How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 260 Going Home
It's a pity that the "hide-and-seek" thing didn't actually happen on the Emperor's Dream.

According to Fujimaru Ritsuka's prediction, even if the internal communication successfully reaches Leon, Caliban's Lion King will definitely not give up trying to find her in the ship. The leader of the First Legion is very good at keeping secrets, but because of this, it is often difficult to tolerate things happening in front of him that he does not know and cannot control.

But in what is actually happening now - the communication is connected, Leon is still nearby, and it seems that he has not made any attempt to escape in the moving room. After Fujimaru Ritsuka issued a "let's talk" request, Leon responded in a calm tone.

He said: "Okay." Then he even took a step back in front of the communication station and sat on the floor so that the fixed camera adapted to the height of a mortal could capture his face.

Fujimaru Ritsuka sat on the chair, her back a little hairy: This is completely different from the Leon El Jonson in her impression!
Leon may have caught some micro-expressions that she didn't even notice, and asked a little doubtfully: "Is there any problem?"

"No, I'm just a little surprised." Fujimaru Ritsuka decided to tell the truth without hesitation, "I have done some research on the history of ten thousand years ago, but you look completely different now than you did then."

"I guess so. I have been reminded of this by many people." Surprisingly, Leon's tone even contained a little sadness, "The power of time is really terrible. This is something I have only recently learned."

It seems reasonable for anyone to feel this way. But if the person doing this was the Lion of Caliban, it would sound terrible.

At this moment, Fujimaru Ritsuka was trying hard not to have the doubt of "are you really me" written on her face, and made a decision: no matter how the conversation between them ends today, she will put this aside. The incident was written down exactly as it was, and sent to Robert Guilliman along with Inquisitor Hastings's regular reports.

She shouldn't be alone in this shock! ——
Two flowers bloom, one on each side. While Fujimaru Ritsuka had to negotiate in panic because Caliban Lion King's persona from ten thousand years ago had turned around after ten thousand years, Decker, who was temporarily living on the Stormbound, was also preparing for what he would do next. Sighing when doing things.

He was indeed a Priest of the Blood, and he had done this kind of thing many times in his service - but not enough to make him numb to it.

He really couldn't like the ritual of "returning the remains of the Chapter brothers to their home planet". Even though he knew it was necessary: ​​for the living and the dead.

Thanks to Chaldea's technology, Sergeant Cannon's remains were also well preserved, almost lifelike. The face of the deceased was calm and serene, as if he did not die in a fierce battle with Tyranids, but died peacefully on the bed after fulfilling all his wishes. Decker knew that this was not the case, not only because on Skyeros, when the only thirteen Blood Angels remaining followed the manifested Sanguinor to charge, Sergeant Cannon was two positions ahead of him; It's also because he knows how many "illusions" there are in Sergeant Cannon's body wrapped in a shroud.

When Sergeant Cannon was just brought back from the coffin, it was easy to see the cause of his death without any medical background knowledge: a large hole was torn under his left flank, and the chitin blade was still stuck. between the plates of his ribs. Before he died, Sergeant Cannon used the chainsword in his hand to completely cut open the Tyranid bastard, successfully killing it. When he was found, his hands were still stuck in the opponent's chest, but there must be some poison on the bastard's claws.

Endemor, who was the first to approach Sergeant Canon, was just a young scout. He had no idea that he should ask the Holy Blood Priest for his opinion before taking action, so he just took it for granted and pulled the insect's stumps from his brother's body. Fall out - and then Sergeant Cannon's half-melted internal organs flowed out of the wound, making the little kid scream in terror. But at that time, Sergeant Cannon's expression was as calm and peaceful as it is now.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with Sergeant Cannon's gene-seed gland, and Decker successfully completed his final duties on the brothers of the Chapter. But the Holy Blood Priest still decided to do more for this brother who passed away in the peace of enlightenment: Originally, after the bone plates were broken and the internal organs were missing, the chest cavity of Sergeant Canon's body would show a very strange shape when he lay flat. of depression. Now, Sergeant Cannon, who is lying in the coffin, looks normal. This is because Decker filled his chest bit by bit with prostheses and fillers in his spare time, so that his chest can once again show the appearance of Senge. The healthy arc that the Sons of Leth deserve.

Originally, after a huge and tragic battle, Decker, as the Holy Blood Priest, was unlikely to have the time to decorate the remains of his battle brothers. Similar tasks would be left to mortal servants. But now, after this too brutal battle in which "the Blood Angels invested half a company on the battlefield, but in the end they could only collect the body of one brother and extract the gene seed of one brother", they lost the ship. The ship, its vehicles, all the Imperial forces that came to support, including even a detachment of the Titan Legion, all their servants and blood slaves were lost. Then of course this job can only be done by Decker, because someone has to do something like this.

Technically speaking, he wasn't actually that free. There is also the topic of red thirst waiting for him on the Storm Frontier, and Asclepius, who initiated this topic and forced him to join the research, is undoubtedly a complete workaholic. Even if the Space Marines could remain active without sleeping for a long time after getting a sufficient rest, Decker soon discovered that he could not survive this period without continuing to perform high-intensity mental work. A "ship medical officer" who looks like a mere mortal.

He applied for a break, tried to clear his mind during the break, and used the time to try to make Sergeant Cannon look more presentable when he returned home. Stormbound was completely unfamiliar to him - unfamiliar environment, unfamiliar equipment, unfamiliar materials. Progress on the work was slowed until Asclepius discovered this and joined in.

This surprised Decker. In previous contacts, he judged that Asclepius's personality was closer to those common freaks in the Mechanicus, as if nothing else in the world mattered except the topics he was interested in. The moment his other Blood Angel brothers recovered, they were quickly kicked out of the infirmary for the reason that "people who cannot provide medical records are of no significance to the development of medicine." Said, apart from Fujimaru Ritsuka and Kailia who need frequent regular physical examinations, the door of the infirmary is obviously a scourge that "never approach unless necessary".

Decker, who only saw the superficial phenomenon at the time, inevitably had some bad associations with the fact that Asclepius could treat a corpse so calmly. But in the face of relevant doubts, Asclepius just calmly said: Decker, who only saw the superficial phenomena, got his priorities wrong.

"The purpose of medicine is to enable sick and disabled people to live with dignity like normal people. Whether it is 'dignity' or 'living', both are equally important." Storm Border's The ship's doctor said, "Who can easily reverse the fate of life and death? He is already dead, and we cannot change this. But at least we should allow him to complete his final journey with dignity and return to his hometown with dignity." Isn’t this wrong?”

That's right. Decker had nothing to argue with. After that, he and Asclepius worked in silence together, and Sergeant Cannon became almost indistinguishable from him in life after the next two Terra days.

There was a vibration as a whole on the Storm Boundary. This vibration pattern was still new to Decker, but he had clearly learned that this vibration represented that the ship had entered an imaginary submarine state. Relevant notifications had been sent to each of their power armor servo systems before, so he knew that after this dive, the target location for surfacing would be inside the Arax Angel Fortress.

"Sergeant Cannon, we'll be home soon." Decker said softly to the coffin beside him.

(End of this chapter)