"Have you ever seen death, Westphalia?"

"With your own eyes? Does just seeing a corpse count? ”

"No...... I mean you watch a truly intelligent being weaken in front of you little by little until you hang up. ”

"It's an uncomfortable harsh description, well, I haven't seen this kind of picture, I've seen some corpse samples in the teacher's real room at most......"

"Why do you ask? Li bai...... Have you ever witnessed death? The other party is human? At what time? ”

Walking alone in the dense woods, Li Bai suddenly remembered a conversation between her and Lilith one night.

The topic is unknown, it is death.

"Oh, that was a long, long time ago...... I had forgotten what I looked like, a boy who wasn't much older than me, and he was laughing at me before the accident, waving the hat he had snatched from my head. At that time, Li Bai had just finished taking a shower, and was raising his hands and wiping his hair with a towel.

"You like hats too?" Lilith finally turned her head, she had been playing games on Li Bai's computer before, and all her speeches seemed nonchalant.

"Well, what, isn't it possible that you like it too, but I haven't seen you wear it." Hearing that the other party had the same hobby, Li Bai's gaze on the girl was a little gloomy, and of course she understood why a person would like a hat - that was Yan Zhanng's insecure behavior expression.

She herself was an orphan before the crossing, just like in this life, which is why she fell in love with using the brim of her hat to shroud her expression in shadow during her long life of solitude.

"Have you forgotten, my cloak has a hood! Let's move on...... The boy's story. Lilith was completely distracted by her story, and the distraction made her control the game character meet God, and the girl simply threw away the mouse and keyboard, and turned her chair to focus on the chat, "He's dead, right." ”

"Nothing to say, he waved his hat at me as he stepped back, too excited to notice the side, where a van was approaching at high speed...... And then, like you said, he died. Li Bai raised her eyebrows, and when she saw the other party's heartless expression, she couldn't help but wonder if her previous worries were misunderstood, "The head was crushed by the wheel, and there was no corpse." ”

"What retribution! If he hadn't snatched your hat, he wouldn't have ended up like this! ”

He ...... Actually, it's just one of a group of boys who often bully me. Unlike Lilith's relieved affection, there was no element of happiness in Li Bai's smile, "Having my hat and gloves snatched away often happens to me, and I have never expressed anything, and others think I'm a coward, but it's actually pretty much the same...... Just cursing the other party to die in the bottom of your heart, no matter how you look at it, it is not a kind of resistance. ”

"Are you grieving his death?" The red-haired girl covered her mouth in surprise, "Hey, you can't be mistaken, his death shouldn't have anything to do with your curse!" ”

"It's not because of it, but I'm not sad." Li Bai stroked the hair from his ears and pulled them behind his ears.

I don't know what the reason is tonight, she suddenly felt a little melancholy, maybe she had lived alone for too long, and the role that suddenly appeared in her life could easily receive some "nagging" from her.

"It just dawned on me." "If I could have resisted when I was bullied before, would I have been able to get them to stop doing this......," she said. In that case, the guy who learned from me will settle down, right? There would be no such accident, and he wouldn't need to die. ”

“…… Sounds so delightful! Lilith patted her head in distress, "Why do I still think you're blaming yourself?" How can the death of that fool be explained on such grounds...... Even if he doesn't bully you, how can you guarantee that he won't follow the same path for bullying others, I still like the idea that the teacher instilled in me - those who die deserve to die! He was wrong, so he died! It's that simple! ”

"It's not the fault of a single individual, Westphalia...... When someone in the world has a different perception of you, you can debate with him, but when almost everyone is on the opposite side of you, the wrong person can only be you, this is the environment, but also the trend, manpower can not fight, can only change themselves. ”

"I'm not blaming myself, am I not right...... This is enlightenment, change does not mean weakness and submission, change is not so simple, it has many ways, weakness and submission are just the worst part of it, most people have such an impression of change, because they themselves are so chosen, because this is the simplest, and it requires the least effort, with a sentence that can be explained by following the trend, you don't know that you have become a slave of fate, sinking deeper and deeper in the vortex of continuous retreat. ”

"I'm starting to get my head out." The girl rested her chin on the back of the chair and rolled her eyes at Li Bai half-deadly, "This is more difficult than astrology and mathematics, it's just a logical tongue twister, what do you want to say?" Rebel against fate by not fighting against the change of the environment? You're kidding me...... Is this possible!? ”

"I don't know." Li Baisi replied slowly, and a natural smile appeared on his originally calm face.

