At the bottom of the lake, the water that looked clear from above was completely dark under the water's surface. Shade, who jumped into the water without taking any protective measures, almost immediately felt a little tired and sleepy. The lake water under the stars was actually quite warm.
, made him think of amniotic fluid for some reason, but fortunately, he could completely tolerate this level of sleepiness.
He had memorized Flora's location clearly, so he did not let go of his senses to explore what else was at the bottom of the lake, but focused on swimming in the direction of the witch.
The further down he went, the more obvious his sleepiness became. When he finally held Flora's cold hand again, he could hardly open his eyes.
He pulled the chain around his waist to inform Iluna on the shore that he had successfully reached the witch. After a moment, the chain was pulled upwards, and Iluna responded with "received".
Shade, who was breathing underwater, spit out a stream of bubbles from his mouth. He pulled slightly and found that Flora couldn't be pulled, so he gently touched Flora's sleeping face. He closed his eyes and pulled the
His forehead was pressed against hers.
The dream begins again.
Shade, who was half-floating in the water, slowly fell to the bottom of the water as if being hung by a heavy object, until he and the witch were hugging each other.
At this moment, the battle on the lakeshore has begun, but the dark water is still calm.
Just a few seconds later, a sudden shadow swam above the people under the water. Ten seconds later, white arms that seemed to be glowing under the water appeared from behind Sha De and hugged his neck, and that
Zhang Mei's astonishing "mermaid" head also appeared in front of his ears, and the part under the head could not be seen clearly in the large shadow behind him.
It did not dare to put its head directly on Shade's shoulder. The stunning face looked around, and then its red lips whispered in Shade's ear:
"Won't you show up to stop me?"
No one responded to it, so the pair of purple eyes similar to Luvia revealed a cruel and crazy look that Luvia would never show:
"Even he can feel the malice of my temptation this time. Do you just trust me so much? Are you so trustworthy that you let me appear by his side?"
The whispers in the underwater world can only be heard by the ears pressed tightly by the red lips, but there is still no response. After all, Shade has already gone to sleep:
"The end is coming soon, so do you believe that even I will help him who is chosen by you?"
It spoke softly, but the emotion in its eyes was no longer human at all. The crazy, weird and greedy look represented its essence, and after the final inquiry, it chuckled underwater.
:
"Is this because you trust me too much like he does, or do you not believe that I really dare to take action against him?"
It opened its mouth and bit Shade's neck, but behind those two rows of white teeth was not a pink and tender mouth, but densely packed tiny teeth.
But it didn't bite Shade's neck after all, because at the last moment it hugged Shade's neck and looked up, seeing a brand new figure appear in the water.
What "Desire" sees is purple eyes, which is one of the sources of its current image. In the past, it only knew of the existence of Luvia Anat, and this was the first close contact with her.
But the moment the two pairs of purple eyes looked at each other, the evil thing that originated from the oldest era retreated.
Most of its body was hidden in the darkness at the bottom of the lake, and the smile on its beautiful face had disappeared.
The long-haired fortune teller holding the "Staff of Uggdrasil" looked at it from above the water with an expressionless face. The staff and his eyes glowed slightly in the water. Even if he just stared at it, he had already felt "desire" for a long time.
The pressure that I have never faced before. That kind of indifference and calmness that emerges from absolute madness, that kind of eyes that are born from witnessing the most terrifying and desperate things, and that strength.
Its slender tongue stretched out and licked its chin and the tip of its nose:
"I know that the girls he can like are indeed extraordinary. But, who are you?"
The long-haired Luvia pointed the tip of her staff at it, but the "mermaid" hugging Shade smiled instead:
"If you could really show up, instead of being a shadow now, I would have retreated long ago. But you are just a phantom, and he is in my hands."
It hugged Shade's neck harder and was about to continue whispering in his ear, but suddenly discovered that at some point, a glowing cat had stood on top of Shade's head and looked at her.
"Meow!"
The amber eyes were ignited with golden flames like the tip of its tail. The cat was not angry. It just grabbed Shade's hair with its claws and looked at the "fish" very close to it. The orange lines on the cat's body
It exudes a faint golden brilliance, and the white lines are the light of the "moonfire" given by Shade.
