Seeing this, Lu Mian smiled helplessly, stepped forward, and said slowly with a hint of gentle apology:
"What's so important that our good girl would wait here for so long?"
Hearing this, Kiana, who had recovered a lot, scratched her head and laughed foolishly, "I just went shopping in the commercial street with Mei and Bronya. They went to play games together halfway. I found a cake that is really delicious, so I wanted you to try it, Amian.
"But when I arrived at your dormitory door, I found that you were not at home. Then I suddenly remembered that we had never added any contact information. So I had no choice but to wait. Actually, if I counted carefully, it didn't seem like I had to wait that long..."
"I just bought this phone not long ago, and I haven't had time to add anyone's contact information. And why don't you come back tomorrow?" Lu Mian explained and asked back.
"Ah, how can that be?" Kiana crouched down, picked up the plastic bag at her feet and handed it to Lu Mian, "Based on the experience I have accumulated when I lived with my father, cakes that have been left overnight will not taste good."
Lu Mian looked at the smiling Kiana, then looked at the strawberry cake in Kiana's hand, and was speechless for a moment.
This kind of behavior and thinking, which is more "pure" than ordinary people's emotions and ways of thinking, is quite reasonable when applied to Kiana.
He didn't know what emotion he was feeling as he silently took the cake from the girl's hand.
The two people's fingertips gently touched and then separated, conveying an indescribable warmth to each other.
"Thank you. I have the key on my waist. Let's go into the house and try the cake to see what it is." After a long while, Lu Mian said this softly.
After hearing this, Kiana didn't hesitate and reached out her hand to fumble for a while, successfully found and took off the key.
When she opened the door with the key, she fixed her eyes on the key in her hand, as if she could see flowers on it:
"By the way, Amian, can you also give me a key to your room? That way I can come to see you anytime."
"Step forward." Lu Mian, who was easy-going by nature, accepted the cake from Kiana and put aside the last concern in his heart, agreeing without hesitation.
In return, the girl pounced on him without any hesitation.
"Great! I knew you were the best, Amian!"
"Don't be so sudden, Cake Cake!"
In this way, the two of them hurriedly but safely entered the dormitory living room.
Lu Mian placed the cake on the dining table in the living room, and under Kiana's expectant gaze, he reached out and removed the plastic bag covering the cake.
However, the strawberry cake, which should have been round in shape, looked gorgeous and sweet, but it had lost its perfection and was missing a corner.
Seeing this, Lu Mian was stunned for a moment, then he chuckled and said:
"This cake is indeed a good cake. Even its shape is different from ordinary cakes."
"Ah! This... actually, I thought the cake was so delicious that I couldn't help but secretly eat a little bit in advance..." Kiana, with a red face, rubbed her flat belly and responded rather embarrassedly.
It was reasonable for Kiana to secretly eat a piece of the cake she was about to give away because it was so delicious.
Lu Mian, who had almost figured out the logic of Kiana's behavior, did not feel angry or offended. He just chuckled and shook his head, then used the knife in his hand to cut out another large piece of cake and pushed it in front of her.
While doing this, he spoke in a gentle voice, as if teasing, "Just by watching our Kiana make it, you can directly feel how delicious this cake is. Take another bite quickly, don't let the good child starve."
"Great!" Kiana, who is willing to give her true heart for an invisible and intangible feeling, has never distanced herself from or avoided anything, and this time is no exception.
She clapped her hands in a very girlish manner, then happily took the cake and started eating, mumbling as she ate:
"I know you're the best, Ah Mian. You won't blame me."
The behavior she displayed during this period was enough to make people doubt whether she had eaten well today, yesterday, or even the day before yesterday.
Well, it’s good that a good girl can eat and drink.
With such thoughts in mind, Lu Mian's face was filled with a helpless smile. At the same time, he subconsciously reached out to take out the tissue on the table, and wiped the sweet cream that accidentally stained the greedy girl's pretty face without caring about the intimacy.
Only after wiping off all the "mischievous" cream did he nod his head in satisfaction and have the chance to taste the strawberry cake that should have belonged to him - the strawberries were delicious, and had no other drawbacks except being expensive; the slightly sour sweet cream and the fragrant and soft cake base complemented each other and made each other perfect.
