Chapter 133 Sorry
--boom!
In the middle of the night, a violent explosion erupted from the center of the city. The roar that resounded through the sky woke Lin Xiaolu from her sleep.
"…What's going on?"
She climbed out of the bed sleepily and looked into the distance through the window of the room. When she saw the scene outside the window clearly, she was briefly dazed, and then gradually opened her eyes.
"Wake up, Xia Liang! Bai Jingxuan!"
Turning back, Lin Xiaolu woke up the other two girls who were still asleep, pointed out the window and shouted, "Something seems wrong, there's some strange noise!"
The two people who had already fallen asleep had no choice but to rub their eyes and get out of bed. They came to the window together and then lost their words at the same time.
——A huge purple-black light column rose from the center of the city, rushing straight into the sky and piercing through the clouds. Even the surrounding clouds were dyed purple, swirling around the light column, flashing an ominous light.
Bai Jingxuan, who was still half asleep, took two steps forward, trying to get closer to the window to see the scene outside more clearly. But as soon as she approached the window, she saw a huge moth hit the window, making a "pop" sound.
“Hmm!”
The noise startled her and she took a few steps back. Her sleepy head became much more awake after being frightened.
"Really? You're still getting in the way at this time!"
Seeing Bai Jingxuan frightened by the moth that suddenly appeared, Lin Xiaolu angrily slapped the window to drive it away, then walked to the closet in the room and opened the door of her own closet: "Hurry up and change your clothes! Although I don't know what's going on, we have to go out!"
"Can't you just transform and go out?" Xia Liang asked, yawning, "It feels so troublesome to change clothes at this time."
"It should be okay to just put on shoes, right?" Bai Jingxuan suggested.
"You two..."
Lin Xiaolu glanced at them, put her hands on her hips, and spoke with some unhappiness. But before she could finish the second half of the sentence, she felt the purple light behind her become stronger.
This made her unfinished words stuck in her throat.
"It's a remnant beast!"
Mo Ke, who had just woken up, came over and pointed outside the window and shouted, "Xiao Lu! I can feel the breath of the remnant beast! And it's very powerful, stronger than any remnant beast I've seen before! This one is definitely a big one!"
Unfortunately, no one paid attention to its words. Even Bai Jingxuan, who had the best relationship with Mo Ke, only agreed with it symbolically.
After all, the scene outside the window was too conspicuous. Even a fool would know after seeing the current situation that the purple light column that shot straight into the sky was definitely not normal.
Lin Xiaolu realized that if she insisted on changing into casual clothes before going out, the flowers would be cold by the time she got there. In desperation, she could only change her plan, grabbed a coat from the closet and put it on, and walked to the door: "Forget it, let's go quickly."
The other two also knew the situation was urgent, so they followed her out of the room. The three people and the fairy hurried out of the room, not even having time to turn on the lights, and ran towards the door together.
Lin Xiaolu wanted to remind them to speak more quietly and not wake up her father, but seeing that they had already run to the entrance, she didn't know what to say. She could only stand in the corridor and glance towards the door of her father's room with a guilty conscience.
It would have been fine if she didn't look, but when she really looked over, what she saw was an open door.
The door is not closed?
This made Lin Xiaolu stunned.
"What are you still standing there for?"
Before she could think about it, Xia Liang, who was not far away, said to her in a low voice: "There is no time to waste, let's go!"
"Hmm...oh."
Lin Xiaolu could only suppress the doubts that suddenly arose in her heart and followed the others to the entrance.
She had no time to make sure the door was open, and she didn't know whether her father was in the room.
Maybe I forgot to close the door before going to bed? She explained to herself, and then walked out of the house with her companions.
——
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"senior".
The name shouted by the person behind Cuiqiao undoubtedly proved her identity: she was Hong Siyu.
But when hearing this name, Cuiqiao felt a little depressed in his heart.
She stood straight for a while, staring at the ground. After a while, she couldn't suppress the thoughts in her mind anymore, so she turned her head and wanted to look back.
