【Notre Dame Cathedral】Salome of the Archdeacon

Quasimodo watched me walk up to the stage with one eye and didn't understand what I was going to do. He thought my red cloak looked good on me and made the girl's face more beautiful. He grinned honestly.

"Quasimodo, I'm here to repay my kindness. Actually, I'm a snail. You gave me half of the apple, which saved me from starvation..." I called him funny, leaned against him, and put Clo Claude's cloak covered his rugged back, it was his father's love and guilt, I came to send "warmth", Quasimodo recognized Claude's cloak, he looked very happy, happy like a Like a child, he kept smiling at me non-stop. I stroked his "thorny head", hey~ it's a bit prickly, but the hair is quite interesting.

In Claude's eyes, this scene is not "mother kindness and filial piety", but "filial piety degenerates"!He thinks that Quasimodo also likes Xiaosha very much, which can be seen from Quasimodo's loving eyes and joyful expression!

Since falling in love with Xiaosha, Claude is like a walking magnifying glass, he can always find any eyes full of love or covet for his wife!Then I feel uncomfortable to death.

Xiaosha is also stroking Quasimodo's hair (actually, I am stroking lovingly), all of which are hints of lust in Claude's eyes. He thinks that touching hair between men and women is an ambiguous expression.

"A woman treats a man so well, touching his hair, even though that man is a monster, it's hard not to be moved!" He overturned the vinegar jar in his heart again, and stood by the window with his face full of resentment, Xiaosha never Touched his hair (well, I'm afraid you will be bald by me).

The "peaceful scene" of our family of three was broken by a loud noise.

The horse of Gongde Yuegui's family neighed, paced its hooves, and stopped gently. weed!He didn't care about the "evil deed" that it just threw the owner and his car into the river.

The years on the horse side are quiet, but the river bank is in chaos. Gongde Yuegui Mansion is opposite Notre Dame, but Mrs. Gongde Yuegui is taking a nap, because there are often car overturns and the side hall of Notre Dame is still being renovated, so She didn't care about the loud noise at all, and she didn't expect that something happened to her own girls. She smiled and pulled on the silk scarf and nightcap in her sleep. The pure white long-haired Persian cat snoring beside her stood on end. It fluffed up, exploded into a big ball, jumped onto the window sill and growled.

Quasimodo, who was kneeling next to me, didn't hear either, and he couldn't hear the sound of the carriage crashing into the water. His ears were completely deaf, like a muffled bell.

Claude found someone falling into the water by the laboratory window, and immediately rushed from the attic to the hall.He leaned on the spiral handrail and rushed down, wearing only a thin black robe, the purse was flying up around his waist, the silver thread on the pendant of the purse was hung together with the narrow silver chain belt, There was a cold light in the stairwell.

The priests of Notre Dame are all lying on the sidelines of the gate of Notre Dame and watching. It seems that no one wants to participate in secular affairs. Whether good or bad, it is troublesome, and there are many gypsy devils in the river, and so many devils In a river, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Claude shouted anxiously in the hall, grabbed everyone by the collar and asked, "Someone fell into the water! A monk who can swim will follow me to save someone! Is there anyone?"

There was silence in the hall of Notre Dame, everyone bowed their heads deeply, and no one spoke up.

"It will be counted in your credit book! The officer who saved people will be promoted!" Claude took a deep breath in misery, his eyes were full of compassion and hatred, and he looked around painfully.

Obviously several young monks were moved by this condition, but they still hesitated and did not dare to answer.A young priest couldn't stand the vicar's embarrassment, and pointed tremblingly at the young beggars not far away who were ups and downs in the river, all covered in red from the cold from saving lives, and said, "I advise you not to go either, It must be nothing good, your brother and students are too naive."

Claude's face was extremely gloomy, when did helping others become an "ignorant" behavior?He also didn't understand why everyone was unwilling to follow him to save people?He frowned, and when he politely smoothed the neckline of a monk, he seemed to understand that he was not popular, and no one would respond to his call.

What does saving lives have to do with Claude's interpersonal relationships?The simple thing is that no one wants to go, and everyone is afraid of causing worldly troubles.Or maybe it's just because I don't want to get my robes and shoes wet, and I don't want to be with the gypsies, or maybe it's just because I'm afraid of the cold.

