"I'm so sorry, Vita. Actually, I just wanted to make a joke with you. I didn't expect to cause you such a big blow..." Just when the battleship was about to return to the Space-Time Administration, Vita was left out by Vita. After a while, Lin Luo couldn't help but apologize sincerely, "You know, boys are stupid creatures who don't know how to express their feelings, so they are facing the long-lost liking. When I was a girl, although I wanted to get close to her immediately, but in the end, I would only do something to make the girl angry...So I am very sorry to make you feel bad."

Hearing this, Vita's face turned red, but he still let out a cold snort and turned his head stubbornly.

Lin Luo didn't care, and smiled: "Actually, this time I really thank you very much. If you were not for you, I really don't know what to do next...Thank you, Vita."

"Uh..." Listening to Lin Luo's extremely sincere words, Vita, who was originally a knife-mouthed tofu heart, suddenly felt softened, and no longer put a cold face, blushed and said embarrassedly, "Also... …It’s not that serious. I am not such a stingy person. It was just an accident to rescue you from that place..."

"No, no, you misunderstood what I said." Lin Luo shook her head and interrupted her, "I mean: I was in a very bad mood at first, but I just bullied you a little bit, I was in a bad mood. Suddenly it rises by five percentage points, and I feel a kind of joy from the heart, so...I really appreciate you."

Lin Luo looked at her with a sincere expression on his face.

"..." Vita was stunned for two seconds, then clenched his fists sharply and roared, "You can really go to death once! Hurry up and return my touch to me!"

After speaking, Vita turned and walked out. While walking in the aisle of the battleship, he gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, "Really, it makes me like an idiot. It's a reunion after ten years, Ming Haifeng and the others I'm looking forward to it, it's such a mess, I'm really not touched at all...Uh?!"

Speaking of this, Vita was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously stopped.

In the past ten years, although Hayate, Lyrical Nanoha, and Fett have been living very hard and actively, they can see their bravery in fighting, and they can hear their laughter in daily life, but because they are guardian knights, they are fighting. They are the closest person, so Vita knows very well that under their cheerful and happy surface, there is always a lingering shadow hidden, making the smiles on their faces not as carefree as they were at the beginning. Worrying, always worrying about something.

And this mood naturally affected her and the people around her. Others may not know the reason, but their guardian knights knew what Neha and the others had been worried about, so... in order to make their master and important friends again Once they showed the most hearty smile ten years ago, their guardian knights have also been working hard.

Fighting hard and getting the rights that can provide you with a lot of convenience in various things, so only ten years later, in the Space-Time Administration, each of them has climbed to a high position, but any Things come at a price. When they try to get something, they unknowingly lose some important things, such as... the intimacy that everyone can talk about when they get together. There is also a bright smile.

This is not to say that they are no longer close, nor that they no longer laugh, it's just... or something is missing.

What is missing, Vita is still unclear for the time being. She only knows that after the exchange with Lin Luo that made herself angry and mad, she felt as if she was back ten years ago...Although it was a little bit missing Moved, but my heart is a lot easier, as if I don't need to be constrained by anything anymore.

correct! This feeling is...free!

Vita finally understood that in the past ten years, what is the most important thing they have unknowingly lost is freedom!

Because they are in a high position, their words and deeds may affect the fate of many people, so they must be cautious in their usual actions, especially as a soldier or a leader, many times they cannot be affected by their own emotions. You can't cry even when you are sad, because the people below are watching. You must stand upright. You must give them confidence. Only in this way can you lead the people below to fight.

However, no matter how strong people are, there is always a weak side. Only when the night is quiet, a person hides in the quilt and weeps silently, and then smiles at the dawn of the next day. Such a thing... is too cruel!

Although jealousy and hatred are negative emotions, sadness and anger are not. They are positive emotions like joy and happiness. Even sadness and anger cannot be expressed freely for them. Are they too heavy?

However, just now, it was the first time in the past ten years that I was so angry and so mad, as if I had always broken the things that had been restrained in my heart...

"Is this his purpose?"

Vita said to herself, but in a moment she shook her head again. Although she knew that Lin Luo was a miraculous person, she could think of and do things that ordinary people would not dare to do, but he couldn't know them anyway. What happened in the past ten years, and how could he think so much? It was mostly his own bad personality, but... his inner **** was indeed broken.

"Ah, forget it, I'm not suitable for thinking so much." In the end, Vita smiled and ignored it. Anyway, others have already appeared. Hayate and the others should be happy if they know it. enough.

When the battleship stopped at the port of the Time and Space Administration, Lin Luo and Vita walked out of the battleship at the same time, and said to her: "By the way, have you reported my matter to Neha and others?"

"No."

"That's good, don't tell them at all." Lin Luo nodded.

