He suddenly made a very quiet sound, just a whisper in sleep.
"...Hmm?" Alice tilted her head and let him lean on her shoulder, afraid of waking him up.
His time is frozen and will not be disturbed by heavy rain. Such hard and long years... let him sleep through them.
"In fact, you look more reassuring like this." Her voice was very soft, and for the first time she didn't use honorifics for him: "Every year when you disappear, I worry that you won't come back, but you've always been in my sight like this... Do you know? I've grown very tall, and you don't seem to have noticed."
She was over 1.7 meters tall, so it was not difficult for her to hold him. Her facial features had also grown, her nose had become straighter, her lips were slightly thinner, but also had a beautiful lip shape, and her chin was a little rounded, just like the face of Snow White in the fairy tale, very cute.
That little girl who was shivering and malnourished in the cold winter...she has grown up.
She picked up her sword, raised her shield, and put on thick armor. Her cheeks were no longer pale, and her steps became steady... She had successfully walked out of the snowy night.
Countless attacks came towards Alice.
The bright red python flowed in Alice's pupils. At this moment, she no longer resisted the strange power in her body.
——When Kazuwaji Yamada-cho led his troops to the scene, this was the scene he saw.
The girl's black hair fluttered in the wind, her pupils were completely dyed bright red, she had wings made of tentacles, the light of a bright red python surrounded her, fallen soldiers were under her feet, the sharp tower stood upright in front of her, like a sword piercing the bones, and she was like a female war goddess.
She held the still young man in her arms, her movements were gentle, she spoke softly to him, and walked step by step into the silent black fog.
"No one can stop me from going to Jiuyou."
"After all this is over, if I can still keep my sanity... Detective, let's find a quiet place. The flowers in the North Sea are said to be beautiful, and the wheat cakes there are delicious. We must... leave happy memories."
"I once had a dream. I dreamed that you and I spent our whole lives in the Castle of the Gods, until I retired from the position of knight. We were gray-haired, hunched over, and went to see the irises by the lake together... You once said that retired Knights of Light would have a very leisurely life, and children would respect us..."
"I have a lot of things in my heart that are not suitable to be told to you now. Fortunately, you can't hear it."
"I said the porridge you cooked was delicious, but I was lying. It was really unpalatable...but I really wanted you to stay..."
"You said you wanted to wait for me to go to Jiuyou together, but, two years... How many more people will die in two years, how many parents will lose their children, how many children will lose their elders in two years... We can't delay it any longer..."
"I'm sorry, Detective. I... won't wait for you any longer. You have to remember..."
"Alice is just Alice in the end."
In the past, the neighbor aunt often scared her, saying that if the detective got married and had a mistress in the future, she would kick out the orphan.
...How ridiculous.
…
Obviously, she was the first one to reach the legal age for marriage.
…
When Su Mingan opened his eyes, he was sitting in a mechanical wheelchair.
A red-haired young man pushed his wheelchair, his pupils like blazing flames. Cold golden fire burned around him, dispelling the pervasive black fog.
"Lord Old God, you are awake. It is now the 832nd year of the Old Day. The second rain has allowed us to advance two years." Li Yuxuan said.
Su Mingan felt empty in his heart.
...Where's Alice?
...They had agreed that when the rain stopped, they would go to Jiuyou together. Where did she go?
Li Yuxuan replied, "Alice placed you in the depths of the black fog when the rain just started two years ago. The people of the Old Church guarded you, and then she went to the Netherworld alone."
"She stayed in Jiuyou for two years?"
"Well, it takes time for the Alien King to revive. Now two years have passed, and it's almost time for him to revive. We are escorting you to Jiuyou now to witness the Alien King's revival." Li Yuxuan's voice was very low: "As a carrier, her consciousness... should have been gone a long time ago."
Su Mingan looked around, but could only see silent soldiers. They escorted him to Jiuyou, but where was Alice?
…She was left behind by him two years ago, and she left herself in a place where he couldn't see her. She couldn't wait for two years. How many people would die in two years, so when time started to speed up in two years, she jumped into Jiuyou alone.
In this way, when he opens his eyes, the alien king will almost be resurrected, and there will be no delay. Jiuyou is seriously polluted and will not harm him.
She is right. But... this means...
He had no chance to cut off her fate, which meant that he had never defeated fate once.
She stayed alone in the dark place of Jiuyou for two whole years, without anyone to accompany her, until the Alien King completely replaced her consciousness.
Before the rain stopped, her fate was sealed.
Su Mingan lowered his head and found a white dried flower on his knees. This was the flower that Alice once held in her arms.
She left the flowers for him.
There was a line of small words written on the silk ribbon on the flower branch.
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[For more flowers. ——Alice]
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In order to have more blooming flowers in the future, she left herself alone in the depths of the underworld.
At this moment, he seemed to hear the overwhelming heartbeat. The girl's smile sank into the vast black fog, and then broke into thousands of petals.
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