"My lord vicar, I'll go with you! I don't need to get promoted and get rich, soldier Irwin is always at your disposal!" Erwin, the captain of the Vatican guard, dropped the spear in his hand and smashed the marble floor tiles with a crisp sound, because diving required Lighten the weight on his body, so he quickly removed the silver armor and ran to the door.

The captain of the Vatican guard just came back from training at the training ground at the back door of Notre Dame for lunch. The scary Mrs. Christine didn’t come to bother him recently, as if he was attracted by the new “female pet”, which made him feel very good , with a big appetite, my stomach growled with hunger.I went to the kitchen to look for the spaghetti that the bishop had just bought, but I couldn’t find a bag, and the meatballs also disappeared mysteriously. I wanted to go to the "granary" of my teacher, Claude, to find some food.It was strange, when I heard an earth-shattering noise in Greve Square, I ran over to take a look: I didn't expect to see such a ruthless scene, and I saw the vice-bishop Claude anxiously asking every monk, but the big one No priest in Notre Dame de Paris is willing to save people, just because the gypsies are also saving people in the river.

"Okay, you and I will go, thank you, Mr. Erwin." Claude nodded slightly to Erwin to express his gratitude, and walked out of the gate quickly half-walking and half-running in front.

"Let's go, master." Erwin followed closely. They walked not far, and the monks behind them were more crowded by the door, and they felt that the excitement was better.

"Do you want me to go down? Brother!" I asked loudly to my brother in the water. I was kneeling on the stage and staring at the yamen servants. They were quite dissatisfied with my behavior of disturbing the yamen. Kneeling with Quasimodo, they were so surprised that they "looked affectionately" at me collectively.

Quasimodo and I knelt side by side, which was fine, and it was fun to spin around on the wheels.I also said something to him from time to time, even though he couldn't hear clearly, he could only look at my lips, and promised me with a smile from time to time, we were not too boring and could pass the time.

"No chatting!" The executioner in the audience thought I was casting a spell in Quasimodo's ear, and was always on guard against me.

"No need, don't make trouble, I'll go down and have a look first!" My brother remembered that "only witches can swim", so he tried his best to prevent me from going into the water to save people. power to save lives.

From time to time, there was a wave of waves on the water surface, and the lamb Jiali was shaking her head in fright on the bank of the river, stomping her little hooves, and her golden horns shone like two lights flashing at a critical frequency.

Brother and John dived, and people watched nervously on the shore. The noble ladies fainted a lot, and the working girls covered their mouths in fright: women can only do this kind of thing in a hurry.Because women in the Middle Ages were strictly forbidden to learn to swim by the church, and the witch trials regulations said: "Only witches swim." No one wants to be falsely accused of being a witch.

There were also quite a few men who were watching Quasimodo's excitement, and whispered to each other in a daze.Some of them can swim, but they don't want to dive into the water to save people, which will wet their expensive clothes: such as the viscount's luxurious wig covered with flour, if it gets wet, it will become paste, and he doesn't want to take it off, he must Always maintain a noble appearance.

"Don't you know how to swim? Mr. Viscount, I remember you once said that you are the swimming champion among the nobles. You are not bragging, right?" The young man with his wife in his arms squeezed to the other side to talk to the Viscount.

"What are you looking at me for? Is there no one to save me? I don't want to get wet all over, it's still so cold." The viscount was scolded by John "disrespectfully" not long ago, his mood became bad, and he turned around Bai Yan: "What about you, why don't you go down and save me?"

"My new leather jacket can't get wet, and I just changed my shirt today! I don't want to take off my clothes in the harsh winter of Paris and jump into a river with heavy snowfall!" The young man cherished his new leather jacket very much, and the viscount squinted, I found that this is the most popular style in Florence, custom-made in Italy, with a long belt, and the fur is also pressed very firmly.

The viscount was attracted by the leather jacket, and casually satirized the beggar king and the others: "The gypsy beggars are going to rescue people. If the rescue is slow, some noble people will become corpses. They can't get rid of their responsibilities. They Everyone must die, this is muddy water."

"To tell you the truth, what does anyone's life matter to us? I only care about those lazy servants in my family, did they warm up today's brandy before I go back to the house, and the more dead people, the more we will have." Let's watch the excitement." The young man didn't care about other people's life or death, he just wanted to drink the ready-made warm wine.

"Cheers!" Mr. Viscount excitedly laughed loudly with the young man pretending to be drinking and celebrating.