If you ask whether it tastes good or not, the answer is probably yes.
But if you ask whether it is so special that it can be deeply remembered after just one bite, the answer is probably not.
Perhaps Kiana, who has lived with Siegfried since childhood, has not actually eaten many good things?
Or maybe, Lu Mian had already quietly discovered the existence of something more beautiful and sweet than this strawberry cake, so he raised his psychological expectations.
Anyway, not bad.
Compared to Lu Mian's idea, Kiana, who was showing off her cake, cared about something more special.
She didn't stop eating, her pretty face puffed up slightly like a hamster eating nuts, indescribably cute.
His eyes were particularly sharp, as if he had already seen through the truth. Although he was raising a question, his tone was extremely decisive:
"Well, I don't know why I always feel that you are very skilled in wiping the cream on my face, Amian. Did you practice it somewhere?"
The sound is gentle, but it can unexpectedly evoke deep memories in people's hearts.
In a trance for a moment, Lu Mian's eyes became extremely long, so long that they seemed to be able to penetrate two cold worlds separated by each other.
He thought of his little saint again...
After a long time, he finally came back to his senses, but he laughed dumbly and reached out to lightly touch the nose of the girl in front of him, "Silly girl, who would deliberately practice something like this when they have nothing better to do?
"I did this because before I met you, I happened to know a lovely girl who was similar to you in many ways. You both have beautiful and heroic silver hair and blue eyes, are both greedy, like strawberry cake, and have a unique understanding of justice in your heart..."
He didn't bother to hide anything, but his voice was unexpectedly soft and gentle, as if he was describing a dream scene that no one was lucky enough to hear.
Besides that, there was a hint of complacency on his face that seemed inappropriate.
You can see that he is really proud.
The same silver hair and blue eyes, the same gluttony, the same love for strawberry cake, and even the same understanding of justice in their hearts... right?
With this thought in mind, Kiana asked:
"So, am I like her?"
"Yes, you have a lot in common, which has made me secretly astonished and sigh at the tricks of fate;
But in the final analysis, it is not like that. She is the softness in my heart and the little saint, and you are my cat and cat?" Lu Mian replied, without any words that could show off his emotional intelligence, only his sincerity.
Kallen and Kiana are very similar, to a degree that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, so Lu Mian would respond to the first half of the sentence.
At the same time, there may be thousands of possibilities and corresponding explanations for their first meeting and current acquaintance, but it would not be because of this similarity.
Therefore, Lu Mian would respond with the second half of the sentence.
But our dear Miss Cat and Bug doesn't seem to buy it.
"Puchi——" After hearing Lu Mian's somewhat "nonsensical" answer, Kiana really couldn't hold back her laughter, "What on earth is this 'cat bug'? Ah Mian, you are not alluding to our first encounter, are you? If that's the case, then I'm really going to be angry."
As she spoke, the girl showed her cute little fangs, as if saying, "If you dare to agree, I will bite you to death."
Seeing this, Lu Mian, who was "frightened", waved his hands hurriedly and said with a smile:
"How dare you?"
"Don't dare? That means you have really had this thought? Okay!" Kiana, who was particularly smart about this kind of thing for some reason, said so, and then pounced on Lu Mian like a little monster.
After a while of laughing and playing, Kiana, who was a little exhausted, was held in Lu Mian's arms without struggling.
After a long silence, she said:
"I still think that 'cat, cat, bug' doesn't sound nice. Just wait, I will definitely change your mind with my efforts and strength. Even if I'm not a 'saint', I should be a respectable person like 'the great Ms. Kiana'!"
"Really? I look forward to your future performance, my little hero." Lu Mian said with a slight smile on his face.
Chapter 6 Hello, Fool (Three in One)
Kiana and Lu Mian ate delicious strawberry cake together, and then made a promise about "heroes", and then skipped away under the fragmented white moonlight.
Lu Mian did not stand up to see her off, but sat there blankly, staring blankly at the back of this silly girl who was carefree but would never make anyone feel disgusted, until she completely disappeared from his sight and could no longer be seen.
Instantly, the warm atmosphere in the house disappeared.
He just leaned on the chair, his eyes fixed again and again, and after a few seconds, he murmured softly:
"It must be very hard to become a great hero... I hope you can be happy as always; I also hope everything goes well for me."
