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On a large fluorite near the exit of the cave, the villain knight covered with bruises lowered his body and tried to look down, but after all, he was too far away, and he could only see the magic dragon with faint blue fluorescence swaying. ? Around the body, from time to time there are golden red magic flames mixed in it.

Leif is outside the battle situation, but she can more clearly recognize the strength gap and changes between the two in the battle. At first, she was worried that the villain witch would be at a disadvantage, but soon noticed that It seems that the power of the dragon fire gradually weakens with the passage of time, and the ghost of the magic dragon seems to be subject to some kind of restriction. After a period of attack? Can dodge in embarrassment.

"Ah, you hateful human being, do you just leave this uncle who died for you?" The squirrel was sobbing, "Could it be that my uncle is a squirrel, so I have no feelings? , no temper, no Will you be sad because of being left out? You even pulled the hair on the back of my uncle's tail just now, and now you just abandon me like this..."

Leif watched the villain witch gradually gain the upper hand. It was only a matter of time before the end of the battle. The ending was certain. Hearing the sharp cry of the squirrel, he temporarily gave up paying attention to the battle situation and moved to the same injured around the squirrel.

"Hey, didn't you cheer me up? Now I have cheered up, and we are almost winning now, my companion is better than I imagined? Much better..." Every sentence of Leif Speaking? Come, it seems that there is a strong bloody smell coming from her lungs, but she doesn't care much about this injury now.

"On the contrary, you don't seem to be very energetic now. But don't worry, as long as you still have a life before you go out, you know the magic power of the bottle of medicine you have always wanted, and you will be back to normal... "

After calling the villain knight back, the squirrel ignored her for a long time. After a while, he let out a long breath, and then said angrily: "It's late, I don't want to Living, what joy is there in living, only endless pain..."

"This is very strange, you are the most powerful squirrel I have ever seen." Leif almost thought that the squirrel deliberately pretended to be the ashamed look just now to laugh at himself, after all, it seems that the words of despair should not be used Such a strong tone? Speak out.

"If it wasn't for the potion that the lord gave you, I'm afraid I'm still just an ordinary squirrel, so there wouldn't be so many sad things." The squirrel said, "But after that day? , the forest in which I have lived since I was a child has undergone drastic changes in my eyes, my teeth have suddenly become stronger, I can jump farther, and?

"Isn't this something to be happy about?" Leif wondered, "If I suddenly became unexpectedly powerful in one day, I would be so happy. I really don't understand..."

"Why is your human mind so rough? Don't you read love? Poetry, don't you have the ability to understand the subtleties of the soul?" More supplies, bigger territory, stronger?"

"Materials...territory...powerful..." Leff snapped his fingers, "I haven't thought about the territory yet? For me, as long as I have enough materials and become very strong, I will Very satisfied. Also? Need anything else?"

"Oh, you... well, well, that's what I thought at first, no other squirrel can bully me, and I even gradually found that I can attack large beasts, and I made a big splash, how could I Are you unhappy?" The squirrel's tone dropped, "but gradually I felt that my companions were terribly stupid and incompetent. I thought I was the only one who endured them, until they drove me out of the forest, and I I just realized that they hate me too. And the reason why they do this is that I am becoming less and less like a squirrel...

"You hateful human being, can you understand this kind of loneliness? When you search all over the world and can't find the same kind... Well, then I finally found that frog, and it also suffered from that frog. The impact of the bottle, its companions did not drive it away, but it was also very sad because it couldn't find a creature that could communicate—"

The squirrel waited for a while, as if waiting for Leif to reply, but after all, he still didn't get an answer, and said angrily: "Hmph, such subtle emotions are of course impossible for a human with a rough mind like you." I understand. Alas, with so many companions around you, I am afraid that you will never experience loneliness in this life. You are very lucky! But the luckiest part of you lies in the things that I have been pursuing but cannot achieve. It's easy to hold in your hand, but you don't think it's lucky at all."

Somehow, Leif suddenly remembered the night she left Ed Village.Those people she has been with for 16 years, those villagers with whom she has feelings and memories, and the old priests, they probably regard her departure with the feeling that they have successfully driven out the aliens. ? Well, just because she did something that no one would normally do.

