Anime, starting from Re:Zero (Zero - Starting Life)

Note: Sylphy's biggest problem is that she is missing an important piece of the puzzle in her life, which refers to her amazing power.

Otherwise, there is no need to be so entangled. Just beat Gawain to his knees, drag him to the basement and drain him dry.

Chapter 47 Night Patrol

After the notification, Gawain took Lokixi to continue issuing commissions around the world as planned. According to the current progress, they still needed two full working days to complete this step, which was to fully utilize the power of the Adventurer's Guild.

"When will you send Miss Elina Lijie and the others to the southern countries?"

In the team voice chat, Gao Wen replied:

"After the Adventurer's Guild front desk rests."

Rokisi suggests:

"I think it would be best to use Wanglong Kingdom as the first base. I guess you must want to throw them into the Xilong Kingdom?"

Gao Wen knew what Luo Qixi wanted to persuade him:

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I won't let them help monitor the Xilong leaders. If the first base is in the Kingdom of King Dragon, it will be easier to communicate with the tribes in the dense forest area."

Luo Qixi nodded with satisfaction:

"Come to think of it, Gawain, you were also found on the beach there, right? You're the son of the sea! I really hope you won't turn into foam because you fall in love with someone you shouldn't."

"No, I actually fell from the sky and landed on the beach."

"And then you broke your head?"

Gawain braked decisively and let go, only for Roxy to float away on her own. It seemed she had activated the flight module in advance.

"Oh, this little trick doesn't work on me anymore!"

So Gawain grabbed her ankles and dragged her into flight quickly, causing the just-felt-glowing Lokixi to suffer a heavy blow.

"Wow... Anyway, I'm quite interested in that place. How about taking me there when you have time?"

Gao Wen agreed:

"If you happen to be passing by, I can take you down to have a look."

It was not surprising that Lijie's mother did not find the incubator. After all, [Prime Minister] had been restarted online long before she arrived. At that time, Gawain had ordered it to hide its true form. The current [Prime Minister]'s true form was actually two thousand meters deep on the beach, located in an extremely large underground base.

Luo Qixi continued to ask:

"Also, can you take me with you on the night patrol tonight?"

"Are you worried that I won't save people?"

"Please don't say things that make me angry. I just want to see how you work at night and make some suggestions for improvement. Well, to be honest, I just want to make sure you get a good night's sleep."

"Didn't I just sleep today? And you need to rest at night too, right?"

"For me, staying up all night is easy. Besides, I'm pretty good at finding opportunities to nap. For you, just think of it as starting to reshape your sleep schedule from tonight."

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

"Please don't keep saying such irresponsible things."

It makes me feel a little guilty.

The two quickly reached a consensus. Of course, the real truth was that Luo Qixi planned to strike while the iron was hot and find an opportunity to give Gao Wen an emotional education lesson tonight.

Time flew by as they rushed around.

After dusk fell, Lokixi returned to the Vitrudia mansion with a dinner for one person. She would eat dinner, wash up, replenish her needs for tonight and tomorrow, and then wait for Gawain to go home after sending Elina Lijie's team.

Luo Qixi was quite good at doing this kind of thing in the past. After all, she was a lone adventurer, and now she is even better at it.

She also went to the logistics department to get a lot of fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, bread, etc., and made a bread-based sandwich for Gawain and herself. Although Gawain claimed that he didn't need to eat, he always liked to eat. Even if his cooking skills were mediocre, it was better than not eating, right?

After she finished all her work, she estimated the time and made a pot of tea, waiting for Gao Wen to come home.

Sure enough, it was almost the same as she had guessed.

Lokisi looked at Gawain who was descending from the sky:

"This time it should be better than last time, right? Take off your armor first, and I'll help you get ready and fill it with new magic crystals. Just sit down and rest for a while. Oh, and here are some sandwiches I made. Have some tea and eat something."

Gawain obediently took off his armor, then sat at the table, drinking tea and eating a sandwich while looking through the documents delivered during the day. Since the preliminary framework had been basically established, there were almost no government affairs that needed to be handled by him, so they were basically just intelligence and work reports.

About half an hour later, the two set off again.

Because searching for refugees is different from daytime work and requires constant concentration, Luo Qixi did not pull Gawain aside to chat and help him relieve stress, but silently observed Gawain's actions.

