NABC Chapter 115 Chapter 115
Chapter 115 Chapter 115
The sky was not clear that night, the stars were very sparse, and the moon seemed to be covered in a hazy fog.Romimos flitted across the city like a big white bird, without attracting anyone's attention. Even if someone occasionally caught a glimpse of a shadow through the window, it was just a cloud or a flock of seagulls.
Romemos's destination was very clear, her flight path was almost a straight line, and it took only a few minutes to return to the restaurant where she and Glorfindel had dinner before.
She came back just in time.
After Romemos and Glorfindel left, the owner of the restaurant saw that it was getting dark, and thought that there would be no more guests, so he closed up after a little tidying up, and the musicians in the restaurant naturally ended the day work.
However, after a hard day's work, he didn't seem to intend to go back to his room to take a rest immediately. Instead, he put on his cloak, took a lyre, and went out through the back door.
Romemos followed silently.
The mysterious luthier walked all the way to the sea without looking back. He stopped on the beach and stood silently facing the place where the sea and sky meet in the west for a long time, as if he was meditating.As the moon climbed higher and higher, he suddenly woke up again, sat down casually on a nearby rock, and began to pluck the strings.
He played step by step. At the beginning, it was just a few notes and chords. Later, he gradually developed a coherent melody, and gradually accompanied by the soft humming or low-pitched singing of the musicians. It was a small surprise for Romimos to not lose to his piano sound, but it was not enough to surprise her.
What made Romemos stunned was that the music played by the musicians at this time was very different from the style when he played the piano in the restaurant.Most of the ballads he played before were romantic and lyrical, and occasionally there were one or two joyful and lively folk tunes. Si also only regarded him as a highly skilled musician with some creative talent.
But now Romemus was hit by another completely different but extremely real and strong emotion in the music, and she suddenly realized that she not only underestimated the true level of this master, but also underestimated the other party's experience and connotation .
That feeling is pain.
In fact, Romimos had given up poaching people at this moment, and usually she would not do things that were destined to fail.But she didn't just leave so quietly, but continued to listen to the musician singing in the harmony of the waves, as if she was nailed to the ground, until the singing stopped abruptly, and she came back to her senses. Eyes opened abruptly.
The musician stood up, his face obscured by the night and the shadow of his cloak, but he was clearly looking in the direction where Romimos was.
"Romimos, Lord of the Twilight." Then Romimos heard him speak for the first time.
"You know me?" Romemus walked out slowly from the shadows, "How did you find out I was there?"
"Maiya with bird wings is rare, and it's not a secret that you're performing in Perakir these days." The musician calmly explained, "As for how to find someone, it's because I'm very sensitive to sound. Almost any sound within a certain range can't escape my ears, not even a sigh."
"As expected of a master of music, really sharp." Romimos praised.
But the other party obviously wouldn't believe that Romemos followed him to the beach in the middle of the night just for this compliment, and the two of them were silent for a while, when the musician saw that Romemos didn't seem to want to speak first, and he wasn't going to go around with her either. He asked straight to the point: "I don't think you just happened to pass by here, Lord Romemos? Are you here to find me? Please forgive me if I offend you, but if it's still for the sake of those few people you asked me before Question, I have already said everything I can say.”
Romemos found the musician in front of him more and more interesting.
She didn't know the origin of the other party, but she had never seen a person react like this after recognizing her identity.The attitudes of most Numenoreans toward her are nothing more than fear, contempt, flattery, and fascination. A few people may be able to affectionately call her "Miss Romi" after getting acquainted with her, such as her in the Arlando Opera House. Most of her colleagues, but very few people responded with "no response" to her, especially when Romemos came for unknown reasons, maybe looking for trouble.The tone of the other party's words to her was undoubtedly very cold, which is not unusual in a city of Numenor, where the majority of loyalists are, but what is strange is that he also called Romimos as the lord, and the Numenorese Riko There is no one who still calls Romemos a lord, but more titles such as witches and witches.
"This afternoon, I made two requests to you." Romemos said, "The first is that I want you to show up, but that's not the ultimate goal. In fact, I originally wanted to invite you to join our song. Theatre, but that seems impossible, doesn't it?"
The other side was silent, which should be the default.
"Don't worry, since you are so unwilling to reveal your true identity, I won't force you." Romemos said, "But the second time, when I asked you who the author of the piece you played was, you said you were from I heard it from others, isn’t this a lie to me? Taking a step back, even if you didn’t write those songs, it’s true that you can compose them, right?”
The musician casually plucked the strings twice: "Since the Lord of the Twilight already has his own judgment in his heart, why do you want to come to me? Do you have to admit it yourself? Those few pieces of music were indeed composed by me in the past. Are you satisfied with that?"
