God made the three colorful bubbles float towards Shade, so even the cat and Miss Theresa looked over. Among the three bubbles, there was a girl swinging with her father in the garden, and a boy hanging out with his friends.
Running with a puppy on the grass, another scene of a boy holding his face in the window and looking up at the stars.
The colorful light is unusually soft, and just looking at these bubbles seems to make all those bad thoughts disappear.
"Look at this light. Only childhood dreams can confront the deepest darkness in a lightless place."
The curious cat stretched out its paws to catch the bubbles again, but was stopped by Shade again.
God smiled and said to Shade:
"This is something more pure and beautiful than the crystallization of dreams. It is the most precious and beautiful thing that can be harvested in this sea where there is no light."
"No, the most precious and beautiful thing here is definitely not this."
Shade unexpectedly raised objections, and then held Miss Teresa's hand. The young witch's face blushed, and God withdrew those colorful bubbles:
"Then keep fishing and let me see what else you can catch. Childhood dreams and past dreams are intertwined to become your adult self. And when you use childhood as a beacon again to try to find the past
, people can often see things that they have not noticed. If you can lead them away from here, I can give you a crystal of childhood dreams. Outsiders, have you ever remembered your most innocent and beautiful age?
"
The maid's earrings had been tied up. As Shade threw out the fishing line, the pair of earrings fell into the cold sea water. A pulling sensation appeared almost as soon as the earrings entered the water. Miss Theresa fell from
He grabbed Shade's hand behind him and together he pulled up the struggling thing, and then discovered that it was a crumpled notebook entangled with fishing line.
What is very magical is that the completely soaked notebook dried immediately after Shade shook it a few times. After opening it, the ink inside did not smudge due to being soaked in water. With a gentle flick of the god, the notebook became smudged.
There was a glimmer of light.
The black-haired young girl appeared in the light holding the notebook. Miss Teresa looked curiously at what the maid looked like when she was young. At that time, Wayne Maxim had some freckles on her face.
With his own notebook, he stood on tiptoe and looked at the storybooks with colorful covers in the illusory window in front of him. Finally, he lowered his head with regret, and then turned to look at Shade.
No one needs to explain, Shade also knows that this is the "Mirror Fairy Tale" that Miss Maxim mentioned last time, which she never really had when she was a child.
The expectant look in the girl's eyes holding the notebook at this time was almost the same as the look that little Mia looked at Shade when she wanted to eat. Miss Theresa gently pushed Shade and asked him to take out the storybook.
De also put his hand into his pocket, but after taking out the book, he thought about it again, bent slightly and asked the girl holding the notebook:
"Do you like fairy tales?"
"Yes, sir."
The girl said timidly, her eyes still looking at the book in Shade's hand.
"Why do you like fairy tales?"
"Because. I just like it."
"Mirror Fairy Tale", which was specially translated by Shade into the common language at the end of the Fifth Era, was handed over to the girl:
"If you like it, you can try to write some yourself. This may be more interesting than reading stories."
The girl nodded timidly and pointed to the sea outside the floating board:
"Then you have to look in the right direction and remember, I am there."
Her figure then disappeared. Shade handed the notebook to God and threw out the fishing line for the second time.
Tens of seconds later, the fishing line was tightened again, and this time the struggle was stronger than before. Fortunately, Miss Teresa helped, so this time the fishhook was successfully pulled back.
The object tied up with the fishing line turned out to be a rotten severed human hand.
Shade was stunned and didn't understand why it was such a thing. Miss Teresa had already stretched out her hand to untie the fishing line. Seeing that she didn't mind, Shade also took that hand in her hand, and God gently touched her again.
With a flick of the eye, as the arm shimmered, Miss Maxim of her teenage years appeared in front of the two of them.
At this time, Miss Maxim seemed to be fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a black and white maid skirt. She was holding a simple long sword in her hand, and there were two people beside her and one person in front of her.
Next to her was a maid whose face could not be seen clearly:
"Vayne, go ahead and prove your courage and courage. A maid who has never seen blood cannot become a qualified maid."
In front of her was a crouched humanoid creature whose race and gender could not even be distinguished. Its hands, feet and neck were shackled, and it was holding its head tremblingly.
Miss Maxim, who was fifteen or sixteen years old, was also trembling and hesitated to move forward with the weapon in her hand.
