Chapter 429 Travelers Never Say Goodbye

At the same time, Aiwas brought Isabel, who was disguised as Yulia, and found Janice easily.

Because Janice was not hiding at all.

She was sitting on the largest bell tower in the Red Queen District, overlooking the entire Glass Island, slowly painting stroke by stroke. If your eyesight is good enough, you can see her existence by looking up.

Although the fifth-level strongmen are usually not visible to the world, "Master Janice" is an exception. Her popularity in the Glass Island is not bad. After all, she is a world-renowned top artist, and the organizer and editor-in-chief of the "Glass Steps Newspaper". She has a wide social circle.

In the upper-class area of ​​the Red Queen District where there are priests, businessmen and scholars, there are too many people who can recognize Janice at a glance. Naturally, no one will bother her.

Aiwas has no ability to fly, but Isabel is different.

As an "all-rounder", she sang a lively folk song that made the two of them lighter while painting in the void with her fingers. In the blink of an eye, a pair of illusory wings were painted on Aiwas.

Those were two pink wings that looked like butterfly wings with only outlines. It looked like a circle of light, constantly emitting particles outward. Aiwas immediately understood how to use this thing.

——There is no principle to speak of, and there is no reason.

Just because wings were painted, it was natural to be able to fly.

Aiwas hugged Isabel from behind and flew up with a big jump.

That posture was more like floating than flying - it was like jumping at full speed on the moon, and it floated directly to the top of the tall bell tower.

Isabel in the form of Yulia was really small and light, and Aiwas hugged her like a kitten. She exclaimed with joy and fear as if she was riding a bungee jump, and reached out to grab Aiwas' collar and cuffs.

When Aiwas landed, the illusory wings behind him also turned into light powder and dissipated.

Janice just glanced at it and recognized Isabel's disguise directly.

She burst out laughing: "How did you think of this idiot disguise, little Isa? So cute..."

"...Is there something wrong with me, teacher?"

In the pink light, Isabel changed back.

She asked shyly, but seriously: "I should be exactly the same as Yulia..."

"It's just like realistic painting. Newcomers with a little skill will always make such mistakes at some point, thinking that their paintings are already similar enough, and people who don't understand painting will exclaim "It really looks like" at a glance, but they can vaguely feel a sense of stiffness that comes from nowhere.

"I won't mention any lies like "no soul", "no emotion", "lack of tension". In my opinion, this is very simple - your painting is not similar enough, and your observation is not complete enough. At the same time, you are trying too hard. "

Jannis smiled and pointed to the drawing board in front of her: "What do you see? "

Evans and Isabel looked at her intently.

With Janice's level, she could quickly draw a moving magic painting.

But now Janice was just drawing slowly.

Just like a newcomer who had just started painting... He had been sitting here for most of the day, but there were only outlines and structures on the drawing paper, lacking a lot of details.

But even so, Isabel could still tell at a glance that Janice was drawing the Glass Island.

But it was not the current Glass Island, but the Glass Island sixty years ago.

-She saw the past through the present.

Almost all the houses had only shallow outlines, and no one had a head painted.

But Isabel could tell at a glance that this was the Glass Island but not the current Glass Island, and could even feel the mood of those passers-by.

Obviously, Janice did not draw the sun at all, but Isabel could still see that it should be an autumn afternoon with a bit of shade.

"When you really grasp the whole, you can omit and modify it. ”

Jannis said leisurely: "You drew everything you saw and remembered, and made a perfect reproduction. But are those you observed really everything?

"——Did you see Yulia's appearance or her inner self?

"You remember her appearance, but do you remember the shape and softness of her earlobes? You remember her hairstyle, but what about the auricle and the back of her neck that were blocked by her hair?

"You saw her figure, remembered her height and body shape, but you didn't see her internal bones. You didn't observe that her leg muscles were atrophied due to long-term lack of nutrition and exercise, and the posture she stood in was actually a leverage for the lack of strength in her legs.

"You didn't notice that her smile was actually a distant and polite smile, and you didn't notice the rational look she had when she looked at people. Did you notice what kind of feelings she had for Aiwas? Do you know why she concentrated on studying alchemy? Do you know what she likes, and do you know why she likes those things? "

Jannis turned around and said calmly and seriously: "Little Isa... Her Majesty the Queen of Avalon. I will give you one last lesson.

"Art is the concentrated embodiment of beauty, but its essence is nothingness.

"Art comes from reality, from matter, and from the beauty of life that exists everywhere in the world. The beauty of art itself is virtual. It comes from abstract consciousness, containing modifications and lies.

"The essence of beauty is a mirror image. It is infinitely close to reality, but it is not a copy of reality. Because fake things are fake and can never become true. No matter how realistic it is, it is always 'realistic'.

"I ask you again, little Isa—what is the way to beauty?"

"...Yes, aesthetics?"

Isabel replied tentatively.

Hearing this answer, Yanis smiled with satisfaction.

Because this was the answer Yanis taught Isabel when she first met her. It is Yanis’ true mantle.