Even if she was recognized by the temple, on that day when she thought she was returning home, her return actually only aroused some fear and disgust, but did not receive the acceptance and understanding she expected. In the end, she had no choice but to leave without saying goodbye one night.

Naturally, she was also very sad, but she knew that the road less traveled by she chose would have more scenery than the road she gave up.She knew that after this group abandoned her, she would one day be accepted by another group she yearned for more, so she didn't feel unacceptable.

However, I'm afraid that not everyone who is considered a different kind will be as lucky as her.

She vaguely felt that she was concerned, but she didn't dare to say rashly that she really understood.The so-called sorrow and joy are not things that can be completely connected. She can make an analogy in experience, but after all, she still can't completely empathize with her.

It's like this squirrel is solemnly saying the last words in this life, but she, as the only listener, still can't control the distraction to care about her partner's fighting situation, so she has to acquiesce that she is The heart is rough, "I'm really sorry, I abandoned that bottle of potion on the road, and didn't consider the possible consequences at all. If you need it, I will do my best to make it up."

"Hmph..." The squirrel turned its face and looked towards an empty place. From its furry face, Leif could see an expression that usually only appears on the faces of older and wise people? She couldn't laugh because of the sense of disobedience, "After that? I also tried various methods to solve my distress. I stayed in a human village for a few days, learned to speak, and then hid in a priest's preaching room. Place, watching him recite books? Written? Things on silk, and quickly recognize the characters.

"I listened to bards singing, read all kinds of books, and gradually increased my mind. I gradually began to think that compared with squirrels, I am afraid that humans are my kind. Even though I am afraid that most of them are not as smart as I am, I am willing to try my best to communicate with them. But when I first spoke to humans, I was treated as a monster and driven out. Because I look different from them. The frog seems to be nothing Anyway, it has no interest in human knowledge from the very beginning.

"So I gradually gave up the hope of being with human beings, and instead hoped that through the potion, my kind would become like me. So I continued to chase the taste of the potion, all the way to Clover In the forest."

Leif thought to himself, since the magic dragon is hiding in this forest, then there are dragons in Clover Forest... the smell of saliva is also a natural thing.

"That was the first time I saw villains. They look like people, but their body shape is similar to mine, and they also smell like potion." The squirrel said, "They transported a few carts of gold, and I chased them. and found them trading with some Men. They exchanged the gold they brought from under the Holy Pile for precious spices, fabrics, and other luxuries."

"Trading with humans. Are you sure that's the case?" Leif couldn't believe it. He believed his ears, "But this is obviously the most forbidden commandment in Lilliputian."

"Indeed," said the squirrel. "As you may have guessed, the smell of the dragon is also strong on the gold, because this gold was transported from here?—from under the holy pile? You should I also saw the ladder leading down from a high place, which was built by the craftsmen of Lilliputian for decades. At the beginning, behind that door? It was empty. will fall. Until later? to build this ladder.

"The royal family of the Lilliputian Kingdom treats this kind of transaction as a secret, but Ryan told me all of this. He also told me that in order to keep the secret, they except some members of the royal family and a few people who are closely related to the royal family Other than his family, he killed the rest of the villains who participated in this matter. The bones of those craftsmen and transporters were piled up under the stairs. The previous generations of kings did not dare to move? Treasures, but through some channels, they gradually learned about some extravagant habits of human beings, and they were very envious.

"In the generation of the current king, this kind of transaction has become more and more frequent. Ryan still? Tell me that this kind of transaction is exactly what he advocates, and he still? Wants to emulate the methods of the human king, because the human king is facing his subjects It is much more airy, at least not like a villain, the king has to participate in labor with his subjects?"

"No wonder," Leif said, "The villain king actually knew the reason for the anger of the Holy Pile, so he thought of asking me for a sum of gold as a solution."

"I don't know more about the specific situation. After seeing those villains, after I was rejected by human beings, my thoughts that were almost cut off gradually became clearer, so I took them away. The little guy they lead is the only one who is willing and able to have the conversation I want with me. That time, in retrospect, was the happiest and most comfortable time I've ever had - so you too Don't feel sorry, actually that potion brought me almost as much pleasure as? pain, and before being affected by that potion, I couldn't even tell the difference between pleasure and? pain."

