Chapter 19: Afternoon Grande
The House of Grande in the afternoon, quiet and peaceful.
Old Hank sat in the exhibition hall, leaning against a coffin, staring out the door with cloudy eyes, as if expecting someone to come in, but if someone did come in, he would only stare and scare people away.
After eating, the Great Dane Golden ran slowly through the door, glanced at Old Hank, and circled under the support of the coffin. After playing for a while, he seemed to be a little hungry again, and wagged his tail and ran through the living room and office to the kitchen.
The desk in the reception room was empty, and Louise wasn't at the Grand House, nor was Matthew. They all went to the church to the west, which was the last funeral before Father Constantine closed the church of the Son, and the 'brother', who was in charge of the House of Grande, was absent, so their 'relatives' or 'subordinates' took over the 'real' work.
On the kitchen counter, the bamboo basket was stuffed with biscuits and pastries, and the Great Dane jumped on the counter with agility, his nose was nothing more than decoration, so he just curled the nearest cake with his pale red and soft tongue, and his fluffy lips opened and closed up and down.
This texture is a nut, and the golden wagging tail is rolled into the next, and this texture is a marshmallow. The tail swept the dishes on the desk into a mess, and Kim moved on to the next ......
"Stop! Ryan!"
Kim's mouth stopped chewing, and he looked up and looked out the window.
If you look closely, you can see that the south window of the kitchen contrasts with the color of the wall. Because the windows were newly installed after being destroyed more than a month ago, they could not fully integrate with the old kitchen environment.
"Ryan, let me out!" Alice shouted helplessly in the backyard, into a blur of light and shadow in front of her.
Alice's white dress had burnt black burns at the corners, and she folded her shoulders and looked at the red incantation that surrounded her feet.
Ryan's features were as fuzzy and flashing as his body, and in a brief pause, his squirming lips could be seen, he was using witchcraft, real witchcraft!
The banshee's eyes suddenly widened, and she covered her eyes with her hands, "Ryan, stop, stop, you're going to be gone!"
In the flickering light and shadow, the conspicuous football jacket had turned into a red and blue mist, and Ryan's body was like a firework that was rapidly extinguishing.
"Stop, stop! Ryan!"
In the banshee's shrill cry of pleading, the red spell on the ground disappeared, and the vague mist in the air had stopped flickering, but it could not gather, and it was awkwardly frozen in the air, constantly fading and dimming.
The Banshee Alice anxiously ran out of the place where she had been bound, and the burnt corners of her skirt rose in the air. She ran to the side of the hammock, where an open notebook lay on the round wooden table.
Alice's fingers trembled as she rummaged through her notes, and the rattling of pages added a background to the restless afternoon. Finally, Alice found what she was looking for, and ran to a place in the courtyard with the witchcraft notebook that belonged to Sibella.
Alice didn't need to see how Sbella simplified the most primitive rituals step by step to the process and explanation of witchcraft, she held the note in one hand and looked directly at the last sentence.
"*&(*%¥#(incantation). ”
Alice finished reading with a shudder, her palms spread out, and the ground she was pointing to was clearly separated from the surrounding soil, as if it had been renovated not long ago.
The light and shadow frozen in the air not far away seemed to be summoned, like a wisp of smoke that had been sucked, swirling in the air and gathering where Alice's palm was pointing, and then all submerged into the ground.
Alice closed the note, clasped her hands together, and clasped her thin shoulders tightly, her head bowed, and there was a mist in her closed eyelashes.
Shattered light and shadow appeared in front of Alice, like the fragments were constantly combining and reconstructing until a figure fully appeared, it was Ryan.
Ryan raised his arm, his eyes glowing with surprise, his palms facing the sun, but not a single ray of light could pass through!
"You!Alice!You're so powerful!" Ryan stared at his hands excitedly, "You, you've superimposed Mother's spell......!"
Brownskin's note pierces Ryan's body and smashes into the back porch of the Grande House.
"Why are you doing this to me!" Alice's shoulders trembled, staring at the seemingly physical Earthbinder, "Why!
"Wait!" Ryan tried to grab Alice running towards the Grande House, but his hand only penetrated Alice's arm, "I need your help!"
But Alice, not wanting to hear anything from the fellow anymore, ran past the Great Dane, opened the side door and rushed in.
Alice had already rushed up the stairs, and Ryan, who was floating in the courtyard, frowned, his figure turning into a point of light and dissipating in the sunlight. When it reappeared, it was already behind Alice's back.
"Wait, Alice! I really need your help!"
Alice didn't look back, and walked up the stairs, her eyes closed under her frowning brow, and she slammed directly into Ryan, who was floating in front of her.
Ryan couldn't stop the excited Alice, and the door slammed shut, and it seemed that Alice had gone back to the room. Doors and walls, however, had no effect on Earthbound Spirits. If you really want to get rid of the Groundbinding, it is the right thing to do if you want to get out of his range of motion.
It's a pity that the range that will make the banshee feel at ease coincides with Ryan's range of activities as a groundbinder, and it is all Grande. This is a helpless fact.
Alice pulls out a pair of scissors from a drawer and waves it in front of her!
The bright silver incision appeared on Ryan's body, and there was no bloody scene, and the bright incision healed immediately after it appeared, as if it hadn't happened! Even Ryan himself was very surprised, he didn't dissipate because of the metal as usual! However, now is not the time to sigh at the power of Alice's witchcraft.
"Alice, calm down!" Ryan realized that he didn't need to dodge Alice's 'attack', and pressed straight at Alice.
"Get out of here! Ryan! Get out!"
"Alice, listen to me!" Ryan raised his voice, anyway, now Grande, there is no one, old Hank can't hear Ryan's voice at all, "I'm leaving Grande! I'm going to find my family! Alice! Don't you want to?!
Alice's scissor-wielding arm stopped in mid-air.
On the south-facing side of the wall of the Grande House, on the second floor, the light and shadow on the wall seemed to be distorted by something, and a 'thing' with vermilion skin coiled out of a window unnoticed by the insiders, its eyes so large that it blinked strangely.
Jin spat out a kernel from his mouth, and the skin of his whole body changed again in the sunlight, merging with the gray wall and disappearing without a trace.