The infirmary of the Knights of the North is, as always, equipped with a large amount of advanced medical equipment. These things are so complex and sophisticated that only Greenwell can understand how to operate more than 90% of the equipment.
The girl is checking the equipment regularly and is very busy. On this cold winter day, she is still sweating profusely from work.
Arthur drew his head back from the door.
"What are you doing? Come in quickly?" Lancelot saw Arthur's hesitation and urged him quickly.
"But......"
"What are you afraid of, cousin Arthur?" Pasiva also said at the side, "Could it be that you did something to make the young lady angry?"
Arthur muttered in his heart. You still have the nerve to tell me that the reason why Greenville is angry is obviously caused by you and Yagloi.
"Oh, you like to peek outside the door and watch ladies work, don't you?" Greenville's voice sounded from behind Arthur, scaring Arthur into a cold sweat.
"Hi, hi, Greenville. Long time no see." Arthur turned around and forced out a fake smile.
"Haha, isn't this Arthur?" Greenville's eyes swept across Arthur and others like a blade, "There is also Mr. Percival, Arthur's good cousin, they are so close that they went to a nightclub to take a bath together -
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"Uh, what?" Pasiva looked confused.
"Greenvale!" Arthur shouted with a blush, "Can we just stop mentioning this matter?"
"Okay, let's not mention it. Then, goodbye." Greenville slammed the door of the infirmary shut, and the door almost broke the bridge of Arthur's nose.
"Ouch." Arthur touched his red and swollen nose and took a step back.
"She looks really angry. What have you done?" Lancelot's face was full of complicated expressions. He seemed more like he was laughing at Arthur than anxious.
Arthur looked at Lancelot's handsome but unbeatable face and said, "Give me ten minutes. I'll persuade Greenville."
Arthur opened the door to the infirmary, walked inside, and closed the door again.
The eldest lady ignored it and continued to do the work at hand. She used various testing software to debug the operation of the machines one by one. Because many machines were running together, there was a complex noise in the room.
"Greenville." Arthur said, "To be honest, I really don't know what you are angry about. How can you forgive me?"
"I'm not angry anymore." The girl continued to work, pretending not to care, and casually agreed to Arthur's words.
"but---"
"Listen, Arthur." Greenville said, "Your two cousins are really not good people. They are all playboys. If you follow them, you will definitely learn bad things."
"I'm not a child, of course I know this kind of thing."
"Then why are you taking that Parsiva with you? You are planning to go out together to pick up girls, right? Which nightclub are you going to check out tonight to make out with girls?"
"I didn't. I'm still a virgin------"
"Oh, okay, that's true." Greenville could not judge the authenticity of Arthur's words due to the noise. She chose not to believe it at all, "You are seventeen years old and you can still retain your moral integrity.
It’s really a strange flower in this era.”
Arthur's face turned red and he turned away: "Can't you..."
"I know that every one of you men are nasty and dirty. How can you endure loneliness at the age of seventeen and not find a beautiful older sister to play with? Haha."
However, Greenville was talking about ordinary people. She didn't know that Arthur didn't have that kind of free time at all. He was only busy striving for one goal all day long.
She also didn't know that Arthur, who had no feelings of joy, didn't even know what "play" was.
Arthur has just been living like a robot, always moving forward in order to achieve a certain goal.
Arthur didn't explain. He knew that explanation would be useless. No one would understand it except himself.
The dark world in his eyes can only be seen by himself.
He sat down on the chair in the infirmary and took off his shirt: "Greenville, the last physical examination was abandoned halfway. Can you check me again?"
"What? What nonsense are you talking about? Who is going to help you -" Greenville turned her head and saw that Arthur had just taken off his leg armor, stripping off everything except one.
Pants.＂...Oh.＂
"There are complete instruments here that can thoroughly examine this body, right?" Arthur asked, "Just check it until you are satisfied. Check my body inside and out and see.
Am I as nasty as you imagined?"
"Can such a thing be found?" Greenwell smiled disdainfully.
"You are so smart, you will always find a way, right?" Arthur lay on a PCT scanner, "If you really think I am a liar, just lock me up here again."
"...Idiot." Greenville started the scanner, and the bed frame sent Arthur into the cylindrical scanner and closed it up. The machine began to use photon scanning technology to check the boy's physical condition.
Greenville does have a way to test whether Arthur is lying. And she is going to use this method.
When people lie, they inevitably show a state of nervous excitement, which is reflected in phenomena such as accelerated heartbeat and blood flow. These signals can be accurately detected by Greenwell, who has super hearing. This is the principle of Greenwell's lie detection ability.
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However, Greenwell's lie detection ability is not omnipotent. There are also scary guys in the world who can panic without blushing or gasping for breath. Even Greenwell can't do anything about such people.
However, this machine can do what Greenwell cannot do. During the scanning process, it directly scans the changes in photons in the nerves, and can detect even subtle changes. -----
-In other words, it allows liars to hide.
"...Greenvale?" Arthur asked in the machine, "Do you still want to question me?"
"Well, you asked for it." the girl said angrily, "Tell me first, did you do anything disgraceful with the women in the nightclub that night?"
She stared at the monitor closely, planning to expose Arthur the moment he lied.
"I told you, I'm still a virgin." Arthur said.
There was no excitement in his brain. He said this calmly and calmly, and what he said was completely true.
"...Then, why are you still bringing that Percival with you?" Greenville asked again, "Are you planning to go out to play again tonight?!"
"No." Arthur replied, "I took him with me because that troublesome guy in Palinloer would not let me out unless I brought an entourage with me."
Greenville was not very satisfied with this answer: "What else did you miss?"
A drop of cold sweat ran across Arthur's cheek.
Arthur lowered his voice and said helplessly: "...Do you really want to say it?"
"Speak quickly! Do you want to be locked up in this for the rest of your life?" the girl threatened.
"He was probably my first friend in childhood." Arthur said helplessly. He didn't want to tell this at first. "In those days when I... was tortured to death by my brother Gunther.
Here, the only person who has ever cared about me."
This unexpected answer surprised Greenwell. However, judging from the results displayed by the instrument, Arthur did not make up any lies.
Without warning, she touched the darkness in Arthur's heart. Only then did she realize that she knew too little about Arthur.
"...Okay." This kind of cross-examination made Greenville more and more uneasy. The darkness in Arthur's heart was deeper than she imagined.
So, she mustered up the courage to ask a question she had never dared to ask: "Arthur,...what do you think of me?"
"I don't quite understand your question?"
"I mean, do you think I'm... pretty?" Greenville couldn't help but swallow her saliva when she said this.
Arthur was silent for a while in the scanner. Greenwell was disappointed that she could not see any excitement in Arthur's nerves. She could not even see any excitement in the nervous tissue of the boy's lower body.
He doesn't like her. The answer to this question is already obvious.
"Greenville." Arthur replied calmly, "I said, I am an emotionless person. I don't understand love."
He knows what the girl is thinking. Even if he is as slow as him, he should know what the girl is thinking at this point.
"So, I don't know how to love someone either."
As always, he chose to reject others.
"Stop placing any hopes on me. People like me will only delay your happiness."
After listening to Arthur's calm narration, Greenville felt depressed. She held back her tears firmly, but her voice became very strange: "Well... I thought you were just a slow person."
That's all, I didn't expect that your heart is made of wood. Damn wooden man. After the inspection, I will let you out immediately."
Arthur, who does not know what love is, believes that he is not qualified to be loved. His soul curls up at the end of the dark and cold world, rejecting all warmth.
Although he is followed by countless lights, he doesn't know what [light] is.
------That is, the source of all the darkness in his heart.