Night World Players

Chapter 40 How to Make Her Toss and Turn in Guilt
"Yes, sorry."

Ishtar's face turned pale. "I didn't know your family situation before. I didn't mean to say that..."

"It's okay, Miss Ishtar, you don't have to apologize. After all, I was the one who didn't know etiquette and offended you, and I know you didn't mean it."

Luster bowed deeply, still with an apologetic smile on his face.

His smile was bathed in the slanting sunlight, as light as clear water, yet it reflected infinite brilliance.

"As for my parents' past, it's been so long, and I don't care about it anymore."

"I……"

Ishtar stammered, but heard Luster speak again: "And as Miss Ishtar said, I have been following you all this time, and I had no choice."

"I have no relatives here. The only people I know are Hiltina and Miss Istar."

"If I don't follow you, I won't know where to go or what to do next."

"Of course, if Miss Ishtar doesn't want me to follow her, then you can just hand me over to the guards here, or tell me where Hiltina is now."

After listening to Rast's words, Ishtar's complexion not only did not improve, but became even paler, and the guilt and remorse in her heart became stronger.

But she still noticed the message contained in Rast's words.

"You said you have no relatives here, not even one person you know?"

"Yeah." Rust nodded, and he looked up at the sky outside the window: "My hometown and the place where I used to live are all very far away from here. This is a strange new world to me."

Ishta was silent. She recalled the irrelevant remarks made by Rast during the psychological interrogation.

At the request of Hiltina, all the information about Last and "Echoes of the Night - Deep Blue Harbor" was included in the confidential files. In the entire Star University, only Hiltina and Dean Yin knew the whole story.

Even as a psychometrician, Ishtar only knew that the person she was about to conduct a risk assessment on was a freshman who might be attending Star University, a new night traveler, and she didn't know any other details.

Therefore, when she first heard Rast's irrelevant words such as "he couldn't remember his age" and "his name was told to him by someone in his dream", Ishtar thought that Rast was simply resisting the interrogation and talking nonsense.

After all, as a psychometrist, she has seen too many mentally ill patients talking nonsense, and each of them speaks in a serious and logical manner. It is easy to be misled by them if you are not careful. The best way is to not believe a word they say.

But now that I think about it, how could someone who possesses such clear fragments of memory, who still pursues the light even in the darkness and who can withstand the test of the prying eye, talk nonsense without thinking?

Although Ishtar still didn't think that Rast had really lived for hundreds of years as he said, after all, Rast's age looked no different from that of a freshman who had just enrolled at Star University.

But the rest of what he said - that he was all alone, had no relatives in Granville, and that his memory was so flawed that he had forgotten even his real name... maybe it was all true.

And the so-called feeling that he had lived for hundreds of years might be the sequelae of Last's memory loss.

Ishtar spoke softly, "Although I heard you mention it when I asked you before...but do you actually know Vice President Hiltina?"

"Vice president?"

"Well, as a member of the Twelve Seats of the Round Table, Xiltina will serve in the Star Student Union as per convention. She is the Vice President of the Student Union."

Ishtar thought for a moment and said, "Theoretically, she should be at the Student Union headquarters of Lionheart Academy, but this is just a theory."

"As the 'Ghost of Strategy', Vice President Hiltyna's whereabouts are notoriously erratic." "People say that if you want to find her, you are more likely to meet her in the Historical Remnants of the Night World than on the campus of Starry University."

"Ghost of Raiders?"

Luster noticed the word.

"Well, the night world is extremely dangerous. If you are not careful, you will die."

"So almost all of the night travelers from Starry University will choose to delay until the cooldown time limit... Only after they have made sure that their abilities, consumable items and equipment, as well as intelligence collection are foolproof, will they choose to enter the night world."

Knowing that Rast seemed to know nothing about Star University and even the whole world, Ishtar took the initiative to explain.

"But Xiltina is different. Her progress in conquering the night world has always exceeded the target."

"In fact, she often just emerged from the echo of one night world and immediately rushed to the entrance of the next night world... It was as if she had some unimaginable obsession with conquering the night world."

"However, it is precisely because of this persistence that Vice President Hiltina became the youngest third-rank official in the history of Star University, as well as the youngest member of the Twelve Round Tables."

Ishtar sighed softly, "Perhaps it won't be long before she breaks the record of the youngest person to reach the fourth level in the university."

"Since the Reverberations of the Night World are so dangerous, why does Hiltina still do this?" asked Last.

Hearing this, he couldn't help but recall what Hiltina said to him at the last moment before she jumped into the sea at Deep Blue Harbor -

"Every night traveler who has abandoned the glamorous identity of the outside world and walks in the night world where there are no laws and morals, accompanied by the remnants of history, madness and pollution..."

"They are all outright freaks, bigots and lunatics in the eyes of others."

……

"I don't know, and no one at Star University really knows."

Ishtar shook her head.

"I heard that the real reason why Vice President Hiltina became the "Strategy Ghost" has even been listed on the list of "Top Ten Unsolved Mysteries on Campus" by the Star Daily."

"However, some people speculate that it has something to do with her past."

"It is said that Vice President Hiltina's hometown was destroyed by a dusk disaster, and her mother also died in that disaster."

"Twilight Disaster?" Rast continued to ask.

"Huh? You don't even know this?"

Ishtar was a little surprised: "Since you were able to inherit extraordinary knowledge and step into the long sequence to become a night traveler, then these should be the most basic common sense."

"The technology where I lived before was very backward, and the information channels were also very closed." Last said softly, "Not only did we not have cars, mobile phones, the Internet, air conditioning, refrigerators, etc.... The only contact with the outside world was the messengers and traveling merchants who visited regularly every month."

"I was able to step onto the Long Steps of Sequence and become a Transcendent and Night Traveler because of an accident. No one ever taught me the so-called "common sense"."

Hearing this, Ishtar's eyes suddenly became softer, even with a little more pity.

(End of this chapter)