After the sunset, drizzle began to fall from the sky, bringing a chill to the twilight city at night.

Kino finished his day's work, got up, made a cup of tea, and stood in front of the window listening to the rain to relieve his fatigue.

It's almost night, neither Solandel nor Lorna has come back, and they don't know where they went to play.

Kino wasn't worried at all. His line and auxiliary rope were very calm, which meant that Solandel was not in any danger. Maybe it was just that the palace had been holding back for a long time and it was just a bit playful to come here.

Kino stretched out his fingers, picked up the apple on the table with telekinesis, washed it with water, put it in front of his lips and took a bite.

This was picked from Solandel's apple tree, as sweet as ever.

Kino silently bit into the apple, enjoying the feeling of dopamine secretion due to the sweetness.

"Squeak--" At this moment, the office door opened, and the cool evening breeze blew in, and suddenly there was a chill in winter.

Kino looked back, his chewing movement froze, and the curve of his lips quickly collapsed.

I saw Solandel standing alone outside the door, water drops constantly dripping from her hair, across her pale face, and falling on her soaked clothes. Her body was dirty, with carbon black mineral ash and some

Dry soil, sawdust from factories... The whole person is like a dirty little kid living on the street, and there is no way to connect her with the former Ninth Princess.

The mist and rain were falling, and the twilight was dim. Solandel's figure was lonely and helpless, as if she had been abandoned by the whole world. Her delicate body could not stop trembling, and her tears fell down like broken pearls, and there were water droplets on her face.

They are all mixed together, making it difficult to tell which ones are rain and which ones are tears.

There was a faint bitterness in his mouth, and Kino found it difficult to swallow, so he spit out the half-chewed apple chunks into the trash can.

Kino walked up to Solandel and stretched out his hand to her, but it hesitated in mid-air for a while.

Finally, he put his hand on Solandel's dirty little face and gently wiped away the dirt for her.

Kino's thin lips were pressed into a parallel line, and there was no expression on his face. He didn't know what happened to Solandel, and he didn't know what to say.

In the end, all the confusion converged into the processor's exclusive language: "name."

"Huh?..." Solandel looked at him with tears in her eyes, her voice was like the low voice of a deer.

Kino: "Tell me the name of the person who makes you cry."

Sorandel sobbed and shook her head, leaned gently into Kino's arms, and hugged his waist helplessly. Her sobs became more and more rapid, like a child having a nightmare, and her thin shoulders kept shaking.

As soon as the tears overflowed, they seeped into Kino's clothes, bringing a sympathetic warmth.

Processors who pursue the supreme art feel confused for the first time in their lives and don't know how to deal with it.

A person without the ability to empathize will have his blood lose its temperature long ago.

Kino could only recall the books he had read and think about what people in those famous books would do if they encountered such a thing.

"The Thorn Birds", "Gone with the Wind", "Jane Eyre", "La Traviata"...

In the end, every book told him - hug him back.

Kino stretched out his hand, hugged Solandel in his arms, gently rubbed her cheek with his fingers, and wiped away her tears.

"When I grow up, I will change the world..." Solandel's vague voice came. She was still sobbing, but her determination seemed to carry some kind of scorching temperature.

"I want everyone to be able to eat and wear warm clothes, so that no one will ever be hungry or cold again."

"I want everyone to have a home, a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and no one will be displaced again."

"I want the code to treat the upper and lower classes equally, the personality of the weak will not be trampled on, and there will be no more oppression and exploitation in this world."

"I want everyone... to live with dignity!"

...

That night, Solandel developed a high fever, reaching 40 degrees Celsius. She was so feverish that she fell into bed and couldn't open her eyes.

Kino fed her a lot of top-notch medicines redeemed by the respect system, and even gave her a dose of Phoenix serum, but it still didn't make her better, so she had to hire the best doctor in the city overnight to treat her.

After the doctor came out of Solandel's room, Lorna who was outside the door hurried up to ask: "How is it? What disease is it?"

The old doctor shook his head: "Nothing wrong."

Lorna was so anxious that she grabbed his collar and kept shaking him: "How can you not wake up when you are not sick? Don't be a quack! If you misjudge the illness and harm her, I will drop you from a height of 10,000 meters.

!”

"Lorna." Kino stepped forward and pulled Lorna away, and asked in a deep voice, "Doctor, it's impossible to have such a high fever if you're not sick. What's going on?"

The doctor sighed and said: "When I say she is not sick, I mean that she has not contracted any external disease such as a cold. The reason why she has such a high fever is that her mood is extremely unstable. In layman's terms, it is because of her heart failure."

She suffered a mental injury, which led to coma and high fever. Did she suffer any blows recently?"

Kino didn't know what the two men were doing during the day, and Lugo's spies weren't omnipotent. They hadn't received the order to conduct control in advance, so it was impossible to know everything.

Moreover, after Solandel came back, she said a lot of strange things, saying that she wanted to change the world and so on. This was obviously what happened, and Kino could only ask Lorna with his eyes.

Lorna shrank her head and said, "It shouldn't be. We just went to the slums to play, and our wallet was stolen. Then we split up to catch the thief. We made an appointment to return home before evening, no matter whether we were caught or not...

"And I just saw that Solan had a wallet in his pocket, and there was not a single monthly coin missing. Now that I have recovered everything, what kind of blow can this have..."

Lorna couldn't explain why, so Kino asked the doctor for advice: "What should we do next?"

The doctor warned the two of them to be calm: "This phenomenon is only temporary. She only needs to get enough rest. There is no need to worry. If she has nightmares at night and cannot sleep well, you can give her some sedative drugs to help her recover as soon as possible. This

It’s a prescription.”

Chino took the prescription, which contained very conventional sedative herbs, but some of them have been proven to be slightly toxic by modern medicine.

Kino was very professional when it came to pharmacology. He kept the prescription and was not going to find the medicine according to what was written on it. Instead, he was going to exchange it for non-toxic sedatives from the respect system.

Of course, the salary cannot be less. He handed over a small bag of silver moon and said: "It's troublesome to call you here so late."

"It is my honor to serve you, Lord Administrator!" The doctor took the money bag with fear.

Lorna scratched the back of her head, nodded hard to the doctor and tapped her chest: "I'm sorry, doctor, I was very anxious just now and said some things that I shouldn't have said. Don't worry about it."

"No, no, I hope your friends will recover soon." The doctor left respectfully.

Chino went to the office to prepare the medicine and walked into the room with Lorna.

Solandel was lying on the bed, her eyes were closed tightly, her lips were pale and bloodless, sweat appeared on her forehead from time to time, her breathing was sometimes weak, sometimes rapid, and she slept very uneasily.

Moreover, her right fist was clenched tightly, and she seemed to be holding something in her palm.

Kino wanted to take it out and have a look, but she held it too tightly, as if it was something more important than life, and she didn't let go even in a coma.

If you want to force it out, you have to break off her fingers.

In desperation, Kino could only give up temporarily. He gently pinched Solandel's face and administered sedative medicine. Her condition improved a little and she began to fall into a deep sleep, but his fist did not loosen at all.
Chapter completed!