"Hey!" Lilith tapped the back of her chair hard.

"But that's what I'm doing." Throwing off the towel, Li Bai smashed his upper body on the mattress, as if he didn't see the other party's madness.

"Don't hesitate to pay a qiē."

"......" The red-haired girl was silent for a while, and then she said again: "Hmm...... Well, you haven't answered me why you're asking me that question. ”

Dealing with the atmosphere is a delicate task for her, who is still a minor and has little experience in dealing with things...... Hard.

"I just wanted to see if you, a self-proclaimed elite fool, had real combat experience, but I didn't expect you to really haven't killed anyone......" Li Bai didn't find fault with her clumsiness, and took the opportunity.

She also noticed that the topic and atmosphere seemed to be changing.

Ah? I think there's the sound of grinding teeth.

"Heh, are you annoyed and angry, I looked cold before, I didn't expect my temper to be quite big, little rookie, I will call my predecessor in the future, I am nearly 5 years older than you, and it is rude to call me by name."

"It's like you've killed someone...... What if I don't call? ”

"How can a boarder be entitled to bargain." Li Bai, who was lying on the bed, smiled badly, "Don't scream? I'll smack your ass if you don't tell me. ”

……

"Didn't expect to ...... from it The rumors that sounded there were actually true. Raising his head slightly, Li Bai frowned, looking at the crows that kept flying around him.

The vast majority of monsters have entities and can be spotted by anyone with the naked eye, but in a magical world, anything seems to be possible - some kind of monsters are an exception, they have two racial attributes, one is the appearance of the appearance, orcs, birds and beasts...... It can be any kind, while the other is called a "soul" and can only be seen by those who have witnessed death.

Right now, the birds hovering beside her have purple-black feathers and pupils, and they are soul genus, demon clan, and their scientific name is Eight Tides.

A chill rose from Li Bai's back, and she instinctively felt a strong threat from the ominous birds, which did not really mean that they had the power to threaten her, but that she felt that through the birds, she was targeted by a pair of terrible eyes.

"Who!?" There was a sound of the figure breaking through the air behind her, Li Bai turned her head suddenly, and a black shadow jumped down from the trunk of the tree behind her, and a long knife with a cold light in her hand cut through the air.

"Bell!!" Raising his hand, exerting force, the phoenix sword that was condensed in an instant stopped the slash of the long knife, and even broke the katana with the sharpness of the blade, but the shape shì was not optimistic about Li Bai, even after an atavistic ceremony, her strength was still not strong, and the sharpness of the weapon could not stop the force that was violently transmitted up and down, and the phoenix sword was out of her hand.

The attacker has a lot of experience in hand-to-hand combat, the katana broke in two in the next second because of the shock force, but she/he abandoned it long before it broke, a short body bullied into the range of Li Bai's arms, and the right upper arm hit the opponent's shoulder with the force of the fall, Li Bai gritted his teeth and let out a muffled snort from his throat, under the slackness of strength, her feet that were hit by this blow left the ground, and the two fell together, rolling in a ball in the woodland paved with withered yellow leaves.

Shouldn't I be looking for some powerful magic to manifest......

Li Bai was a little dizzy from being smashed, in the attack just now, she could vaguely see that the other party was the costume of Darkness in the information - a pure black samurai leather coat, it seems that the person who is considered by Dade Temple to be the strongest of the seven stars is planning to directly overthrow the reclusive king on this island.

"Woo-you......" As soon as Li Bai opened his eyes, he felt a strange feeling in his chest.

"It feels good...... Could it be that there have been men who have been moisturizing you all these years, My-master? Her hood had already fallen off in the impact just now, and the black warrior's hand happened to be grasping her pair of towering twin peaks, and what was even more odious was that the other party reacted and actually rubbed it a few times, and even made this kind of remark similar to teasing/playing...... Li Bai only felt as if a string had broken in her heart, she ignored the strange feeling coming from her chest, quickly bounced up a pair of knees, and pressed her feet against the opponent's lower abdomen in unison, kicking it out.

"I don't remember my former bodyguard doing such a nasty thing." Staring vigilantly at the black warrior from a distance of a few meters, Li Bai stretched out his hand to tidy up his clothes, slowly stood up, and condensed a thin sword shining with a faint white light in his hand, pointing straight at her.

The black warrior also stood up, her sword was broken, and her hands were empty at the moment, but she was not panicked in the face of the threat of the light path thin sword, and the corners of her mouth curled up on the lower half of her face that the mask had never covered.

