because i am stel

——Ah... As expected, you are still the same as before.Kelsey.

——As long as it is something valuable to you, you can always hold your nose and endure its defects, and find the most suitable solution under the current situation to get along with it.

——Should I be glad?Glad I'm still valuable to you?

—— Or is there really some truth in it that I haven't noticed?

The flaming girl draws conclusions.

She spent half a second thinking in dead time for this.

Then--

--go back.

The colorless flames were burning vigorously, and in the endless distant place, there seemed to be bursts of cracking and crisp sounds when the working gears were forcibly demolished.And right in front of Miss Stelter, Miss Lynx, who had already jumped in front of her, retreated in the form of rewinding, regurgitating, returning from standing to sitting on her back barely supported on the carpet——during the whole process, she did not look There was even the slightest emotional change on Kelsey's face, as if that soft face was just a mask, and this also proved that the other party was indeed untouched by her words-at least it seemed not.

——At this time, what am I still dreaming about?

The flaming-haired girl thought to herself, her eyes flickering, watching the words in the air that formed sound waves shrink back to the original vibration and dissipate naturally.And he also moved his steps immediately, and returned to the area suitable for him according to his previous memory-the situation changed, so some words had to be taken back.The farce that will be staged in the future must be pulled out one step in advance.In order to avoid embarrassing the situation from time to time, everyone is at a loss.

Thus, time continues to flow while space is adjusted to its proper orientation.

The noise from the outside world entered the eardrums again, and the stagnant atmospheric particles due to the time gap turned into surging cold wind and swayed around.Miss Stelter stared at Kelsey in front of her, but now, there was no slightest fluctuation in her heart.

She didn't delete her confession to Kelsey.Because that's what's in the heart -- what's in the heart of the paper man's brain.Like is like, there is no need to cover up.However, after that, the resolute words of "never see each other again" did not come out of her mouth again.

She adjusted her words slightly.

"... I admit that I failed completely and I gave up. And this should be a good thing for you and me."

Instead of bowing, she just nodded slightly to Kelsey, who turned pale again.

"I won't have that unrealistic idea anymore. Dr. Kelsey. My tolerance for you has been exhausted. Please treat me in the same way as a normal operator in the future——

——I will no longer tolerate your offense and insult to me like before, and at the same time, I will try to walk around your work area as little as possible.Of course, I can't change your mind...you can think whatever you like.I'm just here to tell you what I'm going to do. "

She turned her head slightly, turned sideways - without turning her back - and was about to leave.

As expected, she heard a response from Miss Lynx.

"Do you think that's offensive and insulting?" She saw the director of Rhode Island's medical department bit her lower lip, and almost squeezed out a few words that might contain a little anger from between her teeth. "Steel, you...we could have been more—"

But Miss Steele interrupted her.

"I don't need you to teach me how to behave. Doctor Kelsey, I'm not your student. You don't have the obligation to educate me. If you are energetic, you can teach your obedient apprentices a lesson. And I have other more important things to do than wasting time here with you."

She stood up, soaring into the air in the flames of twisting light.

"I'm sorry to take you so far away. But as you said, if I'm energetic, this ruin will be a good place to hang out. And the conclusion I've come to now is-this place is very beautiful , but I have to go."

"I will contact Persephone and ask her to send a car to pick you up. Of course, if you plan to exercise a little this evening, take a walk, and enjoy the city's festive night scenery - There are still fireworks today - that's up to you. Forgive me...it doesn't matter if you don't forgive me, I won't accompany you anymore."

The next moment, a wave of air erupted around her.The flaming-haired girl broke free from all shackles and disappeared without a trace before Kelsey's eyes.

Stuart is gone.

It was different from every time before, this time, she left with her own heart.

The air calmed down.

After Shirtel left, there was no more firework blooming in the sky.The reddish cloud of dust mixed with pigments, luminous minerals, and chemical debris was blown away by the night wind.In a short while, the sky of Chernobog was only pure black.

black.

There are no stars, nor the blackness of the moon.

