At the airport, I enjoyed the heroic treatment. The pilots and ground crews around me carried me up and threw me into the air again and again, cheering wave after wave.
“Excellent job, Eagle!”
The voice that I had heard on the radio several times suddenly overshadowed the noise around me, making the crowd gathered around me quickly quiet down, and thanked the speaker for the blessing, my feet finally returned to the ground.
.
I looked in the direction where the sound came and saw a light brown hair with curly hair that looked like a pug, and a pair of large sunglasses on the bridge of my nose, walking towards me with separate people.
The pilots and ground crew members who had just raised me over their shoulders all retreated from me automatically, leaving a small circle of clearings around me.
The colonel stood in front of me, took off his sunglasses in a very cool movement, grinned and smiled at me, while stretching out his right hand: "Captain of the 12th Anti-Tank Brigade, Air Force Colonel Lukanen, barely
He can be considered an ace pilot."
I glanced at the colorful battle-making chapter on the collar's flight jacket's chest, and then smiled and held the colonel's hand that came out: "Air Force Major Gregory."
I originally wanted to make a joke in Lukanin's tone, but unfortunately, my sense of humor was terrible. When Natalia was alive, she often complained, "Grisha, you're too boring to speak."
.
The sudden thought of Natalia made my mood dimly immediately. I tried my best to hide this haze into the deepest part of my heart so that it would not be noticed by the people around me.
Fortunately, Lukanin suddenly put his face over at this time. He put his hand on my left shoulder, his mouth close to my right ear, and whispered to me when he flirted with a woman: "I understand you want it."
Enjoy the glory of triumphant and the cheers of everyone, but I advise you to return to that beautiful lady as soon as possible. According to my understanding of women, she really needs your comfort now."
I followed Lukanen's gaze and Eva's lonely figure entered my eyes. She stood beside the ladder leading to our cockpit, with her shoulders hanging down, her hands folded in front of her, and her expression on her face
Looks lonely and sad.
I took a deep breath and said to Lukanin, who was still on my shoulder and put his body close to me, "Comrade Colonel, I am a man."
"It's because of this that I didn't kiss you!" Lukanin said and squeezed at me, then let go of his arm that was holding my shoulders and took a step back. He put his hands into his pockets and looked at it.
I whispered to Eva's direction, and I looked like a young man who was instigating his friends to attack the girl.
I saluted Lukanin and said, "Then I will say goodbye first, Comrade Colonel."
Then I separated the crowd and walked towards my goblin.
As I walked towards Eva, I suddenly had an illusion that I felt that time had returned to the moment when I first saw Eva in Kiev. Eva looked at me, Eva's face, and
There is a sad smile that doesn't feel the smile, all of this is so similar to that time.
I find myself hating this feeling very much - whether it is an illusion or a fact, it is annoying.
We have already had bonds and our relationship is already quite close. Why does she still show such a distant expression?
During the days I crossed the Don plain, I realized that Eva had hidden secrets from me, and that she still had her heart not open to me. Since then, I have been waiting for her to speak, but she has been
No response to my expectations.
And she also showed such an alienated expression to me.
——Actually, the cold-hearted person is you, Eva?….
But when I thought about it this way, another idea came to my mind and eventually gained the upper hand: Eva is just feeling depressed because she was not able to properly manipulate the rune system just now.
I will eventually agree with this idea, on the one hand, because it is completely logical to think about it, and on the other hand, it is probably because this judgment is more emotionally acceptable to me - this girl has become so important,
I am not willing to admit that there is a gap between me and her.
Based on this judgment, I suppressed the throbbing in my heart that wanted to ring her unopened heart, showed a gentle smile to her, and said to her in a gentle tone as possible: "After all, it's the first time flying, you
Don't worry so much, it will get better in the future."
Eva just nodded at me and didn't say anything.
After that, Eva remained silent, looking very worried. No matter how I comforted her, she did not show the cheerful smile I had been accustomed to in the past half month.
The next afternoon, Sergeant Mishayevic reported to me that he found more than a hundred bullet holes in my Jacques, and the replacement rune power module would not be delivered for a while. In the next few days, I
There is no way to go to heaven again.
He led me to check the condition of the plane and pointed every bullet hole to me.
