He put down the photo of Resia and then flipped to the one on the right side of the row of photos farthest from him. Then, Tifa, standing at the entrance of the Carina Manor, wearing a black and white maid dress, with her hands folded in front of her and slightly bowing forward, appeared in the photo.
His hand continued to reach for the photos in the middle row, but his eyes were fixed on the shadow in front of him. No matter where Xia De put his hand, the shadow did not move. He asked "her" opinion in his mind again, but "she" just smiled and did not answer.
Xia De believed in his feelings and finally stopped his hand in the center of the nine photos. After turning the photos, he leaned against the door of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square and looked at Yin Luna outside the photos, with a sad expression for some reason.
Xia De also put down Yin Luna's photo, and then the three photos he opened merged with the three photos of monsters taken out by the black shadow. The girls in the photos moved together with the three monsters.
Xia De was ready to overturn the table at any time, but he seemed to underestimate the girls.
In the photo, Leicia took the lead and used her low-level sublimation words at the beginning to make the most dangerous dragon fall asleep. Tifa and Yin Luna worked together to deal with the evil spirit and the extremely fast werewolf.
Then, the head maid, who was proficient in summoning and sealing, made dozens of heavy metal rune chains extend from the void in the photo to lock the sleeping dragon. When it woke up and broke at least half of the chains at once, Yin Luna jumped up and threw the "Power of the Earth·Earth Energy Cannon" in the air.
The picture in the fused giant photo turned completely white. When the light faded, the dragon in the photo did not die immediately, but it was already at a disadvantage. Then the three girls cooperated tacitly and quickly solved this difficult enemy.
Finally, they held hands, with Yin Luna in the middle, and the three of them bowed slightly to Xia De outside the photo, like actors taking a bow after a performance. The photo froze at this scene, and then everything in it disappeared.
The shadow pushed three coins to Shade on the other side of the table, but Shade did not accept them immediately. Instead, he asked:
"What on earth do you want to tell me?"
The shadow handed over a crumpled note. After unfolding it, there was a short sentence on it:
Why can't you just believe in their own abilities
Xia De frowned at the dark shadow in front of him, swept three coins into his palm, then stood up and left.
The fireball continued to lead the way for Shade, but Shade's mood at the moment was completely different from before he entered the carriage. It didn't matter whether the black shadow understood his heart or knew what would happen in the future. What mattered was that he was accusing Shade of not believing in the abilities of the girls around him.
The stranger admitted that he sometimes cared too much about them and didn't want them to be in any danger. This attitude certainly had its drawbacks, but Shade also believed that he would always be able to protect them, just as he had vowed.
"You tempted me with the Pedestal of Destiny last time, and now you're blaming me again?"
He thought to himself, looking at the fireball floating in front of him, his mood was actually quite complicated.
As they continued forward, the light of the torch became increasingly dim, and the fireball was clearly glowing, but it had no ability to dispel the black fog. The coldness around them was not simply a physical drop in temperature, but a soul-numbing coldness, which was the greatest malice of the entire camp towards Shade, an outsider.
Soon after leaving the carriage, the camp activities that Shade had to participate in appeared again in front of him. It was a small area surrounded by crooked wooden stakes. In the small open space surrounded by black fog, black shadows stood beside three crudely made scarecrows.
The face of the scarecrow is completely covered with a sack. Black ink is used to draw simple eyes and nose on the sack. This kind of funny and funny scarecrow is the most terrifying.
Shad was also not allowed to walk away directly. When Shad came in front of the black shadow and the three scarecrows, the black shadow handed Shad a rusty dagger. The dagger was not as sharp as a real knife. Shad even thought that its lethality was not as good as Mia's claws.
The bet this time was still three coins. When Shad took the dagger, the scarecrow on the far left was the first to be deformed due to the violent shaking.
The body and limbs remained unchanged, only the head changed into Miss Carina's appearance. The red-haired head looked at Shade and then reprimanded:
"I trust you so much, but you hide so many things from me. Isn't having me enough? Haven't I given enough for you? Why are you still thinking about other girls? Shad Hamilton, don't you really know how much I love you? I gave you my whole heart, but you only left me one tenth or one twentieth. Do you really understand what love is?"
