Why it never ends

Chapter 426 Pain
Hesta led the three people behind her to the entrance of the underground museum. She asked Rico to wait here with Agnes, while she sneaked into the museum through another hidden ventilation fan, and then opened the door from inside.

The first time he followed Hesta into Anna's "luggage room", Rico held his breath for a moment.

Although the showroom on the Rise could be called crude, the density of collections here was far greater than that of any large museum she had seen before.Those cultural relics from different time and space are densely arranged together, and among the crowded wooden boxes, fillers and hemp ropes, one civilization is stacked on top of another.

Li Ke leaned close to Hesta's ear: "...these are... that person's 'private property'?"

Hesta nodded silently.

Li Ke was really stunned for a moment. She recalled Anna's face again, and suddenly felt that all the old impressions of this woman in the past began to loosen. Her smile and silence together formed a new image, so mysterious and so dangerous .

The four of them came to Anna's study together, and after closing the door, Hesta took off the blindfolds of the sisters.

After opening their eyes, Agnes and Meyer didn't speak for a while. Looking at the bookshelves expanding outwards, they felt a sense of quaint solemnity coming like a tsunami.Just like people always have no scruples in their own bedroom, there are other occasions in this world that cannot be tolerated - such as churches, such as cemeteries...

The study at this moment gave them such a feeling.

"...What is this place?" Meyer asked in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter," Hesta replied. "From now on, you just stay here and don't go anywhere."

Agnes finally came back to her senses, and she turned her eyes to Hesta, "If you have the ability, you can stay here and watch us, otherwise, when you leave, I will set the whole place on fire—"

Hesta laughed, "You burn, when the fire can't be controlled, everyone will die together, including your Gobelin and Rob Griller."

"...I'm going to tear up all the books you have here - all, all the books ... not a single one left -"

"I just wanted to tell you this," Hesta turned around, "There should be some ready-made sleeping equipment here, and there is a separate toilet and bathroom over there. Sleeping and washing are not a problem, but if you need clothes, medicine, For food or other things, you have to call someone to bring them to you."

Meyer looked at her with a pale face, "Why are you shouting? Someone is calling here... Can you hear it from outside?"

"Of course I can't hear it," Hesta's thumb lightly brushed across the old bookshelf beside him, "but like Agnes said just now, you can tear up books, or you can smash things outside. A certain number, someone will come out to respond to your needs—"

Agnes recalled: "...This is not your room, is it? These things... are not yours!"

Hesta shrugged, "I didn't say this place is mine either."

There was a very slight noise outside the study, Lico gestured to Hesta, indicating that he would go out and have a look, and asked Hesta to stay here first.

Hesta nodded, expressing his understanding.

Agnes's face turned from red to white: "What on earth do you want to do, do you want...you want to use our hands to destroy—"

"There is no such thing as borrowing or not," Hesta suddenly raised his voice, "I said, you can tear or smash the things here, because no matter what choice you two make, you stand on either side, you All will be given 'absolute immunity'. It's a promise in black and white that there will be no questions asked... presumably."

Agnes and Meyer were puzzled at the same time—they could understand every word Hesta said, but together they were confusing: what immunity, what promise, and where was it written in black and white...?
But Hesta obviously wouldn't explain further.

At this moment, Rico returned to the house. Hesta glanced at her and asked with her mouth: "How is it?"

Li Ke made a gesture of "no problem" and answered with mouth: "It's a cat."

She walked up to Hesta and asked softly, "Is it over, can we go?"

"Let's go."

"Wait!" Meyer said again, "Ms. Hesta... please wait..."

Li Ke looked at the corridor outside the study with some concern, and she patted Hesta on the shoulder: "I'll wait for you at the door."

Only Sister Agnes and Hesta were left in the room.

Hesta looked down slightly: "What's wrong?"

Meyer's voice trembled, "If you... want us dead, why don't you just do it directly, why do you torture us again and again—"

"You're mistaken," Hesta turned around, "I don't want you to die, and I never thought of torturing you—is that considered torture?"

"...Then why...why do you always stare at us?" Meyer summoned up her courage, looked straight into Hesta's eyes, and she slowly took a small step forward, and then another small step , "Why did you provoke the relationship between Agnes and Mr. Gobelin, why did you bring us here... If this is not your means of revenge on us, then why did you—"

"Good question, but unfortunately, I can't answer it."

Meyer froze, "...what?"

"After boarding this ship, I have met many people who made me feel absurd, and heard many words that made me laugh, whether it is the gang of thorn monks or Rob Griller, your 'Eden', Your 'survivalism', your 'doomsday shelter', what else is there 'glory of the fathers' and 'justice and equal rights'..."

Hesta's voice stopped abruptly, she frowned, but then laughed again.

"Although these things are disgusting, when put together... it's really funny."

Agnes turned even paler, and she clenched her fists, as if she had been greatly insulted.

"Only you two..." Hesta's voice sounded like a sigh, and she looked past Meyer to Agnes who was further back.

"Only the two of you." She repeated in a low voice, "Whenever I think of what you said to me in the room that day, I think of the way you spoke with certainty, your shining eyes, your passionate tone..."

It was quiet again in the study.

The two sisters and Hesta looked at each other silently. Hesta's originally expressionless face was gradually covered with a layer of contempt and disgust.

"...Every time I think about it, it makes me feel painful." Hesta murmured in a low voice, "Why is that?"

For a moment, surprise flashed across the faces of Agnes and Meyer at the same time, and Hesta had already walked out of the study, and the door closed with a "bang".

(End of this chapter)