"All bullets hit the vital parts, Comrade Major, your luck is terrible."
After checking the plane, I invited the ground sergeant to have dinner together, so we left the hangar together and walked towards the living facilities along the path next to the runway.
On the way, we met a group of pilots from the 12th Brigade. It seemed that they had just finished their mission, and I immediately noticed the guy wearing sunglasses among the pilots.
Colonel Lukanin soon noticed me. He took off his sunglasses and stared at me with a frown, and his pace slowed down.
Suddenly, he sighed, turned to say something to his subordinates, and then he stopped, stood there with his waist on his back, and a cold face, waiting for Mishayevic and me.
"I'll leave first, Comrade Major." As I approached the colonel, Mishayevic lowered his voice and said to me, "Or should I be on standby?"
I glanced at Misajevic. This young man who knew nothing but machinery probably thought that Lukanin was preparing to fight me.
I raised my right hand and patted him on the shoulder, told him, "You go first," and then I stopped in front of the colonel.
Lukanen waited for Misajevic to walk away before saying to me in a teasing tone: "Yesterday you reminded me that you are a man, but you didn't care about such a beautiful lady, and you didn't care about it and a stinky man.
Have fun outside?"
Originally, because Lukaning's face was stiff, I thought he had something important to tell me, but he threw me a 0% injustice, which made me feel a sense of strength from the bottom of my heart
.I sighed and told Lukanin that I went to the hangar to confirm the condition of the plane, and then went to have dinner with my ground sergeant.
And before I left the dormitory and went to the hangar, I asked Eva to come together, but she stayed in bed and ignored me.
"Oh my God, there is a girl in your dormitory with a lot of worries. Are you still thinking about eating?" Lukanin widened his eyes and put on an exaggerated and surprised face.
"That guy will naturally come out to find food when he is hungry, so going to the cafeteria at this time is more likely to meet her."
After hearing my answer, Lukanin sighed again. He took a step forward and patted me on the shoulder and said, "If I weren't in love, I would have been so confident that I was just now.
I've cheated you. I bet a hundred yuan with you. Now your slender and beautiful fairy lady is crying in a place where no one is."...
"Impossible, Eva..."
She was very strong. I originally wanted to say that, but for some reason, the next half sentence was just unspeakable.
Is she very strong? Although I do think so, is that the correct view? I thought we were quite close before, but yesterday she showed the expression we had at the beginning, using that
A strange look was looking at me.
Perhaps because he noticed my shake, Lukanin showed a treacherous smile on his face.
"How about it, do you gamble?"
"Sorry." I pushed away the hand Lukanen placed on my shoulder, "I have to go back to the dormitory first if I have something to do."
Lukanen laughed loudly with a cheerful voice, but when I turned around and was about to leave, he grabbed my arm again. He stuffed a piece of white silk handkerchief with silver lace embroidered with white lace.
Into my hands.
"I guess you must not have similar 'equipment'. It will be deducted to wipe the girl's tears with a rough military towel, comrade officer."
I stuffed my handkerchief into my pocket and left in a hurry without saluting Lukanin.
When I hurriedly pushed open the dormitory door, something curled up on the bed shook violently.
"Eva?"
My voice made the bed wrapped in sheets, and the thing that shrank into a ball vibrated again.
"What's wrong with you, Eva?" I quickly walked to the bed and reached out to the ball of things. Who knew that the moment my hand touched the sheet, the ball of things flew to the bed and intersected the wall as if they were flying.
a place.
The reaction was so fast, it shouldn't be uncomfortable, which made me secretly relieved.
At this time, the thing started talking.
"You, are you finished supper so soon?"
Perhaps because of his head covered with a quilt, Eva's voice sounded muffled and his nasal sound was terrible.
It seems that the guy Lukanin was called a hit.
I sat on the bed and said to Eva, who was curled up in the quilt, "I was going to eat, but..."
But someone told me halfway through that you might be crying? I couldn't say this directly. After hesitating, I changed to a lie: "But I think it's better for us to eat together as partners.
So I'll call you back."
"But, but maybe I'll go to the cafeteria myself?"
"Aren't you still here?"
The thing behind me was silent, and I sat on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.
