soul stone

Outside the northwest corner of the monastery, the originally neat lawn became a mess, the soil was dug up, and the grass roots were exposed outside.Not far away, a big hole was opened in the high wall surrounding the children.A pair of legs in black trousers lay under the collapsed hill of rubble.The trousers were torn several times, like the lawn around them, flesh turned out.The blood-soaked clothes were sticky to the skin, and the smell of rust wafted from his nostrils.

"Drip drip drip-"

Kuroro, whose upper body was buried in the stone pile, clearly heard the ringing of the mobile phone outside.He was genuinely grateful for the wound, the pain had cleared his mind.

"Hey, it's me."

He struggled to push away the stone slab blocking his sight, and sat up from the ruins.At this moment, the white-haired man turned around.His nerves tensed up again.

"Don't be nervous, I won't kill you." The man turned his back to him and said lightly, "The mission has been aborted."

Like a child receiving a surprise on Christmas, the black-haired young man blinked in disbelief, then took a deep breath with the force of squeezing his chest, and then let it out slowly.

"Just now I said that another person died too," Shiba turned his face away, "That was to annoy you, sorry."

"I know." Kuroro put his arms on his bent knees and put his other hand behind his back.He looked quiet, as if lost in thought.

This kid... will definitely become stronger in the future.If you can, you should take advantage of the time...

"How much did he pay you?"

Kuroro interrupted his thoughts.Shiba turned his head back for the last time, and saw that he had stood up with support, and although he was still panting, there was no wave in his eyes.

Even a strong man who has experienced many battles will not have such a look in his eyes.

It was the eyes of someone from another world.There, death plays out around them every day.They have experienced death deeply and accepted it with equanimity.They are not afraid of death because they never expected to survive today.

In the end, Shiba glanced at him and walked away without saying a word.

What a bad deal, he sighed in his heart.

As soon as Xiba left, Kuroro collapsed on the ground, forming a "big" character, looking at the vast starry sky like smoke.Countless fragments of intelligence flashed into his mind like stars, gradually converging into a coherent galaxy.

This time, he was completely thrown out.

First, the graduation quiz itself is a decoy.If he doesn't come, it will be nothing more than a mass purge within the gang.But Sister Moelle understands his character, and he throws himself into the fray as the scapegoat for this gang fight.

Second, those children who took the test were also outcasts.From what he knew of Sister Moelle, she would never be the type to indiscriminately kill children.She cherishes talents, and although her methods are extreme, she can really make people stronger.Of course, those who cannot stand the test have only the fate of being eliminated.From beginning to end, she has faithfully implemented the natural law of survival of the fittest.And those children abandoned by her are undoubtedly the group eliminated by the law of nature.The real graduates may have already moved to a safe place.The eliminated ones were deceived and obediently acted as the graduate's stand-in and scapegoat.

In the end, Sister Moelle tried her best to invite him and Xue Ye for another purpose, which he could already guess...

Thinking of this, Kuroro jumped up and ran towards the place where the initial explosion occurred - the room before Snowy Night and Summer.

Snowy Night's room is located in the southwest corner of the first floor of the monastery.The chapel where the graduation test is held is at the northeast corner of the second floor, which happens to be the farthest diagonal of this cubic building.From the beginning, the nun planned to separate them and break them alone.She knew that Xue Ye would ask to go alone no matter what as long as she put out such a thing.

Sister Moelle probably knew them best in the world.

However, she missed the most crucial point.Now he is no longer Villar, the kid, but Kurolo Luciru, the leader of the A-level thief group Phantom Brigade.

Even if it's a defeat, it's time to put an end to it——

He thought calmly as he saw the shattered room.

If you use "circle", you can quickly locate Xue Ye's location.It's a pity that his current physical condition does not allow it.

"Xue Ye—" he yelled, "Are you there? Hearing the reply—"

A silence.

He walked around to the other side of the ruins, clasping his hands together: "Xue Ye—I know you're still alive! Xue—Ye—"

The tail sound was quickly drowned in the silent night.

Kurolo didn't stop.He kept changing directions and shouting.After about 10 minutes, a faint human voice could be heard from under the largest stone slab.The black-haired youth rolled up his sleeves and started digging with both hands.As if he thought the speed was too slow, he took out the dagger he used in the battle just now, and used it as a shovel.

Read the advanced application skills - "Zhou"!

The dagger covered with Nian makes digging relatively easy.He was very surprised that the tools of killing could come to save people.

Soon, a hand came out and scratched nearby.Kuroro sped up his movements, and in a few strokes, Xue Ye's whole person appeared before his eyes.

