From Prisoner to Si Chen

"Fuck the mission!"

Barbara cursed unceremoniously.

"You are different from me, Torina...your laws were not formed voluntarily, and all the pain was just imposed on you. Why should you lie to yourself?"

"But at the very least, I voluntarily suffer for Mr. Guillen."

Torina smiled slightly.

Barbara heard her subtext and felt a hint of helplessness and pain.

At this time, Torina said quietly:

"Even if I don't volunteer, so what? The Holy Mother should be like the Holy Mother. If I refuse, won't I suffer?"

"From the moment the 'Law of Darkness' was born, my fate was doomed."

"He will never grow old or die. He will always stay in the darkness and silence, silently enduring endless suffering for the world."

As she spoke, Torina looked at the night sky.

"Omer was born in response to a wish, crawled out from the belly of the God of Love, and held up a torch for the world... As for me, I was also born in response to a wish, but I was dragged out of the belly of Omer. out and was forced to light himself on fire.”

"In this endless nothingness, only Mr. Gillan can feel my pain, and only he once said that he would take me out to see the sun outside."

"Yes, he is weak."

"Perhaps it is only this kind of weakness and ignorance that makes him make such arrogant and unrealistic promises."

Torina smiled, and her clear eyes fell on her friend Barbara.

"But I believe him."

"You really are hopeless, Torina."

Barbara said solemnly.

She felt inexplicably sad.

Because missions and ascension methods are similar, the two have the best relationship in the Twelve Stars.

Seeing the changes in her friend, Barbara actually felt uneasy. And this change originated from the young man named Ji Lan.

This made Barbara even more annoyed.

"Since you asked for mercy for him, I won't take action."

She said expressionlessly.

"But that's all, Torina. If he hadn't tried his best to protect Lilia and wiped out a ray of Pal's will, I would never have let him go so easily..."

After that, Barbara stood up, turned around and left.

A beam of light fell from the sky, and the woman with short red hair stepped into the light. Finally, Barbara's voice came again:

"One last thing to remind you, although Pal is hiding because of my injury, the 'Eclipse Society' has been moving frequently recently, mostly to allow him to recover as soon as possible..."

"Only by removing this organization as soon as possible can we have more time to find Parr's hiding place."

As the beam of light gradually dissipated, Barbara's voice disappeared and her figure disappeared.

Torina looked at the direction her friend was leaving and was silent for a while, as if she didn't care much about the last words.

Immediately, he smiled and murmured:

"You don't actually hate Gilan that much, right? Otherwise, how could you let a ray of your law fall into his hands?"

The garden fell into dead silence again.

A long while.

Father Jiao Yi walked over slowly, stopped behind the girl in the wheelchair, bent down and whispered:

"Miss, Gilan Iros is here and has just arrived at the gate of Castle Black."

Torina raised her pretty eyebrows, her eyes showing surprise.

…

…

Not long after.

The girl in the wheelchair was pushed by the housekeeper and waited quietly on the platform at the top of the steps.

A young man with purple eyes walked slowly over, carrying a cane.

Seeing the two of them, the other party was startled at first, then took off his hat and saluted.

"Long time no see, Miss Torina."

"haven't seen you for a long time……"

The girl in the wheelchair put her hands gently on the skirt of her thighs, her black hair was like a waterfall, and she looked at the young man with a smile.

"Welcome, Mr. Gillan."

When the young man approached, Torina found that he was carrying a large paper bag with bulging contents.

She couldn't help but be a little curious, so she asked:

"What's this?"

"I promised you before that I would bring you some delicious food... In addition, there are also some interesting gadgets."

Gilan lifted the paper bag and smiled politely.

"So you still remember."

Torina narrowed her eyes and smiled.

"Of course." Gillan shrugged. "I will never forget the promises I made."

"I'm looking forward to it, sir."

The girl covered her mouth and smiled.

Immediately afterwards, Gillan was led to the garden inside. He was a little surprised when he saw the steaming teapot on the table.

"Does Miss Torina know that I will come today?"

"Miss will wait here every day..."

Father Jiao Yi, who was pushing the wheelchair, said solemnly.

But before he finished speaking, he noticed that the girl turned her head and glanced at him with calm eyes.

Jorah felt a chill in his heart and immediately shut up.

"I water flowers and make tea here every day... It just so happens that I recently researched a new flower tea. I hope your husband will like it."

Torina motioned for Jorah to push her to the table.

Soon after Ji Lan took his seat, the girl had quickly brewed a new pot of tea and poured a cup for both of them.

"It's called 'Longing', please."

"Thanks."

Ji Lan picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

A taste that was much more bitter than black coffee suddenly filled my mouth.

He raised his eyebrows and couldn't help but look at the girl in front of him. There was a smile on the other person's pale face, and his black eyes flickered slightly, as if expecting.