I have no experience in comforting the crying girl. In my memory, Natalia has never cried. She always smiles happily, and is carefree like a child; Axisia also has no
She cried in front of me, she was so strong and capable from the inside out, and she always kept her heart tightly at me, so that I could not see her soft side.
Maybe Axisia is like Eva now, who once secretly hid and cried, but did not let me know?
If I hadn't met Lukanen and hadn't turned back to the dormitory from the way to the cafeteria, would Eva also intend to hide the fact that she had hid in the house and cried secretly, and smiled at me like a person who was fine?
Nothing matters now.
What is important is, in this situation, what should I do and say?
My father taught me everything I need to hunt, everything I need to survive on the westerly tundra, everything I need to become a qualified tundra man and a warrior of immortality, but nothing but
Teach me how to soothe a crying girl.
I just sat next to Eva's curled up, and my waist would occasionally touch the bedding wrapped around Eva.
This is the first time I feel helpless about the status quo.
The windows were clearly open, but the air in the room became more and more stuffy...
Fortunately, Eva spoke up and broke the silence.
"Hey, Grisha, actually, I'm crying."
"Yeah, I know."
"Aren't you going to do something?"
"What should I...do?"
"How can you ask the person who is crying this question?"
Eva's last sentence sounded angry, and she fell into silence again, huddling in the corner.
I twisted my thigh hard, why am I so stupid? I have to find a way to remedy it, but even though I racked my brains, I couldn't think of a solution. At this time, I really miss the dead west wind on the tundra
The dire wolf, fighting with them is easier than dealing with the current situation!
Just as I scratched my head, I suddenly remembered the handkerchief that Lukanin gave me.
I carefully took out the square folded handkerchief from my pocket. At this moment, the handkerchief turned into a life-saving straw. I pinched it with my right hand and gently sent it into the quilt.
At first, my hand holding the handkerchief touched something smooth. Eva's body trembled violently at the moment of touching it, and the touch of my fingertips immediately disappeared. After a while, Eva's fingertips touched me lightly
On the back of my hand, I turned my palms around, stuffed my handkerchief into Eva's little hand, and quickly pulled my hand out of the bedding.
The ball of things huddled in the corner of the wall began to squirm, and I held my breath and looked at it, as if I were observing some unknown creature.
Then a barely heard murmur sounded from the quilt: "Lie, how could Grisha carry such a sissy handkerchief..."
I didn't bring a handkerchief at all, I always only used military towels... I thought so in my heart, but I didn't say anything and continued to wait for Eva's next move.
There was a sound of blowing your nose in the quilt, and then a slight cough.
After a few more times, the ball of things huddled under the quilt finally stretched out, and Eva's red and swollen face was exposed under the head of the quilt that was lifted upwards.
Just looking at that face, my heart thrusts and anxiety choked in my throat. I couldn't wait to do something for this girl, as long as I could wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes,
I am willing to do anything by making her eyes no longer so red and swollen, and I have learned that cheerful and gentle smile from the corners of her mouth. That was the first time I learned about the power of a girl's tears. Since then, I have
I swear I can't let any girl cry because of me any more.
But this did not change my helplessness at that time. I stood up from the bed and stared blankly at Eva's face, which was messed up by tears and snot. In addition to constantly opening and holding her palms,
Nothing can be done.
I have to say something, I want to say something gentle.
But in the end I only squeezed out this sentence: "Eva, are you hungry? Can I go and call you back the food?"
Eva raised her head suddenly, looking scared by me, then her mouth started to hold back, her eyes staring at me resentfully like a female ghost who died, tears flowed from her eyes again
Flowing out.
I've never tried such a panic.
"Uh, no, that was... that was a joke, I won't go anywhere..."
"I'm hungry." Eva interrupted me in a crying voice, "Go and get me some food."
I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do.
"Go, I'm hungry!" Eva raised her voice a little and threw the pillow at me.
I ran out of the room as if I had escaped.
More than ten minutes later, I carried two metal lunch boxes and walked back to the dormitory.
When I passed the barracks of the 12th Brigade, I saw Lukaning squatting on the side of the road to smoke. As soon as he saw me, he threw away the cigarette butt and stood up...
"Have you finished coaxing her so quickly? I can't tell that you have superb skills!"
