Xian Xian

After the queen finished speaking?, Li Chaoge was silent for a moment, and said: "This is what? The holy **** came to me today?"

Zigui Palace was a long time ago, when Gaozong was still alive, she quietly followed to the palace, and personally led a "rescue and confession". Li Chaoge has the memory of his previous life, so she realized that the queen of that time already had the desire to become the emperor. Unexpectedly, the queen also saw that Li Chaoge's ambition was not small.

The empress pretended to be ignorant for so many years, if she said it suddenly today, it is always ulterior motive.

The queen slowly walked down from the stage, she opened the window, looked down at the palace from the high platform, and said: "You are a clever boy, I might as well tell you the truth. The official office in the hall, the street is small The errand officers in the alleys, the literati who read and write, the soldiers who killed and killed in the army, these are all? Men. Why do you think I can stand in the world as a woman? There is a man on the head Give orders?"

"Because you are the emperor."

"No." The queen put her hand on the window edge, and said in a low and firm voice, "because I am Gaozong’s wife and Li Huai’s mother. I can threaten the officials by the cool officials, but the cool officials and the army are also men. If I really touched their interests, with a single leaf of my boat, how could I shake the entire ocean. They are willing to tolerate me now, but because I am a widow, a son who can never succeed in protecting the family property. Wait. After I die, this area of ​​the world, or is it to be handed back to the man of the Li family."

"No matter how bad it is, it should be a man."

Li Chaoge was silent. The empress looked at the tall city in the distance and said: "I am just a widow, the queen mother who usurped power in history is countless, so they can tolerate it. But if I move to pass the throne to the woman. Mind, that is? Shake the foundation of the entire monarchy, no one is willing to bear it. Gods are just a small city, outside the capital of the gods, there are ten vassal towns, there are various Jiedu envoys, there are Tubo and Silla. , Tianzhu, your martial arts can be one enemy one hundred, but?, have you ever fought a thousand troops?"

"You are bound to depend on a man, either? Husband, or? Son. Helping your husband to the throne is probably the stupidest decision. In the future, there will be Sannomiya and Six Institutes, and he will inevitably lift you up quietly. You killed. Your only choice is to support your son."

"Your surname is Li, you can only marry the Wu family. Unless you plan to adopt someone else's son, and then, when your adopted son grows up, you will be overthrown in one fell swoop and your biological parents will be accepted into the palace."

Li Chaoge didn't answer, but instead asked, "Why can't it be? Gu Mingke?"

"Because I don't agree." The empress turned around and looked at her calmly and cruelly. "I am not a good person. Dayu can't resist the temptation of the family and the world. Why do I pass on the throne to a child who has nothing to do with me." Do I have to ensure the safety of the Wu family? I can say everything when I am alive. Once I die, the Wu family will die if I am not careful. Only the children of the Wu family sitting on the throne can guarantee the stability of the Wu family from generation to generation. If so? You and Gu Mingke ascended to the throne, tell me, what is your child's surname?"

Li Chaoge was silent for a long time. She did not agree with the Queen's thoughts, but she had to admit that the Queen was talking about reality.

Li Chaoge was very well received in the folk dynasty reviews, but all the people who saw her secretly reminded her to rescue Li Huai. No one thought of supporting her at all, even if she was far more capable than Li Huai. Just like a man can’t understand how much it hurts for a woman to have children, a woman can’t understand why a man has three wives and four concubines. They are in different positions and never empathize.

A strong person like the empress has to admit that she can sit firmly on the throne not because of the means? So superb, so much fame? So deep, but because she is? Li Huai's mother. Those courtiers looked at her like an old mother who was greedy for power. After the death of the folk patriarch, it is also common for widows to take charge of the family business on behalf of their sons. The empress is such a role in the hearts of the people of the world.

In the monarchy era, the emperor was the least important link. Even if the emperor was a fool and had courtiers, he could still govern the country. Never expect that ministers will choose monarchs according to their talents for the sake of the country's good. What they value is that the country is stable and the mean is stable.

Li Chaoge cannot be enthroned peacefully through succession, but through unpeaceful means, it will inevitably require strong support from those in power.

