Amid Du Lin's venting roars, Tamik didn't flinch or get angry. He just stood up straight and listened, then gave Du Lin his answer.
"Captain, I know that compared to you, and compared to many members of the Knights, I am still very weak, and I still have a lot to learn. I do not understand many things, but the only thing I understand is..."
"As a knight, I must abide by the teachings of the goddess and follow Lady Sshutia as an example. I must protect everyone who is weaker than me. I must prevent the spread and raging of evil. I must... stick to it. my faith!"
"This is what I understand!"
The young knight puffed up his chest, and the silver-gray holy cross under his knight's uniform seemed to flicker faintly in the light, echoing from afar.
pity.
"Haha...haha, goddess? Teachings? I'm warning you, don't mention the word "goddess" in front of me! There is no goddess in this world! Even if the goddess really exists, she has already fallen. , has long been mixed up with darkness and ugliness!”
"In my heart, the goddess of the Holy Kingdom five hundred years ago is dead, and there is no faith in this land now. The teachings and mottos from Sshutia in your mouth are just a joke, do you understand? A joke? !”
Du Lin screamed with all his strength, and his whole face turned red because of this. In the past, he had always held on to hope, even if it was very weak, but he also imagined that the Black Cave was only because of its remoteness. The priest took advantage of the loophole, so that the holy light of the goddess could not shine here, but one day, one day the evil person will be punished and get the punishment he deserves!
However, what is the result?
The result was that today's priest slapped him hard in the face, and the result was that even the direct goddess, the "Light Bearer" directly related to Lady Scutia, chose to side with the priest, just for the power of the "relic", and Abandoned faith.
At that moment, Du Lin really felt that something was broken in his heart.
This is already the case even at the highest levels of the church.
Then these low-level little people...
What are you still holding on to?
"Du Lin, I need you to apologize to Lady Sshutia for what you said just now!" This was the first time Tamik called Du Lin by his first name without adding the word captain at the end.
There was rare anger on the young knight's face. For Dulin and his master, Tamik could tolerate anything, but the only thing he couldn't bear was Dulin blaspheming the goddess and insulting his faith.
"Ha, what? You're angry, your wings are stiff, you want to fight with me? Okay, come on! Let me see if your goddess can give you strength and beat me to the ground On the ground!"
Seeing the tension between the two becoming more and more tense, both sides losing control of their emotions, almost worsening the situation and developing it to an irreversible point...
Squeak...
The door of the ward was opened a small crack, and the blond woman wearing a ward came out weakly. She looked at the two knights who were already red-eyed, and shook her head at the older one.
"Dulin...don't be like this..."
If there was anything else that could make the Cavaliers drop everything in an instant, it would be his wife.
"Su, Susan! Why did you run out? Damn it! It's all my fault. It's all my fault for being too loud. I must have woken you up! Come on, go back! The doctor said you can't get out of bed yet!"
Susan did not listen to the anxious Du Lin. The blond woman, who looked weak but still cheered up, turned to look at the other person present.
"Tamik...Yes, I'm sorry. No matter what your master said, I believe it must be just angry words. I...I apologize to you on behalf of Du Lin. For those words he just said, I want to express my gratitude to Si Lady Shutia apologizes...cough...cough..."
Susan coughed for the last time. It could be seen that her health was really bad. Now she reached the door of the ward and tried her best to stop the quarrel between the two.
"No...no, no, no, sister Susan, it's my fault. It's not Master's fault, it's me...I was too excited. It was because I knew too little and failed to understand Captain Dulin's words."
"I'm fine now. You'd better listen to Captain Dulin and go back to bed!"
Susan's status was obviously a little higher than Dulin's in Tamik's heart, under the gentle words of the blond woman. The young knight also immediately stopped all quarrels, but in the end...
"Master...Captain Dulin, I won't disturb you anymore, but I still want to tell you that I will not give up on the investigation of Kaleva's C-level disaster item and Mr. Liao Ji! If the knight The regiment does not allow me to do this, then..."
"I will choose to quit the Knights! Even if I take off my uniform, so what!?"
"Perhaps you are right. Lady Goddess is indeed gone, and Lady Scutia...can no longer protect us as before, but so what? What I believe in, what I stand by, what I believe in You know, it’s not the goddess or Lady Scutia herself, but her will, her determination to drive away the evil for us and open up the pure land of the Holy Kingdom for us five hundred years ago!”
"The physical body may perish, but the spirit of the goddess will never disappear. Even if everyone in the church forgets, at least... in me, in my Tamik, I still stick to it! The goddess does not If you leave, Lady Sshutia will still be alive in my heart!"
"That's it! The 287th trainee knight Tamik, please retire!"
After saying these words, the young knight saluted Du Lin with a standard knight's salute, and then left the hospital without giving Du Lin a chance to speak again without looking back.
He supported Susan distressedly and quickly returned to the hospital bed to lie down. After covering him with the quilt, Du Lin's hand was held by the woman.
