Chapter 17: Rabbit Asen
"The dean is the dean, the master of the academy, and the greatest person in the world!"
The rabbit folded his hands in front of his chest in admiration, and pressed back the cotton that jumped out in a panic.
"But he abandoned you?"
Twilight blinked.
"Oh, that's all your fault."
The rabbit tapped his head, "I didn't make it a qualified guardian and was broken into the forest by the damn hunting team......"
Its tone became low, "Although it's all Xia's fault, I don't want to continue to stay inside to reflect, it's dark and cold inside, and nothing ......"
"So you're the only one disqualified Guardian here."
Lu Ze tentatively poked the dagger into the hollow again, but still let out a "click"
, "Click"
"Why can't the barrier still be opened?" ”
"The dean has completely sealed this place, and no one can open it without a key."
Rabbit looked at Lu Ze and winced, slowly twisted his gray-pink buttocks, and moved to Twilight's side, "Kind Miss, beautiful Miss, can you take it back to the academy next time?" Very useful under it! ”
"What is the Kill Team?"
Twilight asked.
"It's a bunch of bad people, very bad, very bad people! They want to hurt the noble goddesses of the Academy! ”
The rabbit screamed until Shikasawa stomped on its stomach again.
"Shut up."
After the rabbit covered his mouth and nodded desperately, Lu Ze grabbed the rabbit's ear, threw it into Twilight's arms, and picked up his quiver again, "It's too late, get out of here first." ”
Although Shikazawa still didn't have much expression on his face, Twilight could sense that the other party was sulking.
A rare opportunity to go deep into the forest, but found nothing.
No, the rabbit in your arms doesn't count.
Twilight looked down at the puppet and said to Shikasawa many times, "virtual is virtual"
There was a little bit of a sense of reality.
A place where thirst, tiredness, learning, growth, and sleep can easily confuse people's perception of reality, and this rabbit is like some kind of sign that makes Twilight know that this is not the world she used to live in.
There is no such thing as a moving puppet like zài outside.
"What's your name?"
Twilight asked.
The rabbit is not as active and talkative as before, but stays honestly in Twilight's arms like a real puppet.
After hearing Twilight's words, its ears moved, "I don't have a name below, can Miss get me one?" ”
"Call me Twilight."
Twilight thought for a moment, "How about calling you Asen?" ”
"Don't mess with names."
Lu Ze's pace did not slow down, but the tone became more and more lacking in emotion, "The name is like an anchor, like the sustenance of feelings, once you give it a name, you have a connection with it, are you sure you want to keep it?" ”
He seemed to be talking something, and as if he was admonishing Twilight, but Twilight wasn't going to listen to him.
"Asen, will you betray me?"
Twilight raised the short knife that Shikasawa had handed her earlier, "If you can't, cut off half of your right hand." ”
Shikazawa paused, but quickly continued walking.
"Twilight-sama ......"
The rabbit hesitated for a while, but still handed his hand to the knife, "I want to be Asen in the next, and I want to be in the next...... I'm not afraid of pain in the next! ”
It gritted its teeth and swung its arm off the blade.
A strange light flashed from Asen's severed limb, and when the light receded, the gaps on Asen's body were sewn up with black threads, and there were several ugly cross scars on his head, but the two hands finally became the same length, and the dust on his body was all gone.
Twilight thoughtfully touched the silver ring on her little finger.
"It seems that you have learned the power of the goddess in advance."
Lu Ze tilted his head to look at her, "How did you do that?" ”
"It's not ability, it's permission."
Twilight said, "Listen, Shikazawa, we need to find permission." Doesn't the virtual world have the so-called right to control? ”
"You think I didn't ......"
"The jewels of the goddesses."
Twilight interrupted, "I don't know about ordinary jewelry, but there's a good chance that special jewelry represents some kind of authority...... Nan and Youni represent the dark gold buttons of the leader's identity! And Hibiscus! ”
Lu Ze frowned, "That can't be taken away from them...... Hibiscus is more suspicious. ”
"yes, that's it."
Twilight returned the short knife to Shikasawa and clapped her hands excitedly, "So this is a dark place, so I ......"
She stopped.
Shikazawa cut off a few pieces of bark from the big tree next to him and handed them to Twilight, before putting the short knife back into the leather pouch around his waist, "The front is the place to get lamp oil, and with this rabbit here, your assessment can be easily completed." When the wind blows, the oil lamp is stuffed into the rabbit's belly. ”
He didn't ask Twilight about her unfinished words, nor did he force the other party to be "frank" like Twilight
, Lu Ze said indifferently, "If you have any new discoveries, feel free to contact me through the guò brooch." ”
"Shikazawa."
Twilight bit her lip, "You know my connection to the Dark Lands, you know I have permission here, right?" ”
"All I know is that your missing father is the creator of this world."
Shikazawa looked at Twilight's wide-eyed eyes and couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth, "What, otherwise why do you think I would come to you on purpose?" ”
"So, don't you know that this is the Dark Land, and you don't know what the Dark Land means?"
Twilight squeezes Asen's arm, and Assen seems to feel the tension and becomes as quiet as a real puppet.
"You knew what it looked like at the time, but in fact it was just pretending?"
"All I know is that this is the only clue your father left behind, I thought ......"
As if he remembered something, such a vivid expression appeared on his face for the first time, "I would have ...... if I had known"
He closed his eyes in remorse and hid the pain inside.
"A said that the whole academy could be called a dark place, but the real dark place may be in that dungeon."
Twilight held Asen in front of her, "Do you know how to get into the dungeon?" ”
"I don't know."
Arsen said timidly, "The dungeon is a forbidden place. ”
"So there really is a so-called forbidden place in the academy?"
Twilight asked, "Did Mr. H say that if you become a high-ranking goddess, you can get unhindered in the castle, including forbidden places like dungeons?" ”
"It's unimpeded on the map, the dungeon is not on the map, all the forbidden places are not on the map, H lie to you, how can the noble goddesses approach the dirty places like the forbidden land!"
Arsen screamed again.