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"Betty will teach you how to control the power in your right eye, and you......

- Must be killed when Betty is out of control...... Betty! ”

The sound echoed through the small space, as if the person making the sound was getting farther and farther away, and the voice became softer and softer until it disappeared.

Uchiha Kaede was silent.

Maybe it's because of the loneliness in it, or maybe it's because of the sadness in it.

The crystallized lamps in the forbidden library flickered white and fell on his slightly immature cheeks, but the gloom on them was not something it could remove.

Seeing him like this, like mockery, and like grief, the girl spoke out with such emotions:

"What do you look like...

Are you pitying Betty!?

I don't know how many people like you Betty has seen in 400 years!

”

Beatrice is an ancient elf with great power in her own right, and she has seen many people in the past four hundred years, including some who have found and opened the door to the forbidden library.

Every time the door to the forbidden library was opened, she would sit on a stool in front of it, as if waiting for something.

But hope, desire, and expectation are nothing in the face of time!

Day after day, I waited for "that person" who didn't know what face, didn't know height and weight, didn't know what race, didn't know gender.

In the end, four hundred years have passed in a hurry, which may seem like just a few words to others, but for Beatrice, in this small space, a lonely wait day and night, every minute and every second is too long.

The deep disappointment has long been imprinted in her heart, and the fact that "that person" will not come to her own subconscious has long been recognized by herself.

Now, for Beatrice, the meaning of life is nothing more than the contract she made with her by the mother who created her.

To end it all, but to end oneself with one's own hands would mean breaking the contract with one's mother.

For the elf of the immortal Beatrice, it is okay to wait a few hundred more years.

But if she doesn't wait for the so-called "that person", there will always be a day when she can't suppress the spirit that has already reached the limit.

A long period of loneliness, living is just a shell, and that result is too cruel for her.

Maybe it has something to do with Parker, who was also an artificial spirit created by his mother, and Parker has found the most important person to him.

No one could match Emilia's place in Parker's heart.

When Parker arrives and declares that she has found the most important person in her, Beatrice is both happy and deeply disappointed.

The people she knew slowly left her one by one, and even her brother would only follow the girl, and she became a lonely person again.

The elder brother who had forgotten his mother, a friend who had passed away four hundred years ago, was the only one who kept Beatrice alive now was the man who didn't know the face and didn't know anything.

She was afraid that one day she would not be able to suppress the jealousy in her heart, and that she would cause harm to the half-elf girl named Emilia.

As long as it continues, the emotions will definitely get out of control, this is the conclusion that Beatrice came to when she saw Parker interacting with the girl, and the sudden feelings in her heart.

In the course of 400 years, Beatrice gained not only all the knowledge in the forbidden library, but also the concealment of her own emotions.

I don't want to see the sad face of my brother who is close to me when I hurt the girl.

But his own great power has only become a shackle.

Beatrice knew that her brother could not resist her with the strength that the girl had achieved.

When my brother told him that there was someone who wanted to learn magic from him, he just thought that he was just doing the same thing as those who used to be, just for himself...... It's just your own strength.

But when I really saw him, I realized that he was just a person like myself.

The difference is that you can only wait here!

There was an inexplicable emotion in her heart that pushed her to reach out to Uchiha Kaede, perhaps because it was also the emotion in her heart.

So she proposed such a contract to Kaede Uchiha.

Beatrice's sad expression fell into the eyes of Uchiha Kaede, according to her own values, according to her own understanding of herself, it should not have made any waves, it should have been like this, but

- Why?

- My heart hurts!

Inexplicable emotions appeared in the bottom of his heart, and when he saw the girl's appearance, his heart was as if he was touched by an unknown existence, and his whole body was trembling.

Pushed by that unknown emotion, Uchiha Kaede spoke, and even he didn't know what he said, but he saw the girl with the golden spiral double ponytail show surprise and say something, but after hesitating for a moment, he slowly walked towards him with his head down.

A very small hand grasped his right hand and raised it slowly, slowly.

The palms of the big hand and the small hand are facing each other, and the five fingers are clasped between each other's fingers one by one.

White particles that shimmered around the two of them appeared, little by little, little by little.

Before I had time to sigh for this scene, I heard a voice from my chest:

"—grant your wish, and conclude a contract in the name of Beatrice."

Inexplicable things appeared in the bottom of my heart, I don't know what it is, but the mood at this time is clear-

- Unbelievable......

- I would......

The glowing particles slowly vanished, and Beatrice opened the eyes she had just closed when she had signed the contract.

A calm cheek appeared in front of him, as if he had just done nothing.

After giving Uchiha Kaede a bland look, she slowly walked towards the bench, sat down and raised her head again, staring at Uchiha Kaede with an indifferent gaze.

As soon as you open your mouth, you want to fulfill the contract or something...

"Human, what do you want Betty to teach you!?

”

Hearing Beatrice ask, Uchiha Kaede sighed and stopped worrying about the questions in his heart.

Remembering that he didn't know even the most basic about magic, he said:

"You can teach me how to control Mana first, and by the way, talk about the basic ...... of magic."

Beatrice couldn't help but frown her lovely brow when she heard this:

"You even know your own attributes, how can you not even control Mana?"

Uchiha Kaede shrugged his shoulders, when Parker guided out Mana in his body, he didn't feel anything, just a slight movement in his right eye.

When he first touched it, nothing happened, but when his hand shook slightly, Mana suddenly went viral.

What can I do, I'm desperate. The baby is bitter, but the baby can't say it......

When watching anime, Subaru's gauze is slippery, but when it comes to himself, he can't control it......

Uchiha Kaede looked at Beatrice's furrowed brow and laughed dryly, and said:

"Maybe it's Mana too much?"

"—It's just that you're terrible, Betty has mana many times more than you do!

”

Uchiha Kaede pursed his lips, noncommittal to Beatrice's answer, and he walked to the nearest bookshelf, looking at the titles of the magic books placed inside, dizzy.

It's just graffiti, no, it's uglier than graffiti......

Kaede Uchiha:

"-Knowledge and so on, you'll teach me!?"

Beatrice: "What did you think Betty was for?"

- Humans! Do you need Betty to read it out for you!? ”

Kaede Uchiha: "Repeater!?" So you still have these features......"

Beatrice: "Looks like I didn't teach you how to deal with noble beings!" ”

Uchiha Kaede stretched out his right hand, pulled out a magic book from the bookshelf in front of him, and then slowly opened it, staring at the book with his eyes, and said to Beatrice without looking back:

"Oooh...... Forgive me for poking in the lower eye, I didn't see the so-called noble existence......

- Oh!

That's right...... Lori has one!

”

Beatrice gritted her teeth, pursed her lips, and squinted at Uchiha Kaede:

"Lori? I don't know what it's called! Betty will teach you some magic, as for other things......

- Betty allows you to view some of the books in the Forbidden Library, only those designated by Betty, of course! Just take your time from there!

”

Uchiha Kaede twitched when he heard Beatrice's words.

Looking around the forbidden library, I saw that there must be more than 10,000 books if not 103,000 books......

Looking for something from those words that look like turtles crawling? Are you sure you're not kidding me......

And there is a serious problem......

Uchiha Kaede raised his hand, looked at Beatrice with a serious expression, and said:

"-Well, what if it's illiterate......"

"—......?"