Hitzfeld was ready for bed.
She placed a stack of newspapers that she had specially asked the cult to collect for her on the small table. When she looked up, she saw Xia Yibing holding an open book tightly in her arms, her eyes actually a little moist.
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She had absolutely no idea what Xia Yibing was doing.
Chapter VII Restrictive Relationships
After being moved for a while, Xia Yibing returned to normal.
The agent's heart is made of iron. If it weren't for the fact that this story is one of the few that describes the friendship between two girls... and the fact that the "Phil" happens to correspond to "Hitzfeld", she would probably just treat it as a joke.
As for why she specifically collected this kind of novel to read, it was naturally because she was very eager to find out how the story of the "two girls" would develop.
Unfortunately, this kind of relationship is a taboo among taboos, and even the most daring novelists dare not cross the boundary of friendship. The experience she can gain from these books is really limited.
Taboo...
Yes, because to put it bluntly, the disaster has never gone away.
It was nothing to play around in a small circle of aristocrats. But in the context of the need to continuously increase the population and encourage childbirth, once this kind of relationship was exposed——
The pressure must be huge.
Otherwise, how can we highlight the reasonableness of Torres and Cybertron... As clergymen, instead of upholding the sacred reproduction tradition, they pretended not to see it. Just for this spirit, Xia Yibing approves of them.
I couldn't help myself and kissed Hitzfeld again on the platform.
Although not many people saw it, she was angry, which might be related to this aspect...
After all, Mrs. Glee...
Madam's education is very strict.
In this way, the two of them lived together in the carriage for three days in a strange atmosphere.
It wouldn't have taken so long originally, because the most convenient way to get from Wayne to Nanxinze is to take a bus to Kuroki City first, and then take a boat from the Kuroki City Port by sea.
Although it looks like a longer route and the straight-line distance is longer on the map, the sea route has fewer obstacles and is the most efficient.
However, maybe... they were tired of the sea breeze and the sea water, so Hitzfeld and Xia Yibing both rejected this plan and chose to take the train all the way there.
These two people are not a big deal, but it's hard for Carl... He shares a room with someone in the next carriage, and every time he changes shifts he has to face different weirdos, and he's almost exhausted from all the traveling.
"Carl, he overturned all my impressions of the Golden Knights."
On the fifth day, the train arrived at Beixinze, not far from the destination. Hitzfeld saw through the window that Carl was standing on the platform smoking and exercising, as if talking to himself.
She figured it out... the matter was already settled. She was destined to work on this case with Xia Yibing, so there was no point in continuing the cold war, so it would be better to get their relationship back to normal as soon as possible.
"You mean him?"
Xia Yibing was stunned, then a little happy - Hitzfeld... Hitzfeld was finally willing to take the initiative to talk to her again!
But she still pretended to be calm and indifferent: "It's normal, because in a way, he is the most special one among the Golden Knights."
"Oh?"
Hitzfeld turned to look at her.
"What special method?"
"Xiumila Karl is of humble origin... This is the same as most knights, because only people of humble origin would sell their children to the parish and send them to the knight school where the elimination rate and mortality rate are extremely high."
Xia Yibing began to explain to her: "But he is the only knight who still persists in hard training after officially receiving the title."
"He lived in an old house and slept on a wooden bed."
"The salary the parish gave him was not small, but he only kept enough for himself to survive and donated the rest to the poor."
"He has a universally recognized nickname in every parish he has stayed in, called 'Walking Holy Grace', and is regarded as the most loyal and noblest guardian and warrior under the goddess."
"So he doesn't have much money to buy books."
Hitzfeld was somewhat moved.
She doesn't like Carl.
Compared with the well-educated Frick, Karl seemed rude, arrogant, and impolite. He even tried to unilaterally withhold her bounty - she once thought he was going to embezzle the money.
But after listening to Xia Yibing's introduction, she realized that she had wronged Karl.
A knight who gives all his money to the poor will certainly not make much progress in civilization if he continues to do so and insists on mixing with the lower classes.
Perhaps he could improve a little by being influenced by his surroundings, and learn some etiquette in the Knights' Academy so that others would not think he behaves like a peasant.
But many things in our bones cannot be changed.
For example, stubbornness.
For example, prejudice.
"Yes, now you know why he doesn't want to give you the money... He actually thinks you don't deserve it and wants to withhold the money to help refugees."
