Galaxy and Promise

It is sunny.

The hinges of the induction window are slowly retracted, the cool autumn air flows into the room, and the canopy of the trees rustles in the autumn wind.

Although it was early in the morning, the sky was not yet bright. Terence pushed open the glass door and steered the wheelchair to the terrace of the ward.

When he woke up again a few days ago, he was surrounded by four grey-haired irascible medical officers and scolded him severely.The dignified colonel's regiment commander was scolded like a coward with drooping ears, and he didn't dare to breathe.

As a representative of the assault mecha—also known as the "sacrifice" mecha, the armor level of "Violet" is worrying. Even with the buffer of the emergency system, the huge impact still shattered Terence's back. cut.While he tried to argue that it wasn't a big deal, he'd had worse times and still be alive and kicking, only to be ruthlessly crushed immediately.

The chief medical officer swore: "If you dare to stand up by yourself, I will break your leg!"

... Damn, is this really a doctor?

Downstairs of the hospital there is a garden for relaxation. The deciduous trees are in full bloom at this time, while the evergreen trees beside the artificial lake are still green.It was still too early, most people were still asleep, and the white garden chairs in the shade of the trees were lonely and empty.

Terrence pushed the wheelchair to the round table on the terrace and sat quietly for a while, and couldn't help but twirled his fingers again.

There is no tobacco here, and of course no alcohol.Terrence sighed, the only thing he didn't like about it.

But the desserts in the meal are very good, it would be better if they don't eat vegetables.

His terminal was also restricted in signal, and he couldn't find any intelligence or information. On the first day, the nurse recommended to him the most popular TV series recently, and he watched a few episodes with great interest.

After all, why don't hospitals allow games?Even if it's Harvest Moon.

While thinking wildly, Terrence idly picked up the hospital's call terminal and looked through the breakfast menu: caramel muffins are good, strawberry honey tarts are also good... But to be honest, it's not time for breakfast yet, it's better to sleep in Sleep--

When I opened my eyes again, it was almost noon.

A thin blanket fell on him at some point, Terrence yawned, picked up the blanket and put it aside, picked up the tiramisu on the table and took a bite.

The mood is still very good: "Are you finished?"

Andre was sitting aside, cutting a lamb chop. Hearing this, he was a little annoyed, so he poked a piece of asparagus and handed it over.

After Terence finished eating the tiramisu, he leaned over to grab the asparagus and asked while chewing, "Is there any wine?"

"Shut up." Andre said, looking at Terence who took the fork to fish for asparagus with a calm face, he couldn't help but condemn, "Is this how you reassure me?"

Terrence: "...?"

He unexpectedly showed a little guilty conscience, and coughed dryly: "I should, I still won, right?"

Andre: "..."

The major general's speechless gaze made the colonel frown. He bit the tip of the fork, quickly recalled the battle, and shook his head affirmatively: "This is impossible, the jump agency has been destroyed, and the outer orbit troops will not let go." A fish that slips through the net will never have any misfortune—”

Andre's face became more dignified.

He asked softly: "So, is the crash also in your plan?"

"Huh?" Terrence blinked in confusion, as if he didn't quite understand why the other party looked so annoyed.

"...You won beautifully." It was clean and tidy.

Andre finally gave in, and once again he felt an unspeakable defeat.

He thought of the first time he saw Terrence: he just stood there, distant, out of touch with the others.He never cared about the opinions of the people around him, nor did he hope for anything, and he didn't put anything in his eyes, wealth, status, even life and death.

It was so in the past, and it is still so today.

The colonel didn't know the complex mood of the major general. After getting a satisfactory answer, he happily ate the last piece of asparagus on the plate, threw down the fork, and said with great interest, "So, when can I be reinstated?"

He muttered and complained: "I can't get alcohol here, I'm limited to the terminal signal, and I'm not allowed to go out!"

Andre: "..."

Andre: "Terrence."

His colonel shut up and looked up at him.

Andre smiled, resting his chin on one hand, and said in a serious tone, "Are you underestimating me, Terrence?"

Terence raised his eyebrows upon hearing this: "It seems that Major General Legerui is not a crying child."

Andre: "I think it's necessary for us to go to the practice field after you leave the hospital."

