Ed opened his eyes and took a look at the phone on the bedside table. It was 8:50 in the morning. Although he didn't go to bed until just after five o'clock in the morning last night, it didn't prevent him from being vigorous early in the morning. Since I had arranged a meeting with Ayanami in advance, he informed Momoka to go out this morning during dinner yesterday, so now he must get up no matter how much he wants to stay with An Qi for a while.

"Well, you woke up so early?" An Qi dazedly propped up a small gap between the upper and lower eyelids, and said with an urn sound, "Ed, do you want to have good morning—"

"No, you can sleep a little longer." Ed gently moved the octopus entangled around him, kissed An Qi's lips gently, and got out of bed.

The wheel of angels has entered the final stage. Recently, he has been working overtime at the project site. It was only yesterday that he completed all the tasks at hand and was able to go home for vacation. The newly married Miss Friday was forced to stop until her body cramps last night. According to experience, Eddy estimated that she would have to sleep at least until the afternoon.

Recalling the charm of last night, Ed sighed unconsciously. Seven years have passed. Although Lacus and the others are not disgusted with his physical defects and are very tolerant, he will be forced to think that he has been deprived of being one of the most important symbols of being a male whenever he gets in touch with his lover. The inner suffering is increasing day by day-the function of his sage's time has been deleted.

"You don't need it anyway, do these technical details make sense?" He had slandered this word countless times, but it was a pity that he couldn't speak to the instigator in person.

Ed, who had finished washing, went down to the first floor, Taoxiang was cleaning up as expected, and saw him yelling "Good morning Master" sweetly. C.C. is also a lazy person. It is estimated that she will not wake up until noon. Alice should have been working hard in the laboratory by now. In the living room, only Lacus was crackling against the laptop.

"Morning." Eddy walked behind Lacus and took a look, only to see the densely packed words, "What is this doing?"

"Ed?!" Lacus closed the screen reflexively, and a blush flashed across her face, "It's nothing, I'm free to write something to play with."

Seeing her reluctance to say, Ed did not ask. If you want to live mentally healthy in the complex environment of the Lingoes family, it is necessary for everyone to maintain a certain degree of absolute privacy. He looked around at random and found someone's skirt and stockings scattered on the sofa: "Minerva is up too?"

"Get up, she said that Hathaway came back today, and she made an appointment to pick up the boat with Plu at noon to get up early. There is no other reason." Lacus said in the direction of the bathroom, "I'm taking a shower."

As soon as Lacus's words fell, Minerva's wet head came out of the bathroom, with a small half of his naked shoulders exposed. The girl's face was reddened by the heat, adding a sense of charm, and the water droplets on her shoulders slowly slid along the collarbone to the outside of the field of vision, making people unable to help but imagine.

"Uncle Ed, are you up?" Minerva said cheerfully, "My nightdress is wet, can you help me get another one back to the room? I remember it seems to be on the bed."

Ed calmly lowered his head and began to read this morning's news: "Peach Xiang, you go and help Minerva get clean clothes."

After a while, Minerva, who was wiping his body and changing his clothes, stood in front of Ed happily, and involuntarily stuffed the hair dryer into his hand. Shui Lingling’s big eyes were full of dissatisfaction: "Ed Uncle, you haven't blown my hair for a long time."

Speaking of this Ed, he couldn't help but feel weak. He has been too busy in recent years, and he has to allocate his limited leisure time to C.C. as much as possible. The time to spend with Minerva has indeed decreased. Isn't it unreasonable that the girl is too attached to him, it is probably a mixture of a sense of mental loss and the excess desire formed by the reaction? This shows that in the future, as long as you accompany her more, she will gradually get better.

Thinking of this, Ed called Minerva to sit down, and stood behind her, and began to dry the girl's hair with ease. The only thing left in the living room is the whirring of the hair dryer and the pattering of the keyboard, as if it were ten years ago.

Ed skillfully stroked Minerva's smooth long hair, and his downward gaze passed the girl's show very naturally and slipped into her overly wide neckline. What you can see is a pair of delicate clavicles, underneath the snow-white mounds propped up the thin silk nightdress like cicada wings, and the crystal embellishments on it rubbed gently with the movements of his hands. velvet……

"Peach fragrance." Ed turned around decisively and handed the hair dryer to the little maid who heard the sound. "I'm going out soon and run out of time. You can help Minerva to dry her hair."

"Oh." Taoxiang nodded and accepted it obediently, "Good master."