Shade felt Miss Theresa pull him, and then heard her voice:
"I've also heard that the official maids around Aunt Violet have to go through special training. It's very cruel, right?"
Shade didn't want to express an opinion. If it was a peaceful country in peaceful times, this would of course be cruel. But for people living in this dangerous world, although he didn't think random killing was right, he wouldn't think it was.
Training is pointless.
"Should we help her? Help her. See blood?"
Miss Teresa asked in a low voice, God looked at this scene with a smile, and then saw Shade shaking his head with satisfaction:
"Of course we can't help her. God has said that the meaning of fishing is to make up for the regrets of the past. Miss Theresa, do you really think that Miss Maxim's regret for this past is because she really took action at that time?
Yet?"
The young witch thought for a while and confirmed that the maid who was decisive in killing and merciless to her enemies, and even had alchemy throwing knives tied to her stockings under her skirt, would definitely not feel regret for such a past.
So she shook her head, but she was still puzzled:
"So what exactly is Vayne regretting?"
The young maid holding the sword turned to look at them, with pleading in her eyes.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Shade said and was about to step forward, but immediately stepped back:
"Go and hug her from behind. Yes, you don't need to do anything else. You just need to hug her and comfort her softly."
Miss Teresa suddenly understood, so she followed what Shade said, gently hugged the young Miss Maxim, and then said softly:
"It's okay, it's okay, I will be with you."
Miss Maxim then trembled and raised the weapon in her hand again, then closed her eyes and swung it forward. The three figures disappeared without letting Shade and Miss Theresa see what happened next.
.
"This is Vayne's wish."
Miss Teresa looked at her hands with a somewhat disappointed expression:
"It turns out that all she wanted was some comfort and encouragement. I couldn't understand such a simple thing. My aunt always said that I was immature, which seemed right."
"In fact, most of the time people's wishes are not complicated. What is complicated is how to see what others want. Miss Violet and I have experienced a lot of things. Miss Theresa, you will have time to grow up."
She was destined to be the principal of the Sirksess Medical School, and the strangers down the river knew this over time.
Miss Teresa nodded again and glanced at Shade, who had golden scars on his body. She felt that he must be very good at seeing what the witches wanted.
Then the fishhook was thrown out for the third time, this time in the direction where Miss Maxim had swung her sword just now. The thing caught by the fishhook struggled even more fiercely this time, even though Shade and Miss Theresa
They worked together and used thaumaturgy to enhance their own strength before pulling the thing up.
The "fish" that was hooked for the third time was still not their target. This time, the fishhook tied with earrings hooked up a silk handkerchief. Miss Teresa recognized at a glance that the handkerchief embroidered with rose flowers was this time.
The one that Miss Teresa carried with her when they traveled together.
Sure enough, when the god's hand brushed the handkerchief, the black-haired maid who appeared for the third time was already the same in size, appearance and dress as the one sleeping beside the campfire.
But the scene that appeared this time was obviously not on the ship, because there were several maids dressed similarly to her standing next to her. The girls were chattering while envying Wayne Maxim for being able to follow Trey.
Miss Sha took a boat trip to Silver Beach Island for vacation together, and at the same time, they both gave her advice and told her what luggage to bring with her for this long trip.
This time, many maids showed their own appearance, and some of them were even seen by Shade during the adventure of "Lost Lake". Miss Theresa beside Shade also introduced these phantoms one by one to Shade.
The maids, they are all "royal maids" trusted by Miss Violet, which means that they are not only maids, but also the main helpers of the Witch Emperor Violet in managing the kingdom.
One of the maids with long black curly hair also smiled and took out a pair of fortune-telling cards:
"Since we are going on a long journey, of course we need to divine our future fortune. Do you want to try it?"
"certainly."
Miss Maxim, who still didn't know what would happen on the next journey, smiled and nodded, and chose the ninth card from the top. Shade and Miss Teresa also stretched their heads to look at the cards they saw.
The face is not a normal divination card face.
From the fifth era to the sixth era, although the names and contents of the 108 divination cards have been slightly adjusted, the changes are not significant. Although Shade does not understand divination, he has been with Luvia for so long.
The face was very familiar to him. He was quite sure that something was wrong with the "dragon entwining the ship" card that appeared at this time.