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NO.142 was like this back then

Now that things have come to this, it is naturally difficult to pretend that nothing has happened.

If you take a step back, you will not be able to achieve your goals. If you choose to take action, it will still be difficult to achieve what you want.

This should be the worst situation, especially when you know the child's strength very well. The silhouette that has been published in the sidebar of the news several times is always like a glimpse, giving you mixed feelings, but generally speaking. A feeling of relief.

He became stronger, and became very, very strong.

Although in this era, becoming stronger is not difficult to say, the child's progress can still make you feel the incredibleness of the world, and with a deeper understanding, you can discover the extremely extreme nature of that road. .

Eroding the state of mind and inducing darkness is more of a confrontation with oneself than a confrontation with others.

Such tests are a commonplace topic in the circle of devils, but they are usually oriented towards others rather than themselves - devils have always been extremely lustful, and it is much more difficult to resist this than other creatures.

However, humans who are too similar to devils and even occasionally outperform others are not much better.

So no matter which side it is, it is a difficult road to walk on a tightrope.

The nun could not imagine the end of the road.

She has seen too many people and things, and she has also seen the decline and twilight of countless heroes, brave men, and warriors.

No one has ever been truly immortal, and no one has ever been able to win every battle. Even those of the same race who have long lifespans and claim to have perfect strategies cannot guarantee that they will not fall.

There was room for error in their somersaults, but the confrontation with themselves was always dangerous, so she couldn't imagine the end of this road.

But I know that both demons and humans should refuse to set foot in the bush of thorns.

It is the instinct of living beings to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but the child born from a man and a demon was as cold as a machine. Perhaps she had the right intention to choose such a path, but she saw the changes in the child and knew it in her heart. Not true.

Little Omer's coldness is no longer pure, his position has become ambiguous, and his choices are even more bizarre, with a bit of self-destructive madness.

A bit familiar...I've definitely seen it somewhere...

This kind of incomprehensible evil, this kind of unacceptable madness, she had definitely seen it somewhere before... When she realized this, she really remembered several figures, including the ones she had regretted towards the girls. Informed by Satan.

But at that time, she was able to comfort herself with the possibility of errors in intelligence collection.

Before they actually met, all the speculations could only be regarded as personal opinions. With such luck, she finally met the child.

He died by luck.

However, in the end, what was she hearing when she felt sad from the bottom of her heart?
choose?

The child gave two choices?

Can this be called choice?
There is no possibility of the former, but it is just a foreshadowing to force you to choose the latter. In this process, there is no pleasure or joy in those red eyes as dark as blood, but there is also no pain and sorrow.

He spoke to you calmly and sincerely, but the words he spoke were cruel and decisive.

It seems like I have returned to that afternoon 15 years, 7 months and 3 days ago.

That's where it all started.

Hannah, this is the name she was given, which comes from Hebrew and has the meaning of elegance, charm, and love.

The spell woven with her name molded her into the gentlest and most loving woman in the nursery, caring equally for every child in the nursery.

Be impartial and without exception.

No matter what other people look like, Hannah will always be the most popular and beloved grandma among the children.

At single-digit ages, due to the semi-closed management of the nursery, the performance of so-called devil cubs is not fundamentally different from that of human cubs.

Even though they may feel ashamed of the fact that they were born in a nursery school in the future and want to hide it, at the beginning when they are about to leave the nursery school, they will be equally sad, reluctant to let go, and even make promises about the future.

Hannah has taken care of children for many generations, and she is already used to saying goodbye like this.

It doesn't matter whether those cries and vows are true or false, she bids them farewell without any trouble. When they leave the nursery and are no longer within the scope of the spell, she will also take back her impartial love.

It’s not a decrease, it’s not an increase, but it’s simply no longer paying attention to the future of those children.

This is her lifestyle.

She remembered a lot of that long time, but she didn't want to remember too much.

And...when those children come to visit again in their adulthood, prime, or old age, won't there be a sense of surprise?
When she says this, her colleagues will always expose her with sarcastic remarks - stop talking about it, you are basically abandoning them.

It doesn't matter.

She didn't care about this evaluation and continued her lifestyle, saying goodbye to batches of children with her loving golden goat eyes, until at the end of a certain farewell, she received a unique instruction.

Do not contact.

There was no crying, no vows, the boy who seemed calm and calm turned against Tiangang and 'abandoned' her and everyone else.

Excellent!

She had thought that the boy, who was still a child even though he was often a little mean-spirited towards his friends, showed amazing determination.

Extremely touched!

What the devil, who was indifferent at heart, saw was the discovery of a young fellow.

