Stardust Remembrance

Chapter 12: The Outcast (1)

Fifty Steps to Laugh at a Hundred

It was the afternoon of the next day when Loran came to her senses, in the medical bay of the base's annex hospital.

She sat in a daze for a while before remembering what happened before she lost consciousness.

Surprisingly, she had fainted again! And, where couldn't she faint, why did she have to unknowingly faint in Tatsuha's arms?

It couldn't be that he had punched her in a fit of rage and she had gotten into the medical bay, could it?

"How did I get hurt?"

Qingchu said, "It's just that my body was overexerted, and with the help of the medical capsule to let all my organs rest quickly, the doctor said that I'll be fine after a nap."

"That's so." It seems that Tatsuya is more humane than she thought.

Qing Yue cried and said, "The princess is not joining the army, why should she test her physical abilities according to the army's standards? If they don't care, doesn't the princess care about herself?"

Luo Lan looked at her eyes reddened, I guess she had been guarding her and couldn't take a rest, her heart warmed up, smiled and said, "I made you worry, it's me who didn't have a good grasp of the situation, it has nothing to do with Feng Lin and the others."

"How could it have nothing to do with them? A bunch of fae with evil intentions ......"

"Shut up!"

For the first time, Loran spoke sternly, startling both Qing Yue and Qing Chu.

Feng Lin exited the elevator and hurried toward Luo Lan's hospital room.

Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks.

Outside the ward, Zi Yan stood leaning against the wall, tossing and playing with a few tarot cards while relying on her extraordinary hearing powers to eavesdrop right in the middle of the room.

Feng Lin walked over and asked helplessly, "Have you been idle lately?"

Zi Yan glanced at her and said dully, "Aren't I working right now? Yo! Listen! We're all fae with evil intentions ......"

"The princess said that?" Feng Lin's face was ugly, and he lifted his foot to rush towards the ward.

"No." Zi Yan grabbed her with a smile and made a silencing gesture, signaling her to take it easy and listen to the drama.

Inside the ward.

Luo Lan stared at Qing Yue and said sternly, "I never want to hear you say the word 'fae' in such a tone in the future!"

Qing Yue was filled with tears and defiance, "I'm not wrong, they were originally 'humans carrying the Fae gene'!"

Qingchu kept tugging at the hem of Qing Yue's coat, imploring her to stop talking, but Qing Yue simply ignored it. She stretched her neck and asked with vigor, "If it wasn't for their evil intentions, how did the princess come to Odin? If it wasn't for them, we would still be well and truly in Ar, with our family and friends, doesn't the princess hate them?"

Loran was stumped by the question.

The real Princess Loran must hate Odin!

But she was a fake.

If it wasn't for the Odin Federation forcing Princess Loran to marry her, she would have already died at base G9737. From a certain point of view, the Odin Federation had saved her, and although she wasn't grateful, she didn't have the slightest bit of ill feeling towards the Odin Federation.

Moreover, she has lost all her memories, and does not have the slightest established views or prejudices about the "fae", and all her understanding started from Zi Yan, Feng Lin, Qian Xu ...... and others.

So far, she doesn't think she's smarter, more capable, or more superior than them.

Qing Yue looked at Luo Lan's silence and became more and more justified, "Princess hates them, why should she condemn herself ......"

"I don't hate them!" Luo Lan categorically stated her true thoughts, she only received the princess's identity, she did not receive the princess's love, much less her hate.

Qing Yue stared at Luo Lan in disbelief.

"The Odin Confederation only offered to marry a princess, it didn't specify that it was me. It wasn't Odin who forced me to marry, it was Al! As a princess who was abandoned by the Al Empire, if I want to hate Odin, then I should hate Al even more. Shouldn't I still seek revenge on Emperor Al who knocked me out and threw me onto the airship?"

Kiyoshi looked embarrassed and could not answer.

Loran said firmly, "From the moment I boarded the ship, I have decided to live only for myself! The stars are vast, where can't I make a home?"

Kiyoshi murmured, "But this is the Odin Federation, and they are all Fae!"

Loran knew that she shouldn't hold Kiyoshi and Kiyochu to her standards, but this was Odin, and she had to correct both of them as much as she could for their safety, as well as her own.

