1089 Return 1 (2/2)
Walking to the door of Celine's villa, there were specks of thick dust on the ground everywhere. The self-defense guarding system of the villa had also stopped monitoring and defending for a long time. The entire villa was dark and unusually quiet.
Reaching out his hand and with a light flicker, the door creaked open. Garen slowly entered inside.
The huge living room was pitch-black. Only the metal armor figure of an ancient knight reflected a faint silver glimmer.
The air was filled with strong dust particles.
”Sure enough, there was no one...” Garen sighed. With a thought, a cold wind instantly rolled up in the villa, promptly blowing all the dust out of the house and gathering it in a corner.
The entire villa suddenly became much cleaner.
After wandering around the villa, Garen entered the basement again and looked at the place he had constantly trained with Celine back then. It was also dusty. He gazed at the familiar furnishing, but the people had completely left. It came upon him that he had not contacted Celine for a long time. Presumably, she had completely abandoned this house.
Many years ago, Celine returned the news that Nonosiva's parents and sister had been completely settled down in the most peaceful center, the Freshwater Galaxy. Celine herself had also followed the Professor to the Freshwater Galaxy, and could only send back news once in a long time because the distance was too far away. Now that the long-distance Stargate was completely sealed off, there was absolutely no way of knowing what had happened.
”Freshwater Galaxy. Don't know how they are doing...” Garen thought of Baylon again, who was destined to become the younger brother or sister of Royal Star. If it went according to history, she might soon be returning from Four-Star Alliance.
Just when they returned, there would be an eruption of an enormous energy tide. This grand occasion was just as nice as a good opportunity for him to devour energy. Garen came back at this crucial time for this exact reason, not only for revenge.
Moving about Celine's basement, the familiar environment was still there, but the person was no longer here anymore. He himself could not escape from this vortex.
”If there is no relationship with Red Moon, no relationship with Baylon, perhaps whitewashing1 to become a pilot is also a good evasion method. Unfortunately… Life isn't so kind as to allow so many 'if's. The moment I am noticed by White King, I will absolutely be the target to be used for coercion.”
Garen left the villa. His heart was still unable to calm down.
Walking along the path toward the outside of the villa district, he finally saw a few people: three men and a woman. The three men were dragging a girl toward the darker area. Their lustful laughter was mixed with the girl's horrified crying sound. Obviously, they were not up to something good. Sure enough, the trouble that the driver mentioned was no ordinary because, among the three men, there was actually one who had Willpower fluctuation.
”Is the impact of the war really this big?”
Garen sighed.
”Even this city has decayed to such a point in just a few years' time...”
His voice traveled from far into the ears of the four people. It was calm as if the event occurring before him was irrelevant. It was like he was watching a movie with total stillness.
”Who's there!?” One of the three men pulling the girl shouted loudly and glared at Garen with a warning.
”Don't meddle in, or else...” He did not finish his sentence, but the threatening message behind it was obvious.
”Help! Save me!” The girl seemed to have found hope and cried out loudly for help. ”As long as you save me, I can give you money, Universal Units! One hundred thousand, one million! Please! Save me... ”
Pap!
The man who spoke gave her a hard smack across the face.
”Bitch, back then when I pursued you, you were unwilling and humiliated me with all kinds of way. You looked down on me, eh? What about now? Hehe!”
He grabbed the girl's hair.
”Aren't you virtuous? Aren't you a goddess? Why are you crying like this now? Didn't you look down on me? Ah! Now you know how to seek help?”
The man laughed sinisterly.
”Let go of Nolan!” In the quietness, a quivering female voice suddenly rang out from the darkness not far away.
A black-haired girl in a white tunic dress slowly walked out of the darkness. She also held a pair of high heels in her hand. Her black, clean single ponytail and her delicate, fair face gave out a simple yet elegant aura.
It was only that the girl now looked abnormally discomposed. Her forehead was slightly sweaty and her breathing was a bit too quick. It was apparent that she ran over here. Parts of the black tights on her legs were torn.
”Tesna!” The girl who was held was instantly overjoyed. ”Save me, quickly save me! These fellows are crazy!”
”Tesna, nothing concerns you here. You had better not butt in,” The man warned fiercely.
The response he received was the white dress girl doing a run-up to give him a ferocious elbow strike.
The lightning-like elbow accurately struck the tall man who had come forward from behind to block her. He was the one with Willpower, clearly the man's bodyguard.
”Spin axis!”
Tesna's elbow was blocked, but her arms suddenly straightened out, changing to a knife-hand to strike the other party's neck.
”What?” Garen viewed from his peripherals. The girl's moves faintly resembled his Twelve Flying Dragon Fist. When he taught Celine at the beginning, he did not restrict her from teaching others this fist technique. However, he only did not expect to encounter someone who knew this fist technique in this vicinity by chance.