That night, when Valenti returned to the base alone, it was already past nine o'clock at night.
Along the way, Valenti was in a trance. When Elu turned around from the driver's seat and reminded her that she had arrived at her destination, Valenti woke up as if from a dream.
She kept thinking about Liz and shed tears uncontrollably.
At this point, everyone in the office building had already got off work, and Valenti had to go back to put some documents. She rubbed her eyes and walked up the stairs. As soon as she reached her floor, she heard a familiar voice. Voice, "Miss Valenti?"
Valenti was startled, and when she looked closely, she found Hesta standing a few steps away from her, looking at her with concern.
"What's wrong with you? Are you crying?"
Valenti sighed, "It's nothing, don't worry, I just thought of some sad things. I thought there was no one here, so I just wanted to cry for a while..."
Valenti began to take a deep breath and adjust his breath to speak.
"Are you here to see me, Jane?"
"Yes." Hesta nodded, "I wanted to check some information. After asking around the teachers, I found that I can only check it from you."
"Oh, really." Valenti quickly took out the key, "Then you must have been waiting for a long time... Let's go to the office first."
After pushing open the office door, Valenti went to the bathroom inside to wash her face. When she reappeared, her mood had almost calmed down.
"What do you want to find out, Jane?"
"Has anyone from outside the base recently asked to meet me?"
"Huh?" Valenti raised his head with some concern, "What kind of person?"
"That's it...I heard that many people wrote emails to the base some time ago, wanting to visit me or even adopt me - I want to know if there are any such people after the report about Miss Stella Viking was published. ?”
Valenti reacted, "Oh, I understand... A lot of people did send us emails like this some time ago. Let me check."
As she said that, Valenti glanced at Hestad inadvertently. She had never seen such a vivid expression on Hestad's face - both expectation and fear, joy and uneasiness.
She must... be expecting a message from someone.
"Name?" Valenti asked.
"I'm not sure...she could have been any name."
"Is it a female?"
"Yes," Hesta nodded, "female."
Valenti began to search. Although she didn't know the result yet, her heart sank a little. She remembered that most of the visit requests occurred before Stella's report was published. After that report, the public's public opinion of Hess Ta's attitude went completely to the other extreme.
Under such circumstances, we certainly cannot hope that there will be any further applications for visits...
However, after a few clicks and Enter, Valenti's eyes lit up.
"...Hey, there are indeed some, but they are not women."
Hesta's eyes also lit up, "Who is it?"
"One is Baron Danglars and the other is Duke de Villefort. Both are new emails sent this afternoon - do you know them?"
Hesta was a little confused. She thought for a while and shook her head.
"I have some impressions of Duke Villefort," Valenti tilted his head slightly. "He is my father's friend and a very kind gentleman in Tanyi City——"
"Did they say why they wanted to see me?" Hesta asked, "Did they be entrusted by anyone?"
Valenti waved to Hesta and motioned for her to sit next to him.
Hesta couldn't wait. Under Valenti's control, she read through the emails of the two knights. However, the letters were just some clichés. The two knights were out of concern for the base and all the reserve minors in the base. Concerned, I hope to come to visit and see the legendary demon-like Jane Hestad in person.
"These visit applications are usually rejected directly by the base." Valenti said softly, "Or... do you want to see them?"
Hesta sat there quietly, saying nothing for a while.
"simple?"
"...No, no need." Hesta whispered. She stood up and the chair made a short scraping sound on the ground. "I understand, thank you."
"Who are you looking for, Jane?" Valenti asked again, "Do you have any other relatives in the Third District?"
Hesta shook her head, "No more, Miss Valenti, I'm going back."
"etc--"
Valenti took Hesta's hand.
"Wait, Jane."
Hesta turned around slowly, "...Do you have anything else to do?"
"I met Masaki this afternoon. She had something for you. I brought it back..."
Valenti said and began to look through her canvas bag. She took out two sets of keys, a coin purse, three pens of different colors, two band-aids, two pieces of liqueur chocolate wrapped in tinfoil, and three third The very popular black tea hard candy in District 3...
"Ah, I found this!"
Valenti finally took out a palm-sized paper bag from her bag, and she placed it on Hesta's palm.
"...What is this?" Hesta asked.
"Can you open it and take a look?"
Hesta opened the paper bag and a gold coin slipped out.
"Pray for gold coins?"
Valenti laughed, "It seems that Masaki is right. She said you should be able to recognize this thing when you see it."
Hesta's thumb gently rubbed the eagle on the back of the coin. She turned the coin over and unexpectedly saw a series of names on the front. These densely packed names were written in very small sizes, and each name was closely connected to the next name. , forming a spiral that slowly winds toward the center of the circle.
Valenti said softly: "Didn't Masaki go to District 14 last month? When passing through Jiaozhi Mountain, she happened to encounter some Hesta people holding a hundred-day banquet for one of their newborns. It was unexpected. Such a gift. She originally planned to hand it to you the day before yesterday...but she encountered some accidents and was delayed. "
This time it was Valenti's turn to ask, "What is this?"
"This is... the Hesta people's prayer gold coin," Hesta whispered. "Whenever a baby is born, the family will prepare a prayer gold coin for him, hoping that he will be healthy and safe."
"These runes are so beautiful, what do they say?"
"It's a name. After a child is born, the local priest will engrave the names of the female elders from the seven generations up in the family, and put the child's name in the place closest to the center of the circle, symbolizing that the elders in the family are surrounding each other layer by layer. Shelter your children in the safest place possible.”
Hesta handed the gold coin in her palm to Valenti so that she could see it more clearly.
Valenti mused, staring at the gold coins.
"...Then who are the names engraved here?"
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