"At that point, I wasn't actually telling the truth."
American Emperor, after leaving Karasuma Renye's bunker, Shirakawa Qing did not immediately leave for the Crow Research Institute. Instead, he took Miyano Shiho to a single-family villa first.
Opening the door with the key, Shirakawa Kiyo is in front and Miyano Shiho is following behind.
"What I said was not entirely correct."
The smell of dust accumulated from being closed for a long time hit his face. Bai Heqing walked into the house and spoke slowly.
“Everyone has something irreplaceable and important in their heart, and for most people, it is their own life.
But there are also a few people who regard other things as more important than their own lives. This may be some material things that actually exist in reality, or it may be some kind of indestructible belief, or it may be an important people..."
Here is the small villa where Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Miyano Shiho lived for the past ten years.
The villa has only three floors, with the utility room and small balcony on the third floor, and the bedrooms of Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Miyano Shiho on the second floor.
There was nothing special about it, but it was important to Miyano Shiho because she lived here for nearly ten years.
From the age of seven to seventeen, she has been living here with the most important person in her life.
Even though many people regard him as a heinous devil, for Miyano Shiho, this is still the happiest period of her life.
Therefore, she desperately hoped that Bai Heqing could bring her back here one more time before the final scene was staged.
"But Shiho, different people actually have different ways of treating the most important things in their hearts."
Walking along the wooden stairs to the second floor, Bai Heqing continued:
"Indeed, some people regard the important things in their hearts as the supreme pearl. These people hold it at the highest position in their hearts and will never compare or measure it with anything. It seems like this Doing so will make it tainted.
However, this does not represent everyone.
In addition, there are other people who will repeatedly compare the important things in their hearts with other things in their lives.
Of course, this does not mean that they regard it as unimportant. On the contrary, they also regard it as very important and irreplaceable.
The evidence is that although this kind of people will use it to make repeated comparisons and measurements, it will always win in every comparison. What it experiences is a sure-win comparison.
These two types of people are essentially the same. The only difference between them is that the former can get satisfaction just by holding it, while the latter need to get it from repeated comparisons.
And Keiko...actually belongs to the latter.
Keiko is very different from ordinary people. She is tough but insecure. She seems rational but full of emotion.
Especially at the last moment of her life, facing herself being deprived of her human dignity little by little by her illness, her inner uneasiness had already accumulated to a critical point.
All these prompted her to "compare", and she needed to obtain emotional satisfaction through this repeated "comparison" to support her will, which was already on the verge of reaching its limit.
I knew this, I understood it when I saw her.
Keiko is about to collapse. She is trying to completely separate her rationality and sensibility, trying to maintain her sanity in this mechanical way. If she is not stopped from this behavior, she will definitely go to self-destruction in advance.
So, I deliberately said those words at that time...
I told her that there is no need to force yourself to make a choice, just continue to make it according to your idea.
Leave everything to me in the future, no matter what happens, no matter what the consequences are, I can settle it for you..."
The two walked to a bedroom on the second floor.
This is the bedroom where Miyano Shiho once lived.
There is a small bed against the wall, with certificates plastered all over the wall, and certificates stuffed in the drawer. Next to the bed is a small desk, and next to the desk is a not too big bookshelf.
In addition to some books on chemistry and medical knowledge, there are also many children's books on fairy tales and fables neatly placed on the bookshelf.
When Miyano Shiho was still young, Shirakawa would ask Kiyoshi Shirakawa to take out one of the books every night before she went to bed, sit on the chair in front of the desk and tell her the story on it.
"She is so smart, didn't she realize what you were thinking at that time?"
Miyano Shiho walked into the room, raised his hand and touched the small desk that was already gathering dust, turned his back to Shirakawa Kiyo who was standing at the door, and asked.
"If it were Keiko in normal times, I definitely wouldn't be able to deceive her."
Leaning against the door frame, Bai Heqing lowered his head and smiled.
"But at that time, Keiko's condition was already very bad. Affected by the illness, her thinking ability had greatly deteriorated, and her sensitivity to these lies had also dropped a lot.
She would often fall into a deep sleep without realizing it. At that time, she had almost lost the ability to think deeply. Even slightly more complicated thinking would make her fragile brain feel tired.
Rather, I am very surprised that she was able to plan an assassination operation against Karasuma Renye under such circumstances, and even almost succeeded..."
"Bai He, at that time, did you know that she would do the things that happened later?"
Miyano Shiho still had her back to Shirakawa Kiyoshi. She opened the drawer of the small desk, and there were some books, notes and stationery neatly placed inside, just like when she left more than a year ago.
No, not exactly the same...
Because she is not a very well-behaved girl and never packs these things in a well-behaved manner.
Someone carefully sorted them out for her after she left...
His eyes suddenly became moist. Miyano Shiho raised his hand to wipe his eyes and took out a notebook from the drawer.
"To be honest, I don't know."
Bai Heqing thought carefully, shook his head and replied.
"I expected that Keiko might want me to deal with Renya Karasuma, but I had no idea what method she would use. If I had known her plan at the time, I would not have said those words to her... …”
"Do you regret it?"
"Well, I regret it."
Bai Heqing's tone was calm, and the communication between the two seemed to be about what happened to others.
"I don't want to become like you..."
After saying this, Miyano Shiho finally turned around. She crossed over to Shirakawa Qing who was standing at the door and walked outside.
"It's better not to be like me."
Bai Heqing also said the same thing and asked at the same time:
"What's wrong? Did you specifically ask me to bring you back and not look at you again?"
"It's not necessary. After you die, I will have plenty of time to come back and take a look."
Miyano Shiho walked down the stairs quickly.
"That's true..."
Bai Heqing smiled helplessly. He finally looked back at Miyano Shiho's bedroom, only to find that the notebook that Miyano Shiho had just taken out was still on the desk, and she had not put it back. In the drawer.
[This child still doesn’t like picking up things...]
Bai Heqing sighed softly. Just as he was about to go in and help Miyano Shiho put it back out of habit, Miyano Shiho's shout came from the hall on the first floor downstairs.
"Hurry up! Some guy who wants to die, what are you waiting for up there?"
"Okay, here we come."
Amid Miyano Shiho's urging, Shirakawa Kiyo ultimately did not touch the notebook. He let it sit on the small desk, turned around and walked downstairs.
"Really..."
In this way, the two of them left the villa together. Before getting in the car, Miyano Shiho suddenly looked back.
The direction was exactly where the bedroom was, and there were countless prayers in her eyes.
[God, I beg you, I am willing to pay any price, just this once, please help me and answer my prayer...]
"What's wrong?"
When he opened the car door, Bai Heqing looked at her and asked with a smile.
"nothing……"
Deliberately adopting that cold attitude, Miyano Shiho got into the car.
"Shirakawa, what happens next? Keep talking."
"What happened after that is not a good story..." Bai Heqing replied softly as he sat in the driver's seat.
"Say it, I want to hear it."
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(End of chapter)