Rhodes Island's doctor, Miss Doctor Lynx, with light green hair and cat ears, stood quietly in the darkness.

1 minutes.

5 minutes.

15 minutes.

Her lips trembled slightly, trying to speak, but it choked in her throat.The emotional mask that was originally incomparably strong and cast with dignity was cracked and damaged bit by bit, tears rolled in the eye sockets, and the brows and the corners of the eyes gradually drooped.

"Do not……"

"It shouldn't be like this..."

"I……"

She slowly raised her hand to her lips, her light green nails were sharper than usual.And the sharp nail tip immediately plunged into the corner of the lip, with a little force, the tender skin was sunken downwards and showed red marks.

Smell of blood.

It smells of rust.

Perhaps it would be nice to use a little more force to tear this useless medium of sound.

She closed her eyes gently.Then, forcefully—

"What are you doing, Kelsey." - In the darkness, a slender hand stopped her movement.

But that hand was not the hand of the person she expected.

She opened her eyes, and what came into her eyes was the white-haired and red eyes of a certain pointed ear with thousands of memories deep in her brain and the most obvious features on her face—that old friend of the Gorefiend who had always acted leisurely and indifferent. Now sweating and out of breath, it was obvious that she had tried almost everything she could to get here in the first place.

"Warfarin? You...why come here?"

"To prevent some idiot from doing something stupid... Do you know how much it took me to get here from the medical center!? Look at you, Kelsey, what are you doing!?"

"I...I screwed up everything." Her voice was unexpectedly weak...or fragile.It's just not like her usual.

"Screw everything?" Warfarin's expression was unexpectedly strange. "You have always said this to others before... I will ask you a question. What did you mess up? Did the coalition forces of major countries from all over the world come to your door, or did you press Rhodes 5 minutes ago? The island's self-destruct switch?"

Her tone bordered on mocking.

"Look at your ugly face, emotional entanglement? The little things that girls in junior high school care about are now killing you. Want to tear your face? Even if you are the director of the medical department, you shouldn't be like this Unscrupulous waste of resources. Or are you actually only 15 years old this year, and you are still waiting for your Chinese teacher to send you a good student award?"

"It's not a trivial matter!" Miss Lynx's ears pricked up.

Then, she immediately got a powerful counterattack.

"Then, why did you treat her like that?" Warfarin stared into her eyes, and the scarlet eyes did not allow any dodge or escape. "Sometimes I really suspect that you skipped the exam of the elementary Chinese oral course. So much so that you even forget the normal way of speaking!"

"I..." Miss Lynx opened her mouth, tongue-tied, and finally lowered her head and sighed.

"What's the use of saying this now..." She took a deep breath.Soon, the usual shrewd and capable appearance returned to her——she turned back into the Kelsey who didn't show the slightest emotion, just like a machine.Then she nodded to Warfarin.

"Thank you, Warfarin. I know what to do."

However, Warfarin just shook her head vigorously.

"I don't think you understand at all, Kelsey."

"Let me ask you, what are you going to do when you go back?"

"Do what I should do." Kelsey, who regained her composure, replied: "Many medical affairs in Chernobog, appeasement of unstable people, and negotiations with surrounding mobile city-states... Rhodes Island still has There's a lot of business to attend to. And it's all about me..."

"You really don't understand this kind of thing at all, Kelsey." Warfarin covered her forehead with a melancholy expression. "It's useless to simply escape. I thought that your high IQ could at least be useful in this regard. But sure enough, you are far behind Persephone."

She spat lightly.

"Tsk, you know, who told me that you are here?"

....................................

"Obviously the boundaries have been drawn, but at the same time as contacting me, they told Warfarin Kelsey that she might need help——Staler, I thought you really planned to break up with Kelsey. From then on, you will be a stranger people."

On the top of a building somewhere, Miss Shirtel, who was in flight, landed here quietly.Persephone had been waiting here for a long time, and greeted her in the above words.

