What do you do when a hand is placed on your shoulder?

Of course, this is not a horror movie, and there are no ghosts that can threaten Stars, not to mention that this is not a haunted castle, but Rendell's great library.

And the voice that spoke out was that of a woman who was quite familiar to Xing Ke...

So Xingji subconsciously turned around like an ordinary person after being tapped on the shoulder... and then was poked on the cheek by a slender finger.

"What are you doing, Loli?"

Yes, although the action of turning back was used and teased, Xingji still confirmed who was behind him.

Black tone, red lace Lolita style skirt, big bow on the head... I have seen someone who wears this outfit as daily clothes.

And if it were not a beautiful girl like Loli, but someone else, such as Prince Roland, would they still dare to interact with me like this?

Xing Ke had already sent him to Hades as a pawn.

"Can't you see? Say hello!"

Feeling a little embarrassed to be stared at by Xing Ke's embarrassed eyes, he slowly retracted his little hand and took two steps back.

"Hey, you're fine, Keith, why are you in Rendell?"

It seems that she also came over to say hello on a whim. Now after meeting, she remembered that she left without saying goodbye, and now her eyes are a little dodgey.

"Yeah, you're fine."

Xing Ji looked at the girl in front of him with some emotion.

Although I don’t know where she went and what she did after leaving without saying goodbye as one of the few acquaintances in the world of Xingke.

But Xingke really thought that he might never meet her again for thousands of years.

Although this new thing like fate is not absolute, most people will miss it for the rest of their lives once they miss it, but that is because the average person's life span is short and they cannot encounter it in terms of probability.

Xing Ke is a magical being who can spend thousands of years trying to win a lottery with a chance of winning one in ten million. Of course, he will not worry about missing out on a fate.

Of course, this is also under the condition that the other party will not be turned into dust by time.

The two people said hello to each other and then stood in silence between the two bookshelves without anyone coming over.

"..."

"..."

"...What on earth are you talking about! Are you a man?"

"oh……"

"Oh...what the hell! [Oh] what the hell!——"

Unable to bear it, Loli raised her axe, and struck Xing Ke on the head.

"You're unreasonable! You came here to strike up a conversation, right? Why do you want me to find a topic?"

While Xingke was busy casting spells to prevent Loli from destroying the library facilities, he explained:

"I have just recently doubted my emotional intelligence, so I came here to indulge in the ocean of knowledge! How can I have the heart to joke with you——

It’s broken, it’s broken, this is the library, priest, calm down your anger..."

After finally calming down the angry little girl, Xing immediately persuaded Loli to go to the rest area of ​​the tea restaurant in the library, where the two of them could talk without any scruples.

"...Don't you have anything to say?"

After taking a sip of hot tea, Xingji spoke first.

"...I'm so sorry for leaving without saying goodbye!"

Holding her cheek with her hands, Loli looked at the crowd outside the window with an unhappy expression.

"It's okay to admit your mistakes.

But since it didn’t cause me much trouble to be honest, I forgive you.”

Xing Ke nodded matter-of-factly.

"Who wants your forgiveness?

I really didn’t know what expression to use to face you at that time, okay?”

Anyone who has been the oldest person around for hundreds of years, and then confides his deeply buried past to a person he has only known for a while, will be embarrassed to face the person concerned.

The more shameless the old monster is, the more likely this is...possible?

"Didn't you come back to the other side of the door by then? Why did you appear in Rendell's library?"

"...Is there anything abnormal about this? I don't have any special goals or plans."

"Then why did you [doubt your own emotional intelligence] just now? Can you tell me about it, my sister?"

"Sister...this is what I call myself, forget it.

Do you want to listen? In fact, it’s just a boring thing.”

Smiling bitterly and taking a sip of tea, Xingji said in harmony with the sunshine:

"It's just the end of a chapter. A group of people are obviously living well together.

But as time went by, everyone scattered and started chasing their own future."

Xingke didn't know how to describe his current mood, so he could only objectively describe the fact that he was upset.

"A very compatible group of people?"

"yes."

"Are they a group of ordinary humans?"

"yes."

"...I said, you must have experienced this kind of thing more than once, right?"

"……yes."

"Even now, are you still troubled by this?"

"That is to say, even now, I am still troubled by the same type of troubles.

There has been no progress at all.”

Loli smiled mockingly and took a sip of tea:

"Who taught me a lesson with such a great look? Now I'm here complaining..."

"I just want to pretend to be 1. In fact, I am still making progress through exploration, right?

Ordinary people can learn from the experiences of their elders, such as brothers and fathers, as they progress through life.

But how many years ago I no longer had any forerunners to guide me...

Aren’t you the same?”

"..."

Loli didn't deny it.

"Things you can't get used to just can't be used to it. Every time I encounter this melancholy thing, like the story is going to the next chapter, I will be depressed for a while.

And then starting over again...isn't it the same as cheating?"

"That's right! Other people only have one precious life, and it's like a book written by you.

After reading one book, there will be another one... But, you don’t have to do that, right?

Otherwise, after thinking about it from my perspective, I feel that your personality will quickly age and collapse."

Loli opened the book on the table and looked through it twice before putting it back. It must be a book that she was not interested in, right?

"Everyone matures with age... This sentence means that everyone is influenced by the people around them and actively learns, and is assimilated by the elders around them and becomes the same.

You can explain it this way, right?"

Loli didn't know why, she suddenly asked.

After thinking for a second, Xingji replied:

"Not entirely, right?

In this process, some people will begin to learn to think independently, and they may not necessarily imitate the forerunners."

Loli agreed with Xingke's statement.

"That's it, this kind of special individual who starts to think independently, this kind of talented person - guiding them to find the right direction is another task of us as sub-gods and priests.

Sometimes I guide talented people, and sometimes I execute people who violate taboos. This is how I, as a priest, maintain the order of this world."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Xingke didn't quite understand why Loli suddenly started introducing her great mission.

"What I want to say is that during these hundreds of years of missions, I discovered a pattern -

People who think independently will be troubled and very painful. They will be troubled by various doubts throughout their lives.

But they still did not accept the objective facts that people before them had already accepted, and they did not take their eyes away from the problem, and spent their whole lives in confusion."

It was a very romantic life, dying thinking about it.

"People are alive, thinking, troubled, and suffering...

That's how it is.

So the most I can do is listen to your troubles, I can’t help you with anything, I’m sorry.”

Loli spread her hands and expressed unapologetically that she was sorry.

This made Xingke very speechless.
Chapter completed!