A Profane❤Wedding
Twenty-five were in elementary school, and the remaining twelve were in junior high. Once they entered junior high, they went home by themselves. Li Mo had nagged them at home countless times about safety warnings and taught them various emergency plans. The purpose was to ensure their safety.
Damn it, he had become a familiar nagging monster.
Who cares, as long as the children were safe. This was the basic responsibility of a guardian.
"Brother Li Mo! You're here!"
Seeing Li Mo, the children quickened their pace, their faces beaming with youthful smiles. They surrounded Li Mo, telling him about the interesting things they had encountered at school.
"Yes, no rush. Tell me slowly on the way. We're going home."
Li Mo operated the wheelchair, moving very slowly. Along the way, a child ran to Li Mo and performed a backflip, while another silently followed behind the wheelchair, quietly. Li Mo was like an old man in his fifties, sitting in his wheelchair, smiling and watching their energetic appearance.
Back at home, Cocolia had been waiting for a long time, sitting on a chair in the living room with two little ones beside her.
Li Mo led the other children into the house and waved his hand. The children consciously took their seats in various corners of the living room. Those with seats sat down, and those without stood, their gazes fixed on Li Mo and Cocolia.
"Aunt Cocolia, long time no see. How's the experiment going lately?" Li Mo was very easygoing and took the initiative to speak.
At the same time, Shigure Kira emerged from a corner and draped a thick coat over Li Mo.
"Keep warm," Shigure Kira said with concern.
Having just returned from outside, Li Mo had been exposed to a lot of cold air. His body's temperature regulation was very weak. If he didn't pay attention to keeping warm, he could easily catch a cold and have a fever, which would last for at least half a month.
Li Mo returned a gentle gaze. After a brief exchange of glances, they decided to deal with Cocolia first before discussing their own matters.
"Not so good. The experiment is progressing very slowly. The Honkai... this world's natural disaster will destroy everyone sooner or later." Cocolia's face was grim, her expression clearly more anxious.
Li Mo advised, "Aunt Cocolia, although my next words may be a bit presumptuous, your experiments on the human body are actually completely unnecessary."
"If it's just to help humanity fight the Honkai, Schicksal has been ahead of Anti-Entropy in human experimentation for many years. They have the science and technology of the Previous Era, and a very good leader. The burden of fighting the Honkai doesn't fall on our shoulders at all."
Cocolia shook her head, "There are some things I have to do. You won't understand if you're not in this position."
"Even if it's meaningless?" Li Mo retorted.
Cocolia looked up, her sharp eyes fixed on Li Mo. She hesitated for a long time before speaking, "Li Mo, you seem to know a lot about the Honkai?"
Li Mo, who had been cooped up in the orphanage for years, could actually know so much? Cocolia was a little suspicious about what else Li Mo had been doing all these years.
To this, Li Mo naturally couldn't reveal everything. Could he tell Cocolia that he had artificially interfered with the Second Honkai Eruption, causing it to end prematurely, and preserving the lives of the S-rank Valkyrie Cecilia and the entire Snow Wolf squad? And incidentally, scammed the leader of Anti-Entropy...
He couldn't just say that.
"I don't know how to explain it. I had a deal with the Overseer of Schicksal, Otto Apocalypse, and we agreed to keep all the contents of the deal confidential."
"Therefore, I have some understanding of humanity's current fight against the Honkai, as well as Schicksal's plans for the future."
"From my perspective, Aunt Cocolia's human experiments are entirely unnecessary. Otto's ambition is not to rule the world. It's just a means, not an end."
"The future of the world ultimately belongs to young people like Seele and Bronya."
Li Mo smiled and cast a warm gaze at Seele and Bronya, trying to lower their guard. Seele was fine, her personality was relatively soft. But Bronya, due to her professional habits, still refused to let down her guard.
As for the confidentiality agreement, it was all made up. Otto hadn't said anything. It was all Li Mo's foreknowledge as a transmigrator.
