Chapter 346 This is not fair
Chapter 346 This is not fair
Now replace you with me...
After hearing Emma’s question, Leon couldn’t help but sighed deeply.
If you were me, one of us would definitely not be alive today. There is no room for change in this level of deep hatred.
Besides, I finally understand why even the powerful director can't do anything about your problem.
"Senior Emma."
Looking at the half-abandoned garden, the mother bird returning to the nest when they were trying to take out the bird eggs, and the three children who were chased away in panic, Leon asked softly:
"You never took revenge in the past. Is it because there are relevant regulations in the bureau?"
"Um……"
Emma, who was also looking at the three children, pursed her lips and said:
"Unlike you who joined the Cleanup Bureau on your own initiative, those of us who joined the Cleanup Bureau through the 'Pardon Ordinance' need to accept special word spirit restrictions and promise not to use the abnormal objects we obtained to retaliate against our former 'enemies'.
If the Virgin Branch had not been in a special situation and Olivia hadn't made a guarantee for me, a cleaner like me who had a high potential for revenge would even be forcibly transferred away from my hometown and would never be able to return to my original country.
This is one of the conditions for the kingdoms to cooperate with the Cleanup Bureau, give full financial and intelligence support, and even agree to grant temporary troop deployment rights. Even first-level cleaners must abide by this."
"That's it..."
After hearing Emma’s answer, Leon’s brows frowned slightly unconsciously.
……
The Cleanup Bureau obviously has great power, but the reason why it set such a "unfair" rule is not difficult to guess.
Taking into account the fact that the birth process of anomalies is indeed mostly accompanied by extremism and pain, and the mental state of the cleaners who have been infected for many years is not very stable, when they have mastered strong enough abilities, the possibility of revenge is almost 100%.
Take Senior Emma as an example. If there was no such rule, neither the royal family nor Marquis Jinjuan would have allowed her to gradually become stronger in the Cleanup Bureau and eventually take them away. They would have killed her immediately when they discovered that Senior Emma had something abnormal.
The immortal body is a very rare special anomaly. The bodies of most cleaners are only slightly stronger than ordinary people. If they don't have special protective anomalies, they will still die on the spot if they are shot in the vitals.
If there were no such seemingly outrageous rule, many anomalies and cleaners with great potential would probably be eliminated prematurely before they could grow up, resulting in a sharp drop in the manpower available to the Cleanup Bureau.
It is even more likely that in the past when the rules were not yet mature, there had actually been a large number of cases of premature "rooting out the problems", which had caused quite serious consequences, prompting the Cleanup Bureau to establish such rules to ensure its own normal continuation.
But on the other hand, this rule protects a large number of cleaners, and probably also protects a lot of scum.
After recalling the files of [Sins of the Precious Flower] and the record of little Ellie's "accidental drowning", Leon couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, and something seemed to be burning in his heart.
"Senior Emma."
After touching the cufflinks where he stored his sniper rifle, Leon couldn't help but ask:
"The reason why you practiced sniping with firearms when there were long-range anomalies, is it because you wanted to..."
"Well, it's what you think."
Looking at her daughter, whose skirt was covered with dirt and whose body was covered with grass leaves, and who had turned from an exquisite porcelain doll into a dirty little mud monkey, but was smiling particularly happily, Emma, who was standing at the entrance of the garden, admitted with a loving look in her eyes:
"Because of the constraints of the Word Spirit, I can't use abnormal objects on that person, so I specially practiced using firearms. I wanted to ask you for help before, hoping to use the soul vision to lock the person's position from a distance and end it all, but Olivia temporarily persuaded me to stop.
Sorry, Leon, I shouldn't have involved you.
If I had really done that, even if you had no idea, you would have been investigated. Olivia is right. At that time, I was blinded by hatred."
"It doesn't matter, after all, none of that happened..."
After shaking his head slightly, Leon looked at the three children in the garden and said softly with a complicated expression:
"Senior Emma, if you complete your revenge, what will the price be?"
"They will probably be stripped of all abnormalities and forcibly sent to the realm of the dead."
Emma said calmly:
"According to the relevant regulations, if this regulation is violated, a cleaner at the level of a branch director can perform three consecutive cleaning tasks with a very high mortality rate. If it is a cleaner below the level of a branch director, they will only be executed."
Branch chief?
Leon's expression slightly changed when he heard this, and he asked:
"Have you ever thought about..."
"Wait until you become the branch chief before taking revenge to avoid being executed directly, right?"
Emma said calmly:
“I have indeed thought about this path, or rather, I have always planned to do so, except for the time when I found out that Ellie was not my daughter but just a reflection of my wishes.
Although Ellie is not really alive, she has the soul of my daughter after all. I really don’t want to lose her again, and I am willing to continue to endure for her, but…”
After looking back in the direction of the main building of the manor, Emma couldn't help but smile at herself.
"I don't think I'm as good at endurance as I thought."
……
That is... the emblem of the Jinjuan family? !
Following Emma's gaze, Leon was shocked when he saw the emerald golden azalea emblem on the curtain wall of the second floor and the workers who were dismantling the wall with precious flower patterns.
Theoretically speaking, the Jinjuan family and the Baohua family have very close contacts, and intermarriages have been extremely frequent in the past two hundred years. Even the Marquis Jinjuan himself gained the qualification to control the northern trade routes with the help of inter-family marriages.
Therefore, at a time when the nobles who were close to Baohua were either killed or exiled, in terms of blood lineage, he was still qualified to inherit Baohua Manor, and his order of succession was even comparable to that of Senior Emma.
But if the truth is really as Senior Emma said, that the Jinjuan Family is the primary culprit for the destruction of the Baohua Family, how did they have the nerve to move in?
Besides... aren't you looking for death?
