let go of my anne

"He is back."

War College, the long-lost dark room.

At the end of the black rock wood long table, Larivash sat on his throne, propped his head on his hands and stared at the darkness without speaking.

The person who spoke was Piero, who was sitting on the seat on the right in trepidation, carefully reporting the news he had just received about the man named Chen Senran.

Larivash still didn't speak, he seemed to be completely fascinated by the darkness of this room, and he couldn't extricate himself from it.

"I heard that he did several important things in the north, and the last war was related to him. Are we..." Hudson on the left felt that the atmosphere was moving in an unknown direction, and he wanted to redeem.

But Larivash continued without saying a word.

Then the whole room finally fell into complete silence.

The silence caused the two people sitting on the left and right sides to subconsciously hold their breath and straighten their bodies.

There was a sense of uneasiness in the air.

No one dared to speak, as if they were afraid that their voice would offend the god standing in the darkness and cause death.

There was a long silence, and Piero felt his body was going to freeze for a long time.

"Ha—" Larivash suddenly smiled.

He laughed lightly, but broke the silence.

Hudson and Piero couldn't help but let out a long breath.

But before they could fully exhale that breath, their bodies froze again, and it was more terrifying than before, completely stiff.

For Larivash said, "Galen is dead."

This is a sentence that sounds completely irrelevant, but it does not prevent Hudson and Piero from being so nervous that they are sweating.

Even without the obstruction of the dark package and robes, the two of them would definitely be able to see each other's ashen faces clearly.

Because they all know one thing, the night Galen died, Larivash...

He didn't know where he went.

And, intuitively...

"The snow in the Freljord is beautiful." Larivash sighed again.He just sighed and stood up from the main seat, and walked into the darkness.

Vaguely, it seemed that he could still hear his laughter.

"He just said..." Hudson was silent for a long time, and waited until Larivash should have really gone away before saying, "The snow in the Freljord..."

"It's really beautiful." Piero took this sentence, and he swallowed hard.

The sound of swallowing was so loud in the empty room.So much so that he was startled.

For some reason, at that moment, he suddenly remembered that night when Galen was strangled, Larivash's swallowing sound.

He said he was really hungry.

The air suddenly seemed to be filled with the smell of blood.

Piero suddenly felt nauseous.

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More than a month later, Chen Senran saw Ruiz again in the Obsidian Library.

This big bald head still wears his old-fashioned glasses as before, holding the "Faust" that has not changed for thousands of years, looking fascinated under the dim magic lamp.

"Welcome back, young man, it's luck that you didn't die." He didn't show too much surprise when he saw Chen Senran, he pushed the old-fashioned glasses on the bridge of his nose and glanced at Chen Senran, while he still had time to spare Turn a page of the book. "Sit, to be honest, I don't miss you at all."

"I don't miss you at all, big bald head." Chen Senran followed Ryze's teasing tone back to him, and pulled away a chair opposite Ryze.

"Hahahahaha, it seems that the ghostly weather in the north has not dulled you, but your sense of humor is better than before." Ruiz laughed softly, took off his old-fashioned glasses, and closed the book.

"That..." He kept hiding behind Chen Senran.Little Annie, who didn't dare to come out of the darkness, tugged at the corner of Chen Senran's clothes, and suddenly made a sound timidly. "Where's the lady?"

Her voice was as thin as a cat's, and she seemed a little afraid of getting an answer.

"She's gone." Ruiz rubbed his tired eyes from reading for a long time, looked at the little loli who was half-hidden behind Chen Senran, who seemed a bit shy, and said softly, "Go back to where she should be. gone."

"But why did she leave?" The little girl was a little excited.He ran out from behind Chen Senran, and then slowly lowered his head as if he was a little embarrassed, "I don't mean..."

"Someone needs her." Ryze was surprisingly patient.

"But...it's clearly agreed, I want to come back to see her..." Little Lolita's voice became lower and lower, and in the end, even she herself didn't seem to have the confidence to continue speaking.

"Okay. It's okay." Chen Senran felt a little distressed, picked her up and sat opposite Ruiz, stroked her long pink hair that was a little golden under the dim light, and said softly, "Madam has her own Our mission, just like our own, we will meet again one day."

"Really..." Little Annie hid in Chen Senran's arms, still not in a high mood.

So children are children.

Children will never understand the truth that there is always a banquet under heaven, and they never think about separation.

"Your body..." Ruiz looked at Chen Senran for a long time before speaking again.

"It's bad." Chen Senran nodded. Ruiz is an absolute master on this continent. It's normal for him to be able to tell that there is something wrong with his body at a glance.

In fact, a large part of the reason why he came to see Ryze in such a hurry was because his health was really bad.

"Tell me, what happened. I heard that you destroyed a city with one hand." Ruiz laughed softly, breaking the originally somewhat sad atmosphere.

"It's not that exaggerated, I just...saved her." Chen Senran smiled and touched the little face of little Annie in his arms, and took the corpses of the whole city with him so casually.

"So...she's worth a city?" Ruiz looked at little Annie in Chen Senran's arms, with a teasing tone.

"Don't say..." The little girl's smiling face turned red to the neck, "Don't compare!!!"

She buried her head deeper, but a pair of small ears stood up high.

"How could it be worth a city, she..." Chen Senran looked at little Annie narrowly, dragging his tune on purpose.

"Chen, Sen, Ran, you!!!" Little Lolita heard that she was about to go berserk, and raised her head to bite him.

"Take 1 cities, and I can't change it." Chen Senran finally laughed, holding Little Annie's angry face, and rubbed it together, "Little biter, do you want to leave me?"

"Hmph—" Little Annie snorted, avoiding Chen Senran's claws, but her voice was clearly filled with joy, she buried her head in Chen Senran's arms again, and whispered something disgusting.

"Cough——" Ryze finally couldn't stand it anymore, coughed and got back to the topic, "Speaking of which, why can't I feel your body..."

"My heart." Chen Senran cut off Ruiz's words, and he pointed to his own heart, "It's gone."

"What did you say?" Ryze was surprised beyond words. (to be continued..)

ps: Thanks to trapanda for the monthly ticket and the little brother Weeping Tianming for the evaluation ticket, as well as the power support of the little brother I don’t know what to call it.

Thank you very much.