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"Then why are you so sure that I know Roselle's situation?"
Hearing this question, Bornova fell silent. He still met Lin Ruo's gaze, and after a long while, he said, "I saw Him once before Father fell."
"That day, I asked Him many questions, but He didn't answer me." Bornova looked at Lin Ruo, his eyes somewhat dazed.
He seemed to return to that day, inside that palace, he questioned his father why all of this was happening, why He had become like this, why things had developed to this point.
Why… did He have to die!
And how did his father answer him?
His father just looked at him, his eyes, with the same blue color, filled with emotions he couldn't understand.
He said—go find Lin Ruo, He knows all the answers.
Bornova looked at the man before him, at his eyes as black as the night sky, and said:
"He just told me to find you, that you know all the answers."
"So I'm sure, if Father really had any backup plans, if he's really still alive… Uncle Lin Ruo, you must know the answer."
Lin Ruo was speechless. He suddenly didn't know what to say. After a few seconds of silence, he said, "Did you look for me back then?"
"I did." Bornova lowered his eyes slightly, "But I didn't find you."
Because of his father's words, he had been looking for the person in front of him for nearly two hundred years.
From the initial eagerness to the later numbness.
He once thought that he would never see this person again, that he would never get the answer he wanted, but he didn't expect to suddenly receive the news that the person in front of him wanted to meet him.
So he came, extremely eagerly, like a stumbling child trying to find his father's whereabouts.
"Uncle Lin Ruo." Bornova raised his eyes, his expression serious and solemn, even with some nervousness. He asked again, "Did my father completely fall?"
"No wonder you were so surprised when you saw me, but not close…" Lin Ruo also stared at Bornova, and suddenly smiled, "It seems we weren't very familiar back then."
From the first glance he saw Bornova, Lin Ruo noticed that although this guy was surprised to see him, he didn't have the kind of closeness you'd expect when meeting a familiar elder.
Even if the other party gave Klein a meeting gift and treated him very politely, he was still essentially distant.
Lin Ruo was originally a little puzzled about this, but now he fully understood, which made him smile again, and before Bornova frowned, he said, "To be honest, I can't be one hundred percent sure about your father's situation, but he should still be alive."
He couldn't be one hundred percent sure because, with his participation, some things had already changed. But Lin Ruo was very clear that, with Roselle's personality, it was unlikely that he would allow Roselle to completely fall. Combined with what Roselle revealed to Bornova, Lin Ruo was ninety percent sure that the other party was still alive.
He might be in a corrupted state like in the original book, or he might be slightly different because of his intervention.
Hearing Lin Ruo's words, Bornova visibly relaxed. He unconsciously grabbed the hand of the metal puppet on the table next to him, and then let go.
"Happy?" Lin Ruo naturally walked to the desk and poured himself a cup of tea, and asked.
"How could I not be happy…" Bornova leaned against the window sill, resting his head on the glass, and raised one hand to cover his eyes.
"I've been waiting for this answer for almost two hundred years."
"Don't you think it's weird for you to say that with such a young face?" Lin Ruo glanced at Bornova. Of course, he could see that the other party's emotions were fluctuating violently, but he pretended not to see it. While saying this, he also poured a cup of tea for Klein next to him.
"Uncle Lin Ruo, don't you feel guilty for saying that?" Bornova, who was originally feeling a mix of emotions, suddenly felt even more complicated when he heard this. He lowered his hand and looked at Lin Ruo's handsome face, which looked at most twenty years old, and was a little speechless.
The first time he saw the other party when he was a child, Lin Ruo already looked like this.
So many years have passed, and the other party hasn't changed at all, yet he has the nerve to say that about him.
"What do I have to be guilty about? I'm forever eighteen, thank you." Lin Ruo didn't even blink, his tone completely natural.
Bornova: …
"Eighteen years and tens of thousands of months?" He tentatively said.
"Hehe." To this, Lin Ruo just gave him a bright smile, letting him experience it for himself.
"Uh…" Looking at Lin Ruo's bright smile that made people feel uneasy, Bornova instinctively felt bad and immediately decided to change the subject, asking, "Uncle Lin Ruo, do you know my father's whereabouts?"
"Not very clear." Lin Ruo shook his head without even thinking. Although from the original book, Roselle should be on his island now.
But firstly, the world has been changed by his butterfly effect, and who knows if Roselle will be affected and hide somewhere else.
Secondly, he doesn't have specific coordinates, and it's impossible to find him in the vast sea, which is no different from not knowing.
Thirdly, even if Roselle is still alive, he is probably in a corrupted state. Before he has enough strength, even if he finds the other party, he is just courting death— "I want to have a child with you to understand"!
However, although he denied it decisively, after thinking about it, Lin Ruo still added, "After all, I have amnesia now… Or maybe I knew something before I lost my memory, but now I don't know anything."
Bornova was a little disappointed and couldn't help asking, "So who exactly made you lose your memory, Uncle Lin Ruo?"
"I told you that's not important." Lin Ruo took a sip of the tea in his cup and said, "But although I don't know Roselle's whereabouts, at least there's one thing I can be sure of."
"Hmm?" Bornova looked like he was all ears. He was naturally very willing to listen to topics related to his father.
"There must never be a new Black Emperor born… Roselle may still be alive now, but once a new Black Emperor is born, he will die even if he doesn't want to." Lin Ruo said unhurriedly. He didn't intend to reveal the affairs of the Loen royal family to Bornova, after all, they weren't familiar enough to that extent, and Bornova wasn't as trustworthy as Medici.
Lin Ruo just intended to remind him slightly and pave the way for future events. As for whether Bornova himself would be as smart as Medici and directly target the Loen royal family, he couldn't control it.
Anyway, even if the other party really wanted to investigate, it wouldn't matter. It would just attract some attention for him.
Bornova immediately fell into deep thought.
Lin Ruo took a sip of tea, but his mind was thinking about Bornova's words just now, the words the Great Emperor left him.
It seems that he was deeply involved in Roselle's affairs back then!
But… Lin Ruo's expression became subtle. He suddenly thought of Sharron, and the matter of Miss Messenger once telling them that they could come to him for protection.
"One by one… How many people did I have good relations with back then?"
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