Although she didn't think she could offer any effective suggestions, Luo Qixi wasn't just joking. If possible, she did intend to offer suggestions for improvement.

The more she watched, the more Luo Qixi admired Gawain.

These days, her personal evaluation of Gawain has been more limited to the realm of emotions, but this doesn't mean that Gawain is just a person with stunted emotional abilities in her heart. It's simply because she can't appreciate the power Gawain holds, and she's not willing to examine Gawain's actions from a so-called objective and rational perspective.

Now, her understanding of Gawain has changed again. He has always been a very patient child who is good at doing things that others would find boring, so Luo Qixi was not surprised that Gawain could maintain his concentration on pure visual search and rescue for a long time while moving at high speed.

What impressed her was that Gawain wasn't simply searching for refugees from the disaster, or, more precisely, for people he knew. Along the way, Gawain would intervene when he saw monsters invading villages and towns, and he wouldn't hesitate to help bring rain to a drought-stricken area. He would also assist victims unrelated to the disaster.

"Is it weird? I just think you guys would definitely do the same thing."

Perhaps sensing Lokisi's thoughts, Gawain explained in a calm tone.

Luo Qixi really wanted to praise him and do something to show affection, but she was still unable to do so because of this magical armor, and she even felt frustrated:

"It's not surprising. You are a good boy, Gawain."

Gao Wen has already accepted his own flaws, so he naturally doesn't mind showing them openly in front of everyone:

“It’s just a defective product.”

Luo Qixi was a little angry. Even in the flight, she couldn't help but grab Gawain's visor with her hands and said dissatisfiedly:

"Don't say that!"

"Just tell the truth."

Luo Qixi was furious. She had praised Gao Wen countless times in her heart and in front of others today, but this stupid student actually saw her like this? She couldn't accept it at all:

"Stop! Gawain! I told you to stop right now!"

Gao Wen paused in mid-air, puzzled.

"Land now."

The two landed on the ground. Luo Qixi took off his helmet, his face was extremely serious, and his tone was muffled:

"I need to have a good talk with you!"

Chapter 48: Teacher's Morality Deteriorates

Chapter 48 Emotions (2 in 1)

Soon, a bonfire lit up in front of the two men.

They are now in the desert of the Beccarit continent. Even in summer, the nights here are cold enough to make Loki shiver.

Neither of them was wearing armor at the moment, but was sitting side by side in front of the campfire, each holding a freshly made cup in their hands, with steam rising from it and the rich aroma of black tea. This was the tea that Luo Qixi had originally planned to drink before starting work tomorrow morning.

Gao Wen spoke first:

"Luo Qixi, what do you want to talk about?"

Luo Qixi was still angry:

"Need I say more? Didn't you just call yourself a defective product? Although I haven't spoken to you formally, I've mentioned it many times, and although you always acted as if you didn't care, I don't know if you really listened. But, Gawain, even if it wasn't intentional, you were the one who pulled me out of the dead end of life, and that dead end is called "self-identity." I used to think of myself as an alien in the village of Migrud, and I also thought of myself as a defective product, but your existence made me gradually realize that those random thoughts are not important at all. What matters is to accept myself, understand myself, and love myself. You who taught me these things, why do you say such self-pitying words?"

Gao Wen did not avoid it:

"I know you mentioned that. I remember every word you said clearly."

Luo Qixi shyly turned her head away and stopped looking at him:

"That's not the point!"

Gao Wen continued to argue:

"I'm not feeling sorry for myself, Lokisi. You still remember how well you know the Vitrum people, right?"

Luo Qixi probably understood what Gawain wanted to say. It was nothing more than a topic about racial differences. She was also very good at debates in this area. It was better to say that she was very good at it. So she continued calmly:

"Of course. From what I know, Gawain, your developmental speed is similar to that of a human, with a natural lifespan of over 10,000 years. You are born with the ability to fly, and can even fly at super-high speeds to protect objects or other life forms. Your physical strength is incredible, enough to lift mountains. Your intelligence is also higher than any other race I've ever known. Your talents in magic and fighting spirit are only considered exceptional among humans. Besides that, you are the only one left among the Vitrum people, and there's no way to interbreed."

Gao Wen felt that there was nothing to correct.

Although he did not intend to hide it completely, Gawain did not want to give a long speech about his life experience at this time, such as spending an hour explaining to Lokisi why the statement "I am the only one left in the Vitrum" is correct and why it is wrong, including the excuse that he cannot be mixed-blood.

