This is the default rule of all alchemists, just like the third law restricting the devil. The devil cannot change what has happened, and the same is true for humans.

When a life dies, everything is settled.

After saying this, Bailey couldn't help but become vigilant. TEDA was her teacher, but in the past seven years, the teacher she was familiar with had changed too much.

For TEDA, this is a terrible but real secret, but no one has the courage to reveal such a truth to such a fanatical seeker of knowledge. This will undoubtedly negate everything TEDA has done in the past seven years.

But Bailey couldn't wait any longer. She didn't want her teacher to go crazy. It was time to end it all.

Badr on the side also turned his head slightly and stared at the teacher beside him. Bailey basically had no fighting ability. Even if she could smash an adult man's head with a crowbar, it would still be too much for someone with power.

A little bit powerless.

Since Bailey became the minister, Badr has also been regarded as her personal attendant, protecting Bailey's safety. This risky move is likely to turn into a battle between master and disciple.

The expected rage did not appear, and everything seemed quiet. Teda let out a long sigh, lowered his head, and his face was hidden in the darkness.

"But since she left, Alice has been everything to me."

Rough fingers rubbed the group photo, and Teda murmured.

Bailey was silent. She didn't expect the conversation to go so smoothly. As if he guessed what she was thinking, there was a bitter smile in Teda's voice.

"Do you think I will take action against you? You are my students after all."

Putting away the group photo, Teda turned his head and looked at Bailey, "Don't worry, I'm very sensible and I know how to control it."

"What about Aimu?"

Bailey was not deceived by Teda's words. She knew her teacher very well.

"You can't tell the difference anymore, right? Teacher, the boundaries between Aimu and Alice are beginning to blur... are you really ready to sacrifice Aimu?"

Upon hearing Bailey's words, Teda's figure froze, and his cloudy eyes were filled with a bit of surprise and anger.

"Are you curious how I know this? Please, I am your best student, and I am now the minister of the Sublimation Furnace Core."

As she said this, Baili's feeling of bullying her master and destroying her ancestors came back. She smiled and said, "I'm making rapid progress, and I might be able to surpass you in a few years. It's not difficult to think of this."

Badr, who was on the side, might have felt a little bad. He finally managed to control the teacher's emotions, but Bailie started to get angry again.

Teda is an alchemist, but he is a three-stage power bearer. Compared with the ordinary combat-type sublime ones, he is much inferior, but it is more than enough to beat them two, not to mention that he is a pure fantasy creation.

.

Bailee and Badr had witnessed with their own eyes the scene where TEDA's crazy fantasy became a reality.

"People cannot create souls. You used Alice's Philosopher's Stone to trick Aimu into moving. But there is only one Philosopher's Stone and only one soul. Do you want Alice to be resurrected, or do you want Aimu to die?

?”

Bailey looked directly into TEDA's eyes, not allowing him to dodge, and her words were like swords.

"You...are you going to lose another daughter?"

Teda clenched his fists, and the blue blood vessels on the back of his hands swelled, accumulating full strength.

If it were someone else's words that angered him, TEDA would have taken action long ago, but this was Bailey, and just like Bailey understood him, TEDA also understood Bailey.

Surprisingly, Teda smiled helplessly, let go of his hand, leaned back, and leaned comfortably on the sofa.

"I don't care, just like I taught you, Aimu is just a tool, and I am an alchemist. I can make many tools. If I fail, I will try again. My goal has never wavered."

Teda spoke extremely rational and cruel words. Even before Amu was born, the dark warehouse was filled with the corpses of alchemy dolls.

After hearing this, Bailey shook her head and couldn't help but say, "Then she is really pitiful. She was born to die for the resurrection of another person."

"This is the fate of tools. We are scholars. You should understand this truth, Bailey." TEDA in turn educated Bailey.

Bailey just smiled and said nothing.

The silence lasted for a long time, and Bailey spoke again, "Teacher, how are you going to resurrect Alice?"

“Fantasy come true.”

"Is this another fantasy coming true?" Bailey shook her head, "You've tried it many times, this way won't work."

TEDA didn't respond. He didn't want to explain too much to Bailey.