It was a mangled body, shattered by explosives embedded in six sides of the room.Based on his thin body and the fragments of the three-section gun not far away, he was sure that it belonged to Xue Ye.

"V...lar?" Xue Ye could barely open her eyes, her vocal cords were burned by the explosives, making her voice hoarse and terrifying.

"It's me." Kuroro knelt down and approached her face.

"Don't...look at me..." Xue Ye turned her face away, tears pooling in the corners of her eyes.

"Snowy night." Kuroro said in a deep voice, "In the chapel, those children staged a historical drama about you."

"..." Xue Ye turned her face away and looked at him without blinking.

Ten years ago, an adult in a suit, holding the hand of a little girl in a white dress, stopped in front of the iron gate of a luxury villa.

"We're here, Xiaoxue."

"I don't want to come here, I want to go back."

"Unfortunately, that's impossible, Xiaoxue. My brother likes you, and it's my duty to make him happy."

"What do you have to do to let me go?"

"Smart kid. You inspire me..."

"what?"

"The way to make your wish come true. A person who can become a king must go through unimaginable hardships... She often said that."

"You like Sister Moelle."

"Yes. No... no. Not like, but love. I love her."

"I want to understand."

"Good boy. Can you help me? Help me the unlucky bastard who keeps getting rejected?"

"Unlucky man, can you help me get free too?"

"Yes, I think."

"Then I can, too, I suppose."

Kuroro approached Xue Ye's face and whispered: "Ten years ago, Raphael created an opportunity and gave me a dagger as a gift, and let me 'coincidentally' witness the scene of you on my father's bed. As a result , the gift became the murder weapon, I became a patricide, you became a victim of a pedophile, and Sister Moelle became a scapegoat for a scandal. As a result, I was sent to Meteor Street, and you were set free, Moelle The nun was forced to leave the convent. In this way, he can inherit the Lynch family business, and get the nun who has nowhere to go... Am I right?"

Xue Ye slightly twitched her eyelids, if that could be called eyelids.

"At the train station where you fled, faced with a difficult choice between the two, you chose Meteor Street without hesitation. That's because you were convinced during the graduation test that I would do anything for you... right? "

Xue Ye stared at him motionlessly.

"Beforehand, I don't regret going to Meteor Street. On the contrary, I thank you for your decision-it is because of it that I am who I am now. However, there is a question that must be answered by you."

Xue Ye rolled her eyes.

"At that time, you asked me to be your sun. Half a year later, you abandoned your sun at the edge of the world."

Xue Ye slightly shook her head, her eyes moistened again.

"I remembered. I kept refusing your request until a year later, the day your aphasia was cured. Why did I agree? Thinking about it now, it's really unbelievable. It’s okay to be hard, but it’s more reasonable to classify it as mind ability.” After a pause, he continued, “That’s your ability, isn’t it?”

A line of tears overflowed the eyes.Xue Ye moved her lips.

"I don't want to... lie to you."

Kuroro's expression froze suddenly.The extremely freezing wind of the Ice Age froze the black pool-like eyes.After a moment, he closed his eyes.

"Then I guessed right."

"...Mom told me," Xue Ye gasped and said intermittently, "hold...one person's hand, and you can...don't think about anything."

She raised her arm and reached towards Kuroro with trembling fingertips.

"Villar..."

This call seems familiar.

The dark-haired youth opened his eyes.The memory recording starts playing——

15 years ago.

"Villar, would you like to be my sun?"

"I reject."

"……why?"

In the ears, Xue Ye's voice was almost inaudible——

15 years later.

"Please... hold... my hand..."

"...Snowy night."

"..."

Kuroro blinked, stretched out his arm neatly, and held the bloody little hand.

"Wei..." The corners of Xue Ye's mouth twitched, trying to put on a smile.

Kuroro pulled her to sit up, Xue Ye's suddenly rounded eyes were reflected in the deep pool-like black pupils.She lowered her head slowly—

The dagger that was just used as a shovel to save her was stuck in her left chest, where the heart was.

In the eyes of Kuroro who couldn't see the waves, the other pair of black eyes were blurred by tears.Her bloody fingers slipped from his fingers feebly, and together with her body, she once again fell heavily into the ruins of despair.

"I... can never be your sun."

At this time, a tear rolled down Xue Ye's cheek, just stopping at the wound at the corner of his mouth.As if being stung by the salt, and as if she wanted to say something, she twitched the corner of her mouth, but she didn't say anything after all.

Kuroro stood there, staring at her quietly, as if staring at his past self.

Not long after, the phone rang.He answered the phone, turned around, left the dagger there, and walked towards the airship where the brigade was.

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