OBS Chapter 286 Yuli
Chapter 286 Yuli
The nun took two bites of the pancake and then put down her knife and fork. Howard could see that she wanted to eat more, but she had also mentioned her habit before, which was not to eat outside the designated time.
She was already giving Howard a lot of face by being willing to try these two bites.
Howard didn't force her, but took out a stack of napkins from the sideboard, wrapped the pancake and placed it in front of the nun.
"You can take it back and eat it when you eat. Leaving it there won't affect its taste. This shouldn't count as a violation of your commandments, right?"
The nun accepted it calmly.
"If you want to eat again later, you can come to me," Howard said again.
"Did you sense any psychic energy or anything else wrong up there?" Howard asked.
The nun shook her head, but the question alerted her: "Why do you say that?"
"Because even though I can make this incredibly delicious Jianbing Guozi, I still know nothing about the principles behind it. Furthermore, the effect of this Jianbing Guozi isn't just delicious..."
"What do you mean?"
"Uh..." Howard thought for a moment and decided not to tell the nun the whole story. He came up with an excuse to cover it up: "For example, eating it can strengthen your body or something..."
The nun saw Howard's perfunctory attitude, but did not pursue it.
"But speaking of which." After the nun didn't pursue the matter, Howard casually changed the subject: "You and Esrick seem very familiar with each other. What's going on between you two?"
"Originally, I wasn't supposed to have any contact with him until the end of my service." The nun looked somewhat helpless. "But five years ago, while on patrol, I saw a human airship being shot down by orcs and crashing in the desert."
"I rushed to the rescue and fought the orcs with the survivors while we waited for reinforcements," the nun said. "Then one of them started crying like a child, so I scolded him. Later, the Mechanicus took him away, and I learned that he was the Governor's only heir."
Then the nun shrugged and said, "He has remembered me since then. I am not familiar with him, and he is not familiar with me either. But he needs to act as if he is familiar with me so that others will be willing to listen to him. But I don't care."
"He also took the initiative to find me and asked me to stay with him and help him... But his cowardly look left a very bad impression on me at the time, so I ignored him," said the nun.
"But what happened in the past few days made me think that I might have misjudged him in the past. He's not as bad as I thought. Maybe if I had agreed to help him, the current situation wouldn't be so bad."
"I see. I understand." Howard nodded, then he asked, "Sister, can I ask you some more questions?"
Nun: "Please speak."
"When you put the helmet on me in the mines earlier, I saw two identification codes on you. What's going on?"
Although the nun immediately denied the existence of the second identity code, her reaction and expression still made Howard feel that there was something else behind this matter, so he asked about it now.
"Of course, if this question offends you or makes you embarrassed, you don't have to answer it. It's not an important question. I'm just a little curious." Howard said: "Like you said, are we just... having a normal chat?"
"No, I have nothing to hide about this," the nun said, and then she took hold of the thin chain around her neck and pulled the other end free from her chest.
At the end of the thin chain hung not an icon nor a jewel, but an old, scratched sign.
"Yuli, her name is Yuli." The nun looked at the blurred name on the sign and seemed to be lost in memories.
"She and I were both homeless children adopted by the convent. She's only a few years older than me. Sometimes when the head nun was too busy to take care of us, she would take her place. During training, she was always better than me. She was my role model... and she used to be."
Howard listened quietly.
"Do you remember the story I told you when we were trapped with those Eldar?" the Sister asked.
"I remember." Howard nodded. "You said you've only lied once in your life, and you looked down on me."
The nun was stunned for a moment, then said, "Ahem... I sincerely apologize to you for what I said before. I hope you can forgive me."
Howard: "It's okay, it's okay, just keep talking."
"That person was Yuli," the nun said. "During one mission, we were ambushed by cultists. She and I stayed behind to cover the other sisters' retreat, and she was seriously injured while protecting me."
The nun lowered her eyes as she spoke. "She was bleeding profusely and was about to die. I pressed hard on the wounds, but there were so many I could only hold down the largest ones. I didn't know what to do, so I could only comfort her and tell her I would save her and she wouldn't die. Finally, the bleeding stopped, so I thought it had stopped. But when I looked up, I found that Yuli was already dead. It turned out that she had bled out."
"It was after Yuli's death that I discovered I had the ability to manipulate psychic energy," the nun said. "I secretly hid her ID card. In the end, Yuli's body was not recovered because the entire nest was bombed. So she was only marked as missing, not dead, and her identity is still preserved to this day."
"Later, I made some efforts to eliminate the signal on this sign. I used many instruments to detect it and there were no problems. After that, the Empire's equipment also did not detect the existence of this sign once. But I don't know why you were able to find it."
"I know what I did was against the rules, but I don't want to forget her... I don't want to forget the promise I didn't keep. After that, I vowed to be more resolute and stronger than the other sisters. She died for me, and I want to live out her life as well."
"I'm sorry," Howard said.
But the nun smiled and said, "Actually, I've been hoping to find someone to talk to all these years. Thank you."
"It's my pleasure." Howard raised his juice to the nun in greeting.
"But now that I think about it, although these are trivial matters, they seem to be the few things in my life that I can really talk about. Other than that, there are only training and fighting. I have killed many people and aliens, but I can't recall the faces of any of them." The nun took another sip of her drink and asked Howard, "What about you?"
"The first twenty years of my life were relatively peaceful and tranquil, and then I was suddenly drawn into the turmoil of this universe... If you ask me to tell you about my life story, I really don't know where to begin... What do you want to know?"
"Tell me about your hometown," the nun said. "You always mention it, intentionally or unintentionally. I'm also curious about what your hometown is like."