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After comforting Fors and discussing her new book, Lin Ruo didn't linger at Fors's house, where she was smiling as if she was about to cry, and went straight back to his own office.
After using Truth to clearly arrange Fors's meeting with a member of the Abraham family, Lin Ruo took a rare nap. After waking up, he read for a while, finding a moment of peace in the ocean of knowledge. He then finished his learning plan for the next month and the related lesson plans for teaching Klein, before stretching and standing up from his desk.
Lin Ruo glanced at the clock. It was now dinner time. According to his plan, he would go to Klein's house for dinner, and then go with him to see Sharron and the others after the meal.
"Reinette Tinekerr is currently unable to leave the spirit world... But it's also inconvenient for me to go to the spirit world to see Her. I should probably wait and arrange a time later, it's not urgent anyway." Thinking of what Sharron and the others had said, as relayed by Klein, Lin Ruo pinched his chin, lost in thought.
It was impossible for him to go to the spirit world to see Reinette Tinekerr. Firstly, the spirit world itself was not very safe, the waters were too deep. Secondly, although he and Reinette Tinekerr were friends... so far, this was only Sharron's word. Although, judging from the original book, this person wouldn't be an enemy, Lin Ruo still needed to maintain a degree of caution.
Meeting was fine, but meeting in the spirit world was out of the question.
"I wonder how many friends I actually have in this world... Probably not many, after all, there are only so many people with names and surnames." Lin Ruo suddenly thought of the Water Serpent of the Water, whom he had repeatedly wanted to meet but never managed to, and couldn't help but curl his lip.
"If you regret restarting this time, you can only blame yourself."
The reason Lin Ruo wanted to see Will wasn't just to understand the past and gain an ally. He also wanted to find Will in advance and remind him not to rush to restart—in the original book, the Little Serpent, because he hadn't anticipated Klein's rapid progress, regretted restarting too early and missing the opportunity.
But now that the other party didn't want to see him, Lin Ruo was too lazy to look for him again.
Anyway, what's meant to come will come. If Will no longer helps Klein because he's afraid of him, Lin Ruo can just pull the Great Serpent as their ally in the future.
Anyway, Lin Ruo had already taken over the Backlund branch of the Aurora Order, and he didn't care about continuing to get involved with the True Creator's side.
"Tsk…" Thinking of this, Lin Ruo shook his head, feeling inexplicably irritable, and suddenly decided not to think about it anymore.
He then skillfully simulated the abilities of the Traveler, and with the change of the surrounding scenery, he appeared at the door of Sherlock's office.
"Ding-dong—"
… …
"To meet or not to meet, that is the question."
In a place that was hard to describe, Will was somewhat melancholy.
As the Serpent of Mercury, or rather, the Serpent of Fate, He actually had some premonitions about certain things.
He also knew that Lin Ruo had been looking for Him several times during this period, but He had deliberately avoided him.
The reason was none other than the fact that His relationship with Lin Ruo was actually very delicate.
Will had known Lin Ruo for a long time. As early as the Third Epoch, He had dealt with Lin Ruo, but at that time, They were actually in an antagonistic relationship.
—Back then, the Angel of Judgment was responsible for suppressing all unstable factors in the country, and Will, as an existence who would never surrender to the Ancient Sun God, was naturally one of the unstable factors.
Don't ask why He didn't surrender, the answer is that He didn't want to give the characteristics and uniqueness to that stupid serpent, Ouroboros, for nothing.
However, Will's interaction with Lin Ruo wasn't very deep at that time. The main reason was that Will was really good at hiding and running away. Lin Ruo took Medici to block Him several times, but He eventually escaped.
So, although the two sides were in an antagonistic relationship, the hatred between them wasn't that deep.
Later, after the fall of the Sun God, after a series of chaos, the Fourth Epoch arrived. When Will had contact with Lin Ruo again, it was after the fall of Medici.
It was a meeting that Will himself hadn't expected. After seriously injuring the Blood Emperor, and being taken away by the True Creator, the Angel of Judgment, who had disappeared for a while, suddenly appeared in front of Him, who had just completed the restart not long ago, coincidentally like a chance encounter.
At that time, Will was frightened enough by this encounter, and once thought that He was going to be finished.
After all, He still knew that the Angel of Judgment wanted to help Ouroboros catch Him, and it wasn't a matter of a day or two.
But to Will's surprise, Lin Ruo didn't attack Him at that time, even though the so-called chance encounter was obviously deliberately arranged by the other party.
He just asked Him a question.
He asked: "What is fate to you?"
Will could see that when the Angel of Judgment asked this question, his emotions were very contradictory. He seemed to want to get some answer from Him, but he didn't seem to want to, and the Angel of Judgment at that time should have been quite tired.
Not physical fatigue, but more like a fatigue of disappointment with the world after a series of blows.
And how did Will answer?
Will actually didn't answer, because before He could answer, the Angel of Judgment said first:
"Forget it, you don't need to answer, it's not important anymore."
At that time, Will was really frightened enough after hearing this sentence, and almost thought that someone was going to kill the serpent to take the characteristics.
But in fact, the Angel of Judgment didn't do that. He just continued:
"I'm a little tired, do you mind taking in a homeless person?"
The Angel of Judgment actually didn't give Will a chance to refuse, because since then, He had moved into His house.
Will could feel that the other party had been observing Him ever since.
He was observing and thinking. Sometimes Will would feel that the Angel of Judgment was actually thinking about that stupid serpent through Him, and sometimes he would feel that He was just simply evaluating something.
This observation lasted for Will's entire restart time. In the end, Will found it difficult to say what the relationship between Him and the Angel of Judgment was.
Enemies? It didn't seem so.
Friends? It didn't seem to be that close either.
The only thing Will was sure of was that He didn't hate the Angel of Judgment, and even understood why the Angel of Judgment had a good reputation that others envied, whether in the Third or Fourth Epoch.
After Will restarted again, the Angel of Judgment left. Later, They didn't meet many times, only a few times, and the relationship had been maintained in that delicate state.
So now, after Lin Ruo lost his memory, Will was really a little unsure whether to meet him or not.
"Perhaps I should meet, at least fate tells me it's a good thing…"
Will fell into thought.
… …
"Fate…"
Somewhere in the spirit world, Ouroboros, who had just completed a mural, looked at the mural in front of him, his eyes slightly melancholic.
And what was depicted on the mural was the scene of the King of Angels picnicking under the leadership of a certain Angel of Judgment in the Third Epoch.
He closed his eyes and remembered the question someone once asked Him.
"What is fate to me…"
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