Lorenzo has always felt that he is an omnipotent person, from killing monsters to saving the world to helping neighbors repair water pipes... It can be said that Lorenzo has always felt that he is a very omnipotent person.
But unfortunately, many people cannot see their own flaws, even Lorenzo. Just like now, after living for so many years, it was not until this moment that Lorenzo suddenly realized that he was dealing with this kind of emotion.
The question is how new and ignorant you are.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
Lorenzo let out bursts of shrill screams, like a girl who had been molested... But the question is, is this role reversed?
Seleu looked at Lorenzo with a smile. Normally, this smile seemed no different, but now it seemed that Lorenzo only felt a chill from it.
It's over, it's all over.
He tried his best to shrink back, but when he thought that his office was so big, he had nowhere to hide, not to mention that he still had a leg injury. Even if he tried to run away now, he seemed to be unable to escape.
Seleu!
Looking back now, looking at Seleu's smile, Lorenzo's heart was beating violently, as if he had stepped into a trap.
damn thing!
Lorenzo cursed angrily in his heart. Sure enough, this guy would definitely be up to no good if he came here. What made Lorenzo even more confused was that based on his understanding of Seleu, since she said so, he must do a good job.
Completely prepared.
Even if I run out of the office now, the whole street might be guarded by Seleu's people. In the old Dunling area, the Stuart family is more powerful than myself!
There was a feeble groan in his heart, and Lorenzo grabbed the blanket and pillow and threw it at Seleu with grief and anger. In fact, he didn't know why he did this, but he followed his instinct and started swinging it.
He fell awkwardly to the ground, then struggled to get up, and jumped hard on one leg. He jumped two steps before falling again.
Seliu kept his trademark smile and sat there, watching Lorenzo's performance.
Lorenzo's restlessness reminded her of the hounds she kept. These furry things would always become particularly excited at certain times. When they were excited, they could not even control their bodies. They would slip on their feet and knock over random things.
, like a hurricane passing through the living room.
Lorenzo was like a panicked dog at the moment. He was so excited that he couldn't even think normally.
Finally, he occupied a position that he thought was safe, and he picked up his cane and held it in front of him, trying to give himself a little sense of security. However, with his rude appearance, he was not facing a hateful demon, but a seemingly evil monster.
A girl who is much skinnier than Lorenzo.
The picture became even more comical.
"What's wrong with you?" Seliu asked.
"No, no, no, this is too sudden, this is too sudden..."
Lorenzo started rambling incoherently. If he were a machine, he would be overloaded by now.
Sometimes the world is so strange. A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood may not be able to break a person's heart, but a casual word can catch him off guard.
"Didn't you realize this very early? I don't think Mr. Lorenzo Holmes is stupid enough to do this."
Seliu kept smiling, his smile trembling faintly under his cold face, as if he couldn't help it.
In a daze, Seliu suddenly realized something. She found that she could actually derive indescribable pleasure from Lorenzo's panic.
"No, no, no, this is different, different!"
Lorenzo spoke quickly. Of course he knew Seleu's intentions, but he had been able to excuse himself by using the excuse of eradicating the demon before.
At that time, he really didn't think there would be any results. One was a desperado who was an enemy of demons, and the other was the heir to a duke with huge power and wealth...now the duke.
The two are like people from two different worlds, so Lorenzo never promises anything and uses this reason that has been used many times to distract Seleu.
After all, I don’t know when I will die on the roadside?
But...but!
Who would have thought that Lorenzo could really eradicate the demons? What the heroes of the Demon Hunting Order have failed to accomplish, Lorenzo managed to do it!
It may be that the ecstasy brought by this great achievement went to Lorenzo's mind. He had never thought about these messy things until now Seleu mentioned it again.
He...has no reason anymore.
"What's the difference."
Seleu didn't move, but her words pressed forward step by step. Looking at Lorenzo's reaction, she enjoyed this sense of dominance.
Lorenzo also realized this, and thought sadly that Seleu had indeed learned a lot at the negotiation table.
"This...this is like a terminal illness!"
Lorenzo yelled.
Here begins Lorenzo's wonderful metaphor.
"It's like a terminal illness. Everyone knows it, but they won't tell it, so they keep it hidden from the patient, right?"
"But now that a treatment has been found, what's the point of saying it?"
Lorenzo was stunned, unable to argue with Seleu, and completely shut down.
His whole body collapsed, and he sat on the same spot, leaning on his cane in his arms, looking dejected.
"So, Lorenzo, what are you afraid of?"
Along with the sound of words came the sound of Seleu's footsteps. She stood in front of Lorenzo, then squatted down, so close that Lorenzo could hear her breathing.
"Don't be silent, speak out."
Seleu was very patient, just as Lorenzo expected. If Lorenzo had just broken out of the door, he would see some familiar figures and then hold him back. This unlucky guy would have nowhere to escape.
"It's so... so strange, Seleu."
After a long silence, Lorenzo finally calmed down and spoke slowly.
"What's strange?"
"All of this, all of this."
Lorenzo thought for a moment and continued.
"The first half of my life...well, I can't remember it clearly because of the damn antimeme, but it wasn't very good anyway. The time I can barely remember was full of bad things."
Lorenzo murmured.
"demon……"
Strange yet familiar vocabulary.
"The devil is like a shadow, accompanying me all my life...like a bad, persistent lover."
He made terrible jokes and even laughed at himself.
"I know many things, Seleu."