"As you said, this is the Federation of Odin, who would suffer if they were offended by a figure of speech? Kiyoshi you have been complaining that Anda is kind to Kiyochu and always cold to you, have you ever thought about why Anda is like that? Anda is only slightly disciplining you, if he were to be replaced by a narrow-minded person, with his position, he would have countless ways to get you killed! At that time, do you think the Emperor of Ar will redress your grievances?"

Qing Yue's face turned red, biting her lip fiercely as teardrops rolled around in her eyes.

Loran felt that after the micro-interests were knocked out, he could go on to the macro-apocalypse.

"Are you two genetically purely human?"

Qingchu glanced at the silent Qingyue and answered in a thin voice, "I heard that my ancestor was a very famous interstellar explorer and that he had modified his genes by editing them after feline genes to gain night vision, as well as having genetic surgery to beautify his appearance."

"Kiyoshi, what about you?" Loran asked.

Kiyoshi said stiffly and stiffly, "How can our genes be as rare as a princess? My ancestors were not tall and had genes modified for height and genetic surgery to beautify their looks."

Loran said, "In the ancient Earth era a long, long time ago, there was a story of 'fifty paces laughing at a hundred paces' about a group of soldiers who went to the battlefield to fight a war, and because of fear, they all ran away, and as a result, the soldier who ran away fifty paces laughed at the one who ran away a hundred paces. Do you guys think that the soldier who ran away fifty steps should look down on the soldier who ran away a hundred steps?"

Qing Yue and Qing Chu had very complicated expressions, neither of them said anything.

Loran pulled Qing Yue with one hand and Qing Chu with the other, "We're already in the Odin Confederation, always thinking about its bad side will only make you unhappy. Try to discover the good side of it and let yourself be happy, okay?"

Qingchu immediately nodded.

Qing Yue hesitated for a split second but eventually nodded gently as well.

Loran thought that this would have to do for now, and if they still couldn't accept Odin, perhaps, when she was able to, she would find a way to send them back to Al.

Outside the ward.

Zi Yan eavesdropped while relaying to Feng Lin.

For the first time, Feng Lin heard the allusion to the "50 paces of laughter", and the more he tasted it, the more interesting he found it.

Suddenly, a tall figure silently stood beside her and Zi Yan.

Feng Lin looked up in surprise and saw that it was Chen Sha, very embarrassed, no matter how they were eavesdropping on other people's wife's wall feet, caught in the act.

Purple Banquet, however, was not the least bit embarrassed, and with a calm demeanor, he briefly repeated what Loran had said earlier, and asked with a smile, "Isn't it interesting?" It wasn't clear whether he was asking if the princess was interesting or if the story was interesting.

Chen Sha did not move and said faintly, "The story is a bit interesting."

Feng Lin said excitedly, "The satire is venomous and precise! I've always felt that those people are not clean themselves, but they always put on a superior face. The next time I go to the Interstellar Academic Conference, and someone flips me the bird again, I'll learn this Princess trick of telling them a story and disgust them properly."

Feng Lin looked at Cinnabar and lamented with words, "We were lucky! I originally thought it was a big trouble, but I didn't expect the princess to have such a clear mind and a good personality, it's completely different from what I imagined."

A hopeful scum?

Loran mulled it over for a moment and decided to ignore the "scraps" and focus only on the "hope".

"Looks like I still have a lot of room for improvement."

"Not just a lot! Do you know how long you lasted in the gravity chamber yesterday?"

"How long?"

"Well ...... a long time anyway. How did you do it?"

"I thought you told me to hold on as long as I could!" Being in a desperate situation, it's either life or death, so it's natural to do that.

"Everyone knows that, but it was just a test, no one would put their life on the line to hold on like you did."

"I don't know anymore." Loran had a ghost in his heart and didn't want to explore the topic any further, "Am I physically okay now? Can I go back?"

"No problem, you can go back."

Loran was about to call for a flying car when Feng Lin pointed outside, "Tatsusa is here to pick you up from the hospital."

She winked flirtatiously, made a gesture of ripping off her clothes and puffing up her chest to pounce on her, and said wordlessly with her mouth, "Fix him!"

Loran immediately felt bad about the whole thing.