Chapter 46: The Devil's Moment
The white-haired magician came out of the captain's cabin and met Vanessa who was waiting outside, she and Brant had been on the deck for half an hour with the sea breeze, the wind from the cat-biting strait was unusually bitter as it passed through the area, sometimes mixed with blade-like ice edges, the sailors said that it was the fragments of icebergs blown from the northern land of ice marshes, and the Ice King used his magic to drive the giants to build himself palaces made of ice, and they kept cutting the icebergs, and the fragments flew over the sea with the wind, bringing a moment of coolness to the ships sailing on the sea.
"How's he doing?" Since leaving Victor's island, Vanessa has been like a different person, and she has a heavy heart and is silent. Brandt had to ask Victor about the cause and effect alone, he didn't know what happened between her and Reina, and he had no reason to ask, he could only be surprised that Vanessa's attitude towards Reina suddenly became detached, and even the questions of concern had to be asked by himself.
"Not optimistic," the old magician rolled up his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "The materials on the ship are limited, so I can only connect the bones to him first, and only when I return to the Temple of Dionysus and prepare the magic materials can he return to normal." β
Vanessa breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, "Is he awake?" β
"I'm awake, but the pain in my limbs and bones still torments him, and I'm afraid he won't be able to talk much."
Vanessa didn't wait for him to finish before she pushed open the door and walked inside. Behind him, Brandt screamed and begged the magician to show him the wound on his back, and the princess closed the door, muffling out all sounds, and in the small cabin, only she and Reina were left.
The room was filled with the smell of burning elderwood, the captain's journal on the table was mostly burned, and the walls were strewn with the burn marks of magical arcs. The archer lay on his back on the bed, his face pale, covered with a blanket, and his body trembled slightly.
"Vanessa." Reina looked up in severe pain, "I knew you were coming. β
"I'm not here to pursue anything, I just want the truth." Vanessa relented from the first sight of him, but she was still stubborn and refused to give up her right to the truth.
"If I say it, you'll leave me, and I'd rather not say anything."
"Is that what you said true?" Vanessa heard her voice tremble, "You allowed the Atrocities to happen at the Salty Squid Hotel because you hated me for killing your family without knowing it. β
Reina closed his eyes, which was considered a default.
"How can you do this?!" Vanessa seemed to hear her heart shattering. Reina, though cold on the outside, was not ruthless, how could he not know the importance of chastity to a woman, how could he do such cruel things to himself?
"That day, Glab told me to pick you up, saying you'd be in trouble," Reina's voice trembled, as with his body, "I thought you just ran into a bandit or broke your leg, and wanted you to suffer a little longer, really...... I really didn't think about ......it," he closed his eyes, "it was the most regrettable decision I've ever made in my life." β
Vanessa felt hundreds of crows circling in her head, her black wings stirring the dark world in front of her: her innocence was ruined by a wrong decision by Reina, and the lingering images, the screams that tormented her from sleeping at night, turned out to be indirectly from Reina's hand. Along the way, all his kindness to me came out of a desire to atone for my sins, and I mistakenly thought that he would really love me. But I'm your princess! How can you be so cruel to me...... The princess covered her mouth, afraid that the cry in her heart would rush out of her mouth.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know anything like that would happen." Tears glistened in the corners of Reyna's eyes, and the blood vessels in his forehead swelled with pain and excitement, "I will return to that inn the next day to avenge you, and they will not hurt anyone again in this life and this lifeβbut I don't know how to sue you to relieve your pain." I'm sorry, I'm sorry ......"
"Don't say I'm sorry anymore," Vanessa swallowed her tears and slowly retreated to the door, "This is God's punishment for me, I'm a cursed man. Rest well, you'll be at Iron Arrow Bay tomorrow. She rushed out of the door as if she were running away, even forgetting to close the door
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