Ayane subconsciously read the words written on the envelope, but although her mouth moved, her brain still hadn't realized what was going on.
In no hurry to read what was written in the letter, she moved the envelope away to reveal the paper underneath.
However, at the first glance of the title, the girl's sleep-deprived brain almost crashed completely.
Withdrawal letter.
"No, no way..."
Ayane's hands trembled, her eyes tremblingly moved down, and she looked at the signature column with the student's signature——
Bird Tour Hoshino.
The one who chose to withdraw from the Strategy Committee and dropped out of Abydos High School was Kotori Yu Hoshino as the chairman.
In all fairness, this might be the most unexpected person for Ayane.
As if she had lost enough strength to support her body, the girl sat backwards, with her head lowered, staring at the backpack that she had accidentally knocked down on the ground, without the intention of picking it up at all.
Her fingers slid across the application for resignation, clenched into fists bit by bit, but loosened weakly at the last moment.
A little bit of warm liquid that I didn't even notice gathered in my eye sockets, and the scene in front of me gradually blurred, and the meeting room of the Countermeasure Committee, which I was familiar with but always felt that something was always missing, became icy cold.
"why……"
……
"To everyone in the Abydos Countermeasure Committee."
"First of all, please forgive me for using this letter as a farewell letter. After all, such an old-fashioned way is also in line with my personality, uncle."
"Actually, there is one thing I haven't told everyone. Since a long time ago, people have been continuously inviting me to go to other places."
"They asked me to work as a mercenary at Caesar's PMC. As a price, they can bear most of Abydos' debts for us... that's what it is."
"Hey... how should I put it, don't you guys think this is a good condition? Don't look at my uncle, who is always lazy, but I can still sell some money~"
"We in Abydos can't completely rely on the teacher to solve the problem, just like we have not asked Onomiya to rely on the strength of his family to help."
"So it's up to me to find a solution to the possible arrears and security deposits. Even if it can't be solved immediately, I think this is the first thing to do to reduce the burden."
"Thinking about it now, I said a lot of big things when I was in the black market, but I couldn't abide by it in the end. I'm really sorry."
Luo Lin read the letter left by Hoshino word by word. When the words came to this point, he raised his eyes to see the reactions of the girls around him.
Ayane had already calmed down, and stood silently beside the table with her head bowed;
Nomiya and Baizi also bowed their heads in silence, but unconsciously clenched the corners of their clothes with their little hands;
Only Qin Xiang walked up and down the conference room with an irritable expression on her face. When she heard Luo Lin stop, she immediately turned her gaze, her wine-red pupils narrowed slightly.
But Luo Lin could see that Qin Xiang's performance was not angry, it was just her reaction because she desperately wanted to know the follow-up content.
The young iron pilot sighed, put his eyes back on the letter paper, and continued to read in a steady voice, but Hoshino's voice involuntarily emerged in his mind:
"In this way, the responsibility that the countermeasure committee needs to shoulder should be much easier."
"Although I left Abydos, I may also leave Kivotos, but please don't pay attention to me."
"I'm sorry for doing these things without permission, but these are my responsibilities, because I am the last student council member of Abydos High School."
"Well then, everyone, let's go, goodbye."
This is the end of what Hoshino wrote on the first piece of paper, Luo Lin pursed his lips, and handed the letter paper to Bai Zi beside him.
The girls who were still in the silence just stood up suddenly, and gathered around Baizi in three steps and two steps, staring at the short piece of paper and reading it over and over again.
Luo Lin glanced at their actions, as if he wanted to relieve the overly dull atmosphere, he pushed the door quietly and went out.
Standing in front of the window in the corridor, facing the bright sunlight, he opened the second piece of paper he found in the envelope and read it quietly.
"To the teacher."
"Actually, I hate adults very much, and I don't trust adults very much."
"When the teacher said that he made a mistake in the amount of ammunition he had applied for because he reported the wrong number, and even needed Abydos to help cover it up, I was still thinking, 'Where did this useless lord come from'."
"But then I actually counted it secretly. Counting the part we consumed, the actual ammunition shipped was not too much, which was exactly twice the amount declared by Xiao Lingyin."
