Early in the morning of the next day, Lu Yu was dressed under Rita's attentions.
"Ms. Rita, may I please call the police?"
Lu Yu only reacted when he looked at Rita in front of the mirror in a daze as she was busy with herself.
Damn it, something wasn't right!
Where did Rita get the key to her dormitory door?
While holding the comb and arranging Lu Yu's hair, Rita smiled and replied, "Your Majesty, please don't be too surprised, and also, just address me directly as Rita, please don't add honorifics."
"???"
No, you were damn well able to enter my dormitory while I was sleeping, and I'm still not surprised?
"Rita, can I ask where you got the key to the front door of my dormitory?"
"The key, you mean this."
Rita said and took out an iron key from her clothes pocket then handed it to Lu Yu.
"Yes, where did it come from?"
Rita didn't answer, she just slightly smiled at Lu Yu, a smile that Lu Yu understood, meaning to let him guess for himself.
"Gong Ming?"
After a little thought, Lu Yu came up with the answer.
Rita nodded, "Yes. Earlier, Little Sister called everyone together and then gave all of us each a key to your room."
"I see, so it's Gong Ming she ..."
Wait!
Blah blah blah!
"Rita, you said that Gong Ming he called everyone together and then gave one to each of us?"
"Yes."
Lu Yu suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Can I ask who this so-called everyone refers to?"
Gong Ming pondered for a little while.
"On that day, apart from me, the people called by Little Sister were Miss Lin Zhaoyu, Miss Jiang Wanru, Miss Jiang Wanxi, Miss Su Mei, as well as Miss Raiden Mei and Miss Kiana."
Lu Yu: "?????"
Good lord, it turns out that one's dormitory has long since become free to enter and exit?
Suddenly, as if Rita had remembered something, she then added another sentence.
"Oh yeah, Little Sister also called Kafka, but Kafka she said she had it long ago and didn't want it."
Lu Yu: "..."
"And then there's also, Little Sister forced a key to Miss Bronya, saying that she could use it later."
Lu Yu: "..."
Gong Ming, what the hell are you doing!
I don't have anything with Bronya, okay, what do you mean by stuffing a key to her!
And ah, my relationship with Bronya clearly hasn't even been revealed, where did you get that from?
"Okay, okay, I know."
Closing his eyes, Lu Yu instantly felt a bit headstrong.
He was being held to death by Gong Ming, this little girl.
No wonder the system said that this girl could help herself organize her harem, where is this organizing the harem ah, this is simply sweeping the eight ah.
"Rita, I still have a question."
"Your Majesty, please speak."
"If I remember correctly, shouldn't I be the one accompanying you today?"
Rita nodded, "Yes, as agreed, you are at my disposal for the entire day today."
"Then what are you doing entering my room at 6 o'clock this early in the morning to wake me up and serve me, shouldn't I be the one to accompany you today?"
Rita replied with a face of course, "Of course it's to perform the duties of a maid."
Lu Yu: "????"
"Your Majesty, no one has stipulated that the one with the initiative can't be a maid."
Putting down the comb in her hand, Rita began to use her hands to help Lu Yu straighten the folds on his clothes.
"Your Majesty, please stand up for a moment, there's something wrong with the position of the hem of your clothes."
Ignoring Lu Yu's expression, Rita busied herself.
Seeing Rita like this, Lu Yu could only stand up helplessly and let Rita fiddle with herself.
"Your Majesty, I don't know if you still remember, but I used to help you organize your clothes like this."
Lu Yu certainly remembered.
In the previous simulation, from that time when he got rid of that minister together with the young Rita, the only person he trusted in the palace was Rita, so from that day onwards, Rita had been in close charge of his food and living until he died under Gong Ming's sword.
"Your Majesty, you may not know that since the day I remembered everything, I've been trying to discard that memory that doesn't belong to the present."
"As you said, the me of today is -Rossweisse, the Valkyrie of Schicksal, the vice-captain of the Indestructible Blade, and not the Rita of the Great Brilliant Kingdom, or that maid who would only coyly follow you around."
"But Your Majesty, humans are complex creatures, and the more one tries to do something, the more difficult it is for that thing to be accomplished."
"It's like a lost item, the more one goes searching for it in a hurry, the more impossible it is to find."
"Instead, if one doesn't go looking for it, then the item will be found somewhere after a while."
Rita spoke nonchalantly.
"Your Majesty, I tried so hard to leave those memories behind, but unfortunately, I couldn't."
"Especially since Little Sister appeared in, every night in St. Freya Academy, I think of you when I close my eyes."
"I think of that day when you asked me to serve you."
"I think back to the day you took me out of the palace and told me that you wanted to change the world of Da Huang."
"I think back to the day You taught me martial arts and taught me to read and write."
"I think back to when you promised me that you would take me as your wife, and when it was all over, we would find a place to live in seclusion."
"Your Majesty, these images are engraved in my mind as if they were spell marks, I want to shed them, but they keep appearing before my eyes."
Lu Yu did not notice that Rita, who was standing behind him and helping him organize his clothes, was at this moment overflowing with happiness on her face that she herself did not even notice.
Lu Yu: "Sorry, I ..."
For everyone, the consequences of having an extra memory out of nowhere were different.
Just like Kiana, that extra memory in the simulation was just an interesting adventure in Kiana's eyes, and for Kiana, the feelings brought about by the simulation once or twice weren't that profound.
