Chapter 437

"You knew?" Zhang Qiu's tone was a bit dazed.

"Yeah, the truth about Avalon, it's actually not hard to understand, right?" Luo En shrugged, "Didn't Dumbledore use this trick in the first year too?"

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

"So you even thought about these?" Harry's tone was a bit complex.

"It's okay." Luo En 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 how it is. However, do you have any suggestions on how Sacred Blade should improve next?" Luo En 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 him a letter to ask."

After they said goodbye in the corridor, Harry was really worried that Luo En would say something like "I already know how the Rider plan works". That's how things are; as Zhang Qiu gave more and more detailed explanations, her statements became less and less tenable. If Luo En were smarter and more skeptical, the whole thing wouldn't stand up to scrutiny.

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

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

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

Under Elena's gaze, Luo En remained silent. Harry had to speak again.

"Are you waiting for Hermione?" he asked, hoping the topic could just slip away.

"I'm waiting for you guys." She smoothed her hair unnaturally. Harry noticed that her hair had turned completely snow-white and had become very long.

After a brief silence, she spoke again: "Aren't you going to invite me in to sit?"

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

"Come in." Harry made the decision for Luo En.

They sat down in the common room. Harry and Luo En sat on a sofa in a quiet corner where they often sat, while Elena sat upright beside them. She put her two hands on her knees and her calves together—at the same time, Harry could feel Luo En's body trembling slightly; these two people were equally nervous.

"Uh, I have some things to say, perhaps I should have said them earlier." After another awkward silence, Elena found a topic, "I participated in that experiment, perhaps out of a little girl's spite. Everyone there told me the experiment was dangerous and very likely to be fatal, but I kept holding on."

"After coming out of the operating room, I felt pain all over, as if my whole body was about 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, Luo En."

Luo En's eyebrows twitched, but he still didn't speak.

"I regret it a bit; I regret not telling you personally that I still love you." After she said this, her back suddenly straightened, and her eyes revealed a kind of fearless confidence, "Yes, that's the thing. 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," Luo En finally spoke, "I find it hard to believe this."

"Yes, actually this is also to blame on me. I actually, felt a bit inferior. During that time, I always felt I wasn't good enough for you," Elena breathed a long sigh of relief, "This is too terrible, heh, that's it, you can laugh as much as you want."

"Is it because of my dad's matter?" Luo En asked with some doubt.

"It also has to do with Harry." Elena sighed, "You are both big shots, and I have a humble background, and my future is bleak. I kept leaning toward Hermione; perhaps that was more like huddling together for warmth among people of 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 I painfully pushed away the two people I loved with my own hands might be because of this reason." Elena's two hands tightly gripped the hem of her skirt, "I like boys and girls equally. I like Luo En and Hermione at the same time, but we all know that one person can only have one partner... sometimes I fantasize, just fantasy, can we three live together? Sigh, I don't dare to ask Hermione; I'm 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, Elena's defense of discarding her dignity made things even more complicated. He didn't know if this was another scheme from Donald, but if it wasn't a scheme, how should such a chaotic relationship end?

"That's all in the past." Luo En shook his head gently, "Because this time last year you made a choice, and you chose Hermione. This 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 expect us to return to the past, just, I hope to give me a chance to start over. You see, I have power now, and I can fight side by side with you," she said, as if she suddenly realized she said it wrong, "I mean, I won't be inferior and avoid it anymore. Can we—"

"Very interesting. Then what about Hermione? You think you have power, so you don't need to huddle together for warmth with her anymore?" Luo En 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?"

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

"The power you used to seriously injure Evolt is 【Splitting】, right?" Harry changed the subject, "You tried to take him with you for Apparition, but deliberately didn't perform a complete spell, inducing him to have a splitting accident during the Apparition process, using space to cut him? I want to say this is a very smart idea, perhaps also your only chance to hurt him."

"Ah, yes, yes."

"But it's a pity, Evolt's fourth stage is the black hole form. The power of the Herrscher of 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 really because of inferiority that you left Luo En? Similarly, you also need to think clearly whether you approached Hermione because of pity and huddling together for warmth. Since the words have been completely spoken, then no matter which relationship you intend to choose, these two questions are what you must answer at the same time."

Elena's face became even paler. For a moment, Harry felt she was a bit pitiful and worthy of sympathy, but he wasn't deliberately hurting people either, just showing the problem to her straightforwardly.

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

Harry turned his head to look. Luo En's eyes were looking elsewhere in a daze. He felt he should find an opportunity to end the topic.

"If the power of the Herrscher of Void is powerful enough, can't these two questions be answered? But why?" Elena suddenly raised her head, "Why can't I do it even if I try my best, even if I bet my life? Could it be, really because of background and talent?"

Harry looked at her tear stains blankly, 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 in the end, only got a warning. Perhaps Neville had given up, but Elena didn't seem prepared to give up. But her situation was more complicated; she wasn't trying to defeat any enemy, but wanted to win back a heart that had gone far away.

"I'll say one thing." Luo En spoke, "No matter what problem you encounter, don't resort to power. It's a very dangerous thing to pursue power with a wrong heart."

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

"You really want to be a hero? But this is not the mindset a hero should have at all!" Luo En also stood up.

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

"I understand, because I have discussed this problem with others." Harry felt his mind was incomparably 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 won't ignore this world. In short, just leave it to me!"

At this moment, his chest was faintly heating up. Harry reached out and touched it. The blank energy bottle he had been keeping in his inner pocket was now stained with pale gold, and he immediately knew that this was the "Rider system" bottle condensed from the uniqueness of fate, and it was transforming toward a Full Bottle.