Xia Yibing shook her head.
"If he wasn't the Flint Knight, I might not like him, but I definitely wouldn't hate him to this extent."
"He is different from Flick after all."
"I'm serious here, Hitzfeld... If there's a chance that I can avoid being caught and not affect the situation... and not affect those civilians, I really want to kill him."
These few sentences left Hitzfeld a little confused.
"Do you have any grudge against him?"
"Yes."
Xia Yibing sat on the bed with her arms folded across her chest, looking out the window with an extremely cold look in her eyes.
"Not only do I have a grudge against him, but you do too."
"Because of things like Flint Knight..."
Without waiting for the girl to ask, she quickened her pace.
"Strictly speaking, it exists to get rid of us."
"..."
Hitzfeld finally reacted.
Indeed - even if Shadow Lion has so many measures within it to prevent the extraordinary people from getting out of control, the numbers are there, and it is impossible to be foolproof after so many years.
From this perspective, in order to prevent the Shadow Lions - or other supernatural organizations - from getting out of control, it is indeed necessary for the royal family and the cult to train a force that is capable of fighting against the supernatural beings, but is absolutely guaranteed to be human and loyal.
"…Why is Frick different?"
Hitzfeld asked her with a frown.
When getting along with Frick and Carlo, Xia Yibing never showed any disgust towards the profession of "Flint Knight".
"Because at that time...my mind was all on you."
Xia Yibing looked over naturally.
"They are all thinking about you and worrying about you. Compared with those hidden dangers, factors like 'it's the Flint Knight' seem insignificant."
"!"
Hitzfeld met her frank gaze, was stunned for a moment, and turned around without saying anything.
My heart is beating a little fast.
She didn't dare look back and could only stare at the woman's blurry reflection through the car window.
This bastard...
Why do you always say such shameful words...
The atmosphere was a bit awkward. In order to change the subject, Hitzfeld picked up the stack of newspapers and threw it to the woman.
"You...you can take a look at these things."
"newspaper?"
Xia Yibing picked up the thing and spread it out to take a look: "...Why? What's the specific reason?"
"These are all Nan Xinze's newspapers."
Hitzfeld's tone gradually returned to normal.
"The pages at the back... contain serialized novels, and they are all works written by those problematic novelists."
"so."
Xia Yibing nodded, "We should take a closer look at that."
Then she said nothing more and began to read the newspaper attentively.
"..."
Hitzfeld was speechless for a while.
This...isn't this becoming even more embarrassing?
I wanted to find something to do, but I threw all the newspapers to Xia Yibing.
Taking the sketchbook requires rummaging through boxes and will attract the other person's attention.
After much hesitation, Hitzfeld saw a book at the end of Xia Yibing's bed. It seemed to be the book that made her cry yesterday.
She immediately grabbed it like a life-saving straw, not caring whether she could bear to see it or not.
For a moment, the carriage became extremely quiet.
After a while, Hitzfeld closed the book with a bit of disgust.
What a mess...Isn't this just a romantic fable that skirts the line between romance and romance?
Xia actually likes to watch this kind of thing...
and many more.
Could it be that her intention was—
"Well?"
Just when she was nervous, Xia Yibing frowned and uttered a questioning tone from her nose.
"What...what happened?"
Hitzfeld's heart almost skipped a beat, and his entire back was leaning against the window glass, hesitating whether he should use the excuse of peeing to escape.
What if I were to be discovered and I discovered her secret? That would be...
"Hitzfeld, take a look at this article."
Unexpectedly, Xia Yibing looked serious and directly took out a newspaper and handed it back.
"Look at the protagonist inside."
“I always felt like there was something wrong with him.”
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Chapter 8 Dream Fairy and Ouroboros
The article that Xia Yibing considered problematic came from the "Xinze Horn", written by Bella Hayerson, and the title of the work was "Dream City".
Hitzfeld had read all the serials in newspapers and magazines in the past few days, so he had a general idea of the specific content of the article with just a glance.
As the name suggests, "Dream City" tells the story of the protagonist - a long time ago, when the 17-year-old Haytham discovered a mysterious city in the dream world, and explored and had adventures in it.
This serialized novel did leave a deep impression on Hitzfeld, because unlike other adventure novels, "Dream City" directly chose dreams as the background of its creation, which is very close to the truth concealed by the royal family.