The most beautiful human face looked at the most beautiful cat. After a moment of silence between the underwater man, the cat, and the fish, as bubbles came out of the woman's head, it lightly let go of Shade's neck:
"So you are here too. Just now I was wondering why cats can do this."
It smiled and nodded:
"Now that this is the case, I roughly understand that this is indeed a sound plan, but I don't know if he can make it to the end.
As long as he completes this debt collection, then I will help him until the end of the world. In fact, this is not bad. Harvesting his soul at once is almost the same as watching him perform those performances about desire and greed.
Very good, isn't it? Yes, very good, the tragedy of desire, the struggle of human nature, the hero on the road to despair, and..."
Its eyes widened, taking in the sleeping person, the staring cat, and the indifferent purple-eyed girl into its field of vision:
"Do you really want to be so cruel to him?"
It murmured in a low voice and gradually retreated until it truly disappeared into the lake. In the water, the long-haired Luvia's phantom had quietly disappeared, while the cat continued to grab Shade's hair and curled up.
The top of his head also fell into sleep.
"Meow~"
A small string of bubbles came out of the cat's mouth. Just like Shade didn't know that little Mia, who hated water, could swim, he also didn't know that this cat could even breathe underwater.
In the past, dreams always started with the feeling of falling, but this time it started directly like a time jump.
The night was getting dark, and Shade, who had regained consciousness, found himself standing in the forest by the lake, but there was no longer the thick fog when he left. Only then did he have time to think about what he had just seen.
It was the "God of Mist". He was very sure that this old god who was very friendly to him had left in the fifth era, and just now.
"Is it because the blessing God gave me in the desert was activated that I woke up from the fog?"
He was not very clear about the time-changing ratio between dreams and reality, so he did not stay in the woods for too long, turned around and returned to the lake. This dream was so real, even if Shade entered it in a awake state this time, in addition to not seeing
Except for the moon in the night sky, I couldn't notice the illusion here.
After returning to the wooden house, the gray-black haired girl on the bed next to them was indeed still sleeping. The starlight illuminated her side face from the window, making the witch who usually looked capable actually look somewhat coquettish at this time.
Shade smiled subconsciously, and then quickly patted his face to prevent him from being indulged in this moment of happiness again.
"Wake up, wake up~"
Shade then stood by the bed and shouted softly. The sleepy girl opened her eyes, but when she saw it was still dark outside the window, she turned her body lazily and ignored Shade:
"It's not dark yet, let me sleep a little longer. I know we have to repair the roof tomorrow, but wait until daybreak before asking me to get up and make breakfast."
So she was pressed by Shade's shoulders and turned over again. Seeing that she still refused to open her eyes, Shade lifted the quilt from her body.
"Yeah~"
The witch in her nightgown screamed and then sat up reluctantly:
"Really, Shade, what are you going to do? You don't want to call me to see the stars now, do you?"
"It's time for us to go. It's not about stargazing or hunting, it's about getting out of here."
Shade held her hand, so the witch asked doubtfully:
"Let's go? Isn't this our home? Where are we going?"
"Do you remember Miss Bell? Charlotte Bell."
Shade stared into her golden eyes and asked, Flora said subconsciously:
"Of course I remember. She is my apprentice and assistant, and she is the best I have selected."
She pursed her lips and frowned, obviously realizing something was wrong:
"Speaking of which, haven't I seen Charlotte for a long time?"
"Do you remember your identity? What do you belong to?"
"Parliament, have I not attended a meeting of the Council for a long time?"
"So do you remember Carina?"
"Of course you remember, wasn't she your lover in Tobesk?"
At the same time as these words blurted out, Flora Winslet was stunned as if her head had been hit by a giant hammer. Shade knew that she was about to wake up, and was about to wait for her to recover, but he did not expect to see two people.
Xingqing's tears flowed down the witch's fair cheeks.
She sat on the bed and looked up at Shade with dull, tearful eyes:
"This is, this lake, Vista City, Tobesk, fall to winter, our house, this home, so, our current life, everything here is. Fake? No, I
Don’t believe it, all of this, us, you and me, this family, all of this.”
"Listen, even if this is all false, I'm sure it's true."
So Shade hugged her directly:
"It's time to wake up, Flora, we have really slept for too long."