Romemos nodded: "Satisfied." Before the musician could speak, he directly made a third request. "I want to buy your sheet music."
The musician sighed softly, revealing a vague feeling that it really was so.
"Which one do you want to buy?" he asked.
Romemos' eyes lit up: "If you're willing to sell, I'll buy as many songs as you want."
"Oh..." The musician drew the tone slowly, and then replied flatly, "I don't sell it."
"If you don't want to sell it to me, I can buy it in the name of the Royal Opera House of Numenor." Romemos still did not give up, "And I will sign the authors of these songs anonymously, you don't need to reveal your identity , I also guarantee that no one will pretend to be an imposter."
"I'm grateful, but no."
"But you are short of money now, aren't you?" Romemos asked affirmatively, "I know you are not greedy for money, but unless you are Maya like me, human beings always need to be able to maintain the most basic For the money of living, maybe you can barely work in that small restaurant to solve the problem of food and clothing, but who knows when it will close down at that level of management? The price I offer is definitely enough to feed you for a lifetime No worries."
The musician let out a chuckle under the cloak: "In order not to let that happen, didn't the Twilight Lord already give him a lot of ideas tonight?"
Romemos was stunned: "How do you know what I said upstairs? Did you hear it downstairs?"
It would be fine if they had sensitive elf ears, but with human ears alone, no matter what, it was impossible to hear the voice of Romimos speaking across a floor.
The musician paused for a moment, and then explained: "No, the boss told me after you left."
This also makes sense.Romemos didn't get suspicious anymore, he just scolded himself angrily in his heart, if he had known earlier, he would have stopped meddling in his own business and let the restaurant close down.
Although he was very unwilling, since the other party insisted on doing so, Romimos could not buy or sell by force, so he could only return to the opera house full of regret.
"Yeah, is Romimos back?" Vespa had already changed into pajamas and nightcap, and was applying cucumber slices to his face. When he saw Romimos, he laughed obscenely. With facial movements, it fell down with a slap, "Is the date going well?"
"What date?" Romemos almost choked on her words.
"And Lord Glorfindel." Vesper said gossipingly, "But I didn't expect you to have that kind of relationship?"
"What kind of relationship? Are you out of your mind?" Romimos looked at her like a madman, "Glorfindel and I? Do you think it's possible?"
"I didn't think it was possible at first. When I realized that he was the lord, my first reaction was that he came to seek revenge on you." Vespa shrugged, "But you are all like that. Can you still go out to eat together? And both of them came back alive! Doesn’t this mean that there is something wrong with you two?”
"Glorfindel and I...are indeed in a delicate balance right now, but there is nothing like the situation you imagined. I didn't teach you how to read so many vulgar novels. Don't know it every day. Just thinking about it." Romimos said sternly, "And you'd better know what to say, and don't gossip around, otherwise I will definitely make you die ugly."
Seeing that Romimos was really in a hurry, Vesper immediately accepted: "Okay, okay, whatever you say is what you say."
Romemus glared at her again, turned and slammed the door and left.
After sitting on the roof and blowing the night wind for a long time, Romemos finally calmed down. She admitted that her reaction just now was indeed a bit extreme, but there was no way. Vespa was the first to say so bluntly. She was the one who asked openly what was the relationship between her and Glorfindel, but in fact Romimos himself didn't quite know what kind of relationship they had.
If you start from the beginning, she and Glorfindel met each other not long after Gondolin was built in the first era, but more strictly speaking, they really met on the day when Gondolin was destroyed. That day Romimus finally revealed her true colors, and without any suspense, the two turned against each other in an instant.
Logically speaking, the matter should have been so simple—she killed Glorfindel, and after he was reborn, he stayed in Valinor, and the two of them have never been involved since then, but at a crucial moment, she changed her mind by a mysterious coincidence.Romimus had to admit that if the relationship between her and Glorfindel was likened to a tug-of-war, from that moment on she had lost her chance of winning forever.
But even if he knew that Romimos was merciful, Glorfindel would never accept her favor because of it. Besides, he might not know that in Glorfindel's eyes, the reason why Romimos didn't directly kill him was because of it. Just to torture and humiliate him further.
How did they usher in a turning point?Oh yes, it was because of the sudden betrayal of those two Gothmog subordinates, and she and Glorfindel had to join forces to beat those two ugly creatures to the ground.From this point of view, she should thank those two stupid guys, because Glorfindel is a kind and righteous person with clear grievances and grievances, and sometimes he is even too gentle. After the matter of forgiveness, perhaps for the sake of this cooperation, Glorfindel still gave her another choice: go back to Aman Continent to confess her guilt.
