Awashima Seri didn’t seem surprised at all, and continued to ask: “Then in your opinion, who can truly pacify the troubled times?”

“Are you talking about heroes over wine?” Ling Wuji raised his eyebrows in surprise, but he still hesitated for a moment and shook his head. “From the perspective of the king, unless the stone slab elects a new Golden King, the current kings essentially do not have the will or ability to overwhelm others. Other people on the mysterious side probably won’t get involved in this matter. Besides, if they intervene, they will only want to rebuild the gate between the inner and outer worlds, but I will never allow this to happen.”

Hearing him say this, the woman nodded immediately, then just looked at his face silently without saying anything more.

“what are you thinking about?”

Awashima Seri immediately reached out her hand, touched her face, and said, “When I first met you, you were probably fourteen years old, right?”

“Yeah, middle school age.”

Ling Wu Ji just said.

“Although you didn’t look like a 14-year-old at that time…” She just sighed to herself, saying, “Although you look like a pretty good student, you are surprisingly organized when you speak and do things. You give people the impression that you will definitely be successful in the future.”

After hearing these words, Ling Wuji didn’t know what to say for a while.

The memories of junior high school seem a bit distant to him now.

Although in reality it didn’t seem to take long.

Moreover, he could even remember things from his previous life, not to mention things from junior high school. However, for him, the him in junior high school was not much different from the him in his previous life. If he had to say, he had only learned a few spells. But the difference between him now and the him in junior high school was like heaven and earth. Although it is not appropriate to use the him in junior high school to judge his current achievements.

Even if he wanted to take revenge on Luo Hao at that time, he actually didn’t find a suitable method.

He was just stuck at a loss at the life and death barrier between Qi training and Yin Shen.

“It’s just that I didn’t expect you to become like this.”

“So do you think I have gotten better or worse? Or is it like you think, that the magic I learned has magnified the malice that has always been hidden in my heart, so you think I am not the same as I was back then, and therefore I have become hateful?”

Let Wu Ji speak.

“I haven’t thought about it that much,” Awashima Seri twisted a lock of light golden hair that fell from her forehead around her fingers, swirled it around, and whispered softly, “I just thought that you are now in college and an adult, and I am already in my late twenties, so it’s time for me to think about my future.”

“So your future is to find someone who can help you end the chaos in Japan?” Ling Wuji asked, “Or do you want to be the one who can end the chaos yourself?”

“If I say that’s what I think, will you help me?”

“I can only say that I don’t mind you trying to win over my followers. Anyway, from now on, I will only use the name Star Lord as a symbol, and I will no longer come to the mortal world in person. So you can guide those followers on how to choose, but there is only one thing…”

“We can’t let the destroyed gate between the inner and outer worlds be rebuilt again?” Awashima Seri smiled faintly, but said, “Is that goal really that important to you?”

“It’s not that important actually,” Ling Wuji pondered for a moment, then said, “It’s just a goal I set a long time ago. It was my idea when I was a teenager. If I deviate from that goal, it means I deny my own youth. For me, it’s just a reminder, a reminder that I still remember myself during that time.”

“But I don’t think there is any difference between you now and when you were a teenager.”

They were all just as willful, just as harsh in their words, and just as many messy thoughts. Perhaps for him, turning eighteen meant that he was missing some mysterious possibility, or some kind of vitality, and was beginning to transition to a stage of old age. However, for her, there was no difference between the current boy and the only difference was that she no longer had to bear any psychological burden.

“Psychological… burden?”

Ling Wuji really had no idea what she was thinking.

“I told you, I’m already in my late twenties.”

“so?”

“You’re already in college, although from a secular perspective, our age is actually quite shocking…”

Ling Wuji was a little confused for a moment. According to what she had said before, didn’t she want to leave him and become a part of ending the chaos in Japan? Why did she suddenly jump to this topic? And what about shocking? His existence was shocking. Besides, she had a close personal relationship with Arisa Koubuin. No matter how she handled it or how Arisa Koubuin could do it, even if one of them was a normal person, she would be able to get the truth about what happened between them.

Although saying this does seem a bit insulting to Arisa’s intelligence.

But to be honest, Arisa of the Shrine was just an average person.

And if both parties are average people, I’m afraid they won’t hide anything in a relationship of that level.

“You seem to have a low opinion of your first believer?” Awashima Seri did not respond to his doubts, but just said, “But from my observation, she is not really such a beautiful girl. She was just forced to grow up before she was ready. And you said it as if you know a lot about friendship between girls. Let me tell you, there are a lot of hypocrisy between girls. They don’t really talk about everything.”