Terrance: "If you want to prove yourself, shouldn't you fight now?"

"Fuck you." Andre said, the terminal on his wrist suddenly flickered, he glanced at it casually, and stood up, "I should go. I will arrange a diagnosis and treatment for you in a few days, just treat it as a vacation —Anyway, Violet is still in the research institute."

Terrence snorted, picked up the calling terminal to order food: "Don't let them add some strange modules to my little girl."

"That can't be done, I have the final say." Andre flicked the collar badge on his shoulder, "This colonel, my rank is higher than yours."

Terrence laughed and cursed.

But when Andre walked out of the ward, he heard Terrence calling himself: "Andre."

Terrence looked at the menu without looking up, and said casually, "Thank you."

Andre gave a low laugh.

-

It has been more than a month since Terence saw Andre again.

He had just harvested a crop of wheat conscientiously, and was trying to make bread in the workshop. He was not very successful and was about to go too far. At this time, the internal emergency communication cut off the game.

what.

The oven bread was doomed to fail.

Andre in the projection looks a little dusty, with the background of the cold white walls of the interrogation room, straight to the point: "We captured the chief researcher of the underwater imperial capital, but—"

He paused, then said, "He wants to see you."

"Huh?" Terrence was still thinking about his Harvest Moon, absent-mindedly, "what do you see me for?"

"Who knew, there are so many people who want to see you." The wandering brigade and the overnight interrogation made Andre look a little tired. He rubbed the space between his brows, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to see you, it's not a big deal anyway."

"It's not a big deal that needs you to come to me?"

Terrence snorted, dropped the game controller, and got up to get his coat.

He arrived at the special interrogation center 15 minutes later, passed through the security gate, and saw Andre leaning against the wall smoking a cigarette. He raised his eyes and saw him, and nodded lazily as a greeting.

Terrence walked over, glanced at the window of the interrogation room, and asked, "What did you ask?"

Andre shrugged: "The underwater imperial city is full of hard bones. From last night to now, nothing has been pried out."

This result is not surprising. Terence has dealt with those fanatics a lot and knows how troublesome they are.He knocked on the one-way glass window: "That's why he wants to see me?"

The researcher sitting in front of the interrogation table has an unmistakably good appearance, and in this regard, the Underwater Imperial Capital has followed the consistent tradition of the Empire.As if he had sensed it, he turned his face and looked towards the window. His slightly curly long brown hair and bright and strong eyebrows vividly interpreted a dangerous element and a gentle scum.

"Have I seen him?" Terence frowned slightly. His memory was not very good, so he shook his head after thinking for a while, "Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway."

He tucked his long hair behind his ears and asked, "Can I go when I meet you? My sheep haven't been sheared yet."

Andre: "..."

Andre said earnestly: "Colonel, do you want to try other games? Like shooting and war?"

Harvest Moon may be the only one to play in hard mode.

The colonel showed a look of "Isn't reality fun enough? I'm not stupid".

Andre: "... Forget it, as long as you are happy." You are already stupid enough.

Two days, eleven hours, 35 minutes, and seven seconds.

Gabriel counted silently in his heart, the dim light of the interrogation room created a strong sense of oppression in this narrow room, and the four metallic walls seemed to overwhelm people.

But Gabriel was indifferent, he knew very well that there were at least three groups of psychologists studying his micro-expressions behind the oppressive metal wall.

No.30 seven minutes and 20 seconds.

The door of the interrogation room opened again, and the colonel with black hair and red eyes walked in.

Gabriel's pupils shrank suddenly.

As soon as Terence entered the interrogation room, he was stared at by the researchers closely, with uncomfortable fanaticism and greed in his eyes, like a poisonous snake in the shadows watching its prey.

He turned a blind eye and stopped at the door, fulfilling the condition of "meeting" before turning around, but the other party stopped him: "Geraint Terrance——"

The voice is soft and lingering, as if calling for a lover who has been away for many years.

Terrence stopped.

He took a deep breath, changed his mind, stepped forward, pulled out the chair and sat down.

Gabriel looked at him with a strange admiration, trying to cut through the meridians of flesh and blood, and see them clearly along the bone marrow.Then he said, "You are more perfect than I thought."

Terrence sneered back.

