Chapter 147: Kill Us All
"It's time to eat." Outside the warehouse, Ina poked her head in, looked at the girl inside the warehouse, and smiled unnaturally, "Ju...right?"
Ju looked up at Ina, hesitated for a moment, nodded, and followed her out.
Outside the warehouse, Gerard had set up a small table with a few loaves of freshly bought bread on it, but they were not very fresh and looked a little hard.
"These are all we can buy." Ina explained softly, "The people outside don't have the heart to do their work anymore... They are a little too excited."
Ju pursed her lips and said nothing, but she still understood what Ina meant.
After the resolution to execute the God of Lyra was passed, all of Lyra fell into an extreme ecstasy.
I feel like I have been suppressed for many years, but finally gained independence today.
So the carnival began, people spontaneously put down their work and started celebrating. The hard bread on the table was the best proof. If it were in the past, it would be against the rules to sell such bread.
But now, Tianqin is about to die, and the rules that bound them like chains will no longer exist.
"I wanted to buy it somewhere farther away," Ina said to Gerald, "but the cog train has stopped running, so I can only buy these."
Gerard shook his head and said softly, "It doesn't matter. As long as there's food, it's fine."
Compared with the problems we are facing now, eating worse is the least of our worries.
Ina hummed softly and stuffed the bread into her mouth. The dry and hard texture suddenly made her feel a little dazed.
When was the last time you had dinner with your father?
She actually couldn't remember it clearly.
Ina tried hard to recall and remembered that it was ten years ago when she had decided to join the emerging devil army to find the truth, so she had her last dinner with her father.
The atmosphere at home was already very bad at that time... No, to be precise, since Ian didn't come back, it was no longer a home. They didn't say anything during that dinner, and Ina left Gerard after finishing the dry bread in her hand.
And it was ten years since I left.
Thinking of this, Ina couldn't help but look at Jellal again. The look of him, who looked older and more tired than ten years ago, made Ina's heart skip a beat.
"What's wrong?" Gerald noticed the unnatural look on Ina's face and put down the bread and asked.
"No... nothing." Ina took a deep breath, "I just, um..."
She suddenly turned her head and looked at Ju, who was chewing quietly and making almost no sound.
"Ju." Ina called Ju's name softly. When Ju raised his head, she asked softly, "Will you leave here with us?"
Ina's words made Tachibana look a little confused: "Leave here?"
"Yes." Ina nodded, "To be precise, leave Tianqin and live somewhere else."
"Somewhere else?"
"Well, for example, Rhine, Shengyin...any place is good."
Ina said softly.
Her meaning was obvious: as long as she could get away from here, it didn't matter where she went.
"I will take care of you from now on," she added.
Ina originally thought that Ju would agree quickly. After all, Ju had been alone for so many years, and now she finally had someone to accompany her. Logically, there was no reason for her to refuse.
But what Ina didn't expect was that after hearing her words, Ju didn't agree directly, nor did she show any joy on her face. She just lowered her head silently, finished the bread in her hand silently, said "I'm full", got up and left, and returned to her small warehouse.
This made Ina very confused. She turned her head to look at Jellal and asked, "Does she hate me?"
"Of course not."
"Why didn't she agree?"
"It's not that she disagrees." Gerald said, "She just doesn't know how to accept it. She has been here for too long and has long been accustomed to living alone. It's difficult for a child of her age to accept a completely new life now."
Jellal's words surprised Ina even more. She didn't expect that Jellal, a grown man, could understand the character of Tachibana, a little girl who looked so lonely.
Ina was about to ask Jellal how he did it, but then she found that Jellal was looking at her, which suddenly reminded her of something. Her memory made her flash back to many years ago, when she hid behind her brother and carefully stuck her head out to look at Jellal, who was still very young at the time, who came forward and said he would take them away from the orphanage.
At that moment, she understood something and couldn't help laughing out loud.
"It seems that I gave you the experience." Ina said softly, "So I was also such a difficult child before?"
"That's not the case." Jellal smiled for the first time in a long time. "It's just that you are much harder to approach than your brother. After all, at that time, you only trusted your brother."