"Since this is the case, then at the beginning..." Leif said, "You don't seem to have any malice towards Prince Ryan, but I still? Killed your companion..."

"I followed his advice, built a kind of house in the top of the tree, learned to use furniture, and enjoyed the service of the rest of the animals. Before you appeared, I thought I was already the king of Cliff Forest "Squirrel said, "But even though I was very happy at that time, I did a lot of things that I regret. Ryan, that villain you call a prince, didn't care about the lives of his subordinates, but was annoyed by those who The villain couldn't protect it, so he asked the frog to strangle his servants one by one. He repeatedly said that the lives of these villains are not worth mentioning, so I acquiesced in this behavior, but I obviously wanted to I want all these villains to be my friends.

"I've learned some of the worst ways to do things from that little man who tried to persuade me to give up trying to make the rest of the squirrels as smart and strong as I was, and just turn them into my slaves by threatening... ..." A trace of shame appeared on Squirrel Mao's face.

"Fear is indeed a powerful weapon, but I got obedience, but it was farther and farther away from what I wanted. I used force to force my kind to obey me, and I tempted a few simple and beautiful female squirrels ... Well, it really shames me to say that I used to be a courtship squirrel. I forced them and tricked them just because I had an advantage they didn't have. Even in those few days I It's quite happy, but if it doesn't end, I'm afraid I'm going to do something that makes me even more sad. If I have any regrets, I just want to teach this villain a lesson."

The squirrel stopped talking and began to cough hard.

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The villain knight thought for a while, then climbed to the edge of the fluorite and looked down. Suddenly, she saw that the magic dragon at the bottom of the cave seemed to be full of energy, but the blue fluorescence was rather dim. It has increased a little—I don’t know whether this means that the combat power of the dragon and ghost has increased or? Has it decreased?

"Natya Vida," Leif called down the cave, "what's the situation?"

After a while, there was a reply. The villain witch looked pretty good, saying that it only took a moment to get rid of the dragon.

The wound on Leif's body at this moment? Naturally, it did not heal in such a short period of time, but the effect brought by the joy of escaping from the dead is comparable to the best painkiller. She feels that as the strength of the dragon declines, these days have been shrouded in Some of the entanglements and confusion in her heart suddenly seemed to be no problem.

In her heart, she was really worried about the fact that someone actually killed the dragon before her. This feeling is no different from that of a young man who has gone through untold hardships, learned the skill of killing, and overcame obstacles all the way. , Traveling across mountains and seas to the door of the enemy's family?, but suddenly found that the family was dead, suddenly lost? The sense of purpose and meaning, I don't know where to go?

However, gradually, another thought came to her. She thought that the ability of the dragon slayer must be much higher than that of the magic dragon. In the future? For the rest of her life, she could still take finding and defeating the dragon slayer as her goal.

She also minded that after she lost her combat power this time, she actually needed to rely on the ability of the villain witch to clean up the mess—Leif's feelings for Dian? The ghost of the dragon can be regarded as one of her concerns. On the other hand, she also feels that if she does not keep an eye on the battle situation, the villain witch who is currently in the upper hand may be killed suddenly at a certain moment. .

As for the sour feeling when she realized that the dragon was dead, she felt as if she had lost something important? The feeling of being unclear about something important, the villain knight didn't know how to explain it.

"Did you hear that?" Leif said to the squirrel, "You still talk so vigorously, you won't die so easily. Even if you did something wrong, you have to live to make up for it. You want revenge Who can do it after death. And if you continue to live? Maybe you will find some interesting things again..."

"So you're just a human being with an unrefined mind!" The squirrel gritted its teeth at Leif, and said helplessly, "Oh, why did that lord meet a human like you?"

"The lord?" Leff was puzzled.

"It's the adult who turned me from an ordinary squirrel into a monster? I have part of her power and memory hidden in my bones," the squirrel said, "so I can somewhat understand her."

"A proud and liar dragon..." Leif recalled the scene of being deceived twice, and couldn't help being angry, "What kind of mood would it be? Is it worth understanding?"