The other party didn't need to respond, and said on his own: "I have trained many of you, but none of them succeeded. The closest one has excellent physical fitness and fighting sense, but it still failed. Its first time The actual shooting missed, even though the prediction was accurate, but it missed the target at the last moment. The second and third times later, it was the same. There is no fourth time-"

Gabriel even smiled and said, "After the third actual battle adjustment, it completely collapsed."

"It's weird, isn't it?"

"At first we thought it was a deviation caused by the instability of the sample, but then we used the genetic sample before the activation operation, and the finished product was still not optimistic. Some team members proposed to use the genes of other organisms for recombination, but only got ostentatious beasts."

"I don't quite understand." He frowned, showing sincere doubts, "Even before the activation operation, you were an impeccable sharp blade. But why is every you cultivated like that—— "

"Timid, stupid, indecisive?"

Terrence lowered his head, staring at his vainly clasped fingers, and said after a while, "Because that's Geraint Terrence."

The feeling of saying this name by himself is a bit strange, he said it again in a low voice, and couldn't help laughing, the number of times he heard this name these days was more than the past 20 years, as if forcing him to die from the grave The depths re-excavated some of the fragmented fragments.

He stared at his young self with an unspeakable tenderness.

That is the youngest son in the family, with a shy and docile personality, innocent and kind to everything.There are excellent elder brothers and elder sisters who are sheltering from the wind and rain ahead.

The family wanted him to be a clerk or administrator, but he wasn't really that interested.Given the chance to grow up safely, he might have been more likely to be a painter, photographer, and possibly travel writer.

——If you grow up safely.

"I'm not Geraint," Terrence said, "I've said it from the beginning."

That innocent boy did not survive the fire at the age of 12, the glass of spirits on the border of the Titans, what stood up from the collapsed ruins was just a shadow living in the world, with nothing and no one to rely on , wanting nothing, no name, no past—

There is no future either.

Every genetic sample taken from him records the tenderness of the past, but no matter how it is adjusted or cultivated, it cannot grow into the current self——

Because, every life belonging to Geraint Terrance cannot be like this.

Gabriel stared at the colonel in front of him.

He had repeatedly speculated on the behavior of the other party in the video data, and had cultivated many counterfeit products with his own hands, but it was not until this moment that he finally realized that the counterfeit product is a fake product——

"Ha, hahahahaha——" the chief researcher of the Underwater Imperial City burst into laughter, "I understand, I understand! It's not that my cultivation made a mistake, but because——"

"You've been on the wrong path."

Terrence got up and walked out the door.

The moment he was about to step out of the interrogation room, Gabriel stopped laughing and said, "Colonel, even so, I still want to wish you a smooth journey in the future."

"click".

The metal sliding door closed behind him.

Terrence quickly walked out of the special interrogation room, hurriedly walked through the corridor, and came to the shadow under the corner of the spiral staircase.

As if it was hard to bear the weight, he pressed his chest and slowly bent down.

The scar under the ribs was re-cut layer by layer, dripping with blood, it was inevitable.

He did survive, as everyone had hoped for in the end.

——However, in such a disgusting appearance.

But why am I still here?he thinks.The researcher was wrong about one thing. The real Geraint was braver than me, and I was a coward.

What is the meaning of such a life full of holes.

Because even I hate myself like this——

The invincible and invincible colonel let out a half-suppressed sob.

Suddenly someone supported him from behind.

Terrence looked back in astonishment, and saw the familiar blond hair.

Andre looked at him and said to him, "Geraint Terrance?"

Terrence was shocked when he heard the words, and pushed Andre's hand away. He almost immediately noticed his gaffe, turned around, and covered his face with one hand: "Don't call me that, and don't worry about me—at least Don't now."

It was almost begging.

Andre had never heard Terence speak in such a tone.

He was stunned for a moment, then grabbed Terence's wrist, and raised his face forcefully: "Are you crying, Terence?"

Terence turned his face away to avoid him, the major general tore off his hand, his rose red pupils showed no tears, but Andre affirmed: "You are crying."

The colonel was furious: "Legrey—!"

Andre actually smiled: "You like to call me by my surname when you are angry, and you know that I don't like this surname very much."

