Although discussing this topic at this time when chelation disease is on the rise is as absurd as discussing how to resist floods in the desert in the future, Chiba almost immediately raised his eyes and said, "I have thought about it."
"Tell me?"
"To be honest, I'm not too worried about that."
"Why?"
"Because I never thought about letting AHgAs withdraw from the stage of history," Chiba crossed his arms. "Indeed, in the eyes of ordinary people, there is not much difference between chelates and mercury needles, but today we use the things to annihilate chelates. We can also use it against ourselves in the future, but from another perspective - except for us, who dares to declare that chelation disease has been conquered?
"Mercury needles are safe as long as the AHgAs exist. That's why you've been insisting that the AHgAs need to remain independent, right?"
"Indeed," Ava looked at her with interest, "the reason why I advocate that AHgAs maintain independent operations is here - this is the most basic position. Without her, Mercury Needle will lose everything. But what I have done All my efforts are just to postpone the occurrence of these things, and what should come will come sooner or later... Chiba, do you know why I keep asking you to retreat from the combat order to the rear as soon as possible? "
"I know," Chiba replied calmly, "You have always felt that the value of frontline combat is limited——"
"It's the limited perspective," Ava corrected. "The most common mistake for an independent fighter like you is to think that everything is under control - I can make a bet with you: By the time chelation disease subsides, The first voice to propose disbanding AHgAs and returning to ordinary life in a livable land must come from within us. The truth cannot be hidden, and you will pay the price for every lie you tell -"
"How could I lie about something like this?" Qianye frowned at her, "Ava, have you forgotten? You taught me this a long time ago."
Ava raised her hand to hold her forehead, feeling that the blood vessels in her head were buzzing.
"It's my fault, it's my fault that I have to talk to you on a whim...it's been so many years...you really haven't changed at all. It's even harder for you to find fault with yourself -"
"Why didn't I find it? No, why didn't you find something wrong with yourself? Where did these conservative and pessimistic thoughts in your mind come from? You have never been like this before—"
Before Qianye finished speaking, a knock on the door came from outside. The old man and the young man were silent at the same time, and they both looked at the door with tense eyes.
"Who's out there?"
The friendly voice of the nurse came from outside the door, "Ah, let me remind you that the visiting time has been more than five minutes... Please pay attention to the time."
As the nurse left, Ava closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and turned her head away temporarily.
Chiba put his elbows on his knees and held his forehead again. "I'm not here to argue with you today, Ava..."
"Really?" Ava narrowed her eyes sinisterly, "I can definitely see that."
Chiba was a little helpless, "...Ava, why are you always so mean to me?"
"Mean!" Ava repeated these two words heavily, "You know, Chiba, it's not that I haven't tried to be a gentle and reliable guardian... but think about what you did to me?
"When you were thirteen years old, you were preparing your honorary speech for the first time. Did I help you revise it word by word and practice with you? But when you arrived at the scene, some nobles didn't recognize you and Valenti teased you. After a few sentences, you turned around and lost the entire manuscript, and spent twelve minutes on the podium laughing at some of their bald heads;
"At the beginning, Office 002 considered that you were too young and could not handle a lot of document work and had to assign you a secretary. I recommended four candidates to you - what about you? I turned around and picked up an old man from another battlefield!
"And the time you left the team without authorization during the Ovie Battle, the time you sneaked into the Mother City at night while participating in the peace celebration in Core City, the time you secretly stole my office key to look for other mercury needle information-"
Ava went along with the time and recounted all the bad things that Chiba had done in the past. Chiba wanted to refute at first, but she couldn't find the right time to interrupt.
However, as Ava mentioned more and more things, Chiba found that she had no memory of some of them, and when she tried to stop recalling the details, more past events rushed over her like beans.
The air in the ward became quiet again. Chiba was stunned for a long time and suddenly laughed out loud. She leaned over Ava's bed and pressed her forehead against Ava's hand that was not infused.
"I'm sorry..." Chiba's tone was filled with doubts, and she raised her head, "Isn't it a little too late for me to say this now?"
"It's not too late, of course it's not too late. You can spend the rest of your life feeling guilty," Ava withdrew her hand, with a sharp pleasure in her voice, "If I hadn't taken over your guardian and assistant officer, I wouldn't be here today. We should spend our holidays drinking red wine on the southern coast of District 3, and live to be eighty-two or even ninety-two without pain or disaster, instead of becoming a terminally ill old lady like now, who can only lie in bed. Listening to you talk nonsense - Oh, I'm mean, when have you ever heard what I said to you? Do you know how much hair I lost during the years when you were at the base - do you know? You don't know, how many hairs did you have? Nian Sa Yazi is running around and having a great time."
Every complaint from Ava seemed to hit Chiba’s smile point, making her unable to stop laughing. Chiba couldn’t explain why. She leaned against the old man’s bed and suddenly thought of many things that had passed long ago. past events,
When she was young, she always silently observed Ava's every move, trying to decipher the logic of her actions from Ava's words and deeds. At that time, Ava was like an insurmountable mountain or an unfathomable sea. She couldn't even estimate the distance between herself and the other party. She could only use her own way to constantly test the other party - in the face of so many opponents. It seems that Ava is the only one who has withstood the various tests issued by Chiba, and even always warns her "not again" again and again with a slightly superior attitude.
Chiba listened to Ava's scolding and slowly squeezed her withered hand.
"Am I really such a naughty person...?" Qianye asked in a low voice.
"No one in this world can be more naughty than you when you were a child... I'm sure of it."
"I'm so sorry," Qianye sighed and murmured in a low voice with her eyes closed, "I disappoint you..."
"Stubbornness is stubbornness, and disappointment... doesn't seem to be the case."
In the silence, Chiba felt Ava's other hand gently put on her head.
"You do always find another way... every time."
