Chapter 62: Evening
The Rhett Academy of Elemental Magic is different from our Yi Xiang No. 2 Middle School, where students have plenty of time to do what they love without late self-study. Some people like to go to the class paradise if they like to enjoy the mountains and rivers; some people want to accept tasks to earn money, so they remove the notice on the information board to help others do things in the college; and some people want to feel the family atmosphere, so they go back to the dormitory early to sit on the sofa and chat with their classmates......
I am an "amnesiac" magician who is cared for by my dorm mates in three out of ten. After dinner, three out of 10 people chose to go back to the dormitory to answer my questions.
"Aren't you going to listen to Lele sing?"
"No way," Park Ji-woo said, "we've known Lele for two years and we've never heard Lele sing." ”
"But, didn't Brother Liang say that the Bird of Paradise sings in the morning and evening?"
"This is true of ordinary birds of paradise, but Lele is not ordinary. Have you ever seen a bird of bliss like our guardian beast?"
"What do you mean?" I asked Alex.
"He's referring to appearance and ability," Adam replied to me, "Our guardian beast is a five-star magical creature, but he's different from a five-star bird of paradise. Compared with the two, Lele's appearance is more human-like. ”
"I'm sorry, but I haven't seen a five-star bird of paradise. ”
"Wait," Josh jumped up from the couch to the bookshelf and pulled out a book and showed it to me, "Well, this is the Bird of Paradise of Star Four, and it's their original form. ”
The book of the Bird of Paradise is covered in feathers and has a human-like appearance, but its beak is a beak, its hands are wings, and its feet are a pair of sharp claws. In short, it's a Birdman.
"Next, there's the Star Five's Bird of Paradise. ”
The Bird of Paradise in the flipbook is closer to a human than the Bird of Paradise just now, after all, it has both hands and wings behind its back. Wait a minute, this five-star bird of paradise is very similar to the mythical Lei Zhenzi, except that its body is full of feathers and does not have smooth skin like humans.
Looking back at the Lele I remembered...... And these two birds of paradise are not at all like.
"Is there a star six-star bird of paradise?"
"Huh?" Josh quickly flipped through the book to reply to me, "It doesn't seem like hey......"
"Yes, yes, but it's rare. Park Ji-woo said.
"Why?" I asked.
"Like our guardian beast, I guess he has a soul contract with our guardian. Park Ji-woo said.
"Soul contract, the kind of contract we make with nature?"
Adam, who returned to the interior from the balcony, said: "Different. The natural elemental magic contract can be said to be a soul contract, but unlike the soul contract signed by a mage and a magical creature - our relationship with nature is mutual, not one-sided. ”
"What do you mean?" I was confused.
"He's coming, you ask him yourself. ”
Liang Kairong appeared at the door of the dormitory.
"Guardian, you said you were going through the living room door...... Alas, forget it, you are such a person. Alex sat down next to Charlie, not shaking Charlie but shaking Suzuki.
"I'm sorry. I hear you guys talking about Lele?"
"That's right. Yi Jiahe is recalling the knowledge of the Bird of Paradise, so we will help him. Now that you're here, Guardian, tell him about Lele. "Park Ji-woo is ready to play chess with Suzuki.
"Lele's business......" Liang Kairong came and sat on the armrest of the sofa and asked me, "What do you want to know about Lele?"
"Brother Liang, is the soul contract signed between Lele and you unilateral?"
"Yes, so understandable. Liang Kairong looked at the book that Josh put on the table and said, "It's not easy for a magician to sign a soul contract with a magical creature. Yi Jiahe, do you remember the Soul Binding Spell?"
"Magic spells?"
"It's a magic tool. Josh, who sat next to Alex and read the comics, replied.
"The Soul Binding Charm, unlike the Soul Binding Order, is a magic tool that binds magical creatures for a long time to serve the mage. Most magical creatures hate bondage. They will help the mage, reluctantly agreeing to allow the mage to bind them once and then free them with a soulbinding order. If a mage uses a soulbound spell to capture magical creatures, they will attack us as enemies. ”
"What does this have to do with the Soul Contract?"
