Chapter 157: Re: A+A
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【完成一个主线任务和一个附加任务，英勇值达到了50%以上，可获得两把回溯之匙，请宿主随机抽取。】
【Host has completed the main mission and one additional mission. Heroic value has reached 50% and above. Two Return Cards are obtained. Please make your draw when you wish Host.】
尚可很快抽取了两张牌，一张牌面是：莱因·兰斯洛（A+A），另一张则是秦渊（我不是人鱼）。
Shang Ke quickly drew two cards. On the face of one card was Rhine Lancelot (A+A), while the other one had Qin Yuan (I Am Not A Merman).
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莱因是帝国最年轻的中将，也是一名出色的Alpha，用有极为优秀的战士基因和强烈的征服欲。所以，他在遇到菲尔墨后，毫不犹豫向他发出了自己的信息素，将他视为自己的猎物，即使他也是一名Alpha。
Rhine was the Empire’s youngest Vice Admiral and a remarkable Alpha with extremely outstanding warrior genes and an intense desire to conquer. As such, when he met Filmore, he used his own pheromone without hesitation toward him, making him as his prey even if he was another Alpha.
随着与菲尔墨的深入解除，他逐渐意识到，爱情和欲望，并非完全来源于信息素。事实上，Omega的信息素更容易激发他的欲望，但他偏偏看上了一名最不可能成为伴侣的Alpha。
As he got to know Filmore better as a person, he gradually became aware that love and desire did not completely come from pheromone. The pheromone’s of an Omega aroused his desire more easily, but the one he was attracted to was the one he shouldn’t, another Alpha.
他们并肩作战，同甘共苦。从最初的排斥，逐渐变得亲密无间。莱因那时想，就算同为Alpha，他们将来一定也能成为最契合的恋人。
They fought together, shared their joys and sorrows of life together. From the initial rejection, they gradually became close. Rhine had a thought at the time, that even if they were both Alphas, they will become the most harmonious lovers in the future.
他喜欢他无惧生死的勇敢，喜欢他面对逆境时的坚强，喜欢他迎难而上的韧性，喜欢他从不怨天尤人的乐观。
He liked his bravery that is fearless of death, he liked his strength in face of confronting adversity, he liked his stubbornness in facing difficulties, and he liked his optimistic personality that never placed blame on others.
在最后那次任务中，他背着重伤的自己步行数里，忍着伤痛，独自战斗几天几天，直到精疲力尽，意识丧失，身体依然在信念的支撑下，本能的战斗。
On that last mission of theirs together, he had carried the injured him and walked on foot to find a safer location. He endured his own pain and fought days and nights alone until he was so drained and lost consciousness—but even then, his body still supported itself on pure willpower and fought on pure instinct.
这个身影，成为莱因记忆中最深刻的烙印。
This figure of his, became an everlasting mark in Rhine’s memory.
菲尔墨用生命保护了他，却也从他生命中永远消失了，同时消失的，还有他对情欲信息素的感知。他的世界仿佛失去了所有色彩，一切事物都变成了单调的灰白色。
Filmore used his life to protect him, and disappeared from his life forever. What disappeared at the same time was his perception of lustful pheromone. His world lost all color, turning everything into a monotonous gray.
在莱因拒绝了第七位Omega的示好后，不少人开始在暗中猜测他是性冷感或者性无能。虽然这些闲言碎语最后遭到了严厉的抨击，但莱因常年保持单身也是事实。
After refusing the seventh Omega expressing interest in him, many people started to speculate whether he lacked libido or was incapable. Although these idle gossipers suffered a severe reprimand later, Rhine’s year-round celibacy was a fact.
作为一名Alpha，无论是体能和性欲，都是非常强大的。成年之后后还守身如玉的Alpha，几乎不存在。在信息素的诱发下，即使再有原则的Alpha，也很难不动情。更重要的是，强行压抑情欲，会对Alpha的身体造成极大的负担。
As an Alpha, whether it was physical capabilities or sexual desires, both are very strong. Alphas that remained virgins after growing to adulthood are virtually nonexistent. Under the influence of pheromones, even the most respectful Alpha will find it hard to not be influenced. More importantly, forcefully repressing their lust would bring more stress upon an Alpha’s body.
然而，已经晋升为上将的莱因，对任何Omega都不感兴趣。他的家族担心他的生理健康，便私下做主帮他物色了一名年轻漂亮的Omega，趁他喝醉时送上他的床，结果这名Omega差点被他杀了，最后人虽然没死，但导致对方精神失常，足足休养了两年才恢复。家族费了不少功夫才将这件事压下去。从此，再也不敢随便给他送人。
However, Rhine who has been promoted to an Admiral was not interested in any Omegas. His family were worried for his health and privately looked for a young and pretty Omega for him, then taking the chance while he was drunk, sent him to his bed. But disaster awaited that decision and the Omega was almost killed. Although he was not killed, his mental state dropped sharply and it took two years for him to fully recover. The family had to put in a lot of effort to hide the event. From then on, they never dared to send him anyone else.
