At dusk, the city of Karl Stream became calm and serene again, all silent, the dull air filled the city streets, the knights and soldiers of the church had already cleaned up the traces of the monster's appearance, and in the peaceful dusk as if nothing had ever happened, only the occasional sound of carriages, pedestrian footsteps, faint music and words, quietly conveyed the deep sentimentality from the city. As the sun sets in the west, the warm afterglow shines on St. Karlliu's College, and the warm yellow light shines through the leaves outside the window and casts on the walls of the students' bedrooms, forming a brilliant and colorful pattern, giving the whole room a dreamlike atmosphere. As it was getting late, the corners of the room seemed a little dark, and only the soft light shining in looked particularly warm and cozy, as if this room was the whole world, and that light was so intoxicating and yearning. The light hit the table, and a strangely shaped mechanism was quietly placed on it, which was the mysterious mechanical heart. And the girl raised her arm and ran her slender fingers across the cold iron sheet of the machine, and her movements were so slow, as if enjoying the wonderful touch from another strange world, that even the most wonderful thing had lost its own function, and was only a boring decoration, so the girl's hand fell gently, reluctant with loss. A crack was opened in the window, and a breeze blew in, blowing the girl's fiery red hair, and without the restraint of the ponytail, the beautiful hair naturally scattered over the girl's shoulders. This is Anya's bedroom, and the girl who is usually crazy and behaves strangely is unusually quiet at this time, Anya sits silently at the table, leans forward and lies on the table as a whole, her face is pillowed on her forearm, and her eyes are dull looking at the mechanical heart as if she is thinking about something, or just in a daze. She sat there weakly, not feeling the passion and motivation she once had, just silently waiting for time to pass. It didn't take long for Anya to suddenly frown slightly. Her hand pushed the mechanical heart hard, and the device rolled twice in a direction away from her, before finally stopping at the edge of the table. Anya, on the other hand, buried her face in the table completely, with her hands on her head, as if she wanted to isolate herself from the world, and she no longer made any movements. Until there was a knock on the door, and there was a short, but very cautious knock. "Anya? Are you in there? "The voice outside the door is Mr. Laurien. After a knock on the door, Laurien found that the door was hidden, and with a slight force he easily opened a crack on his own, as if he was deliberately waiting for his arrival. Laurion cautiously pushed open the door, the aristocratic gentleman was dressed as always, and even looked a little more energetic than before. Expensive leather boots stepped on the floor, and at first glance, he saw his daughter lying on the table weakly, as Anya's father, he was not surprised, but his left hand rubbed the tip of his nose unnaturally, and his steps hesitated for a moment before entering the middle of the room again. "I was worried that you weren't in the room." Laurien smiled softly. "I talked to the principal about your marriage, and the school also thinks that there is no need to finish this school year's classes, you can leave the school and go home now, as long as you pack your luggage, the two of us can leave Karl Flow before the sun sets." "Are you going to leave now?" Anya lifted her upper body tiredly, sat up like an empty shell without a soul, and stared blankly ahead. "Of course, after all, there are still a lot of things to prepare before you marry into the Duke's family, our family should hurry up and get together more, in fact, I also prepared a new fishing rod for this, do you remember the time when I took you to the lake to fish when you were a child, and you fell into the water naughtyly? Haha......" Laurien smiled unconfidently, because his daughter was just looking at him expressionlessly, so the laughter slowly stopped, and he only felt a little embarrassed. "Ahem... So, do you have anything to take with you? "I can help you clean up here." Anya twisted her neck slightly, looked left and right briefly at her bedroom, she first looked at the adventure information and map she had recorded on the bookshelf, and then her eyes fell on the mechanical heart in front of her, as if she was thinking about something, but in the end, she lowered her eyelids in frustration and shook her head slightly. "No need...... I don't think anything important here matters. "How so?" Laurian walked to her daughter's bed in disbelief, and picked up a rag doll from the side of the pillow that looked quite distinctive, it was about the size of a pillow, the thin willow made of cloth strips dyed black hair, the eyes made of shells were obviously asymmetrical up and down, the nose of the wood was crooked, the arms were long and short, and the legs were also of different thicknesses, these unique characteristics made this rag doll look not only funny and even pitiful, but also revealed a certain unique aesthetic everywhere. "You forgot Mr. Charlie!" Laurien's face was full of puzzled shock. "This is your favorite doll when you were a kid, you won't be able to sleep without it!" "I kept it because I had a habit of sleeping with a pillow in my hands, and I kept forgetting to get a second pillow." Anya tilted her head sideways, looked at Charlie, and then at her father. "I've