Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 276: The Loser Also Has His Wild Lily's Spring (Part 2)
"It's not my fault that I'm too popular, isn't it?" Finkel felt very wronged. "I was just standing there, but there would always be junior sisters coming over and smilingly asking me, 'Brother, do you want to go on a date with me?'"
"Damn! If I hadn't seen with my own eyes that you were smiling like a dog's tail flower when you were dancing with others, I would have really believed your innocent look!" The girl stretched out her hand and pinched Fingel's face and pulled it hard. Her hand strength was amazing, and she looked completely different from her tall figure. In two pinches, she pinched Fingel into a big red pig head, and then pinched the left side and the right side.
"You know, I just like to be passive and I can't refuse a beautiful girl who takes the initiative to ask me to go dancing together," said Finkel.
"If you have dirty thoughts, just admit it! It's human nature. Who doesn't like to taste bitterness?" The girl looked disdainful. "Do you remember what day it is today?"
"This... didn't we agree to come to Germany to play together?" Finkel didn't understand.
"Hey, I knew you men weren't that attentive." The girl sighed and took out her phone to point to the date. "This day last year, 365 days ago, was the day we first met. Today is the one-year anniversary of our acquaintance."
"Should I prepare something?" Finkel suddenly realized and was stunned.
He was not prepared, not prepared at all. Only a romantic girl would remember something like a love anniversary. He had never thought that his girlfriend had such a delicate heart, let alone himself.
He subconsciously reached into his pocket to see if there was anything that could be a gift, but apart from his cell phone and wallet, he searched his pockets and found nothing else good. The only thing he got was some toilet paper that he forgot to take out of his pocket when he did the laundry last time. It was dry like a piece of white bark.
The girl seemed to be happy to see him at a loss. She laughed so hard that her body shook. She raised her hand and patted him on the shoulder.
"Hey! Stop it, don't I know you? If you don't have anything prepared, then don't have anything prepared. It's enough for one of you to have a thoughtful heart. Otherwise, you'll always be giving gifts back and forth, and they may not even like the things you spend your money on."
Finkel scratched his head. He saw ripples on the Rhine River in the girl's eyes, as if hiding some long-brewing conspiracy.
"Do you like children?" she asked with a smile.
This sudden question stumped Finkel, and he thought for a while before he could answer.
"I don't like them, because they are always noisy and never think about what to do tomorrow. But I don't hate them either. When I'm tired, I look out the window and see the kids playing football and shouting on the grass. I feel like I'm still alive."
"Okay, since you haven't considered it for the time being, let's not talk about children. If you like to be passive, then I will teach you today?" She grabbed Finkel's arm and reached into her bag, and soon touched that thing, which was round, hard, and a circle.
Finkel widened his eyes in surprise. She just smiled and looked at her bag without saying anything. Finkel saw the cherry-red blush on her neck rising higher and higher, and finally even her earlobes were stained, as beautiful as a pink rose.
"Really?" he asked.
"Oh, it's true," she said.
"It felt very sudden, like being hit on the head by a meteorite falling from the sky while walking on the street."
"Are you complaining about my weight in disguise?" Her face darkened. "Damn it, I knew you were attracted to that 1.5-meter-tall little princess! You lolita complex!"
"Who said that? The one I'm into is obviously the mature woman!" Finkel laughed and put his arm around the girl, then picked her up amid her exclamations.
"Can we please not do this on the street?" Passersby gave her a playful smile. The girl buried her head in Finkel's neck. In essence, she is still a Chinese girl and is actually a bit conservative in her heart.
"You teased me first, and now you tell me to give up? Am I the kind of person who will abandon you after having fun with you?" Finkel nodded and smiled at every passerby who met his eyes, pointed to the girl in his arms with his chin, and said loudly in German, "This is my girlfriend!" This attracted laughter and applause from everyone. The girl didn't understand, but she vaguely felt that Finkel was doing something, so she could only secretly pinch his flesh and twist it hard. Finkel gritted his teeth and insisted on showing his love.
"Fingal, live well." Suddenly someone said to Finkel in a very low voice.
"Why are you saying such depressing things..."
Finkel smiled and looked down, only to find that the girl in his arms was gone. The turbulent waves rolled around his feet, and every wave seemed to want to overturn the research ship under his feet. Black rain clouds converged in the sky, and the pouring torrents made his scalp hurt. He clenched his palms blankly, and the warmth just now seemed to be just a bubble illusion, and there was only cold sea water pouring from head to toe.
"Don't be silly! The underwater team has been wiped out! Professor Schneider couldn't do anything about it, so what can you do!" Someone yelled at him. Finkel couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he saw Professor Schneider on the deck trapped in a piece of ice three or four meters high, holding an underwater rifle with a terrified look on his face, like a lifelike statue. A group of people were surrounding him and trying to break the ice to rescue Professor Schneider.
"It's all my fault! It's all my fault! If I hadn't drunk last night! Leave me alone!" Finkel broke free from the people who advised him and jumped off the research ship.
He had no protective clothing, let alone a diving suit. The average water temperature of the Greenland Sea hovered around 0 degrees all year round. The deeper he went, the more strangely cold he felt. There was no sign of any living creature around. Even though the sea conditions were very bad now, he should be able to find something.
Finkel can dive very fast, just like the legendary mermaid. He was an expert at deep diving when he was trained in the academy. He can dive to a depth of 100 meters without the help of any equipment. This is far beyond the standard atmospheric pressure that ordinary people can withstand. But this is not his limit. He is a mixed-blood and the holder of the Bronze Throne. His strengthened body is comparable to the hardness of metal.
His face was unusually wet, and he couldn't tell whether it was tears or sea water. He just felt that his heart was very sad, as if something was holding it tightly and wanted to squeeze him to death.
