Boldly pursue your happiness, my dear daughter

“Many old friends came to comfort me.

Some of my superiors also spoke to me warmly, hoping to help me through this difficult time.

After recovering, I threw myself into work.

I kept striving to cultivate better wheat and rice.

At the same time, I asked about the situation on the battlefield.

I was hoping to hear some news about my daughter—
to find her, and to apologize to her in person.

I will accept whatever decision the organization makes about her.

But as a father, I owe her far more than just an apology.

An apology is all I can offer now.

Still, no matter what, I must repay what I owe.”

“At least, you did it, and you’re still living with her now, aren’t you?”

Kim Erise, who had stopped fanning herself, stood in the bedroom, staring at the soul gem that was gradually brightening, listening to the other party’s calm and hoarse narration.

It was the tranquility and serenity of telling a tragedy that only those who have experienced the vicissitudes of life can possess.

And the hoarseness of the voice came from the grief and despair suppressed deep within the heart.

“Judging by the scene when I first met you yesterday, it seems that you’ve reconciled.”

“No, no, it’s far from reconciled,” An Dingzhou, sitting in the recliner, forced a smile and took a sip of Tieguanyin to moisten his throat.

“It’s barely living under the same roof, she usually spends her time playing with those male servants and managing her own affairs, and we rarely talk.

Many times I wanted to find her, communicate with her, and play with her, but she turned me away.

It could be said that she regards me as a stranger who has a blood relationship and needs to live together.”

He had intended to stop there, but found that he couldn’t stop talking at all, wanting to pour out the lingering heartache that was bottled up inside him.

“And even this superficial harmony was achieved at an extremely heavy price.”

“A heavy price?” The red-haired girl, who was about to put a new lollipop in her mouth, stopped.

“Yes, because we met again on the battlefield.

That night, I couldn’t bear to stay awake after working all night, so I took a nap, and was awakened by the alarm.

The students who came told me that a team of infiltrating magical girls were wantonly destroying the surrounding farmland and slaughtering anyone they saw, the garrison was fighting them but was almost crushed, and they hoped I could find a place to hide quickly.”

It seems that this happened within four months after the outbreak of the war.

Kim Erise, who put the lollipop in her mouth, nodded thoughtfully.

When the Free Alliance formally declared war on humanity, most of the magical girls were scattered all over the world, living their own lives, which could be said to be an absolute disadvantage against human armies.

Therefore, they launched an action called “Arillo.”

They divided the magical girls who joined the Free Alliance into countless small teams.

These teams infiltrated every corner of the world to engage in guerrilla warfare.

At the same time, they recruited more magical girls who were willing to join.

Their targets included human freshwater reserves, farmland, farms, warehouses, power plants, coal mines, oil wells, pharmaceutical factories, base stations, railways, highways, and other facilities.

They carried out large-scale destruction.

Their intention was to paralyze human society by cutting off the source of its supplies.

The entire plan lasted for four months, and ended only after more than ninety-five percent of the targets were completely destroyed.

The effect?

Heh, quite good, many small and medium-sized countries and regions fell into anarchy, and although the big countries could recover a part by relying on their strong industrial capabilities, they were also struggling to survive under martial law and reconstruction, unable to take care of the outside world.

Of course, the magical girls also paid an extremely heavy price for this, but they also continuously developed and grew stronger through the baptism of war, and had the strength to confront human armies head-on, thereby ending the guerrilla warfare of hit-and-run, and pushing the war to the next stage.

These are all later developments.

“But at that time, I had a hunch, a hunch that was not at all scientific, but unique to a father—my daughter was out there.

So I disregarded the students’ opposition and persuasion, put on a military uniform and waited for the night equipment, climbed out the window to avoid the security team that came to cover me into the shelter, and came outside to hide in a small grove.

Just as my hunch told me, Xiaote was there, my daughter was there, wearing strange clothes, wielding huge white bone hands that grew out of her back, one was playing with a dilapidated main battle tank, and the other was grabbing the tank driver and swinging him in the air, as if showing off, as if enjoying it.

I knew that tank driver, he was a young man who had just joined the army and was full of youthful vigor.

The night before, I met him in the cafeteria, and he excitedly took out the phone hidden on his body and wanted to take a picture with me secretly.

I asked him what he planned to do after the war ended.

He said he wanted to go back and marry his first love who had been in a long-distance relationship with him for ten years, and live a peaceful life on a small island without politics, hatred, or war, and his face was filled with a happy smile, which made me sigh at how good it was to be young.

