Chapter 17: Marina's Pain
After surviving death in the sewers, Marina never recovered. When she woke up, she saw a filthy ceiling - she hadn't been abducted and sold, just in the tavern of Rat Passage, where the rooms were hardly any better. And when she opened her eyes, it wasn't anyone else, but Ekou, which made her feel more at ease. Eko is a somewhat naïve young man, but with someone like him, he really doesn't need to worry about his own safety.
The first thing Marina does when she wakes up asks Luluna where she is, but gets no answer, and Eko is silent. Although she knew in her heart that she was probably unlucky, Marina did not give up and went to find Shortaxe and Chris, who were drinking outside. Nor did she get the answer she wanted, but a crisper, more brutal response: Lulunaka was left in the sewers. As for Lulunaka's life and death, no one present at the time thought that she would survive.
After that, Marina forgot how she had left the rat path. After separating from the two mercenaries who had been with them for a while, she and Eko left the rat path together and returned to the clean and quiet world outside—as it should be, but the starry sky turned blue, and the night in the King's Castle was really not peaceful. After parting from a somewhat apprehensive Ekou, Marina returned to her accommodation, a clean and modest inn room, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the King's Castle. In such a place, she can stay for a while for very little money, so that her pockets can be more generous.
That night, Marina didn't close her eyes. Lulunaka's death made her feel terrible, and then the blue starry sky outside, and the blue candle flame in the room, which could not be extinguished, made her feel very uncomfortable, her body burned so badly, her veins seemed to be filled with boiling hot water, and her skin tingled, and touching it was like slashing a knife on it.
In the days since she returned, Marina has not left the hotel. Eko came to visit her, she dealt with him as usual, Eko didn't see any change in her, and left happily every time. But when he leaves, Marina returns to the same way she was the night she came back from the underground.
Marina has seen many deaths, but Lulunaka's death shocked her a lot. Lulunaka didn't die in front of her eyes, but Lulunaka died because of her. Hatchet said that in the underground world, death can happen at any time, and a person like Lulunaka who volunteered to go underground should be ready to be enlightened.
In retrospect, Marina realizes that Lulunaka was indeed ready to come to her senses, and it was Marina and Ikeo who didn't take it seriously. She thought that everything would be under her control, and it was not difficult to protect a little girl like Lulunaka - the end result was that Lulunaka died because of Marina, and she Marina was still alive.
This is definitely not what Marina wants to see. She remembered that Lulunaka had gone to the sewers for her uncle, but when she got the glowing moss, she didn't survive to return to the ground, and instead died there in place of Marina.
Marina didn't want to die in the King's Castle, but when someone died because of her, or even died in her place, her heart became so confused that she didn't know what to do next. She thinks she has to do something for Lulunaka, or she won't be able to get over it—at least for Lulunaka's family. However, she didn't know where Lulunaka's family was, and it was too difficult to find Lulunaka's family just because she was a resident of the Rat Road.
She decides to use the power of the arcane to find Lulunaka's trail in the King's Castle. I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, but she has a piece of Lulunaka's clothes in her hand, which may have been ripped off when she last touched Lulunaka, and the moment of separation became the distance between life and death.
It's not too difficult to track down a person using divination spells, it's the hard thing to find that person accurately, not a meaningless range. Marina wasn't good at this kind of astrological spell, but she felt that the blue sky made her feel that she didn't have the usual power, so she decided to try it and find Lulunaka's family.
A few days later, she stood in front of Luna's cauldron. The shop was also in the remote part of the King's Castle, and if she hadn't come here based on the traces of the spell left on the map, she might not have had a chance to come here until she left the King's Castle.
It's a shop where you don't see people coming to visit, and you don't see customers coming here in such a remote place. Marina stood across from the entrance of the store, looking at it from afar. It wasn't a rat road, but the spell had brought her here, and she didn't understand why it was this place, which was very different from what Lulunaka had said.
Marina, who had all kinds of ideas in her heart, finally walked into the store. When she entered, she saw the goods on the exhibition table and display shelves in the store, which were all strange things, and the actual function and function could not be seen. At the back of the merchandise, a middle-aged man with a big beard sits behind the counter and is drinking tea.
"It's so rare that there are guests here. Pasta, a middle-aged man, saw a guest who he had never seen coming here, and turned his head to Marina's side, "If there's anything that catches your eye, just ask me...... Don't move, you might be in danger. ”
Marina didn't come to buy alchemy products, and the things that were put on display really didn't see the use. "Do you know a girl named Lulunaka?" Marina asked Pasta, who had already asked this in many places in the past few days, and it was not difficult to say it again.
Pasta put the teacup down and stroked his beard with a thoughtful look, "Where did you know the name Lulunaka?"
Seeing Pasta's reaction, Marina suddenly had a hope that was almost extinguished, "She...... She's my friend. Marina replied, "I want to find her family." ”
"Lulunaka's family. Pasta looked at Marina, and the look made Marina feel a little hairy. If she's not mistaken, the person in front of her is probably Lulunaka's family, and maybe even her uncle - but Lulunaka is a resident of the Rat Path, she shouldn't be living on the ground, and didn't she say that her uncle was seriously injured?
While Marina was still thinking about things, Pasta shouted inside, "Lulunaka, you're here." ”
With an expression of disbelief on her face, Marina saw Lulunaka appear in front of her.
"Hello guest, do I know you?" said Lulunaka with a smile to Marina.