I could only smile bitterly at Lukanin's words. I said everything I had just done. The colonel smacked his lips, looked up at the sky, and finally he sighed.
"You tung man, your brains are all blew up by the cold wind, or what's wrong? Eat, eat, eat all the time!" As he said that, he snatched the lunch box in my hand and put the things in the lunch box in his hand.
He poured into the ditch beside the road, "You are such a big fool! In this case, there is only one thing you have to do! Isn't this very obvious?"
I still looked at him for no reason, and I thought I must be so stupid and cute at this moment.
Lukanin sighed again, and his shoulders collapsed.
"Did you feel heartache after seeing her tears? Didn't you want to wipe away the tears? Didn't you want to protect her?"
"Yes, then?"
"Go and do it, you big fool! Go and wipe her tears with your hands and hug her! It doesn't matter whether you are gentle or not. If you really can't do it, just hug her hard! In short, just hug her!"
Is that true? Just hold her?
Although I was still confused, Lukanin stuffed the empty lunch box back to me without saying anything, and then he pushed my shoulders and desperately urged me to go back to the dormitory.
"After making her laugh, come to the Pilot Club of the 12th Brigade. I will use my allowance to treat you enough!"
In this way, after being driven out of the room by Eva, I was driven back to the room by Lukanin.
When she returned to the room, Eva was sitting at the marching table with a mirror in her back, concentrating on braiding herself.
Her eyes in the mirror were still heartbreaking.
Seeing me come in, Eva stopped halfway through her work and stood up from the table.
Before she could turn to me, I hugged her from behind.
The lunch box in my hand fell to the ground and made a loud sound, overshadowing Eva's little scream. The wooden comb in Eva's hand fell down together. When I hugged Eva, my knee accidentally touched her knees when I hugged Eva.
The foot of the marching table was shaken down the mirror on the table.
But Lukanen seemed to be wrong this time, because after being hugged by me, tears came out of the corners of Eva's eyes.
"That handkerchief was given to you by someone else, Grisha?"
"kindness."
"Hold me, is it someone else's idea?"
"kindness."
"Grisha, you're a big fool."
"kindness."
While repeating "Grissa Big Idiot", Eva held my hands that closed on her abdomen. She transferred the weight of her whole body to me, and her back was tightly pressed against my front chest.
The half of my hair that had not been braided yet slid into my collarbone and my neck sore.
"Actually, this is not necessary at all. Grisha, you just need to go and have a good meal. Maybe I can return to my original state before you finish eating. Even if you find out, you know I'm crying,
I just hope that Grisha, you ask me why I cried... I don't expect anything else..."
Despite saying such words, Eva did not break free from my arms, and I followed Lukanen's teachings - no, I hugged her in my arms tightly according to my own wishes.
Eva continued, "Grisha, you always don't understand many things. I can't speak without asking about them. I'm a girl! I'm so troublesome! I just got on the carriage and started wandering on the grassland.
When I was waiting for you to ask me, I even deliberately raised the topic and then kept it in my arms to attract you to ask, but you turned your face away."...
I really don’t know what expression I should make at this moment. It turns out that I asked a question at that time? It turns out that I should be a little bit a little bitch-like?
Fortunately, it's not too late to understand now. If I hadn't met Lukanen this evening, everything might have been different, but now, my important partner is in my arms, crying, talking, waiting
He took me to knock on her heart.
My performance before has lost all the face of the Tungus Man, and now I have to make good use of it.
"Why are you crying, Eva? Can you tell me?" The sound that came out of my mouth was so soft that I could hardly recognize that it was my own voice.
"Because, I'm scared. Grisha, you are too strong, you have good shooting skills, you can hunt, cook, and you have great flying skills. You are decisive and determined. So far, I have not had it at all.
What kind of help you is just dragging you down. So after the sky war ended yesterday, I was thinking that if it was not me who sat in your back seat, but other goblins, you should have gained a bigger
The result of the battle. After landing, I watched you surrounded by everyone and smiled so happily. I felt more and more that I shouldn’t be here or with you, but... I don’t want to leave you...
