"Have you never thought about who I am?"
Ovia asked, when she really appeared in front of Jenkins, Jenkins felt a sense of unreality. He didn't know how to answer for a while, and Ovia waited patiently for him.
He whispered:
"I have guessed that you have become a god. If you are not in charge of fate, then you are in charge of books. Yes, I have already guessed that you are a sage, yes, I have guessed it a long time ago."
The girl smiled, and the flowers beside the open space bloomed:
"Speaking of being in charge of books, when you left town abruptly, you didn't take my gift with you."
As she spoke, she pulled an old notebook out of the air. Time had left its marks on it, but it was still there, as if Jenkins had just lived through a big dream.
Jenkins couldn't take anything away in the "dream". He redraws the modern notebook with the help of the "Book of Memories", and the original one has been kept in Ovia's hands.
For so many years, this has been a gift. Not just a white aura, but a golden aura, symbolizing the story between the two gods.
"You don't have to have any pressure, I don't want to get anything, I just want to see you again, to make sure that meeting you is not just a dream when I was a mortal."
She reached out her left hand to touch Jenkins, but Jenkins grabbed it. He really caught it, that unreal feeling disappeared in the warm and soft touch.
"I know what you want to ask, but everything you have experienced is a choice you made yourself. I didn't arrange anything for you."
She forcefully broke away from Jenkins' hand, and finally touched Jenkins' face, and the smile on the girl's face deepened. Compared with the gods that existed in high dimensions in Jenkins' impression, at this moment, she really looked like an ordinary human girl.
He has seen gods who came to the material world in the form of saints more than once, but there is no one like Ovia at this moment.
"The first time I realized you finally showed up was last fall, before you sacrificed that drop of divinity to me. I stopped you from using that painting, and what you did was very dangerous (Chapter 45)."
"Why is it dangerous?"
He asked, but Ovia did not answer, but looked at him with a smile:
"Don't you understand now? Everything is actually very clear."
Jenkins' eyes lingered on the grown-up Fenny's face. He had a complicated expression. He didn't know how to face this face, so he sighed after a long time:
"Is that really the case? Then everything will be explained. I think I understand the meaning of not getting what you want, and also understand my biggest hole card."
"I knew it, and you will definitely understand. Jenkins, your arrival is a gift to the world. Not only that, but also a gift to all living beings, a gift from the world to me."
Although Miss Audrey at the side couldn't raise her head to look at the face of the saint, she heard every word of their conversation.
Because that night in Blacktown, Jenkins immediately rushed to Miss Audrey's house to tell his experience after experiencing the story of "Vampire Love", so Miss Audrey fully understood the things in front of her:
"So, Jenkins met a great man before he became a god because of the relationship through time, and they left a... friendship with each other. And when he was born..."
Miss Audrey couldn't tell Jenkins' history.
"When he was born, the Great One noticed his reappearance, so he waited for him on purpose. During the water divination ceremony, we traveled through time again and waited for Jenkins in front of the "Epic of Time" on the top of the mountain. It really was... yes, like this Come to think of it, the water divination ceremony turned into time travel, and it should also be related to the great one. After all, it is the end of the era, and the great one cannot directly appear in the material world to meet Jenkins, but it can be a few years in advance, at the end of the era I wanted to see him before the signs appeared... but now it's the end of the era, why..."
"It's the end of the era, can you just show up?"
That's what Jenkins is thinking about now, too.
"I will not intervene in your mission. You need to save the world. All I have to do is to expel the beast of disaster from the material world again, that mythical witch."
Speaking of this, Ovia smiled again, although she was still so gentle, her mood was obviously different:
"It is also our responsibility to prevent the disasters in the past from coming back to the material world. If it is only the power of the disaster beast, then you can only deal with it yourself, but it is obviously not now, so I can appear. Of course , appearing in this unstable era, it was originally very difficult, and it is impossible for ordinary séance ceremonies to succeed, so this is the only way to do it."
As she spoke, she looked up at the two people beside the open space:
"Is this the descendant of our school? Very good."
Then he asked Miss Broniance:
"The ritual and helping Jenkins, the hermit asked you to do it?"
"Fate made me do it."
The fortuneteller replied respectfully, and Ovia ignored her.
