"What? All right...... But, Luna, is she okay? ”

"Uh...... I don't know, it looks like there should be nothing wrong with it, but I can't be sure. ”

When Ginny and the others hurried back to Luna's room and handed her over to Hannah's care, she thought about it and decided to venture out and tell Hermione about it at this time.

After all, none of them were sure that Luna was okay right now.

"Neville, you can guard this side alone first—don't worry, even if a living corpse forcibly breaks through the barrier, there are still gravity traps I have arranged, you just need to keep an eye on it to see if any fish slip through the net. Be careful, don't fight hard...... I'll go back and see how Luna is doing. ”

"Okay, I got it." Neville raised his wand and nodded knowingly.

"Alright, let's go!"

Hermione also bowed her head slightly to Neville, and then left the outer boundary northwest of the ancient city with Ginny, and flew quickly towards the church on her broomstick.

"By the way," Hermione asked as she flew, "Ginny, you said that was that shadow guy we met on the road?" Can you be sure? ”

Hearing this, Ginny shook her head.

"I didn't actually see it myself, it was Ron who saw it - but I did sense a creepy feeling at the time."

"Oh!" When Hermione heard this, she couldn't help but sigh, "Luna too...... Didn't Sarah tell us not to go to her room? And Luna was the only one who listened directly to Sarah, so why did she have to go? ”

For Luna's self-styled personality, almost unaffected by others, Hermione really loved and hated a little.

So far, because of Luna's intuition that has always been extremely accurate, Hermione has also received a lot of help and inspiration. It's a pity that this instinct of not making any detours often causes Luna to wander on the edge of danger. If she steps into the air at any time, she may be waiting for an abyss.

Thinking of this, Hermione, who was crouching on the broom and accelerating, couldn't help but raise her hand and brush the strands of hair that was blown to the back of her head by the strong wind, revealing a helpless expression.

Speaking of which, because Luna "fainted" more and more times, she seemed to feel a little used to it.

"It's not something to get used to," Hermione muttered to herself, "and when the Zombie Rebellion subsides, we'll have to find a time to talk to her...... While warning her, it can be regarded as a reminder to myself. ”

Clearly, Hermione and Ginny wanted to go together.

……

Of course, not to mention Luna's affairs, at least in the case of the biggest problem at the moment, the living corpse riot, the old town of Winchester is still fine.

With the magical barrier that Maca left behind, and Safina's might, it didn't seem like an impossible task to continue to defend the ancient city.

But at the same time, just as Hermione feared, Sarah, who was still out collecting information on living corpses when the riot broke out, was really in trouble.

Without the help of a magic barrier, there are flying living corpses attacking from all sides while being attacked from all sides. There weren't as many of them as ordinary living corpses, but they could pose a much greater threat.

Caught off guard, Sarah, who had just arrived in a small town at the time, had to find a house in a very hurry under the cover of a group of alchemy dolls.

After that, she continued to trade the wear and tear of the dolls for time, and finally managed to gain a foothold in the sudden wave of crazy living corpses with a hastily arranged alchemy array.

"It's rare that Maca praised me as one of the pinnacle masterpieces in the history of alchemy, but apart from some alchemy learned from Phillips' notes, I was as weak as an ordinary person...... What kind of 'masterpiece' is this? ”

Sitting in this room, listening to the chaos outside, Sarah couldn't help but feel a little frustrated - the alchemy dolls couldn't all be brought into the house, and most of them were now being consumed by the rioting living corpses one after another outside. This is equivalent to saying that the combat power she holds is constantly decreasing.

Think about the time I have been working hard day and night to make dolls, but now I have lost nearly half of them in one day...... If she hadn't taken half of the dolls with her before leaving Winchester, the accumulation of these days would have been completely ruined.

It can be seen that the power that can be formed by Helbo's living corpses seems to have only revealed the tip of the iceberg before.

When Sarah hid in the room protected by the alchemy array, and was silent alone for a long time, she finally spoke again:

"I see...... Maka, I seem to finally really understand what 'I want' is. For me to 'be a whole person', that's just Phillips' wish, that's not 'what I want'. Or at least, it's just the beginning. ”

In fact, ever since Maca managed to give Sarah the emotions that a human being should have, Sarah has been in a state of some joy and contentment, but also a little dazed.

Originally, although her soul was not complete, she actually did not have a life of her own. The years she had spent so far had been almost entirely submerged in the shadow of the Phillips Hohenheim who had made her.

But for such a long time, she at least has a goal to support her to "live".

However, when she finally achieved the "long-cherished wish" in her heart that she couldn't tell who the owner was, the goal of letting her continue to live disappeared.

A life without purpose is undoubtedly terrible, because you don't even know what you should do.

But now, when Sarah felt that she was probably going to die here this time, she finally understood something she had never thought of before.

When a particular object is given life, it is no longer an object, and at the same time it is no longer special. Because, she has also become a member of all living beings.

"Yes, I'm not a 'masterpiece of alchemy' - maybe the incomplete me in the past was, and now, I'm just a human being."

Sarah muttered to herself, as if she had been infected by Hermione the other day, and then she suddenly stood up from the floor.

"And a human being, will always grow, there is no goal, just look for it."

However, as soon as she finished speaking, she heard a more noisy sound from outside...... There are more living corpses in the vicinity.

"Oh! A human being should also be afraid of death...... I want to live! ”

Sarah pouted and added inwardly.