So, he just nodded:

"That's basically it. And you've probably guessed that the defective product I'm talking about is related to the nature of my race. Don't worry, Luo Qixi, it's precisely because I accept my innate defects that I don't mind evaluating myself in this way, and I don't mind letting you know."

Luo Qixi stared at Gawain's eyes again, as if trying to judge whether he was lying. This guy's deception skills have improved by leaps and bounds in recent days:

"You better really mean it."

Gawain looked at her calmly:

"In fact, the rigid and overly rational me you see is the true nature of the Vitrum people. Simply put, the Vitrum people have no emotions. Yes, we are passionate about fighting, respect honor, and value our national civilization and ethnicity, but we do not have the delicate, private, and complicated emotions like the existing races in the human world. Instead, we only have some general things that are more like cohesion and pursuit."

"I don't think this is surprising. Our lifespans are too long, and our abilities are too powerful. Just like the Undead Demon King Atuofei I met, the Undead Demons even have longer lifespans than the Vitrum people. Therefore, compared to other races in the human world, they also appear flawed and abnormal."

“This is for a better existence.”

"Like before, when we discussed the topic of the Undead Demon Race in the open-air classroom, Rudy said, 'If a race is incredibly powerful and absolutely immortal, then intelligence is an unnecessary evolutionary option.' In fact, rather than being unnecessary, according to the evolutionary logic of super-life, intelligence in this situation would even be a burden. An intelligent, immortal being would inevitably pursue self-destruction, which is detrimental to existence. So, I think it's probably based on this logic that the Vitrum people eliminated complex emotional abilities during their long evolution."

Gawain smiled and placed his hands on his chest:

"But I have emotions, just like you do."

"I don't know if it's as strong or as complex as the feelings you have, or if it's the same thing. I don't know if the happiness I feel is the happiness you feel. I don't know, but I don't care anymore."

"I only know that I'm increasingly able to understand your feelings and empathize with your emotions. All sorts of emotions I've never felt or aroused before are now surging, and those emotions I've been suppressing are becoming more and more lush and resilient."

"I know I have the ability to suppress them. Even suppressing them for ten thousand years is probably not impossible."

“But I gave up.”

"Luo Qixi, it is precisely because I acknowledged and accepted these things that I became a defective product."

When Luo Qixi came to her senses, she had already stood up and hugged Gawain, and the words that she felt were biased in her heart had already been blurted out:

"That's a good thing."

Luo Qixi felt a pair of strong hands hugging her waist again, and a familiar and gentle voice sounded in her ears again:

"Yeah, that's what I wanted to hear you say."

Confusion and dissatisfaction are eliminated.

Luo Qixi felt a little sorry for her misunderstanding. She rubbed Gawain's head in a comforting way. Although she also wanted to try it, it was more because she noticed that Gawain liked being treated like this. He was indeed a puppy.

After releasing her embrace, Lokisi sat down with Gawain and pulled him to look up at the sky. The clear moonless night was filled with stars. When Gawain was a child, he was fooled by this scene and thought he was somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Luo Qixi did not forget the main topic of tonight.

However, the approach needs to be changed.

She asked curiously:

"Speaking of which, Gawain, can you understand the feelings between men and women? In other words, the emotions of love. Like, love, that kind of thing."

Gao Wen certainly knew what she was talking about, but he didn't really understand it. He had hardly come across any relevant examples in recent years:

"Love between men and women? Are you talking about the emotions between engaged couples and married couples? Honestly, I don't quite understand this kind of thing, and I haven't seen much reference to it. After all, normal Vitrum people don't have the corresponding emotions either."

[Note: I haven't touched it yet, it was Sylphy who did it]

Now Luo Qixi couldn't help but want to complain:

"That's not right, right? No matter how much you remove your emotional abilities, you can't completely lose love and family affection, right? Without these feelings, how can we maintain family relationships and parent-child relationships? A family and offspring can't even be born, right?"

Gawain understood Lokisi's thoughts. Although it was impolite, it was also the classic primitive species thinking. He simply explained:

"The Vitrum people have almost no concept of family, and the concept of parent-child relationship is also very weak."

Luo Qixi felt that this had become an academic topic:

"Could you please tell me about the general situation? Family, childbirth, upbringing, etc."