Chapter 258 Promise
When Delphinium returned to Caiyun Wetland, perhaps because she returned earlier than expected, or perhaps because Lin Xiaolu and her group were doing other things, in short, the viewing hut belonging to the Fangting City team was still empty.
But in fact, she didn't have time to pay attention to these things at this moment, because there was a more difficult matter that she needed to deal with.
——Mo He also lives here.
Not only does he live here, but the cottage where Mo He lives is only a few hundred meters away from the cottage where Cuique and others live.
When Cuiqiao further verified the information with Mo He, she realized that the one among the group of magical girls she met near the hot spring the night before, who made her feel familiar, was Mo He herself.
However, even at that time, Mo He was wearing a mask on his face, so Cui Que didn't recognize him.
"So why the mask?"
The topic had come to this point, and even though Delphinium had tried her best to suppress her unnecessary curiosity, she couldn't help but ask.
"Disguise your identity." Mo He replied.
"Why do we need to disguise ourselves?" Delphinium still felt very strange.
"Do the mission." Mo He continued to add.
"The kingdom's mission?"
“The mission of the kingdom.”
"Oh, I see."
"Um."
Although Cuique still felt something was wrong, she judged from Mo He's tone and demeanor that he did not seem to be lying. And based on her experience in judging people, Mo He was not a very good liar.
"Come to think of it, how did you recognize me?" After a little thought, she decided to solve another question first.
"How did you recognize him?" Mo He asked in surprise, "Isn't the captain the captain?"
Choked by the other party's words, Delphinium paused and reorganized her words: "Like you, I also disguised myself for the mission."
"Disguise?" Mo He looked at Kuznetsuo in confusion. His gaze stayed on Kuznetsuo's face and limbs for a few seconds, and then he asked in even greater confusion, "Where?"
"Hair style, clothes, and... maybe makeup?"
Delphinium listed the questions in a tone that even she herself was a little uncertain about: "I think, for the time being, I am still different from who I was twenty years ago, right?"
"Ah, it seems so."
Mo He finally realized and nodded: "The captain doesn't have long hair anymore."
"...That's it?" Delphinium really didn't know what attitude she could show, and could only blink.
"Well, because the captain is the captain. Although you said you have changed, I don't think you have changed."
It was during this conversation that Mo He had already walked to his own cabin, raised his hand to activate the magic spell, and unlocked the door after a flash of light.
"Would you like to come in and sit for a while?" She tilted her head and asked calmly.
"No."
Delphinium declined politely: "Your companions should be here too, right? It would be strange for me to disturb them without permission."
Upon hearing this, Mo He took a few steps into the viewing room and seemed to go in to take a look.
Then, she walked out again, unlocked her sight-blocking spell, and showed Delphinium the situation inside: "It's okay, they are not here."
"...Anyway, I won't bother you anymore. Let's leave it at that for today."
Delphinium continued to decline: "It's getting late, it's better to go back and rest first."
She didn't know who Mo He's companions were. Although she was disguised at the moment, considering that Mo He turned a blind eye to the fake identity of "Longdan", she also became a little unconfident and began to worry whether her companions could do similar things.
She had enough knowledge of how famous "Cornflower" was in the magic kingdom. It was not that she was arrogant, but from an objective point of view, she was really famous in the past. So she had to have as little contact with people who might recognize her as possible, even though her injuries had improved.
"learn."
Mo He obviously didn't try to guess what Cui Que was thinking. She just knew that Cui Que didn't want to, so she didn't mention it again and asked, "Then, tomorrow..."
"Well, see you tomorrow." Delphinium agreed.
She accepted Mo He's request to invite her to dinner tomorrow.
It was not just out of human relations, but also partly out of sincerity. After all, as she returned to her country, the past that she had deliberately put aside had inevitably surfaced. She didn't want to be too indifferent to her old teammates who had been through life and death with her, especially Mo He, who was relatively special among her old teammates.
After spending this afternoon together, she could clearly judge that the other party's state was not very good, at least not a positive mental state, which was worrying. So, perhaps, she also needed to understand the other party's situation appropriately and weigh whether she could do anything? It's just that the two of them had been out of contact for too long, and Cuique didn't want to get to know each other too well and pry into the other party's life without opening up. So, before deepening the topic into the other party's past experiences, it was necessary to accept Mo He's kindness, agree to have dinner together, and at the same time recall their past friendship.
"See you tomorrow."
After getting the affirmation from Cuique, Mo He nodded, lowered his eyes slightly, took two steps back into the house, stood by the door and whispered something like "successful". Then, he raised his head as if he remembered something:
"Do you need me to drive you there?"
"...I have to go out to do some work tomorrow morning." When it came to this topic, Delphinium suddenly looked away.
"Where to go? I can pick up the captain at noon."
"It's quite far away, and cars probably aren't allowed there, so no need. We can just arrange a place to meet up when the time comes."
Intuition told Cuique that if she continued to stay here, Mo He would definitely go to great lengths to "show off" her "convertible", so she decisively ended the conversation: "Well, that's it, I won't bother you any more."
Having said that, she was ready to turn around and leave.
"...Rosam ducat, Luna servet."
Almost at the same time, before Cuiqiao tried to escape, Mo He suddenly said these words without any context behind her.
This was a sentence that had no connection to their previous communication, but Delphinium knew what it meant.
Roses guide the way, the moon guards the way home - this was the oath used by soldiers as a greeting and farewell in the war 20 years ago. Roses represent the Rose Palace, and the moon is often associated with death, eternal sleep and other elements in the traditional writings of the magic kingdom. This oath is the soldiers' promise to each other: to guard the glory of the magic kingdom with their lives.
She turned around and found that Mo He had raised his hand with his palm facing outward and gave her a standard national military salute.
Cuiqiao suddenly felt as if she had glimpsed something, and perhaps that thing was the reason why Mo He looked like this now.
"The rose guides the way, and the moon guards the way home."
But she didn't turn to explore these at this time.
Instead, like Mo He, he said goodbye with an oath, and then raised his hand, trying to give the military salute that seemed unfamiliar yet familiar.
But she couldn't do it.
She raised her hand halfway, but couldn't get it to the side of her head. It was as if something had stuck in her movements, and she stopped abruptly in mid-air.
So she put her hand down.
"See you tomorrow."
She said this to Mo He, and then walked towards her own cabin.
(End of this chapter)
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