"...Yes." Ina said, "But I should accept you soon, right?"
"Not very soon." Gerard said, "About half a year."
“Is it that long?”
"certainly."
Ina teased: "You remember it very clearly."
"I can't help it." Gerald said calmly, "The time it took for you to accept me was like a lifetime. I certainly remember it vividly."
Ina smiled even more happily.
As she laughed, she felt like tears were about to fall. Fortunately, she raised her head in time to prevent something inappropriate from interrupting this extremely rare family atmosphere.
And Jellal was tactful enough to bring the topic back to Tachibana.
"That child is different from you." Gerard said, "You had Ian at that time, but she had nothing and has always been alone. I think that eating with other people may be the first time for her... or at least one of the few experiences."
"Yeah……"
Ina turned her head and looked towards the small warehouse. Ju was already lying on the bed, and she didn't know if he was sleeping.
Then, as if she had made up her mind, Ina turned back and said to Gerard, "Leave it to me."
"What?"
"I say, leave the child to me." Ina said softly, "I will let her accept me the same way you made me accept you."
Gerard smiled, "Do you really have that patience? It's not easy to get close to a child like her."
"Hmm... Why do I feel like you're complaining about my past self and looking down on me now?" Ina raised her eyebrows. "Really? Am I really that unbearable in your eyes?"
They looked at each other and smiled again.
It's been a long, long time since I felt this way.
Ina thought.
Then she looked at Gerald again and asked seriously, "So, do you agree?"
"What?"
"Don't ask questions at a time like this, father." Ina said word by word, "Do you agree to leave Tianqin with me?"
Gerard was silent for a while, then asked, "Where are you going to go after leaving Tianqin?"
"Like I said just now, Rhine, Shengyin... anywhere is fine." Ina said, "Nowhere can be worse than here. As long as we leave here, whether it's you, me, or that child... we all need a new life. We all need a new life."
Jellal saw determination in Ina's eyes and he knew that Ina was serious.
But he did not answer immediately. Instead, he slowly ate the bread in his hand, bit by bit, until there was nothing left. Then he slowly spoke.
"Can."
Before Ina could be happy, Gerald said again.
"But not until after tomorrow."
Ina's pupils narrowed slightly. Even though she guessed the reason, she still couldn't help but ask, "Why?"
"I've been here my whole life." Gerard pointed to the land under his feet and said, "No matter what, I want to see its end."
Ina also fell silent.
She knew very well how dangerous it would be to stay here.
But she also knew that it was not easy to change Gerald's mind.
"Okay." After a brief hesitation, Ina nodded and said, "But you have to promise me one thing."
"What?"
"This city has nothing to do with you anymore." Ina said word by word, "You can only be a bystander. No matter what happens, you can't intervene. After witnessing its end, you must leave... Okay?"
Looking at Ina's extremely serious eyes, Jellal nodded slightly: "Okay."
Ina breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Jellal's promise.
She looked up at the gradually darkening sky, put down the half-eaten bread in her hand, and hurriedly got up.
"Since I have to leave tomorrow, I will go back to get some things." Ina said, "I can't leave empty-handed."
"Do you want to withdraw money?"
"More than that." Ina shook her head, a little hesitant, "There are also some... my brother's things."
Gerald nodded: "Okay, then you can go early and come back early."
"Um."
Ina was about to leave but Jellal stopped her.
"etc."
Ina turned around and looked at Jellal with a little confusion: "What's wrong, father?"
Gerard pointed expressionlessly at the half-eaten bread on the table: "We have to finish dinner."
There was a hint of obvious surprise on Ina's face, but after a while she smiled.
"good."
After Ina's back disappeared from his sight, Jellal said softly: "You're back, right?"
"Um".
"Is it finished?"
"That's right." Bai Wei said lazily, "Wait until tomorrow, you just need to go to that place to help me get my tongue back, and your deal with me will be complete. Don't worry, there is no danger on this trip, the danger has been solved by me, but you have to wait until tomorrow."
“I see.”
Jellal still remembered his deal with Bai Wei.
Bai Wei helped him find the truth, and he helped Bai Wei find the tongue.
