[Comprehensive] Goodbye, Asuna

"G is a good friend who grew up with me. Since I was stabbed by a spy, I am very concerned about my safety." At the dinner table, giotto praised Asuna's excellent cooking skills. On the one hand, he is also restoring the image of his friends.

Asuna nodded in understanding.As a competent bodyguard, reasonable suspicion is the basic homework.

"For the first time, I felt the true meaning of the word 'delicious'." Giotto praised without hesitation, "This exotic cuisine really conquered my taste buds. In your country, your cooking skills are probably the same Master class?"

"The master is definitely not called a master. Potato stew is a dish that almost every Japanese family will cook. Of course, there are many people who like to add curry powder to the stew to make curry stew. The taste is also delicious. Sashimi It's also a very special food, but I didn't find suitable fish in Sicily. If you go to Japan, you can eat more delicious Japanese food."

"You love your hometown very much. Is it a beautiful country?"

"It's a beautiful island country with pink cherry blossoms in full bloom in spring. When the season comes, the flowers bloom like clouds and brocades, like dreams..."

……

The dinner was very pleasant, and it can be called the joy of the guests and the host.Asuna and giotto had a good chat, telling each other their love for their hometown. Giotto is an emotional and good listener, and he captures the warmth in Asuna's language.And Asuna also successfully ignited Giotto's longing for the East.

"If I have a chance, I will definitely go to the east to see."

"You're going to love it here. I'm confident you'll consider it your second home!" Asuna smiled. "I think the fun dinner is over, and it's time for us to talk about something serious. For example, about Peng Greg."

As soon as he talked about Vengley, the gentle expression on Giotto's face disappeared, and a slight crease appeared between his golden eyebrows: "I know what you want to say, and I can tell you for sure, I don't want to change my Thoughts. If you still insist on saying something after knowing this, I have no reason to stop you."

"Are you giving me a 'rejection notice'?" Asuna pushed a cup of black tea in front of Giotto, looked up into Giotto's eyes, and pointed to the teacup, "Please forgive me for the poor hospitality. Persevere It’s a good thing to have your own opinion, but it’s not good if you can’t listen to other people’s suggestions, and it’s a big bad thing if you can’t recognize the fact that it’s not good for you.”

"Who knows, from whose point of view is that fact? In your eyes, you seem to be very bad, but in my opinion, now Pengelie has become a group with strong cohesion. In Pengel Under the wings of Vengley, the number of suffering people has also been greatly reduced. This is a factual fact. At least, no one died of freezing and starving to death on the territory controlled by Vengley. If this is not a good thing, then What are you talking about?" After speaking in one breath, Giotto drank the black tea in one gulp and exhaled slowly, "I don't know how the nobles taste tea, I just know that I like the tea you brewed very much."

"An orderly area will be peaceful, as we all know. This land was freed from chaos not because of Vongola's policies, but because of the intervention of Vongola's power—that is, not It’s up to Vengley, even if it’s any other organization, as long as there’s some strength—whether it’s gentle or violent, it can smooth out this mess.” Asuna filled the teacup for Giotto, her smile gradually Hidden a thin needle, "Drink it up in one gulp, should I praise you for your generosity or the cow drink? This way you won't even be able to taste the tea."

"Anyway, Pengo Lie has developed very effectively under the current model. Asuna, you can't deny this. Besides, just based on your promise, I can't casually hand Pengo Lie over. Here you are. Excuse me, but you have only been here for 3 days, and you are completely an outsider! Pengo Li and I cannot fully trust you!" Giotto didn't waver at all, he raised his head, provocative, "Asuna Miss, pour me the tea, I thank you for your hospitality. But how to drink it is my business, and how I like to drink tea, you have no way to intervene."

"I don't know if it's me you don't trust, or you don't trust everyone except yourself. Pengo Li is an organization you created and brought up with your own hands, and I can understand your feelings for it. It's like a loving Mother of the child, if you spoil the transitional protection too much, you will harm him instead. This is the income and expenditure table I drew for Peng Lie. From the year before the establishment, you almost started from nothing, and you created self-defense with a few people. However, the situation was still quite difficult; later, with the support of Elena and Spedo, Pengoile developed rapidly like a balloon, and even developed into today's scale. Of course, the scale is expanding, and the expenditure is also increasing. At the same time, the income is not impressive. It can be said that if there is no funding from investors, Vengley will not last long. You don’t trust me, but don’t you trust money? So, giotto, you understand Did I mean it?" Asuna shook her hair, put down the income and expenditure graph, and pushed the whole teapot to G, "I can't interfere with how you drink tea, but I can make you have no tea. What do you think, Giotto?"

G took the teapot and began to drink by himself. Giotto was furious and jumped up. The teacup jumped up and poured on the table, shouting: "Despicable! Are you forcing me with money? I really misunderstood you , I didn’t expect you to have the same face as those hateful nobles! If you want to use money to force me to submit, then let me tell you, it’s impossible!”

In order to overwhelm him in terms of aura, Asuna also stood up, pressed the hilt of the sword on her left waist with her right hand, and her temperament changed, sharp and majestic. Her voice was calm and cruel: "Giotto, put away your tenderness. My dear, you have no bones, you can only become a dead soul under the sword."

Giotto's fingers on the table were strained, and veins popped out on the back of his hand. For the first time, he showed a violent expression in front of Asuna. He was both angry and - Asuna couldn't understand - seemed sad: " Asuna, even the soul of the dead under the sword has her own wishes. No matter how sharp the sword is, if it is misused, it will become blunt and broken sooner or later! Pengo Lie will never become a lackey of the nobles. After I die."

