Since he was going to help Olivier, Roland, along with Angelica, said their goodbyes. After exchanging addresses and contact information with Ye Lan, he watched the couple leave the restaurant first.
"Ye Lan, you actually have other intentions for them, don't you?" Luna, having dutifully eaten the last grain of rice in her bowl, looked up at Ye Lan. "You told me before, L Wing has fallen."
"Well, the Nest residency is a lie, that's true. But we will be doing them a big favor soon."
Ye Lan patted little Luna's head and continued, "But even though the Nest has collapsed, we do have a safe and good place to go in L Corp's Nest."
"Mmm, is that place really better than our current house..." But it was clear that little Luna didn't believe there could be a place better than her house in a collapsed Nest.
Her skepticism was understandable. After all, if Ye Lan hadn't known the plot in advance, he wouldn't have imagined that in the center of the collapsed L Corp Nest, there would be a Library that was practically Angela's E.G.O.
"Since Roland is getting ready to go to District 25, that incident is about to begin," Ye Lan said, finishing the last of his food. "After we pay the bill, we'll go home and pack our bags. For the next few days, we'll have to keep an eye on Mrs. Angelica's house."
"Woah, don't tell me you like that lady? She's pregnant, you know," little Luna bared her teeth, making baseless accusations against Ye Lan.
"Damn, you little rascal, what are you talking about?" The baseless accusation made Ye Lan laugh. Before getting up to pay, he flicked little Luna's forehead and leaned in close to her ear. "Let me tell you a secret. Your big brother Ye Lan actually has someone he likes."
"Eh?! Who, who is it? Tell me, tell me!"
Hearing this, little Luna immediately grabbed the corner of Ye Lan's clothes, trying to prevent him from paying the bill before he told her the secret.
Ye Lan used a little trick and easily freed himself from Luna's barely-a-restraint pull. He took two steps toward the counter, then turned back to little Luna and said, "Haha, it's a secret!"
Then, he left Luna, who had only heard that there was a secret but not what it was, fuming impotently in her seat, and went to pay the bill.
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District 9, Luna's house.
"Ugh, who is it that you like?"
Even after Ye Lan had brought little Luna home, she kept pestering him about who the person he liked was. But to be honest, Ye Lan himself didn't know if it was just a gamer's crush on a 2D character or if he had genuinely developed feelings.
But his emotions had long been messed up by the loops in the company. If it weren't for the moral standards from his past life, he would have long become the craziest person in Gotham City.
"Hehe, a secret is called a secret because no one else knows. Alright, go pack your bags," Ye Lan urged her gently, successfully diverting her curiosity from the secret.
And while they were packing, a man in a worn-out suit also walked into an old, inconspicuous tavern in District 9.
It was a small, twelve-square-meter cheap underground bar, with dismal business and a foul stench. However, only a rundown bar like this would possibly hire this shabbily dressed pianist at a low price.
Honestly, the pianist didn't want to play in a place like this, but only a place like this would allow him, a low-level pianist who could only play from sheet music and had no connections or future, to perform.
Heh, even the pianist himself knew he had no talent for playing the piano. His dreams of becoming an exclusive pianist in a high-end restaurant or holding his own solo concert were just that—unattainable dreams.
He had long been a hopeless Backstreet loser with a reputation lower than the trash on the floor.
"Tch, whatever, you'll do."
The bar owner sized up the pianist as if he were a pig waiting to be slaughtered, letting out a few dissatisfied grunts. But in the end, the pianist was hired to play at the bar tomorrow for a price even lower than other places.
Even he himself found it ridiculous. For such a cheap price, he was overjoyed just to be able to play the piano.
"Ah, this is a rare opportunity to play the piano. Even if it's for drunkards in a rundown bar like this, it doesn't matter. I have to seize this opportunity. I'll practice a few more times when I get home tonight. I hope someone will like my performance tomorrow."
Leaving the bar, the pianist stood at the entrance, his mind racing. Even though he was a pianist with no resources and no talent, he loved playing the piano. Even though he was thirty-eight years old today, even though he had been pressing his fingers on the keys for twenty-five years with nothing to show for it, he loved playing the piano.
The light that had illuminated the City for four whole days, the darkness that had shrouded it for three whole days—after these events, the pianist found that he had more time for meaningless thoughts.
A warmth, an unease, and a silence that were out of place in the City had been surfacing in his heart from time to time in recent days. Many things he thought he had forgotten had also resurfaced from the depths of his memory.
"My heart, which should have been worn down by the City long ago, has it started to beat again?" he thought to himself as he returned to his empty home, which contained only a well-maintained old piano.
As for dinner, heh, where would a low-level pianist like him get the money for dinner?
"Ye Lan, what are we going to do for dinner today?"
Pulling a suitcase as tall as her waist, Luna asked Ye Lan, who was holding her hand, how they would solve tonight's dinner problem.
"Are you silly? If we don't cook ourselves, we can always just find a restaurant to eat at."
Ye Lan was also pulling a suitcase, but his was naturally much larger than Luna's. In addition to his own things, the memorable furniture or toys that couldn't fit into Luna's small suitcase were all stuffed into his.
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