Abandoned Lover [Future]

This kiss initiated by Eugene changed the atmosphere between the two in an instant.Xiao is still confused about what happened, but he also has a sincere feeling of being cared for.

—It was good that Eugene forgave him.

Encouraged by this atmosphere, Xiao even asked Eugene what was on his mind naturally, and Eugene really told him.

The two sat at the dining table, and Eugene omitted the details about the goalkeeper, and gave a brief overview of how the female player arranged his match list.At the end he sighed: "I didn't expect that she would force me so much. When I was under her, I didn't feel sorry for her."

His feelings for the female general have always been complicated.She was his mentor, but she also witnessed him lose everything.Eugene had no reason to hate her, but in the end he didn't want to mention her, let alone meet her.

Xiao thought for a while: "What if you just wounded that girl in the next round? You seem to be much stronger than her."

Eugene shook his head: "It's not that simple. Standing in that kind of place, as long as you let go of your murderous intentions, you will be killed immediately."

He is not some crazy outlaw, one of the main reasons why he can always crawl out of the pile of corpses is that he has never underestimated any battle or opponent.He knew that a moment of compassion could kill a person, and Winona, like him, had emerged from the blood of tens of thousands of people. He didn't really regard her as a helpless child.

"So you're going to find the girl?"

"If you can persuade her to quit, it's better than killing her on the field."

For a moment Xiao wanted to say, in fact, you have other options.But he dismissed that idea quickly, because Eugene's wish wasn't that cheap.

——This man really wanted to survive by himself, and he had already endured unimaginable risks and costs.

Xiao resisted the urge to kiss Eugene's lips, and asked, "When are we going?"

"Tomorrow. I can't go back and forth to Rhino Bay in a day. I will probably live there tomorrow night."

the next day.

Eugene stood in the study, opened the antique iron box in the corner, and took out a military badge from it.There is a firmly fitted chip on the silver military plate, and two lines of neatly engraved characters.

Eugene "The Guardian" Palmer

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He put the cards in the inside pocket of his jacket and closed the case again.

——Green Star, Rhino Bay, more than [-] kilometers away from Cornova.

It was already afternoon when Eugene got off the airship, and arrived at the academy just before the cadets finished their drills.With his military badge, Eugene can freely enter and leave the former campus.Because he had already obtained the information from Joshua, he soon found Winona on a certain training ground.

The young girl was wearing a black non-commissioned officer uniform, her long dark brown hair was combed into a high ponytail, and her smooth forehead was covered with sweat.She stood upright, clenched her hands into fists, and was loudly reporting her number to the instructor.Eugene, who was standing on the sidelines, looked at her silently—the little girl back then had already grown up unknowingly. Among Winona's stretched facial features, a pair of bushy eyebrows and burning eyes were the most conspicuous , Like the female generals from the beginning of the year.

When Winona walked towards him step by step under the setting sun, Eugene's eyebrows were still slightly furrowed because of nostalgia, but the corners of his lips were already raised, showing a very gentle smile.

Before Eugene introduced herself, Winona spoke first: "I remember you."

Eugene was startled: "Because of the gladiatorial fight?"

"No, since you were in school." The girl shook her head: "Do you want to take a walk with me? Have something to say while walking."

"it is good."

Eugene and the girl walked side by side, gradually moving away from places with heavy traffic.When they arrived at the forest farm on the edge of the school, Winona said, "Since you're here, do you want me to retire?"

Eugene looked at her still childish face. "I don't want to kill you."

"I know you are strong, but you don't have to look down on me like that." Winona smiled: "And if you really had the heart to do something, you wouldn't come here on purpose."

Eugene shook his head. "I don't understand what you have to gain from fighting. Even if you want to prove yourself to your mother, there are other ways."

"It has nothing to do with my mother. I have my own desire to achieve, and I also have the consciousness to die for it."

"So you want to wrestle for the sake of wrestling?" Eugene's voice raised unconsciously, "You should have known the luxury of living here since you were a child."

——He still remembers the sense of absurdity he felt when he learned of Winona's wish, because it was an extremely simple but illogical sentence—"win the gladiatorial fight".

"I don't despise life as much as you think." Winona's face remained unchanged, but her eyes became more determined: "I want to get a chance to get in touch with the 'inheritance' after winning the gladiatorial."

Eugene heard this word unpreparedly, and felt that someone had stabbed him on the top of the head with an ice pick. It was extremely cold at first, and then extremely painful.The strong stress reaction made him feel nauseous for a while, his fists were clenched unconsciously, and the blood vessels in the back of his head throbbed and hurt.

