Walking up the stairs along the near-dark passageway, Hotaru followed the spiral staircase towards the top of the city walls. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Unlike when the sun and the beast tide were fighting, the city walls were quiet, only the occasional sound of the footsteps of the patrolling soldiers could be heard, the snow covered the stone walls, piled up with ice, and a soldier patrolling with pyroxene lamps saw the figure of the silver-haired girl in the snow, he rubbed his eyes, looked again, but found nothing, and couldn't help but wonder if he was too tired and hallucinated.

Hotaru walked slowly in the direction of the contract sense, and it didn't take long for her to see her master.

The glow of the sky had completely faded, and the clouds of the blizzard were gathering over the fortress, and the black-haired warriors stood on the edge of the city walls, looking out at the white mountains and black forests in the distance.

Originally, Hotaru wanted to happily go up to say hello and tell Joshua that she had brought the armor, but after seeing his eyes, the silver-haired girl couldn't help but slow down, hold her breath, and approach gently.

Because those eyes were full of longing.

Master, what are you longing for?

This is a question that has been hidden in her heart for a long time, and since she was pulled out of the sealing room, Hotaru has had such doubts from time to time.

Slay the enemy, reclaim the territory, set out from the main city of Moldavia, gallop all the way to the fortress, kill the golden beasts to disperse the demons, then rush to Moldova to defeat the beast tide and help others defend the city...... In the midst of the exuberant battles and killings, countless people cheered and appreciated his arrival, offering worship and trust.

Is there anything to aspire to for a warrior? Isn't that the extreme?

No matter how much he guessed, it was useless, and if he had doubts, he asked, Hotaru slowly approached Joshua, and then stood behind him.

She asked softly, "Master...... What are you thinking about right now? ”

What is it that keeps you from sleeping, but stands on the city wall in the dark, bearing the cold wind, looking at the mountains covered with frost and snow in the distance?

"Hotaru...... You're back. ”

Qiao Shuya, who had already noticed the approach of the silver-haired girl, answered after she finished asking, and then fell into a long silence and did not answer the girl's doubts.

The blizzard filled the sky, the bitter howling wind did not stop, and there was silence between the two of them on the noisy and quiet city wall.

This time is so long, it has made Bai Xue cover the upper of her shoes, and has made Han Bing frown, just when Hotaru thought that she would not get an answer and was about to stay where she was, accompanying her master in a daze, she unexpectedly heard a voice ringing in her ears.

"I guess I want to fight."

The voice came from Joshua, who was still looking into the distance, the goose-feather snow fell on his body, the cloak was blown to the sound of hunting, and the warrior stood in the bone-chilling north wind, and said lightly: "Maybe it's longing." ”

got an answer, but the silver-haired Miss Shenji was even more puzzled, and Hotaru couldn't help but ask, "But why?" Master, you're not me, and you don't exist as a weapon......"

"I want to fight, I hope you can use me more to fulfill the responsibility and meaning of my existence, because I was born for this, but you are human."

As she spoke, she remembered the broken weapons in the fortress, the weary soldiers, the houses that had lost their owners along the roadside, and the blood-soaked armor and steel wreckage.

Although it is not suitable for a weapon, everyone travels thousands of miles to make their homeland better, and as a human being, you should not be so eager to fight...... It's against nature.

The last sentence, Hotaru didn't say, but it has come to this point, and there is no need to say more.

Joshua was silent slightly, but did not immediately answer this question.

Looking up, the snow on his black hair fell, and he looked at the sky, although the clouds were still there, and the moonlight was gone, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the clouds and look directly at the starlight in the sky.

Later, he said to himself, "Human nature is different. ”

Wearing a hunting suit covered with snow and a cloak of condensed frost and snow, Joshua slowly turned around, he looked directly into the eyes of his weapon, and said seriously, "Hotaru...... Not everyone is born to enjoy peace and happiness, there are always some people who do not belong to stability, but to war and fighting. ”

"Without such people to fight, without people like me, how can we protect this world and create peace?"

This time it was Hotaru's turn to be silent, and her brow furrowed on her beautiful face, as if she was thinking about her master's answer, which was still a little too difficult for her.

The black-haired warrior stood on top of the city wall, looking at his feet, the traces of the demonic beast climbing were everywhere, he could still vaguely smell the smell of some blood in the cold wind, and the smell of gunpowder explosion and burning had penetrated deep into the city wall, occasionally oozing a little, floating in the air.

Hotaru's sudden question brought back some memories of the past, and Joshua recalled his life before he crossed over.

In his previous life, he was born in an ancient and simple gym, his mother died of illness when he was young, and his father, who was the owner of the martial arts hall, grew up with him, and the stern middle-aged man didn't know how to care about his child, he only knew how to treat him in the harshest way.

As the heir of the future martial arts hall, Joshua learned everything about fighting people in that ancient gym, and as a place to pass on the art of killing, he couldn't touch it, and he didn't need to touch anything else.

Exercise your body, build strength, then learn to control power, learn to build up superimposed power, and learn to use that power...... There were too many, whether it was the technique of killing people and infiltrating, or the technique of fighting on horseback, or the technique of using all weapons, he had learned it in that not very wide dojo garden.

Although the training was extremely hard, it was extremely interesting for him, and Joshua seemed to have been born for it, and it didn't take long for his father to have little to teach him, but he was still not satisfied.

In order to understand the structure and vital points of the human body, weaknesses and blind spots, Joshua even asked his father to hire a medical professor to teach him to study human medicine, to understand what combat is from the most modern and scientific perspective, and how to defeat, knock down, and even kill the enemy as quickly as possible.

Because of his passion for fighting, he was so hungry to learn all the knowledge, training day and night, honing his body, and even at the age of seventeen, he defeated his father and inherited the position of the hall master, and the stern man also smiled with relief in bitterness, watching his child surpass himself with the knowledge he had passed down.

For Joshua, the battle was so wonderful, it was the highest collection of human beings, it was the integration of everything that was human - whatever it was, human feelings, will, ideals, future, intelligence, technology, strength, and soul.

In order to carry out one's own thoughts or wills, one fights, which is an activity that blocks and merges everything that one has, and one uses it to distinguish who is stronger.

But for Joshua at that time, everything he learned was meaningless, because it was already a great contemporary, and the original era of martial arts and war had ended, and there would never be any more, and mankind had entered a golden and brilliant age of peace, and without fighting and hard work, he could realize his dreams and get everything he wanted......

For human beings, this is such happiness.

But for him, how desperate.