"It feels familiar. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info "Lord Death took a deep breath, as if to calm down.

Ren was relieved, leaving Lord Death here alone: "Then you can think slowly, but it is only for three days." After three days, you have to put this thing down and go to work anyway. ”

"Remuneration." Lord Death suddenly came back to his senses and stared at Lian, who was about to enter the gate.

"What?"

"What was the reward you promised me at that time?" Lord Death asked in a deep voice.

"You'll find out later." Lian said indifferently, and then walked through the door without looking back.

Lord Death waited patiently for a moment, muttered something in a low voice, lay down, closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping. Half an hour had passed, and he sat up suddenly, and began to adjust the angle of the flickering light again, revealing the four small words, and the corners of his mouth raised a faint scorn.

They...... It's too much to underestimate him.

Lian's body trembled imperceptibly at the end. That proves she's wavering. His remuneration is definitely not a matter of the future, but a perfect tense. In other words, he must have gotten his pay. And, most likely, it's in his hands right now. But, definitely not this sword, but something much deeper and more important.

That's ...... These four words are words that even Lian can't know.

"Come out, I know you're here." Lord Death whispered the words, repeating them over and over again. His gaze did not drift away, but remained fixed on the sword.

He'd tested it before, and there wouldn't be a second person here besides him - or the Grim Reaper. Because if it were both Hill and Lian, it would definitely not be so peaceful here. He's risking his head to test it. Fortunately, Lian has absolute confidence in her spells, so she is fine.

Therefore, his target is not those two people.

It's the man in the sword.

Ten minutes passed, and Lord Death forgot how many times he had read it, in short, he kept repeating it, and even the frequency became faster and faster, close to the sound of mosquitoes humming, and it was easy to make people want to vomit.

Finally, with a faint sigh, the Grim Reaper stopped his thoughts.

A millet-haired girl was kneeling in front of him with a mournful face, her figure illusory, but extremely real. If it weren't for the dim light source around her, and even the girl herself emitting a ghostly light, she would definitely think that this was a living person.

"Lord Death...... Why do you know? The girl asked, her voice as complaining as that look.

"I know, you're going to come out. The sword, with the spirit. Now that the Grim Reaper exists, it seems that the Sword Spirit is not impossible. Lord Death smiled, looked directly at the girl in front of him, and asked sincerely, "Please tell me what I forgot." ”

The girl stretched out her hand slightly, but the illusory color only passed through the cheeks of Lord Death, and then she asked softly, "Do you remember?" ”

"What comes to mind?"

"yes, that's great." The girl smiled sweetly, and the gesture made Lord Death stunned, and her heartbeat increased irrepressibly, as if every cell was cheering.

Incredible.

Lord Death finally confirmed that what he had forgotten must have something to do with the girl in front of him. Even, it's the girl herself.

"Finally...... Woke up. The girl seemed to be really happy, and asked with a slightly mischievous smile, "Guess how long I slept?" ”

"Two years?" Lord Death estimated the time from the time when his memory began to blur to the present.

The girl shook her head simply: "It's two thousand years." In it, there is no light, no shadow, no one, and no nothing. The whole world is just me. I don't know how long a year is, but I don't count but I'm afraid that one day I'll forget everything, so I keep counting. In the end, the numbers were so long that they couldn't be read for ten seconds. But I'm still counting, and I'm still counting. I thought, great, what if I really can't get out. But I got through it. ”

With that, the girl reached out and gently took the flickering light from Lord Death's hand. The strange thing is that the girl can't touch anything, but she can only touch this sword.

She must be some form of the soul. Lady Death confirms. As a god of death, he still has this basic skill. So, has she been in this sword for two thousand years?

Something is wrong. His memory must not be that long. So, does the girl in front of him really have anything to do with him?

"What's that for?" Lord Death finally couldn't help but ask. The other party must have his own reason for staying in that lonely space for so long. Not to mention the purpose, just staying there for so long and not collapsing is definitely not something that can be solved by a simple sentence of perseverance and endurance. There must have been a belief that sustained her, a belief that transcended time.

"To atone for sins." The girl's answer was even more unexpected than Lord Death.

"What a crime does that have to be to be punished like this......" Lord Death was a little incredulous. Although it is said that he has lost his whole life, it is definitely not as exaggerated as the girl has experienced. Let's say, if you throw an ordinary person into such a space where there is nothing, within a week that person will go crazy. No matter how strong a person is, he will never be able to carry it for a week. I can't imagine how happy it is to be able to die without experiencing that kind of darkness. But by then, even the courage to commit suicide had been lost. The real little black house is an absolute punishment.

"Yes, I have committed a sin that I can't make up for even if I use it for a lifetime." The girl laughed, suddenly moved, and walked forward. Spikes. Collect the sword. The three movements are done in one go, and there is no jerky feeling at all. Even, that posture is more skilled than that of Lord Death.

The Grim Reaper was about to say something, but suddenly he found that in front of him, everything had been cut in half by the thrust just now, and slowly fell silently along a void boundary to both sides. It looks terrifying. Only after looking closely can I see that the boundary is not nothing, but a blue plank road as deep as a galaxy hidden in the darkness. And the girl completed this action in less than a breath.

"Sure enough, they didn't lie to me." The girl smiled heartily and handed the sword back to Lord Death, holding her hands behind her back and looking at him tenderly.

Lord Death didn't know if he could do it, but he vaguely sensed that it was something that only a girl could do. Without him, because she is the true master of this sword. Or rather, she is the sword itself.

"So are you really the sword spirit of this sword?" Lord Death asked curiously.

"Yes. So, please feel free to use me. Call my name when you are in danger and I will protect you from everything. Hold on to me when you attack, and I'll help you cut anything that stands in your way. Blessed on this sword is the power of time. Nothing can stop time, and when time is suspended, nothing is left with the fate of being cut off. The girl gripped the hilt of the sword in Death's hand tightly, as if she were clenching his hand.

"By the way, do you have a name?" Lady Death suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to know the girl's name. Maybe he knew, but he forgot. He looked forward to it, and the girl looked surprised. That way he could deduce more things, and even what he had forgotten.

But the girl's smile remained the same and never changed. It's just that she didn't answer Lord Death immediately, but tilted her head and thought about it for a long time, as if she remembered.

"How? Got the idea? Lord Death asked.

"Yes!" The girl smiled brightly, and for some reason her emotions were also rising, and she said word by word: "Hello, my name is Asuna." ”

"I ......"

And before Lord Death could say anything, the girl continued to speak on her own. As soon as she spoke, she shattered all of Death's perceptions and thoughts. At that moment, any thought seemed meaningless. Because of that, the answer he had been searching for had appeared.

That is, the simple answer:

"Cooperative."

"I've been waiting for you."

"Anyway, I'm waiting for you. My dear Lord Death. ”

"I will, always waiting for you. Until, become forever. ”

"My sins should have been atoned for. No matter how profound the sin is, it should be atoned for. I was scared, so I kept chanting your name so that I wouldn't get lost, I wouldn't go crazy, I wouldn't die. I knew that if I went crazy, it would be all over. So I got through. So, no matter how wrong I did at that time, I thought, it was a sin that no longer belonged to me. ”

"No, that's mine, but it's also in the past, and it's not with me anymore. Sin doesn't stop me anymore. I've figured it out. Even so, even so, even what. ”

"I still love you. I love you more than I love myself. ”

"My Lord Death."