He said: "Did I tell you, I don't really like my name too much, but I've lived peacefully with them for 20 years."

Terrence froze.

"You probably don't know, I didn't have a name until I was 13 years old, and my mother was determined not to let me have anything to do with her." Andre shrugged indifferently, as if he was talking about something ordinary, he used the other A stiff smile was propped up at the corner of his mouth, "But so what, who doesn't like me now?"

Terrance: "That's probably a lot—"

"It doesn't count if you don't say it in front of me." Andre snorted, straightened Terence's face, and said, "You are the same, Terence. Even if you only want to be Terence, even if you think everything is wrong It's wrong, and that's okay, I don't care—"

He looked at him, as if he could see the once shy and innocent boy through those eyes.

The major general's hands were a little hot, Terence tried to avoid his eyes, but failed, he was almost admitting defeat: "Andre... I'm not that strong."

Andre chased after the victory, solemnly: "But——sometimes, mistakes are more beautiful than you think."

The colonel opened his eyes wide, throwing away his armor for the first time.

He finally lowered his head and sighed silently in compromise.

As if a ray of sunlight cracked the gloomy swamp, the drowning mermaid finally grasped the outstretched hand of the human.

-

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one year later.

Goddess Festival celebration.

The honor banquet was full of noise, and Terence was not used to this atmosphere, so he found an excuse to slip out of the banquet hall.

The cold winter wind blew away the only bit of drunkenness with the fine snow. He put his arms on the railing and looked into the distance.

The haze of war was blown away before reaching the main star Tino. The Royal Plaza was brightly lit, illuminating half of the night sky, while the other half was rendered by the brilliant light and shadow of the huge projection. The imperial flag fluttered in the wind, and the sound of the organ kept flying to here.

"Why, it's the first time to participate in such a banquet, are you not used to it?"

Andre came out at some point, joking with a smile.

This guy officially became a high-ranking general a few hours ago. He is full of vigor, and the general star on his shoulder is shining under the light.

Terrence turned around, leaning his back against the railing, and said with a smile, "You managed to get out, and no one poured you down?"

"Oh—about the combat experience in the liquor store, I am now richer than you."

Andre showed a smug expression, and then stretched out his hand to straighten the slightly tangled silver ribbon on Terrence's front.

Terrance rarely wore this military uniform, and he had never attended such a grand ceremony in the past.But he was born to stand in the spotlight, and no one can take away his edge.

It was the same at this time, he picked up the goblet on the tray beside him, and gestured to Andre: "Only this point, I will not admit defeat."

His eyebrows and eyes seem to be shining when he smiles.

Andre also laughed. He picked up another wine glass and raised it a little higher: "At least I wish you something?"

Terrence shrugged: "Oh—well, for your promotion, Honorable Admiral."

This is really perfunctory.But Andre didn't care: "Then, for your future victory, my colonel."

His colonel raised his eyebrows arrogantly: "Of course, I will win and keep winning. Just watch."

With a sound of "Dang", the two cups touched each other lightly.

Almost at the same time, there was a loud bang in the air, and a firework bloomed, and then withered together with the snowflakes.Immediately afterwards, the second and third flowers——

The night sky of Tino is full of brilliant fireworks.

Terrence looked up.

Andre saw the starry sky, fireworks, and falling snow reflected in those rose-red pupils.

He suddenly laughed and drank the wine in his glass: "Happy Advent Day, Terrence."

I'll keep an eye out for--

Their future is like the scenery at the other end of the galaxy.

Splendid, vast.

Still unknown.

＜End＞

The author has something to say:

Finished writing!

I said that it might take the next chapter to finish but I couldn't find a suitable break point, so I just finished writing it in one breath!

Until the end, Terrence did not admit that he was Geraint, he thought he was not worthy of the love and expectation that the name had.

But Andre said that it doesn't matter, what he sees is Terence all the time, even if he can't get out of his life, beautiful flowers can bloom in the depths of the haze

By the way, Ann's father is an illegitimate child, but his mother's identity is so powerful that I am dumbfounded.

Anyway, that's the end of this episode.

It's self-entertainment with friends XD

I like these two people very much, and I can't write them one-tenth of a million times better. Maybe I will have the opportunity to write more and more complete stories in the future.

Then, goodbye by fate!