When Leon noticed that Emma's palms were slightly cold and her usually gentle eyes were filled with murderous intent, he couldn't help but close his eyes slightly, his scalp numbing at the overly awesome operation of the Golden Azalea Family.
If the Jinjuan family hadn't appeared before him, relying on the existence of little Ellie, Senior Emma might have been able to continue to endure until the day he became the branch director. But now the Jinjuan family seemed to be preparing to play a cuckoo-in-the-nest, directly moving the whole family into the Baohua family's manor. This was really... The enemy who destroyed the family not only wandered before him, but even lived in his house openly. He couldn't swallow this breath!
If Senior Emma hadn't been bound by the Word Spirit and couldn't use any abnormal objects, all the cockroaches in your closet would have been punished!
"I can chase them away!"
The Jinjuan family occupied the manor = Senior Emma couldn't help but take revenge = violated the regulations of the Cleanup Bureau = Senior Emma will be executed!
The moment this equation came into being in his mind, Leon immediately opened his mouth and suggested:
"Senior Emma, please be patient for a while. I will go find the king..."
"no need."
Before Leon finished speaking, Emma rejected his proposal and said calmly:
"Leon, I have endured for six years for Ellie, but now I really don't want to endure it anymore."
"But you're already a first-level cleaner. If there's another vacancy for the position of director of a branch..."
"The General Administration is now closed. Without the appointment of a director, I cannot fill the position even if there is a vacancy. And even if there is a vacancy, it may not be my turn."
After looking lovingly at her daughter who was holding Melanie's hand and taking her to see the flowers she had planted, Emma said softly:
“Also, to me, this manor really has no value. The beautiful past will turn into painful memories as long as I think about the final result.
The reason why I am still here is because Ellie can't leave here. She can only exist in this manor full of my memories. Otherwise, I would have moved away long ago. "
Hearing this, Leon couldn't help but take a deep breath and emphasized a little irritably:
"I told you, I can kick them out! You can still live here with Ellie in the future, as long as we wait until the headquarters is unsealed in half a year..."
"Leon, this is not the point."
After shaking Leon's unconsciously clenched hand, Emma said gently:
“After I found out that the Jinjuan family wanted to move in, I thought about chasing them away and pretending that nothing had happened and continuing to wait as before, but after thinking about it for a day, I figured it out.
There are many first-level cleaners with similar strength and more experience than me. Even if there is a vacancy, it is highly unlikely that it will be my turn to fill it. So although it seems that I am only one step away, it may take another 20 to 30 years or even longer for me to get the chance to take revenge. "
"Leon, I really can't wait any longer."
Looking at the golden azalea emblem on the curtain wall of the main building, Emma's sparkling eyes seemed to have made up their minds.
"Do you remember the only crow that came close to me?
It was the one my sister had. She was older than Ellie is now, but she was born with a deficiency and was very small. She looked almost the same age as Ellie is now. "
Looking back at the three children playing in the half-abandoned garden, and remembering the little girl who once ran towards her happily on the gravel path in the garden, Emma said gently:
"My mother was in poor health and had been bedridden since I was a child. My father was a very conservative and difficult person to approach, so she liked to stick to me since she was a child.
Before that incident happened, I often stayed with her in this garden. The small greenhouse in front of the garden, which had just been demolished, was built for her by me. It was her favorite place.
She is much more lively than the usual Ellie, and is very similar to the Ellie today. She also likes birds and flowers, and likes to use crayons to draw some brightly colored but ugly pictures. Maybe Ellie will like these, just because I miss her..."
At this point, Emma was silent for a moment, then said:
"But she was already dead, strangled before me, her body lying next to my mother, and the execution was less than two weeks away, which would have been her tenth birthday."
"..."
"She was just a nine-year-old child who had done nothing wrong, but her life just stopped on that day and there will never be a future.
However, the person who actually made the mistake can live without any guilt, can live in her home openly, can demolish her house openly, and completely erase all traces of her existence.
Even the person who really deserves to die can live like this for another 20 or 30 years, until he is past his prime and very old, and even forgets what he did, and then he will face the judgment he deserves. "
After taking her eyes off the emerald green golden azalea emblem on the curtain wall, Emma turned to look at Leon beside her and said in a calm and firm voice:
"This is not fair!"
"..."
In Leon's speechless silence, Emma retracted her gaze and said calmly:
“Perhaps I vaguely knew from the beginning that the current Ellie was not the real Ellie, but because I was greedy for this last bit of warmth, I used patience as an excuse and deceived myself for six years. I was also a coward for six years.
And now, I'm going to do what I should have done six years ago.
As a daughter, I will kill him for my parents! As a mother, I will kill him for Ellie who was drowned! As the last treasure flower, I will kill him for those tribesmen who could have avoided death! "
"..."
……
How can I persuade him like this?
Looking at Emma, who was no longer angry and had calmed down again, Leon felt a chill in his heart.
If Senior Emma was just provoked by the actions of the Jinjuan family and acted impulsively in anger, then I could find a way to persuade her to be patient for a while for Ellie.
But looking at Senior Emma's appearance, after her initial anger, she had calmed down after thinking for a day. Now she had really figured it out and was sure of what she wanted to do. This situation could no longer be stopped.
"What about Ellie?"
Holding on to the last hope, Leon tried to remind:
"You also said that Ellie will grow up, so why don't you wait a little longer until she is a little older, at least..."
"Leon, you said you would respect my ideas."
"..."
"Actually, I know you're right. If there are better options, I may not need to do this, but I've waited for six years and I really don't want to wait any longer."
After smiling gently at Leon, Emma reached out and stroked his frowning brows, and asked softly:
"Let's stop talking about this topic. Let's forget about those annoying things for a while and help Ellie have a birthday without regrets, okay?"
(End of this chapter)