Lorenzo said as he raised his calloused hand and shook it hard, feeling a burst of strength from it.
He is much weaker than when he was a demon hunter, but he can still hold the sword and swing it.
"Murder and arson, robbery and theft, protection and assassination... No matter whether the opponent is a human or a monster, I can do it very well and I can be called an expert.
I am such a nearly omnipotent person. After all, if I am not omnipotent, I will die on that terrible battlefield."
After Lorenzo finished speaking, he paused for a long time, and Seleu waited. The distance between the two was very close, and she could hear the thumping sound of Lorenzo's heartbeat.
"Yes, these are all necessities for fighting monsters, but there is only one thing that is the least needed and the cheapest."
"What?"
"emotion."
Lorenzo said this word and exhaled a turbid breath. For a moment, his whole person felt an indescribable sense of relief.
"Demon hunters don't need emotions, so this kind of thing doesn't exist. Even if there are signs of it, it will be suppressed."
"You don't look like an emotionless person now."
Seleu said, reaching out his hand and pinching Lorenzo's face.
"Yeah, but... this thing is still too strange to me, so strange... it's like facing a demon for the first time. Of course, I can't remember the specific situation, but I think that at that time
I should be the same as I am now.
Frightened, uneasy, and at a loss.”
Lorenzo said what he wanted to say, and yes, it was frightening. Lorenzo Holmes, who ended the demons, was not good at this at all, or in other words, he was not good at facing this honestly and sincerely.
He is a cunning fraudster. If he were asked to deceive someone's feelings, Lorenzo felt that he would do a good job, but the premise of all this is that it is all false.
But now it has become real, and the other party is Seleu. If the other party is a random passerby, Lorenzo can deceive her and then run away in a hurry, but the other party is Seleu.
No matter what the reason, Lorenzo could not tease Seleu at will.
However, with Lorenzo's divergent nerves, he was also thinking about what would happen if he really teased him. Then he thought about whether he had a chance to escape from Old Dunling alive under Duke Stuart's wrath... No,
Escape from Cork Street is a victory.
"Actually, this thing is not that complicated."
Seleu held up Lorenzo's face with his hands, interrupting Lorenzo's whimsical thoughts and forcing him to look at him.
"You just need to follow your heart, don't make any excuses, and say what you want to say."
"say what?"
"Whatever you need to say, say it to me."
Ah...what are you talking about?
Lorenzo didn't know how long he had been silent this time. His eyes gradually wandered away and looked out the window at the noisy streets.
Today, many people are working hard to live. People come and go, rushing to different destinations, and then have their own families, their own wives and children, grow old, and watch their children grow, die, and then be reborn...
This is what the world is like, what everyone is like, and now Lorenzo is one of them.
For a moment, Lorenzo felt the so-called "life" deeply, and then there was a slight pain on his face.
Seliu kept smiling, but the hand holding Lorenzo's face was exerting slight force, twisting Lorenzo's face like a doll.
"It hurts! I said it! I said it!"
Feeling the pressure on his face gradually lessening, Lorenzo felt that it was time to change his habit of being distracted.
ah……
What should I say? Lorenzo knew what Seleu was thinking, and he also knew that the reason he used to send her away no longer existed, and in every sense, we were all brothers who had lived and died together...
Indeed, some things should come to an end, just like monsters, just like Oscar's stories, just like everything in front of us.
"I think……"
When the words came to his lips, Lorenzo felt a pressure he had never felt before, as if a bunch of hands were blocking his mouth, and some were ready to stuff it into his throat to prevent him from speaking.
He tried his best to squeeze out all the air from his lungs and said with a livid face.
"I love you too."
After speaking, Lorenzo felt that the whole world had become silent. It was not that it was silent, but that he could no longer hear.
It took a few seconds for the noisy sound to break the silence, coming like a tide and drowning Lorenzo's eardrums.
He felt like he was sweating, as if he had fought a difficult battle. He was so exhausted that his whole body was exhausted. Even his eyes were weak and fell downwards.
Soft hands gently held Lorenzo's face, preventing him from looking away, but Lorenzo's eyes kept flickering as if he was hiding something.
"Hey, are you blushing?"
A slightly mocking voice sounded, and just as Lorenzo was about to retaliate, he was hugged, and then Seleu whispered in his ear.
"Actually, it's not that difficult, right?"
Lorenzo said nothing, staring straight at the nothingness in front of him, his expression frightened and stiff. He calmed down, and then felt relieved.
He had a lot to say, but when it came to his mouth, he felt that there was no point in saying so much. There was no need for words now, only actions.
He reached out his hand and hugged Seliu cautiously and gently in the same way.
Lorenzo has been out of the shadows for a long time with the help of his friends, but this is the first time that he is moving towards a new path after coming out of the shadows.
"I... I actually want to say something touching, but rather than those words, I would rather like to say some cold jokes. Are you interested in hearing them?"
Yes, there were enough touching things, but he didn't want the next plot to turn into him and Seliu holding each other's arms, crying, and comprehending life. This would be too weird.
"Um."
Lorenzo smiled slowly on his face and his voice trembled slightly.
Oscar said that Lorenzo is actually not suitable for comedy performances, because at the critical moment, he will be amused by the joke he is about to tell, and the audience below will look inexplicable.
"I'm starting to understand Oscar."
"Understand what?"
"It feels so good to be with a rich woman."
It turned out to be bad words. Seleu smiled and pressed hard, causing Lorenzo to scream repeatedly.