The Grand House is quiet and peaceful in the afternoon.
Old Hank was sitting in the exhibition hall, leaning against a coffin, staring blankly at the door with his cloudy eyes, as if he was expecting someone to come in. However, if someone really came in, he would only stare fiercely. Scare people away.
After finishing his meal, the Great Dane King slowly ran into the door, glanced at Old Hank, and circled under the supports of the coffin. After playing for a while, he seemed a little hungry again, wagging his tail, ran through the living room and office, and ran to the kitchen.
The desk in the reception room was empty. Louise was not at the Grand House, and neither was Matthew. They all went to the church in the west. This was the last funeral before Father Constantine closed the Church of the Holy Son. The 'brothers' who were the directors of the Grand House were not there, so their 'relatives' or 'subordinates' ' and took the 'real' job.
On the countertop in the kitchen, the bamboo basket was filled with biscuits and cakes. The Great Dane jumped up on the countertop quickly. His nose was just a decoration, so he just used his soft red tongue to wrap around the nearest cookie. cake, with fluffy lips opening and closing.
This texture is like nuts. Jin swung his tail and rolled into the next one. This texture is like marshmallows. Tails swept the dishes on the counter into a mess, and Jin continued to get involved in the next...
"Stop! Ryan!"
Jin's mouth stopped chewing, he raised his head and looked out the window.
If you look carefully, you will find that there is some contrast between the color of the south window of the kitchen and the wall. Because the windows were newly installed after being destroyed more than a month ago, they could not fully integrate with the old kitchen environment.
"Ryan! Let me out!" Alice stood helplessly in the backyard, shouting at the blur of light and shadow in front of her.
There were black burn marks on the corners of Alice's white dress. She hugged her shoulders and looked at a circle of red spells surrounding her feet.
Ryan's facial features were as blurry and flashing as his body. In a brief pause, you could see his moving lips. He was using witchcraft, real witchcraft!
The banshee's eyes suddenly widened and she covered her eyes with her hands, "Ryan! Stop! Stop! You will disappear!"
In the flickering light and shadow, the conspicuous rugby jacket had turned into a red and blue mist, and Ryan's body was like a firework that was quickly extinguished.
"Stop! Stop! Ryan!"
In the banshee's shrill prayer cry, the red spell on the ground disappeared. The vague mist in the air had stopped shimmering, but it could not gather anymore. It awkwardly solidified in the air, constantly fading and dimming.
The banshee Alice anxiously ran out of the place where she was restrained, her skirt with the edges burned off rising up in the air. She ran to the hammock. There was an open notebook on the round wooden table.
Alice's fingers trembled as she rummaged through her notes, and the sound of turning pages added a background sound to this restless afternoon. Finally, Alice found what she wanted, holding the witchcraft notebook belonging to Sibella, and ran to somewhere in the courtyard.
Alice didn't need to see how Sibella simplified the most primitive rituals step by step into the process and explanation of witchcraft. She held the note in one hand and looked directly at the last sentence.
"*&(*%￥#(spell)."
Alice finished reading tremblingly, and she opened her palm downwards. On the ground she pointed to, there was a clear difference between the soil layer and the surroundings, as if it had been renovated not long ago.
The light and shadow frozen in the air not far away seemed to be summoned, like a wisp of smoke being sucked, spinning in the air and gathering at the place pointed by Alice's palm, and then disappeared into the ground.
Alice closed the note, hugged her hands, and clasped her thin shoulders tightly. She lowered her head, and her closed eyelashes were filled with mist.
Fragmented light and shadow appeared in front of Alice, as if the fragments were constantly being combined and reconstructed, until a figure appeared completely, which was Ryan.
Ryan raised his arms, his eyes shone with surprise, and his palms faced the sun, but not a single ray of light could pass through! His body, like its substance, is no longer embarrassingly translucent!
"You! Alice! You are so powerful!" Ryan stared at his hands excitedly! "You, you superimposed the mother's spell! You..."
The brown-skinned note penetrated Ryan's body and hit the back porch of the Grand House.
"Why are you doing this to me!" Alice's shoulders trembled as she stared at the Earthbinder who seemed to have a physical body. "Why! Do you think this is funny!"
"Wait!" Ryan tried to catch Alice running towards the Grand House, but his hand only penetrated Alice's arm, "I need your help!"
But Alice no longer wanted to listen to anything this guy said, so she ran past the Great Dane, opened the side door and rushed in.
Alice had already rushed up the stairs. Ryan, who was floating in the courtyard, frowned. His figure turned into light and disappeared in the sunlight. When he appeared again, he was already behind Alice.
"Wait, Alice! I really need your help!"
Alice did not look back, and walked up the stairs. She frowned, closed her eyes, and directly bumped into Ryan who was floating in front of her.
Ryan couldn't stop the excited Alice. The door slammed heavily, and it seemed that Alice had hid in the room. But doors and walls have no effect on the earth-bound spirit. If you really want to get rid of the Earthbinder, leaving his range of activities is the right thing to do.
It's a pity that the range where the banshee can feel at ease overlaps with Ryan's range of activities as an earthbinder, which is Grande. This is a helpless fact.
Alice pulled out a pair of scissors from the drawer and waved them in front of her!
The bright silver incision appeared on Ryan's body, and there was no bloody scene. The bright-colored incision healed immediately after appearing, as if he was not alive! Even Ryan himself was surprised that he didn't dissipate from the metal like usual! However, now is not the time to lament the power of Alice's witchcraft.
"Alice! Calm down!" After realizing that there was no need to dodge Alice's 'attack', Ryan pushed directly towards Alice.
"Get away from me! Get out! Ryan! Get out!"
"Alice! Listen to me!" Ryan raised his voice. Anyway, there was no one in Grande now, so Old Hank couldn't hear Ryan's voice at all. "I want to leave Grande! I want to find me Your real family! Alice! Don’t you want to?! Your real family! Let’s go together!”
Alice's arm waving the scissors stopped in mid-air.
On the south-facing wall of the Grand House, on the second floor, the light and shadow on the wall seemed to be distorted by something. An 'thing' with vermilion skin was coiled around a window unnoticed by the people in the house. Besides, it's so big that it has weird blinking eyes.
Jin spit out a fruit core in his mouth, and the skin of his body changed again in the sunlight, blending with the gray wall and disappearing without a trace.