Lucy's slightly depressed mood these days has been seen by many people, especially Noah. It can be seen from the work notes left by Zhu Heng that Lucy had many psychological problems earlier, plus Naturally well-behaved and silent, he needs other people to pay more attention.
Noah hesitated to talk to Lucy alone, fearing that Lucy would resist. At present, it is Darph who is in charge of Lucy-related affairs. Noah intends to ask Darph first. The other party should be more familiar with Lucy. If there is no problem, he will talk to Lucy alone.
Noah was walking on the floor-to-ceiling window promenade of the nursery center facing the sea. He had not actually experienced the thrilling battle of the nursery center half a year ago, but had only heard of some details. How the sea snakes floated up and breathed, and how the dark creatures helped each other protect their resident sites, that is, from that time, more and more people began to realize that the dark creatures actually have the possibility of independent life.
On the promenade, the fallen angel and the dark elves discussed how to draw decorative murals. The carnival is approaching, and there is gradually a festive atmosphere in the nursery center. Many dark creatures yearn for this festival. Because according to reliable information, Arecio is fighting for them. On this day, the dark creatures will leave the center, hide their identities and enter the nearby square under construction. Like the dark creatures thousands of years ago, they will enjoy with ordinary humans. Carnival.
Hidden in the darkness, I don't know whether it is human or alien, but in such a festival, no one will care about this, people just want to sing and dance to their heart's content, expressing the infinite joy of being a living being.
Noah said hello to them, then continued to walk forward, near the corner, he met two resuscitators oncoming, as if they had just finished a meeting, Arecio was yawning, showing a little fangs .
"His Royal Highness Arecio, Mr. Ruzius!" Noah greeted, "Did you two just finish the meeting?"
Arecio raised his hand to cover his yawn and replied.
"Well, preparations for the carnival... You're not on duty today?"
Noah originally said what he thought, and he noticed that when he mentioned "Dalph" himself, the saint in the white cloak raised his eyes slightly and gave him one more look.
Noah: … a little scared QVQ
"I was negligent in this matter." Arecio pondered, "If Darph also thinks Lucy's state is not right, you should talk to Lucy first, her psychology is not that fragile, but she doesn't usually say."
"It's really embarrassing, you can ask me to help."
"Thank you!"
Noah left, and Arecio looked at his back and yawned again. He actually felt that Lucy was in a good mood, but it was indeed a bit depressed. He had only raised wolf cubs before, and he belonged to a boy who was rolling on the ground. Maybe he was a little negligent towards a girl like Lucy.
"Go back to sleep?" The saint asked, Arecio nodded and asked suddenly.
"You just... why did you look at him one more time?"
Ruziuston raised his head, he thought that Arecio was jealous, and he didn't have time to be happy, but he didn't expect the second half of the conversation to wait for him.
"As if preparing to kill him."
"… "
"Why are you walking so fast all of a sudden?!"
"Because I'm angry."
"???"
angry? Are you really going to kill Noah
Ruzius took a few quick steps and then slowed down again. He sighed, knowing that it was useless to be angry, and that Arecio's brain circuits were even more ingenious than U's.
"It's not that you want to kill him, but, did you say before that the dragon showed his love in front of you?"
Arecio remembered the tragic experience of being shown for a second, and he was deeply moved.
"yes."
"It's a coincidence, I've also been shown."
He remembered the past when Noah mentioned that he wanted to meet Darph. Love is forbidden inside the temple, unless there is a very special physique that needs to be dedicated to God and give birth to children with outstanding talents. In other cases, any form of private love is forbidden on the surface, but even so, there are still undercurrents flow under it.
Darph, the star actor of the Starlight Troupe, and Noah, a fortune-teller in the temple... He doesn't know how these two people met. The former Noah was still blind, maybe he went out for divination to make extra money. found at the market. When he knew about this, he didn't speak to the outside world, and even helped Noah clear his tail with his backhand.
Maybe at that time he had vaguely realized that he was no different from Noah, who was in love.
"Really?!" Arecio was not the only one who had been shown the show, "How did he show it to you? Bring it to you? Or show off the gift he received? Or point to something to recall something in love. What? Why don't you speak?"
Ruzius gave him a deep look, raised his hand, and touched Alessio's head.
"It's nothing, you are really being shown so miserably."
"The temple prohibits such personal feelings from appearing. In order not to expose it, he just told me."
The contrast is so cruel, Arecio really wants to cry.
"Then what? Listening to your tone is very relaxed, these two people should have a good result?"
"Maybe." Ruzius was not sure, "My memory has not fully recovered, but Noah is not very important in the temple, no one will make a special trip to embarrass him, at most because of inaccurate divination and financial constraints, so now Come on, it's nice to be able to change careers."
Arecio also felt that he and the psychiatrist had actually changed careers, and it was tiring to fight against each other every day.
"Aren't you sleepy again?"
"It seems, I'm not sleepy anymore."
"Then go shopping with me, and you can also buy a small gift for the lich by the way."
Arecio didn't expect this! He excitedly went to the business district with the neuropathy, and the vegetables and fruits could be packaged and sent home, while he and the neuropathy were hanging out in the best jewelry store. After tossing and picking, the madman pointed him to a red ribbon.