Now, Bai Wei has completed his part, and only Gerard's is left.
"What will happen tomorrow?" Gerard asked.
"It will end with a most appropriate ending."
Bai Wei said lightly.
Jellal looked into the distance and saw fireworks tearing through the darkness under the sky that should have been dark.
But after a brief moment of splendor, it quickly returned to silence.
This night, people are celebrating.
Celebrating the coming of new gods and the passing of old gods.
"The most appropriate... ending?"
…
"Damn it."
A gear train slowly stopped on the track.
It's not inbound yet.
This made the passengers on the bus extremely dissatisfied.
"What the hell?" they yelled. "Why did it stop?"
"Is the Lyra god of the groove dead? The car won't move?"
"It should have nothing to do with Him, right?"
"Why is it okay? Isn't this broken train left by Him?" the man muttered, "It's an outdated old thing that has been eliminated long ago."
People were cursing and complaining, almost completely forgetting that even a day ago, they had not had such a big opinion about the gear train, and they were even proud that Tianqin could have such an excellent train.
But after today's referendum, everything has changed.
People realized that all of this was just a means for Lyra to keep them imprisoned, a fence to trap them.
Naturally, there is no good attitude towards such a fence.
In just one day, there were earth-shaking changes.
"You'd better get off."
"Damn it, look at how to open this door, I can't pry it open."
Several men tried to open the train doors.
But at this moment, the train slowly started.
"Huh? Why are you moving again?"
"It's really an old thing that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't."
They continued to curse, and then sat down again, waiting for the train to arrive.
But soon, they realized something was wrong.
"Wait, is this car getting faster and faster?"
The train is accelerating.
accelerate.
Keep accelerating.
People discovered that the gear train had suddenly increased to a speed never before achieved.
It was speeding on the track, and the rapid rotation of gears burst out dazzling flames, and the harsh noise was also torturing everyone's ears.
"What's going on?!"
"Hey, hey, hey, why is this car going faster and faster?"
"Look ahead! Look ahead!"
Everyone looked forward, and then showed expressions of horror at the same time.
Because there was a train parked ahead on the track, the people on the train looked at the train chasing them from behind with astonishment.
At that moment, people realized what was going to happen.
But they had no time to stop it, and didn't even have time to jump out of the car, so they could only watch.
The two trains collided suddenly.
"boom!"
The roaring flames consumed nearly a hundred lives.
But in the next second it was covered by fireworks in the night sky.
People are still celebrating.
…
"What's going on?"
In the Fifth District Tower, Yuri walked quickly in the corridor, followed by his adjutant.
Just now, his adjutant reported to him a shocking news.
The fifth district bishop, Weisen, emerged from the amber of thought.
The bishop, who had been away from Tianqin for ten years, also returned.
"When did it happen?" Yuri asked.
"Just half an hour ago." The adjutant was also very nervous. "We had long thought that he would not come back, and no one was guarding him. After Bishop Weisen came out of the Mind Amber, he climbed out of the Mind Hall by himself, and then we found him."
"Climbed out?"
"Yes." The adjutant said, "Bishop Weisen's mind is very confused. He doesn't know what year it is. He just keeps repeating the same sentence."
"What?"
During the conversation, the two had already arrived in front of the Thinking Hall. The adjutant smiled bitterly and said, "Go and listen for yourself."
Yuri pushed the door open directly, and then saw Bishop Weisen, who was supported by several devil knights, but had disheveled hair and still looked crazy.
It's like he came out of a madhouse!
Yuri immediately walked towards Bishop Weisen: "Your Excellency the Bishop, you..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw Weisen raise his head, his bloodshot eyes filled with anger and fear.
"What happened?! What on earth happened?!" Weisen shouted at Yuri, "What on earth happened to Tianqin?! What on earth did you do?!"
"Your Excellency, this is really..."
Yuri was keenly aware that Visen's change might be related to the referendum this morning. When he was about to explain it to him, he heard Visen roaring as if he had lost his mind.
"What the hell did you bastards do?!"
"Why, our Lord..."
"Are you going to kill us all?!"
Yuri froze.
(End of this chapter)
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