At the same time (?), at eight o'clock in the evening in the real world, in the stone pillar forest of the Red Sea in Africa, inside the Dawn's living module.
Elaine is packing his luggage and stuffing all the necessities for a long journey into a small backpack. He plans to set off tomorrow morning, leave the Dawn, leave Africa, and go to the legendary lost city-Yat
Lantis.
The door to the room behind him was opened, and several golden scarab golems brought a bag of changes of clothes.
"Please check the clothes you ordered." Eve, the Dawn's artificial intelligence navigation system, said.
"Thank you." The white lion boy took a look at the bag and saw several sets of white short-sleeved tops and shorts that fit his figure. These were clothes that were automatically synthesized by the Dawn using air and seawater, and were synthesized with it.
The process of food is very similar. The fabric of clothing is similar to cotton. It feels dry, flat and reassuring, but it always feels a little thinner.
"White, is it white..." Elaine saw the color of the clothes and whispered: "No, it can't be red or black...or at least gray?"
"Sorry." Eve replied: "Generating dye requires a more complex synthesis system, which consumes too much power. With the current energy supply status of the ship, it will take about three days to synthesize it."
"Ming, I understand, then there's no need." Elaine replied: "White is fine, too."
He couldn't wait three days. He couldn't bear to wait one more day here. Even if the pain on his body had not fully healed, he knew he had to set off.
"Why do you need to dye your clothes that dark color?" a voice asked.
Elaine was still thinking about things and was in a distracted state, so he answered without thinking: "Cover, cover the blood stains...the white ones are easy to stain."
"Blood stains? Whose blood stains, meow?" Seifer poked his head out of the door curiously: "Could it be Elaine's blood stains, right? Where are you going, and what dangerous things are you doing, meow?"
The white lion boy's whole body was touched. He didn't expect that it was Leopard Seifer who asked him the question, nor did he expect that the words he said absently would be noticed by the other party.
"No, it's nothing."
"No need to hide it, meow." Seifer walked into the room and saw the luggage behind Elaine: "Are you planning to leave the Dawn, meow? Set off tomorrow, meow?"
"Well, well..." Elaine replied hesitantly, originally not intending to tell anyone, but just wanted to leave quietly.
"He ran away without saying a word, and he also wanted to do something dangerous that would get him hurt, meow..." the leopard man young man muttered, "This is too unruly, meow. Could it be because of the duel this morning?"
Things are angry with us, right?"
"No, it's not." The white lion boy replied.
"That's right. Why are you doing this? Meow. If you want to leave, at least talk to us. Meow. If you have any difficulties, at least talk to us and let us help you. Meow. You want to leave us alone to solve the problem, but you don't care at all.
Let us be your friends, meow."
"...No...I just...I..."
"Okay, it seems like you have something to hide, so I won't force you to tell it, meow." Sefer shook his head and said, "And I advise you not to go...it seems impossible, meow. So at least, let me
Let’s give you a farewell, meow.”
"Really, there's really no need." Elaine declined. She always felt that the farewell party Seifer mentioned was very troublesome. It might be a party and a banquet. In that case, Elaine would have no choice but to leave quietly.
.Maybe you will be dissuaded, maybe you won’t be able to leave even if you want to, and the matter will keep dragging on.
Seeing the confused look on the white lion boy's face, Sefer smiled bitterly and said: "It's really just an ordinary farewell party. We'll accompany you to the bar for a drink or something. I won't delay you for a long time. Even if you are
If you want to leave, you don’t need to leave in the dark tonight, meow. Let’s get drunk and sleep well today, and then leave tomorrow, okay?”
Indeed, the difference is only a matter of a few hours. And indeed, leaving without even attending Seifer's farewell banquet is tantamount to rejecting the kindness of others.
Even now, Elaine still retains the cowardice in his heart. What he fears most is being hated by others.
"Just for a moment." He hummed.
"Very good, let's go then, meow." Unexpectedly, Sefer immediately came over and put his arm around Elaine's shoulders, dragging him away directly.
Twenty minutes later, in a karaoke room in the old city of Cairo.
"It always feels good, so deserted..." When the white lion boy entered and exited this entertainment facility, he noticed that there were not many people coming in and out, which felt strange.
"You haven't heard of Meow?" Segled, who was accompanying him, said: "That [storm] is expected to arrive in Cairo tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and the entire city may be destroyed by then. Meow. The Egyptian government has already mobilized all the troops.
The warships are coming to evacuate the citizens near Cairo. Now the residents of the rich areas are boarding the ship first. It will probably be the turn of the residents of the old city tomorrow morning, and then the residents of the slums will be evacuated. So tonight the citizens of Egypt
We are all preparing to clean up the things, so not many people will come out to play, right?"
"Then you——"
"I booked a room here before, and I originally wanted to celebrate after the arena match." Seifer said, "Now I don't use it in vain, so I borrowed the flowers to pay homage to the Buddha."
Elaine took a glance and saw that even Queeg had been pulled over (it must have been Seglade's fault). They were the only three leopards and one lion at the scene, running into an empty karaoke bar to play. No.