"Not good at all!" Minerva bounced off his chair, staring at Ed with a grievance, "Are you not willing to give me this time? It's too much! It's too much!" "

Ed looked at Lux for help, but the latter continued the code word without looking up, ignoring everything that happened before him, so he could only bite the bullet and try to control the situation: "A meeting was arranged with Li at noon. ——"

"Don't change the subject! Who cares about what you discuss in the meeting? I only need you to give me half an hour. In your heart, isn't your daughter even half an hour worth wasting?" Minerva's big eyes There was a layer of mist in the inside, "You have stopped bathing me since the age of fourteen, and you have not accompany me to sleep since the age of fifteen, and since the age of sixteen you have refused to even hold me to watch TV, and now you even blow your hair. Will the right to be taken away from me? What am I in your heart? Will everything be a burden when you get married?"

Ed is very self-aware and firmly believes that Minerva cannot be appeased by his own emotional intelligence. What he has to do now is to delay the outbreak and find a reliable family ethics consultant before that, so he chooses the third Sixteen Strategies: "You know that you are very important to me. Let's talk about it tonight. But now I'm really out of the way. It's the same for Taoxiang to blow your hair."

"It's totally different!" Minerva pointed to Taoxiang angrily. "She's just a maid, how can it be the same!"

"Minerva!" Ed's expression became serious in an instant, "Apologize to Momoka, immediately."

"Apologize?" Minerva laughed at himself, tears streaming out, "So in your mind, even the maid's status is higher than mine?"

"You know it's not for this." Ed sternly said, "When you were a kid, Momoka didn't take care of you. How could you talk to her like that? What is a maid in the district? Who taught you this kind of uneducated?"

"Sounding rhetoric, do you think I don't know the reason?" Minerva's eyes were red so distressingly, "Of course it's because you slept with her, the woman who can sleep and will marry sooner or later. It’s self-evident who is more important to his daughter, right?"

Now it was Ed's turn to be stunned: "Why are you—"

"How did you find it when I asked me? Do you need to find out, which woman in this room other than me have you never seen?" Minerva yelled hysterically, tears dripping down like money." In the past few years, you didn’t have much to go home. When you came back, it was so dark with them. The sound of bed calling can be heard across the wall at night. What do you make me as a daughter think? I can grow up healthy and normal. Damn it! Uncle Ed, I can tell you the truth, I will become the way I am now. It is all your responsibility!"

Every word of the girl hit Ed's heart like a heavy hammer, so shocking that he couldn't say a word.

Minerva silently moved to the wall to open the drawer, turned inside out and took out a uniquely shaped knife, and walked back to Ed in silence. Then the girl grabbed her long orange hair with her left hand, and the blade with her right hand was in the middle of the hair.

"Now you think I'm in trouble, right? You don't want to help me blow my hair, do you?" The girl pulled her right wrist downward, and her long hair was cut into two pieces. Don’t you? Throw away what no one wants!"

After speaking, the girl threw away the knife and turned upstairs, leaving only the broken hair all over the floor.

Ed was completely stunned, as if his brain hadn't understood what had just happened.

Only then did Lacus unhurriedly raise her gaze from the screen: "Do you think that Minerva just now seems to be a different person, especially strange? Did you think that the cute image of the little girl was hit by reality? Shattered? Do you feel that the distance between you and her has suddenly been completely lost?"

Ed nodded blankly.

"Blue is better than blue." Laksy murmured, "I can't do better."

"What did you say?"

"I said that's great. You should stop deceiving yourself and face the reality. Minerva's education clearly has a problem." Lacus walked over and picked up the knife. "Hey, this is not what I brought from Dakar. Is that one back? Where did she find it out."

"Taoxiang, please clean up." Ed walked towards the hall in despair, "I'm going to a meeting."

...

"So... Ed? Ed? Ed?" Ayanami's voice awakened him from a daze for the first time he never knew, "So I want to take three days off at the beginning of next month."

"I'll give you half a month." Ed replied absently, "After all, Shinji-kun is married."

The air was quiet for a moment, and the scene was once very embarrassing.

A few seconds later, Ayanami sighed softly, and the tight facial lines became softer, and the solidified shoulders relaxed naturally, and the slightly imperceptible twisting of the hips gave the original correct sitting posture a little angle. However, just these changes that are almost imperceptible to the naked eye have turned her temperament upside down, transforming from an unworldly girl into a gentle and pleasant young woman.

"How should I put it, there is a feeling of relief, a sense of relief that I don't have to play anymore." Ayanami chuckled lightly, "Let's talk, when did you see it?"

