The Star Knight

Opal buried his head in front of Recter's chest for a long time, Recter touched his head and said, "I'm sorry, Opal."

"No." Opal said: "Don't say that, teacher, I betrayed you."

Rickett said, "Don't blame yourself, Opal."

Opal let him go. At this moment, his feelings towards Rector were still complicated. He didn't do what Rector entrusted to him, and he didn't even choose his position clearly. His heart was still against Rector. Corolin succumbed, it could even be said to be quite succumbed.He was ashamed of Recter, and he was ashamed of himself, but when he saw Recter again, he still rushed to hug him with impulse and instinct.

However, after the two separated, he suddenly thought of many things——their relationship was very embarrassing.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Rector didn't want to meet him.

"Why are you here?" Rector started the topic as if nothing happened. He walked to the dining table, poured some fruit wine for Opal, and poured himself a glass of thorn wine.

Opal briefly recovered from Raymond's identity, and said: "Come to investigate something, me and... I became an adventurer."

Rector didn't seem to notice his nervousness, and said with a smile: "I think an adventurer is more suitable for you than a mercenary, Opal."

Opal said: "Oh no, adventurers are too difficult and need a lot of contacts. You see, without you, I can't even enter this banquet."

Rector said: "The Great Astronautics Association likes to use a famous saying of Horius, you should use your brain to solve problems, not fight. I believe that even without me, you can successfully sneak in."

Opal said: "Is Horius strong? How is he? Isn't he cunning?"

Rector said: "He is short, as tall as you are now, but he is the star knight I admire the most besides Nolan. He is quite smart, thoughtful, and very patient, making long preparations for the last move To win, you will get used to this mode slowly. Horius himself doesn't like to fight alone. He rarely even activates the saber-toothed tiger. Most of the time he relies on his mind to win the battle. From this point of view, Colo Lin is kind of like him."

Opal suddenly thought of something, and he said, "Teacher, you came here because of him...does he have any assassination plans?"

Rector crossed his arms and said, "No, it's not because of him, it's purely because of another student of mine."

Opal discovered another thing, the silver bracelet on Rector's wrist was gone.

Rector noticed that Opal was looking at his hand, so he stretched out his left hand, wearing on his wrist the string of artificial stone beads that Opal gave him a long time ago—bought on B11 for [-] energy points Bracelet.

Opal smiled and said, "You still have it."

"I've been wearing it all the time." Rector said, "It was interrupted once in the middle, and Jasmine helped me put it on."

Opal said, "Where's the dragon ray?"

Rector said: "He is sleeping in the Temple of the Stars, do you want to meet him?"

Opal said: "He... is sleeping? Why don't you bring it, I mean..."

Rector said: "Let's go over there for a walk, what do you want to eat?"

Opal followed Rector to leave the Moonlight Path and walked towards the green pine forest. Opal had too many questions to ask and troubles to solve. The most important thing was—Raymond was playing a clown in the luxurious hall. What would happen if Kurt found out? !

"I knew Corolin wanted to use assassination again to solve the problem." Rector said casually, "Who is his target this time?"

Opal said: "I'm not sure, he did have this idea before, maybe the emperor..."

Opal was a bit hesitant, but Rector said: "He has also fulfilled his duty as a teacher to you. There is no personal grudge between me and him. The duel is because we need to use our lives to correct the mistakes we have made. I don't Hate him, so you don't have to burden yourself too much, Opal."

Opal breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Really, I'm sorry, teacher, I tried my best. Sometimes I think of what you taught me a long time ago. You said that some things can't be done by faith. It is true. I There are many things that cannot be done. Punish me, I am willing to accept any punishment to express my apology to you, but there are many things, even if I do it again, I will still do it, and I will still choose this way.”

Rector stopped, looked at Opal, and said earnestly: "I have no intention of punishing you, Opal, I put Dragon Ray in the Stars Sanctuary, intending to live a normal life, because I failed, So I can only reflect on myself and accept failure. Now there is only your friend Rector, not your teacher, Rector who is the Star Knight."