——"Don't look back yet, senior."
However, Hong Siyu stopped Cuique's action.
Her voice was gentle and clear at this time, and it sounded like nothing was wrong: "Just listen to me and then talk to me."
“…I hate people who are secretive.”
Without responding directly to the other party's request, Cuique lowered her head, looked at the shadow on the ground, and sighed: "Why didn't you tell me directly? Why did you play the disappearance trick and refuse to answer the phone? When did the Yi Ce Bureau become like this?"
"Hmm... who knows? I forgot too."
Hong Siyu said frivolously, "And what do you mean by hiding things? Senior, you are the most dishonest person, right? How much of what happened back then did you hide? I was kept in the dark the whole time."
"If you want, I can tell you after this is over." Kuija kept her head down, her voice low, "So tell me, do you have any solution? A way to change these people back to normal?"
"I don't know, but probably not."
Hong Siyu dragged out his voice, as if he was thinking: "The people who did this never seemed to intend to change these people back. After all, they are just test subjects and feed."
“…Who is the person who did this?”
"You know, I can't tell you, Senior."
"So, what is your position now?"
Delphinium's voice was a little serious: "Are you still a retired magical girl? Are you an employee of the Strategy Bureau? Or... are you already a member of the Black Dawn?"
After she asked the question, Hong Siyu's voice disappeared for a moment.
After a moment, she spoke again: "Your question really makes me sad, Senior."
"In your mind, am I such a person who would betray others so easily? I have been a magical girl for ten years, but in the end I betrayed to such a disgusting organization and did such disgusting things?"
Hong Siyu's voice was filled with dissatisfaction, and he seemed a little angry as he said, "Even at this point, I still want you to get rid of the remaining beasts here. If I really betrayed you, why would I tell you this?"
"...Yes." Kuei-ching pursed her lips, her eyes flickered, and then she let out a long sigh with a complicated expression, "I really shouldn't have doubted you."
"I can't tell you who did it, not because I don't want to, but because I can't."
There was some grievance in Hong Siyu's voice: "Otherwise I would have told you the time when Xiaolu was ambushed. Why did you have to beat around the bush and wait until now?"
"Xiao Lu? Are you talking about the time at the wetland park? Did it already start then?"
Delphinium paused and said, "It seems that I am indeed too late."
"It's not too late. It's better to say that you came too early, Senior."
Hong Siyu suddenly laughed: "Don't you know why I asked you to stay at home? If you were so anxious and rushed over at this time, I would be a little sad."
"If I don't come now, will I still meet you?"
Delphinium asked in confusion: "If it really drags on until the middle of the night, or even tomorrow, you won't talk to me so much, right?"
"...That's true." Hong Siyu sighed, "It's always good to have a few more words, although I don't want to chat with you in this situation. Wouldn't it be nice for me to say goodbye to you in the elevator as the last word?"
"Just rely on 'I'll leave it to you'? Such irresponsible nonsense?" Delphinium raised its voice and asked back, "Are you willing to just say something like this and let me deal with this mess alone?"
"Then there's nothing I can do after all." Hong Siyu laughed awkwardly, "You can see that I've messed up."
"There is still room for recovery." Delphinium stared at the shadow on the ground and whispered, "It's not too late. We still have a chance to make up for it."
"Well, there's still time." Hong Siyu agreed, "Now, we should clean up all the monsters here, and then go to the culprit and defeat her magnificently. There's still a chance."
"That's not what I'm talking about."
"Senior, you should still have the fighting power of Rei-level now, right? Although it's a bit difficult to win... it seems that it's indeed a bit far? But it doesn't matter, I believe in you, after all, you can always create miracles."
"That's not what I'm talking about."
"Xiaolu and the others have grown up a lot now, so they shouldn't be a drag anymore, right? Oh, maybe there will be a surprise when you rush over to meet them? Hehe, I won't reveal the details here."
"Hong Siyu." Delphinium spoke up, her tone serious: "You know, that's not what I'm talking about."