"Why?" Vita asked suspiciously.

"Of course it is to give them a surprise."

Surprise? I think it's a prank. Seeing Lin Luo leaving behind, Vita said to himself.

...

When he was on the battleship before, although Lin Luo had not inquired about Neha and the others from Vita, he silently sneaked into the information database of the Time and Space Administration through the computer on the battleship while others were paying attention. , And then he discovered an astonishing fact: Nanoha and the others' status in the Time and Space Administration is very different from the original book.

According to Lin Luo’s understanding of the Time and Space Administration, its highest organization is the Union and the Council of Staff, which has the power to decide on all events, followed by the armed forces of this Administration, which is the most complete and powerful armed force of the Time and Space Administration. Institutions, followed by the garrison forces in major regions and the Education Department, Technology Department, Search Department, and Secret Service Department of this Bureau and other important institutions.

Basically, the above three levels of departments are the most important components of the Space-Time Administration. Generally, when dealing with important events, a staff meeting must be held first, and then after the opinions are unified, the order will be sent to the armed forces of the bureau, and then the bureau The armed department further issued detailed orders based on the various intelligence of the incident, such as letting the technical department conduct research, or the search department first to explore something...In short, the process is more complicated.

Originally, if Lin Luo hadn’t entered the country ten years ago, then at this moment, both Nayha and others belonged to the civil servants of the third-level organization. Although the rank is not low, the highest-ranking Iori Haruka is only the third-level agency special agent six. The commander of the class is only, and has not reached the real upper core of the Space-Time Administration...Of course, in terms of their age, it is quite remarkable that they reach such a level at the age of less than twenty.

Only this time, they were even more terrifying.

First, the two guardian knights, Vita and Signum, were absorbed by the armed forces of this bureau because of their powerful combat power and rich combat experience, and they were ranked first in the air... This rank is roughly equivalent to the colonel of the Celestial Empire. Furthermore, they are generals, and in terms of power, they are higher than the commanders in the tertiary institutions.

Then, Fett is the first-class airman of the armed forces of this bureau, as well as the magister of this bureau and the executive officer of this bureau...Anyway, she has quite a lot of ranks, and some even Lin Luo can't figure out what it is, but the one with the highest gold content It is still the rank of first-class air admiral, and is eligible to participate in the meeting of the United Nations and the staff, which is the core of the core.

The more perverted thing is Gale, because of the rare traits she possesses, she ranks among the marshals of the armed forces of this bureau, and is the highest rank in the armed forces of this bureau. It is second only to the parliament in the time and space administration. More qualified to participate. More importantly, her marshal will almost never be abolished, because she will be demoted only when all the members of the Union and the Council of Staff reject her. Although her own votes are invalid at this time, she will not be the other first. Said that as long as Fett voted for her approval, her status would be unshakable.

Finally, it is Lyrical Nanoha... Maybe it is that Lyrical Nanoha does not like politics, and the reason why she cannot fly freely in the air once she ranks in the top ranks. Among all people, her military rank and official rank are the smallest. It is only a first-class air captain and an instructor of the combat technique teaching unit, not to mention the comparison with Fett Hayate, even if the guardian knights are much taller than her.

However, a small official rank does not mean that Nanoha's rights are small. On the contrary, her rights are the greatest among all people, because she has a special right that no one has-freedom of action!

Having this freedom of action is the same as the imperial minister who held the sword of the emperor in ancient times. No matter where you go, you can represent the will of the emperor. Even if you are the overlord of one party, even if you are a public prince, you can see Got to kneel down.

At the Time and Space Administration, Nanoha's free action made her the only person in the history of the Time and Space Administration who could confront the high-levels. As for the level of this confrontation?

Let’s put it this way, for example, the combat troops of this Bureau are performing an important task and need to launch an attack on a certain place, and this order is still issued by the Union and the Council of Staff. In theory, no one can stop it, but... this situation Next, Nanoha can fight against it, even if it is stopped by force, unless there is definite evidence that she has rebellious intentions, no one can convict her, even the reunification and the council of staff.

Of course, this kind of confrontation still needs a certain reason, if it is unreasonable, of course it won't work.

This kind of free authority is almost equivalent to that Nanoha has formed a space-time administration on his own. In theory, no institution can tolerate the existence of such a person, and it is impossible to give someone such authority. As for What's the truth... Everyone knows it.

So even Lin Luo, after seeing that Lyrical Nanoha has this authority, feels extraordinarily weird. Even though Hayate and Fett have high authority, their ability to contact them is understandable. However, Lyrical Nanoha's authority is too great. It's unreasonable, it's almost... it's almost like he gave all of his power in the Ming world to an outsider, how could it be possible!

Even if all the senior management of the Time and Space Administration had eaten brain fragments, they would not make such a decision.