"People change, just like you." She said, "If it were you in the past, you would have killed those minions for the safety of the chicks, and I wouldn't have had to find your hiding place until today." ”

"You've become ruthless."

The attacker did not defend Li Bai's speculation about his identity, so he generously admitted that she was Angela Jon, who had been sent to Li Bai's personal guard by the seahorse.

"It's not my turn to do that...... Well? Do you still have memories of the past? You weren't controlled by Darkness? Li Bai suddenly discovered the strangeness of the other party, according to the setting of the original book, the person who wears the Darkness mask will be manipulated physically and mentally, and completely lose himself, only people with strong willpower can ignore this effect, the Heavenly Court Blowing Snow once took the initiative to wear the mask in order to persuade Maruto Ryo to do so, even if he was extremely reluctant, Li Bai didn't believe that Angela could be completely immune.

Unless she wasn't charged at all.

"I am who I am, not Darkness...... Even though that was the name of my new owner. A black mist exploded next to Angela's left hand, condensing a pitch-black dueling disc, and looking at Li Bai under the black mask became calm: "I'm here to kill you, Li Bai." ”

"In the face of challenges from duels, you must accept them, it is your habit and the law of the world."

"Just kill me?" Li Bai grinned and sneered, she also took out her own dueling disc in the cloak, as the other party said, it was impossible for her to avoid the provocation from the duel.

"Do you think I'm going to believe you when you make such a fuss before you find me...... I don't dare to assert the others, that red-haired girl should also be the target of your new master! ”

"I don't deny it." Angela took two steps back, giving both sides enough distance to cast, "At this time, the sixth star should already be knocking on the door...... If she is faced head-on, her deck advantage will not be rewarded. ”

"Sixth star...... You mean the copper-stained dark game killer? Li Bai's hand on her waist paused slightly, it was that she was choosing the deck of this duel in the different space given by the system, and she didn't hesitate for long, and soon a deck was taken out of her waist bag and placed on the duel plate.

"It's a pity, the power of the chessboard demon, I don't think it can beat the magic guide book, even if you force the magic guide book to give up the field, the advantage of the card deck can't be neutralized, you underestimate her too much...... The power of the Ten Thousand Demon Palace, let alone her, can be shaken by any third-year student. ”

"What if it's the Demon Palace?" Unsurprisingly, Angela saw the other person's face change - one of her goals was to disturb the other person's mind and make her terrifying calculations and instincts as much as possible, how to put it...... Although the original deck strength has been enhanced, she is still not too sure about the target she wants to snipe, and the person who gave her the order deliberately pointed out that the target has a high probability of not using the light path deck, but she is still unwilling to take risks, and the possibility of victory can be one more, even if it is unscrupulous.

"You can't be the Angela I knew before." The image of the blonde girl covering the quilt for Nette in the middle of the night flashed in his mind, and Li Bai clenched his fists.

She couldn't imagine that this was a change in the other party's subjective will, maybe a profession similar to an agent like dark chess required all kinds of professional training, and she didn't rule out the possibility of using extraordinary means, but she just didn't believe that the girl who would be natural, confused, and blush had actually become such a ...... A guy who could be considered a despicable person in her eyes.

She was open to other strong-handed tactics, but strongly resisted the imposition of such tactics in a duel, which she considered to be a taint on a certain spirit.

Looking down at the dueling plate, Li Bai could only hope that this set of cards from the Shattered Light could bring her victory, Lilith's information was completely known by the other party It was not an accident, the stunning appearance of the red-haired girl was seen by many people, but she didn't expect that the other party would actually be able to strengthen the Ten Thousand Demon Hall into the Demon Palace...... The exclusive card of the demon clan may not be too strong, but it has always been known for being disgusting, and it is difficult for that girl to please if she has a calculus or not.

(Am I overlooking something...... This. ）

There was a touch of sorrow between his eyebrows, and Li Bai could only cheer up and meet this upcoming duel.

The sky was getting darker, and the chirping of the Eight Furrows still didn't stop, and they circled over the glade, as if waiting for the taste of the loser's soul.

Li Bai's sixth sense has always been very accurate, and her worries are not unreasonable.

If she could have thought more about why the prying eyes coming from the pupils of these birds gave her a shuddering sense of familiarity, perhaps she would have understood...... Someone you're about to face.

For example, if she can actively choose to devour the light of destruction, why can't others devour Darkness?