It was enough to awaken her long-dried loneliness.

Fantastic!

It is difficult to accurately judge the potential of children, and her praise of all children is based on facts that may be overturned.

But if you are such a child, you may not be able to look forward to it.

It was a child who had left the nursery, so that the devil did not have to obey the power of Hannah's name and could devote too much attention to him in his spare time.

The more attention you pay, the more you look forward to. She was so expecting that she forcibly obeyed the words she said at that time, and even restrained the behavior of her colleagues. The two parties indeed stopped contacting each other and only conducted minimally formulaic visits.

That is a contract and deep love.

Embracing the deep love that sprouted at the moment of being abandoned, loving the cold and decisive alienness, the devil with abnormal emotions looked forward to his future every minute.

But at the end of the wait, it was the young man who had almost deteriorated.

It is not difficult to imagine her hatred for vampires who are completely useless in intelligence.

It is not difficult to imagine how important the sense of luck is after the new pursuit that has finally arisen over the past millennium has failed.

But luck is indeed dead.

Even though his appearance was so beautiful and his posture was so noble, she could not see in that young man the core coldness of the child in the past.

However, this is obviously premature.

After all, in the moment after that, although luck is not alive, there is no need to take luck with the evidence.

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"Is it really okay for you to say that?"

On the balcony at the edge of the office, the electronic adoptive father who had been transferred from Miura Bourbon's mobile phone to Ormer's terminal was a little worried.

The nun who worried him had shown a look of surprise before, and even showed a friendly and friendly attitude as if nothing had happened - Akane Shinjo and Miura Bourbon were particularly uncomfortable with this, But Texas and Ursula seemed to be very familiar with this situation.

Omer originally thought Morrison was in the latter.

After all, security companies often work with high-ranking people, and many of them have experienced this kind of 'face-changing' situation.

"How can this be the same? That woman seemed to want to eat me before, and she seems to want to kill you all."

"What she can't do is that the nursery is her seal and essentially her execution ground. Unless she is fighting for the children, she won't be able to exert even 70% of her strength."

"Huh?" Morrison noticed the unexpected amount of information.

"And I'm not a child anymore," Omo raised his hand and twisted the bridge of his nose. "Based on this alone, it's impossible for her to do anything. She will turn back to the grandma she was at the beginning."

"...So this is solved? Just one phone call?"

"Do you really want to fight her? Say something harsh and ask them to come to the data world to fight you?"

"You brat, shouldn't you be the one rushing in front at this time?" Morrison wanted to give him a slap on the head, but raising his hand would only pass through him. "But I definitely don't want to see you and those few Guys fight."

"They all seem to care about you."

"you do not care about me?"

"You need my concern?" Morrison was surprised.

"So what's the use of caring?"

"..."

Morrison was silent for a moment, then said: "Okay, can I ask a question?"

"She won't find an opportunity to take action. Although they all want to attack you, grandma is a very sober and cold person, and she will also control other people."

"That's not what I meant to ask."

"Then what do you want to ask?"

"Ah, uh, I wanted to ask you if you had ever..."

"You look so much like some girls' comics, it's disgusting."

"You little brat!"

"I'm just telling the truth. Your face is quite girly to begin with. Why don't you change your skin?"

"Bah, bah, bah, what do you think your father is!"

"I think this is the advantage of Electronic Ghost. The style of painting can be changed at will, and the appearance can be changed at will. All it takes is a few operations."

"Emmm, do you only need a few strokes?"

"How many MB of small program?"

"Oh, where is that... No, are you bringing up the topic?"

"Do you really want to ask me if I was squatting outside the office to listen to it from the beginning? Don't worry, I recorded it all. It's pretty cool."

"Shut up...really?"

"That's what the kid sitting next to me said at the time."

"Where did the child come from!?"

"You're talking strangely. This is a nursery, and it's also a nursery in the Demon Realm District." Omer looked at his electronic adoptive father who was not very intelligent with caring eyes.

"There are always a lot of rebellious students who skip class, but just giving them some fruits and snacks will make them happy and angry."

　Arknights tips:

　　In the previous chapter, I was going to mention some trivia that I forgot about.

　　The name of the character Dukare, the blood demon king in the boat game, is suspected to be a tribute to the legendary landlord Dracula. The experience of killing his brother is also suspected to be a reverse tribute to Cain's killing of his brother Abel in the Bible. .

　　So Kitten Omelet couldn't come over, and Cain aside, there was a Chaldean version of Dracula who still lived next door to Omo's hometown.

　　(End of this chapter)