"...Who told you? It can't be your mother." Eugene's breathing became heavier, and his articulation seemed to be extraordinarily hard.

"If you were the general's daughter, someone would always tell you some secrets to please you." Winona maintained a calm expression.

"Do you know what it means to be close to 'inheritance'?" Eugene adjusted his breathing, suppressing his urge to smash something: "Your mother and I were involved without knowing it, But you obviously have a choice."

"Since I want to get close to the league's best-kept secret, I am determined to pay for this curiosity." Winona looked straight into Eugene's eyes, "I would like to ask you, if you already know about gladiatorial Why do you have to set foot on the arena again?"

There was no way or reason for Eugene to explain his plan to Winona.He closed his eyes and tried his best to calm down his emotions: "Your mother never asked you to participate in the wrestling, did she? On the contrary, she should have strongly hindered you."

Winona smiled.Her smile is full of the kind of stubbornness that only young people have, no matter what, no retreat.

"I'm an adult and I don't need others to make decisions for me. If you're really worried about me like you're acting, you might as well retire."

Eugene looked at her, and Winona looked back like a sharp sword.This girl really resembles her mother, her character is obviously not obvious, but after making a decision, she will never look back.

After staring at each other for a long time, Eugene lowered his head slightly as if he had been defeated, and his aura instantly dissipated completely, even his back bent a little.

Then he slowly reached out and patted the top of Winona's hair.

"You used to be so young." Eugene smiled, "...Time flies too fast."

Winona was stunned.Eugene looked at her with seemingly relieved eyes, but there was also a little sadness mixed in.

It's the way older people look at grown-up children.

"See you on the court." Eugene took a deep breath, turned around and strode away.

Leaving Winona in place, the smile slowly fell back.In the end, she flattened her mouth, lowered her eyes, and her eye sockets were slightly red.

... She can remember Eugene because when she was lost by the guards before, this person was the first to find her.While the captain of the guard was yelling and assembling the manpower, this person lay on the ground, kept her eye level, and slowly walked over the path she might go.In the end, Eugene found himself in the adult's blind spot and carried her on his shoulders.

There were not many times when she was able to "ride a big horse", but in retrospect, she always felt that she was very happy at that time.

……

Walking alone in the twilight, Eugene already fully understood the purpose of the list of female generals.It wasn't a persecution against him, it was more like a mother's plea to lower her dignity - she was doing whatever it took to keep her child from the "inheritance".Eugene, on the other hand, is the only one who has the motivation and ability to defeat Winona without killing her.

She was stopping Winona from going down a path she was destined to regret, just like she had tried to stop Eugene back then.

— "Eugene, promise me, don't go near that 'inheritance', don't make wishes on it."

Eugene didn't heed her advice, so in the end, he could only watch his most important person die before his eyes.

People who have been through this don't want others to repeat their mistakes.

After calming down, Eugene recalled the conversation with Winona again.He had a very questionable instinct about how the girl had gotten word of the "inheritance".After all, other than the three generals, the only people who really know the inside story of the "inheritance" are their secret troops. This looks more like a malicious conspiracy.

And Eugene didn't forget how he was cheated before.

……

"General, Eugene sent me a letter asking me to tell you, 'He promised you'."

Joshua's expression looked a little confused, but it delivered the message faithfully.

The woman in the general's cloak was silent for a moment, and then calmly replied: "Please tell him my thanks."

Then she turned the high-back chair around, and let out a silent breath out of Joshua's sight.

……

It's night, Cornova, Eugene's apartment.

Xiao looked at the unlocked iron box in front of him, and fell into a strange struggle.

He just happened to pass by the door of the study, and after casually looking into the room, he just happened to find that the lid of the box was open.Having spent so much time with Eugene, he knows the importance of this box very well; he has seen Eugene take out from here more than one whiskey with missing labels, tobacco wrapped in oiled paper, and even out-of-print Heavy Motorcycle Magazine.

This box seemed to be full of Eugene's favorite and precious things.

As a lover-type cyborg, he knows that spying on his master's privacy is strictly prohibited; however, because Eugene is not his master, this prohibition will not be triggered forcibly.

So if he wants to reach out, nothing can stop him.

Shaw's inner struggle ends in a moment that turns into midnight.Another day has passed, and if Eugene loses in the next match, all of Shaw's memories and feelings will end on that day.In these days that Eugene stole from him, no matter how ugly and humble, he wanted to selfishly get to know this person better.

Sorry, Eugene.Xiao thought so, bent down, and opened the box.