"Are you still human!" I was in a hurry. Today I have seen the real "noble face": "You don't deal with human affairs and don't speak human words! Do you like to gloat so much?!"

"Are witches worthy to stand on the peak of morality? Then go save people! Beauty, do you dare to jump off? If you dare to jump off, we will all witness that you are a gypsy witch and you will go to court !” Mr. Viscount molested and winked at me who was kneeling beside Quasimodo.

The young man immediately answered jokingly: "The little beauty is shivering from the cold!"

"Cheers!" The two excitedly played the house-playing game of "fake drinking".

The elder brother dragged Miss Lily out of the car that was overturned in the mud and sand at the bottom of the water, carried her ashore, performed simple first aid, and squeezed out the water in her chest and abdomen, but she was still in a coma.

But John couldn't pull Miss Christina under water, and her feet got stuck in the loose planks of the carriage.

"Sister-in-law! There are still people in the car! Christina's leg is stuck in the gap between the planks, and we can't pull it out!" John floated to the surface of the water several times. Tuo also jumped down, but the other girl still didn't come up.

"Salome! I can't change my breath anymore. Think of a way, brother is still breaking the planks below!" Gringoire was weak at first, and after a few breaths, he fell down on the shore exhausted.

"Here I come!" I have a cane and a dagger, and I can pry open the wooden boards. My brother can't hold his breath for long, so I have to replace him.

I spat hard on the two noble men: "Bah! Stop talking nonsense!"

"If you spit on me, you're kissing me hahaha!"

"Little baby, give the uncle a kiss!"

Is this the virtue of nobility?Why are they so excited? What's wrong with them?

Quasimodo wanted to rush up and beat them both angrily, but before he got up, he was firmly held down by the executioners. They had already put thick iron chains on Quasimodo, just to prevent this The "sudden attack" situation, but this one still frightened the two "gentlemen".

I looked at John and Gringoire who were at a loss. They were sweating in the water in winter.And these heartless high-ranking citizens, when is it, they are still smiling and playing hooligans at me excitedly!

I got up and jumped off the platform with a look of contempt, took off my cloak and put it on top of Claude's cloak, and put it all on Quasimodo to keep him warm.

The blond curly hair and the white gauze skirt fluttered. He raised the cane in his left hand and drew out the dagger in his right hand. With his cane expressionless, he gave the viscount and the noble young man under the stage a "blocking root". In the middle of the day, I ran to the river bank without saying a word.

"Gentlemen, it seems that you really want to challenge my bottom line." Claude didn't know when he appeared behind the two nobles, trying to keep himself polite, but his Kubrick stare showed that he had already understood the situation. The two of them who don't know the depth have murderous intentions.

The viscount was a little embarrassed. He also felt that he was very inelegant and rude just now, and he was too embarrassed to say anything, for fear of making the archdeacon angry again.

On the shore, I took a bite of the wedding ring on my hand to make it tighter on my finger. My precious wedding certificate is not waterproof, but now I don't care so much, I turned over and jumped into the river.

Because of the cloak that Claude gave me, I got used to this kind of warmth, so I suddenly felt uncomfortable when I was dressed very warmly and plunged into the river. The ice in the river was like a small blade and scratched my face. , but I still tried my best to keep my eyes wide open and my mouth tightly shut, searching for the location of my brother and the others in the water.

I see that carriage!The elder brother and Gringoire were pulling the door panel of the carriage with their hands, and John was dragging the two arms of the woman, but the woman's feet in embroidered shoes were always firmly stuck in the gap between the wooden boards.

Don't pull it with brute force, the woman's ankle and Achilles tendon will be strained!I swam over and waved my hand to signal them to go up to take a breath. After my brother floated up with Gringoire and John, I saw the woman's face clearly, and I spit out a few bubbles in shock.This woman seems to be the Miss Christina who quarreled with me this morning!Her already pale and "ugly" face turned purple, and she was half awake and half demented. The jewelry on her head fell apart and fell everywhere in the mud nearby.

I hugged her head helplessly, kissed Christina's lips for artificial respiration, no matter how much she hates me, she can't just let her die, I really don't want to kiss her...

As I administered oxygen to her, I slashed at her woolen socks and silk shoelaces with my dagger, scraping the knits against the wood shavings.