"Stop talking about these things, Bailey. This is the Pledge Day, a day worth celebrating, not like now, where it seems like we will turn against each other in the next second." Teda said with an effort with a smile.

"How could we turn against each other? Don't I care about you?" Bailey said, putting a hand on Teda's shoulder, as if he was a brother-in-law.

"It's just that you, teacher, are really similar to Balder."

Bailey said and looked at Badr who was silent.

"Just like a turtle, it always hides in its shell. With all your messy thoughts, I still can't pry open your shell and take a closer look at what's underneath."

The topic turned to Badr. He, who had been silent all this time, never expected that it would turn out like this. At this time, TEDA's eyes also fell over, staring at the dark figure.

"Have you been like this since around seven years?" Teda asked.

Badr nodded and said, "It's been so long, teacher."

"Take off your helmet. There are no outsiders here anyway. I have almost forgotten your appearance." Teda said.

Badr hesitated. After thinking for a moment, he still obeyed TEDA's words. He raised his hands and took off his helmet. The cold air came close to his skin, causing an unspeakable tingling sensation.

The room was dark, and an ugly face appeared under the helmet. Burns were all over Baldur's face, making him hideous.

Seeing this face, Teda's heart froze and he said with a bit of sadness.

"sorry."

"It's nothing, teacher. If it weren't for you at that time, I might have died."

Baldr shook his head. He would only take off his helmet when he was alone. It had been too long since he had shown his true face. Baldr had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Seven years ago, the overlord Xilin invaded the "Kenshi". The brutal recruitment destroyed all the alchemy weapons, as did Badr's protective suit. TEDA dragged him out of the sea of ​​fire, but he was still attacked by the blazing fireworks.

It became what it is today.

Unknowingly, the shadow of seven years ago covered the three of them. Everything had changed, but it seemed like nothing had changed.

"I really miss you, teacher."

Bailey couldn't help but speak. This time, there was no cheerful smile on her face, she was uncharacteristically serious.

"The past is a foregone conclusion. You have been trapped by Alice's death for too long."

Teda shook his head and said self-deprecatingly, "That's how it is."

"Just like when we study the 'secret source', sometimes we will be stuck on a problem for several years, and sometimes we will know the solution to the problem at a certain moment."

TEDA strives to be more honest and sincerely speaks to his students.

"I also want to come out, but as soon as I close my eyes, it's what she told me before she died."

With cloudy eyes, he looked at the group photo, that was Teda's wife.

"If it hadn't happened seven years ago, Alice would have been as beautiful as she is...

But this kind of thing is like this, I understand everything, and I also know that I am trapped, but... it's like it's hard to save myself, I know the cause and effect of everything, but I just can't get out."

Teda was distressed, with depressed thoughts.

This is the case with many things. Everyone knows what the right choice is, but they are bound by heavy emotions and find it difficult to take rational steps. This is how human beings are, trapped in a cocoon.

Bailey was speechless. She also understood that other people's persuasion was meaningless to TEDA.

Either wipe out all hope for TEDA, or one day TEDA will decide to get out of the predicament.

"But just like those difficult problems, maybe I will realize it at some moment, and nothing will hold me back from now on."

Teda tried his best to sound cheerful and said with a bit of expectation.

Bailey looked at her teacher and said seriously, "I just hope you don't regret it then, teacher."

The words contained persuasion, but also had a hint of threat. Teda was stunned and affirmed.

"I won't regret it."

"Then let's leave first without disturbing you."

Bailey stood up and motioned for Badr to join him, and Badr also put his helmet back on. Negotiations were fruitless. The two simply said goodbye to TEDA, and then left, disappearing into the stairwell.

Teda was the only one left in the room again. In solitude, he stroked and posed for a group photo, and kept mumbling.

"I was right and I won't regret it."

TEDA tried hard to make his soft heart become cold and hard again. This was all just a research. In order to resurrect Alice, TEDA could do anything to achieve this.

Throwing away all the messy thoughts, TEDA's eyes were as cold as iron and he kept murmuring strangely.

"Fantasy come true...Fantasy come true..."

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Chapter completed!