Chapter 1445 Finale (III): Fear of the Shadow
Holy calendar year 9571, Scarlet Moon, Melody 4th
Game time PM14:57
School Central District, Caizhu Street, in front of [Matcha Rainbow] Branch No. 6
“Ahem, so that’s probably the case.”
Mo Tan took the napkin handed over by Yu Chen, and while wiping the cream on the corner of his mouth, he explained seriously: "I don't know where the fugitive came from, but he actually alerted Captain Foster. As a result, Mo and I He pulled me back, but having said that, even if we didn't run into him, I probably wouldn't have been able to get back immediately. After all, the whole street was blocked by the law enforcement team."
"Yeah, yeah. Xiaoge and I were quite scared when we saw many members of the law enforcement team."
Yuchen nodded hard and smiled at Mo Tan: "Thank you."
The latter immediately waved his hand and said with a smile: "I don't have anything to do. I just worked around for a while, and finally let someone run away."
"But it's weird!"
Finally finished licking the cone, the winged girl who was munching the cone pouted and looked at Mo Tan in confusion: "There are so many members of the law enforcement team, even if they block the streets, they can mobilize twenty or thirty people. Why don't we let you two non-staff members get involved?"
Mo Tan, who had already perfected his words countless times in his heart, suddenly smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said: "It was mainly a coincidence that I won in the War League. The captain once owed someone a favor, so even if Foster didn't mean it when he said it, it would be hard for us to refuse."
"What?"
Ji Xiaoge immediately opened his eyes and asked curiously: "I know you eliminated Foster in that league before. When did Mo owe him a favor?"
"Ahem... ”
Yuchen coughed slightly when he heard the words, stretched out his little hand to tug Ji Xiaoge's sleeve, and reminded in a low voice: "Bail."
Ji Xiaoge was stunned at first, and then recalled himself Not long after I came to Academy City, I seemed to have dragged someone into a cooking competition, and then he was arrested.
The people who came to bail the two people at that time were the Saint of Fortune Fiari, a formal member of the United Holy Church delegation, and her good sister Yu Chen, and the person responsible for the aftermath was a member of the law enforcement team Captain Foster Ward.
"Okay, so we do owe him a favor."
Ji Xiaoge drooped his wings dejectedly, muttered a few words with his flat mouth, and then looked at him again Mo Tan: "So you guys helped arrest people for a while, and then Mo went offline because something happened?"
"That's right."
Mo Tan smiled tiredly, rubbing his forehead and said: "He said he would be online very late, so we don't have to wait for him."
Ji Xiaoge sighed helplessly, threw the last piece of the cone into his mouth, and glanced at Mo Tan: "Tired?"
"A little bit, but not bad."< br>
The latter gave an ambiguous answer.
"Then let's rest today. Anyway, Chen Chen and I had a great time shopping, and you and Mo also exchanged feelings together."
Ji Xiaoge fluttered her wings and flew behind Yu Chen, smiling. He squeezed the opponent's shoulder that was sore all year round He smiled and said: "It would be too cruel to let you accompany us for a walk again, and hugging each other will easily arouse hatred. I heard that you are a good person. If a few people come out and want to play hooligans, you may not be able to handle it." Come.”
Mo Tan: "..."
"Then I'll see you later. Anyway, we're about to start school, and we'll see it every day. It'll be fresh if we meet in the game, and if Mo Mo turns on me If it's interesting, leave him alone and continue playing. It’s not appropriate~”
Ji Xiaoge rubbed Yuchen’s little face, then winked at Mo Tan, and then strolled towards the outer city, while As he walked away, he waved his hand very coolly.
Mo Tan and Yu Chen watched Ji Xiaoge until the girl's beautiful back disappeared at the end of the street.
What followed was a slightly awkward silence...
Two minutes later
"Xiao Ge is a little unhappy."
Yuchen sighed softly and suddenly muttered something in a low voice.
"Ah?"
My thoughts accidentally wandered to other places. Mo Tan, who was completely unaware of this, was slightly stunned and said in astonishment: "Is there any? I can't tell at all..."
Yuchen lightly knocked on Mo Tan’s head and said with a smile: “Logically speaking, I am now I should have said, 'Hei Fan, you won't find a girlfriend like this,' but it's too cliché, so let's forget it."