"Later you ran over and I was still stupidly looking forward to what you would say, but you just told me that it would be fine next time... I suddenly became scared, afraid that all you want was a useful part so that you could get more
More results will bring more cheers…”
Eva's words made the feeling of being thrown in the air yesterday and the last words Dimiyangnov left to me come to my mind together. When I was enjoying glory, my leprechaun
But I felt uneasy. Thinking of this, the joy that remained in my heart that glory moment yesterday quietly faded away.
I suddenly felt that those things were not worth mentioning at all compared to the warmth coming from my arms at this moment.
"I never thought of you as a part, Eva."
"I know, because when you recall Natalia and Axinia, the expressions on your face were so soft and sad. So last night and this morning, I kept convinced myself, but
, You ignored me, and as soon as Misajevic ran to talk about the condition of the plane, you hurriedly left... There was always a voice in my heart saying to me: 'Look, for Grisha
, The airplane is more important than you, you are a part of the airplane!'”
So that's the case. I didn't talk to her just because I felt that she might need to be quiet by herself. I made a judgment based on my own experience. Now it seems that it's really wrong.
"sorry."
"Grisha, you don't need to apologize. I think you must have misunderstood Grisha, you treated me as a brave and strong girl. It's like when you first met, you thought I was a quiet and calm girl, but later you discovered me
Actually, I'm so talkative, willful, and clumsy. What I want to tell you now is that I'm not brave at all, not strong at all, I'm very timid and cowardly. Like you, I'm flying in the first battle
I lost my partner, but Grisha, you at least come back with the results of the battle, and it was a very rich result. And I, and I, just at the moment of the battle, were so scared that I pulled down the ejection lever.
"I left my partner, I hung under the parachute, floating in the air, watching him explode in the air by the Nazi rune. And Grisha, you are a human, so it took four months to have a fairy and
Your partner, and I am a goblin. Even though I did such a bad thing, there are still human pilots who want to fly runes to me... My second partner also died in the first place we experienced
During the battle, although I didn’t jump this time, I was too scared and took a long time to activate the rune system. As a result, the bullet penetrated his cockpit, and I had to jump again..."…
That's why she thought about welding the ejection lever to death... She would do this because she was worried that she would harm me, but I shouted at her and shouted so fiercely. I was so ashamed of me.
I wanted to hit the wall, but now I can't let Eva go, so I can only continue to listen to her talk.
"The same is true for the third partner. Although I activated the rune system as soon as possible, because I always thought that I could not fail this time, the rune system's efforts were too great, so he couldn't adapt at all. As a result, the action was too big.
Twisted the left wing of the plane... Grisha, you just died three partners, but I have changed five of them! I killed five people! The fifth partner didn't even have time to go to heaven, he and I just now
I met, just shook hands and formed a partner, and the enemy's Stuka killed him..."
Eva started crying again as she spoke, her fingers tightly clenched the back of my hand.
I still don’t know how to soothe her sad, but there is one thing I think I have to make it clear.
"Hey, Eva, I really think you're brave."
"That's an illusion! It's an illusion when you say it!" Eva raised her voice and shouted to refute me.
"Eva, listen to me quietly first." Eva was very obedient and silent. I closed my eyes and sorted out my thoughts a little, "Just say that the night we separated from the armored train, we saw that at that time.
Rune gun crew, you thought earlier than me that you would pick up a rifle and shoot at them, interfere with their aiming. You can't do this without the courage?"
"But in the end I couldn't save Dongniya's partner! In the end, I was saved by Grisha..."
"But when I rushed up, weren't you brave enough to follow me? You also killed the enemy who was aiming at me with my pistol. If it weren't for you, I would have been killed by that person. So that time
We each saved the other party's life and were just a draw. I think these are not something that a timid person can do. Eva Razgliz, who I know, is indeed a brave girl.
It's definitely not my illusion."
I actually said these words very smoothly. You know, I am very bad at praising others in person, especially those who praise girls!
This must be because my will to convey a message to her was too strong.
At this moment, as long as I close my eyes, I can think of all kinds of Eva: Eva who gave me a soft smile; Eva who gave me goodbye to Kiev City while singing a military song; handed it to me;
Eva with the accordion; Eva with the laughter; Eva with the sadness; Eva who is worried about me... No matter what kind of girl she was in the past, she now makes people feel very loving everywhere.
I couldn't help but continue to tighten my arms around Eva's waist.