Liang Kairong turned his head to look at me and said, "The soul contract signed between a magician and a magical creature can be said to be a permanent soul binding spell. Bound magical creatures will resist and break the Soul Binding Spell to escape, but the magical creature that has made a soul pact will not be able to escape its owner until it dies. As a result, magical creatures are very resistant to soul contracts. ”
"So miserable? If that's the case, Brother Liang, aren't you the bad guy who forced Lele to Liangshan?"
"If the magical creature doesn't offer the request to sign a soul contract with the magician, the magician can't do anything. Adam said.
"Yes. Becoming my demon is Lele's own request...... That, Yi Jia and classmates, why do you look at me like that?"
"Brother Liang, tell me honestly, you coerced and lured Lele?"
Liang Kairong smiled bitterly: "I am more wronged than Dou E." It's true, though, that a magician's coercion may make magical creatures obey. In fact, there are countless such things. ”
Liang Kairong sighed and continued: "When our magician dies, the soul equipment belonging to that magician will disappear. Similar to soul tools, when we magicians die, the magical creatures that sign a soul contract with the magician will die. The difference is that soul tools are non-living beings after all, while magical creatures are living beings. ”
"Burial?" I remembered the ancient custom.
"There's that in it. For some magical creatures, it is happy to die with their masters, but for most magical creatures, it is cruel to have their masters buried after being bound by a soul contract in their bodies. ”
"Can't a magician break the soul contract and let a magical creature live?" I asked.
"The soul contract is irreversible. Once signed, it's either life or death. Adam said coldly.
"So," I asked Liang Kairong, "what does Lele think? Since he signed a soul contract with you, does he want to follow you until he is old, or does he regret it on the spur of the moment?"
"He's in Paradise, and you'll have to ask him that question. ”
Let's go, go to paradise and don't look back—
"Can any of you open the door for me? I won't ......"
Night had already fallen, and it was pitch black outside, but the weather was still as clear and sunny in the park as it was during the day when I came in.
I thought everyone would come in with me, but in the end, I was the only one who entered the paradise, not even Xiao Hui.
"I'm about to take an advanced exam, and I have to read books to review. Xiao Hui said.
Whoever says that the area of paradise is limited, this is nonsense. I trekked through mountains and rivers for half an hour, I couldn't find Lele, no one came to help me, I was so tired that I couldn't walk, and then I remembered that I didn't know how to get out of the paradise, which made it worse.
"Lele ......," I shouted, praying for the guardian beast of Class 10 to appear. A minute later, my heart was cold.
"Crying daddy doesn't come, crying mother shouldn't, want to cry without tears. "It was easy to think of this, so I lay down in heaven and earth, and it was a big deal to sleep in paradise for the night.
"You're calling me?" said the bird of paradise's head was no more than a few meters from my nose.
I dodged away and said to Lele: "You guy is so strange, you don't come when you call you, you don't come if you don't call you to come, you come to scare me." ”
"I'm sorry about that. Lele smiled slightly.
In front of me, Lele put on a white coarse linen robe and gray bloomers, and became a personable martial artist. I don't understand the mind of the bird of paradise, I don't understand how he fits his image into the image of the rugged warrior. However, Youyan can do whatever he wants, and such Lele still does not lose the temperament of a beautiful man.
"Who dressed you in such a strange outfit?"
"Kai Rong. ”
"You might as well be shirtless in these clothes. ”
Lele froze for a moment, then prepared to undress.
"Stop, just dress like that. ”
The white-haired young man was confused, and then smiled movingly.
No, this magical creature is too shiny. I can't get too close to him, he'll suck the sparkle away.
"What did you come to me for?"
I remembered the purpose of my trip.
"I want to hear you sing. ”
Lele put away his smile, bent down and said to me with a serious expression: "Forgive me." ”
"Why? You don't want to?"
Lele shook his head: "Yi Jiahe, it's not that I don't want to sing, but I can't sing." ”
"Are you feeling unwell?"
"No," said the bird of paradise, with a faint smile again, "I made a vow many years ago that I would never sing again in this life. So, I ask for your understanding. With that, he bent down again and apologized to me.
Looking at Lele's folded white wings, I said, "Since it's an oath, there's no way to do it." Instead, though, can you fly with me?"
In the arms of the Bird of Paradise, I soared in the sky, feeling the strength of the wind and the body temperature of the Bird of Paradise.
"Hey, you often fly with Brother Liang?"