“Did she say it?”

“said.”

That’s fine.

Ling Wu Ji rolled his eyes, but Awashima Seri suddenly came close to him when he made this move and printed a thin layer of lipstick on his mouth. Ling Wu Ji blinked, then reached out to hug her, skillfully entangled their tongues together, and exchanged saliva with each other.

In the end, it was natural that Awashima Seri couldn’t hold on any longer.

She even wanted to ask Ling Wuji why he was so skilled.

But thinking of the boy’s past, he just sat there to catch his breath, and then heard Ling Wuji say, “So you think you can do this with me now that I’m an adult?”

“No? Anyway, you said it yourself. I am the one who actively wants to change the relationship between us. Besides, if I don’t take the initiative, you won’t even look at me, right? Even if I show that I want to leave, you won’t want to keep me!” The blush on her slightly flushed face became brighter. “But I don’t want our relationship to become that cold! We will only exchange opinions with each other in a mature, rational and sophisticated manner, and wish each other to get the life they want!”

“But you weren’t that enthusiastic, were you?”

Ling Wuji just sighed.

A trace of sadness inevitably passed through Awashima Seri’s heart.

Maybe that’s the tragedy of having such an inexplicable feeling for this person.

He always seems to be standing on a high place overlooking the world. Even if the person involved is himself, he seems to separate himself into another self to observe in this way, and then give his own opinions and analyze the relationship between the two.

But then, unexpectedly, Ling Wuji took the initiative to hug her and whispered in her ear: “But have you really thought it through?”

“what?”

“It’s too late to regret now.”

Then, Awashima Seri felt the boy’s hands wandering on her body, gradually removing her clothes until she was naked. After that, she felt her consciousness being washed away by a tide of joy, washing away any unnecessary thoughts. When the noise between the two finally subsided, she couldn’t help but realize what Ling Wuji wanted to ask. As the boy’s partner, even if she wanted to participate in the so-called event of pacifying the troubled times, she would not be able to gain the approval of the majority of people.

Because she, or Penglai, has been stained with too many traces of him.

There is a saying that goes, “There are only individuals who betray their class, but no class that betrays its interests.” This saying can actually be said as follows: “The butt determines the head.” That is to say, your environment and position naturally determine your way of thinking and the interests you want to protect. Only a few people can transcend their own class to think about how to solve most of the contradictions in this world.

In fact, the closer we get to the Internet age, the more confused people’s identity becomes, to the point that even spiritual capitalists have emerged.

Of course, these words are just Ling Wu Ji repeating what others have said.

However, after the relationship between the two finally became like this, Awashima Seri thought about it and finally decided to resign to Reiji Munakata.

To interpret it using Ling Wuji’s words, it probably means that no matter how much she wants to save the world, as Ling Wuji’s partner, she will not be recognized by more people, so basically she can only do this behind the scenes, or in other words, not make her relationship with Ling Wuji public. Although she doesn’t want to admit it, she doesn’t think she can do it without that identity.

So she finally decided that.

“Although I had expected this day to come, I didn’t expect it to be so early. I thought you would at least wait until he graduated.”

Reiji Munakata calmly adjusted his glasses, then took the resignation letter from Awashima Seri and said.

Apparently, Awashima Seri was not as calm as she had imagined towards Reiji Munakata, with whom she had experienced the incident together and who also met Ling Wuzhi at almost the same time. Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, if she had to choose between these two people, Reiji Munakata would be the more suitable one.

Although Reisi Munakata looks more like a so-called ascetic than Ling Wuzhi.

Of course, he didn’t really have any intention of falling in love.

However, hearing Reiji Munakata’s almost teasing words, Awashima Seri’s face only blushed slightly, and then she thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and said: “Director, if Japan falls into chaos in the future…”

“Is that what he wants to do?” Reiji Munakata said when he heard her ask that.

“It’s better to say that he has already started to do that. Even if he doesn’t intervene personally, the next thing will probably develop in that direction according to the established trajectory.”

“So, are you worried that I can’t handle that kind of situation? In that case, why don’t you stay and continue to help me? I don’t think he is a narrow-minded man.” Reiji Munakata had no intention of exploring the deeper meaning behind Ling Wuzhi’s actions, or why the situation would definitely collapse as Awashima Seri said. He just looked at his former deputy calmly and said.

