old dream

Chapter 69 Speculation
Time unknowingly entered September, and Julio felt cold and curled up in the corner of the sofa.Because the cold year is coming, the weather started to get cooler very early.

She was still wearing just a thin crepe dress, which was no longer the season's attire, but she had absolutely no intention of having someone bring some clothes over.Since she didn't ask for it herself, the shooters didn't respond.

In Julio's room, only the calendar on the table seems to suggest the passage of time.

There was something vaguely written on the loose-leaf calendar, probably by Julio.Colin took a closer look for a while, and found that every page was full of fragments of "deception", "cowardly" and so on.

"I've been dreaming more and more about that night these days."

Julio didn't make any resistance to this. He stood up from the sofa in a trance like a jellyfish, knelt down beside the coffee table with bare legs, and began to copy the manuscript brought by Colin, while whispering:
"I've always dreamed that I'd become that way, that jelly-like slush on the ground, more than once."

She should be referring to the monster that burned itself out in seconds and eventually infected Colin with Vibrio carinii.On the night of the warehouse, Colin, Ricardo and others were almost torn apart by it.

"That thing looks scary, but it will never hurt you."

Colin again simply stated the facts.A host in a state of stress will never attack the source of the pheromone.The necklace that Arecio gave her had a vaporizer in it.

Although by now, it should have long since lost its effect.In order to avoid any accident it brings to himself, Colin still had the necklace removed from Julio.

"No... what really scares me is the liar, the truth about the man Arecio."

She said that when her hand was involuntarily exerting force, the bifurcation of the pen nib was misplaced under the pressure, and several ink splatters splattered:

"What happened that night means he killed the man who had been protecting me."

But you don't even know that person.Colin thought silently.

Although it can't be said to be commonplace, murder is not uncommon for Five Hands, and Julio should not have reacted so radically.

However, even for the beast-like Capello family, making one's own people into consumables like Arecio is still a bit cruel.

Although this is very in line with the way the light-keepers do things.

I remember Julio mentioned that Arecio used to tell her something like "kindness is the most powerful force".But this is obviously not his own way of dealing with the world.

The words "deceived" and "lying" written on the calendar pages should also be referring to this.

Julio's hands were shaking all the time, as if he couldn't even hold the pen.The typefaces copied out are similar to those left on the calendar.The letters were sloppy, and the entire page was covered in a few words.Colin frowned slightly, but still handed her the next blank piece of paper.

At the same time he took and checked the first page statement he had just copied.In addition to the basic content, he also pays attention to whether there are any hidden texts left on it in any way.information such as addresses.

Because of the experience in the past few years, Colin has almost become an expert in this field. Under his nose, Julio is completely impossible to pass out a secret signal.

Although the handwriting was suspiciously crooked, Colin thought it was some kind of secret transmission.But after repeated confirmation, he was sure that it was just Julio's font that was too ugly.

Julio seems to have no intention of resisting at all. Not long ago, she also showed the meaning of resisting returning to Arecio.

Colin was a little curious about her past, after all, she was probably the key to Arecio.

So why did Arecio instill those silly and sweet thoughts into her?

Shouldn't it be, the tired lampkeeper, who regards Julio as the last pure land in the world or something.

Colin was a little nauseous and nauseated by this inexplicable thought.

Arecio, the former lampkeeper who was "abandoned" by the lights, in order to save Julio in the heir dispute, he even violated the creed of the neutrality of the lampkeeper, using a witchcraft influence called "Mist" to manipulate the relationship with Julio. All related photos.

Mr. No. [-] was going to purge him for this, but he gave up on it that night.It was also on that day that Mr. No. [-] asked himself to kill someone.

Three days later, when the two guards met in the theater, Arecio said to Mr. One: "You should already know my troubles."

This is enough to make him violate the creed as a last resort, and it should be the reason why he must save Julio.

Mr. One still maintains a state of extreme self-repression, akin to a machine that only knows how to enforce a creed.

So Arecio's troubles will be recognized by him, so it shouldn't be about personal affairs... at least not entirely.

That is to say, Arecio's behavior of protecting Julio can be acquiesced by the lampkeeper's creed, Cincily's hometown, or at least Mr. No. [-].

And because of the coincidence of time, there should be some connection with the commission proposed by Mr. No. [-].

So what does Julio mean to them?
Capello's princess?

Capello has already fallen from the five-handed seat, and Marizio even has the intention of further splitting and suppressing it.

The hometown will directly send the core list and the new lampkeeper to Luka, and they have clearly stated their position in favor of the transfer of the last five hands.

In this way, it doesn't matter who will inherit the Capello family in the end, and Arecio has no loyalty to the family, and even proposed to let Luca intervene in the inheritance dispute to protect Julio's safety.

So Julio's special significance should have nothing to do with her worldly identity.

Then it's about transcendence.

Seeing Julio's crooked handwriting covering the pages again, Colin felt a headache for a while.There is too little information, and there is too much to guess.

The Lightkeepers are the protection of the Cynthili Group on a transcendent level, but is that the whole purpose of their actions?

Judging from some of the performances of Mr. No. [-], they are more like a group with strong religious overtones, and protecting the five hands is just a secular obligation.So the whole picture of this matter should be more than what it looks like on the surface.

Colin only stayed in Cynthia for a period of time when he was a child, and after coming to Stade, he had little contact with the traditional Cynthili community, so he did not have much impression of the old-fashioned religious activities of the Cynthili people.

It can only be vaguely remembered that the deity they served was an ancestral deity known as the Virgin of the Lamp.

Lamp, femininity, chastity.

Thinking about these seemingly unrelated words, some vague associations flashed in Colin's mind.

(End of this chapter)