【Ji Lai】Afternoon of Shepherd

"So is there anything special about the name Siegfried?" Siegfried thought while lying on the bed with his eyes closed.

The Earth Cult specifically found a doctor with this name to replace him, and Emperor Reinhard also deliberately mentioned it—and the content he mentioned happened to be similar to what he had thought (of course, it may also be because deep in memory, often The self who has been interfered with the brain by external forces has long been influenced by other people).

When he was working in the medical center, Siegfried also pretended to ask his colleagues this question casually, but in return they looked surprised and secretive.

Could this be the name of a certain important figure in the empire, but what does it have to do with who I am now?

Siegfried felt a headache, he got up and took a sleeping pill.Since receiving "hypnosis" treatment, he has always had headaches and it is difficult to fall into a deep sleep.This kind of forced interference with brainwaves is quite devastating to people both mentally and physically.

Although the Earth Cult saved his life, they didn't care how to torture and use him, and they didn't care about his life or death at all.If he hadn't learned how to counter the hypnotic brainwashing, it would be very difficult to stay conscious.Perhaps in the future, it will always be used as a killing tool of the Earth Cult, living in the dark or dying suddenly in a certain mission.Now that I have complete control over my emotions and consciousness, I feel shuddering just thinking about this possibility for a moment.

In the beginning, Siegfried’s distrust of the Earth Church stemmed from this. Even though they were so cruel to people like themselves who could barely be regarded as inside the church, it is not difficult to imagine how they would treat civilians who might stand in the way of their ambitions .Since he woke up, it took him two years to be trained as a killer before he began to accept the actual tasks arranged by the church.During his initial period of hypnosis and brainwashing, the tasks assigned to him by the church were basically carried out on some important government officials.For Siegfried, who often thinks of himself as a commoner, this is probably a blessing in misfortune.

Tonight was the same as usual, even after taking the medicine, Siegfried closed his eyes, and what dangled in front of his eyes was still the image of Reinhardt touching the pendant, and he barely fell asleep until five o'clock in the morning when he was exhausted.

The Imperial Library is an ancient German Baroque style built during the Golden Baum Dynasty, and the inner walls are decorated with complicated patterns.

A beam of light from the elaborately carved stained glass on the zenith just fell on Siegfried's feet. When he looked up, he saw the Virgin Mary and the blond angel carved on it. The light just fell through the mirror in the hand of the blond angel.In a brief trance, the little angel with golden wings seemed to touch the strings deep in his memory, and he felt as if he had touched something, but before he had time to think about it, heavy fog swept him again.

Siegfried shook his head mockingly, and after his fluctuating mood stabilized, he showed his identity card to the librarian and walked into the borrowing room.

The old wooden bookshelves are arranged at a distance of one and a half people. Because of the age, the red pine wood has a damp, moldy, salty smell.

Not many people came here during the day, and Siegfried quickly found the hypnotic and genetic reference books he needed in the medical area.

Behind the medical area is the historical area, which is less visited, and the air is dark and cold between the old bookshelves.The cold made Siegfried a little chilly, and he quickly left with the books he had found.When he turned around the last bookshelf, his eyes unconsciously caught a glimpse of a thin book on the top shelf. On the back cover of the book was printed gold foil cursive characters on a black background, and the title was - "The Last Dynasty".

Suddenly, he took down the book.Opening the title page, the brief introduction briefly introduces the content of this book as the short history from the last generation of the Goldenbaum dynasty to the new dynasty.

Siegfried flipped through it casually, and suddenly, a photo came into view.Rao is usually very good at hiding his appearance, and his pupils can't help but dilate a little.He looked at it carefully for a while, and finally suppressed the violent ups and downs of his emotions, and the hand holding the book was still trembling slightly.

Siegfried was full of doubts about this, and finally he borrowed this book together with other medical books and brought it back to the temporary palace.

Now Siegfried has moved into the temporary palace because of the emperor's reassignment of the personal physician, and lives in a room on the second floor facing south.

As the emperor's personal physician, he needs to go to the Feisha Medical Research Center every other day to submit observations on the emperor's recent physical condition, follow up the research progress, and participate in research discussions.Other than that, he stayed in the temporary palace to guard Reinhardt and guard against various emergencies.

He is not a professional doctor, but fortunately there are not many things that need him to do at present.

The days in the temporary palace were peaceful and peaceful on the surface, but his professional instinct made him aware that there were always eyes watching him from behind.He didn't know whether those people were the guards of His Majesty the Emperor, or the people lurking inside the church, so he had to be more cautious in his actions.

