Selena, who was reproaching herself for her bold thoughts, her petite body couldn't help but stiffen for a moment, and she suddenly turned her head to look at the circle on the ground.

It's just that at this time, the magic circle has returned to its usual most ordinary appearance.

Even the little dust on the ground is the same as before, not the slightest difference.

But Selena turned around with great respect and solemnity, and muttered into the air in front of her: "O Supreme and Omniscient God, have you heard my voice......

Next, there was the words of praise and gratitude that she had memorized and recited countless times.

In the midst of this chanting, nothing happened on the ground or in the room.

Only the rudimentary furniture, staring coldly at the silver-haired girl, as if they were watching her kneel in front of the circle.

Forget about the closed cabinet and keep your mouth open, as if to make a silent mockery about it.

Selena didn't care.

It may be difficult for others to comprehend how determined and madly she believed in the deity, and if they did, they might have thought that some kind of demagogic spell had been cast.

But Selena doesn't need other people's understanding either.

In the two years since the death of her parents, how a thirteen-year-old girl spends such a time, others will not understand at all.

That loneliness, that feeling of no one to rely on, like a gray feather that always floats in the sky.

It's light and there's nowhere to put it.

And loneliness itself can force a person to death!

Now that she thinks about it, Selena thinks that the reason why she consumed the last firewood in advance is probably because she wants to get rid of this loneliness forever, right?

[Fortunately, I met Kami-sama.] 】

Selena still said those words of gratitude, silently recalling how she felt at the time.

At that time, the spring flowers in the house not only warmed the air in the room, but also made her heart have a temperature again.

She finally found the object she should rely on and believe in!

Even if the object sounds so vain.

But from that moment on, Selena knew that she was no longer alone.

Even if Selena was religious, the magic circle in the room still didn't move, without the slightest change, as if the slight flash just now was just an illusion after being dazzled.

But Selena doesn't think so.

The previous glimmer must be real!

This also shows that everything she does is not useless!

With such thoughts, the silver-haired girl did not have the slightest disappointment in her heart, and some were just excitement and joy.

She wasn't afraid that her god wouldn't respond for a while, but she was just worried.....

Not even the slightest touch!

In that case, I am afraid, it is the real despair.

But fortunately, he finally noticed that he was such a humble and devout believer.

[It must be that I wasn't focused enough before!] Not serious enough! 】

Selena nodded heavily, once again firming up her thoughts.

After making sure that there was no reaction for the time being, Selena suddenly remembered something and hurriedly ran out of the stone house.

It's just that, without the girl knowing, there are invisible thin threads, with a gray sheen, from her body, connected to somewhere in the air.

【......】

His floating consciousness understood this.

Something special has been established between him and her.

It also made his situation change slightly.

For example.....

His perspective was finally able to leave this little room!

Following the thread that no one else could see, he came to the silver-haired girl's side.

The air that exists quietly beside the girl seems to not exist in this world at all.

He looked around.

The air is gray.

It's like a faded photo, and it's the same in the sky.

There is a star that resembles the sun, and most of the light is intercepted and absorbed by the gray clouds.

He watched silently, but suddenly he had the idea of going up there and getting something.

On both sides of the road, there are stone houses similar to Selena's house, made of gray-white stone blocks and painted with something.

This road, all gray and white, looks all pale.

The weather is cold.

It didn't snow, but there was still a thin layer of frost on the ground beside the road.

Here, presumably, is the corner on the edge of town.

There weren't many pedestrians on the road.

Or rather, reluctance to go out in this weather.

Selena wrapped her coat around her, hoping to keep her body warm for longer and protect her from the cold wind.

However, the little face exposed outside the clothes was still quickly frozen red, and the small body trembled slightly.

Clothes, it's just too thin.

It is obviously unrealistic to rely on them to withstand such cold.

The little girl is too thin.

The thin body, of course, will tremble in such cold air.

But the expression on Selena's face didn't change, this was not the first time she had faced the cold on her own, she knew very well that as long as another thirty seconds passed, she would gradually get used to the cold.

Even if the body will be a little stiff, but it is .....

Won't freeze to death?

Isn't it?

In normal times, she would have preferred to snuggle up in that cold cabin.

The stone house made of stones looks very simple, but in fact the warmth effect is still very good.

But today, it's the day of the falling feather!

On such a day, she has to go out.

Selena's footsteps headed in a direction away from town.

The journey was very calm and there were no surprises.

As for the occasional sight of bloody corpses lying on the ground on the side of the road, it was a commonplace.

And there is nothing surprising about it.

The corpses that had fallen were all fresh, and the flesh had not yet begun to decay.

If it weren't for the pools of blood around him that had solidified and frozen, and all kinds of miserable wounds on his body, it would have looked .....

It's like falling asleep?

But to be dead, after all, is to be dead.

They could no longer open their eyes.

It's just that Selena still doesn't understand what these people think.

Knowing that darkness is a forbidden place that humans cannot enter, he still has to make such a stupid attempt.

Even if it's dead, it's normal.

On the corpse, there were several black crows.

The fur is shiny, and if it is compared to the crows on the earth, it is so strong that it does not look like the same species—this is because they have too much food to eat.

"Quack—quack—"

They spread their beaks and made a low, unpleasant sound, and they spread their wings and flew into the gray sky.

After eating the freshest pieces of meat, they are satisfied.

