Chapter 283: The Dense Forest Frontier

Spades was quiet for a moment, saying, "I'm Buming White."

Bai Liu smiled with a lazy curl of his lips, he seemed to find this look of Spades amusing and picked up on his words, "What's so Buming white?"

" Buming White why do you only hate me." Spades replied honestly.

Bai Liu withdrew from his arms and sat across from him, raising her hand to support her jaw, a dazed look in her eyes, smirking, "You ripped out my heart, made me lose a very important game, killed the most important person in my life, isn't that enough for me to hate you?"

A drop of wine dripped from Spades' hair, and he breathed calmly, "You've had many enemies, every one of your current teammates has hurt you, and you don't hate them."

"You don't hate a person for simply winning or losing a game."

"And I didn't kill anyone." Spades looked Bai Liu straight in the eye, "I just killed the monster whose heart you hid."

"I'm not the only player who has attempted to destroy this monster, everyone around you, your teammates, have tried to kill this monster."

Bai Liu turned his face coldly, "But only you succeeded."

"No, I didn't make it." Spades stared at him, "My instincts tell me that this creature's heart lives on because of you."

He paused, "I thought you killed it after you got out of the game."

Bai Liu's breathing became light, his eyes parted for a moment, and the fingers of his right hand twitched slightly as they hung down.

"No."

"...... It's suicidal."

"So you can't blame me for its death." Spades looked at Bai Liu, "I am no different from these players around you."

His lips pursed into a straight line, "But you don't hate Tang Erda, you don't hate anyone on your team, and you don't hate Alex who was hostile to you before."

Spades' face showed a real confusion: "Why do you only hate me?"

Bai Liu looked away, "- don't talk as if you know me well, it's only the third time we've met -"

As he got up to leave, Spades reached out and clutched Bai Liu's wrist, staring at him with an imperceptible look of depression in his voice.

"-why are you targeting me in such a special way?"

Bai Liu's eyelashes fluttered as they fell, his index finger involuntarily lifting outwards as the liquor slid down the back of his hand.

"Answer me, Bai Liu." Spades' eyes were like a dark bunch of thorns growing, cascading down Bai Liu, making sure he spat out the heartfelt answer that was hidden beneath the tangle of spikes, "-what is it about me that is different for you."

But before Bai Liu can open his mouth to answer Spades, a loud commotion from the entrance of the bistro interrupts the stalemate in this little corner.

Deafening whistles, and some shrill salutes came from the doorway, occasionally accompanied by some surprised and unbelievable laughter and banter.

Bai Liu quickly drew back his hand, "There's a game event coming up, deal with the event first."

"You haven't answered me." Spades, with nothing on his face, stubbornly stepped in front of Bai Liu and looked straight at him, "Why?"

Bai Liu took a deep breath and looked up with a cold smile, "I just hate you, no reason, you don't need a reason to hate someone, you can understand this, right?"

Spades was silent for about ten seconds, and didn't say yes or no, nor did he move out of the way, just stood still and oh-so-slightly.

"You got your answer." Bai Liu tilted his head to look at Spades, "Can we move out of the way?"

Spades looked away for the first time in Bai Liu's face as he looked down and raised the whip dangling by his knees like he was trying to beat a non-existent enemy: "...... So how long are you going to hate me?"

The Reverse God had told him that there was a time limit on all nastiness without a reason, so he wanted to ask.

Bai Liu was quiet for a short while before his shoulders sank as if relaxing and he said very softly, "--"

The moment he opened his mouth, the loud crackling of champagne drowned out Bai Liu's voice.

All Spades could see was Bai Liu smiling over the huge crowd noise and cheering as he looked at him and said a few words, but couldn't make out what they were.

Then the colourful wedding flowers fell in a flurry over their heads.

Spades frowned as he approached Bai Liu and asked, "What did you just say, I didn't hear you."

"Forget it then." Bai Liu smiled and brushed Spades' shoulder as he ran forward.

Spades looked back after Bai Liu and saw Guy in the crowd, wearing a wedding dress, a snowy white veil and holding a bouquet, and Alex, standing opposite Guy, completely dumbfounded.

The GIs around them formed a friendly circle, their hands held high, beating the beat with their feet as they hummed an out-of-tune wedding march.

Guy got down on his knees to a roar and held up his bouquet to a blank expression, smiling brightly: "Alex, please forgive me for planning this wedding in secret without telling you."

"I hope this is a surprise and not a shock for you." Guy joked humorously, he was gentle, his eyes filled with a light layer of tears, "Hey, even though I'm dressed a little weird, you shouldn't look like that, right?"

As if he had only just reacted, Alex sank to his knees, stiff, trembling and red-faced, hugging Guy in his wedding dress tightly, tears rolling down his face, his voice hoarse as he could only repeat a few words meaninglessly.

"God, oh my God, God!"

Guy stroked the back of Alex's head, his eyes flushed, and he couldn't help but smile, his tone growing softer, "Maybe I can take that reaction to mean you want to marry me?"