Opal: "!!!"

Opal didn't know what to say for a moment, Rector motioned him to continue walking along the road.

Opal said: "Have you given up, teacher?"

Rector said beside him: "No, I didn't give up, Opal, I thought about it a lot these days, on the first day I knew you, when you ran over with the battery to charge the dragon ray, I Just vaguely understand why my faith can't beat Cologne, you awakened the fire of my faith. But I was too impatient, I mistook it as a chance for me because you made me feel again The duty of teaching, after thousands of years of Cologne's departure, I once again experienced the cultivation of a person's mood, so I gathered this belief and wanted to use it to fight against Cologne again, but I still failed."

Opal listened silently, and Rector said: "After the second failure, I recalled our encounter, and the fire of faith was rekindled for a short time, not because I trained you, but because I met a worthy The friend I went to protect. I even feel a little regretful. I should not have allowed you to develop on your own. Instead, I should have brought you to the Temple of the Stars. We are all relatives of each other, living together, teaching you everything I know, and feeling together It's nice to have someone with you. It's a pity I missed you."

"I'm really too stubborn. I have relied on my own cognition for thousands of miles to simply fight Coron, but I haven't given birth to any idea of ​​experiencing the feelings and life of a human being." Rector said: "So I I can't tell what my beliefs are. I have no relatives, no friends, and no strong attachments in the thousands of years after his betrayal. I don't have the motivation to win. In the end, I even found that I even protect you No, how to fight Cologne? So I figured it out, and I plan to let go of the idea of ​​fighting him first and live a normal life."

Opal nodded and said, "I understand, teacher."

Rector laughed and said: "Our failure is due to my self-lostness in these long years."

Opal said, "It's not too late to understand now."

Rake nodded and said, "As long as a person understands what he really needs to do, then it's never too late."

Opal said: "Oh, maybe what I need most now is money. I found that since I came to King's Wharf, my belief is to revolve around money..."

Rector laughed, took a plate, put food for Opal, and said, "I think that many enjoyments are free. In this universe, the free ones are often more than the paid ones."

Opal said, "Is it like these foods?"

Rector said: "No, of course not. These are money in essence. People in the empire always like to gluttonous food. This is one of the seven deadly sins, which is very bad."

Opal said: "But if you want to live like an ordinary person, this kind of life is also necessary. I think compared to the liquid food of the Republic...uh..."

Rector said: "Their gluttony in the virtual network is the same. It is good to satisfy their desires properly. Once anything is overdone, it will be terrible. Come with me."

He took the food and went to the lawn with Opal, the green pine forest was noisy and lively, Opal chose a secluded place with few people, and sat on the lawn with Rector to eat.

"Maybe one day you will do it for...for..." Opal held the fork, and suddenly thought: "Beat the old one for food...sorry, I still can't change my mind."

Rector really had no choice but to take Opal, Opal said: "Why don't you call him Mr. Hei, and call you Mr. Bai."

Rector: "..."

Opal laughed and said, "Just kidding."

Rector said, "Look at the sky."

Opal looked up, and Rector said, "Opal, I remember that your favorite thing to do when you were young was watching the starry sky. Have you lost this interest for a long time?"

"No." Opal murmured, "I still like to watch it."

"That's good." Rector said: "The air is free, the starry sky is free, the sun is free, and the rain is free. They are all gifts from the creator. The Holy See of the Stars believes that the stars are the creators of this universe. They emit light and heat. , so all things can grow, and the water and air on the surface of the dead planet can be circulated. And love, friendship and family affection are also free, because they are priceless, so they can only be free."

Opal said: "No, teacher, some love is also charged...Only a small number of people do not charge for love."

Rector frowned and said, "Are you starting to contradict the teacher?"

Opal looked at him with a smile. At this moment, he felt that Rector was no longer the Rector he knew before. Although he was still very young, he noticed one thing—Recter treated him as an adult up.

