Chapter 437: Late Sincerity

"You knew all along?" Zhang Qiu's tone was a bit dull.

"Yeah, the truth about Avalon, it's not hard to understand, is it?" Ron shrugged. "Didn't Dumbledore use this move in the first year?"

"I have also struggled with these problems, but then I figured it out again. Even if it is a deliberately created problem, even if it is an enemy played out, as long as we can feel our own heart at that time, then it is the same. Even if we are deceived and become heroes, we have at least gained the awareness of heroes, right?"

"You even thought about these?" Harry's tone was a bit complicated.

"It's okay." Ron shrugged. "The period when I was most confused has passed."

"Admirable." This was the first time Zhang Qiu expressed her approval sincerely. "It's a great thing that you can figure it out yourself."

"So that's it. However, do you have any suggestions on how Saber should improve next?" Ron asked.

"Perhaps I should ask Uncle to find a way to develop some transitional props for you." Zhang Qiu said while touching her chin. "I'll write to him to ask."

After they said goodbye in the corridor, Harry was really worried that Ron would say something like "I already know how the Rider plan works". Things are like this. As Zhang Qiu gave more and more detailed explanations, her statements became less and less tenable. If Ron were smarter and more suspicious, the whole thing wouldn't stand up to scrutiny.

However, when they walked to the door of the dormitory, a slender figure leaning against the railing immediately turned Ron's attention elsewhere.

"Hello." Alina turned her head and said. "What happened just now?"

"There was an intruder, he has been beaten back." Harry explained politely, after all, she was here to help in name.

Under Alina's gaze, Ron remained silent, so Harry had to speak again.

"Are you waiting for Hermione?" he asked. He hoped the topic would just slip away.

"I'm waiting for you." She smoothed her hair a little unnaturally. Harry noticed that her hair had turned pure white like snow and had become very long.

After a short silence, she spoke again: "Don't you invite me in to sit down?"

Although it was a rhetorical question, from the slightly trembling voice, Harry heard a trace of nervousness, and even a bit of humility buried deep in her heart.

"Come in." Harry made the decision for Ron.

They sat down in the common room. Harry and Ron sat on the sofa in a quiet corner where they often sat, while Alina sat upright beside them, putting her two hands on her knees and her lower legs together—at the same time, Harry could feel Ron's body trembling slightly. Both of these people were equally nervous.

"Uh, I have some things to say, maybe I should have said them earlier." After another awkward silence, Alina found a topic. "I participated in that experiment, maybe it was a kind of little girl's temper, everyone told me the experiment was dangerous, and it was very likely to lose my life, but I kept holding on."

"After coming out of the operating room, I felt pain all over, and the whole person felt like it was going to explode. I was very worried that I would die immediately... what was I thinking at that time? To be honest, I thought of you, Ron."

Ron's eyebrows twitched, he still didn't speak.

"I regret it a bit, I regret not telling you personally, that is, I still love you." After saying this, her whole person's back suddenly straightened, and her eyes revealed a kind of fearless confidence. "Yes, that's it, I don't want to let you misunderstand and die silently. Perhaps this is also one of the important reasons why I survived the rejection reaction."

"Sorry, but I didn't feel it," Ron finally spoke. "I find it hard to believe this."

"Yes, in fact, this is also to blame me. I actually, a bit inferior, I always felt that I was not worthy of you during that time," Alina let out a long sigh. "This is too terrible, heh, that's it, you can laugh as much as you want."

"Is it because of my father's business?" Ron was a little confused.

"It also has to do with Harry." Alina sighed. "You are all big figures, and I have a humble background, and my future is bleak. I kept leaning toward Hermione, maybe that was more like a kind of huddling together for warmth among the same kind..."

"Do you love Hermione?" Harry suddenly interrupted her. "What exactly is your orientation?"

"Yes, sigh, I don't want to lie. I feel that the reason why I painfully pushed away the two people I loved with my own hands might be because of this reason." Alina's two hands were tightly clutching the skirt. "I like boys and girls at the same time, I like Ron and Hermione at the same time, but we all know that one person can only have one partner... sometimes I will fantasize, just fantasize, can the three of us live together? Sigh, I dare not ask Hermione, I am really worried that she will look down on me too."