Alex was crying almost in spasms: " Guy! I love you Guy!"

Guy picked up a bawling Alex and they didn't get a priest to witness the marriage - the current priest was still in the army medical camp blessing the dead soldiers - so they took their vows together in full view of everyone.

Besides, their wedding was not blessed by God.

Guy's wedding dress was almost trampled on by the rude GIs who hadn't seen a happy occasion in so long.

Even if it was an outrageous, out-of-touch wedding, there is no greater comfort on the eve of a great war than to see two people in love kissing each other with tears in their eyes.

It is not important that the protagonists of this picture are men and women, what matters is that they are alive and that they love each other.

God may not have blessed them, but God has never blessed any of the people here either.

In the corner, Spades stares expressionlessly at Tang Erda as the crowd roars.

Tang Erda: "......"

Bai Liu stayed with Guy to deal with those things and then dumped Spades on Tang Erda to help look after the half-drunk, number one ranked player.

Actually, although Bai Liu said Spades was drunk, he didn't look very drunk either, but just ......

Spades asks, word for word, "What is marriage?"

Tang Erda racked her brains and replied, "It's a ceremony where people introduce each other to other people after they reach a certain age, in order to be with the person they like forever, and in accordance with legal procedures."

Spades was quiet for a long moment, as if digesting, then asked again, "What age is a certain age?"

Tang Erda held his forehead in pain as he had already answered more questions from Spades than he could count - the man didn't cry when he finished drinking, he just asked a lot of questions.

And is particularly persistent, and if you don't answer he gets you to answer in various ways.

Tang Erda sighs, "Probably women are in their twenties and men are in their thirties?"

Spades squints at him, "How old are you?"

Tang Erda was stunned: "Thirty-five or six."

Spades gave an oh and asked, "So why aren't you married? Is it because you're not seeing anyone?"

Tang Erda, who was shot: "...... The situation is a bit complicated."

Spades asks, "The person you like doesn't exist?"

Tang Erda, who was shot twice: "......"

Spades, seeing that Tang Erda did not answer, continued, "Is the person you like married to someone else?"

Tang Erda, who was shot three times: "......"

When Tang Erda still doesn't reply, Spades continues to speculate, "Someone you like ......"

"Okay." Tang Erda let out a long, long sigh, "I'll just talk to you."

Spades keeps guessing when he can't get his own answer, and the man somehow manages to guess the most painful answer with a bizarre intuition, and Tang Erda has answered Spades' questions to the point where she is numb from the holes Spades has put in them.

Tang Erda took a large sip of her wine and gazed a little out of focus into her empty glass, "The guy I liked ...... he liked me, but he's gone."

Spades gets his answer, is quiet for a while, and then asks, out of the blue, " Does Bai Liu hate the person he is married to?"

"?!?" Tang Erda was confused by the jump in Spades' question, but between the fact that Spades questions have always been jumpy, he thought hard for a moment and gave a tentative answer, "I don't think ...... would?"

"Everyone ...... is generally very fond of the people they marry."

Although Tang Erda could hardly imagine Bai Liu marrying anyone.

Tang Erda remembers seeing Bai Liu in Murphy's Mirror when he was young and in love with someone, but that person was tortured to death in an orphanage, so it can only be considered an early love affair of the great demon Bai Liu that never ended.

Spades shook the whip that rested on his knee, and he sat up straighter with a heavy oh, and a serious nod.

Tang Erda is confused: "????"

What is this look of having found the answer?

Alex hugged Guy's shoulder and cried, then laughed again as the young man who had previously advised Bai Liu and Spades not to drink clutched a bottle and drank passionately with all those who came to congratulate him, and within fifteen minutes was only drunkenly saying I love you on Guy's shoulder.

This unorthodox, orgiastic wedding finally progressed to the final step - the bride throwing her bouquet.

"The person who receives it will be the next couple to get married!" Guy stood on the dais holding Alex back as he threw the bouquet and he counted down joyfully, "3 - 2 - 1 - ! "

The group of older men were very curious about the bouquet and scrambled to grab it.

But at the moment Guy threw the bouquet, a black whip was thrown out, and like a flash, it hooked the bouquet and took off.

The group of GI's who were grabbing the bouquet: "!!!"

There it is again! Mysterious Oriental Kung Fu!

Spades hooked the bouquet back into his arms and held it up demurely with Guy's wedding veil, which had been stolen from him at some point, tilted on his head, exactly as he had done at Guy's proposal.

Spades then knelt upright and raised his bouquet to Bai Liu, whom he had forced to come over to him.

Bai Liu looked at the man with no emotion on his face and made no move.

Spades, whose proposal script was interrupted by Bai Liu's unilateral non-cooperation, paused for a moment as he recalled the opening lines of Guy's proposal, "Hey, I'm dressed a little weird, but you're not supposed to look like that, are you?"

Bai Liu: "......"