In the end, Glorfindel died, and Romimus did not return to Aman Island.Again, based on common sense, their relationship should be completely broken.
But Glorfindel came back again, becoming the only elf who chose to return to Middle Earth after rebirth-of course, this had nothing to do with Romimos. What did Moss expect, and it wasn't that he was desperate to get revenge on her, although the first thing he did when he came back to see Romimos was to shoot an arrow in her chest, almost killing her directly. Return to Mandos where he is.
However, Romimos later forced him to jump off the cliff again, so the two of them were even this time.
This time they still didn't kill anyone. Romimos didn't kill Glorfindel because she never thought of killing him, and Glorfindel didn't kill her because he couldn't take Twilight. The life and safety of tens of thousands of people in the land are at stake just to avenge Romimos.So Romimus said that Glorfindel is a person who is easy to soften his heart.
And then it was tit for tat, and the Land of Twilight was like Gondolin at the beginning, after the death.Romimos became a captive of Númenor, and Glorfindel went to negotiate with Farathon, asking the other party to deliver Romimos to the elves, and they would take her back to Aman to be judged by the Valar.This is also very understandable, because doing so can be regarded as avenging Gondolin, secondly, Linton has lost a troublesome enemy, and thirdly, although Farathon does not know the heights of heaven and earth, Glorfindel knows very well in his heart that he will Romimos brought back Numenor is tantamount to leading the wolf into the house.As for the "hope" Glorfindel said, if it wasn't just an excuse he used to trick her, it might be because she saved Celebrimbor, Linton might still read her One score is good.
Romemos silently sorted out all the memories of her and Glorfindel for a long time, but still did not find any warm embellishment in the bloody background, so the two of them are indeed big enemies.
Then it's no wonder Vespa would ask such a question, why can the two of them sit together and finish a meal in peace?
Of course, although the two of them are enemies, it is more accurate to say that Glorfindel unilaterally hates Romimos. Saying that she likes him quite a bit... that's not wrong.
And the reason why Glorfindel didn't come up to Romemus and stab her to death every time he saw her was probably very simple-first, he was not sure of victory against Romemus; second , he promised not to force Romemos to return to Valinor, unfortunately he is a person who will keep his promise.
That being the case, why not try to avoid her as much as possible, out of sight and out of mind?Although the cause of the matter was that Celebrimbor insisted on creating a chance for them to shake hands and make peace, but if Glorfindel didn't want to, he could refuse. He could never come to Pelakir from the beginning, unless He didn't know that Romemus happened to be here too, but that was unlikely.
But Romimos should not think in the direction Vespa pointed out, because this is a very dangerous idea. If a person cannot look at the things around him objectively, he will try to find out all kinds of things. Reasons and evidence, even distorting logic and truth to forcefully fit their own inner thoughts.And this objective fact is that the possibility of Glorfindel loving her is infinitely close to impossible.
Ah, by the way, there is also "Lanwen" in this, the lovely Lanwen, the gentle and sweet little lamb, and Glorfindel did admit that he loves her.But let’s not mention whether Lan Wen can represent Romemos. Even if the answer is yes, Romemos also doubts Glorfindel’s love for Lan Wen. So feel nothing?They had nearly 400 years before they broke up completely, but Glorfindel never once explicitly told her: "You are special to me and irreplaceable".
The next morning, when Vespa opened his eyes and saw the position of the sun outside the window, he started to howl: "It's over, it's all over! Why didn't Luo Mi call me?"
"How old are you, and you have to be called to wake up on time?" Romemos sneered, "Besides, I saw that you were sleeping so soundly and drooling, so I didn't have the nerve to wake you up."
Vespa wiped his mouth with his sleeve subconsciously, and his face collapsed: "Now I'm going to be hungry for a long time again."
"Here." Romemos pushed a few slices of bread and a boiled egg that Vespa hadn't noticed just now on the table towards her, "I knew you would oversleep, so I brought you breakfast in advance .”
Vespa was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that this was Romimos' way of apologizing, probably because of the harsh words she had put down on her last night.
"Ah, it's a good thing you're here, Luo Mi is my goddess of luck." So she also smiled, and let this matter go by tacitly.
Romemos snorted: "Don't be too busy with being silly, you won't forget that we are going to the next city today, right? Let me see, you probably have... 10 minutes. You It’s best to be able to wash your face, comb your hair, change clothes, have breakfast, and pack your luggage in such a short period of time.”
Before she finished speaking, Vespa ran towards the well in the backyard grabbing the towel and soap as if his butt was on fire.
Looking at her frizzy back, Romemos could only shake his head helplessly.