"Du, don't you think...he looks a lot like you?"
"What!? Susan, are you out of your mind? I look like that brat? Are you kidding me!" Du Lin fondly stroked the woman's blond hair, pretending to exaggerate his expression, trying to make the woman laugh.
And Dulin did succeed.
Phew!
"Keke... Look, it doesn't look like it. Your stubbornness and tough talk are all carved from the same mold. Keke... cough cough! cough..."
"Susan, stop talking. What you need now is to rest... By the way! Quick, take this medicine first!"
Du Lin's heart almost burst when he saw that his wife started coughing again without saying a few words. Then he took out the medicine given by the priest and carefully fed Susan with water.
"Wife, don't worry! This is a special... special medicine that I specially asked someone to find. As long as we insist on taking it, your disease will definitely get better! How about it, do you feel much better right away?"
Looking at her husband who looked concerned about her, Susan nodded at first...but then quickly shook her head.
She stared at the ceiling of the ward and suddenly murmured: "Du, do you know, when I had the operation today, I was actually not completely comatose. I could feel that no matter how hard the doctors helped me, the vitality in my body would Everything was disappearing quickly, like a... bursting balloon. At that moment, I really felt that I was going to die... I would never see you again... ahem..."
"Wife, what are you talking about that is depressing! Aren't you still fine? Trust Chen Hui's doctor! And stop talking, close your eyes and have a good rest!" Du Lin scolded a little angrily.
But the blond woman stubbornly shook her head and continued to speak despite the discomfort:
"No...listen to what I have to say, Du...ahem...just when I felt...I was really about to die, do you know what I...I saw? It was a goddess, yes Lady Scutia..."
"Susan, that's an illusion, you should..."
"That's not a hallucination, because... ahem, actually this is not the first time. Every time I get sick... I can see the goddess... She wraps me with holy light, Every time, I can... be brought back to life, rescued... ahem..."
"Susan..."
"Du, do you still remember how we met and fell in love? We met under the... statue of the goddess in the church. I still remember that I was... researching a paper. The title of the paper was... Sxiuti The love history between Ya and the Emperor... Ahem, looking back now, it was really good when I was young, even if I was so shameful and naive, I could really devote myself to it."
"We made an appointment every day to discuss my thesis together...at dusk...I still remember clearly how red-faced you were at that time, arguing with me, saying that your goddess was pure and innocent, and she was absolutely perfect. She won't... fall in love... and said that Ssutia will never like that emperor... cough... cough cough cough..."
No matter how much Susan coughed and was tortured by illness, she still couldn't hide the beauty of the past on the woman's face.
"My real passion for you is actually our first date, Du. I don't know if you still remember... I was dressed up carefully and full of expectations. I waited for you at the appointed place for more than two hours. , and the last person waiting... was a knight with bandages on his hands, a disgraced face, and blood stains on his clothes."
"You kept apologizing to me, saying that because of a sudden report, a family's children were taken away by human traffickers. After you led the team to recover the children from the hands of the criminals... then you remembered that you still had to fight with them. I'm dating...giggle...every time I think about that scene, I want to laugh...ahem...ahem..."
"Yeah, I was still thinking, it's over, now it's completely out of the question, but I didn't expect you, you actually..." Du Lin was also brought into the meeting following Susan's words, shook his head and sighed.
"Well, I kissed you, Du, because you didn't know how shining and handsome you were in my eyes at that moment... This is the Du I like, a man who will protect the goddess and protect the goddess. I quarreled endlessly, and one person would not hesitate to forget about the first date in order to protect the people..."
"I said all this, actually, I just want to tell you, Du, I read a lot of books and found out that the goddess before meeting the Great Emperor was very fragile and incomplete. It was the Great Emperor who made up for it. There are some blanks about Lady Scutia, and now, five hundred years have passed... The disappearance of the emperor, I believe, will be a big blow to Lady Goddess... Just like if I disappear one day without saying goodbye, you will How about it, Du?"
"I can feel that the power of the Goddess has become weaker day by day... Lady Scutia is struggling to support us. At this time, we should not blame the Goddess... She cannot protect us or clean up for us. Evil, we should... help the goddess... It's our turn... to save Ms. Sshutia... just like... the great emperor back then... ahem. ..”
"Stop talking, Susan, I, I..."
In fact, Du Lin doesn't understand this, he does, but he is escaping.
And the reason for him to escape is...
Susan's hand touched the knight captain's face, sliding across his cheeks and across his beard...
"Du, if one day you have to choose between faith and me, I hope you can... choose the former."
"Because that's the Du I like, that's the Du I... really love..."
After finishing speaking, Susan's eyelids began to tremble. She said so many words in one breath, which completely exhausted her energy. In addition, the medicine took effect, and the woman's palms fell weakly from Du Lin's face.
Susan tilted her head and fell asleep on the hospital bed.
Only the knight captain was left in the silent custody room, with clenched fists and a struggling and confused expression on his face.
