There is a story in the snow forest that about four years ago, a monster appeared in this forest, which was originally a large bird, but with an eagle's beak, snake scales, rat tail, and a pair of huge bat wings. It was five or six meters tall, fast as a flowing wind, powerful enough to destroy a rock with a single blow.

No one knows where the strange bird came from, or why it appeared. It is a nightmare for mercenaries in the snowy forest, and it has been the dream of countless adventurers, but no one has been able to hunt it so far.

"That thing is probably the monster we met in the Ice Forest before, didn't we let it run away the last time we met? Kotohime recalled what Hayumi told herself when she met Hayumi a month ago: "Originally, I was going to destroy it myself, but when I thought that it was the only thing in this world that was still connected to the world over there, I used my power to remove this mission from the Adventurer's Guild, and if you go now, there shouldn't be any other adventurers to disturb you." Do you know how much trouble we've had to get to you these two years?"

Two years have passed since then, and the sixteen-year-old Kotohime has changed a little bit from two years ago, and has grown into a beautiful girl, but her long hair has been cut short and has become a neat and neat shredded hair, and her eyes have always radiated a resolute light.

Two years ago, Jean-hime did not accept Gu Shuo's invitation to become Gu Shuo's student, although she really wanted to be with Ilona, but she was still resisting something, maybe just like her grandfather Langum, she was not destined to become Gu Shuo's student.

Kotohime walked into the ice and snow forest alone, now she is not in the heyday of her spiritual power like she was at the beginning, after the heyday of fourteen, Kotohime's spiritual power is gradually declining, so she gave up using spiritual magic to maintain her body temperature, and put on a thick cold-proof suit.

Hayumi didn't come with Kohime to help, and Kotohime didn't want them to come with her. This is Kotohime's own business, and she has to solve it herself.

The strange bird Kotohime had seen it twice, the first time when she and Hayumi were passing through the snowy forest, when Kaos suddenly fell from the sky and scared them away. The second time was when he and Zet were passing through the Ice Forest to eliminate the existence of the "Gate", but Zet didn't have time to kill it, because the sudden appearance of two robots distracted them, and the strange bird was able to escape, and Zete only blinded it in one eye.

What if we find that strange bird again? Kotohime didn't expect to find a way back to Earth from it, but now Kotohime could only look for clues from it, and the dead horse was used as a live horse doctor.

Even in the thick clothes, Kotohime felt the biting cold wind through the clothes like a razor to wreak havoc on her body. At this time, Qin Ji was really envious of Hayumi, why Hayumi, who was almost twenty years old, was still so strong in spiritual power, even if he didn't borrow the power of the outside world, he couldn't match it.

In the end, Qin Ji is still the same as ordinary people, after the age of fourteen, in the heyday of her own self, Qin Ji's spiritual power is getting weaker and weaker, and it is not as good as before. If you meet that strange bird, Kotohime, I really don't know if I can beat the other party.

After all, Hayumi didn't dare to fight the strange bird when he met it, and the current Kotohime is not as good as Hayumi four years ago.

"Ahh

Jean-hime didn't like to drink, but she followed her boss's advice and brought some hot wine, she opened the water bag and took a sip of wine, and immediately felt the warm liquid flow down her throat into her stomach, but her body did not warm up as expected.

"Mom's fake wine ......" Kotohime, who has lived on the other side of the earth for less than a month, still can't change some of the words she learned when she was there, which causes her to be a little embarrassed when she usually communicates with people.

She took a few more sips of wine and felt her body warm up a little, but it wasn't until she saw that the scene in front of her began to double her eyes that she realized that she had overdrunked.

"Oops...... Drink high......" Kotohime clutched her groggy head and found a tree to sit down, but when Kotohime leaned back, she rolled into it—it turned out that there was a hole under the tree.

Kotohime looked at the hole and looked a little dark, but there was nothing else, and it always felt like the hole was a little familiar......

Kotohime climbed out and observed the tree hole from the outside, and then she remembered - isn't this the hole where the two little leopards she saved before were? The two little leopards had been kept in the village by her grandmother since the last time she returned to the village, and now she didn't know what was going on, she hadn't been back to the village for four years. If it weren't for Zete not letting him take them, Kotohime would have chosen to raise them with her own hands.

Speaking of which, Hayumi had prevented herself from saving the two leopards before, and at that time, Kotohime still felt that Hayumi had no sympathy, but now that she thinks about it, she was still too naïve at the beginning. If there hadn't been Elona at that time, the two little leopards would have starved to death, right?

Reluctantly burrowing back into the hole, Kotohime wanted to take a break in it for a while, but she had just drunk too much and was a little delirious.

In a trance, Kotohime, who had only planned to sit for a while, fell asleep.