"To this day, even if we search all four continents, even the sky and the bottom of the sea, we still can't find a second dragon." The squirrel said, "I can't imagine that there is no one of the same kind." Life, how lonely it must be, I just experienced it for a few days before I couldn't stand it anymore, how did that adult endure for hundreds of years? Thinking about this, I felt that I had a connection with that adult. "

"She...has a lot of treasures...what she likes is collecting shiny metals? There are gems...she likes to eat fish..." Leif suddenly found that she seemed to know too much about magic dragons, but unfortunately these things It's almost useless, and I couldn't help but feel bitter, "She still? Tricks and deceives humans, tortures knights, snatches? Children and? Girls from various villages... and eats them... In short, she has many things to do... ..."

"But even when her closest kind was still alive, she was almost tortured." The squirrel didn't seem to care what Lai Fu said, but just continued on its own, "You should You know, even a magic dragon is not so powerful from birth.

"However, the adult's mother didn't have much expectations for her birth. After several failed attempts to kill her, she continued to torture her. However, kinship? It was originally a creature on the continent of Sikena. Tradition. Greed and tyranny are deeply hidden in the nature of magic dragons. The leaders of each generation of magic dragons are killed at the mouth of their relatives. If it were not for this, the dark dragon clan would have already occupied all four continents, and would not have arrived Now there is only one adult left."

"It's just a little squirrel," Leif wondered, "Why do you look like you're pitying a dragon?"

"Empathy, empathy, you hard-hearted human will not understand!" The squirrel was helpless and angry, "Even if they are different races, since they can communicate, there can always be something that can understand each other." ?”

The villain knight didn't believe it when he heard the squirrel talk about the torture of the dragon, but for some reason he suddenly remembered the scene in the last mission.

In the illusion created by Fire Skylark, the always calm white-robed female envoy rolled on the ground, as if being whipped, with pure pain and fear on her face.However, Leif did not forget that the Fire Skylark relied on satisfying the desire to make the people who entered the illusion lose the will to resist.At that time, she felt very strange, why the knights around, and the people who fought with them, even though they were fighting each other in pain, often had the expression of being trapped in a dream, and only the female envoy couldn't find it. A trace of happiness, only despair.

At that time, she was desperately calling out a name, and it was the person with that name who tortured her and wanted her to die, but she would rather burn herself to death for that person's will.

Leif remembers that before she saw the true face of the dragon, she also had deep sympathy for this female envoy who obviously had a tragic past?However, after learning that she is a dragon in disguise, this kind of sympathy immediately becomes the anger of being deceived and being used.

After all, once a powerful and teasing dragon shows a trace of sadness, it will look fake no matter what.

But now that I think about it, is it true?Could it be that the one who had been tormenting her, but at the same time was called and longed for by her, could be one of her relatives...or even her mother...

"Hey..." The squirrel pushed a piece of metal out of the hair on its stomach, as if it had really exhausted its last bit of strength, and said weakly, "This is your thing, hard-hearted human being, hurry up take it back?."

Leff crawled over and picked it up, and found that it was her broken knife.It just broke in the lower third of the tip.

After the squirrel gave her the broken knife, he slowly closed his eyes, as if he had finally said his last words.

"You said that I am a hateful human being, a human being with a rough heart, and now I have become a human being with a hard heart." Leif held a broken knife in her slightly intact left hand, and slowly leaned on the fluorite emitting light blue light. Standing up slowly, he raised the broken knife high above his head, looked at the shining edge, thought for a while, and said, "But that's how I am.

"If I am facing a monster, I remember that it also has the same appearance as a child, has experienced pain, has feelings, has caring relatives and friends, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to lift the knife. 'There will be many villains under my knife, and I know that each of them must have had an innocent childhood, and there are people who care about them. Maybe there is a reason for every evil deed? But even In this way, I will not have the slightest hesitation when I raise my sword to each other, because it is also the duty of a knight to act in the right way and bear the hatred, revenge and guilt that come from it.'” Later ?One sentence is the motto in the fifth volume of "The Records of the Radiant Knights of the Twelve Temples".

"...You are," the squirrel monster suddenly opened his eyes again, and said hysterically, "Let me die in peace? Ah! Sure enough, you have a heart of stone... No, you are clearly a heart of diamond. You are so unfortunate, ahem..."

Leif was startled by the sudden sound of the squirrel, and almost dropped the machete that was just in his hand to the ground.