But after Lin Luo made further investigations into Nayha, he finally understood, because just three years ago, Nayha saved the entire time-space administration by himself. It is not the kind of potential danger, but when the Time and Space Administration is facing life and death, in order to give her more room to play, she must make her actions in the Time and Space Administration unimpeded, and the top management of the Time and Space Administration gave it to her. She has this authority.

Originally it was just an expedient, but afterwards, Nanoha successfully rescued the entire time-space administration and became everyone's hero...At this time, even if you want to collect it, you can't get it back.

After all, she saved the entire Space-Time Management Bureau. Without Lyrical Nanoha, everyone would have to die. This feat, apart from the permission of free movement, is there any reward worthy of? Moreover, in a series of later investigations, not only the grassroots of the Time and Space Administration, but even some upper-level people supported Nanoha's freedom of action, so in the future, the freedom of action became a sign of Nanoha, and it was also unique to her. , Irreplaceable authority.

But, Lyrical Nanoha, who has the right to freedom, is she really free?

Although the rank of each of them is several times larger than the original level, the mobile six lessons originally created by Hayate's proposal have not disappeared, but existed in a different form. At this moment in the evening, if the guess was correct, Lin Luo guessed that Lyrical Nanoha was teaching her students in the training ground of Motor Six Lessons.

But... After Lin Luo walked for a while, he finally found out that he had made a major mistake, that is... Where is the Sixth Mobility Class?

Although it is not the first time he has come to the headquarters of the Space-Time Administration, it has been ten years away, and after the incident three years ago, the Space-Time Administration has also undergone reconstruction, and previously forgot to investigate the map on the battleship. So that he didn't even know which corner of the Time and Space Administration was located in Mobile Six.

"Hey, the girl over there, do you know where the Mobile Sixth Lesson is?" Feeling embarrassed, Lin Luo found a girl walking by the other side and immediately ran up and asked.

The girl looked down at the file, heard the question, and said without looking up.

"Oh, thanks." After getting the exact position, Lin Luo immediately ran towards the Sixth Mobility Class.

On the spot, the girl was still walking while reading the documents, but after a while, she suddenly raised her head with a blank expression, "Hey, did anyone talk to me just now?"

Although Lin Luo holds the pass given by Weta, he does not want to expose his existence because he wants to give a surprise, or it can be said to be a "prank", so he can fight against the laws of the world along the way. With the existence of, he turned his breath into a state of nothingness, so that no one would notice him.

Simply put, he has turned into Akalin at this moment.

The sense of existence that no one can detect, and the wind-like speed, made Lin Luo unimpeded all the way, and soon came to the training playground of Motor Six Class, just as he expected... several young wizards They are training **** the playground, and not far from them, an orange-haired girl wearing a white uniform and blue skirt with white silk on her knees standing there, watching the young wizard During the training of the soldiers, they operated by pressing the light screen in front of them.

She is no one else, but Takamachi Naha.

Unlike the Wannian Lori Vita, in ten years, Nanoha has changed a lot. Not only has he changed from a little Lori to a royal sister, but he also looks more mature and reliable. An orange single ponytail hung on her side, her tight uniform highlighted her excellent figure, and the whole person was full of feminine charm.

Lin Luo just stood in the corner and watched quietly without going up to bother him. Although there are too many beauties, it will no longer make him have that amazing idea, but like this, he silently looks at the girl he likes. It seemed to be something he had done centuries ago, and it also made him feel quite comfortable.

I don't know how long it took. The training on the opposite side finally ended. The students bid farewell to Lyrical Nanoha, and after he had cleaned up, Lyrical Nanoha turned and walked in his direction. Only because of the special effects of Akalin, even if he passed by, Nanoha didn't notice Lin Luo's existence.

Lin Luo followed behind her like a stalker, and a sudden sigh made him discover that there was a trace of fatigue and worry on Nanoha's face, a little absent-minded.

This girl who is known as a hero in the hearts of countless people, this girl who will always look like an undefeated God of War in the eyes of outsiders, also has an unknown weakness. When those people were protected by her, did they think that sometimes she also needs to be protected?

Lin Luo looked at her expression at the moment and couldn't help thinking like that.

At the corner, Lyrical Nanoha walked up the stairs, perhaps because of exhaustion, or perhaps because of his thoughts. After his feet were empty, Lyrical Nanoha's body immediately fell down.

"Ah!" Nanoha exclaimed softly, instinctively wanting to fly up with magic, but before she could do it, she felt that she had two hands holding herself up and gently hugging her.

The powerful and gentle embrace made Lyrical Nanoha in a daze, turning his head and looking around, he found an extremely familiar face in front of him.

"I'm back... Lyrical Nanoha."