I desperately smashed the wooden board with the dagger, looked for the right moment, found a fulcrum, and lifted the broken wooden door with my cane. I hugged her waist, grabbed her feet and pulled them out. I was alone. I can dive for a while longer, but I have to transfer the oxygen to her one by one, my oxygen is not enough, my head starts to feel dizzy due to lack of oxygen, I have to hug her up quickly.

Fortunately, in order to keep up with the fashion, these aristocratic ladies usually only eat one meal, so it is quite easy to pull her up.

I turned my head and gave her my last breath, wrapped my left arm around her waist, swung my right hand upwards, swung my legs as soft as fish tails, and tried to float up.

As soon as our heads came out of the water, the people on the shore cheered, Gringoire cried, John wiped his tears, my brother clapped his hands, and the three of them wanted to pull us ashore.The people of Miracle Kingdom are really happy for us, and the people watching the excitement are happy as long as there is excitement.

But I never expected it!Christina, you bicce who harms others but not yourself! (Note: Old English "bitch", synonymous with bitch.)

Christina just came to the surface of the water, blowing some cold wind, and by chance, she woke up a little bit. When she saw me in a blink of an eye, she remembered something wrong again, and her pale face turned red and twisted strangely.John jumped into the water and grabbed her hand and was about to drag her ashore. I don’t know where she got so much strength from drowning just now, but she grabbed my long hair, wrapped it around her hand a few times, and slammed my head. Press it into the water.

"The ungrateful shrew, let go!" She grabbed my hair, and my brother tried his best to break her hand, but he couldn't stop her. My brother was afraid that she would break my scalp, and she bit my strong arm. I think My brother had to get three shots of rabies vaccine, which didn’t seem to be available in the Middle Ages, so he had to go to a pharmacy to get a prescription for rabies.

Caught off guard, I tilted my head, holding the cane and dagger, but I didn't dare to swing it randomly, for fear of hurting others.I could only kick and kick Christina underwater. I choked on a big sip of water in my mouth and nose, my lungs were extremely uncomfortable, and my nasal cavity was sour and hot.

Vanessa suddenly swam out of the water and opened her mouth to bite Christina. She fiercely bit two small blood holes in her wrist, and crawled back onto the beauty's head.Christina withdrew her hand in pain, turned around and kicked me on the chest, and climbed up on the shoulders of John who was standing in the water and shouting. Gringoire jumped into the water to look for me but I can't find it anywhere.

At that time, I was kicked by her and had chest pains. I poured a big mouthful of water, hit my head on the bluestone on the bank, and my nose was filled with water, and I gradually lost consciousness.

The people on the shore saw the blonde girl sank into the river half-consciously, like the water demon Iko who was disappointed in Narcissus, the golden light in her eyes gradually disappeared in the deep water.

Gringoire and John went down to the river first to look for me but couldn't find me, so they could only hold each other's heads and cry bitterly on the bank; my brother jumped into the river again and searched for a lot, but he didn't see me, he stood in the middle of the water with a pale face. Pale, as a tough guy, he actually cried.

I usually only see my brother’s grinning white teeth, but I’ve never seen him cry like this... But this is how Gringoire described it to me later. I can't see my brother's crying face.

"I think I can still save it..." As I sank slowly, I was stuck in the shadow of the underwater bridge hole and couldn't move. This bridge really needs to be repaired. The cracks are like the Great Rift in East Africa that has shrunk hundreds of millions of times. Gu, but it happened to clamp my arm, so Gringoire did not see me.Afterwards, I became the legendary incorruptible female corpse discovered in the [-]th century - "The Nameless Maiden of the Seine", and your heroine just disappeared.

——Wait, author, don't be shy!Of course it's impossible!I, Salome, don't die so easily!Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many things behind.

That beautiful corpse of an incorruptible girl is not me. I will never be able to keep smiling while being drowned. My face must be ugly now, especially when I am still stuck upside down!

"My parents in the previous life, the familiar mountains and streams appeared in front of my eyes, and after a while, the smiling faces of everyone in this life were spliced ​​together. Thinking of my mother's small attic, the small yellow sachet on my chest floated in front of my eyes. Mom , I haven't found her yet, is she still alive, how is she doing... Sister, I want to see her again before I die, will she be bullied by Phoebes, can she still smile at me gently, give me Shall I have an apple... and my brother, who grinned as if in front of his eyes, and I haven't bought Gringoire's ink for him yet; can Quasimodo make new friends? I Goodbye, my friends, I want to hear the bells of Notre Dame again..." With my head down, soaked in ice water, I gradually lost consciousness as I chattered in my heart. I felt that the surrounding was getting warmer and warmer. Sleepy, the eyelids are heavy and cannot be opened, and the breath stored in the bulging cheeks is no longer enough.