"I've already said that..."
Mo. Tan complained angrily and cooperated very cooperatively, pretending to be hurt by the beating.
"Xiao Ge was looking forward to having a good time with us."
Yuchen pressed Mo Tan on the bench for diners, went around to the back and gently pressed Mo Tan's head. Whispering and complaining: "What on earth are you doing..."
Suddenly, Mo Tan's cheeks that were slowly starting to turn red immediately turned white, and he even forgot to stop the girl's slightly intimate 'massage' .
“Well, it seems like it’s something that can’t be discussed.”
Not dissatisfied with the other party’s silence, Yuchen just shook his head helplessly and casually changed the subject. : "So, what are you going to help with?"
"Mo helps in the fight."
Mo Tan coughed slightly and twitched the corner of his mouth in embarrassment: "What I say... help arrange the plan."
"So this person has been Are you all with sister Teresa?"
“Huh?” The human plan should be led by her, right?”
"No, no, no, she is not the leader! Although she did participate, we have never met today."
"Oh~ It turns out we met yesterday. So I went online so early just to talk to you. Are you chatting with Sister Theresa?"
"No, no...there are others..."
"So you did go to meet Sister Theresa yesterday?"
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“Uh…”
"It's so annoying."
"Yes, yes, I didn't think well. I shouldn't..."
"I mean me."
" Huh?”
“I mean, I’m so annoying.”
While rubbing Mo Tan's head, which was aching due to the active number change, Yu Chen said softly: "I obviously didn't want to get to the bottom of it, and I obviously wanted to show that it didn't matter, but it still gives you Hei Fan such a headache."
Mo Tan's body trembled, and then he suddenly grabbed Yuchen's slender wrist and said without looking back: "Having a headache or something has nothing to do with you."
In the end, the girl snorted softly. He made a sound, although he didn't say a word, but he could hear very obvious dissatisfaction from it.
"Ahem, I mean, I do have a physical 'headache' at the moment, but it has nothing to do with you. It's entirely due to my own reasons, and it's much better now. "
Mo Tan added awkwardly, the implication being that although the pain in my head now is not because of you, it does not mean that I have never been mentally worried because of you.
Admittedly, the implication may be a little complicated, but Yuchen should still understand it, because after hearing Mo Tan's words, she suddenly broke away from Mo Tan's hand and continued to rub the head in front of her that was said to be a little painful. He pressed it gently and whispered: "I am annoying anyway."
"If you are annoying, there must be someone Only those who are annoyed will do so."
Mo Tan lazily closed his eyes and said in a brisk tone: "If no one is annoyed, then..."
Yu Chen blinked his eyes: "What is that?"
"Hypocritical."
"..." "Ah, it hurts, it hurts!!!"
"Who is being hypocritical?"
"Let go, let go, let go!!"
"Am I being hypocritical?"
"Me, me, me, me! I'm pretentious! I'm pretentious!"
"Is the physical headache now because of me?"
"Yes, yes, yes! Mom, you are playing a game Why are you so strong?”
“The mental headache is always because of me?”
“Yes, please let go of my head!”
"It's annoying, isn't it?"
"No."
"Huh?!"
"Even if you smash my head, no, no." Yes.”
“……”
Yu Chen suddenly lowered his hand in frustration, then lowered his head and hit the back of Mo Tan's head hard: "You are annoying!"
Mo Tan grinned and shrugged: "I don't deny this."
“Hmph~”
I stopped giving ink because my hand hurt. After Tan pressed his head, Yuchen sat next to Mo Tan and suddenly asked, "Who was that Hei Fan when we were shopping before?"
Mo Tan's pale complexion suddenly turned blue, although he immediately adjusted his mental state. , but the voice still trembled slightly: "Huh?"
"I said..."
The girl turned her head and winked at Mo Tan, with a smile as bright as a flower: "Hei Fan didn't even accompany me shopping properly before, please make up for it now~"
...
Game time PM18:13
Academy City Central District, [Stars] top floor of high-end chain hotel, Suite Zero
"So this is probably the situation."