"From that moment on, I understood that it wasn't the teacher who reported the wrong number carelessly—after all, the two numbers were not alike at all, but that after realizing Abydos' plight, he deliberately used the mistake as an excuse to correct the number. Easy for us to accept help?"
"But I didn't tell Xiaobaizi and the others about this matter. Even if knowing this small detail can make the teacher get more favors from Xiaobaizi and the others, I still didn't tell them."
"I thought it was unnecessary before, but later... Haha, in short, am I a dirty bad uncle? But no matter whether the teacher admits it or not, it's hard for me to have a chance to hear it now."
"I will keep the knife that was given to me yesterday, and I will always carry it with me. If it is possible in the future, I may find a chance to sneak back to see the teacher? Don't fail to recognize me when the time comes."
"If I really have to show that knife to prove my identity, I will be very sad even as an uncle."
"Actually, to be able to meet an adult like Teacher at the end, I... ah, I'll save myself from being nasty."
After reading this, the corners of Luo Lin's mouth could not help but smile, and he shook his head helplessly.
This kid Hoshino... Should he be frank or not?
Putting aside the miscellaneous content in his mind, he exhaled and continued to read.
"Teacher, it may be a bit cunning to say that it was my last capriciousness, but Bai Zi, please, even though she is a good child, if no one guides her, I don't know what will happen in the future."
"I hope you can always guide her by her side and don't let her go astray. I think it will be fine if you are a teacher."
"Also, I believe the teacher must have more or less noticed Bai Zi's feelings."
"Maybe I don't like it at the moment, maybe it's just a little overly attached to someone who is worth relying on, but I still hope that the teacher can handle it properly, and you can grasp the specific scale yourself."
"Uncle, I can't give any useful advice on this kind of thing. After all, no matter what, I have never had similar feelings and experiences."
"It's just that in the final analysis, I don't think you are much older than us, teacher, right?"
The corners of Luo Lin's mouth twitched, and he raised his hand to rub his temples with a headache.
Although Hoshino's latter words seemed a little unreliable, but in a sense, it was indeed on point.
To what extent these girls' feelings for him will develop in the future is still something that no one can be sure about.
Maybe it's just an ordinary trend, maybe there will be a qualitative change at an unknown moment.
But even setting aside those possibilities and thinking about the future from the perspective of Luo Lin himself, it is hard to see clearly.
The mother's clues, the identity of the iron pilot, the strange lines on the body, the unclear dream, and the continuous flames of war on the border are all a deadly fog mixed together.
Facing such a future, Luo Lin can't guarantee that he will be able to do so.
Not to mention anything else, but whether he will stay in Kivatos in the future, or return to the border to continue fighting after finding clues about his mother and repairing the spaceship, so far he doesn't dare to make a conclusion in his heart.
All of these have to be weighed against the situation at that time in order to make the most correct choice.
At least starting from now, he can still be regarded as "wandering", so what kind of trustworthy guarantee can he bring to anyone?
But if the day comes when there is a need to make a choice, Bai Zi's students...should have graduated from school and become adults?
The idea that popped up in his mind almost didn't amused Luo Lin himself, he quickly patted his head, threw out these messy things, and went to read Hoshino's letter with a few lines left.
"That's all I want to say to the teacher. The rest should be written to Bai Zi and the others, but because the content is a bit heavy, I will trouble the teacher to pass it on."
"Baizi, Nomiya, Qinxiang, and Ayane."
"Please, I hope you can protect our school."
"Even though it's a sandy place, it has a special meaning to me."
"From now on, if somewhere, if we become enemies..."
"At that time, please destroy my halo."
"please."
Luo Lin's pupils constricted slightly, and his gaze was fixed on the penultimate line on the paper, and he did not move away for a long time.
After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, and his expression became solemn.
Compared with ordinary people, the students of Kivatos have the most intuitive and common special feature in appearance, which is the halo on the top of their heads.
Luo Lin didn't know what it meant to destroy the halo, but judging from the strength Hoshino used when writing this line, I'm afraid its meaning is no different from embracing real death.