said I don't like this doll since I recognized the whole letter, including that it will appear here, and it was also sent by Dad secretly when I entered school." "Is that so? I thought you liked it. Laurien smacked her lips and gently put the Charlie doll back on the bed. It's a pity, but I did it for more than half a month to sew it by hand, and I thought that only my baby daughter could understand its beauty."If you compare it to your father's contemporaries, it's really the most brilliant one." Laurien first looked at his daughter in distress for a moment, looking at the other party's indifferent expression, the corners of the father and daughter's mouths couldn't help but rise, and finally laughed from the heart at the same time, and the embarrassing atmosphere was also relieved a lot at this moment. Seeing that his daughter finally had a smile, Laurien continued to walk to his daughter's side, he stretched out his hand to caress his daughter's hair, but he hesitated to withdraw his arm a moment before touching it, and chose to drop his palm on his daughter's shoulder, silently as if comforting a friend who had known him for a long time. "Oh, I almost didn't even notice this little thing." Laurion caught a glimpse of the mechanical heart on the table, leaning down to look up and down, left and right at the mechanical part, before holding it up with both hands, feeling the weight of the machine. "Have you uncovered its secrets? Although I can see that you like the new a little bit like the old, but you liked this little guy so much at the auction last week, why don't you take it with you, dear? Even if it can't be repaired, it's a good choice just as an ornament, what do you think about putting a bow on it? "Not good...... talking about this mechanical heart, Anya's mood was obviously low again, and the light in her eyes looked a little sluggish in the light of the sunset. That's not the reason for its existence, it must have something more important...... Instead of becoming an ornament on the fireplace of the high nobility, let strangers touch and evaluate ...... at will" Anya's words touched a certain heartstring in Laurien, who raised her eyebrows and sighed as she put the machine back in place. "The meaning of nothing is constant, at different stages each of us has to play a different role, and you should also grow up Anya, even if it is cruel to you...... But people can't keep dreaming of being married to the duke's eldest son, so where will this go? "But I have not even met the man, and I have heard that he is almost forty years old, and that his former wife had just died of syphilis on the morning of the decision to marry me, and that the so-called eldest son of the Duke was busy hunting rabbits while others were carrying his body. I'm not good at pleasing people, and I don't know how to serve an old man, and I'm afraid that marrying him will end up almost the same, or even worse. Anya held her face with one hand and looked out the window at dusk. Laurien was silent for a while, he put his hands behind his back, there were some words he really didn't want to say too bluntly to his daughter, but these were also duties as a father, and he sometimes had no choice. "Family marriage is not something that your mother and I can decide...... The marriage contract was drawn up by the Duke of Ossinier himself for his eldest son, and we have no right to refuse at this time. Your mother, she...... Sometimes it's a little hard to hear, but she's more for the benefit of the whole family, so don't blame her. As she spoke, Laurien felt a little speechless, and wanted to express some of the advantages of marrying into the Duke's family, but in good conscience, how much these benefits had to do with his daughter was more just a mutual benefit between the families...... For the loss of his daughter, his heart is even more reluctant. It was not too early, the light of the sun was gradually disappearing into the end of the town, and seeing that night was about to fall, Anya closed her eyes and kept thinking about something, and when she opened her eyes again, the girl's eyes were still so lost. Anya glanced at the machinery on the table, then smiled at her father, forcing herself. "Don't worry, I'll marry that guy...... It's just that...... Can I stay here a few more days, a week...... Or a few days. "Won't you go with me today?" Laurien stroked the beard off his face and thought for a moment. "Well, I may have planned too hastily, you must have your own friends here, and you should say goodbye before leaving. If that's the case, don't be in a hurry to go home by yourself, the country is not peaceful now, it's too dangerous for girls to walk long distances by themselves, I'll come back to pick you up in a few days, is that okay dear. "Really?" Anya didn't seem to expect her father to agree so readily, she tilted her little head and blinked, and then showed a real sincere smile, stood up and almost jumped in front of her father, stood on tiptoe and quickly kissed Laurien's side cheek, the man's beard was a little prickly, but Anya didn't care about these at all, and hugged Laurien's waist. "Thank you, Dad." Looking at her daughter who has changed so much before and after, Laurien is still a little confused, but then he smiled bitterly a few times and didn't think about it, who made his daughter different, this time Laurien finally put his hand on the top of Anya's head, and the afterglow shone on Anya, as if his daughter was the only light in his heart.

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