She bent down and looked deep into the cave, the dragon that had almost become her obsession for more than ten years, which one became stronger in her memory after every meeting The devil dragon who was somewhat, somewhat hateful, the devil dragon that had always seemed invincible, seemed to have reached the end of the road at this moment.

Under the ghost state, the shape at this moment also becomes lighter and lighter.

"I was affected by this place, and it really became weird." The villain knight leaned on his knife and slowly bent his knee.At this moment, the squirrel did not try to persuade her to "understand a monster" with a strong tone. Even in this place, no one else could see her and asked her to be a warrior who would not be controlled by cowardly emotions. The villain knight had to Some resisted the fact that she was indeed a little touched, she thought, "Is it because of those damn blue lights, but those cowardice? There is a feeling of fear, and it has clearly left me."

She "thought for a while" again, then stood up suddenly, and shouted into the depths of the cave: "Natya Vida!..."

"Miss Knight, I know you must be in a hurry." Natia Vida took Lev's words as a reminder, so she didn't wait for her to finish, and replied, "I'm so sorry for the delay. time."

Before the villain knight could speak out, he choked in his mouth, because almost at the same time as the villain witch answered, he also made a final attack on the dragon ghost.After that attack?, the ghost of the magic dragon disappeared into the depths of the cave like mist.

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When Natia Vida came up, she saw near the body of the squirrel monster, a little figure who seemed to be soaked in blood over and over again? He was half kneeling on the ground with a broken knife, and stood on top of her. The delicious smell emanating from it, she judged to be Leif.

"Are you actually injured so badly?" Natia Vida bent down towards the villain worriedly, and stretched out a hand cautiously, fearing that just a slight touch would cause the villain knight to fall apart. , "I actually overlooked for a moment that there is a huge difference between human beings and villains. The lethality of this spiritual body is really not worth mentioning... It is my fault that you have suffered such serious injuries. But fortunately , that monster that hurt you? I have already eliminated it for you."

However, the villain knight actually brushed off her hand with the hand that was not holding the machete. Natia Vida heard a "click", and the bones in her arm that were already shattered were even more shattered at this moment, but The villain knight didn't seem to care about the pain at all, and just refused her contact.

"Miss Knight..." Natia Vida was puzzled, "Could it be that I did something wrong? Oh, could it be that monster? Are you blaming me for not solving it neatly?"

"Have you ever considered that the 'monster' in your mouth may also have feelings? He also knows how to love and hate..." Leif felt that the self who asked such words had become unrecognizable to herself. It came out, "Maybe...in the eyes of some people...in the eyes of some beings, it is not a monster? It's...but..." She couldn't find any suitable words, so she had to say, "It's other people's monsters. of what?"

"You seem to be blaming me?" Natia Vida frowned a little displeased, "But it hurt you."

"I'm not blaming you, I'm just thinking..." The villain knight seemed to be trying to find a reasonable explanation for what he said just now, "At least as the guardian of the Lilliputia, how much can its existence Shock the greedy thoughts of the royal family. I just heard that the royal family of the Lilliputian Kingdom carried the gold from the cave up to make deals with humans, and even killed the villains who knew about it.

"The folk customs here are more simple than most of the countries I have passed through, and the residents of Lilliputian have never lacked the necessary supplies for life. She has indeed fulfilled her duties. I called you just now, but I actually wanted to say that the villain and the royal family should also have received their due lessons. If the ghost of this magic dragon... is left here? As a warning to greed, it may not be a desirable choice."

"Is that so?" Natia Vida's brows were untied, "You know, there is an easier way to get rid of the villain's king's greed for gold."

The little knight looked up at her.

"I just need to kill the dragon soul and take away all the gold and precious stones at the same time." Natia Vida smiled, but seemed to think of something, and became serious again. Face, "However, Miss Knight, haven't you been threatening to kill the dragon? Why did you soften your heart towards this dragon? Isn't this... isn't it a bit unfair? Fair?"

"I know, you must also find this idea very strange, but I guarantee that this is not a disease caused by the influence of blue light." The villain knight considered whether he should let his companions bear the same burden as himself. Appropriate guilt, but what is she feeling right now? She really desperately needs someone to share with her, and she feels that if she doesn't stop her thoughts with a conversation, she's going to do something weird later, "I I just heard some unexpected opinions from this talking squirrel..."