“From my personal standpoint, I don’t hate working with you, the Director. Perhaps this matter really doesn’t matter to him either. However, in the future that I foresee, I am pessimistic about the limits of my abilities. So, please forgive me for running away and not being able to help you any further.”

Reiji Munakata was silent for a moment: “Even if he is standing behind you?”

“Rather, if he’s standing behind me, I can’t get involved any further. If I want to realize my wish, I have to rely on his power. It’s like a vicious circle.”

Awashima Seri also just sighed calmly.

“In that case, then I wish you happiness in the future?”

Reiji Munakata finally said this.

Presumably, he had heard something about Ling Wuji’s private life. He knew that with that person’s current messy emotional state, it was not known who he would marry in the future, although it was more likely that he would not even get married and just live in such a mess. So he did not ask about those things. He simply wished the first clan member to become the Blue Queen, and simply let her go.

And Awashima Seri hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not hand over the information that Ling Wuzhi gave her to Munakata Reiji.

Although according to Ling Wuzhi, it was compensation to Munakata Reisi.

To compensate him for kidnapping the outstanding staff member, Awashima Seri.

Although saying this makes it seem like Awashima Seri has become a commodity.

However, she was also aware of the strange friendship between the two men, so she did not raise any objections to it, not to mention that Ling Wuzhi also gave her the decision on whether to pass the information to Reiji Munakata.

The information did not describe any outstanding staff members, as that would be suspicious of human trafficking. In fact, what was written in the information was actually an idea that Ling Wuji had mentioned a long time ago, which was to use stone slabs as a filter in the Shinto system, thereby turning the royal power into a living god.

According to Ling Wu Ji, many parts of the information are his own subjective conjectures. Of course, if someone else came from the orthodox mystical side, they might be able to find and solve problems in the process of practice, thereby verifying the feasibility and infeasibility of those subjective conjectures. However, Munakata Reiji is not someone who came from the orthodox mystical side. To him, this information is more likely to be like a poison. If Awashima Seri chooses to give him this information and he chooses to accept it, Ling Wu Ji will choose to give the Dresden Slate to the young man and let him control the slate.

But in the end, Seri Awashima did not choose to do so.

She knew very well that with Reiji Munakata’s personality, there was no need for him to choose to reject the information.

But according to her experience of working with him, this information is not something that can make him stronger, but more likely to be the poison that leads to his destruction, because he is just like Ling Wuji, the kind of person who is extremely proud. They only believe in themselves, make their own decisions, and then lead the events themselves. So even if there are any problems in the process, he will never ask Ling Wuji for help, and will drag himself into the abyss of destruction step by step.

Needless to say, future circumstances will only continue to force him down that path.

But Awashima Seri did not want to see his destruction, so she finally decided to conceal the existence of the information and did not mention the idea of ​​handing over the Dresden Slate to Munakata Reiji. She knew very well that once the slate was really handed over to him, he might not be able to deal with the covetousness of others, whether it was the Green King, the Silver King, or even the Colorless King, they might all attack him. Although she did not think she was so important in Scepter 4, in the current situation of internal and external troubles, it is better to have less trouble than more.

While Seri Awashima was packing her personal belongings, her colleagues were still wondering what had happened. Finally, someone came over to ask her after she had almost finished packing. Seri Awashima replied casually, “I quit.” This sentence immediately caused an uproar among her colleagues. After all, even if you put aside her beautiful appearance and amazing figure, she was the only female among the core cadres of Scepter 4, a bright spot among thousands of flowers.

Moreover, as the clan of the Blue King, is there any such thing as resignation?

So the rest of the people came to find out the reason.

“why?”

“Yes, Deputy Director, why are you resigning for no reason? Is it because you hate Fushimi too much?”

“Hey! You guy!”

Awashima Seri just shook her head calmly, without showing too much emotion. She even looked a little too indifferent. “It’s just for some personal reasons.”

“Personal reasons?”

The colleagues all looked at each other, and then they all thought of that aspect and asked, “Do you have a boyfriend?”

Awashima Seri nodded: “You can say that.”

“Damn it! Who on earth dares to kidnap our Scepter 4’s supreme Ice Queen!”

Seeing that Awashima Seri was about to leave, some people obviously couldn’t hold back and started to tell Awashima Seri the nicknames they had discussed in private in front of Awashima Seri, completely ignoring her extremely cold eyes. It seemed that in their eyes, Awashima Seri no longer had the power to punish them, not to mention that for some special people, Awashima Seri’s punishment could be said to be what they wanted.

At this time, only Fushimi Saruhiko next to him showed a thoughtful look.