In the dream, Kotohime saw Elona, although there was only a back, but it was definitely Elona's fault. Kotohime chased after her, trying to hold Elona, but no matter how much she ran, she couldn't catch up with Elona, she couldn't even make a sound to stop Elona, and her throat seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't speak.

Suddenly, a big bird fell from the sky, and the big bird had an eagle's beak, snake scales, and a rat's tail, wasn't that the monster they had encountered before?

This is...... Dreams? Kotohime knows that this is her own dream, but why did she have this kind of dream? And is it a prophetic dream?

Just when Jean was curious about this, another person appeared in front of her—Zete. Zete stood in front of Kotohime covered in bruises, his head bowed, his mouth slightly open and closed as if he was saying something, but his voice was too small for Kotohime to hear clearly.

"What? Zette, what are you talking about?" asked Jean to Zet.

"Magatama ...... Bird ......" Zet still muttered with her head down, but this time Jean-hime heard it clearly.

"What's wrong with the bird?" "Kotohime was desperate to know what Zet was talking about, and if it was a prophetic dream, if she could give her some hints.

Zet suddenly raised his head, and he stared at Kohime with his bloodshot eyes and shouted, "Run!"

Kotohime, who was awakened by Zete's sudden sound, opened her eyes and saw a huge beak in front of her that was crouching down towards her, and it was the beak of the strange bird! The tree above the hole where Kotohime was hiding had been knocked down by the strange bird, and she was now lying in a large pit.

If you don't escape, you're going to be eaten here! Kotohime hurriedly turned over and crawled out of the pit, and the strange bird wanted to chase after Kotohime when he saw him run away.

Jean looked back and saw that the strange bird had a wound in his right eye, which had been blinded by Zet's pistol.

"I found it at this time! Frightened by this, Kotohime's wine also woke up, and she desperately ran away with her staff, but the speed of the strange bird was not comparable to Kotohime, it was already huge, and it only took a few strides to catch up with Kotohime and block in front of Kotohime.

If it were an ordinary person, it would be certain to die now, but Kotohime is not an ordinary person, she learned from Hayumi how to use her least spiritual power to release the most effective spiritual magic, and in the time she escaped just now, Kotohime let the spiritual power spread throughout her body, thus connecting with the spiritual power in this forest.

"Ice!" Kotohime's favorite offensive spirit technique is the Ice Arrow, and if you use fire in this ice and snow forest, the damage will be reduced, and the Ice Arrow is the most suitable offensive spirit art.

An ice arrow shot at the strange bird, the strange bird quickly dodged away, it didn't expect that this seemingly weak human would also have the ability to resist, it was not stupid and began to be alert to Kotohime.

It lost its right eye because of its carelessness, and since then it has been very careful when attacking humans, and if the situation is not right, it will temporarily abandon the prey in front of it, this guy is a cunning hunter.

Kotohime took a few steps back, and when the strange bird saw this, he was about to move forward, but Kotohime suddenly waved his staff and frightened the strange bird, and the strange bird quickly jumped back. The scene looks very funny, both sides are afraid of each other, and the strange bird will never dare to act rashly until he has figured out the strength of the other party.

What should I do? What should I do now? If this stalemate continues, if the other party suddenly attacks, she will definitely be killed, and Kotohime is thinking about how to escape. Now she can only escape, she doesn't have the ability to defeat the bird.

By the way, what did Zet say in the dream just now?

Kotohime touched the piece of magatama hanging around her neck, which was given to Kotohime by Dela two years ago, and she said that if she wore this magata, she might have a chance to find the "door" in the future, in order to give Kotohime a chance to return to the world over there, Dera gave this treasure of the demon royal family to Kotohime - after all, this magatama is of no use to Dela.

Kotohime took the piece of magatama off and held it in her hand, if that dream was a reminder to herself, then what use could it be if she used it now?

But how do you use it? When you throw a stone? What should you do if you don't use throwing it? There were so few hints from Zete in the dream that Kotohime didn't know what to do.

Wouldn't it? Do you really want to die here today? Is it true that Gu Shuo said that he would die two years ago? Did he die in the mouth of this strange bird? I didn't expect that my final end would be to become bird feed.

No, no, there's still a chance...... Things shouldn't end here, Gu Shuo said that the karma between himself and Ilona has not come to an end, and he has not reunited with Ilona now, so he will definitely not die here.

"You unreliable ancestor, I will believe in your so-called fate!" Qin Ji threw the piece of magatama in her hand at the strange bird, she had no other way to go now, she could only risk her life, "If I die here today, even if I become a ghost, I will settle accounts with you!"

The magatama flew towards the strange bird, it was not a hidden weapon, and the flight speed belonged to the level that even a child could dodge, but the only remaining left eye of the strange bird was staring at the magatama in the air like that, and the body couldn't move a bit.