The empress seemed to have moved her mind, and she rarely said a lot of words: "There have been so many queen mothers throughout the ages, but I pierced this layer of window paper and opened the curtain of beads to become the emperor. I want to be a woman in this man. Occupying a place in this world can only be more vicious than a man. If you stand in my position, you value love and righteousness, cannot bear to rush to kill, and even pay attention to justice and morality, then you start from the beginning? Hajime can't be a queen? You can't be an emperor."

Li Chaoge thought about it for a while, and found that if she was the queen, she really couldn't make the step of the queen. Don't talk about the ten-year layout of the abolished emperor's self-reliance, just talk about the front? Gong fights, Li Chaoge can't stand it.

However, Li Chaoge still has no law to agree with the empress’s thoughts about Yu Wangquan: “Since you become a king, you have to be responsible for the tens of thousands of people under your feet. The officials extorted confessions, listened to the officials, those who followed me prosper, those who rebelled against me Death, really? Is it good for the country?"

"Then what do you think is it? For the country?" The queen looked at Li Chaoge, as if she was an ideal child who was almost naive, "Datong society only exists in legends. In reality, everyone has something to do. You have to kill a lot of people. Do you think your father is benevolent and moral? He also killed a lot of people, but not? In his name, only by using blood to deter the world, can all regions be kept safe and secure. Don’t dare to stand on your own. Killing a small number of people will allow the world to proceed step by step, avoid war and save more lives. This is for the country’s benefit."

Therefore, the queen still doesn't think it's wrong for her to reuse cool officials. In the position of the queen, she can only do this. Neither Li Chaoge nor the Queen can persuade anyone. This is a political disagreement that they cannot reconcile.

"Chaoge, wake up." The empress dragged her gorgeous and noble dress and walked to the God's seat, and said, "If an emperor is reluctant to kill, then he must be a faint emperor. The most high, if there is no desire, Gang, what has done since ancient times? All emperors are lonely and widowed. Only the fainted monarch can indulge in emotions. You are cruel, cannot give up useless things, and cannot stand high. Now the country is stable inside and outside, but it is Because Li Huai is still alive, they are all waiting for me to die, and then they support Li Huai. If I pass on the throne to your children, I will have to withstand tremendous pressure. The merchants will not benefit from the early days. As the lord of a country, why do you do this?"

The empress's meaning is very clear, the empress can choose her, but Li Chaoge must reciprocate, and ensure that the next generation is the heir of the Wu family. She must abandon the useless family affection, love, weakness, and pity, and become a cruel, merciless, all-interest-first so-called "king".

Li Chaoge didn't answer, the queen waited slowly. However, the waiting time was longer than expected, and the queen felt a little impatient: "Do you want to understand."

"I understand." Li Chaoge raised her head, as if she suddenly realized something, her posture was relaxed, her eyes were clear, her body seemed to be flowing with a pure and pure aura, "I pursue justice? Righteousness? ，In your eyes, it’s worthless. Once your father was?, such as today’s mother you are?. But I still want to say that being a monarch does not mean that you can enjoy privileges, nor does it mean that you are superior, it just means that you have this It's an honor to do things for the people. Gu Mingke is? My husband, I am willing to live and die with him. I can only fail the love of the Holy Spirit."

After Li Chaoge finished speaking, he didn't watch the Queen's reaction at all, so he turned his head and left. She walked out of the Daye Hall, carrying snow particles in the midwinter cold wind, and pounced on her face. Li Chaoge raised his eyes and looked at the pagoda in the distance, feeling that he had never been so calm before.

She knew that she must offend the queen today, but what? So what, she finally said what was in her heart. No matter what happened afterwards, she didn't regret it. Li Chaoge wanted to meet suddenly? Gu Mingke, carrying her clothes, quickly ran outside the palace gate.

The empress stood in the high palace, watching Li Chaoge running outside, she didn't want to turn back, her spirits soaring, as if she was running towards freedom. The empress couldn't help thinking of just now, her dialogue with Gu Mingke.

She asked Gu Mingke: "You are not willing, but? How do you know that Li Chaoge is not willing?"

Gu Mingke seemed to smile lightly, and said confidently: "She won't."

When she arrived at Li Chaoge, she didn't even want to say that he wouldn't.

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After Gu Mingke came out of the palace, he went straight back to the princess mansion. He always felt that there was a clear distinction between public and private, and personal feelings could not and should not affect public affairs. But? Today he found out that he was wrong. The flesh and blood body is not a machine, and no one can completely remove the feelings.

