Crown Prince's Wedding Banquet

"Noble soul?" Elis repeated the word once. "I don't have any noble souls anymore."

"Xia Lan, please don't say that."

"I can blame anyone," said Elise, "because they put the blame on me. I can blame myself, too..."

"Lanxia..."

"In order not to be so painful every day, in order to let the researcher raise his hand, show me some kindness. I have done a lot of despicable things. I have even abandoned my soul, so what is noble?"

Elise opened the first video log file.

First week, first day.

Kajiwara Kazunari's face appeared in the video. The environment around him was on an open desk. He adjusted the camera and said: "Group C, group with weak mental strength, group D, group with no mental strength. All failed in the first round of drug trials, I think it was caused by bad genes. In the future, there will be no large-scale live experiments on ordinary people, and Group C and Group D will be closed.”

"Group A arranged for a newcomer to come in today. I will give him a number, A17 test subject, how about it? 17 is a lucky number. Maybe he can make it to the end?" Kajihara paused, as if looking at the screen What material said: "A single ward has been prepared for A17. The drug tolerance test will start tomorrow and will last for a week."

The second week, the fifth day.

"A17 has amazing endurance and perseverance." Kajihara said, "It really shocked me. He showed a persistence beyond willpower throughout the whole process. Under the attack of drugs dozens of times higher than normal people, He can still grit his teeth and keep silent... This is really exciting. In addition to conventional drugs and biological experiments with viruses, I will add inhibitors and aphrodisiac drugs, and then see how he responds physiologically. Of course, this is our A little secret between them."

The third month, the second week, the first day.

Kajiwara said dissatisfiedly: "A17 launched a riot today. Yes, you heard it right, A17 can still hide his plastic tableware and grind it into a murder weapon when he is dying of drug torture. And planned a riot with the rest of the AB group. Five people died in the institute, and they almost succeeded. This is really bad. I have given A17 an electric shock punishment, and I will be locked up for a week."

half year later.

"A17 made it through," Kajihara said. "He completed the first phase of drug testing. He became one of the lucky ones with a rare 10% survival rate to enter the second phase. I'm not surprised at all. The plan is on the first of next month, Implanting him into the spiritual spying device. And within a week, complete the stripping of his mental power."

When Elias saw this, his face was pale, and his whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

What swept Kajiwara's calm narration were things that he had planned to forget long ago.

He firmly grasped the armrest of the chair with both hands, and after at least 10 minutes, Chen Cang couldn't help but ask him: "Xia Lan, why don't you do this first."

"No." Elis looked up, and he clicked on the next file.

Seventh month, second week, first day.

Kajihara was a little haggard, and there was a continuous scream coming from outside the screen.

"We haven't conducted a mental power stripping test on people with S-level and above mental power." Kajihara rubbed his temples, "He has been screaming like this for several days. I pray that it will end soon, and the noise at night is so loud that people can't sleep .”

Seventh month, third week, third day.

Kajihara rarely showed a smile: "Did you see the stripped mental power? Isn't it quite beautiful... Yes, I like it too. Thanks to the existence of the dark, the spiritual power can be completely stripped from the human brain .This is really unbelievable. The ultra-high-level spiritual power that has been successfully stripped for the first time in history, does that dark blue look like the color of the Milky Way?"

Elis hit the pause button, shaking with rage and fear.His teeth collided involuntarily, making it impossible for him to even speak.

After several minutes, he said weakly to Chen Cang: "Record this video. I thought that when Kajihara was recording the video, he naturally used a conversational tone... But, in this conversation, what is he obviously talking about? The person spoke. That person answered him in real time. No sound was heard, maybe it was a text chat. There is still silence... You can check the text file, the keyword mental oscillator."

"Okay, Lan Xia." Chen Cang said, it hesitated and asked, "Does the stripped spiritual power belong to you?"

Elise didn't answer its question.

He opened the next file.

Kajihara seems to have had a fierce quarrel with this invisible person.

"I don't understand what you mean." Kajihara said, "But I can understand the data you gave. That is to say, if the gender transformation from A to O is not completed, once there is no control of the isolation force field produced by the dark, the spirit will The force will flow back and gradually return to A17's body?"

The invisible person was indeed chatting in text, Kajihara looked carefully, and repeated a few words on the screen with some puzzlement.

"Why are you in a hurry! Why do you need to enter the third stage so quickly?" Kajihara said, "Even His Majesty the Emperor has no right to directly intervene in the experiment! I disagree, A17 is too precious. The only person who has stripped his spiritual power from a living body and never died !I need to keep researching... What did you say? For the...future? What future? Genetic...matching?"