"Teacher." Opal said suddenly, "Raymond has been resurrected, can you accept him? I implore you to accept him for me, or try to understand him."

Rector asked in a deep voice: "Opal, if the teacher doesn't accept Raymond, what will you do?"

Opal said: "I will protect him from you, and I can only fight with you when necessary, but I still love you the same, teacher."

Rector looked into Opal's eyes and said, "As long as you think that way, the teacher will have nothing to do with you, Opal."

Opal: "No no..."

Rector said: "Your belief in this is purer than mine, so if we fight, the teacher will not be your opponent."

Opal said: "But you have Dragon Ray."

Rector said: "There is no difference in essence. If you are pushed to the end, your power of belief may be able to crush Long Ray."

Opal frowned, "Really?"

Rector didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Do you still want to try?"

Opal said: "I don't want...don't want to fight with you, teacher, I really don't want to, but I can't lose Raymond."

Rickett said: "Then I will try my best. In fact, I have often reflected on myself over the years because of the incident with Lejason. Besides, you have tried your best to avoid the situation from deteriorating. When you have to face a dilemma When making a decision, I think it may be necessary to accommodate a bit.”

Opal finally let go of a big rock in his heart, which is what he fears the most. Since Recter did not show any clear objection, it is already the greatest gift from God to him.

Recter doesn't seem to want to discuss this topic any more, and Opal also knows that he won't be able to change his previous impression for a while. The existence of replicants has violated Recter's bottom line, let alone a replicant of Cologne?

"He didn't ask us to do anything bad." Opal still couldn't help saying.

"I've said it before, Opal." Rector said: "I don't hate him, it's just that we must correct the mistakes we each made. Duplicating humans is very dangerous..."

Opal said: "But he doesn't have the consciousness of being a replicant. He feels that he is a human being from the beginning to the end. He doesn't want to avenge the replicants, and he doesn't want to build an army of replicants."

Rector said: "Then you can pretend that I'm just an ordinary person, Rector, the consultant of the Milky Way Atomic Billiards Club, and not a star knight."

Opal nodded, truly relieved.

"By the way, let's talk about this." Opal said: "Teacher, is that the kind of club you join where you take off a piece of clothing when the opponent wins a game?"

Rector: "..."

"Why do you think so?!" Rector said angrily, "You usually play that kind of game?!"

Opal immediately made a gesture of surrender, inadvertently exposing his behavior of playing pornographic games. He changed his mind, changed the subject immediately, and said, "Why do you know that Buck, Barna..."

"Baroque." Rector said, "Prince of the Empire, he is my student."

Opal immediately sensed something was wrong, and said, "Are you accepting students again?"

Rector said: "The Empire has an embassy in the Milky Way. The ambassador knows me and likes to play atomic billiards, so he introduced me to Baroque. He has learned my billiards skills for a year, and now he invites me to the banquet. .”

"Oh." Opal said still a little sourly: "When I asked you what atomic billiards are, let me think about how you answered..."

Rector smiled, and he lay down on the lawn, and Opal followed his example and said, "My technique is too bad."

Rector said: "If you want to learn, I can teach you in a few days, but you have to promise me that you don't use the pool skills I taught you to bully people or take off other people's clothes."

Opal rolled on the lawn laughing and said, "No problem."

The sound of the music in the distance gradually became quieter, another wave of meteor showers across the zenith, the never-ending gorgeous night sky was filled with countless silvery white rays of light, which dazzled Opal, he and Rector did not talk anymore, and the wind blew , he felt really comfortable like this, everything was so quiet and beautiful.

Until footsteps sounded beside them.

Opal heard Rector's voice in his dream.

"He fell asleep."

A person sat down on his left, and Opal became sober in an instant, but he didn't open his eyes, knowing that Raymond had found them.

Rector lay on his left, and Raymond sat on his right.

"What should I call you?" Raymond said.

Rector replied: "Anything."