So? Gu Mingke gave himself a vacation, he was forced to leave, and what kind of office did he go to. Don't go, go home.

The maid in the princess's mansion was surprised to find that the horseman had come back early today. They stepped forward to serve and asked cautiously: "Punma, outside? Did something happen?"

Otherwise, why would a punctual and rigorous cohort retreat early?

Gu Mingke didn't answer. He said, "It's nothing. Bring the tea set and start a fire now. When she comes back, the tea will taste the best."

The maids became more and more surprised: "Punma, how do you know the princess will come back?"

Gu Mingke's face was fair and his eyes were as thin as black jade, and his posture was calm and stretched. He looked out the window in the cold winter, and said in a low but sure manner: "She will definitely come back."

The maids moved to the tandoor, filled with water, and the delicate pot lid was gurgling. The blisters rolled to the top, Gu Mingke scooped the spring water and poured it gently on the surface of the water, and the bubbles sank again. He didn't lift the tandoor until it rolled again, and the surface of the water was floating beads, sounding like a wave.

Outside? The maids were surprised to say hello, Gu Mingke kept his eyes still and continued to wash the tea. Li Chaoge learned from the maids that Gu Mingke had also returned and was making tea in the flower hall. Li Chaoge entered the flower hall, lifted his clothes and sat down, and put a cup of hot tea right in front of him.

Gu Mingke said: "The heat is just right."

Li Chaoge picked up the tea cup, looked at the two sets of tea sets on the table, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you here to wait for me?"

"Um."

Li Chaoge held the teacup and turned it slowly: "But?, how do you know I will refuse?"

"It's like you know I won't agree, one truth."

Li Chaoge didn't ask any more, lowered his head and sipped tea slowly. After drinking a cup of tea?, Gu Mingke put away the tea set and asked, "Why didn't you agree?"

Li Chaoge supported his chin and leaned against the window at will. The warm sunshine outside the house shone on her, as if she was plated with a layer of gold.

Li Chaoge said leisurely: "If it is? What I am after needs to be obtained in this way, then don't worry."

"Are you afraid of me? Regret?"

Li Chaoge rejected the queen because of Gu Mingke, but in case, Gu Mingke regretted it.

Li Chaoge chuckled, tilted his head, and looked at him with light in his eyes: "I believe in you, regardless of the cause, regardless of the past or the future."

Gu Mingke seemed to be hit by something in his heart, so he didn't dare to look at him for a while? Li Chaoge's eyes. Gu Mingke looked down to pack the tea set, and asked the maid to move the clay pot away.

What you drink when cooking tea is elegant, and you will never refill one cup after drinking. But Li Chaoge couldn't appreciate this kind of elegance, and said: "The fire is all up, so I can take it down after a drink? It's boring. Bring the wine over, or the hot wine is more vigorous."

Gu Mingke was helpless: "How can you use the stove for making tea to blanch wine, it will spoil the taste."

"It's okay." Li Chaoge didn't care. "It would be too troublesome to move another stove, anyway? You have to get in your stomach, don't care about these details."

The maid quickly brought the rice wine over, and Li Chaoge cooked the wine with ease. The yellow rice wine is amber, and it complements the turquoise luminous cup, shining brightly. Li Chaoge took a sip and said, "There are a lot of glutinous rice wines in Beijing, but I think it is too sweet. It's not as refreshing as Jiannan's burning spring."

Gu Mingke was holding the wine glass in his hand, but he took a sip and asked, "You drink too much? Too little alcohol?"

Can you still comment?

Li Chaoge laughed: "I haven't drunk too much? Less. Older Zhou likes wine. How many kinds of wine have I tasted."

Gu Mingke leaned on his sleeve, slowly drank the wine in his glass, and asked, "Do you really want to return to Jiannan?"

When you are thinking about a place in your heart, regardless of whether you look at it, look at the wind, look at the cloud, look at the rain, even if you take a sip of wine, you can think of the taste there. Li Chaoge looked down at his reflection in the cup and said, "Maybe it is. Although I was born in Chang'an and lived in Luoyang, I always feel that Jiannan is my hometown."

Gu Mingke sat on the other side, took the cup out of her hand, and said, "You have drunk too much? You should be drunk in a while."