Elis stood up abruptly, the chair fell behind him with force, and he was shaking all over.

"Lanxia, ​​are you alright?"

Elise didn't hear Chen Cang's voice at all.

He raised his head hastily, as if he had returned to those nights that he didn't want to remember at all, as if he wanted to escape from this room... Elias walked to the window almost trembling.

Then he saw the blue sky and white clouds.

No, it is no longer in the institute.

nothing to be afraid of...

The video on his computer was still playing without pressing the pause button, and the sound came out from it, gradually overlapping with the scene from that year.

"Hold him down!" Numerous hands grabbed him, "A17 is going to commit suicide! Where did he get the medicine?! Lay his stomach! Quick!"

"I tell you, if you dare to die, your Omega father and undifferentiated brother will also be buried with you!"

"You scream...why don't you scream, I like to hear you cry and beg me..."

"Hey, so you won't be pregnant?"

"Hahaha, how is it possible? He's still taking rejection medicine and won't get pregnant. Besides, if he really gets pregnant...wouldn't it be more exciting..."

The chaotic video came to an end.

The last video starts playing.

Kajihara recorded something in front of the camera, then raised his head and smiled: "To be honest, A17 is about to graduate soon, and I am really reluctant. He is like a work of art created by myself. I send him away now, just like It’s sending my children to get married. I have mixed feelings.”

He seemed to be looking at something written on the screen: "You said you were going to give him a name? He has a name... huh? Makes sense... Now that it's all broken up and reassembled. A new name does help him recognize his identity .Let him choose...it can be regarded as my little connivance to him."

As he spoke, he pressed the pager on the desktop.

"A17, can you hear me, give yourself a name? This will make you feel better."

There was a burst of rustling electric sound in the video.

Then a tired and hoarse voice came.

"Elias..." said the voice.

Looking at the video, Elise involuntarily repeated the words of that voice.

A final reunion between the past and the present, and a separation from the more distant Ellis.

"Just call me Elise Christian," they said at the same time.

Video stops.

Everything on the monitor disappears.

He also took away with him the nightmare he had never dared to look back on.

Elias Christian, the former major general of the empire, exhausted all his strength. He staggered a few steps and knelt down on the ground. From the long-unhealed wound in the depths of his soul, there was a clear and continuous pain that made him Weeping uncontrollably.

Then the cry slowly let go, heart-piercing, like a flood that opened the gate, no matter how hard it could be to stop the severe pain, it would no longer be able to lie to itself.

"Your Highness." Chen Cang's voice came from Zhou Qin's ear.

"How?" Zhou Qin dismissed Ren Xingyu a long time ago, and waited anxiously in the study for several hours.

"Lanxia has finished watching all the video materials. You can go downstairs now."

Zhou Qin got up almost immediately, and rushed to the study on the second floor as quickly as possible.

"Lanxia's situation is very bad..." Chen Cang said, "He's crying."

Zhou Qin stopped in front of the door of the study on the second floor. He hesitated for a moment, then pushed open the door.

Elise curled up on the ground, tears streaming down her face.

"Iles." Zhou Qin hugged him, holding him tightly in his arms.

"No..." Elis said, covering her eyes, "don't look at me, don't see me cry."

Don't let you see me in such a mess.

He has endured too much for five years.

Taunting, humiliating, belittling...it's not even a thing.

But in the face of these, my own compromises, the dignity I gave up, and the meaningless flattery... groveling and saying things against my will and doing things against my heart to those who were spurned and despised before.

He even despises himself.

"Don't be afraid, Elis. No matter what it is, we can face it together." Zhou Qin said, "I will always be by your side, I will always protect you, help you, and love you. So don't cry ...you don't have to be afraid of anything."

Zhou Qin kissed his face and also kissed his closed eyes.

Tears are like rain, falling down unstoppable.

Zhou Qin licked his tears, the temperature of the tip of his tongue seemed to heal the scars on his soul.

Elis opened his eyes, and the pain in his blue eyes did not subside easily. He begged: "Let me go, Your Highness. When you become the emperor, let me go, leave all of this. Maybe then I can live better Some."

Zhou Qin's movements froze.

Then he continued to kiss the lover in his arms lightly.

He didn't want him to leave...

But he had to...

After a long time, he heard himself say, "Okay, I know. This is our agreement, isn't it? I promise you, Elise, that one day you will be free."

You are free.

Zhou Qin said in his heart.

In my love, you are already free.

It's just that you don't understand yet, my dear Lan.