Asuna raised the corners of her lips: "I thought you would be the kind of 'as long as the green hills are there, you are not afraid of no firewood'."

"Unfortunately, I'm not." Giotto's expression gradually calmed down, returning to his usual gentle expression, "Someone was at a critical moment, but I couldn't save him because of my lack of ability. I swore on that day that I would never Someone was hurt in front of me. So Asuna, you can understand that my original intention of founding Vongola was not to get ahead, not to be rich, but just to be able to protect those who need my protection. If I lost this point, if Vongola lost this point, I would not be me, and Vongola would no longer be Vongola.”

When Giotto said this, his eyes were extremely firm.Not in a rock-hard way, but with a lot of emotion and a real heart - he has passion and affection for his cause.The richness almost spilled over the table.

Asuna's breathing became slightly quickened, as if something in her heart was tightly grasped and let go.She lowered her head, with a complicated expression, and made a slightly trembling voice: "As long as I'm here, no one will die in front of me, you think the same way, Giotto? I've seen people like you before, I didn't expect to see you again to such a person."

At the beginning, when he heard this for the first time, it was Kirito who told him. He felt heavy and painful when he said this; , his expression was soft and firm.They put the responsibility on their shoulders and vowed to protect them in their hearts, but only few people can hear the vows in their hearts.

"Yes, I will protect them."

"Then, who will protect you?"——At that time, Asuna asked like this, so now, she raised her head and looked at Giotto with complicated eyes and asked the same question.

"Well," Giotto scratched his face, "I can protect myself."

——I'm here to protect you, so Kirito, you won't die.

"I'll protect you." Asuna almost blurted out the words, she was a bit confused about these characters with pure and soft hearts.

However, Asuna felt a little inappropriate when the words came out of her mouth—isn't it an offense to say such words to a young single man?

"Asuna..." Giotto froze for a moment, lowered his head and coughed a few times to hide the flush on his face, lowered his eyes, and didn't dare to look at Asuna's face.Asuna immediately felt embarrassed.

The candlelight on the table kept flickering, and the room fell into an embarrassing silence except for the "beeping" of the flame in the fireplace.

At this moment, G suddenly stood up from the table. Only then did Giotto and Asuna remember the existence of G. He sat there quietly drinking tea, silent like a statue, no wonder they ignored him.

"I have a question." G raised the teapot, without any emotional fluctuations in his tone, "just leave giotto to me for protection, and I won't bother you. Other than that, the tea is good. And ,...the tea is gone."

Taking advantage of the tense atmosphere being broken, Asuna immediately made amends, and while taking the teapot, she said, "I was just joking, and I didn't finish the second half of the sentence——I will protect you, and we will all protect you. Hahaha. "

Giotto laughed in agreement with a stiff "hahaha", as if he was acting like a drama.But with Asuna is also each other each other.

They giggled for a while, saw each other's stiff expressions, and heard stiff laughter—suddenly, they looked at each other, and then they looked at each other and smiled. This time, they really laughed out loud.

Laughter is an expression of joy for human beings. In a small room, the pleasant atmosphere is like the greenery after the spring rain, confusing the whole room, and the whole room is full of spring.And something called friendship grows and sprouts in this spring-like atmosphere.

"I think we had a very good night." Giotto smiled, smiling like a sunflower, "At least I think we've become friends, haven't we?"

"That's right, it's very pleasant to chat with you." Asuna also smiled, smiling like a sakula, "Although we have some disagreements, it can't affect my appreciation for you. Although you are easy-going, you will never indecisive."

"You too. Although your sword skills are superb and you were introduced by nobles, I can be sure that you are definitely not the kind of cold-blooded and cruel 'nobles' who want to make Pengo Li a dirty weapon."

Asuna shrugged: "You probably have some prejudice against nobles, even Elena who recognizes you, you are very wary."

"If you didn't want to change my Vongola, we wouldn't have quarreled." Giotto raised his eyebrows, and when he realized that the topic seemed to be slipping into conflict again, he stopped quickly, "G and I should go, tonight It's really bothering you too much."

"It's okay." Asuna smiled.

Giotto pulled G, who had been drinking black tea all night, to bid farewell to Asuna and said good night in advance. The intimacy in his attitude was completely different from the formality when he first entered the door. They walked out of Asuna's hut.

Asuna leaned against the door, with the slightly cold night wind blowing around her, as if she ate a bowl of shaved ice in a hot weather where she was still dizzy, refreshed and clear-headed. ——I felt that the boiling blood gradually calmed down.Hearing the sound of Giotto's leaving footsteps, the footsteps gently hitting the ground, the impetuousness in his heart was also taken away.

——Why do we have to turn this Vongola into the Knights of the Blood Alliance? The Knights of the Blood Alliance are indeed very strong and have a reasonable structure, but this Vongola is also very good.

A happy smile suddenly appeared on her face, and her voice spread far away, passed through the tranquility of the night, and floated into the ears of the person who had a different opinion from her: "Although it's a pity that you didn't listen to my advice. But I still want to tell you that in my world, the Knights of the Blood Alliance, which I am the deputy leader of, has the most powerful ability in the entire server, the highest strategy efficiency, and, most importantly, the death rate It's also the lowest."

The footsteps stopped.