At this moment, for some reason, Jilan felt a strong bitterness that was extremely sour.

"It's bitter and sour."

"It's like waiting, right?"

Torina smiled.

"Endless darkness, endless waiting."

"No……"

Gillan shook his head.

He felt the aftertaste in his throat, but tasted a hint of magical fragrance and sweetness.

"It's more like looking forward to a ray of light appearing in the darkness, full of hope."

Hearing this, Torina laughed.

She knows that only the person in front of her knows how to taste her tea.

"So do you like it?"

"Can you tell the truth?" Ji Lan asked with a smile. After seeing Torina nodding, he apologized: "Compared with this cup of 'Longing', I prefer the previous 'Yelan' and 'Crimson'."

Torina was startled.

Then I heard the purple-eyed young man laugh and say:

"It's so bitter, I'd like to add a little sugar to it if I could."

Torina felt her heartbeat speed up a little.

"Yes, sir." She lowered her eyes and whispered.

Gillan opened the paper bag he brought and took out a box of mints.

Immediately, he opened two of them and put them into his and Torina's teacups respectively.

"Try again?" Gillan gestured.

Torina picked up the tea cup with great interest and took a small sip.

Then, smile.

"I like this special taste."

"And these..."

As Gilan said, he took out small cartons one by one from the paper bag and opened them all thoughtfully.

These cartons have cartoon characters of "Hank's Mom's Specialty" printed on them, which is quite cute.

"Snowflake cake, grilled bacon, fried meatballs, sausage burgers, figure-shaped buns, and liver cheese... These are some snacks from Muse City, the capital of the empire. I have tasted them once before and thought they were good. Miss Tolina wants to try them. ”

"certainly."

Torina readily agreed.

Father Jiao Yi behind her saw this and was about to give a warning, but suddenly saw the young lady turning her head and saying with a smile:

"Mr. Jorah, I seem to have forgotten to close the tea room window."

"Yes, miss, I'll go right away."

The Butler of Black Castle took a deep breath, stroked his chest and bowed.

Then he turned around and left silently.

When there were only two people left in the quiet garden, Torina tasted the snacks brought by the young man with great expectation.

She first scooped a spoonful of snowflake cake into her little mouth with a silver spoon, and then looked surprised.

"So sweet and delicious..."

Then, Torina tasted the rest of the food one by one. She praised the snacks with different textures and flavors.

Ji Lan watched and sighed secretly.

Street snacks like this can be seen everywhere in the empire, but the wheelchair girl in front of her has never eaten them.

To her, they were all surprises.

"Thank you, Mr. Gillan."

Torina wiped the corners of her mouth with an embroidered handkerchief and whispered.

Gillan shook his head.

He took out some sundries from the paper bag.

"This is Prudential chess, imperial chess, hand-held camera, Wanhua mirror, phonograph doll..."

“Are these things the toys that Bremen people like?”

Torina carefully picked up the sundries on the table, looked at them one by one, and asked curiously.

"Well, you could say that."

Gillan laughed.

He explained to Torina how to play these gadgets again, and the smile on the girl's face never stopped.

In the garden, her clear, bell-like laughter can be heard from time to time.

"Hello."

Torina held a stuffed gray bunny doll, followed Gillan's instructions, pressed its left paw, and said a tentative sentence.

Then, turn your head and press your right paw.

"Hello." The plush doll vibrated and made a sound similar to Torina's.

"It turns out that the world is so interesting..."

Torina held the doll in her hands as if she loved it.

Like a curious baby who has never seen the world, she picked up a few more postcards on the table.

"This is?"

"Oh, this is a postcard hand-drawn by a friend of mine when he was traveling. The scenery on it comes from the western countries. For example, this one is the windmill garden, and this one is the Cronos Sea of ​​Flowers..."

Gillan explained casually.

The girl in the wheelchair nodded silently. She looked at the hand-painted scenery on the postcard and whispered:

"The painting is so good... I don't know how beautiful the real scenery will be."

She raised her head and asked curiously:

"Is this friend of Mr. Gillan also a gentleman like you?"

"No." Gillan shook his head. "She is a noble lady named Flamel Nicola."

"oh……"

Torina nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

For some reason, her original interest faded a bit, so she put down the postcard in her hand.

"By the way, this time I came to visit, I also brought a gift for Miss Torina."

Gillan laughed.

"A gift?" The girl in the wheelchair was puzzled. "Isn't this what it is?"

"A true gift."

Gillan said, taking out a piece of negative film about three centimeters long and two centimeters wide.

Put it gently on the table.

Torina looked at the film and was stunned.

"The power of law of 'Windmill Cat'!"

She raised her head sharply and looked at the purple-eyed young man in disbelief, and her heartbeat accelerated again.