Magatama arced through the air like that, and ended up falling on the strange bird's head.

Nothing happened, and Kotohime was expecting something to happen, but the truth was that nothing happened.

Oops...... I'm really going to die here...... There is only one thought in her mind now.

However, just as Kotohime thought so, the magatama suddenly burst out of light and enveloped the strange bird and Kotohime, and then Magatama floated and slowly spun in the air. Kotohime and the strange bird both stared at the piece of magatama, which turned faster and faster, and finally formed a circle, and the circle expanded rapidly, and the purple vortex was the "door"!

What is the principle of this? Could it be that after touching something that does not belong to this world, that Magatama will open the "door" and send the other person back to the original world? Although I don't know what this is all about, Kotohime knows that the "door" in front of her can send her to another world, and as for whether that world is the earth or not, and whether she can see Ilona, this needs to be found out.

So Kotohime waved his staff and blew a gust of wind to send himself into the air, and the strange bird saw this, and quickly jumped up and knocked Kotohime away in the air, and rushed into the "door" himself.

The huge body of the strange bird was sucked in by the vortex, and disappeared like this, and Kotohime quickly got up from the ground and tried to enter the "door" again, but she was still a step too late after all, and the "door" disappeared after the strange bird entered, and only the piece of magatama fell.

Kotohime looked at the magatama on the snow in a daze, everything was over, and she didn't even have this last chance.

This magatama can open a "door", but it must touch an existence that does not belong to this world, and it can only pass through one person at a time, or it can be opened for a limited time.

Now, Kotohime has lost her last chance......

Kotohime picked up Magatama, now she was in complete despair, the last "door" was closed, and she had completely lost the way to go to Earth.

Could it be that the karma is not over, this is just Gu Shuo deceiving himself? Is there really no way for him to see Ilona again?

No one knew what Jean was thinking, only a lonely man lying in the snow, and the heart-rending cries echoing through the forest.

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Kamui Village,

The original hero Langum no longer cares about the affairs of the mainland, his daily hobby is to move a rattan chair to sit at the entrance of the village and eat melon seeds, from time to time to tell the children in the village about his heroic deeds, and then his wife said "blind". The position of village chief has also been given to his son Zephyr, and Rangum is now a retired old man.

The only thing on Longum's mind now is that the eldest granddaughter Qinhime, who has been away from home for six years, has not come back yet, and obviously two years ago I could hear some rumors about her, but now there is basically no news of her. Although Rumum felt that his granddaughter was not so easy to get into trouble, but after two years of no news, anyone would be worried. Although Langum is a big hero of the continent, he was also a human before that, a girl's grandfather.

The reason why Langum sat at the entrance of the village every day was also so that he could ask him if he knew anything about his granddaughter when someone came to the village. Of course, what he is looking forward to more is that the first person he can see when his granddaughter comes back is himself.

And early this morning, Langum sat at the entrance of the village as usual and munched melon seeds, which has become a habit, and has also become a magnificent scenery in Kamuyi Village - a ruffian old man sits at the entrance of the village all day long and eats melon seeds. Then take a sip of tea and continue to sip, in the past two years, the village of Kamuyi has become the largest melon seed buying place in the neighborhood, and whenever there are good melon seeds, someone will send them here to sell. And every time the merchant just arrived at the entrance of the village, the old man would point to the other party and say, "Keep the melon seeds, how much is the money and ask the village chief." ”

Longum lifted the tea to take a sip and continued to eat melon seeds, just then he saw a figure appear on the horizon in the distance. The man was wearing a long robe, and his face was covered by a hat so that he couldn't see his face clearly, but his height looked like he was about 1.6 meters, and even from such a distance, Langum could still visually detect the height of the other party.

Rangum didn't care, just a passing traveler, after all, his granddaughter Kotohime was not very tall, and he naturally thought that this person was not his granddaughter.

When the man got closer and closer, and finally came to Lang Um, Lang Um still sipped melon seeds and smiled at the man, "Welcome to Kamui Village, stranger. ”

"Outlander?" the voice sounded like a woman's, and it wasn't until she pulled down her hat that Rangum could see the man's face, "What are you talking about, grandpa, it's me, Jean-hime." ”

Rangum rolled over and fell off the wicker chair, he looked at the girl in front of him, who was only half a head shorter than himself, and said in surprise: "Jean-hime, is it Jean-hime? Are you back? Why have you grown so big, my good granddaughter, are you finally back!"

Rangum excitedly hugged Jean into his arms, this child who had not seen him for six years had grown into such a beautiful girl, Rangum was pleased: "Good granddaughter, you miss grandpa, why don't you want to come back for the past six years? Do you want to worry about us to die?"

Jean Ji said, "Grandpa, I know you're worried about me, I'm sorry...... But can you please stop rubbing my ass with your hand?"