Everyone has to go through the process of growing up. No one comes into this world and can find his or her original self at the end of the day.
Face growth, allow everything to happen, and then be a brave person, that's all.
But if one wants to grow up to the level of a hero, it would be too heavy.
Perhaps, there are some bumps along the way that could have been avoided, and some unnecessary pain that could have been avoided.
The current Lu Mian is no longer the “ordinary person” who was unable to face the collapse and could only be forced to accept and fear death.
He already has the ability to change some things, and he is also qualified to prevent the emergence of the "firefly" who is good in every way except that he lacks the innocent smile on his face.
In that case, why not?
As for the collapse, it doesn’t matter, he will take action.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, hidden in his eyes and deep in his heart. In the end, only a confident smile remained on Lu Mian's face.
He smiled, his smile undiminished, and neatly cut off a large piece of strawberry cake and placed it on a new plate. "The cake is quite delicious. Would you like to try it?"
These somewhat abrupt words were referring to the living room which was currently empty except for him.
Not long after Lu Mian made this abrupt invitation, a blond man in purple clothes slowly emerged from the void and came into his sight.
The man had blond hair and blue eyes, with long hair tied into a ponytail and draped over his left shoulder. He looked to be in his twenties, with fair skin and a beautiful face, and he naturally had an indescribable subtle nobility.
He was dressed very decently in a purple bishop's robe with gold edges, grey trousers and brown boots.
The only archbishop appointed by heaven is a madman who only has a woman who has been dead for five hundred years in his heart and is fooled by her.
Otto. Otto Apokalis, that was his name.
However, Lu Mian prefers to call him: Fool.
Because he had already discussed this with his daughter, and knew that the Fool was not a threat at all, Lu Mian was not in a hurry, but remained calm and polite:
"I have nothing, so I can only offer this cake as a token of my appreciation. I hope the Bishop will not be offended."
“Ha, it would be disrespectful to refuse.” Saying this, the Fool pulled out a chair and sat next to Lu Mian.
The smile on his face was sincere and full of gratitude, and it didn't seem fake at all.
Afterwards, the two of them really sat together and ate the cake, like old friends who had been separated for many years, enjoying the silent silence together.
After a long while, Lu Mian finally spoke softly and asked the question he had wanted to ask from the beginning:
"Did something go wrong 'over there' this time, or is there something important that I must know?"
“That Immaculate Bishop asked me to tell you that she and Her Highness the Saint are on their way to this world, and their reunion won’t be far away. As for important things, no, there is one insignificant thing: I have dealt with the Anti-Entropy.” The Fool’s response was as sincere as the expression on his face, making people want to believe it unconsciously.
The Fool before was like a person trapped in darkness.
In order to save the purple ivy with a broken stem in his life, and to make everything return to the way it should be, he must grope for the right path bit by bit in the endless darkness.
Therefore, he can be Macbeth who steals the throne, Don Quixote who rushes towards the windmill, or Faust who makes a deal with the devil...
Whether it is a bad thing or a good thing, it is just a means to achieve the only goal.
In the uncertainty of all the unknowns, rather than following the rules and regulations restricted by the world, he prefers to guide chaos and accidents and collide the two together, and hopes that the spark called "miracle" will appear.
Five hundred years of waiting and trying did not result in the appearance of sparks.
Then, a beam of warm light descended, dispelling all the darkness.
The right time, the right place, the right people and everything else pushed the fool forward, allowing him to finally see with his own eyes the smooth road to "return home" that he had been searching for half a thousand years.
Now, he just needs to go back to being a devout believer, go through a short wait and maintain a certain degree of world peace during this period.
Let the sun rise as usual and let everything proceed as planned.
In this way, you can change everything by yourself without having to try anything, and naturally, you don’t have to create any more trouble.
And all this is thanks to that beam of warm light that illuminates everything. How will the Fool view her and the person who nurtured her into light?
Lu Mian didn’t know what the Fool’s attitude towards him was, and he didn’t want to delve into it.
At this moment, he was completely shocked by the "anti-entropy destruction" and didn't know what to say.
For a fool, destroying an anti-entropy without a "Walter Joyce" is really not a big deal.