"I'm not drunk." Li Chaoge didn't admit it, but Huangji had a low alcohol content, and when the alcohol was tangled up very quickly. Li Chaoge was still sober, but a dizziness surged in front of him, and his whole body was floating. Her cheeks are flushed, her pupils are cut, she looks deep and attentive when she looks at people, and she is very attractive.

Gu Mingke was upset by what she saw. He had to cover Li Chaoge's eyes and said, "When these things are done, let's go to Jiannan together."

Li Chaoge was originally very dissatisfied and took Gu Mingke's hand. When she heard Gu Mingke's words, she relaxed, and followed the dizziness in her mind to lie down on Gu Mingke's lap: "Okay."

Huangjiu Jiu Jin came up quickly and dissipated quickly. Li Chaoge didn't faint soon, but she was lying upright, comfortable, too lazy to get up, and simply said: "Guess what this bad idea is? Who made it?"

The queen hadn't mentioned that Li Chaoge should marry Wu Yuanxiao before, did you want to come? What happened suddenly, which aroused the queen's thoughts. Li Chaoge heard yesterday that Princess Xu of Liang was dead. She still felt that Xu's disease was strange at the time. Sure enough, a moth broke out today.

Gu Mingke said: "Just those? People, who else?"

Li Chaoge closed his eyes and sighed, "I said earlier that she was a beautiful idiot who treated herself as a child when she was old. Now that she has a lot of energy, she pours out a lot."

After retiring and forced marriage? Li Changle has indeed grown up. When Li Changle was young, he only knew how to have fun. Gaozong and the empress were like all their parents. The son was raised as heir, but the daughter held him up. So when Li Changle grew up, he still looked like a child and didn’t learn to conspiracy. The trick used is like a child snatching a toy, innocent and vicious.

But I have to say that although Li Changle's methods are inferior, they are very useful. Li Changle killed the Xu family, vacated the position of the concubine, and then openly matched Li Chaoge and Wu Yuanxiao. Naturally, Li Changle didn't really want Li Chaoge to marry the Wu family. In fact, she did this to provoke the relationship between Li Chaoge and the queen.

If Li Chaoge refuses, it will certainly offend the Queen; if Li Chaoge agrees, then Li Changle will dissolve the alliance between Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke without a single soldier. After the fall of Lai Junchen, there is no one in the DPRK who can match Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke. If these two people are allowed to grow up, Li Huai will be threatened sooner or later. So with Li Changle's use of such a poisonous trick, regardless of whether Li Chaoge is willing or not, Li Changle will not lose.

This kind of tactics has already taken on the embryonic form of politicians. Li Chaoge has no doubt that in time, Li Changle will grow into a qualified politician.

Unscrupulously, only profit is the politician of the plan.

In the warm and warm winter sun, Li Chaoge lay on Gu Mingke and asked softly: "Does the family love even have to be clearly marked in the palace?"

Gu Mingke stroked Li Chaoge's hair with his fingers, and slowly passed through her hair: "Those feelings are real, it's just that there is a price behind it."

Gu Mingke can understand Li Chaoge's feelings, because he is like this too. He has owed debts since he was born. He plays another person throughout his life and wants to be seen through by others, but he cannot be seen through by others. He knows that his parents and elder brothers have true love for him. Before the war started, his father admired him, and regretted that he could not let him go straight ahead; the mother’s queen, right? He was guilty and arranged for him personally. He must be personally involved in everything. His brother also took him to read and write, horseback and archery, indifferent in the palace, and his brother was a big son. The two brothers were inseparable, and they worked together to resist the calculations of the outside world.

They spent a long and difficult childhood with each other. Later, they all grew up, and the elder brother's status as a son was no longer able to be shaken, and their differences spontaneously arisen.

Gu Mingke had known for a long time that his parents and brothers loved him, but he didn't love him that much. Interests are mixed with true heart, and there is occasional tenderness in indifference, that is, because of this, there is no way to give up and cannot break free.

Li Chaoge thought of the dream in the palace, and did not speak, but he firmly held Gu Mingke's hand. Gu Mingke's fingers are slender, and his fingertips are a little bit icy. He felt her strength, turned away from the guest, and wrapped her hand tightly.

