Endless Silver Machine

Professor Cocona also knew about Lolo's amnesia, and she couldn't help in this regard.

"Didn't you try to stimulate her with the past?"

The method that Professor Cocona first thought of was the same as that of Ling and Wei Xi. Then, Aika repeated the nurse's advice to her.

“But that’s how it’s written in novels!”

"Fiction is fiction, reality is reality."

Aika picked up the unfinished drawings on the table, but Professor Cocona seemed to have no intention of teaching today.

"Then do you plan to wait like this?"

"This is the only way for now."

"However, there is one thing I can't understand. I heard that she lost her memory after you were seriously injured, right?"

"Well...so I have a big part of the responsibility."

"I'm not discussing with you whose responsibility this is. Please tell me what happened at that time."

During the three days of the "Moon Flower Festival", Professor Cocona was in the Holy See. She learned all these things from Ling and Wei Xi after she came back.

Aika could only tell Professor Cocona what she and Lolo saw and heard in that strange space.

"Hmm... In that case, your sister must have selective amnesia."

"Selective amnesia?"

This is the first time Aika has heard this term.

"Don't people always have a lot of things they want to forget? Especially when they are strongly stimulated, in order to reduce the mental burden, the brain will forget the events before and after the event. This is selective amnesia."

"But Luoluo forgot everything except his name."

"So this is very strange! Generally speaking, one should not forget all about one's past."

"I believe her."

If Luo Luo had not lost her memory, the first thing she would do after waking up would never be kissing herself.

"If you think so, then just treat it like that..."

Professor Cocona simply speculated that how Aika understood it was his own business.

Compared to myself, who has only met Luoluo a few times, Aika, as a family member, undoubtedly understands her better.

The magic mechanics course has finally started again.

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Today's class is ten minutes longer than usual, which is very rare for Professor Cocona's teaching.

"Is there something urgent for you later?"

She had noticed that Aika started to become distracted towards the end of get out of class.

"It's not an emergency..."

After what Professor Cocona said, Aika looked away guiltily.

"I've said everything I want to say today. Just leave the things on the table like that. You go pick her up first."

"Thanks."

Now that his thoughts have been exposed, Aika frankly accepted Professor Cocona's kindness.

"Let me tell you, she won't always be in this state until she regains her memory, right?"

Professor Cocona asked casually as he stood up to leave.

"Today is Luoluo's first day back at school. I'm a little worried...it should be fine once you get used to it."

"That's good. Did I look like a mentor just now?"

"You are the mentor now, right... Then Cocona, see you tomorrow."

"Ah, um..."

Aika left Professor Cocona's research room in a hurry.

Professor Cocona slowly returned to the studio on the second floor and picked up the drawings Aika left on the table.

What he can now create is regional structural parts, and the overall structural diagram is a big threshold for all students in the Magic Mechanical Department.

Only by connecting hundreds of regional structural parts in one's mind can we make an overall structural diagram that conforms to theory, and turning the drawings into physical objects is a new problem.

Aika's progress did not disappoint Professor Cocona.

"It seems like I'm being chased by something..."

This is Professor Cocona's most direct feeling towards Aika.

She knew that Aika had a different purpose from most other students who chose the Magic Mechanical Department, and that might be the source of his motivation.

"...It has nothing to do with me."

He just accepted Liuyin's commission and taught him the knowledge he knew. Before that, Professor Cocona’s daily life was only accompanied by a room full of parts and drawings.

After Aika came here, the research room was not as noisy as she imagined. Even so, one person and two people have completely different feelings.

"I am bored……"

She began to sort out the drawings scattered on the table one by one.

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Under the pale red sunset, Shuoyue Academy has become completely silent.

A long time has passed since the afternoon class ended, and Aika gradually quickened her pace.

On the way to the teaching building, he couldn't think of anything.

Turning the corner of the flower bed, you can already see the shadow in front of the teaching building.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Luoluo was leaning against the pillar in the vestibule, holding his schoolbag in both hands and looking up at the sky.

There was not a single cloud in the sky, and the first star of the night did not light up. What on earth was she looking at?

Aika walked around the flower bed, and Lolo immediately noticed the person he was waiting for, and then trotted over here.

"Sorry, I have something to do here and kept you waiting for a long time."

Aika scratched her cheek in embarrassment. It was the agreement he made with her on his own initiative, but he happily broke it.

"It's okay, I just finished class."