Cocolia's expression became very serious. She stared at Li Mo, seemingly planning to do something.
Shigure Kira slightly adjusted her position, standing behind Li Mo. Her fingers moved involuntarily, her hands behind her back, ice-blue light spots lingering between her fingers.
"Li Mo, I need to know what you and Otto talked about."
"I'm sorry, Aunt Cocolia. Please forgive me for not being able to tell you what I know."
"What if it's just the two of us?"
"That won't work either."
Li Mo's firm attitude left Cocolia at a loss. Cocolia knew very well about Li Mo's wisdom, which he had shown from a very young age. He was adept at many things, with a kind of foreknowledge. Since Li Mo was so optimistic about the future of the world, she, as a person in the know, should be happy about it.
But as a person in power, Cocolia couldn't allow her subordinate to hide the truth about the future between humanity and the Honkai from her. If it were a normal person, Cocolia would have long used special means to force them to speak. But Li Mo was a pitiful child she had adopted. Cocolia couldn't bring herself to do it.
In the end, Cocolia chose to compromise, sighing and saying, "Sigh... forget it. Since you don't want to talk, I won't ask anymore."
"You've already seen the files of the two girls next to me. This is Seele Vollerei."
Cocolia pushed a small, blue-black-haired girl in front of her. Then, the expressionless Bronya stepped forward and said, "Bronya Zaychik."
Cocolia was rather helpless and smiled wryly, "This is the daughter of my old friend Alexei. He sacrificed himself in the Second Honkai Eruption. I promised to take good care of his daughter."
"Seele, Bronya, you'll be living with him from now on. Don't worry, he'll take good care of you. Go to his side. I have some follow-up work to do in the lab, so I'll be leaving now."
Cocolia pointed at Li Mo and then pushed the two of them forward.
After a simple greeting, Cocolia left the orphanage, leaving Seele and Bronya looking at each other.
"Hello, my name is Li Mo. I will be your guardian for the next few years. You can call me Brother Li Mo. Everyone in the orphanage is family, so don't be a stranger."
Li Mo turned his wheelchair around, then shouted at the person lazily sitting on the sofa playing with her phone, "Sin, take Seele and Bronya to choose a room, and make dinner by the way."
Hearing Li Mo's shout, Sin quickly walked up to Seele and Bronya, dressed simply, with a smile on her face, looking harmless. It was hard to imagine that this was the same arrogant and domineering Sin from before.
It was simple. Just pick a weekend every month, force her not to sleep or eat, and make her listen to Li Mo's worldview. After listening, she had to do a specially made ideological and moral test paper. If she didn't get 95 out of 100, she had to take the class again, and then take the test again, until her thinking was correct.
Once she violated the answers she had written, she would have to face the ideological class and ideological test again. Of course, Li Mo would still eat and sleep. After a few weeks of hell, Sin became much more obedient. From then on, she would look at the traffic lights when crossing the road, observe the road conditions, never swear, and no longer bully the weak.
It could be said that Li Mo had put in a lot of effort to correct the twisted psychology of these children. In the early years, he didn't go to school or work. He spent all his time on this.
"Sister Seele, Sister Bronya, come with me." Sin said softly, her voice light and cheerful.
Li Mo could no longer see the love triangle between Sin, Bronya, and Seele. Was it a pity? No.
Shigure Kira pushed Li Mo back to their room on the fifth floor.
"Ngh! I finally got rid of Cocolia. I've hinted to her so many times that the human experiments are unnecessary. It would be better to shut it down and give me the funds to manage the lives of the children in the orphanage. But she still didn't listen."
Li Mo stretched, his back straight. His outstretched arms suddenly felt a softness. Shigure Kira took his hand and put something in it.
"What's this?" Li Mo lowered his hand and opened it. A delicate little box lay in his palm.
Shigure Kira smiled, not revealing the mystery, and said meaningfully, "You'll know when you open it."