"I'm quite curious why you have to overthrow everything and start over again - before you go back to the time and space of the area, Kelsey has already gotten close to you. Doesn't that kiss appeal to you at all?"

"Indeed not." Leaning on her sword, Miss Shirtle replied with a hint of melancholy. "People are always easy to be dominated by sensibility and impulse, so they make some unreasonable or unintentional actions. That kiss only proved one thing to me, that is, I have value to her and Kelsey .Of course, there may also be some...the possibility of special emotions. But unfortunately, I couldn't feel it at all at the time."

She sighed.

"Whether it was her or me, it was a little irrational at that time. That kiss... was a little bit impactful. But, I will not accept it at that time, in that place."

The flaming-haired girl gently clenched her fists.

"The only thing I'm sure of, and I need to be sure of, is that Kelsey doesn't hate me as much as she usually does... at least not as much as I expected. That's why she's there Afterwards, she used this impulsive way to keep me, no matter from the emotional or rational point of view. And this is enough, it is enough to prove that she and I can continue to be ordinary partners in the future."

"Just cooperation?" Persephone raised his eyebrows slightly. "If you strike while the iron is hot, maybe something good will happen."

"Forget about that kind of thing." Miss Shirtel waved her hand. "Toads shouldn't think about eating swan meat. Being able to share a hunting ground with swans is already a very good result, there is no need to ask for more. Now that it has been confirmed that Kelsey has no real malice towards me, then Just keep this state of respectful distance from now on. After all..."

Shirtel, set up a new house 45 degrees backward.

"Being treated so badly for such a long time, even I will be a little dissatisfied."

No.80 Five Sections · Ming Xiu Plank Road, Dark Chen Cang

As the saying goes, if you lick a dog, you will die.

In the previous world, in order to save some face for the dog lickers, the water friends on the Internet changed Haosi to House.But it really doesn't make a difference -- there's not much difference between being homeless and dying with nowhere to go.And since Miss Shiertel was a dead-brained person who couldn't be exquisite and smooth in her previous life, then in this life... naturally, she can't think about it.

She doesn't want to be a licking dog, and she can't stand any bad mouth.

After all, bad mouth is actually just a euphemism.The essence is actually foul language, yin and yang.Put it on the Internet, maybe you can also beep something like 'extreme mouth smell, extreme enjoyment', etc., spraying everywhere, venting, anyway, at most it is a mutual nozzle battle.But if it is placed in the real society, people who like to have a bad mouth in daily social life, or hide themselves in a damp corner because of bad interpersonal relationships.Or become a regular visitor to hospitals and clinics-unless the guy can hold a steel suit.

no way.Generally speaking, people who swear on the Internet will not be beaten along the Internet line.However, in the real world, talking nonsense will really get you punched.

Miss Steele currently has the hardest fist in the world, logically—or according to her usual behavior, she should hit back at the first time, and then send it away according to the severity of the situation. A hemiplegia or a dog's head exploding—she's always done that, except for Kelsey.

After all, the matter of the dead house is a bit complicated.

However, in any case, even if it is a dead house, not everyone shakes M, not everyone is meek and humble.For example, in the previous life, Ms. Steele, she didn't like Suzumiya Haruhi's savagery who only added to the chaos, and Aria's stuff that could be classified as scum—

——She has a high tolerance for Kelsey, and the paper man's innate affection is one of the reasons.She knows that Kelsey in the game has a similar personality and personality is another reason.She can tolerate Kelsey's waywardness, because she knows that Kelsey is also burdened with a lot of pressure and secrets while venting his bad temper.

Anyone who has been a social animal knows what it feels like to be overwhelmed by work.So based on this, she has a lot of patience with Kelsey, a stinky lynx.After all, she, Miss Steele, is someone who wants to play HE, and in her plan, take over Kelsey's pressure, liberate this woman who has carried too many things and make her smile.It was also one of the tasks she set for herself.

She thought she could handle it.

After all, it's not like she hasn't done things like going to Shisongzhuang to pass the toilet.