"You're talking about Kai Rong, who used to let me fly with him when I was younger. Growing up, he didn't use me often. ”
"So, you and Brother Liang have known each other since childhood?"
"I met him when he was eight years old, and I made a soul pact with him that same year. ”
Soul contract, the real purpose of my trip is this.
"Lele, can you levitate in the air? Keep flying, I'm a little hard to breathe. ”
Lele stopped moving forward, dropped a certain height and flapped his wings and flew in the air.
"Actually, I have lost my memory. "In order not to make Lele feel abrupt, I have to explain this matter to him first.
"I know. I know a little bit about the students in the class. Kai Rong has already discussed with me about your amnesia. ”
"In that case, you should know that I forgot about magical creatures. I ask you, are you a five-star magical creature of the Bird of Paradise?"
"Yes. Lele admits bluntly.
"Why did you sign a soul contract with Liang Kairong?"
"Can't I make a soul pact with him?" Lele smiled.
"Don't you know the consequences?"
"Yes, I'm a magical creature after all. ”
I asked him angrily, "Since you know that you still have to sign a soul contract with him?"
Lele was silent for a moment, and then asked me calmly, "Yi Jiahe, do you remember the lifespan of the Bird of Paradise?"
"Lifespan?" I think I've seen in Josh's book.
"The life of a bird of paradise is only thirty years. You see, I'm already gray-haired, aren't I?" I brushed up Lele's long hair.
I thought the Bird of Paradise was ...... Come to think of it this way, the Star Five Bird of Paradise I saw in the books was indeed not gray-haired.
"But your face doesn't look old. ”
"Even if we look young and strong, we can't escape the fate of dying, this is the law of nature. ”
I sighed and asked Lele, "How many years do you have left?"
"By the time I'm twenty-nine years old, I'll probably be back in nature. That said, I don't have much time left. ”
"Don't you think fate is unfair?"
Lele hugged me tightly and said like an old man: "Night will fall, dawn will come." Birth and death, the cycle repeats, endlessly. I will not complain about the injustice of fate, because I have gained a precious friendship and die without regrets. ”
"Those who say they die without regrets are liars. I tried my best to say to Lele in a malicious tone, "Everyone says that I don't have nostalgia, and I die without regrets, but who can really die without nostalgia? Don't tell me that people who commit suicide, they just don't realize what they are nostalgic is." If the gods had given them a period of time to think about what they were nostalgic for, they would surely realize in their tears of regret what a foolish thing they had done. People can deceive themselves, and I don't know yet, magical creatures can deceive themselves. ”
I don't look over my head to look out into the distance. About five seconds later, I heard Lele laughing.
"Have you lost your memory, and even your personality has changed?"
Listening to Lele's hearty laughter, I said angrily, "Don't laugh." If you laugh and cramp and cause us to fall, you can't afford to pay for my life with hundreds of thousands of socks. ”
When I said this, Lele laughed even more.
After laughing, Lele said to me, "Life is priceless, whether it is a magician or a magical creature, everyone is a unique existence. ”
Lele's words came to my heart.
"Back to the previous topic: why did you sign a soul contract with Brother Liang? This contract, as long as the magical creature does not take the initiative to ask the magician to sign it, it can't be decided, right?"
"Yes...... Lele said, putting his head on my head, "Why? Maybe, I want to be with him, right?"
"You want to be with him and you don't have to make a soul contract with him. I don't think Brother Liang will impose demands on you on this. ”
"yes, he's such a person. Perhaps that's why I had to make a soul pact with him. ”
"I don't know what to do...... Forget it, I won't ask. Lele, take me to fly for a while. I've never been so free in my life. ”
Blue sky, sunshine, white clouds, passing birds, refreshing and warm breeze. I leaned close to Lele's body and used him as a kite, wandering between heaven and earth.
When I landed, I lingered and wanted to ask Lele to take me to fly around again. Thinking of Lele who hugged me was doubly tired, I kept this request in my heart and asked Lele again when I had time.
"Lele, I have one last question: Do you regret making a soul contract with Liang Kairong?"
Lele's white hair was scattered in the breeze. He closed his eyes and pondered, but in a moment, he opened his clear blue eyes and smiled handsomely: "For the rest of my life, I will never regret it." ”
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