Behind the door was a huge room. Not only was its area larger than the entire floor of Shade's house, its height was three times that of a normal room.
It can be seen that Grandma Cassandra has carefully tidied this room. The antiques, paintings, furniture, and even the music box and crystal ball ornaments on the table all look valuable.
The room as a whole had a bronze tone, because the walls and the ceiling were covered with copper powder, writing runes that looked like spreading vines. Looking closely, these were runes from various sealing rituals from different eras, which together formed the seal of this house.
If the ground hadn't been covered with soft red wool carpet, Shad believed he would have seen similar runes on the ground.
There was a fireplace on the wall to the left of the door, with crossed swords hanging above it. At this moment, the blazing fire in the fireplace provided light to the dim room. I didn't know what kind of wood Cassandra used, or maybe there was an incense burner burning in the invisible corner, and a fragrant smell filled the air.
There was no light source except for the fireplace, so the room was a little dim. When Shade entered the room, the first thing he saw was the white and black gauze skirts on the carpet. Looking forward, the four-poster bed in the center of the room occupied the largest area of the room.
It was a large mahogany bed, which looked like it could accommodate 30 people. The four pillars reached the ceiling, and the shadows of the pillars swayed on the wall as the fire swayed. Three layers of curtains were hung around it, one was white gauze, the other was pink gauze, and the innermost layer was black gauze.
The obstruction of the gauze curtain and the dimness of the room made it difficult for Shad to see his elder sister Grace and younger sister Helen. He could only see the silhouettes of the two girls sitting on the bed, snuggling together, but he could not see their specific appearance and clothes.
One of them rested her head on the other's shoulder, and the other put her arm around the other's back and half-huggled her in her arms. Perhaps they had not been separated since they met again in the narrow space yesterday.
However, these two figures do not look like humans.
It's not about their appearance, but their height. Although they were sitting on the bed in the gauze curtain, just based on the height of their upper bodies, their heights would definitely not be less than three meters. They seemed to have been magnified into giants, but the figures of these giants were so beautiful, just like the so-called "gods" depicted in religious oil paintings.
The change in body shape is probably one of the effects of the brief abnormal state after the Red Butterfly Twins met.
The evidence is that the whispering elements in the room are very obvious. Although it is weaker than yesterday, it still makes Shade feel shortness of breath and a slight headache.
There were clearly no butterflies in the room, but he could hear the sound of butterflies flapping their wings. Listening carefully, it sounded like the whispers of two different female voices intertwined together.
As the whispering element's influence on Shade deepened, he even saw some very illusory, shadowy red butterflies in the air, but most of them just flashed by, leaving behind a few dots of red light before disappearing.
"Long time no see, sir."
"Long time no see, sir."
The voices of the twin sisters are actually different, so Shad finally figured out that it was the older sister Grace who was holding the younger sister Helen.
Their voices were hoarse and not particularly clear.
"Long time no see, Grace, Helen."
Xia De looked at them behind the three layers of curtains. He had many questions in his mind when he stood at the door, but now he couldn't say a word:
"How have you been these years?"
He asked the question again, and a light laugh came from behind the curtain:
"Sir, how have you been these years?"
"Not bad. In fact, for me, the separation from you is only one month."
He did not hide this fact, and Helen, who had her head resting lightly on her sister's shoulder, moved a little inside the curtain, and leaned on the chest of another figure. The shadowy red butterflies were also flying in the curtain, and one of them landed on Helen's shoulder, but soon disappeared as if it had melted:
"Sir, for us, it hasn't been that long since we parted from you."
This is Grace's voice. As the older sister, her voice seems more stable.
"But, it's clearly over..."
"First of all, I want to apologize on Helen's behalf."
Her figure gently stroked her sister's hair:
"I could have met you earlier, but I had to wait until the last minute, and even concealed my identity and took you to such a dangerous place."
"That doesn't matter."
Shad shook his head.
"For us, each reincarnation is not simply a return of the body to its original state, but also a return of the memory and emotions to their original state. Only the memory before being blessed by God is fresh. The other memories of the past five thousand years have become as blurred as a story after being washed away by the 22-year cycle."
This explains why, although they are immortals, their temperaments are still similar to those of the past.