However, the problem is that even if she is sent to Shisongzhuang to flush the toilet, the task issuer in the Fallout world view will respectfully call her 'General' anyway, and there will be rewards and greetings after the task is completed.However, with this big cat, she, Miss Steele, has nothing!

Nothing!

The reason why tool people can happily be tool people is because tool people themselves feel happy in it.But this doesn't mean that she claims to be a tool person, and she does act like a tool person, so she can really tolerate being treated as a tool by others!

She couldn't bear it, and she didn't want to bear it.Even if favorability and patience are not linked to her, she still has her own response and attitude!

So of course, when patience, fun, and the sense of mission chicken soup I stewed for myself are all exhausted.The current situation is the inevitable result.

..............................

The self-analysis and the 45-degree reclining of the new house ended here, and Miss Stelter moved her waist and returned to the normal posture.

She made a summary.

"In short, the relationship between me and Kelsey is like this. Although I still don't understand why she always treats me differently. But now I can at least confirm that she doesn't hate me and needs my strength. And this It proves that Rhode Island's future operations will not be deviated because of the quarrel between me and her. So I decided to keep her at arm's length."

"It's good for both parties to draw boundaries. She doesn't need to be angry when she sees me, and I don't need to continue to be scolded and complained by her. In the future, she can edit any commissions directly through PRTS and then hand them over to me. Me and She doesn't need to make more positive contact on the physical level-Persephone, PRTS can do this kind of thing."

She said, and her tone was firm, it was obvious that she did not intend to leave any room for maneuver.

And now that she had made up her mind, the doctor in Rhodes Island only raised her eyebrows a little before responding.

"The code of the PRTS can indeed be adjusted. But some content can only be officially put into operation with the assistance of the hardware on the Rhode Island ship——Stel, don't you even want to hear Kelsey's voice?"

"That's not true." The fiery-haired Sarkaz shook his head slightly, turning his gaze to an unknown place in the dark night sky.After the fireworks of this impromptu festival, several places in the Chernobog residential area are holding impromptu festivals and big sales.Then the subtle noise came along the night wind, reflecting the vitality of the city into the ears of the two of them.

"Strictly speaking, my perception of Kelsey should have risen a bit, or something - after all, I thought she hated me before, so I tried very hard to repair this relationship. But now it proves that she treats me The hate is not as serious as I expected, so I will naturally change the strategy of getting along with her. And my view of her will also change. Hmm..."

"...Probably from a person who hates me and may act insanely at a critical moment. To a colleague who just has a bad temper and a bad relationship, but will not be negligent at work... This kind of ?”

"I see." Persephone nodded, and took a sip of the unknown drink beside her. "You don't hate her, but you feel that there is no need to 'repair the bad relationship with her', so you take the initiative to alienate her-fortunately, it seems that Kelsey can still be saved, not a dead cat."

"Don't make it sound like I'm going to hurt her, Persephone." The red-haired thing complained loudly. "My love and respect for her hasn't diminished. I'm just... a little tired, and at the same time, I judge that the previous way of getting along needs to be changed. The current plan is better for her and me than before."

This waste who only has lust but no lust sighs deeply.

——Strictly speaking, I kind of regret it.Should have laughed at that kiss and went back in time - I've never kissed a girl in my life!Damn, my damn sense of responsibility.My old lady has been single for so many years, and it's hard to taste a little bit of sweetness...

——Ahhhhh!The meat is delivered to the mouth, but I don't know how to eat it first, and I don't know how to eat it without accepting it!Stuart, you bastard!

The trash no longer sighed, but turned his eyes melancholy.

"Okay, let's stop talking about Kelsey... Persephone, what happened to those fireworks just now? You gave me a cover?"

"It's just a very common precautionary measure." Persephone replied, slightly raised his palm, motioning for Miss Stelter to leave the building with him. "I knew when you walked out the door that you were going to find Kelsey, and there was always a chance that you and Kelsey would break up. So I prepared in advance and arranged this when the fire alarm sounded. A temporary festival celebration, so as to cover the traces of your power explosion."