Then there's Durandal, for example, in the eyes of the Dull Goose, the memories from the simulator wouldn't affect her too much per se, after all, she's a strong woman who's been through the world bubble experience.
As for other girls, the impact of the simulator is much more profound.
Just like Sirin, for example, the little puffer that craved for affection and love was easily impressed by the experiences in the simulator, so that the little puffer was taken down by Lu Yu in the first place.
And Rita's situation was similar to Sirin's.
Rita, the gentle maid though kept a distance from all strangers, but that was only limited to strangers.
In fact, once someone could enter Rita's heart, she would devote herself to them.
In this life, Rita's devotion was to Durandal, the one she admired, Lord Bianca, who was the only person Rita had ever recognized as needing to be devoted to.
However, until the experience of the simulation was made known to her, there was one more person in Rita's heart, and that person was called Lu Yu, who was the recognized tyrant of the Great Brilliant Kingdom and a true hero.
Even if Rita had also experienced the World Bubble experience, even if she was the object of admiration by the other Valkyries, the mighty S-Class Valkyrie Rita Lossweather, who knew that such a Rita had been nothing more than an ordinary girl from a florist's family a long, long time ago.
Because she was ordinary, she knew the value of feelings.
"Your Majesty, do you ever know what is the most unforgettable thing for me in those images?"
"What?"
"It was the day I realized that you really died."
Hearing this reply, Lu Yu fell silent, and for a while, Lu Yu did not know what to say.
"Your Majesty, do you ever know that at first, when I heard of your death, I did not believe it."
"You were the king of Great Huang, and the strongest person at that time, ultimately you were injured by the descendants of those sinners, how could Little Sister really kill you?"
"You taught Little Sister everything, even if she has the secret techniques you granted her, but how could she possibly be your opponent?"
"I know that as long as you don't want to die, then no one can really take your life."
"I've always believed in you, you said you would give me a brand new life and you did. You said you would give Da Huang a brand new future, and you did that too. That's why I believe in you, you're the invincible Lord of Da Huang, there's nothing you can't do as long as you want to do it."
"That's why I didn't believe it when I heard the news that you were decimated by your junior sister."
"I thought that it was your Golden Cicada method, a ploy set up so that you could live in seclusion with me."
"I thought it was just a little joke, an explanation you gave to the people of Da Huang, a king of the old times announcing to everyone that the ancient dynasty had come to an end."
"But how could I have never imagined that you would really die, die so dryly, die so openly."
Speaking of this coming, Rita suddenly hugged Lu Yu gently from behind.
"Your Majesty, have you ever known that after your death, I even wanted to dig up your grave to dig you out to see what you were really thinking."
"When you died, Little Sister hugged your remains and cried in the great hall for three days without eating or drinking, then do you know how I spent those three days?"
"Your Majesty, it wasn't just only Little Sister who loved you dearly, but in order to cheer Little Sister up, I wasn't even able to cry."
"I had to be strong for the sake of your great justice and for the future of Da Huang, so I could only hide everything in my heart."
"As a result, until the day you were buried, I didn't even have the chance to touch you for a moment."
"Do you understand how that feels?"
Rita's voice was soft, but every sentence hit Lu Yu straight in the heart.
As the hero of the simulation, Lu Yu was unaware of what would happen after his death, but Lu Yu also knew that this simulator didn't end when he died.
Every simulation was a real world, and the world didn't stop functioning just because he died.
So the story of that world actually continued after his death.
Since it was still continuing, what Rita's situation was like, Lu Yu could understand when he thought about it.
Although the final ending of that simulation rewarded Gong Ming, the simulator heroine identified by the system was Rita, so the one who was actually most deeply affected should be Rita.
Letting the pigeon go was a small matter, but the fact that she chose to die in order to pay Gong Ming back for his life had the greatest impact on Rita.
If you think about it carefully, you will understand, Rita is his hand from the palace to bring out, her everything is also Lu Yu given, and until his own death, Lu Yu everything is Rita is responsible for.
It can be said that in the weight of feelings, this little maid who was brought out from the palace is the person who occupies the largest proportion in Lu Yu's life.
Gong Ming, it was only because Lu Yu accidentally pitched her father to death, coupled with the fact that she had the talent to rule the country, that Lu Yu decided to cultivate her and pay her back for her life, so technically speaking, the feelings towards Gong Ming were actually of great righteousness, not that he really had much personal feelings towards Gong Ming.
But Rita was different, in that simulation, Lu Yu knew that he really liked Rita, and if he didn't, he wouldn't have promised that he would take Rita as his wife.
In the end of a thousand words, Lu Yu could afford the world of Da Huang, Gong Ming, his parents, and everyone else, but the only thing he was sorry for was Rita.
"So Your Majesty, all this that you owe me, when do you plan to pay me back?"
Saying this, Lu Yu just wanted to reply something, however, without waiting for Lu Yu to make a reply, Rita suddenly let go of Lu Yu.
"Alright, after finishing up, Your Majesty, we should set off."
Rita then looked at Lu Yu with a smile.
Rita was in a good mood.
After holding back so many words, she finally said them all.
"Your Majesty, for today's day, please consider this as making amends to me."
After saying that, holding Lu Yu's hand, Rita pulled Lu Yu out of the door of the dormitory with a smile on her face.