Eva in my arms muttered in a complaining tone: "Grissa big fool, you made me start crying again..."
"Don't you cry all the time?"
"You can't tell the truth at this time!"
Before I knew it, the atmosphere became relaxed, and at this time I thought of another question.
"Eva, I can't figure it out. If I think you have courage, it's because it's true. Why do I mistakenly think you are very calm and composed?"
It makes sense to say that Eva has gradually become calm and steady after experiencing so many things, but in fact she still talks a lot and is still willful, so I think this problem is probably not just "the traces left by time".
Simple?
"This...this is because, after my first partner sacrificed, I wanted to make myself more reliable, so I set myself the rules that I could not speak or move without being necessary. There is no common saying
Is it a good way to change one's personality by starting from the outside? And, "Eva's voice suddenly became low, "I think this is somewhat a kind of self-punishment... Although the idea itself
It's more like my self-comfort..."…
This passage made a new impulse in my heart, and my love for the girl in my arms continued to expand. When I hugged Eva, I already knew clearly that this girl was of great importance to me.
It is no less than Natalia before. At this time, a more intense feeling that I had never been with Natalia before hitting my heart.
I desperately want to have everything about this girl, everything.
I suppressed this desire and said to Eva in a calm tone as calm as possible: "Eva, please turn around? I want to hug you from the front."
But my request was rejected by Eva.
"No, Grisha, this is not possible. If I turn around now, I will definitely not be able to kiss you and have more relationships with you. In that case, I will never be able to leave you again.
, Your shoulders are too wide, so I will definitely think about relying on you all day long. If you fall, you will never stand up without you... In that case, I will definitely be afraid of losing you next time I fly.
It's worse than yesterday, I'll really become a burden to you. So, it's not OK yet."
Her voice was filled with love, but her words were full of determination.
The girl in my arms is clearly so strong that I can't force her.
"When I am as strong as you, Grisha, I will definitely take the initiative to find you."
"Yeah, I'll wait for you."
At this time, night had already fallen, and we continued to embrace each other in the dark, feeling each other's body temperature until Eva's stomach made a "gurgling" sound.
"We're going to have a meal, and someone promised to have a heavy bleeding to treat you."
I said to Eva who was blushing.
"No. My eyes are so swollen that I will be laughed at when I go out."
"I'm obviously screaming so loudly, but I still have time to make trouble?"
"Anyway, I just won't go. Grisha, are you trying to make me forget about my hunger!"
I really had no choice but to do anything to make her forget she was hungry, so I had to try to distract her by talking.
"Then, can you tell me the story of your previous partner in detail?"
"Which one do you want to listen to?"
"From the first one, have you seen my profile? You know every partner I have before, so I want to know the stories of all your partner."
"That will be talked for a long time."
"It's okay, the night has just begun."
Eva giggled in my arms, which made me very strange. I don’t think I said anything interesting!
"Grisha, you are always like this. Although you usually talk less and boring, and you are so slow that you can't help but want to shout to you, "You should just marry a rifle," but you will occasionally want to say this.
If it's very romantic, there must be many girls who are hit by you like this..."
No, the truth is, I have no femininity at all, but I did not tell Eva this, but waited for her to continue.
"My first partner..."
For the next hour, Eva talked to me about the pilots I didn’t know in a nostalgic tone and shared her memories with me.
It was a memory that just listened to. Everything Eva experienced was so similar to me, but it was even more hurt than me. After all, I still had the brilliant results, but Eva was just again and again
Failure made her sad every time, and she suffered a lot of harm every time, but whenever another pilot asked to partner with her, she did not refuse, but said to herself, "It will be different this time."
While sitting in the back seat of his new partner.
The more I listened, the more I felt strange. I couldn't help but want to interrupt her and questioned her:
——Eva, where are you timid and where are you cowardly?
Immediately afterwards, Dimiyangnov's words rang in my mind again.
——A person who can truly govern the sky does not need other decorations to emphasize his power. Do you understand, Comrade Ace Flying Escape?
Listening to Eva's experience, I felt like I understood the meaning of this sentence...
Before we knew it, Eva's story came to an end.
"I'm so hungry." This is how Eva ended her memories, "Let's go find the one who wants to treat you!"
Chapter completed!