莱因行事越来越狠辣，脾气也越来越暴躁。他花了短短三年时间，将帝国几股军政势力连根拔起，因为当年那次让他失去菲尔墨的任务，正是他们暗中安排的。目的是为了除掉他，但最后牺牲的却是他的菲尔墨。
Rhine’s conduct became more and more ruthless and his temper more violent. He spent a short three years to pull up the entirety of the Empire’s power by the roots. It was because the mission that caused him to lose Filmore was because of their background arrangements. Their purpose was to eliminate him, but the one sacrificed in the end was Filmore.
莱因如今活着的理由，就是为了复仇。他逐渐脱离从前被他视为忠魂归属的第一战线，强势进入权力中心，不择手段把持军权，打击异端，其手段之狠绝，令人胆寒。
Rhine’s reason for living now was purely for revenge. He gradually separated himself from the battlefront he felt at home in, and forcefully inserted himself into a position of authority. He used any means possible to control the army and cracked down on those who went against him. His means were ruthless and short, it caused everyone to fear him.
莱茵身上属于战士的威严和热血，逐渐被深沉和冷酷所替代。从前被民众所敬仰的英雄，变成了手握重权的上位者。
His passion and dignity as a warrior gradually turned into callous. The man that was once revered as a hero by the populace turned into a powerful authority.
之后三十年，莱因一直身居高位，权利甚至凌驾于帝国君王之上，私下被称为“王中王”。
In the thirty years afterwards, Rhine continued to rise in the ranks. His authority was even somewhat higher than the Emperor, and in private, he was called the “Emperor Amongst Emperors.”
所谓功高震主，除非莱因推翻现有政权，自立为王，否则最高统治者永远都不可能屈居人下。更何况大仇得报、心无所依的莱因，除了玩弄权利，再无其他乐趣。所以他行事无所顾忌，以铁血手段在军政系统建立了不可撼动的权威，也树立了数之不尽的强敌。
There is the saying that the victorious is the master. Rhine would have to overthrow the current ruling regime and become the new Emperor before the one currently in the highest spot of the pecking order would bow down to someone below them. But aside from his great revenge, Rhine had nothing else he wanted. Besides playing around with his authority, he had no other pleasures. As such, he acted without care and through bloody means, established a system of authority within the government which also netted him countless powerful enemies.
事实上，莱因早已做好了被人推翻或者杀死的准备，然而几十年过去，竟然没有人成功。那些所谓的阴谋，在他看来，如同跳梁小丑一般，让他索然无味。
In fact, Rhine had long been prepared for someone to overthrow or kill him. But in the tens of years that have gone by, no one had succeeded. Those so-called schemes from his point of view were just like dancing clowns, incredibly dull.
随着地位越来越稳固，让他上位的呼声也越来越高时，他做出了一个让所有人目瞪口呆的决定——退隐。
As his position became more and more stable, and the one above him demanded more and more of him, he made a decision that left everyone speechless—he retired.
别人急流勇退大多是为了明哲保身，但他选择退隐完全是不可理喻，最高权位都送到他面前了，只要他往上面一坐就能改朝换代，他却在此时放弃了一切！
Most people retired to protect themselves from dangers they could not face, but he chose to retire for seemingly no reason. The highest position was right in front of him, he just needed one more step and he would begin a whole new dynasty. Yet he chose to give up everything!
之后，因为莱因的离开，政权势力重新洗白，开始了长达数十年的权力之争。
After that, because of Rhine’s departure, the regime of power was once again swept clean. A new power struggle that lasted over ten years began.
莱因逐渐消失在众人的视线中，从此音信全无。
Rhine gradually disappeared from the eyes of the people and no news of him could be found from then on.
但他曾经得罪过的人，却没有忘记他。在他放弃一切后，这些人终于有机会一雪前耻，向他展开报复。
But those he had once offended before, they have never forgot him. After he gave up everything, those people finally obtained their chance to wipe away their shame and commit their own revenge.
两年后的某天，莱因醉倒在菲尔墨的墓前，被人轻而易举地割去了头颅。曾经威名赫赫的上将大人，权势滔天差点改写历史的莱因·兰斯洛，就这样默默无闻地死在了几名暗杀者手中，而且还死无全尸，最后连收敛尸体的人都没有，被当作无名氏烧成了灰烬。
A certain day two years later, Rhine fell in front of Filmore’s grave in a drunken state and his head was easily sliced off by someone. The once famous and brilliant Admiral Rhine Lancelot who had enough power to rewrite history, died an obscured and unknown death by assassins. His corpse was also split into pieces, leaving him to disappear off the face of this planet without even an intact body. The pieces of his body were burned into ashes like nobody.
【莱因，你是否愿意为我改变？尊重我，信任我，爱护我？】
【Rhine, would you change for me? Respect me, trust me, and cherish me?】
【我愿意。】
【I would.】
【那我们永远在一起吧？】
【Then let’s stay together forever okay?】
【好。】
【Okay.】