If the Pharmacy Department "just finished class" as she said, there shouldn't be anyone here except her now.

Aika could only apologize again with a wry smile, and then the two of them walked side by side towards the caretaker's cabin.

After passing the "moonlight bath", Luoluo did not stop.

Aika glanced into the store through the floor-to-ceiling glass, but did not find Wei Xi immediately. She must be working hard together with Luo Luo now.

Ling is probably here too.

"Aika, where is that place?"

"Do you mean 'Moonlight Bath'? That's a restaurant run by Shuoyue Academy. Ordinary dormitories don't have cooking rooms in every room."

"Would you like to go in and have a look?" Luoluo became interested in the place where he once worked part-time. "It feels good to have dinner in the restaurant occasionally."

"Next time……"

"Why? We've already come this far."

Luoluo didn't know what Aika was worried about, and Aika couldn't tell her "because Ling and Wei Xi are also inside."

"Because... I want to watch you cooking at home."

Aika no longer knows which of her words are lies and which of them are the truth.

When Luoluo heard this, he immediately looked away, his mouth opening and closing like a goldfish lacking oxygen.

"It feels... like a newlywed..."

"Let's go back."

Aika deliberately pretended not to hear, took Luoluo's hand and left quickly from the "moonlight bath".

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"Aika, I have to go out later."

After dinner, when Luoluo and Aika were clearing the table together, she suddenly said this.

Luoluo has never left home at this time, and this request is a bit abrupt for Aika as a family member.

"What's the matter with going out so late?"

"Before the pharmacy class started in the afternoon, a classmate accosted me. He must not be a classmate in the twin class."

"……Then what?"

"His tone sounded like he knew me. He seemed ready to say something to me when get out of class was over, but he was called over by the instructor."

"Does he know you have lost your memory?"

Among the students in the same grade, Ling and Wei Xi only conveyed this information to their classmates in the twin class. Students in other classes should only know that "she encountered an accident during the Moon Flower Festival."

If the person who doesn't know the inside story is not sure when communicating with Luoluo, all the previous efforts will be in vain.

"I will go with you."

"That..." Luoluo hesitated, "He seems to want to meet me alone..."

"Did he say that?"

"Um……"

Luoluo nodded slightly, secretly observing Aika's attitude with slightly raised eyes.

Aika just continued the work at hand silently.

"...Have you agreed on a place to meet?"

When Luoluo put the stacked dishes into the sink, Aika looked up at her.

"...the courtyard of the Great Library."

After hesitating for a short while, Luoluo honestly told Aika the meeting place.

"Is it okay for you to go alone?"

He has no qualifications to interfere with Luoluo's freedom. It's not that Aika doesn't understand this.

But now he really doesn't want Luoluo to go to the appointment alone.

"He doesn't look like a bad guy. He should be a little younger than you."

"Didn't you ask for the other person's name?"

"Well, I didn't have time to ask..."

"...I understand. If anything is wrong, please contact me immediately on PDA."

"Thank you, I'll be careful."

Neither of them mentioned the matter again after that.

After finishing the housework, Luoluo went back to his room to prepare for going out.

When Aika came to the second floor, she happened to meet Luo Luo, who had changed into his school uniform and came out of the next room.

"Ready to go?"

"Well, you can't let the person you made a promise wait for too long."

"Haha...it was my fault in the afternoon..."

Aika heard the metaphor in Luoluo's words and smiled sheepishly.

"I'm not blaming you."

Luo Luo pressed her finger on his lips and emphasized every word.

Aika followed Luoluo to the entrance and watched her put on the small leather shoes neatly placed in the entrance.

"come back earlier."

"Well, I'm going out."

Nodding sideways to Aika, Luoluo left the house.

Watching Luoluo's figure disappear behind the door, Aika slowly walked back to the hall.

Do you want to follow her secretly to see what's going on...

If Luoluo discovers this stalker-like behavior, she will definitely be very angry.

Moreover, why should I care so much? Luoluo doesn't have to be by her side all the time, she also has her own life.

Today's time has come to an end, and the first day back at Shimozuki Academy is almost over.

Aika realized that during this whole day, as long as Luoluo went to a place that he couldn't care about, his heart would be as impatient as now.

Are you too tired...

Aika sat tiredly on the chair where Luo Luo had sat, using her arms to block the light from her eyes that she didn't want to feel now.

A knock on the door rang at this time.

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