Blue Sword

In Hearth Island, Eleanor looked at her scarred hands and gritted her teeth silently.

She tied the long sword to her hand with a piece of cloth and continued to concentrate on swinging the sword.

"Damn... why..." The right arm that wielded the sword had become numb again. She could only change the hand holding the sword to her left arm and struggled to gather her will. "It's been almost a year... and I still can't... …”

Still can't learn this extraordinary swordsmanship?

Such intermittent thoughts flashed through her extremely tired mind, and then her legs suddenly weakened and she fell sideways to the ground.

In the last blurry vision, I saw Nora running towards this side.

The second floor of the manor.

After finishing treating Eleanor who was lying on the bed, Nora sighed quietly, left the room and closed the door.

"How's it going?" Asked.

"Both physical and mental strength are exhausted." Nora said, "I need to rest for a while."

"Ask..." she hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can Ellie really learn the Indomitable Holy Sword?"

"I don't know." Ask said, "No one can be sure that he can learn any extraordinary swordsmanship."

"She's putting too much pressure on herself right now." Nora sighed, "If she can't learn it, can we convince her to give up?"

"Her 'will' ability is naturally resistant to the effects of her 'mind' ability." Ask understood the implication of her words, "What's more, I don't think her current stubbornness is a hint or a plant. Problems that can be solved by thinking about them.”

"Yes." Nora just said casually. Since Asker denied it, she no longer thought about it.

"Her problem is mainly that the gap between ideals and reality is too big." Asker analyzed. "She has witnessed the pain caused by this war and wants to stop it in advance, but does not have the ability to do so. We can only place this unrealistic hope on learning the Unyielding Holy Sword."

"Ellie has always been like this. It's easy to idealize things and then get stuck into them." Of course, Nora also knew that the war between the empire and the Holy See was not something that could be solved easily.

The two of them leaned against the railing on the second floor and meditated quietly for a while.

"I'm leaving." Nora waved her hand, "You can call me again when Ellie wakes up."

"What are you going to do?"

"Growing flowers," Nora said. "Got some new seeds."

"Are the flower beds on the east side of the manor full of flowers?" Ask asked casually.

"Well, this time I plan to plant it in the woods at the foot of the mountain." Nora replied.

Not long after Nora left, another girl came up to the second floor, interrupting Asik's contemplation.

"Medea?" Ask nodded.

"Talk about Eleanor?" Medea came to his side, leaning on the railing with her arms.

"Are you also the type who cares about your companions?" Ask asked with a smile.

"No, I'm not." Medea unexpectedly simply denied it, "I just came here to remind you."

"Nora's assessment was too idealistic. She placed too positive expectations on her best friend, but failed to see the problems. In fact, Eleanor is currently in some dangerous stage, both for herself and herself. , or for our team.”

"Well, I believe you are not the kind of person to be alarmist." Asik smiled bitterly, "Let's talk about it."

"Who do you think is the most likely person in our team to leave first in the future?" Medea suddenly asked.

This question made Asker scratch his head. After thinking for a long time, he sighed helplessly:

"It must be Eleanor."

"Yes." Medea did not deny it, "Mia and Mi'er, these two little girls have no independent opinions and are quite comfortable with their current lives. It can be said that they are very dependent on you."

"Nora and Paige, it is unlikely that they will leave easily until their interest in you has not diminished."

"Hidliba, Sheila, they stay in the team to gain strength. In the long run, they will tend to leave the team, but for now, as long as your strength can still crush them, there is probably no need to worry."

"Only Eleanor. In addition to her desire to grow up, she also has very complex ideals: whether it is to win her father's approval, inherit and revive the Weisbach family, or the ridiculous and naive desire to prevent the war and save the people, In a sense, it is contrary to the profession of mercenary to a certain extent."

"And as her experience deepens, she will eventually realize that simply increasing her strength cannot realize her ideals. So what does she choose to do?"

"I understand what you mean." Asker said, "But our team is not a pyramid scheme. If one day she really wants to leave, of course I respect her wishes."

"This sounds a bit untrue, my captain." Medea poked his chest and smiled sweetly, "You have carefully cultivated her from an ordinary girl to her current level of strength. , how much of the team's resources were spent, and how much effort did you put in? Are you really willing to let go?"

"So what if I don't want to give up?" Asik sighed, "Even I can't stay here forever."

Medea's smile still hung on her face, but the haze had secretly emerged from her eyes. After a long silence, she whispered:

"Even so, if she really jumps out to stop this war, wouldn't it be equivalent to putting our team directly against the emperor?"

"If that's what you're worried about." Asik also fell silent for a moment, "I believe she wouldn't do something like this that would embarrass everyone."

"Really?" Medea curled her lips and said, "Only at times like this, your emotional intelligence is unexpectedly high."

"Do I usually have very low emotional intelligence?" Aske couldn't laugh or cry.

"It's so low, it's like a piece of wood." Medea said with a smile, "By the way, what did you want me to do just now?"

"Well, Malkina sent the 'Desire IV' potion." Ask said.

"So fast?" Medea said in surprise, "Didn't you promise to give it to us only after we find the mastermind behind it?"

"Perhaps it's because we want to increase our strength." Asik said perfunctorily, "It's good for us not to worry so much. It's harmless to us."

"Yeah." Medea read her mind again and realized that Asik was not lying, so she spread her hands and said, "Bring it here."

"Don't worry, let's go find Nora first."

The two went downstairs.

In the bedroom, Eleanor sat alone on the bed, her face still pale from exhaustion.

She could also clearly hear the conversation outside the door. Eleanor even had a subtle premonition that Medea had known that she was awake a long time ago and that the conversation with Aske was meant for her.

So are you also worried about me leaving the team?

Leader...

A strand of blond hair hung down beside her cheek. Eleanor looked down at her hands with newly healed scars and closed her eyes silently.

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