepped into the sunset that was no longer so vicious.

Yuri watched her back disappear from his sight, then he looked away and said with a smile, "That's great."

Before he could finish his words, he saw a knight walking towards him quickly and saying something in his ear.

Yuri's smile gradually disappeared.

“It’s finally here.”

He sighed softly and looked outside the city.

“Holy Sound.”

…

"Surprised, you didn't fight with anyone today?" Ina held Ju's hand and made a surprised expression, "You really have grown up, right?"

Ju was annoyed by what Ina said, and she wanted to pull her hand away from Ina, but it was useless.

In school, she struggled all the way, and those gangsters who lost the protection of their machines were no match for her.

But facing Ina, the former deputy captain of the pioneer corps, she was still too young. Her rough little hands that grew up tinkering with machinery could not twist Ina's big hands that had countless calluses from holding swords for ten years.

So the more she struggled, the happier Ina became, and she was always smiling, which was annoying.

"You're so annoying." Ju said to Ina.

"Tsk, it's only been a short time and you already think I'm annoying." Ina pretended to be very sad, "Sure enough, the more responsible parents are, the less they are liked by their children."

Ju subconsciously wanted to say "You are not my parent at all", but when the words came to his lips, he forced himself to hold them back. In the end, he just pursed his lips tightly, looking sulky.

Ina noticed this even more, and her eyes narrowed even more, looking a little vicious.

…It’s been a month.

After the divine disaster ended, Ina adopted Tachibana.

In fact, it is not quite accurate to say that he was adopted. After all, order had collapsed, thousands of people died in the divine disaster, and countless children lost their families. At this time, no one cared about a child who had been without a father since childhood.

So Ina didn't go through any formalities and just brought Ju to her.

Unlike Jellal, Ina is also a woman and has also experienced a period of losing her parents, so she naturally has more advantages than Jellal in approaching Tachibana.

"You look so gloomy every day, be cheerful." Ina pinched Ju's face again, causing Ju to dodge repeatedly.

Although the situation in the city was not very good during this month, there was no shortage of food, so Ju's condition was much better than the previous period of malnutrition, and even his face was more fleshy than before.

"Stop touching me!" Ju yelled.

She really didn't know how to deal with Ina.

No one else would treat her like this. As long as she had a gloomy face, others would either walk away with a frown or come up to fight with her with a gloomy face. Only Ina would completely ignore her expression and go straight to the fight. All her disguises were useless in front of Ina.

This couldn't help but make Ju feel deeply confused.

Obviously, a month ago, Ina was not like this.

A month ago, on the night when everything was over, Tachibana found Ina wandering aimlessly in the ruins. At that time, Ina was covered in blood and looked slovenly, really like Jellal.

Tachibana gave Ina the letter left by Jellal, which was what she promised Jellal.

After reading the letter, Ina cried uncontrollably, as if she had lost everything.

But when Ju wanted to leave, Ina suddenly hugged her.

Ju subconsciously wanted to push her away, but he heard her whispering in his ear, "From today on, I am also a child without a father... From now on, let's live together."

At that moment, Ju lost the strength to push her away and agreed to everything in silence.

Then, Ina became what she is now.

Listening to the strange little tune, Ju really wanted to ask, is this the same person from a month ago?

but……

She raised her head, looked at Ina's slightly raised mouth corners and her profile bathed in the sunset glow, but in the end she said nothing and slowly turned her head away.

But at this moment, she heard a strange melody coming from afar.

At that moment, she suddenly felt a little dazed, and then all kinds of strange feelings came up.

I want to cry.

Want to laugh,

Want to hug something.

I want to kneel down again.

Kissing the earth.

But a sharp "clang" sound pulled her out of her trance. She raised her head and saw Ina standing in front of her with the blazing sword behind her unsheathed. The face that was smiling a second ago now became extremely cold under the reflection of the blazing sword.

"Stay behind me." Ina said to Ju, "Don't move."

This was an unquestionable command, and Ju immediately stopped moving.

But she still looked ahead. At the end of the street, countless Lyrans suddenly knelt on the ground, worshiping something.

The strange, melodious melody grew louder and louder.

Soon, Ju's eyes widened.

What did she see?

A snow-white unicorn.

Also, there was a convoy pulled by unicorns, and on both sides of the convoy were black wizards whose faces could not be seen clearly.

But it was not known whether it was a coincidence or not, at this moment the sun was setting and darkness was slowly approaching, and the place where they were was exactly the dividing line between dusk and darkness.

They walked on the sunset glow, carrying the melody, but behind them, there was only darkness.

Ina narrowed her eyes slightly, and her words were full of coldness and fear.

“Holy Sound.”

…

In the carriage, a girl wearing a wizard hat was carefully pulling open the curtain and looking at the person kneeling outside the carriage, with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

"Hevinia." An old voice sounded, "Be aware of your identity."

The girl immediately shrank back like a frightened rabbit.

There is one more chapter tomorrow, and the Lyra chapter will be finished. I will take a day off and summarize the problems of this volume.

(End of this chapter)