The entrance to the room of the tower crab at number 2203.

Ta Crab pushed open the door: "Kao, I've got you the person you want." ”

The door opened, and Kao saw a woman with blue hair and a shawl, a delicate but pale and tired face. She looked nervous and kept shaking her right foot. Behind her stood a man with a bowed head and a deferential expression.

"This woman is Zet Runa?" Kao walked into the room and asked about the tower crab.

"Yes."

"The Zete family has already made contact, right?"

"We've been contacted."

Kao nodded slightly and walked over to Runa.

"Hello, I'm Kao." Kao smiled, trying to be as kind as possible.

"Hello Lord Kao, Lord Ta Crab, may I ask you why you came to me this time?" Runa immediately turned her head to look at the tower crab after saying hello, and could see the anxiety in her eyes.

Kao cupped Runa's face and turned to himself, "Don't look at him, I'm the one who came to you this time." ”

“…… Yes, what is the matter with Lord Kao? Runa was startled, and her body couldn't help but tremble.

"Do you want to be free?" There was a hint of bewilderment in Kao's voice.

"Freedom?" Runa looked at Kao, her mind flashing back to her time with the Zet family, then the attack by the Bkhenpo, then the hunt, the captivity, the abuse, the forced contract......

Runa's right hand unconsciously stretched out to her neck, her eyes became dark, and a sense of powerlessness rose from her heart: "Runa is not free......"

"I have a way to set you free, would you like to try?"

Kao's hand caressed Runa's smooth and delicate neck: it was a strange thing. It cannot be seen, it cannot be touched, and it will not be revealed until the contents of the contract have been violated. It is necessary to burn the shackles and make them manifest.

Runa's face flushed slightly, and she could see a hint of anticipation: "You have a way?!" ”

Immediately showing a hint of pain, she reached out and grabbed Kao's hand, "I'm sorry, I don't want to. ”

Kao was stunned, and immediately thought of something: "You are not allowed to ask others for help, is this also the content of the contract?" ”

Runa's eyes widened instantly, and she looked at Kao and nodded.

"So you're willing to try?" Kao thinks things might go better than he thought.

There was no answer, but Kao could see Runa's desire.

"Disobey it!" Kao's eyes turned fiery red, and he looked straight into Runa's eyes.

"Disobedience?" Runa frowned slightly.

"Yes, the shackles can only be destroyed if they appear." Kao nodded.

"No !!" Runa's face instantly stiffened, and endless fear crept out, instantly pushing Kao's hand away.

"You want to kill me!"

"You just want to kill me, as long as this shackle appears, it is impossible to stop again!"

"I never want to!"

"I don't want to die...... Yes...... Ah......h......h

"......" Kao looked at Runa. This was to be expected, as the man under the yoke, Kao had already learned from the tower crab. Runa has seen many people like herself who have tried to break the shackles, but in the end they have died weakly.

"Monthly Reading ......"

……

Runa's consciousness flashed.

"What?"

Runa felt that her head was too heavy to lift, and she could only vaguely see the dirty and dark ground, and felt the coldness coming from her surroundings.

Before she could figure out what was happening, Runa felt a sudden sharp pain in her head, and looked up to find the Khenpo grabbing her hair: "Zet Runa, from now on, you are my Khenpo's man." ”

With that, Khenpo flung him hard, and Runa fell down with her chair and slammed into the walls of the prison.

Runa suddenly thought of something, and her hands instantly stretched out to her neck and touched the desperate coldness: "Shackles, I'm coming back again?" ”

"How so? Obviously ......" Runa suddenly felt a tingling pain in her head and had to stop remembering.

"Smack!" Just as Runa was about to sort out her situation, there was a strong crashing sound from the iron door next to her.

Runa turned her head to look and found a man lying on the iron fence moaning and calling for help: "Ah...... Save me! Save me! ”

With just a glance, Runa saw the shackles around his neck, and the cold Grim Reaper dragged him into hell little by little, and she knew that it was death that she could not resist......

"Help me! Save me!!! Please......" The man stretched out his hand through the gap between the bars, his face hideous, and fear overflowed with his tears.

Runa stretched her hand to her neck again, and the shackles were gone: "It's true, time has been reshaped, and I'm back again......" This realism made Runa have to believe it.

"But so what?" Runa ignored the man, she tried, it was just a useless struggle. Sit with your back against the corner, curl up and bury your head.

"Mom...... Brother ...... "Gradually, Runa fell asleep.

……

Opening her eyes again, she saw the white ceiling and felt a hint of familiarity for some reason.

Shaking her head, Runa sat up with her body propped up, finally knowing where she was.

"Home? I'm home!? How so? Runa looked at everything familiar around her, the wardrobe that was labeled by herself, the pink TV that she was reluctant to discard, and the graffiti she scribbled on the wall when she was a child.

Runa's hand reached to the side of the bed and picked up the bear that her father had given her when she was a child, and a wave of acidity surged to her nose: "Really...... I am back. ”

"Click." The door was pushed open, and a woman dressed in fine clothes entered. Behind him, followed by an old man dressed strangely like a witch.

"Mom!" Runa lifted the quilt and ran towards the woman, hugging her.

"Runa." The woman hugged Runa and stroked her head.

"Thank you for your hard work, it's okay......"

"Mom, what the hell is going on?" Runa looked up at the kind and gentle face.

The woman helped Runa to sit on the bed: "You were captured, there was a housekeeper who escaped, he followed you all the way and knew where you were captured, and then returned to the family and told us. ”

"Your brother took advantage of Khenpo's inattention to lead people to attack Dongshi and rescued you."

"That's great...... "Runa hugged the woman again, then looked at the strange witch next to her.

"Mom, who is she?"

"Hunters' Guild remover, do you remember when you were given a chant by the Khenpo?" The woman stroked Runa's head.

Like a frightened rabbit, Runa hurriedly touched her neck: "Yes, it's still there!" ”

The old witch came to Runa: "Don't be afraid, little girl. ”

"Mimi Mama Gura Gula ......" Then without waiting for Runa to resist, the old witch waved the bone staff in her hand and chanted a spell that no one could understand, and then tapped it on Runa's neck.

Suddenly the white light was flourishing, and Runa felt the shackles around her neck turn into substance, and the cold feeling instantly made Runa frightened: "No, don't, Mom......"

"It's okay, it's okay, she's the strongest remover in the Hunters Guild." The woman squeezed Runa's hand and comforted.

Slowly, the shackles grew bigger and bigger, so big that Runa could see what they looked like.

The old witch's eyes opened violently, grabbed the shackles, took them out of Runa's neck, and shouted: "Broken! ”

The shackles, which were the source of Runa's fear, shattered in front of Runa's eyes, turning into white light and disappearing completely.

"All right, woman, when the remembrance is over, it is time for the old body to go." The old witch tapped her on the back, and she didn't look nervous at all, as if this was just a routine for her.

"Thank you, thank you!" Runa watched the shackles shatter with her own eyes, and the boulder in her heart disappeared, only to feel that her whole person was loose. Runa understood why she was going back in time. Then he lay down on the bed.

The woman covered Runa with a quilt: "Alright, let's rest." ”

"Yes!"

Runa closed her eyes, a smile on her face.