"You asked for leave during the high school graduation ceremony of Shinji-kun. From then on, I have been suspicious." Ed also bluntly told the truth, "When he graduated from college, you asked for leave again. At that moment, I was finally convinced, Rei, your memory back to normal."

"You, you are obviously dull but keen in such a strange place... After graduating from Shinji University, then Ed, have you watched my jokes for more than a year?" Ayanami shook her head, "still calling me Rei ?"

"Yeah, can't it?" Ed asked back, "From the time I knew you in the petri dish until now, every conversation between us belongs to Adrian Lingoes and Ayapolis, each other. In the overlapping life trajectories, there is no character named Yui. If you want me to change my words, of course I will cooperate, but to me you are just Ayanami and not someone else."

Ayanami closed her eyes and pondered for a while. When she opened her eyes, a faint smile climbed up to the corner of her mouth again: "It's okay to keep it simple. I like the atmosphere now, so let's not change it. "

"Then Miss Li." Ed coughed solemnly, "To celebrate our relationship returning to normal from the edge of ruin, can you satisfy my little wish? To tell you the truth, I have been holding back for several years. Endure till now."

"Okay." Ayanami nodded with a smile, "As long as I can do it."

"In order to prevent people from eavesdropping, let's talk like this." Ed's voice sounded directly in her head, "I am puzzled. How did you make Alice an obedient baby?"

"It's very simple." Ayanami replied indifferently, "I deliberately let her accidentally see Nono's plan, and when she eavesdropped on me, she said to herself,'The old model of AI is really not sufficiently subjective. In this way, Ed can only rely on Nono, right from then on she has been very cooperative with my experiment."

"...Let's get down to business."

"Then you look at this first." Ayanami graciously took out three stacks of documents and placed them in front of Ed. "I have processed all the stacks on the left. You only need to sign the stack; I can't decide on the stack in the middle, but the point is. The suggestions and suggestions are all marked out, and you can understand at a glance; the key is that there is a problem with the data on the right, your plan to cut the earth."

"Impossible." Ed blurted out subconsciously, "How could I—"

"That might be me wrong." Ayanami immediately took back the information on the right. "Although Ed, you gave me the right to make decisions, I hope I can exist as your error correction module, but I feel that I am still It's too immature. Why don't you let me return to a pure student status first, and I will be able to help you when I become more mature. Then you will--"

"I'm sorry, Li, I was wrong." Ed quickly pulled out the information from her hand, "I have the iron proof in my hands. Without you, I will perish in minutes."

"You don't have the majesty of academic hegemony at all, so Ed, Doctor, he is much more stubborn than you." Ayanami smiled and looked at his frowning reading materials, "but you are still cute."

It turns out that he was wrong. You must know that the earth is essentially a liquid sphere, and simply cutting it from it can only destroy the crust. The core and mantle will still remain intact because of its universal gravitation and liquid properties, so how can we cut it? The earth is a lively life, let alone how to guide the flight trajectory of the cut pieces of earth.

Ed did not consider a boundary situation, which caused him to be completely unable to control the development of the situation once it was actually close to the boundary situation if implemented according to his plan. Fortunately, he also has a powerful error correction module often accompanied by him.

"Ayanami is so easy to use." Ed said inwardly for countless times.

Then Ed put all his mind and body into the calculation model, and his happy scientific work made him temporarily forget Minerva's troubles. Ayanami will present her opinions from time to time, and by the way, she will serve him tea and water and organize tools.

By the time Ed updated his plan and said goodbye to Ayanami and returned home, the sky was completely dark. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the whole family sitting neatly in the living room, and everyone looked strange.

Except for Minerva's absence, it can't be found in perception.

"Master, you are finally back!" Taoxiang hurriedly greeted him, "Everyone can't find you everywhere, I don't know what to do."

"I was in a meeting with Rei, and the phone was turned off." Ed handed her the jacket, "What's wrong? Has something happened? Where is Minerva?"

"Take out your phone," C.C. said lazily. "Just open a portal and headline the front page."

Ed unknowingly took out his mobile phone and clicked on a website casually. Minerva's large photo occupies the entire screen. An ominous premonition rose slowly, and he swallowed, shaking and clicking on the video below the photo.

"Hello everyone in the world, I am Minerva Law Zabi. Not Audrey Lingoes, that is the pseudonym that the man gave me after adopting me. My real name is Mi Neva Law Zabi.

"I have the courage to stand here today because of my reason, because of my conscience, for freedom, for justice, and to expose a terrifying conspiracy to the innocent people of the world who are kept in the dark. But before that, I A difficult decision must be made first-

"I declare that I will sever all relations with Adrian Lingoes!"