The human body is clean, and Gu Mingke is especially self-disciplined. He has no trace of fat on his body, his legs are well-proportioned and slender, and his waist and abdomen are covered with thin muscles. He leans firmly and comfortably. Li Chaoge couldn't help but rubbed her cheek, she wanted to feel it again, so she was held on her head by Gu Mingke and moved away?: "Don't move."

Li Chaoge opened his eyes, pillowed him on his lap, and gave him a vengeful look.

Gu Mingke's face was cold and serious, completely obscure. Li Chaoge didn’t think too much. She thought that Gu Mingke simply didn’t like others to get too close to him. Li Chaoge didn’t care, and asked sincerely: "You said, if one party is a person in the world, and one party is a person, Destroying one person can save the world, which one would you choose?"

Gu Mingke just breathed a sigh of relief, and when he heard Li Chaoge's question, he was obviously taken aback. He lowered his eyes and whispered: "This kind of option can't really exist."

"It's just? Discussion." Li Chaoge said, "Assuming it exists. What would you do?"

Gu Mingke didn't answer, his skin was fair, his face was handsome, and the sun shone on him dimly like a dream, always making people suspicious that he would disappear in the blink of an eye. Gu Mingke rubbed Li Chaoge's finger and asked, "How would you choose?"

Li Chaoge thought for a while, and said seriously: "I don’t choose anything. The sacrifice is great, but only the person involved can say this. No one else has the right to make a person sacrifice for the world. I believe that I will be able to find out. "Three roads, but? Other people should choose the people of the world."

Gu Mingke smiled lightly: "Right? Ah, everyone chooses this way."

Including himself.

Li Chaoge looked at? His expression was wrong?, raised his elbow and stared at Gu Mingke's eyes carefully: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Gu Mingke still smiled, tidying up her loose hairpin, and said, "The annual vacation is coming soon. How many days will we wait for the holiday, let's go to Jiannan."

Li Chaoge felt that Gu Mingke seemed to hide something, but she couldn't catch it. Li Chaoge finally nodded slightly and smiled: "Okay."

The two of them had been absent from work for a long time. On the second day, or went up as usual. Everyone felt that the atmosphere in the court seemed not right? Enthusiasm, but when they felt it carefully, nothing changed. The holidays were approaching every day, and everyone quickly shifted their attention and welcomed the New Year happily.

On December 20th, Lai Junchen asked about it. After that, there were no big things going up early. Basically, everything revolved around the holiday. On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, there is a holiday in North Korea, all places are closed, and the doors are reopened seven days later. On the twenty-seventh day, no one had the mind to go to work. The Shang Dynasty was supposed to pretend, but, unexpectedly, Tong Lao received a letter of grievances.

Farmers in Qingyun Village, Dayuan County braved the cold winter to enter the city, solemnly bowed their heads in front of Duanmen, and then wrote a letter. They didn't know that the imperial court would be on holiday soon, and no one would care about their affairs at all.

But they showed Li Chaoge's token when they entered the city, and the Guards relayed it to Li Chaoge, and Li Chaoge knew about it.

Li Chaoge couldn't bear to let these people go for nothing in the winter, so he raised the matter in the morning.

It is unpleasant to say such things on holiday. However, after listening to the Queen, she was silent for a moment, and she let people open the Tongjiu and fetched the letter. The queen read the letter from the top, and did not speak for a long time. The people below did not know what the queen wanted, and speculated: "Holy, I don’t know what the letter says?"

The queen closed the letter. She couldn't see her happiness or anger, and said indifferently: "It's the Zhang family's occupation of farmland."

There was a quiet inside and outside the hall, and after a while, someone said: "Goro and Liu Lang are very kind and don't know how to do this kind of thing. Maybe it's a misunderstanding."

The two Zhang brothers are in the middle of the kingdom, who dares to offend them. As soon as they heard someone avenging their grievances, a courtier immediately jumped out to argue for the two Zhang brothers. Zhang Yanchang didn't care. Is it a rare thing to buy land? Which of the officials present to make a fortune? Isn't he busy buying real estate and buying shops?

Many people spoke for the two Zhang brothers. Zhang Yanzhi quickly glanced at Li Chaoge at the front, stood out, and said: "The minister did not know about this matter. It may be that the evil slave did evil in the name of Zhang Mansion. If so. There is something that should be severely punished, lest they are outside to ruin the reputation of the Zhang family."