Is this just a revolving lantern?Am I about to become the first heroine in history to be drowned?

"One more thing, fortunately I'm full, otherwise it would be too miserable to go on the road hungry... That, and that kid John, it's time to torture Claude again... Claude is going to be angry again... Wait a minute... Claude! Claude! I can't die!" Thinking of the name "Claude", I suddenly cheered up like a flashback, my whole body was filled with chicken blood, and I should have closed my eyes forever. The eyes opened suddenly, and the pupils shone with a faint golden light in the water waves, and they were full of energy. It was very difficult for me to blink, and the long eyelashes were also a kind of resistance. (beauty speechless.jpg)

I tried my best to pull my arm out, leaning on the cane and kicking the bridge pier to pull it out. I wanted to use the dagger to dig the soil and loosen the stones, but my numb hand trembled, and the dagger accidentally fell into the crevice of the stone. , I had no choice but to continue to redeem myself, regardless of the blood on my arm being ground by the stone, but unfortunately I still couldn't get it out after pulling it out for a long time, so I had to struggle for a while and rest for a while.

At this moment, my right arm was stuck in the crevice of the stone under the pier, and I looked hopeless and desperate.A fluffy big wavy golden curly hair spreads gently and freely in the water like a sea snake, blocking my sight; the white gauze dress is turned upside down in the water, because of the buoyancy, it bulges up, covering my face like a small ocean umbrella , I tried to push down the skirt with my left hand, thinking that even if I were to die, I would have to be decent, but it was of no use.The body of a brown girl wearing only a bib and a short skirt floats softly in the water. The water flow is like a naughty child, pulling at me from side to side, and I am like an unsightly jellyfish when I lose my mind.

Our archdeacon saw his beloved wife being thrown into the water, Gringoire and John weeping, and only one thought was in his mind: "She will not die!"

"Teacher... my condolences!" Gringoire cried bitterly, and he roared out these words in a strange voice of grief.

"Slap!" Everyone on the shore held their breath, because John slapped Christina loudly with red eyes. She couldn't believe that John would hate her, John would beat her, because John always She gave in to everything, and never said a single hard word to her. He has always been her goal, the object of marriage.

But now John is staring at her with bloodshot eyes, his usually relaxed and happy young face is now as ferocious and terrifying as the devil on the mural, full of hatred.

"I didn't do it, it was her! She...how dare! I want to tell my mother!" For the first time, Christina knew what fear is. She killed someone in full view, and she also realized for the first time a Even more frightening fact - I will lose John forever!

But John smiled contemptuously with tears in his eyes, and Christina felt dizzy.People always say that people are like a mirror. Who is she seeing in John's eyes at this moment?

"I went to find her. She likes me the most. As soon as I called her, she appeared." Claude blinked his eyes in disbelief, and muttered in a hoarse voice. He was out of control, he was completely out of control.

Claude stumbled away from the crowd and ran to the shallow river.The icy river water poured into his large black priest's robe little by little, and into his expensive shoes and socks. As the leather shoes walked on the sand and stones, his whole body trembled uncontrollably, as if someone had bitten his soul. He pulled away from his body, a tear fell silently from his cold and thin face, and there were only two dark holes left in his eye sockets. Before anyone could stop him, he jumped down without saying a word, sinking Into the Seine, disappeared like the snake girl.

Erwin, the captain of the Holy See Guards, finally realized what deep feelings are. He thought of his poor fiancées who were drowned in front of his eyes, and sank in the river under the trumped-up charges of "witches" imposed on them by Mrs. Christine. In this river...

"Brother-in-law!" The elder brother ran into the water, slapping the surface of the water angrily, he, the eldest brother, was going to lose his life!Gringoire was almost fainting, John cried and shouted at Christine: "Just let Christine—that damned old woman come here, and he will kill Christine in front of her!" Christina, who was always domineering, shivered.

"True love should be together. They are innocent. My wife is not a 'witch'. God will respect such feelings." Dedicated to his duties, Erwin made up his mind to protect the safety of the vicar and his wife, and then jumped into the water.