"...But you have to do as I say, Senior."
Hong Siyu also gradually lowered his voice: "Can you see it? It's over there, the center of the city."
Along with her voice, a ray of moonlight suddenly penetrated the boundless darkness. The originally dim hall was illuminated by silvery-white light, and a glass curtain wall revealed its original appearance.
Outside the glass curtain wall is the night view of Fangting City.
However, even though it was an extremely long distance away, Delphinium could see that there was a purple-black beam of light that reached the sky, rising straight from the ground, all the way up to the sky, illuminating all the clouds.
If we simply estimate the distance, the location of the light column is quite far away from the Yi Ce Bureau, but even at such a long distance, Delphinium can still feel the strong ominous atmosphere.
"…What is that?" Delphinium asked calmly.
"A remnant beast...huh?"
“Why is it a question?”
"Because it may not be as pure as the ordinary beast."
"…What do you mean by 'pure'?"
"You know this, don't you, Senior?"
Hong Siyu suppressed some emotion in his voice: "What on earth did that beast eat to grow up?"
"…Are you related to this matter?"
"have no idea."
"have no idea?"
"Yeah." Hong Siyu replied softly, "This is the only thing I don't know about. But I think if I knew, I would definitely not do it."
Delphinium turned her head and looked at the purple-black light column in the distance with a solemn expression. She knew that this light column was probably the result that Black Cinder Dawn had been working so hard to get.
As for the question that Hong Siyu asked, "What did that beast eat to grow up?", they both knew the answer, but it was difficult for them to say it out loud.
Before dying, the spider in Baian City once told her that Black Dawn was looking for "nutrients" for the remaining beasts, and there were no restrictions on this kind of nutrients: they could be humans, other remaining beasts, fairies, or even magical girls.
Therefore, what Hong Siyu said, "I will definitely not do it," is actually a statement.
She was saying that even though she seemed to have some connection and involvement with the mastermind behind this incident, and even participated in this incident early on, she did not betray.
"...You don't have to make such a promise." Delphinium spoke again, but felt that her voice was extremely dry.
"I have, senior." Hong Siyu's tone was very serious, "There are some things I don't want you to misunderstand."
"I won't misunderstand."
"You've misunderstood, haven't you?"
"I just need to know whether you are a member of the Black Dawn now. As long as you are not, there will be no misunderstanding."
"I'm not." Hong Siyu's answer was calm and clear.
"...That's good." Delphinium didn't know what she was feeling when she said this.
"So, Senior, although you came early, you are out of time."
Hong Siyu did not continue to dwell on this topic, but gently reminded: "The real culprit is there. The magical girl should eliminate the remaining beasts that stand in the way and face the real enemy."
Clear out the remaining beasts.
Delphinium already understood exactly what Hong Siyi was talking about, because she had put together all the puzzle pieces related to it and got the answer to the matter.
However, because of this, she never felt so resistant to the term "eliminating the remaining beasts".
Before the unknown call, Hongsi told herself that she was "up high". After seeing the scene on the ceiling, Kuiqi already knew where this "up high" was.
She now understood the meaning of the strange words Hong Si said when she left her home a few hours ago.
A retired magical girl shouldn't have the power to see fairies, but Hong Siyu did it. How did she do it? Delphinium found the answer.
She finally found out the reason why Hong Si had a weird taste in cooking.
Also, five months ago, when I first discovered that my daughter had become a magical girl.
It was a bad day like any other after Anya's death. I had just got off work and the sky had just darkened. Before I knew that Lin Xiaolu had become a magical girl, Hong Siyu called me and asked if I wanted to have dinner together.
In the restaurant, this junior, with whom he had not communicated for a long time, chatted with him about a lot of boring things and also vaguely told him the news that Lin Xiaolu had become a magical girl.
Then, he took the drunk girl home.
She could no longer remember what the drunk Hong Si said, but she seemed to be back in the alcohol-smelling cab again. Amid the bitter taste, there was an indistinct sob from the passenger seat beside her:
--"sorry".