Everyone thought that the queen would let it go. Unexpectedly, the queen said: "Since you brothers don't know about it, then when you go back, please check it carefully. If the evil slave cheats up and down, then let the evil slave go. Send it away?. If the land can be refunded, it will be refunded. If it is not refundable, the money will be made up."

Zhang Yanchang was taken aback. After the reaction came over, a layer of sweat immediately broke out on his back. Zhang Yanchang and Zhang Yanzhi promised and slowly returned to the queue. Others were also frightened by this reversal, and no one dared to speak for a while.

The queen asked again: "Is it found out that someone was writing at the entrance of Zhang Mansion some time ago?"

Li Chaoge stepped out and said: "Returning to the saint, the minister has found out, what is writing? A monster."

No emotion can be heard in the empress's voice: "Are you sure it's a monster?"

"Yes?." Li Chaoge lowered his eyes and said, "Only monsters can get around the eyes of the guards and the people, and write on the door again and again. Don't worry, the minister has already captured the monster."

Gu Mingke was standing not far away, but he did not move, letting Li Chaoge label the murderer as a "monster". The queen's eyes swept across the people in the hall, and Shen Shen asked, "Yes? What demon?"

Li Chaoge paused, and said: "This demon appeared for the first time, and its name has not been recorded before. It is an unnamed demon."

Li Chaoge's gaze was half hanging down, and the empress did not question any more, nodding and saying, "That's it."

When the **** saw it, he raised his throat and sang long: "Sanchao."

From a distance, Ziwei Palace is like the coast at low tide, except that the colors of the waves coming up are different. At the top? Zhu Ziqingxiang, then? The green-clothed official, and finally, the Qingshan Zhiqing official.

After Li Chaoge returned to the Town Demon Division, he clicked on the roster, distributed the court year gift box to everyone, and announced the holiday.

Two years of turbulent hanging arches are over.

Everyone took food boxes and went home happily for the New Year. Li Chaoge stayed at the end and waited until everyone had left before he took the seal, pasted up the files of Zhang Mansion, and put them in the archives room. Once the seal is posted, it means that the case is finalized.

Li Chaoge looked at the neatly lit scrolls in the grid, and couldn't help but wonder. In the past, the cases she took over were all kinds of monsters, but this time it was a human, without any strange power from beginning to end. But?, in the end, the crime was a demon, whose name was no name.

Li Chaoge looked out the window, the sky was blue, and a line of birds were flying over the treetops. Where are there so many monsters in the world? The real monsters are actually hidden in people's hearts.

Outside? There was a knock on the door, and Li Chaoge returned to his senses and found Gu Mingke standing outside the door and asked: "Are you busy?"

Li Chaoge shook his head: "No. After putting this scroll, it's okay."

Li Chaoge locked the archives room, closed the hall door, and walked with him toward the outside of the town demon division. Gu Mingke asked, "Should you go to Jiannan?"

This is? They had agreed a long time ago, but? Now, Li Chaoge thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Jiannan is not in a hurry. I want to go to the surroundings of the capital to see? See?. Qingyun Village was? We found out. , So I can redress grievances, but in other places where there is no way to speak out, there may be grievances."

Gu Mingke nodded, naturally there was nothing else. Li Chaoge felt a little sad, and said, "I went to Jiannan for a tour, but I went to Luoyang and it was a business trip. I'm on holiday and I will burden you to deal with official affairs..."

"It's okay." Gu Mingke stopped her. "You can go out to play anytime, but the people who have been plundered the land may not wait for the next winter. Let's go?"

Li Chaoge settled down and arranged their next itinerary happily: "Let's go back to the princess's mansion to change clothes, and then?"

The two talked and walked away? After a while, Li Chaoge asked: "Today, why don't you expose me?"

"Why should I dismantle?"

"You clearly know that the offender is a human being, and there is no such thing as an anonymous demon."

Gu Mingke raised his head and looked at the sky, and the clouds on the horizon were holy and majestic. Gu Mingke watched quietly for a while, and said, "I have always wanted to know how the principles of the law and human feelings are? How well-rounded? Perhaps, this is the meaning of my coming here."

——The end of "No? Famous Demon".