In his heart, he admires a woman who can sacrifice her life to save others, and is worthy of his respect as a madam!These gypsies are loyal, he admires them, and they deserve to be called friends!The richest thing for these poor people is the feeling he has always yearned for!Noble truth!True friendship!Now, he is very envious that the vicar can have the most lovely wife and the most loving friend in the world.

When the cute little fool Salome was about to face the fact of drowning calmly, she tilted her head and saw two huge and pitch-black shadows, thinking that her own blood might attract the sharks, it's over, Barbie got Q, and shrank into the bridge hole while standing upside down.

"Impossible, I haven't heard that there are sharks in the Seine River... This is not an estuary, and there can't be crocodiles in Citi Island. But according to my unlucky urine, maybe I will come, there will be. Oh, Claude, my lord, I really want to see him again." I sighed deeply, biting my lips and blowing out carbon dioxide bubbles from between my teeth, which contained Claude's melancholy smile with a gentle smile. face, floating towards the river...

This world has never let me go, is God punishing me?Christina's little biatch (Bichi's spoken language) really gave me a "suffocating operation".

I was just floating upside down like this, my face turned purple, and I was so anxious that I couldn't breathe!So I just touched the bag on my head to relieve my anxiety, it hurts!During my calm thinking, I suddenly understood, I felt that I was out of my mind when I saved Christina!

The more I think about it, the angrier I get!

Claude searched all over the bottom of the nearby river, and suddenly found a strange creature, a huge white jellyfish with tentacles like skirts, and looking closer, why is this beautiful body so familiar? her? !But he and Erwin were a little scared, afraid of some unknown giant.

I saw two black shadows swimming towards me, I was terrified, I didn't want to become a shark or a crocodile's meal, but there seemed to be nothing I could do, I was stuck and tired, but the black shadow was not far away stopped moving.

Am I hallucinating? I seem to see Claude. That shark looks like Claude. I was exhausted physically and mentally. If it is too small, and cannot open its mouth, it will be choked to death.

"Claude!" I tried my best to suck, and hummed desperately in chest resonance, but I was actually roaring when I stood on my head under the water.

Claude slowly approached the shadow where I was. I closed my eyes helplessly and kicked hard, and threw the small shoe on Claude's head. He nimbly grabbed the one that hit him. The white dancing shoes belong to Xiaosha!He waved at Irwin happily, I didn't expect to be found in this way when I was stuck upside down in the "Great Rift Valley". Fortunately, I have been wearing shoes all the time.

Claude observed that my arms were covered with blood, his melancholy eyes were red, as if he was crying, and what flowed close to my lips was not sure whether it was the river water or his tears.

He squatted down to look, and found that my face was turning purple. He gently kissed my lips, and blew the oxygen in my chest to me. I could finally breathe, but I was still a little unconscious after standing on my head for too long. .

Erwin felt that this scene was too shocking, the girl's flawless plump and slender legs were like a laurel branch growing on the seabed, she was really the most beautiful temptation, the only living "Lilith".Her small face was hanging upside down, her golden eyes were squinting, her lips were so beautiful, and her small waist was full of grip, like a golden python wandering around.The white skirt fluttered and bulged, cruising around.The archdeacon half-kneeled in the sand at the bottom of the river, kissing the girl, his black cassock fluttering in the current, he gave the girl his last breath without hesitation, but the girl was confused, Holding the head of the vicar and kissing her all over, the vicar kept comforting her while pushing away the stone that stuck her arm.

But I don't think it's beautiful!Claude's slender fingers were also scratched by sharp stones. I stood upside down and watched Claude digging the stones with his hands. His hands were covered with blood. Seeing Claude cry and choke on the water, Claude thought I was panicking, so he hurriedly took a breath for me, his hands were still digging the sand.

Erwin's thoughts also returned to reality, and he picked up a big rock and swam over to help smash it. After a while, the gap finally got bigger. Claude gently held my arm out, and the girl's shiny and soft arm was drawn out. There was a scar that was still bleeding, and the blood drew a dazzling red in the water. Claude hurriedly straightened me up, pulled out the shirt strap to bandage my wound, and I hugged Claude's neck in a daze, letting go. He held me, kissed me, and floated to the surface in a coma.

Erwin took a deep breath, and finally saw the foggy sky.

Claude hugged the unconscious me, unbuttoned the collar of his teaching robe, and collapsed on the shore, coughing and exhausted.

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