Li Mo was stunned for a moment, then smiled and joked about the contents of the little box, "Alright, I haven't seen you in a few days, and you've learned to create suspense. Let me guess, such a small box, it can't be a magical pill that cures all diseases, right? Hahaha..."
Without much pause, Li Mo opened the little box. Inside was a diamond ring. It glowed with a fluorescent blue light. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, a sparkling blue sapphire was embedded in the center of the diamond ring. The inner circle of the ring was engraved with a string of small words.
A line of Chinese characters, with an English translation below. It translated to: "In countless parallel worlds, you are my only choice."
Shigure Kira knew very well that the meticulous Li Mo would definitely discover this line of words... and would definitely remember what it meant. That was their first encounter.
Do you think that in other parallel universes, other versions of us would be like we are now?
A special situation, a special relationship, a special each other.
Li Mo's answer: If so, it is destined; if not, it is unique.
Shigure Kira didn't believe that her counterparts in other parallel worlds would meet Li Mo, so the answer was no. She and Li Mo were the only case in countless parallel worlds. They were the only, standard answer...
"You really... buying a ring, shouldn't that be my job?" Li Mo was at a loss, and could only laugh awkwardly and scratch the back of his head, looking very clumsy.
Shigure Kira spoiled him too much.
Shigure Kira extended her left hand, revealing her smooth and flawless ring finger, pinkish-white, with a faint, intoxicating soft light flowing under the twilight. There was a saying in Europe that there was a blood vessel in the ring finger that went straight to the heart. Wearing a wedding ring on the ring finger symbolized eternal love that reached the end of life.
"Because you're too stupid, you idiot. You don't even care about your own food and drink anymore, you're completely devoted to the children's education. How can you notice me..."
As she spoke, Shigure Kira lowered her head in grievance, muttering, her pinkish cheeks puffed out, her cherry-like lips pouted.
"Captain Cecilia has been married for so many years. I heard she can leave Schicksal to move around recently. It's just right for her to attend our wedding reception. As for the wedding, forget it. It's too much of a waste of money. It's better to save it for you to buy something to recuperate your body. I'm a little... I don't want to wait anymore..."
Shigure Kira carefully raised her head and peeked at Li Mo's expression.
"Will you be angry?"
"..."
Angry? Li Mo thought this question was very funny. What right did he have to be angry?
He had indeed neglected Shigure Kira's feelings these years. Both of them were very busy, and sometimes they wouldn't say a word to each other for days. Shigure Kira worked day and night for the choice he made. Li Mo understood that he owed her too much.
Even the engagement ring, he didn't have to pay for it. Shigure Kira specially bought it for him, so that he could propose to her. No betrothal gift, but a lot of dowry.
His wife only had eyes for him, and would do whatever he said. This kind of thing, which only existed in fantasies, was actually happening to him.
Li Mo's heart was stunned for a long time. This scene made him feel extremely dazed. For so many years, he had been running for his life, deeply involved in various paranormal incidents, his mind always tense, with almost no time to rest. A slight carelessness would lead to eternal damnation.
This time... everything was too beautiful. The peaceful life, the warm years, the person he liked... made Li Mo even wonder if it was real. But it was just a doubt. Li Mo didn't want to doubt Shigure Kira. Even if it was an illusion, a dream before death, Li Mo felt extremely happy.
He somewhat understood the dream-like, realistic illusions, why some people didn't want to leave and were willing to sink into them. Because it was too beautiful. The best illusion was not a pure utopia where you could get whatever you wanted at any time.
Here, there was also sweat, pain, and bitterness. There was unwillingness and regret, as well as realistic compromise and euphemism. There was also the companionship of family and the warmth of home.
No matter when you were tired, you didn't have to grit your teeth and persevere. Have a good sleep, and when you wake up, the world is still beautiful. The person who loves you will always love you. Life has its ups and downs.