Harry didn't know how to respond at this moment. Although he had asked the most sharp and fundamental question, Alina's defense of abandoning dignity made things even more confusing. He didn't know if this was another plot from Donald, but if it wasn't a plot, how should such a chaotic relationship end?

"That's all in the past." Ron shook his head gently. "Because you made a choice this time last year, you chose Hermione, which had a very bad impact on me. I don't mean to hold a grudge, but you also understand that people need to pay the price for their choices."

"I don't ask for us to return to the past, just, I hope to give me a chance to start over. You see, I have power now, I can fight side by side with you," she said here, as if she suddenly realized she said it wrong. "I mean, I won't be inferior and escape anymore, can we—"

"Interesting, what about Hermione? Do you think you have power, so you don't need to huddle together for warmth with her anymore? Is that what you mean?" Ron shook his head. "Let her continue to be a diligent poor student, while you can step into the adult world, is that what you mean?"

Alina widened her eyes. She bit her lip, not knowing how to answer.

"The power you used to severely injure Evolt was 【Splinching】, right?" Harry changed the subject. "You tried to side-along Apparate with him but deliberately didn't complete the spell, inducing a Splinching accident during the process to cut him with space? I want to say that's a very clever idea, and perhaps it's also your only chance to hurt him."

"Ah, yes, yes."

"But it's a pity that Evolt's fourth phase is the Black Hole form, and the power of the Herrscher of the Void is ineffective against him. In other words, you still can't help, and the situation hasn't changed." Harry said coldly. "So, I hope you face this problem squarely: is it because of inferiority that you left Ron; similarly, you also need to think clearly whether you are really close to Hermione because of sympathy and huddling together for warmth. Since the words have been completely opened, then no matter which relationship you intend to choose, these two questions are what you must answer at the same time."

Alina's face became paler. For a moment, Harry felt that she was a bit pitiful and worthy of sympathy, but he didn't deliberately hurt people, just showed the problem to her straightforwardly.

"Sorry, I don't know." She lowered her head powerlessly. "Don't know..."

Harry turned his head to look. Ron's eyes were looking elsewhere in a daze. He felt that he might need to find an opportunity to end the topic.

"If the power of the Herrscher of the Void is strong enough, can't these two questions be answered? But why?" Alina suddenly raised her head. "Why did I try my best, and even gamble my life, but couldn't do it? Could it be, really because of background and talent?"

Harry stared blankly at her tear stains, not knowing how to answer. He thought of Neville, a person who was also trapped by the trickery of fate, who had been working hard, but finally only got a warning. Perhaps Neville had given up, but Alina didn't seem to be ready to give up, but her situation was more complicated. She didn't want to defeat any enemy, but wanted to win back a heart that had gone far away.

"I'll say one thing." Ron opened his mouth. "No matter what problem you encounter, don't resort to power. It is a very dangerous thing to pursue power with the wrong heart."

"But this is too unfair, isn't it?" Alina stood up and said with tears. "Why did fate give me a dark road, and not allow questioning and resistance? I worked hard to get the power to resist fate, but you said don't resort to power?"

"Do you want to be a hero very much? But you don't have the mentality a hero should have at all!" Ron also stood up.

"You don't understand, you are favored by fate." Alina shook her head.

"I understand, because I have discussed this problem with others." Harry felt that his head was extremely clear at this moment. "I know the most critical question behind these topics, that is, the choice of fate. It told everyone in a prophecy sixteen years ago that I am the Savior."

"If you feel that hard work can't resist the arrangement of fate, if you feel that hard work can't change this world, then leave things to me." Harry covered his chest seriously. "Please live your own life, since I am the Savior chosen by fate, I will not ignore this world, in short, just leave it to me!"

At this moment, his chest was faintly hot. Harry reached out and touched it. The blank Fullbottle that he had been putting in his inner pocket was now stained with pale gold, and he immediately knew that this was the "Rider system" bottle condensed from the special nature of fate, and it was transforming into a Fullbottle. ===== CHAPTER 438 =====