Jenkins shook his head, temporarily clearing up his redundant thoughts:
"I'll talk about other things later. I don't have much time to be active in the outside world. Come with me now. But I hope that after everything is over, you can appear in front of me again and answer some of my questions."
Jenkins, who walked out of the surprise, was once again surprised to find that he accepted it so easily. He remembered what he was doing, so he didn't let his emotions interfere with his plan of action.
"Wait a moment."
Ovia said and looked into the distance, Jenkins also raised his eyes to look there, and easily saw Alexia's spiritual light flying towards him.
He immediately let go of Fei Ni's hand, walked a few steps in the direction of Alexia, and embraced Alexia who landed:
"Wait a minute, I'm on the third floor now, and it will be over soon."
Alexia also hugged him. After the two separated, Alexia bowed to the slightly grown-up Fei Ni with a very cautious attitude, and then handed him a bag without saying anything. Just... tiny ceramic black and white kitten figurines.
"What's this?"
Jenkins could tell right away that the cat was Chocolate. The workmanship is very light, and the lovely features of chocolate are retained in a subtle way.
"This is your second chance. It allows you to use an ability for a second time in a strange environment."
"Is this what you got underground?"
Jenkins just learned about Alexia's whereabouts from Hathaway.
"Yes."
A true lie.
This was sent by the unborn niece from the distant future through the Dawn, and although Jenkins also felt that this sentence was a lie, he didn't ask further:
"Okay, this is really useful. But Alexia, after I come out, you must explain it."
He clutched the chocolate ceramic figurine in the palm of his hand.
"certainly."
The short lady nodded, and then looked at the grown "Fini" again. Ovia smiled and looked at her with her hands behind her back. The two ladies looked at each other for a moment, and the sky-blue Rubik's Cube suddenly flashed in Alexia's eyes. There was no further exchange, and Alexia took the lead to look away:
"Come back as soon as possible, I will wait for you."
She said softly to Jenkins, Jenkins nodded, kissed Alexia, and then turned into golden light with Ovia and flew towards the direction of the tower.
The ritual array engraved in the open space flickered a few times before the light slowly extinguished. There was a sweet smell in the air, but after the two left, Nolan's unique smell of exhaust came again.
The noise outside the open space finally appeared. It seemed that the departure of the two brought the land back into reality.
Miss Audrey and Miss Broniance breathed a sigh of relief, and the former walked to Alexia in the middle of the open space. Miss Audrey has a lot of questions to ask, such as whether the ancestors of her school are pagan gods is allowed by the Church of Destiny, and many questions need to be answered, such as what is Jenkins, but at this moment, she doesn't know what to ask. alright.
"Alexia, what are you looking at?"
The question she asked first had nothing to do with those questions.
Alexia looked up at the shadow hanging under the tree with a melancholy expression on her face. She wiped her lips, where Jenkins had just kissed:
"I'm wondering where Jenkins' final road will lead."
"No, I just wanted to know what you were looking at?"
Miss Audrey also looked up at the upside-down shadow, and the white shadow was reflected in the eyes of the two of them. Alexia shook her head:
"I'm looking at Jenkins for a second chance. But it doesn't matter, what matters is what Jenkins is going to end up with."
(Finnie is praying... )
The golden light lingered in the dark interior of the theater, and then suddenly poured into Jenkins' body on the third row of seats. Jenkins, who sat askew, shuddered violently before opening his eyes.
His backpack and two metal cocoons are piled up on the right side. On the empty seat on the left side, the metal doll has disappeared, replaced by the grown-up "Finnie".
"It seems that there is really a great guest here."
The voice of the metal puppet came from behind the two blood-red curtains. It probably didn't expect that Jenkins would find the saint. After all, there has never been a record of a god entering a strange realm.
The curtain opened, and the background of the stage was still the background of the rows of seats in the last scene of "Magical Girl". On the stage, there was a triangular stool, and the metal doll sat on it.
"Come out, since I have shown up, is there any need for you to hide?"
Ovia didn't speak, and the voice naturally appeared in the puppet theater.
After the voice fell, nothing happened, but soon, a white woman's hand penetrated the oil painting as the background from the back of the stage. The painting was then ripped open, and a woman in a black robe came onto the stage from behind the stage.