Gradually he reached his limit. There was very little oxygen left in his lungs, and he looked around but still saw nothing. He did not care about anything and wanted to scream like a madman. The cold sea water immediately poured into his throat, and before he could even utter the single syllable, he was . He could only helplessly spit out a few bubbles and slowly fell into the deep sea.
“Gu Yiyi!”
Finkel woke up suddenly. There was a foul smell of garbage coming from the alley. Sewage from the drainage pipe was flowing at his feet. The unobstructed sky was pouring down the heavy rain that had not stopped in Tokyo for many days, making the pullover on his body particularly heavy.
He smiled self-deprecatingly, scratched his tangled long hair, raised his head and continued to lean against the wall. After being sad, only heavy rain can extinguish the fire in people's hearts and let people be quiet for a while.
So many years have passed, but every time I close my eyes, I still think of the time I spent with her. There are always some people in a person's life that are hard to forget. They leave a lifelong mark in your heart in various ways. Some people rely on their bastardness, some rely on their cheapness, and people rely on you because you like them...
Finkel once boasted to Lu Mingfei that he was also a flower in Kassel College. Lu Mingfei looked Finkel up and down and smiled and said, "Brother, it is good to have pursuits in life, but we can't dream big in the daytime, right? At least be practical. If you say you are an elite in the executive department, I will believe you. What flower in Kassel College? Caesar would not call himself that!" Finkel was shocked and said, "Junior sister, you can actually see that I have practiced for 500 years!" Lu Mingfei said, "No, girl, I have seen all kinds of monsters and demons, blah blah..."
At that time, Lu Mingfei really took this as a joke, but Finkel really did not lie to her. Before the Greenland Ice Sea incident, Finkel was really an A-level student and had participated in the operations of the Executive Department. His status on campus was similar to that of Chu Zihang and Caesar today.
But after the Greenland Sea incident, he became a different person. The way he spoke and acted was completely different from before. He was more like his lost girlfriend.
The school doctor explained that he had been deprived of oxygen in the sea for too long, which had affected some of his nerve centers, and it would be difficult for him to recover with current medical technology.
The old man rushed from Germany and arranged for Fingel to take a one-year leave of absence, hoping that he could recover. A year later, he returned to campus as a freshman and changed his name to Fingel von Frings.
From then on, no one knew his past name. Over the years, batches of students came and went in Kassel College. Only a few people knew about the incident, and only a few people knew about his title as the campus's number one paparazzi. Everyone stopped talking about the Greenland Sea. It was the biggest failure of the college since its establishment, and the worst result of the board of directors' eagerness for quick success. All the files were sealed up in secret.
But there were still people on campus who were still upset about the incident. The school board provided Schneider with the best medical equipment at the time, and the professor was unwilling to talk about it because he felt guilty about it, so he just obeyed the wishes of the school board. As for Finger, the school board compensated him with a lifetime position at Kassel College and a simulated personality compilation on the college's supercomputer Norma, and the object of the simulation was Gu Yiyi, the captain of the underwater team in the Greenland Sea incident, and Finger's girlfriend.
Finkel neither nodded nor refused, but was very quiet, as if he had acquiesced to this compensation. He did not choose to graduate and become a member of the Cassel teaching staff, but instead remained a repeater, with his bloodline downgraded from A until he became a well-known loser.
Everybody laughed at him and said he was a loser, but this loser never thought it was a big deal. He always appeared in front of everyone with a smile on his face. He could liven up the atmosphere wherever he was. In a militarized academy, there must be someone who can make people laugh, and Finkel was the perfect person. He was also the best paparazzi and could always bring everyone earth-shattering and explosive entertainment news on the forum. Many people liked him.
Professor Schneider did not recognize the student who had changed his appearance. Fingel was drunk the day before the Greenland Sea, and he went into the water after Professor Schneider lost consciousness. Schneider did not know that someone had discovered the remnants of the diving team after him, and Fingel found a body, the body of his girlfriend.
He spent so much time bringing the body back from the bottom of the sea that his brain was damaged. His past personality was replaced by the more impressive Gu Yiyi, and his words and actions began to be more like that girl. Ange once lamented that Fingel's current appearance was like a combination of his past body and soul, living in the shadow of the past. If it were in World of Warcraft, it would be a boss-level undead.
But this is not a completely bad thing. On the battlefield of slaying dragons, hatred in one's heart will become the driving force to move forward. Principal Ange is the biggest avenger of Cassel, and he doesn't mind that there is such a person among his students. Therefore, Ange is very fond of Finger. As the leading intelligence expert of Cassel College, Finger was secretly sent to Japan by Ange to perform intelligence search missions several months before the implementation of the Longyuan Plan.
The Eight Snake Families were unaware of this hidden chess piece. Finkel's work was done well. For example, he discovered the existence of Uesugi Yue and provided it to Angers.
But the good times did not last long. Not long after the Longyuan Plan began, the Japanese branch unilaterally cut off its ties with Kassel Academy. Kaguya built a complete network blockade and IP tracking. Any contact with Kassel Academy within Japan would be blocked, and gang members would immediately chase the target contact's location.
Finkel didn't know about this, he only knew that his communication was suddenly cut off one day, and there was always a group of noisy idiots behind him waving baseball bats and shouting "Baga Yalu" to kill him. He had to hide from place to place, without a penny, and without support from the college headquarters, so now he could only beggar on the street, and he hadn't had the chance to change the jeans that were torn by climbing over the wall for more than a month.
Because he was so hungry, Finkel really seriously considered whether he should go to a convenience store to rob a loaf of bread. Fortunately, before the matter was finalized, a JK girl passed by him drinking yogurt. Seeing his miserable appearance, she couldn't bear it and gave all the limited edition snacks she bought to Finkel.