"That's it. If you want to reach beauty, you must discover beauty. If you want to discover beauty, you need aesthetics. Observation is the ability to discover beauty. From this point of view... every painter is a detective. He must always discover those of others. Undiscoverable details.”

As Yanis spoke, she opened her hand like magic, and a bouquet of fresh Dettol white roses appeared from her hand.

She smiled and waved the flower in Aiwass, and then handed it to Isabel.

Isabel caught the flower with both hands and looked at it hard. But she stared at it for a long time, but still couldn't see the flaw. She could only praise: "Teacher is so amazing, I can't see any flaw in it..."

"Because it's true."

Yanis smiled and said: “These are the flowers I bought for Sophia this morning.

"——True can't be fake, and fake can't be true. Do you understand better now, little Isa?"

"...I seem to understand a little bit, but not very well."

Isabel answered honestly.

But Yanis just smiled: "It's okay if you don't understand. Beauty is the crystallization of life, and your future is still long."

She said, sighing softly.

Yanis looked up at the sun, as if looking at someone, with warm and bright eyes.

And Isabel suddenly felt something: "Teacher...don't you plan to watch your grandmother's funeral?"

"No more watching."

Yanis smiled softly and winked at Isabel like a young girl: "As long as she doesn't say a final farewell, she won't leave forever, right?

"My old friend must still be somewhere. One day, I will be able to see her again. Maybe in the material world, maybe in the dream world.

"And before that...my wandering, never-ending journey will begin again."

She whispered, the dim yellow in her pupils flashed: "Before that, I have to paint a good picture for her.

"This is a promise that was made when we first met, but was never fulfilled."

But soon, it was replaced by bright yellow, which represents balance.

She sighed and put down the half-finished painting. Throw away the paintbrush in your hand.

After taking off his hand, the brush turned into dots of color and disappeared into the void.

The moment she let go of the pen, the painting enriched the details and became complete on its own, like a blooming flower.

Aiwass, who remained silent on the side, suddenly reacted when he saw this scene——

Rather than saying that Yanis was drawing with a pen, it would be better to say that she was trying her best to restrain the pen in her hand and draw those things as slowly as possible.

At her level, she no longer needs pens and paints to paint.

And if she finished painting this last painting, it would be time for her to leave Avalon.

She obviously didn't want to leave the glass island or say goodbye to her old friends... so she sat here alone, painting the unfinished painting sixty years ago.

Although Sophia has passed away for a week...but the death of a friend is like a mellow wine, and it is only now that the stamina surges up, turning into sadness and nostalgia as light as rain.

——And now, Yanis finally defeated the dusk desire in her heart and chose to let it go.

Isabel obviously didn't think so much.

She just opened her eyes wide and looked at the miraculous scene in wonder.

It's like spring has arrived and flowers are blooming. The seasons in the scroll changed from autumn to winter and then to spring.

The flowers are blooming and everything becomes so beautiful.

After the painting turned into spring, the details of the faceless passers-by on the street gradually became richer and more detailed.

As if a world had been created out of nothing - another girl who was 70% similar to Isabel gradually appeared on the scroll.

She stands under the bell tower, which is the most conspicuous place in the painting.

The girl's eyes are bright and clear, her hands are clasped behind her hands lively, and she has a bright smile on her face.

Finally, the image of Yannis was sketched. Except that her temperament back then was more ethereal and indifferent, she looked almost the same as Yanis now.

She stood in the direction where Sophia looked back when she was young, carrying the drawing board, turning her head slightly and looking sideways at the bell tower and beyond the scroll.

Just like sixty years ago, someone was standing on this clock tower and saw Sophia dragging Yanis shopping below.

Naturally, Sophia never took Yannis shopping with her back then.

Not long after she appeared at Yannis's painting exhibition, she was captured by people from the Palace of Silver and Tin.

They later became friends, but they really didn't have the opportunity to go shopping so leisurely. Because Sophia is always busy and always worrying about others. And as a queen, she doesn't have that opportunity to hang around.

When she was really free, she was already very old and could only sit on the bed and knit sweaters for her juniors.

But this painting looks so real, as if such an event really happened.

"I gave this painting to you, just think of it as..."

Yanis took off the solidified painting from the drawing board and handed it to Aiwass.

She looked at Aiwass and Isabel and suddenly laughed: "Well, consider it a [gift] for you. I originally wanted to leave quietly, but who told you to find me? It's also my fault that I painted too much Slow... too slow, too slow.

“Life is short, cherish it.”

As she spoke, she casually reached out and touched Isabel's face.

It was as if she were describing something - Isabel was "painted" by her, and with just two gentle touches, Isabel completely transformed into Yulia.

Even Aiwass had a hard time telling the difference between this "Yulia" and the real Yulia.

"Study hard. There's still a long way to go."

Yanis smiled and put her drawing board back on her back.

She turned around and waved casually. On the last day of the year, when thousands of families were reunited, she chose to leave alone and in style.

No goodbye.

Travelers who wander the world never say goodbye.

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