It wasn't until this moment that the iron pilot, who was less than a month away from arriving at Kiwotos, finally realized that there was a fact that was completely ignored inadvertently because it seriously violated his common sense.
It is true that a small amount of bullets cannot harm the students of Kivatos, but this does not mean that they are invincible. They will also be injured, weakened, and killed.
It's just that the method to achieve this may be somewhat special, but it will definitely not exceed the limit that the iron pilot can imagine, let alone the limit that a caring person who is willing to spend time planning can do.
Hoshino... Will there be such a day?
Luo Lin looked up at the clear sky expressionlessly, but he was relieved in his heart.
"It was right to let Hoshino take the pulse knife in the first place, so as to leave behind who can always locate her position. '
'When the matter of the Caesars Group comes to an end today, even if you don't want to, I will have to grab you back by the collar. '
Chapter 86 Occupy Abydos High School for Me ([-] in [-])
After collecting the letter that Hoshino wrote to him alone, Luo Lin stood in the corridor for a while, leaving enough time for the girls in the meeting room to calm down, before turning around and going back.
Raising his hand and pushing the door open, without any surprise, the first thing he saw was the chaotic conference room.
Qin Xiang clapped one hand on the table, her brows were tightly furrowed, her expression looked extremely serious, and she even raised her voice involuntarily.
"Senior Hoshino, what the hell is going on?! You swore you were so amazing before!"
"Obviously she also knows that if a person is cornered, he can do anything!"
"This kind of thing... how can people accept it?!"
"...No matter what, we have to save her."
An almost paranoid determination flashed in Baizi's clear pupils, he flicked the belt of the rifle beside him, lifted the gun neatly on his shoulders, lowered his head to count the ammunition, and said at the same time:
"I'm leaving now, because rash actions may cause trouble for the Countermeasures Committee and the school, so I'll go alone—"
"Please calm down, Senior Baizi!"
Seeing that Bai Zi was going to come for real, Ayane couldn't sit still for a while.
She stood up with a "wow", her reaction was so violent and her movements so forceful that the chair behind her was pushed back half a meter.
"Now is not the time for us to act at will according to our personal mood, we must work together!"
"In such an emergency, Ayane's judgment is correct."
Luo Lin's voice sounded in the conference room. He strode up to Bai Zi's side, stretched out his hand to hold the girl's slender shoulders, and patted the girl lightly. His voice was still calm as usual:
"Calm down, Bai Zi."
"teacher……"
Bai Zi stopped counting the ammunition in his hand, looked up at Luo Lin, his lips moved slightly, he seemed a bit hesitant to speak, but in the end he still didn't say anything.
She put the magazine away again, and stood silently behind Luo Lin, her wolf ears drooping down on her head.
"I know Hoshino's position in everyone's hearts, and I understand everyone's confusion and anxiety, but please don't get excited."
Luo Lin clapped his hands and scanned the entire meeting room, skipping over the faces of several girls in turn.
Their demeanors are different at the moment, but the anxiety written clearly between their brows is surprisingly consistent, without exception, they are not praying that this is just a little joke Hoshino made with them.
As long as the time is up, the pink-haired girl who is always looking for a place to be lazy will still scratch her head and push open the door of the conference room, apologizing to them while smiling, saying that the uncle accidentally overslept.
But what Rowling said next, in a sense, completely cut off the girls' fantasies:
"I have fully understood the situation of Hoshino."
Saying this in his mouth, he stretched out his hand to take the envelope on the table, put the one in his hand back into the envelope together with the two pieces of letter paper that the girls had read repeatedly, and tapped it lightly on the table.
"There is no doubt that even with the debt problem as a driving force, leaving Abydos and joining Kaiser PMC as a mercenary is indeed out of Hoshino's own will."
"Even if this is confirmed, do you want to bring Hoshino back?"
"Isn't that for sure?!"
As soon as Luo Lin finished speaking, Qin Xiang, whose face was flushed from suffocation, was the first to yell, and stared at Luo Lin's wine-red eyes.
"Just, even if you want to be a mercenary to make money, there is no need to go to a place like Caesars PMC! Isn't it sure that you will be tricked by those bastards!"
"Yes, teacher."
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