Winters and Colonel Geisa left the courtyard side by side and followed a cobbled path towards the bank.

On weekdays, Winters often walks this path to the river to feed cats.

Through the hedges, walls and sentries, the River Anya suddenly appeared before Colonel Winters and Geisa.

Stop and stare, the slowly flowing river water reflects the lights of people on the other side of the house, like fireflies appearing and disappearing in the night.

But Geisa Adonis cannot be as unrest as the "Mother River".

On the contrary, the colonel was so angry that he shivered.

After repeated persuasion and self-instruction, Colonel Geisa could not help but accused in grief and angrily: "Whose little girl is it? It's so rude!"

"Did you hear it?"

"Only one door!"

Winters smiled and saluted: "I apologize to you on behalf of her."

"No need." Colonel Geisa took a deep breath: "I don't care about the children."

The two walked aimlessly along the river.

Winters tactfully changed the topic: "Are you looking for me for Kay Morland?"

"I want to deal with that guy and I can crush him to death at any time." Colonel Geisa looked down on Winters' name: "A Kay Morland is not worth a trip to me."

"Is there something else important?" Winters continued with a graceful remark.

"Yes, it's important." Colonel Geisa stopped and stared at Winters' eyes: "But it's not about Kay Morran, but about you."

"Me?" Winters also stopped.

"Yes, it's you." Gaisa replied word by word.

There is a stone paving road between the wall of the Officer's Community and the Anya River. In order to prevent the carriage from entering the river, a fence slightly higher than the knee was built along the coast.

Winters made a gesture to invite Colonel Geisa, and the two sat down in the fence nearby.

The evening breeze blows away the heat of summer; the bright moonlight soothes the dryness in my heart.

If you don't identify it carefully, the two people who have changed into regular clothes are no different from ordinary citizens who go out to cool off.

As the two of them sat down, a rustling sound came from the bushes on the other side of the road.

A little cat about two months old poked out half of its body from the green leaves, tilted its head and looked at the two people sitting on the fence.

Winters heard the strange noise and turned his head, just in time to meet the kitten's eyes. He made a tsk sound and asked the kitten to get closer.

Kittens of this age are just exploring the world. Although they don't know another human with a strange appearance - of course, all humans are strange in the eyes of cats - they still cannot defeat curiosity.

So the kitten raised his tail, took a step back, and walked two steps closer to the two humans sitting on the fence.

"Where is your mom?" Winters stretched out his hand and let the kitten sniff his fingers, saying apologetically: "I didn't bring any food when I went out today."

"Where did the cat come from?" Colonel Geisa was surprised.

Unlike the Venetta people, the Palatou rarely relies on cats to catch mice, and there is no habit of keeping cats as pets.

The Paratus prefers to use small terriers to deal with rats. In the country of galloping horses, there are enough natural enemies such as weasels, snakes, and owls outside the barn.

So in Paratu, cats are rarely seen, and even owls are more common than cats.

Colonel Geisa's voice frightened the kitten, who staggered to the distance, then looked at Winters with his head tilted.

"The stable, one female cat, three kittens." Winters whispered while summoning the kitten: "I asked the groom, and he said that the female cat had moved into the stable and made a nest. Maybe there were too many mice stealing horse feed."

With Winters's slight call, the kitten walked back little by little.

Although he didn't ask for food, it did not leave, but circled around Winters' calves, meowing and rubbing Winters' boots with his cheeks.

"How did it go with you..." Colonel Geisa was stunned: "So kiss?"

"I'll always come and feed you," Winters answered concisely.

After saying that, Winters simply picked up the kitten and placed it on his knees, gently rubbing the kitten's cheeks and jaws.

The little cat didn't resist, but instead made a pleasant "gurgling" sound, and finally closed its eyes and took a nap.

"Do you want to touch it too?" Winters asked the colonel enthusiastically.

"Forget it." Colonel Geisa was quite moved, but he still didn't dare to try: "Don't bite my hand - in old words, if you want to say that someone is moody and elusive, you will describe him as a cat."

Winters smiled, not saying anything.

After sitting quietly for a while, Colonel Geisa asked lightly: "It seems that the first time we two sat down and chatted like this?"

"The second time." Winters smiled and reminded: "The last time we were like this. We sat facing the Anya River, but we were far upstream."

"That time doesn't count." Colonel Geisa thought and waved his hand: "That time, we fought as enemies; now, we speak as our own people."

“That’s the first time.”

"Oh, we should talk more." Colonel Geisa sighed and pretended to be angry and taught a lesson: "And you should come to chat with me more! Instead of like now - let the old senior come to you on his own initiative."

"Okay." Winters agreed immediately.

"What a f*ck!" Colonel Geisa was angry and wanted to laugh: "I've seen through you for a long time - you boy, you are very cold in your bones. If I didn't look for you, you would never have seen me on your own initiative. Just say that we have lived in the Military Officer's residential area for so long, only one road away. Have you ever asked me?"

Winters blinked guiltily.

In fact, Senior Mason and Charles have suggested that he should choose the right time to visit the residences of several school officials and other friendly officers.

But every time Winters returns home, he never wants to go out again, so he rejects the proposal of Senior Mason and Shire.

So he never heard of similar opinions again.

Thinking of this, Winters quickly admitted his mistake: "I am not very kind, I will go back today..."

"Forget it, it's too late. It's boring if I say it, you'll do it again." Colonel Geisa showed the tone of a senior and taught Winters life experience with painstakingly: "You only talk about official affairs and don't make personal friends. Sooner or later, you will suffer a loss, and you will suffer a great loss..."

"Yeah." Winters nodded frequently while tidying up the kitten. The more sincere the eyes were, the more sincere they were.