That was a sentence that Delphinium could not understand at that time.
"I..." She started, but she had no idea what else she could say. She only felt her blood rushing and her brain buzzing. "I can't..."
"You can do it, Senior. That's why I said, please."
Hong Siyu's voice also softened, and he said with some encouragement: "Because, only you can do it here, and I believe you can do it, just like in the past, bring miracles to this city."
"After all, you are the person I admire the most."
After the words fell, Kuei-Chi felt that the buzzing sound in his head disappeared. The whole world seemed to have lost its sound and turned into nothingness, entering a soundless and colorless realm of illusion.
Without blinking, Delphinium had a blank expression on her face. She slowly lowered her head and looked at her feet. She looked at the place where the shadow was originally reflected.
There should have been a shadow there, a shadow representing "Hong Si Yu". However, at this moment, she couldn't find what she wanted to see.
Although she could see the shadow, the shadow on the ground did not belong to Hong Siyu, or even more, it did not belong to "human beings".
Projected from behind her onto the ground in front of her was the shadow of a moth with its wings spread out, its body standing tall, and completely hidden in it.
It looks so strange, but it is not alone, because there are more than just the shadow of a moth in this strange bureau.
Countless pitch-black shadows of moths extended from the ceiling, from the walls, and from all directions. They crawled, kneeled, and sang praises, but they were all heading in the same direction - that was the purple-black light column in the distance, in the city center.
They surrounded the delphinium in circles in the center, like a whirlpool, which could suck the tiny figure in at any time.
"Hong Siyu." Cuiqiao spoke again, breaking the silence surrounded by endless black shadows.
However, this call has received no response.
She stood there expressionlessly, staring at the ground in front of her. Suddenly, she felt like laughing, and suddenly, she felt a little suffocated.
She didn't feel happy, but she didn't know what expression she could make.
"I should be the one to say 'I'm sorry'..."
Delphinium suddenly raised her head and mumbled something incoherent. Then, she finally turned around slowly and faced behind her.
"I am sorry for you, Hong Siyu."
She had never looked back before, not only because of Hong Siyu's request, but also because she had guessed what she would see, so she was unwilling and dared not to look back.
She knew that the moment she looked back, all the beauty and memories would be easily torn apart like a piece of thin paper, and she would never be able to find any warmth again.
But she had to look back. She needed to confirm and tell herself that there was no one there to whom she wanted to say "I'm sorry".
A huge, mutilated beast, as tall as several people, was standing there.
Its wings are spread out like a gorgeous blooming flower, and the furry, outstretched wings are emitting a purple-red glow under the moonlight. Countless black and white spots are dotted on the wings, forming a dreamy and strange pattern.
Its eyes were dark and deep, emitting an evil purple-black glow, as if it could see through everything. Its hairy body was slender and somewhat ferocious, making people subconsciously feel a little afraid.
Under the moonlight, the crippled beast just stared at the delphinium quietly. It made no sound, and of course, it couldn't speak.
It just stood lightly in front of the delphinium, then stretched out its mouthparts and gradually approached the delphinium.
The slender mouthparts gradually enlarged in the pupils of the Delphinium, and then slowly stretched to the neck of the Delphinium, stretched out, and several slender tubes and fangs emerged from the sticky saliva and stuck to the Delphinium's seemingly slender and fragile neck.
Delphinium closed her eyes.
In the darkness, she seemed to see the familiar figure of her descendant again. She was standing in front of Delphinium, putting her hand on Delphinium's neck, staring at her with her dark eyes.
There were no more poor imitations, crude lies, or contrived foolishness. These things would no longer affect Hong Siyu's true heart. She took off all her usual disguises, just like when she first met Kujuan. She looked at Kujuan with a shy but somewhat determined expression and opened her mouth:
"Go ahead, senior."
"Magical girl...it's time to drive out the remaining beasts."
(End of this chapter)
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