- When the food store is extremely abundant, even if it is a door, it will start to be picky.

But he never dared to fly too high, as if he was afraid of disturbing some existence in a high place.

Deep black eyes, glowing with a dim light, stared at Selena as she passed by, as if looking at her own spare food.

Selena looked at them without fear.

She clearly knew that these black-feathered brutes were actually some guys who bullied the weak and were afraid of the hard.

If you're scared, they'll get even worse, and maybe they'll actually attack them and treat you like their food.

But if you're more ferocious than they are, you'll find out that they're really not as scary as they seem on the surface, and you'll find out .....

They taste pretty good!

- In the absence of food, Selena doesn't have any psychological cleanliness.

Moreover, the birds that eat these black feathers, even if they eat human flesh to survive, are still better than .....

Those humans who actually eat human flesh are okay?

Frightened off the crows, Selena came to a wood.

The cold weather took away the leaves of these trees, leaving only the skinny branches, shivering in the cold wind.

It looks rather pitiful.

Selena, however, knew that even if they looked bad, they would only be dormant temporarily, and that they would grow in abundance the following spring.

It's not like a lot of people this winter who will never wake up.

Selena first found some dry and flammable branches, piled them on the dry ground, then took out the pale blue piece of metal and began to chant.

"Fire ......"

The content of the chant is still just one word.

[It..... Yes .....]

He finally regained some curiosity and looked at the metal piece seriously.

It's like a piece of copper, it's like aluminum, and it's impossible to tell what kind of material it is.

But from above, there is an unusual atmosphere.

Under the traction of this special tone, a small flame fell from above and landed on the dry firewood.

He didn't know the rationale behind it, but he didn't think it was a big deal.

Seem.....

It's just a mediocre method.

The flames ignited the dead branches, and the silver-haired girl's body warmed up a little.

It wasn't like the one in the stone house, but it dispelled the coldness for a short time.

Selena curled up in a ball, wanting to retain more warmth, then looked up at the sky quietly.

She was clearly waiting for something.

And he was by Selena's side, waiting with her.

"Whew-"

He could hear it in a trance.

Ringing in the depths of his consciousness.

Selena didn't hear such a voice, but her expression still couldn't help but get excited.

Because in the sky, in her sight, there were patches of gray feathers fluttering and falling from there.

It's a spectacular sight.

Every feather is beautiful, flexible, complete, and light.

Even if it is gray, it resembles the feathers of a so-called angel.

The sky was full of feathers, like a silent rain, a rain of gray feathers.

In the midst of such feathers, the silver-haired girl stood in front of the fire, her little face was frozen red, and she stretched out her hand to the feathers one after another.....

With my hand, I caught them.

And this is actually an incredible thing, because on the side, the gray feather fluttered through the trunk of the tree, through the stone house in the distance, and through the crow flying in the sky.

It's true.....

"Pierced" the past!

It's as if the houses, the tree trunks, don't exist at all.

If a person stands under such a gray feather, the feather will also pass through them and fall to the ground.

However, the feathers that fell to the ground continued to fall, as if they had melted into the dirt, and disappeared in just a moment.

Under the canopy, countless gray feathers were fluttering, but on the ground or trees, there were no feathers piled up.

It doesn't make up the scene when it's snowing.

It's just that in this picture, there are still exceptions.

That's Selena.

The feathers that can pass through everything not only stay in her hands, but also fall on her body, on her shoulders, on the top of her head.

And Selena's outstretched palm had exactly two feathers staying.

The silver-haired girl in the gray feather rain has accumulated patches of feathers on her body, which is extremely beautiful.

But Selena did not become the person in the painting, and she hurriedly took the feathers off her body and put them in the bag that had been prepared in advance.

It's also strange to say, the feather that was supposed to be passed through directly, after being touched by the silver-haired girl, seems to have an entity and can be put into a cloth bag.

Looking at Selena's appearance, you can know that it is not the first time she has done such a thing.

Familiar with the road, skilled to make people feel distressed.

It will take a lot of time to fill a whole bag of gray feathers.

Selena took the feathers again and again, put them in the bag, and so on, and the little hands that stretched out were already red from the cold air.

But she was still patient, even though the fire in front of her had been extinguished.

Selena was still repeating the same motion.

Mechanical and repetitive.

It's like those workers on the assembly line.

It's just that the silver-haired girl is too thin and small, and her physical strength is very limited.

This kind of exercise is still too hard for her.

If she hadn't relied on her consciousness to brace hard, she would have been paralyzed on the ground from exhaustion.

After working like this for a long time, the big bag was finally filled.

Selena took a deep breath, her little face was very tired, but she didn't sit down directly to rest.

Resting in this cold and not paying attention is very likely to freeze to death.

She's been working so hard for so long, and of course she can't make such a low-level mistake at this time.

I still have to hurry back!.

"Today, it's really a bumper harvest.....

Looking at the whole bag of gray feathers, Selena's little face that was frozen red showed a look of joy.

In the past, she had never harvested so many gray feathers at one time.

If you compare this to a harvest, it is indeed a good harvest!

"You must have given me strength, praise you!"

Selena praised.

At the same time, he walked a little slowly towards his hut.

At the same time, the gray feathers, as if endless, fell.

However, among the fluttering gray feathers, behind the silver-haired girl, there were several pairs of wolf-like eyes.....

Greedily eyeing her!