Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

"You'd better watch out," Beanie said.He was starting to get a little nervous, the night was coming...a night when there would be a solar eclipse, for which he had been waiting for a long time with fear and uneasiness. "Arthur is very angry with you, Therimon. I don't believe you're here at this moment, especially tonight, when you know you shouldn't be out. Think of what you've written about him in the papers lately, and you You should understand this..." The reporter smiled slightly and said, "I told you, I have my own way to calm him down."

"Serimone, stop being so self-righteous. Remember? In your column, you basically called him a crazy old man. He's an old man who usually looks serious, but when you push him, he can get very angry. Woolen cloth." Theremon shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'll tell you, Beanie, before I became a well-known columnist, I was just a nobody doing interviews that other people thought were difficult, I mean impossible. Every night when I come home with a bruised nose or a broken arm and a limp, I can always get the news I want. Over the years, in order to get the news I want, I have chased after the interviewees and forced them to There is nothing you can do about it. Once a man has had this experience, he has considerable self-confidence. I think I can deal with Arthur."

"Forcing them?" Beanie said, looking up thoughtfully at the calendar plate hanging high on the wall of the corridor. The flashing green letters showed that the date was September 19th, a day of life and death.At the Observatory, it was a day that had been burning on everyone's minds for months, and probably most Kargashians knew that it might be their last day of sanity. "That's not the smartest word you've ever used tonight, is it?" Theremon smiled. "Maybe you're right, we'll figure it out." He pointed to the closed door of Arthur's room, "Who's in there?"

"Of course Arthur, and the astronomer Tierlando, and Daunet, Simbrunn, Hiccenen, etc., all the staff of the Observatory, that's all." "Is Severa there? She said she would come." "She's not here, she hasn't arrived yet." Theremon had a look of surprise on his face. "Really? I asked her the other day if she'd choose to go to the hideout, and she sniffed it. She's definitely going to be here to watch the eclipse. I'm sure she won't change her mind. That woman's got nothing to fear. But, Beanie , maybe she is busy packing some last-minute belongings in the office."

"possible." "Where's that chubby friend Schelling? He's not there either?" "No, he's not there. He's gone to the shelter." "Our Schelling is not the bravest man?" "At least he's smart enough to admit it. Resta's in the hideout, and Arthur's wife, Nilda, and everyone else I know, except, of course, those from our observatory. If you Come to your senses and go there too, Theremon. I hope you'll be there when it gets dark tonight." "A year ago, believer Flemish 66 also said this to me, but the shelter he invited me to was not yours, but he built it.

But, my friends, I am well prepared for the most tragic moment that God has planned.There will definitely be a good show tonight. If I hide in the narrow underground, won't I get nothing? " "Tomorrow, Theremon, there won't be any more news from you for any paper." "You really think so?" Theremon grabbed Beanie by the arm and pulled him toward him, almost touching the tip of his nose.He lowered his voice and said seriously, "Tell me, Beanie, tell me something from the bottom of my heart, do you really think something as incredible as Higurashi will happen tonight?"

"Yes, I'm sure of it." "God, man, you're kidding, aren't you?" "Of course I'm not joking. I'm always serious, Theremon." "I don't believe it. You look so calm, Beanie, so poised, so discerning. And yet with a series of astronomical calculations that everyone thinks is speculative, and charcoal dug up from a desert thousands of miles away, you Add in the gibberish coming out of the mouths of Star Cultists with staring crazy eyes, and you've got damned gibberish." "It's not absurd," Beanie insisted calmly, "and it's not nonsense."

"Then tonight is really the end of the world?" "Well, the end of the world we know and love." Theremon let go of Beanie's arm and swung it upwards in a fury. "God, you too. Darkness, Beanie, I've been trying to convince myself of this for over a year and I can't, absolutely can't. Whatever you say, or Arthur, or Severa, or Foley awn, or..." "Wait," Beanie said. "Just a few more hours." "You really take it seriously," said Theremon, not without wonder. "My God! You're as stupid as Mondial. Pooh, that's all I'm saying. Beanie, pooh, lead me Go see Arthur, will you?"

"I warn you, he doesn't want to see you." "You've already said it. Whether he sees it or not, take me in."