A group of people looked at each other, and finally Darent spoke up: "Oh, he might have suffered some setbacks. He has been eating and sleeping a lot recently, and he has lost a lot of weight."
The inside story cannot be revealed easily, because it involves the dispute between the royal power of Poplar and Holy Oak, which is not something a mere executive should know.
"Is your Highness alright?"
"He should be up by now. You can ask him yourself when you see him later~"
At the same time, in the Governor's Mansion of Neptune City, a slender and tall figure walked on the carpet, with a high ponytail tied behind her head falling and swinging behind her hips.
"Dong dong dong".
no response.
"Boom boom boom!"
Intensify.
Still no response.
Xia Yibing didn't wait this time. She pushed down the doorknob and went in. At a glance, she saw the person she loved most lying on the bed, with one leg across the quilt and the other leg stretched straight, his hands hugging the pillow to his right, with his whole face buried in it.
The weather has been quite hot recently, but this sleeping position is too crazy...
Feeling emotional, she moved to the bedside, stretched out her finger, and poked the girl's lower back lightly.
No reaction.
Poke again.
This time there was a reaction... The messy, fuzzy gray hair suddenly turned around, and a hand popped out and started flapping and grabbing in the air.
Xia Yibing remained serious and took a step back, just avoiding the attack.
The hand seemed lost after failing to catch anything. It symbolically shook its head twice and turned over with its owner, changing from a side sleeping position to a back sleeping position.
"It's time to get up!" Xia Yibing was speechless. She came over, pinched the girl's nose, and forced her to wake up from her dream.
"Count Hitzfeld! Count! Did you forget that I told you we had guests last night?"
"Ah? Ah!"
Hitzfeld was still a little confused when he just woke up, but he finally woke up after hearing her say that. He quickly jumped out of bed and rushed to the bathroom. After a while, he came out with a toothbrush in his mouth and asked Xia Yibing angrily: "But it's not even noon yet!"
"Yes."
"Didn't we agree to meet at 2pm yesterday?"
"Yes."
"Then why did you call me so early?"
"I just think you shouldn't be like this."
Xia Yibing tilted her head, "It's been almost a month, Aisuen. I can see that you need to relax, or even indulge yourself... I am willing to endure it with you, but don't tell me this is the life you want?"
"It's time for you to return to normal and return to your original self."
Hitzfeld fell silent.
Yes Yes……
Ever since Sina sacrificed herself to help Elsa escape, and allowed Elsa to truly win the war between gods, she seemed to have abandoned her past identity all at once, and no longer viewed herself as just a detective.
Without Xina, the connection with Alvin was naturally cut off. She didn't bother to care about the wreckage of the Jiyang. These days, she had been discussing with Bislo, who had escaped by chance, how to strengthen the local defense so that the Sea King City could expand its scope and accommodate more refugees.
After all, although the gray fog has receded and the evil spirits have disappeared, many beasts and monsters that were interfered with and affected still remain.
She felt that she had to do these things well and truly restore Aishazhou to normal, only then would she be worthy of Sina and all those who had sacrificed in the war of gods.
"That's not the case."
This is what she said to Xia Yibing, but the woman flatly denied it.
"You know you haven't done anything wrong to anyone. Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. If she hadn't chosen to perish with them out of arrogance, you would have wanted to get the Rubik's Cube yourself, right?"
Hitzfeld was silent for a while, then said, "After all, I have the Divine Eye. If I can awaken the Blood King, my chances of communicating with her will be higher."
"Have you ever thought about what will happen to me?"
Xia Yibing's face gradually turned darker.
"You are an earl when you are alive, and you may be directly conferred the title of prince after you die? When the time comes, people will chant Prince Aisuen-Hitzfeld, and your deeds will be sung everywhere. And I - even if I want to leave the sad place, I will be forced to keep hearing these stories. Have you ever thought about what I will think at that time, Aisuen?"
Hitzfeld opened his mouth: "Sorry..."
"I didn't think much of it at the time."
She was extremely nervous, because indeed - she had done something wrong in the relationship, so she thought Xia would be angry, or at least distance himself from her.
But what she got was a hug from a woman.
"Bad things..."
She heard the other person trembling in her ear.
"I don't blame you... I just feel proud... That's why I like you!"
"I'll be myself again."
Hitzfeld curled his lips and patted her back to comfort her.
“I just don’t know how to face myself anymore.”
"I mean...my past identity..."
When it’s all over, the biggest change is in identity.
The three apostles still have a connection with her, and they suggest that she return to the port of Colossae and use the mechanical factory hidden in the secret realm of the Lord God to rebuild the Mechanical Kingdom.
This was her best choice both from the perspective of honoring her family and from the perspective of fighting against evil, but this kind of life was too unfamiliar to her. She didn't know... after doing this, whether she still had the courage to go back to Sarah.
That would be tantamount to abandoning these followers.
How should she view these people and the relics her father left her?
Alvin must have known her concerns, so he only made her an earl.
With her accumulated merits, it was more than enough for her to be granted the title of a prince of a different surname. The reason why she didn't do so was because she was afraid that she would resist. She knew that she didn't like these fame and fortune.
"Whatever you do."
Xia Yibing just hugged her tightly.
