Substitutes are not a problem

Chapter10

Yokohama, Japan——

After the plane landed, I rested for a day and a night to adjust the jet lag.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the timer alarm sounded on the mobile phone, and Mori Ogai, who was sitting on the sofa holding a laptop and processing emails, also stopped typing his fingers on the keyboard.

Seven o'clock in the evening in Japan is twelve o'clock in the noon in Germany.

Originally, the agreed time.

At this moment, will Miss Elise be waiting for him by Lake Constance... Probably, yes.

For some reason, he was so sure of this point that he let out a sigh.

If possible, he didn't want to miss the appointment, it's just... too unfortunate.

On Long Dark Island in the Pacific Ocean where fierce fighting is going on, the battle is not going well. Under the pressure of the army of supernatural beings sent by European countries, Japan has suffered heavy casualties, and there is a shortage of military doctors.

He hadn't fully completed his studies in Germany, and he was urgently summoned back to China by the army, asking him to immediately join the battle on Long Dark Island.

He couldn't disobey the orders from above, and he was indeed worried about the battle situation.

But in fact, even if you can't go to the appointment in person, if you want to let the other party understand your helplessness, or at least give the other party an explanation, as long as you want to do it, it is not impossible. There are many ways.

He even planned to write a letter and have someone take it to her.It's just that when he just wrote the beginning and the words of apology...he stopped writing.

Sure enough, let's stop here.

The war on Long Dark Island does not know when it will end.And once he enters the frontline army, all his personal conditions will be kept secret from the outside world, and even considering the worst case, it is unknown whether he can come back from the battlefield alive.

If this is the case, but you still want to leave a thought for the other party, wouldn't it be more cruel than breaking the appointment.

And it would be a good thing if she ruthlessly threw him, a windfall passerby, out of her life because of his missed appointment.

Therefore, not leaving any explanation for this missed appointment is the best solution in his opinion.

The encounter between each other was an accident, but looking back now, it looks like a plot in a love novel.In other words, like a bubble-like magnificent but illusory dream.

And now, it's time to wake up from this dream.

If you indulge in it, it is a big taboo.

"Master, the luggage has been packed, and there is still one hour, two and ten minutes before departure."

The humanoid ability came over with a packed suitcase and reported to Mori Ou Foreign Exchange.

"Thank you, Alice."

Mori Ogai smiled back.

The humanoid ability named Alice has empty eyes and a stylized smile on his face, like a delicate doll.Even the name Alice was only recently acquired.

Mori Ogai's ability - VitaSexualis, controls a humanoid ability set by himself.From appearance to temperament, everything is determined by his master.

However, apart from setting the appearance of this humanoid ability as an eleven or two-year-old girl he favored, Mori Ogai did not make any special settings for it.

This makes this humanoid ability no different from a robot except that it feels like a living person with flesh and blood to the touch, and it is not even given a name.

After returning from Germany this time, he summoned his own humanoid ability, and Mori Ogai gave it a name——

【Elise, from now on, you will be called Alice-chan. 】

Moreover, the hair of the humanoid ability is set to a shiny golden color, and the eyes are set to a sapphire-like color.

Mori Ogai closed the laptop in hand, rested his chin with his fingers crossed, quietly looked at Alice who was standing quietly and obediently in front of him, and finally let out a chuckle: "It really doesn't look like it. "

……

"I've always been the one who missed appointments, from the beginning."

In the office, sitting on the single sofa in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, Mori Ogai once again took out the ring that he carried close to his body, and held it between his fingers to look at it.

While looking at it, he let out that tone of emotion that sounded elusive.

Alice, who was sitting on the carpet beside her and scribbling with a crayon, turned her head, her sweet and lovely smile was inexplicably tinged with evil, her eyes were full of sarcasm, and her mouth was even more merciless: "But, yes You voluntarily gave up on her, didn't you, from the beginning to the end. Now, how can you pretend to be affectionate? It's disgusting, Rintaro."

Facing Alice's venomous tongue, Mori Ogai rarely showed an expression of a wounded uncle without pretentiousness, the luster in his eyes sank a little, and he whispered like a sigh: "Yes, that's true. "

Turning his head to look at his humanoid ability, looking at that blond hair and those blue eyes, he even thought for a moment...

If she could really mock him in front of him like Alice did, maybe he would feel more at ease.

But, after all, it wasn't his Miss Elise.

In the end, he just let out a chuckle that was the same as 18 years ago: "It really doesn't look like it."

……

And Sheng Town——

"I am back."

Finally finished a day of working as a social animal, Yuan Rina pushed open the door of the Sawada house with a tired face, and said weakly.

"Welcome back, Gen—" Sawada Nana walked out of the kitchen, and warmly greeted her at the entrance, "I've been staying at the office for a while this time."

Since she signed a contract to make her debut, Minamoto Rina has basically lived in the apartment rented by the company for the convenience of work and to avoid disturbing her family's life.

"There have been a lot of announcements during this time." Yuan Rina scratched her hair with a dejected expression, and after noticing that the other person in the house hadn't made any movement, she asked a little strangely: "Huh? Has Tsuna Guitar not come back yet? It's already this late."

The original bright and warm smile on Sawada Nana's face also added a bit of worry:

"After school in the afternoon, Gang-jun called and said that his friend invited him to play together, and he would come home later... Speaking of which, it is indeed a bit late now."

"friend?"

When hearing this, Yuan Rina frowned slightly.

According to her understanding of the little brother in the family.Although it hurts to say this, but the fact is... There should be no friends who would invite Tsuna to hang out together, right?

It doesn't feel good.

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The memory part of 18 years ago is over, and the perspective of the story returns to the current timeline——

Gang Ji, who has just entered junior high school, is still nearly a year away from meeting Li Baoen.So now he is still the good-for-nothing who was ridiculed by everyone in the school before the beginning of the tutoring chapter.

According to the memories of Mori Ogai and Yosano Akiko in the comics behind Wenye, it can be seen that Alice was originally just like a robot that had not been entered into a specific program, and was later set by Mori Ogai to that character (should be It refers to the character of childhood and Yosano).

And Alice, as a humanoid ability completely controlled by Mori Ogai, is also equivalent to Mori Ogai himself to some extent.

Therefore, the sarcastic words Alice said to Mori Ogai in this chapter are actually Mori Ogai's merciless self-mockery...

Yes, he is such a disdainful and self-aware person, knowing that what he did is disdainful, but he still has to do it.