Then the scarecrow in the middle began to shake violently, and the sackcloth head turned into the appearance of Hillis. The blonde girl did not scold Shad, but just looked at him with sad eyes:
"After my father left, I thought Vanessa was the only one I could rely on, but fate arranged for you to appear in front of me. Shad, I am willing to accompany you with Vanessa, and please take your eyes away from Luvia Anate, even if it is only for a moment. Look at me, take a closer look at us, okay? If you are not willing to love more, why make a promise; if you only have those purple eyes in your eyes, why, why give us those kisses?"
The scarecrow on the far right also shook violently. This time, the head of the sack bag turned into the appearance of Audrey and Megan. The girl with short brown hair looked at Shade and questioned him:
"Since you knew from the beginning that we were witches of the Council, why did you watch you fall into our hearts step by step? You set a love trap for us, and you knew that we would eventually fall in love with you, and you were enjoying the process. You are a heart-stealing liar, why did you mess with so many girls and want to mess with us? Do you treat us as stamps you collect, or do you just enjoy the feeling of being loved?"
The heads of the three scarecrows asked Xiang Xiade at the same time:
"Do you really understand what love is?"
"Do you really understand the love others have for you?"
"Do you still have love for others?"
Xia De looked at the shadow, which made a motion of thrusting forward while holding the mist. Amid the angry questioning and abuse from the three heads, Xia De looked at the rusty dagger in his hand. He was not yet able to tell what was true and what was false, but he also understood that the guy who set up this game here was not just talking nonsense.
He himself was indeed guilty, and he had long understood this. The stranger would never deny how big a mistake he had made in his relationship with the girls, but he was unwilling to let go. He knew that he was greedy, and he also knew that he could afford it.
Looking at the three heads on the scarecrow, Shade took out three coins from his five coins and handed them to the shadow along with the rusty dagger:
"I lost this game. I really feel sorry for them. I know that."
The shadow took the thing he handed over. Of course, the shadow did not have delicate facial features, so the shadow's expression could not be seen at all.
He shook his head to dispel the strange thoughts in his heart. Then, he raised his hand and swung it, and the dark chains pierced into the bodies of the three scarecrows in succession. The six sin runes that flashed with dim light remained still for a moment, and then the chains were taken back by Shade.
With the penetration wound as the center, the three scarecrows and the three heads turned into pink crystals, and then exploded into pieces. The "Thorn of Love" gave the Moonlight Greatsword, Thunder Spear and Chain of Sin pink soul crystal attacks, which were actually very ineffective against things without life and soul, but these three scarecrows were not just objects.
"I feel sorry for them, so I won't use a dagger to kill you who said these words. But this doesn't mean that I can tolerate you pretending to be them... ... What I hate most is that others pretend to be the girls around me to deceive me."
As he said this, Xia De followed the flying fireball and prepared to leave. Suddenly, he heard an abnormal noise behind him. He turned around subconsciously, but only saw a ball of paper thrown at him. After opening it, there was still only one line of words on it:
Is this their doubt about you, or your own inner guilt
Xia De pinched the paper ball in his palm, looked at the dark shadow in the small open space with cold eyes, and left without saying a word.
Although his mood was not bad, he was not in high spirits at least. He didn't know why all the special activities he encountered when he entered the camp alone were so targeted at him. Although he was not the kind of person who would become mentally unstable after being disturbed by a few words, Xia De did not deny that the photo and the scarecrow had indeed affected him.
He continued to move forward following the fireball while thinking. After a while, the extremely dim light of the torch in his hand could vaguely illuminate a huge object in the black fog in the distance.
Shade originally thought it was the corpse of a giant, or a monster with a huge body like the "Disaster Card - Mrs. Fishman Lemaire". As he got closer, he found that the road guided by the fireball had come to an end, and at the end stood a tall tower.
Xia De still doesn't know how big the Black Mist Camp is. Similarly, because of the cover of the black fog, even though he had gone deep into the camp for the third time, he could never have imagined that there was a black stone tower in the camp with only shabby stalls.
Like most objects in the camp, the tower looked dilapidated, and because the light from the torch in his hand was almost gone, Shade had no idea how tall the tower was.