"All I can tell you is... no matter what you choose, I will follow you."
"If you choose to rebuild the Mechanical Kingdom, I will bring the legacy of the Imaar family and join you."
"If you choose to be Count Hitzfeld, I will use this important status to strengthen your power."
"No one can bully you anymore."
“You just have to be yourself.”
Hitzfeld listened to her quietly, thought for a moment and said, "You should know that I don't understand politics."
"Yes I know."
"I don't understand and I don't like politics."
"me too."
"Alwin understands, too."
The girl sighed.
The two of them hugged quietly for a while. After a long while, Hitzfeld suddenly said, "I plan to go back to Sara after I finish dealing with things here."
"Okay." Xia Yibing nodded.
Then I asked her, “Why?”
"reason……"
Hitzfeld took a breath and looked out the window, at what was visible through the gap in the curtains.
"Because there is still gray fog."
Chapter 193: Inheritance, from a month ago
After leaving Hitzfeld's room, Xia Yibing leaned against the door alone.
She looked at the ceiling and took a deep breath, and her charming face began to turn red.
As cool as she was when she first came this way, she was as panicked now. Because she came to the girl with the mentality of "enlightening and comforting Aisuen", but in the end it seemed more like Aisuen comforted her.
He says he wants to comfort others, but in fact he craves that embrace more than anyone else... He's so sensitive and so fragile. Damn it, he can't turn into a body that can't move without Aisuen.
I wanted to ask her if she had any… uh… plans in that regard, but in the end I completely forgot about it. I don’t know when I’ll have the chance to ask her again next time…
What advice did the stinky old man give me?
Naturally, she held a grudge against the person who asked the question.
"We have to teach him a lesson..."
After Xia Yibing left, Hitzfeld sat alone by the bed for a while.
This bedroom was not unfamiliar to her, as she was arranged to live here when she first came to the Governor's Mansion. She still remembered how she had been lying on the square table to sort out information and materials during those days, and the angle of the plant that could be seen through the gap in the iron fence outside the window was exactly the same as she remembered.
Yes, that’s how she walked step by step to the drawer and took out the test tube containing Alessia.
It was in this room that I talked to it, walked with it, and brought it to the fire to test it.
Seeing the things reminded her of the past, she recalled the battle with the little water man and the process of getting along with him. Then she remembered the vast battle of gods dozens of days ago, the strong wind, the dark clouds, and the opera temple located in the sky.
It is worth mentioning that she lied to Xia Yibing.
She was not hiding here to escape reality just for her own reasons or because she was afraid of facing the rest of her life.
Whether it's "Mechanical Princess Hitzfeld" or "Count Hitzfeld", her struggles with these two choices are not as serious as she appears.
Sarah has gray fog but Aisha doesn't. If she is the type of person who seeks comfort and enjoyment, why would she accept so many overseas assignments again and again?
So the answer was destined from the beginning - no matter which identity she chose, her end point, her destination was Sarah.
She is closed because she finds the so-called reality boring.
"Am I grieving for Sheena...my enemy?"
It felt like a piece was missing in her heart, and she was sure that it was not love... She had never had any special feelings for Xi Na from the beginning to the end. If she had to figure out the reason, she felt that she might have seen destiny in Xi Na.
Sheena Brovhawen...she is proud, cold, arrogant, unkind, and will do anything to achieve her goals.
Considering that she was once a princess of Serran, you could never call these qualities coarse. Hitzfeld had not asked Charuni similar questions, but she always had a feeling that if she could choose, Charuni would prefer someone with Sheena's character to inherit the throne rather than Alwin.
So what pushed her to the opposite side of the Sara royal family?
The eternal life of divine blood and the assumption of usurping the country, for Sheena who was stranded on a deserted island many years ago, these were things that had not yet happened. If she had not gone on that voyage, if she had not indulged her desire to kill people on the island, if she had not been devoured by the basilisk, would she have become an enlightened monarch, a good king who was more reassuring to most people, though proud, cold, arrogant, unkind, and unscrupulous in achieving his goals?
She was destined to never get an answer because Sheena was dead.
It seemed that she had defied fate in her own way, but when she imagined the glorious life she should have had, Hitzfeld felt a little breathless.
It shouldn't have happened originally, it shouldn't have come to this.
She has also killed people, either directly or indirectly. Many people may think that her outward personality is too weak, but in fact, it may be because of her past experiences that she is affected. Once she makes up her mind to do something, no one can stop her.
So she is not... not that indecisive.
She agreed with Xia Yibing's statement that "If Xina is still alive after this incident, I will kill her too."
But when the other party really used his only sacred death to prove something, she suddenly didn't know how to face this person.
Should we say it's a good thing she died?
No need to face her again, no need to talk to her after knowing all this. No need to continue to vent generations of hatred on her, no need to face this reality.
This is a very complicated feeling. Hitzfeld doesn't like herself becoming like this. She thinks she is too much like a little woman, but she can't stop the regret in her heart.
Maybe it's a pity that Sheena should have had a glorious history.
Perhaps it was a pity that such a great death was only known to these people until now, and she had to keep the truth secret for some reason.
Isn't this also unfair?
Just like Ferdinand, just like Sanfeli.