Not to mention that the staff here are really professional. Even though there are no other customers in the karaoke bar, they still continue to operate normally, even though tomorrow may be the end of the world for them.
The reserved room was very luxuriously decorated. The dark room had a unique atmosphere created by various neon lights. The soft leather sofa could also make people relax. But that was all. Elaine didn't have it at this time.
He was in the mood to have fun, and he didn't even know how to sing. He just came here to accompany others.
"What do you want to drink? Juice? Beer? Or soda?" Seifer asked after Elaine sat down, already busy flipping through the playlist.
"Whatever, just... soda." Elaine replied.
"Ha, Dad and his friends happen to have a cooperative relationship with this karaoke bar for their Photon Coke. It seems that they can get a discount," said Seglade, "I'll go talk to them. You guys have fun eating."
"
Then he went out, leaving Elaine in the room with Queeg and Seifer.
Queeg glanced at Elaine, reached for the peanuts on the plate on the coffee table to eat, without saying anything. Elaine also smiled awkwardly, and a drop of sweat broke out on his forehead.
"I originally booked the luxurious hall and planned to invite everyone to come and play together. But no one wanted to come." Seifer started to complain after singing a good song: "Mr. Bedivere and Dad went over to deal with it."
About that storm, meow. I told Lawrence and the others. They also said that the storm was coming and it was very dangerous, so they refused to leave the Dawn. In the end, we were the only ones willing to come and play, but we want to have fun tonight, meow."
Elaine kept murmuring in her heart. How can it be possible to have all the fun? He has not yet gotten over the sadness of losing Leo, and he still has to worry about how to conquer Atlantis. A lot of things have already made him irritable and restless.
, why bother playing.
But as the music started playing, everything changed.
"What, what is this?" Elaine frowned as she listened to the wild and loud rock music that made her eardrums hurt.
"I'm giving you a way to vent, meow." Seifer handed over the microphone: "Isn't the proud skill of your lion-man transformation a roaring meow? Then roar it out, let it out, meow. Let out all the resentment and dissatisfaction in your heart.
All vented through roaring, this is death rock."
Elaine was hesitant to get the microphone. It was crazy.
"We are the only ones here, and this karaoke bar has perfect soundproofing equipment. No matter how hard you sing, no one will hear you." Seifer put the microphone into Elaine's hand.
The white lion boy trembled and took the microphone.
Unpleasant.
The loud music made him unhappy. Sefer's obsessive attitude made him unhappy. Leo's death made him unhappy. King Arthur's broken promise made him unhappy. The Round Table Trial was a scam and it made him unhappy. The darkness in this room
The lighting effects were unpleasant to him. The vibrating air was unpleasant to him. The apocalyptic atmosphere was unpleasant to him.
He roared angrily, half-shouting and half-singing in a hellishly deep voice. The lyrics were so vague that only he knew them, and others couldn't understand them at all.
"
My name is Elaine!
From the deepest depths of purgatory!
A place without redemption!
It's so dark that even daylight can't reach it!
There is only a glimmer of light at the end of the darkness!
So I climbed up, climbed up, towards the end of the light!
Hell is cold and dark!
Deadly silent!
So I scream, scream, scream again!
To break that suffocating loneliness!
This is an unknown place!
This is an unknown place!
Here I watch quietly!
I am shouting silently here!
Shout for the end of the world that you can’t imagine!
Everything in this world!
Unfair and unreasonable!
Full of hypocrisy and ignorance!
Let them all die!
Then I screamed, I screamed!
Crush it all!
Pray for the liberation of my soul!
There is no redemption at all!
There is no redemption at all!
Want to rely on others for salvation,
It’s better to redeem yourself!
There is no redemption at all!
There is no redemption at all!
With hands covered with blood and mud,
Climb to the end of that light!
Redeem yourself!
"
He roared a long paragraph that no one could understand. When the noisy song ended and everything became silent again, in front of him were the surprised and dumbfounded Seifer, Seglade and Que
grid.
"You, your lyrics, meow..." At this time, Seifer handed Elaine the small tablet computer that was originally used to display the lyrics, but it was meaningless. The song had already been sung, and Elaine did not sing according to the lyrics.
Completely improvised.
"I'm sorry." The white lion boy replied in a hoarse voice.
"No, that's... awesome, meow." Sefer said intermittently, not having recovered from the shock just now: "I don't understand what you are singing at all, meow. But, um, it's very wild.
, very powerful, meow..."
"So," Queeg looked at Elaine intently: "Have you vented it?"
Elaine was silent for a long time, and then suddenly said something evil: "This ugly song is as rubbish as the pig food you made. My ears are dirty when I hear it. Who is this mentally retarded author?"
Does he really understand music?"
Knowing that Elaine was just venting, everyone showed awkward yet polite smiles.
Elaine picked up a bottle of drink on the table and drank it in one gulp: "This Coke tastes like urine."
"Uh, that's my beer cat." Seglade said, and it was too late to stop Elaine.
"Huh..." Due to the influence of alcohol, the white lion boy began to feel that the world was spinning: "It's spinning... it's spinning, hahahahahaha..."
The scene in front of him began to darken, and he gradually lost track of what he was doing.