And now, he had lost an arm, was grabbed in the white bone hands of my daughter and played with wantonly, letting out a chilling scream, but was still trying to use his remaining hand to pull out the pistol at his waist to fight back,

Until finally he was squeezed into the tank, and was crushed together with the steel into an indistinguishable pulp.

Even from a distance, a father’s hunch told me that those eyes were full of anger and hatred, and his face was twisted with the excitement of destruction and the thrill of killing.

When I saw her, I almost lost my mind, wanting to rush towards her at all costs, but I still resisted this thought that was equivalent to suicide—there were also several other magical girls beside her who were setting fire to the fields, rashly going over there would only get me killed before I met Xiaote.

So I hid in the small grove, approaching them little by little, while the other magical girls left one after another to burn down more farmland, and when Xiaote took a long breath and began to move her body, I started shouting her name, while slowly approaching her with my hand raised.

When Xiaote first turned her head, she was ferocious, that was the look of someone who had found their prey, the look of someone who couldn’t wait to eat me alive; at that time, I was thinking, if she decided to kill me, perhaps it would also be a way for me to atone and be relieved.

She froze, standing there staring at me blankly, the bone hands behind her had already drooped down, obviously she had recognized me, and chose to give up hostility.

I opened my arms, walked forward step by step, continued to call her name, until finally I hugged her tightly who was still standing there without any reaction, told her that I was sorry to her, I had failed her childhood, let’s go home together, let’s stay away from the battlefield together, and let’s live a good life together, making up for all the regrets before…”

The man, speaking to this point, could no longer maintain the increasingly surging emotions in his heart, curled up in the recliner, and couldn’t help but sob.

And Kim Erise then put away the fully charged soul gem, came to the floor-to-ceiling window, overlooking the bustling city of Kay that was under reconstruction, silently accompanied An Dingzhou, and quietly listened to the other party’s low weeping.

The sun is truly scorching.

“Chief, if possible, please do me a favor.”

“Go ahead, I will agree to any favor.”

“Please, Chief, together with your two younger sisters, help her make up for a childhood full of smiles, innocence, and healing, if you can help heal her heart that is riddled with holes, it would be even better—

Some things, as a father, I have already regrettably missed, and there is no more chance to be trusted, only people of the same age can take their place and move forward.”

“Leave it to me.”

“Thank you.”

An Dingzhou, who had turned off the communication, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a tissue, then took a deep breath and picked up the Tieguanyin to drink quietly.

“Will Xiaote really be happy there with the Chief?” His wife and student, Angelica, brought over a plate filled with all kinds of pastries, and placed it on the small table next to the recliner, asking with some worry.

“It’s better than spending all day with the male servants doing the contents of those female-version domineering president novels, seeking unrealistic so-called love, right?”

The man picked up a mooncake and took a small bite, chewing slowly.

“Not to mention, she was almost about to return to the violent state of the war after being deceived by that young man named Cheng, if she continues like this, it will only lead to greater mistakes.”

“That family is really shameless,” sitting in the recliner next to him, the big-breasted young woman crossed her legs and picked up a cup of jasmine tea on the small table and sighed.

“They usually use the Black Obsidian Coins that Xiaote worked hard to earn to buy things and squander them, after Cheng cheated, I made them move out, and they were still shamelessly clinging on there, if it wasn’t for Xiaote to give each of them a slap and knock out many of their teeth, they probably would still be sticking to us like toffee now.”

“That kid Cheng still has some responsibility, first sincerely apologized to us and asked for forgiveness, and then, in contrast to his usual complacency, he scolded his family,” An Dingzhou, putting down the teacup, picked up a stack of documents on the small table and prepared to continue working.

“If he really loves Marina, I will still wish them happiness.”

“I still can’t let go of Xiaote,” Angelica, sipping the jasmine tea, stroked her long golden hair and said worriedly.

“After all, she and the Chief are both girls, will it be…”

“Love, this kind of thing, cannot be bound by gender,” the man put on a pair of glasses and smiled slightly at his lover.

“If Xiaote is sure that she will be happy with the Chief, then why not let her boldly pursue it?

Even if the Chief refuses, they can still play together as friends, which can be said to be the best way to heal Xiaote other than medication.

As a unqualified father, I have already cast a shadow over Xiaote’s past, and I will definitely not make the same mistake again, letting her continue to have a future where she cannot find happiness and joy.

My dear, thank you for being as gentle and patient with Xiaote as your own child, even though she often doesn’t give you a good face—this time, just put your mind at ease and choose to trust Xiaote and the Chief.”