"You..." Colonel Geisa couldn't help but get angry when he saw this, but he quickly deflated and said to himself: "Yes, your companions are loyal to you, and your subordinates want to regard you as a god. If you are protected by such people, how can you be like us--must spend time on these human relationships? Forget it, forget it!"

Winters didn't know how to answer. The world became quiet for a moment and could only hear the river flowing.

Colonel Geisa was silent for a long time and finally got to the point. He said guiltily: "Actually, many of your ideas are excellent, and we understand that... after all, we still don't trust you enough..."

Faced with the colonel's sudden "confession", Winters was unclear.

He remained silent and waited for the colonel to continue talking.

"Of course, it's mainly that guy Skul Mecklen." Seeing that Winters didn't react, Geisa hurriedly added: "I still trust you more."

Winters nodded: "I understand."

"No, you don't understand." Colonel Gaisa Wuming became angry. He stood up suddenly and waved his hands hard: "You don't understand at all!"

The half-sleeping kitten was awakened by the sudden loud noise, jumped down from Winters' knee and hid.

"Even if you are more greedy, more selfish, and more despicable..." Colonel Geisa looked down at Winters, almost holding back the latter's forehead: "We can all understand you and accept you."

The colonel clenched his fists, his expression in great pain: "You don't understand at all, Magash Kolwin, Skul Mecklen, and me, and everyone... We don't believe in you, we don't understand you! We don't understand what you really want!

You are tolerant, compromise, and reason, but we don't understand why you do this! We still don't understand why you don't kill Mecklen and Colwin directly, and then turn to kill me. At your age, you should be more reckless, arrogant, and prefer to use violence to solve problems.

But you are not, you insist on holding us together to ‘re-create a republic’. So we don’t understand, so we are afraid that we are so irresponsible because you have greater plans. Do you understand? Do you understand?!"

"So that's it." Winters calmly asked back: "Have you ever thought that everything you don't understand me may be just because I'm a good person?"

"Good man." Colonel Geisa felt that he was being humiliated and glared: "Good man?"

"A monk who begs once told me that the public always likes to help great people conceive some low-level motivations. In the final analysis, it is to make reasons for their despicable behavior." Winters said in a humble and unrestrained manner: "I am not great, but I don't think that the only things that drive people to act are selfishness and greed."

Colonel Geisa's face turned red and blue.

"Or I'll change the explanation you can understand." Winters looked directly at Geisa Adonis with fearlessness:

"I don't use force to deal with Colonel Skur and Lieutenant Colonel Magash because I think that the United Nations will interfere with the Paratu Civil War, and by then a broken new land will not survive. So I need to retain the strength of the new land to deal with the United Nations Army. If possible, I hope to avoid internal friction with the United Nations Army."

Winterstoned for a moment, and said with a sharp look: "My tolerance, compromise and reasoning do have a greater plan, that is, to preserve all the power of the alliance as much as possible to deal with our true enemy, the Empire."

Colonel Geisa was stunned. After losing his expression for a few seconds, he seemed to hear a huge joke and laughed wildly: "Empire... Empire... New Reclamation Land where people are in the new land where birds do not shit, you tell me the Empire far away... Young man, you think too far! It's too far!"

"I knew you would be like this." Winters was not surprised at all, and he responded calmly: "I also know that you won't believe it to be honest."

"How do I believe the reasons you said?" Colonel Geisa's smile suddenly disappeared, and he gritted his teeth and asked in a practical manner: "What do you want to tell me? Do you want to tell me that what you do is to protect the alliance from the empire?"

"For what I see, hear, and know in Taniria, the land of Hed," Winters' tone was extremely firm: "The one who bears the oath has never accepted peace. He is preparing for a war, a war that can completely destroy the alliance, and has been preparing for a long time. He has provoked our relationship and supported our enemies. From the sea to the land, from the grassland to the mountains, his spies are everywhere, and he is everywhere. He is only waiting for an opportunity to achieve the great cause his father failed to achieve and completely cleanse the shame of the empire."

After hearing Winters' words, Colonel Geisa was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "The pseudo-emperor wants to fight back to the narrow mountains... Isn't this a well-known thing?"

"But we are still killing each other." Winters asked coldly: "I even wonder why some people don't want to kill each other."

Geisa Adonis aphasia. After a long silence, he said sadly: "Sometimes, we hate our brothers far more than we hate our enemies. The enemy has to kill our own people first. This is the case... it is all like this..."

"Whenever there is any possibility," Winters said, "I will do my best to stop this tragedy."

"What if the Unionist calls?" Geisa asked with a wry smile: "What if there is no way to avoid it, what if there is no way to hide?"

"I will destroy them." Winters's eyes were not shaken at all: "If I had to be stained with blood, I would not shift the responsibility to others."

Colonel Geisa sat back into the fence tiredly and looked at Winters silently for a while: "Now, I know you a little, Winters Montagne."

"It seems that we should chat more in the future." Winters smiled and nodded: "Col.

"Yes." Gaisa also laughed. He patted the dust on his knees and cheered up again: "I will help you solve the problem of 'Affiliation of Commander'."

"Very good!"

However, Colonel Geisa changed his tone: "But I can't support you publicly in the four-member committee. In that case, Skur Mecklen and Magash Korwin think that being excluded by you and me will be detrimental to the overall situation. Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand that Colonel Skur and Lieutenant Colonel Magash are weak, and if they are forced to agree, they will create a gap for the four-member committee." Winters raised his eyebrows: "But if the four-member committee is not passed, how can you 'persuad' Lieutenant Colonel Magash?"
Chapter completed!