Sitting opposite Diana who was curled up on the sofa, Futaba had put on her clothes before the man in front of her came back while flipping through the book "The Mad Mage" in her hand. "Odum Travels", while saying calmly: "In her own words, she should be resting this time... Well, I think she was actually in a coma for about three months, so she probably won't be able to say goodbye to you properly. She is on the verge of death. I made you a pot of coffee before, but it was very hard to drink, so I only drank one cup secretly. , that’s it.”
Frank Hughes on the side was silent for a long time, and then slowly walked up to Diana, half-kneeling on the ground and gently caressing the latter’s cheek. After a while, he smiled bitterly and shook his head: "How could that be? Like this?"
"I don't know."
Futaba replied without raising his head, and then added: "If one of us knows why, It will only be you.”
"Sorry, I'm not in the mood to cooperate with your testing game right now..."
Frank turned around and smiled apologetically at Futaba, then took a deep breath, stood up and asked, "Can you tell me the details? What happened? "
Futaba closed the book with a snap and looked up lazily. The gloomy Frank chuckled and said: "What's the use of telling you? You're just an ordinary bard? Can you still wake her up?"
"That's mine. "
Frank narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly: "You just need to tell me the cause and effect and what happened in the middle."
"I don't have this obligation."
Futaba lazily hugged the cushion and said absently: "But I can be sure that even Diana is indeed a very powerful astrologer. In this period I’m afraid time won’t count what’s going on in the outside world, so you don’t have to be so explicit.”
Frank’s eyes, which were always calm and gentle, became sharp for the first time, and he said in a deep voice: "I've said it before, I'm not in the mood to cooperate with Futaba's testing games right now. No matter what you suspect, I just want to find out why something happened to Diana!"
The girl chuckled lightly, eyebrows raised. Wei Tiao: "Are you expressing dissatisfaction to me?"
"I am asking you."
Frank shook his head and smiled bitterly: "At most, I'm a little anxious..."
Futaba's expression remained calm, and he just said lightly: "It does seem like this, but I'm not sure if it's you. After all, your performance in the last copy was really amazing. To be honest, you have no reason for me to trust you without reservation after going through that incident. You can become anyone you want to be. Frank, you know what I mean."
"Mr. Shuling's fantasy is just a game after all."
Frank walked slowly to Futaba, his eyes burning. Looking at the other person: "But this is not an illusion, nor is it a copy of what you said, but reality."
"Answer me, where were you before you came back?"
"Evidencing my harmlessness to Evie Lehman, trying to get her to let me go."
"The result?"
"Nothing, she seems to have other things. I wanted to do it, but I was called away without saying a few words."
"Why didn't you come back as soon as possible?"
"She told me not to go anywhere before she left. Wait for her to come back.”
"Then what? Did she go back to find you?"
"No, but not long ago, I noticed a teenager walking into a house with Ms. Lehman, who was covered in blood and was in a severe coma. Tea restaurant."
"Why did a young man bring Evie covered in blood into a tea restaurant?"
"I don't know, but I don't think she can go back. Come back after looking for me.”
“Is this your answer?”
"Yes."
Under Futaba's scrutinizing gaze, Frank nodded slightly, but his eyes were not calm: "So, please tell me why Diana is unconscious and what does she see? What happened? "
"It can be seen that you really want to know the reason from the bottom of your heart."
Futaba rolled his eyes and asked dryly: "For reasons. Love for her? "
Frank didn't speak, but just clenched his hands slightly.
"Well, in Diana's own words, she seemed to have seen something indescribably bad."
The girl did not continue to talk about it, and told the truth happily: "It seems to be something very abstract. Something that combines the qualities of 'you will go crazy if you look at it for a long time', 'weird', and 'can It is enough to distort the great astrologer's concept of "starry sky" and a series of weird qualities. It is obvious that that is the culprit of Diana's downfall. "
"Thank you, Futaba..."
Frank was silent for a long time before he showed a sincere smile to the girl in front of him.
Then, Mo Tan, who turned to look at Diana, breathed a sigh of relief because he had found the 'answer', and playfully winked at the clumsy Sleeping Beauty on the sofa——
"Good night, my dear, have sweet dreams."
To be continued
(End of this chapter)