"I have crossed over and over again, just to see my sister again. Time flies so fast, sir. In the blink of an eye, we have already reached the Sixth Era."
She said softly, with a rather resentful tone.
"Has it been that many years?"
Helen also asked softly:
"I remember the initial story, and how I reunited with my sister time and time again, how I waited time and time again, then fell asleep, and then waited again... It seems that the meaning of life is only reunion and waiting, and we can no longer be considered human beings."
"Why did you accept the blessing of the Twin Gods back then?"
asked Shad, who even thought that there was little difference between the blessing and the curse.
"We did this voluntarily. There is no other way to fulfill our wish. Sir, my sister and I are different from you."
Grace said, and Shade knew that the blue eyes of the tall figure in the curtain were looking at him through the curtain:
"We are just ordinary mortals. Even if we survived the God's drinking party with your help, we are still just mortals. It is a great honor for us if the Great One even looks at us for a second."
The tall girls hugging each other behind the curtain is obviously a very beautiful scene, but it makes people so sad.
The blazing bonfire in the room cast the tangled shadows in the curtains onto the wall with runes carved on it. And Shade's shadow was watching them quietly beside them.
"What we want is to get rid of the family curse that prevents us from seeing each other again, and to be together forever. Hasn't the god who protects the twins already fulfilled our wish?"
Grace asked.
"Yes."
Helen sighed:
"The gods came in person and defeated the evil creature in the warp that the family had guarded for generations, liberated the mission that had been passed down for generations, and broke the curse that my sister and I would never meet again; the gods blessed us, allowing us to live forever, so that the bond and attachment would last forever; the gods even gave us power, allowing us to be His favored ones. Even now that the gods have long gone, this power still allows my sister and I to travel freely in this world... ... God has done enough for us."
"And we need to pay the price for this gift of destiny..."
The figures of Grace and Helen in the curtains looked at Shade standing beside the bed at the same time:
"... ... It's just a 22-year cycle to help the Phoenix suppress the gap between life and death."
Xia De didn't know what to say for a moment. Their choice was truly voluntary.
"The phoenix is reborn in fire again and again. Although we were originally just mortals, we can now almost be reborn in fire. Sir, look at these red butterflies."
Butterflies fluttered around Shade, but when Shade tried to reach out and touch them, the butterflies flew away.
"This is the testimony of time, the testimony of the relationship between my sister and I, and the testimony of our mutual torture and entanglement. Time will wear away feelings, but our strong emotions and love have become deeper in this torture and entanglement. Look, God even helps us to use this method to always keep our original intentions. The bitter wait, the painful farewell, and the bruises on the neck polish our emotions and souls..."
This kind of mellow emotion can actually be described as "twisted", but for them, this is what they want.
"God has not bound us. If we want to leave, we only need to step into death together to end everything. But after so many years and so many times, no one has ever been tired of waiting and reuniting."
The power in Grace’s words shows their determination.
The stranger suddenly felt that he might have understood their thoughts. This might not be the best, but at least it was not bad:
"Grace, Helen. I want to know, if I could go back to the time when I met you, would you still make the same choice?"
"Yes, sir."
The tall figures within the curtain answered almost in unison.
"We understood a long time ago that all mortals must die. We are not afraid of death, but of separation. Wanting to be together forever is the eternal wish of my sister and I."
Helen in the curtain sat up from Grace's arms. The figure pinched the chin of the other figure and kissed him.
Shad cannot understand this twisted emotion, but he believes that this emotion, called family affection, love or something more complicated, is actually the curse imposed on Grace and Helen.
At that God's Wine Party, everyone had their own wishes. Although Shade saw the specialness of the Geminis at that time, he did not expect that they would continue the story in this way until today.
Torturing each other, missing each other, waiting for each other, and parting from each other, walking alone in the material world for 22 years, just to reach the top of the mountain again to greet another person.
The stranger has witnessed many stories in this world, but the story of Helen and Grace still makes him sigh. Red Butterfly witnessed the cycle that lasted for two eras, and Shade witnessed the beginning of everything.
He knew the current situation was good for Grace and Helen. But he didn't like this story, not at all. If he could complete the twelve divine sublimation paths, the outsider would definitely not let this story end in this cycle.