Every morning, as a routine homework, Siegfried reads the newspaper of the day during breakfast as usual.

He didn't have much interest in events other than Reinhardt's news.After hastily scanning the headlines, he concentrated on the news related to Reinhardt.In fact, Siegfried himself didn't know why he had such an inexplicable attachment to the emperor from the first time he saw him.Siegfried thinks that he is obviously not a superficial person who is tempted by other people's appearance, not to mention no matter how good-looking he is, he is just a man.But he just had a hard time taking his eyes off Reinhardt's photo.He gazed at the people in the photo for a long time, and then carefully cut it out with scissors for collection.

The photos of the blond emperor in front of the public are always in high spirits. His blond hair is like a natural crown, shining in the sunlight and under the superb technique of the photographer.

In front of the public, he will always be a vigorous, upright and wise monarch.The emperor is strict with himself, lenient towards others, diligent in political affairs, wise in decision-making, and indifferent to desires. Indeed, everything is perfect and impeccable.

He will also show his gentle smile to his people when necessary, and no one will be crazy about it.

So does Siegfried.

But the only thing that is different from others is that through the formulaic smiles that the emperor has been very good at, Siegfried saw the depths of Reinhard's extremely thin eyes, as if they had been frozen in the ice that had been frozen for thousands of years. seabed.

The emperor is not happy...

Usually in the afternoon, if there is nothing special, Siegfried will take his medical book and read it in the garden of the temporary palace.With any luck, you'll see Reinhardt appear in the garden occasionally.Siegfried will always choose a location that happens to be not far away from him, but it is not easy for him to notice.

Reinhardt may drink a cup of black coffee in the shade of a tree surrounded by vines, and use the limited time to quickly read the latest weekly newspaper; he may also invite his ministers to discuss state affairs in a greenhouse made of crystal glass; Taking a very short rest on the bench among the flowers, his golden hair was shining brightly, attracting butterflies to play on the tips of his hair on his forehead.

Siegfried watched him from afar, greedily sucking every ounce of air in his presence.

Every night, after Siegfried delivered the medicine to the emperor, he would linger and wait not far from the window of the government office.

Even with the continuous fever like now, the emperor is still stationed in the government office every day.Siegfried cannot understand state affairs and political affairs are indeed piled up, but Reinhardt does not seem to understand rest and entertainment at all.He himself doesn't care about his body at all, and he doesn't have any friends to associate with.The cold government office is where he stays the most.

Siegfried liked to watch the silhouette of Reinhardt through the window.The window lattice is like a fence separating him from Reinhardt. Outside the window are flowers and stars, while inside the window is silence and solitude.Siegfried stretched out his hand subconsciously, and traced the silhouette of the emperor along the cold outline of the glass.An indescribable loneliness slowly permeated into Siegfried's blood along the graceful outline of Emperor Reinhardt of the Galactic Empire.The coldness and bitterness flowed along the blood, mixed with something in his own blood, forming ice slag.When he found out, there was no way to separate them from himself.

The existence of Reinhardt gave Siegfried the light to dare to resist the fate of being in the dark night, and at the same time, it also made his heart, which was empty and empty in the past three years, really hurt for the first time for a person.

This kind of pain makes the matter of being alive feel real.

Let him be filled with unprecedented courage to face difficulties and the future.

Sometimes he would choose to deliver the medicine, when Reinhardt was not too busy, break the silence of the air with a gentle but cautious tone, and search for some topics to talk to him.The emperor, who was used to being alone, was not as angry or angry as he expected. On the contrary, he smiled lightly, and Siegfried returned with full patience until Siegfried felt a little tiredness evident between his brows.

Perhaps communicating with people is already a kind of weight that needs to be carried for the current Reinhardt's spirit.

Despite this, Siegfried is still eager to help him get out of the confined space of his mind.He thought to himself mockingly, obviously he was just an impostor doctor, but now he seems to have confused the roles unconsciously.

The night he finished reading the history book, he couldn't fall asleep at all. Later, in a daze, Siegfried had a dream. In the dream, he was a faun, but unlike in the myth, he was not ashamed of himself. With all courage clasp his lonely Venus and sing to him. *

So he knew there was something he had to say to Reinhardt.

So as usual, after watching the emperor take the medicine, he pretended to be relaxed and stared at the beautiful emperor, "Your Majesty, I am a person who grew up in Feisha. I don't know much about the old empire. Please forgive me. Can you tell me something about His Royal Highness Gilfies?"

*: In mythology, Capricornus is the incarnation of Shepherd.