Li Mo held the diamond ring tightly, stood up tremblingly, and got out of the wheelchair. He hadn't completely lost the ability to walk, but his walking posture would be very ugly, stumbling, and each step would take a long time to take.
Shigure Kira bit her lip, not urging him, patiently and quietly watching Li Mo. She wanted to reach out and help him, but Li Mo's eyes told her not to.
Li Mo was practicing what he had once said to Cecilia: "I always believe that everything in the world has a price, and the price of happiness must also have mutual sacrifice."
Shigure Kira, as a girl who longed for romance and happiness, took the initiative to give up the wedding and save the extra money. For more than ten years, she had been busy, tidying up the room, traveling around the world to complete commissions, carefully preparing gifts for Li Mo, and going to Schicksal to ask her former teammates for help to buy medicine for Li Mo.
She bought the engagement ring at her own expense, using the small bedroom as the venue for their wedding. If the distance between the two of them was a hundred steps, then Shigure Kira had already taken ninety-nine steps. Li Mo only needed to take one step toward her.
But Li Mo didn't think so. He thought Kira had already taken a hundred steps. He didn't even need to take a single step. He just needed to turn around to respond to her expectations and desires...
But that wasn't enough. Li Mo wanted to pay more where he could. He had always been like this, like a clean "mirror," reflecting others' attitudes and emotions toward him.
A simple bend and twist of his joints made Li Mo's body unable to stand. He could only rely on the wall beside him to barely bend down. Li Mo used all his strength to control the bones and muscles of his body. He knew very well that he would fall to the ground if he was not careful.
The first, and only, proposal must not disappoint Shigure Kira! His body was almost stiff, like ALS. He could become a cripple any day.
Li Mo gritted his teeth. The excessive mental tension made him breathless, panting heavily. It took him a long time to land steadily, kneeling on one knee.
"Hah... hah..."
Li Mo adjusted his breathing, trying his best to suppress his excitement. As a completely living person, he couldn't control his emotions and remain calm like he had when he had died a few times before.
Li Mo slowly raised his head, more cautious than ever before when dealing with the Bizarre, and put a small diamond ring on a girl's finger. A small and sincere joy permeated his heart. The sun set behind the mountains, and twilight emerged.
Emotions will disappear at a certain moment, be ignored, be forgotten. But when it is awakened again, it will surely bloom with a more dazzling light. After crying hoarsely, thinking that it was lost forever but finally reuniting, is an incredibly romantic and fortunate thing.
Pain and happiness are companions. They burst out at a certain moment, and are silent at another. They are both worth remembering for a lifetime.
Li Mo tried his best to maintain his composure, afraid that he would panic and break this beautiful and warm scene, making Shigure Kira feel regret and disappointment.
"Kira, are you willing to... no..." Li Mo reorganized his words. He didn't want to say such cliché words.
"I want to engrave your joys and sorrows in my heart, and deprive you of the right to be alone for the rest of your life."
"Please become my wife, okay...?"
The soft and lingering words echoed in her ears. Shigure Kira sobbed, covering her mouth with her right hand, not daring to look down at Li Mo. But the love was overwhelming, and she couldn't refuse her lover's desire.
Shigure Kira knelt down in front of Li Mo, sniffled her red nose, and nodded heavily, "Yes!"
Sensibility lowered its proud head, plucked a rose, and greedily sniffed its fragrance.
Soft, warm... more brilliant than life... This time, what Shigure Kira offered was finally not a cold kiss of death. But a kiss full of happiness and warmth, a lover's kiss...
That night, there was no sleep.
The bird sang generously in the waking dream, humming the beautiful melody of life and creation. The rain poured down, and countless water splashes fell from the sky, landing on the white, warm wings. The bird sank.
They fell together, tossing and turning in the filth and profanity, their bodies covered in sewage...
In a daze, with blurred eyes, they fell from the high heavens forever. Thus... reaching the firmament.