bgm：Rachmaninov op.18

"Here, tea. ”

“。。 Well. ”

The intact laboratory, with its walls and bottom still covered with large swaths of thick metal, the same as it had been before it was destroyed.

Magpie was making tea for the two who were sitting quietly.

Lily silently took the small white porcelain teacup with both hands, the hot white mist rose, and the warm feeling couldn't help but make her eyes moist, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Yes...

Magpie's tea.

It's so warm.

Thinking about it, he buried his head again, huddled in his snow-white winter clothes, and tried to hide himself.

There is an indescribable cuteness in that futile appearance.

Lily is so aggrieved.

I want to die.

But

The tea is so warm.

The bell on the side was sipping transparent tea with a calm expression.

With a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, relaxed and pleasant.

His eyes were lowered and he was looking inside the teacup, as if he was watching some interesting story.

Turning around to put the tea set away, Magpie looked at his cheap apprentice seriously.

"Hmm... ”

"Sure enough, you still have a penchant for being abused. Well, the same as before. ”

"W-"

"Don't worry, I don't think it's okay. ”

Magpie smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care.

Think about the "battle scene" between the two just now, I believe everyone will think so.

"Can you not smile so softly, otherwise Lily feels so pitiful... ”

The girl continued to shrink into her snow-white clothes, her sad eyes secretly opening outward

"Well, Lily has tried. ”

Magpie sat down beside the apprentice and gently rubbed her hair.

Well, it feels good.

"Master。。 ”

Lily was stunned for a moment, and then her strong expression instantly collapsed, and she subconsciously threw herself into Magpie's arms.

Then the latter took the hand and pulled him up from the chair.

“。。 Huh?"

"Mm-hmm, it looks like you're connected. ”

Magpie smiled and dragged the unknown girl towards the experimental table.

"Then it's time to work. ”

"Huh... Wait a minute.. Huh?"

"What's wrong?"

"No, shouldn't all normal scenes be tight~ hug me tightly, right?"

"Of course not, girl. ”

Magpie turned around, with a look of course on his face, and reached out to point to the curvature of the corpse soaked in the white flocculent.

"Alas... ”

He sighed pretentiously.

"Think about it, why are you here, to fight—to be beaten?"

"No. No. ”

"Is it to come to drink tea and spend your old age?"

"Like... Isn't that right?"

"What's that for?"

"It's for the magpie—"

"That's right. ”

Magpie interrupted her directly, stepped forward and grabbed her shoulders.

The girl's cheeks instantly turned pink.

The boy's face was close enough to close her, as if he would kiss her in the next moment.

Magpie looked her straight in the eyes earnestly, and his eyes were as gentle and kind as a priest's.

"It's for work. ”

"Yes. . . Is that so?"

"Yes, you don't come here for anything else, you come here to work for me, to complete your tasks and avoid your life being wasted!"

"But Lily won't die. ”

"That's a waste, too!

"Think about why you were beaten, not because you wasted an infinite amount of life!"

"Even at the same time, someone else is doing something meaningful – like assisting me in an experiment – and you're playing and you're being beaten. ”

"You were beaten today, and you will still be beaten tomorrow, even if you like to be treated roughly, you will occasionally want to be anti-guest, right?!"

"Hah. The girl nodded stunned, echoing Magpie's statement.

"Then as long as I do my job, can I win against her?"

"I don't promise, but if I don't, there's no hope. ”

"It seems to make some sense. ”

——— "Goo. Hehehe. Hahaha~"

Suzune, who was watching the play, heard Lily's answer, and almost squirted out a mouthful of tea, and after swallowing it hard, he let out a series of exaggerated laughter without concealment.

"But why is she laughing?"

Lily tilted her head.

Magpie hurriedly turned his head and glanced at the ring.

In front of the apprentices of the same psychic ability, it seems to be self-deceptive to use the same tone network.

"Because the tea I make is delicious. ”

"Uh-huh, yes. ”

Lily nodded happily.

This kid is unexpectedly so deceitful...

Magpie couldn't help but think of Suzune's evaluation of Lily.

- "As long as it is a magpie's request, she will agree to anything." ”

Whatever I say, I'll want to believe it, right?

Inexplicable guilt and. . .

Not...

Stop, stop, think about me.

Magpie shook his head and looked at Lily again earnestly.

"Anyway, now it's up to Lily!

"Yes!"

The girl saluted along with the atmosphere, a little excited.

"So—" Magpie led the girl to the mutilated and blurred corpse.

"Tell me that the causal line in this person points and pick out the people who are in the focus. ”

Also, if there is something that is not a human or a "god", remember to focus on it. ”

"This... People?"

The girl blinked, a little confused.

"What does it have to do with the master?"

"It doesn't matter. ”

Magpie pursed his lips disdainfully, with a look of disgust.

"How could I have anything to do with this scum? ”

After saying that, he seemed to feel that it was not enough.

"Well, scum, scum, scum!"

“@￥@%#￥#￥&...... ￥&￥......”

Duration.

Knowing nothing, I don't know whether I am dead or alive, and I have endured all kinds of strange abuse.

The girl looked at her master and blinked again.

"Hmm... Master. ”

"It's a bit strange to say that, but don't you really have any special relationship with him?

“。。 Let's just take a little bit. ”

"Well, this person seems to have a deep obsession with the master. ”

"That's not the level of respect and worship anymore. ”

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "faith". That's right, this person is a believer in the master. ”

"Cut, slag... And then, is there anything else?"

"And there's that... Let me see. ”

"His loved ones. Dead unrelated. ”

"I see.,School people?"

"Although the specific identity can't be read, it can be roughly sorted out. ”

"It doesn't seem like there's anything particularly important. Except for the master's words. Wait, what's this?"

The girl was slightly stunned.

"Light?"

"This woman. . . I'm a little impressed. ”

"No, wait. ”

As she spoke, Lily's eyes narrowed, looking more and more confused and puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

"Master. ”

The girl paused.

"There is the autumn god, and in his body there is the residual breath of power of the candle flame candidate, the thread of cause and effect. ”

"It's the one we know. ”

"And... That's a deep obsession. ”

Probably until he died, he kept such a strong longing, so he became "this" like this. ”