The villain witch looked at the body of the squirrel, which seemed to be completely chilled, "What did it say to you?"

"That's... have you ever thought that even if it looks like that cunning and hateful dragon, it actually has something in common with humans." Seeing the puzzled look on the villain's witch's face, the villain knight tried his best to explain. "For example, she may also know how to love and hate. In this world, there are things she cares about. Anything she does? The reasons for her... Perhaps some of the things she did, human beings only saw one side of it, because this side is not good for human beings, so human beings call it evil, but in fact, she just has something she is forced to do. The reason..."

"Miss Knight." The villain's witch's eyes were shining brightly, with an approving smile on her face, "It seems that this squirrel unexpectedly has some wisdom."

"...It also? Tell me, even this magic dragon is not born so scary, but born so powerful." Leif saw how quickly her partner agreed with her meaning, and felt that she had been affected by it. Even though the influence of the squirrel's words, it's just a very human thing? It doesn't really mean that she has much reluctant feelings for the dragon? "When she was just born, I want to say Maybe it’s like a newly hatched sparrow, maybe it doesn’t even have a full coat.”

"Not only has the outer armor grown, but it is also very strong. It has been roasted for seven days and seven nights with the hottest magic flame at that time, but it still hasn't melted." Natia Vida laughed, not knowing why her expression was neutral? Proud, "There is also the most violent lightning strike in the Sikena Continent, the coldest ice field in the Lukefei Continent, the poisonous miasma permeating the jungle in the Tona Continent, the teeth of vampires and the claws of werewolves, the purest spirits of the Holy Land elves." The spell, the mermaid's seductive singing, and the giant's generous feet... all failed to destroy her, but instead made her stronger."

Leif looked at the villain witch with some doubts.

"I just heard it said so in the rumors." Natia Vida restrained her expression a little, and explained, "The rumors say that the magic dragon has never been weak since it was born."

"The rumors are unavoidably true or false. Even if she is not destroyed, then she will always be injured. Even if it is her wound? It will heal quickly, then she should feel the pain, right?..." Leif originally She just wanted to get rid of the abnormal sadness in her heart through discussion, but suddenly she couldn't bear to talk about it, and she was worried that if she continued talking about this point, she might She will have a very inappropriate feeling of complaining to her companion who saved her life from the mouth of the magic dragon, "If you just reason according to human common sense, maybe the little magic dragon will sometimes be sad. Crying sadly, like...like...you just cried so sadly."

Unexpectedly, Natia Vida's smile gradually subsided: "I now feel that this squirrel is simply talking nonsense."

The villain knight didn't know what to think, and suddenly fell to the ground, with tears washing away the bloodstains on his face.

"Miss Knight, what's wrong with you, the wound? Does it hurt?" Natia Vida said, and? Do you want to go? Laleph, "Let me heal your wound..."

"Is it because of the wound? It hurts too much, but let me hurt for a while?" The latter avoided it again. Now that the tears had flowed out, she simply didn't care how ugly the crying was, "I'm sorry, Please forgive me……"

She could obviously refute to the squirrel confidently, but at this moment she seemed unable to convince herself.

"You know... I've wanted to kill this dragon...it's been a long time, but it's a pity that this wish can never be fulfilled...you can be considerate, as a knight, you suddenly lost the goal of the mission... This kind of... lost... sense of loss... Don't look at me so strangely, don't you believe me? Look... every... hiccup... powerful fighter... When you lose your opponent, it will inevitably become like this of……"

Sure enough, it's better to treat every monster as something that has never changed since its birth. Knowing more about the background story is of no benefit at all, so she likes to skip the plot before?.

Natia Vida knelt down and looked at it, as if it was new? The smile on her face suddenly disappeared.After thinking about it for a while, a smile appeared again. Seeing that Leif's tears had just been wiped off, she said softly in a secret tone: "Oh, Miss Knight, do you know..."

Leif leaned closer and asked what.

Natia Vida said in Leif's ear, "The dragon is dead."

"..." Leif gritted her teeth and glanced at Natia Vida, as if the latter had said something cruel, but she held back her temper and did not utter any evil words, "I know."

He took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down, and finally couldn't help it again? His eyes started to water, and he tried to explain his gaffe while wiping, "Why... I clearly said that I can only be