Empress Dorothy Alita nodded thoughtfully after hearing this.

Higashinohara quietly took a look at this woman who was as graceful as a purple lotus in the night.

He subconsciously wanted to ask the other person's age, but he opened his mouth and swallowed the words.

Empress Dorothy Alita seemed to have noticed something. She raised her head and glanced at Higashinohara, and suddenly took the initiative and said, "I am 26 years old this year."

Um?

Higashinohara glanced at the other party.

Aren’t women always secretive about their age?

Twenty-six years old

The night was as cold as water. Empress Dorothy Alita turned her head slightly and glanced at Higashinohara, bit her lip and suddenly added without thinking,

"The lifespan of the celestial beings.

They are generally about 30 years older than humans."

"ah?!"

Higashinohara failed to understand this meaningless statement at the first time, and looked at the other party like a stupid goose, with a look of confusion on his face.

Empress Dorothy Alita turned her head sideways and did not explain these words.

Higashinohara looked at the hazy moonlight Dorothy Alita's smooth and white chin, which was covered with black gauze. It was like a tender egg white that had been peeled off. Some people believed that she was an eighteen-year-old girl.

The next second, he suddenly realized the implication of the empress's meaningless words just now.

The lifespan of devas is generally thirty years longer than that of humans.

That means,

Calculated, among humans, Dorothy Alita's "age stage" is the same as that of a girl of seventeen or eighteen, who is still in her prime years.

After realizing this, Higashinohara glanced at the silent empress, and couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart.

It turns out that age matters too

He thought about it and couldn't help but joked, "In that case, I'll just call you 'Duo Duo' from now on."

Empress Dorothy Alita turned her head and glanced at Higashinohara, noncommittal.

Something suddenly sounded at Higashinohara, and he couldn't help but said with some worry:

"The loss to the Second Judgment this time caused that lunatic to get involved with me again. If the family behind you cannot save you, I'm afraid you will never be able to return to the Judgment Division."

There is not even any place to stay.

"Then leave there completely." Empress Dorothy Alita said suddenly.

"Huh?" Higashinohara was a little surprised.

From the first night he met this woman, she used an attitude of absolute power to make him hers, assisting her in taking charge of the Judgment Division and completely changing that gloomy executioner institution.

Dongye originally thought it was the other party's obsession, but he didn't expect that he would give up so lightly.

Suddenly, he remembered that the other party seemed to have said something like "This is just a choice without a choice" when talking about this issue in the evening.

He was still a little confused at the time.

At this time, he was even more confused.

Dorothy Alita turned her head and glanced at Higashinohara, then looked up at the dim moonlit night sky.

Suddenly he lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Whether it is the Adjudication Department, the World Government, or the Nine Heavenly Beings, I actually don't care about these."

"Then why do you want it so hard?"

Higashinohara's words were interrupted by Dorothy Alita. The other person raised his head and stared at him, and his voice suddenly became a little ethereal and said:

"Have you ever felt that way?"

"What does it feel like?"

Higashinohara said doubtfully.

"It is said that the starry sky contains the most mysteries in the world." Empress Dorothy Alita said softly with a somewhat erratic voice, "Ever since childhood, I have been looking up at the stars of all ages alone, but whenever it is quiet at night

, I would vaguely feel as if my body was filled with a sense of rejection."

"Feeling of rejection?"

"Yes, it's like being rejected by the world."

Higashinohara pondered for a moment and suddenly said, "Is it because you were not the aborigines of this world thousands of years ago? Speaking of which, I have always been curious, where did you come from?"

"have no idea."

Empress Dorothy Alita shook her head.

Sensing Higashinohara's gaze,

She said seriously:

"I really don't know. I read all the classics when I was young. Even the secret scrolls of the Nine Celestial Families don't have any records. Maybe the heads of the Nine Families will pass down some of this information orally from generation to generation.

Secret."

Speaking of this, Empress Dorothy Alita suddenly turned her head and stared at Higashinohara,

Asked seriously, "In the past few years, have you ever felt that the world was sinking?"

“The world is sinking?”

Higashinohara was stunned for a moment and glanced at Empress Dorothy Alita, who was a little unusual after she rarely expressed her feelings tonight.

I couldn't help but asked with relief, "Is it possible that the greenhouse effect is causing the sea level to rise?"

"No, that's not the case."

Dorothy Alita shook her head decisively.

There was silence for a few seconds,

She continued hesitantly, "It's like the whole world feels like a hell that has not yet fallen into the abyss."

Speaking of this, she glanced at Higashinohara, and her somewhat ethereal voice suddenly became solid.

"Actually, my childhood dream was to know what the connection between this world and the hell world is, and why heavenly beings come to this world."

Seeing the serious look of Empress Dorothy Alita, Higashinohara couldn't help but be slightly startled, and inexplicably remembered the sentence he saw in his previous life, "A man's journey is the stars and the sea."

Unexpectedly, the woman in front of me had a similar dream since she was a child.

"Then you have been in the Adjudication Division these years"

"I said,

That’s a choice without a choice.”

Empress Dorothy Alita said in a low voice, "People always need goals. Only when I find something to keep my feet on the ground can I feel that at least the world is real."

Higashinohara smiled bitterly in his heart when he heard this.

A child who has felt since he was a child that "he does not belong to this world, and the whole world is like a hell that has not yet fallen into the abyss" really needs to find something to do when he grows up, otherwise it will be easy for the whole person to fall into this kind of nihilistic fantasy.

It's just that the woman in front of her so-called "finding something to do" for herself is a bit too generous.

Take charge of the Purge Judgment Department!

I'm afraid not many people in this world have such ridiculous thoughts about this kind of thing.

After some conversation,

The atmosphere fell into silence again.

The night was as cool as water, and in the silence, Empress Dorothy Alita, who was about to open her mouth to say something, suddenly turned her head and looked somewhere in the deserted garden not far away.

In the silent darkness,

The moonlight could only vaguely highlight the jagged outline of the rockery that was half buried in the loess, but behind the rockery there was still a large area of ​​darkness that the moonlight could not reach.

"What's wrong?"

Higashinohara's heart trembled.

Empress Dorothy Alita did not answer, but stood up quietly, stared at that place, and suddenly walked over with a slight frown.

The soles of the shoes rubbed against the yellow sand underfoot, making a rustling sound in the dead darkness.

Empress Dorothy Alita walked to the rockery half buried in the loess before Higashinohara could speak.

At this time, in this world shrouded in boundless darkness, the only light source is the hazy moonlight above the head that penetrates through the dark clouds. The shadow of the woman wearing black gauze stretches out from behind and casts it on the ruins of the desolate garden.

on the ground.

Dorothy Alita looked across the rockery into the darkness. After standing there for nearly thirty seconds, she turned around and walked back with a slight frown on her brows and a hint of doubt.

Higashinohara couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

I have to say that such a woman who takes the lead in everything really makes people feel "safe".
To be continued...