"Send this, it should be good."
This ribbon was very similar to the one in the handwriting of the Witch of Destruction that Alessio had read before. He intuited that Lucy would like it, so he simply bought it and asked the store to help wrap it up. He took the neurotic card, which was a bet that the neurotic lost on the way here, and the expenses this time were considered neurotic. After paying the money, Arecio looked up and found the neurotic wandering among the shelves.
"Do you want to buy anything else?"
"It's nothing, go back."
Ruzius just wanted to observe the currently popular patterns on jewelry. Although the brain can be viewed from a distance, it always feels slightly distorted. In addition, he can go out with Arecio by the way. Overall very satisfied with the trip. The pattern that he wanted to engrave stretched out in his mind at the moment, he picked up the pen and sketched the design under the lamp.
He shook the page away, and what appeared on the drawing was a silver cross with rich ornamentation. He looked at the silver cross and touched his empty neckline.
The silver cross that was originally hanging here is the one he has been carrying since he entered the temple. It must have been given to Arecio, and it was damaged when he was defending Arecio from some damage. The relevant memory has not been restored, but it does not prevent him from wanting to make a new silver cross as a carnival gift for Arecio.
His eyes softened, and after working at his desk for a long time, he simply opened the window, ready to breathe the fresh air outside.
However, in the dark of night, he clearly saw that there were two cat-like guys in the vegetable field stiffening.
"… "
Originally it was an embarrassed traitor, but now it's a cat-mao traitor, and I will all attend ideological education classes tonight!
[I will never steal carrots again.] During the lunch break the next day, Arecio was transcribing, [I will never steal radishes again.]
"Arecio!" I came from behind to pounce on him, and Arecio immediately put away the balls of paper he had written, and pretended that nothing had happened.
"So early? Are the simulation training in the afternoon ready?"
"The three of us have discussed strategies, and when it's time for Lucy to..."
But Arecio shook his head at him.
"Lucy is not participating in the mock training this afternoon, she has other projects."
Lucy originally listened to the two of them silently, but when she heard the words, she raised her head and looked at Arecio with some doubts. Arecio patted her head, and after sending me into the simulation training facility in the afternoon, he walked in front of Lucy and took her to the edge of the uninhabited inland sea, avoiding the surveillance in the nursery center. From this direction, you can see the waves made by the sea snakes, the vast sea breeze skips the deep emerald sea, and no one knows what is hidden underneath.
He looked at Lucy and stretched out his hand first, with the small gift he bought yesterday.
"Put it on and see, you don't seem very happy recently."
Lucy was stunned for a moment, but soon, she happily accepted the gift, looked up at Arecio, and opened it only after getting permission, and there was a bright red ribbon inside.
"Do you like it?" Arecio asked.
Lucy nodded vigorously, and she even put the ribbon directly on her head, as if she had the courage of the princess who destroyed the country. The change in her expression couldn't escape Arecio's eyes. Arecio leaned over and stared directly at the lich's eyes that were burning with blue soul fire.
"Lucy, are you upset because of the story of the princess and the dragon?"
Lucy didn't expect that Arecio could guess this, she bowed her head in embarrassment and grabbed the corner of her clothes.
"I..." She spoke slowly, and the swirling skirt of the princess seemed to flutter in front of her again, "I... I am sad about that story, I want to be as brave as the princess who destroyed the country, but I have thought about it In the story, I will definitely be like the original princess, weak, helpless, unable to do anything."
She looked like she was about to cry, but held back.
"I know it's just what happened in the past, but I can't help it. I've been dreaming these days. In my dreams, I'm in a dark dungeon, like a dead insect, unable to move, talk, or anything. can not do this… "
She finally cried again, trembling all over.
"Then I understood, I wasn't crying for that story."
"For myself, for my weak heart..."
Arecio watched her quietly, let her cry for a while, and took out another box. He wanted to wait a little bit later, when Lucy took over the sea of undead and then gave this gift, but after listening to Lucy confessing himself sentence by sentence, realizing his weakness and grief at his powerlessness, he suddenly felt that it was time .
"The previous one is a gift for you. I hope you will be happier. As for this, I want to wait until you have figured it all out before opening it." Seeing the lich's expression a little confused, he smiled lightly, "Lucy, Do you know what's under the Emerald Inner Sea?"
He took a few steps forward and stepped into the sea, the wind and waves and the breath of the sea snake migrating in the space behind him.
"Come, Lucy, come with me."
"You and I, and Helgodon, are different. You are not weak, you just haven't held the right scepter yet."
He stretched out his hand to the lich maiden—
"And I'll take you to where the scepter is. It's up to you to hold it or not."
At this moment, in the wind in the Emerald Inner Sea, he seemed to hear his old friend smiling at him with a scepter in his hand. At that time, the young lich was wearing a crown of white bones, holding a scepter of blue silver, and sat on the throne where the bones were stacked.
She smiled at Arecio, but there was a sharp determination in her words.
[Hello, Alessi, we finally meet again.]
[I am a lich, Ujfa Lucy.]
[Finally in the hands of fate...]
[Take back my dragon.]