"I started to get scared, I started crying, I started wanting to go back anyway."

"But when I was wandering around the mountains and getting lost, before I knew it, I was turned to a mass grave near our village."

"It's a very old mass grave, and if someone dies in the village, they're buried here. In addition to the people in the village, it seems that there are a lot of people buried here. I don't know exactly when this mass grave was formed, I only know that the number of tombstones in that place combined is more than the number of people in our village. ”

"That day, I was crying and walking at the same time, I was so tired. I happened to see a shed on the side of the mass grave that was set up to guard the grave, and I stayed in that shed that night. ”

"I'll never forget that night, and all night long, I seemed to hear someone talking in my ear, and I felt cold, dark, and everything around me seemed so horrible...... As soon as I closed my eyes, I could feel some shadows start walking around me. But as soon as I open my eyes, everything around me will be quiet again......"

"Now that I think about it, that should be the time when I awakened to the magic of death...... But for me, who was only five or six years old at the time, it was a horrible feeling......"

Coco paused slightly, and after letting his thoughts ease for a moment, continued-

Early the next morning, I hurried back to my mountain village along the road I remembered. But when I entered our small village, I saw everyone yelling at me. ”

"They were afraid of me and avoided me, and some villagers even fainted in fear."

"It wasn't until I turned around that I realized that some corpses who had been dead for I don't know how many years had come out of the mass grave with me and into our village with me."

"At the time, I was terrified."

"The villagers are also very scared."

"When I got home, my parents didn't scold me, but looked at me in fear like the villagers, and kept protecting my younger brother, shouting at me to leave, standing as far away as possible."

Napa couldn't bear it a little at this time, and said, "So what? Did you leave home? ”

Coco smiled slightly bitterly and said, "Vice President, this joke is too big. Where did a five- or six-year-old girl come from to be so bold to run away from home after being scolded by her parents? ”

Napa pursed her lips and nodded slightly.

Coco continued—

"On that day, I was squatting outside our house, crying and apologizing to my mom and dad. And those corpses continued to surround me, not to mention my parents, even I was scared at that time, and I didn't even dare to move. ”

"I was hungry all day, and at night, I was so hungry that I couldn't even cry. I was leaning against the fence of our house, curled up, not knowing how this would end. ”

"Then, because it was evening, the people of the village had to cook even if they were afraid of me. I could smell the aromas starting to waft from other people's homes, and I thought, if only I could eat a little. ”

"As you know, I'm a death magic affinity, so the dead corpses who followed me at the time also understood my mind and began to walk towards the leader's house. At first I thought they were finally leaving, but they entered the neighbor's house, and after some screaming from the neighbor's house, they came back to me with some bread and water, and placed them in front of me. ”

"Well...... Children, they stayed with me all day without hurting me, and they brought me something to eat when I was hungry, so I gradually stopped being afraid of them. At that time, the neighbors were standing far away, watching me eat their food, but they did not dare to come up to me. For a while, I was a little happy, eating, and my mood seemed to be a little better. ”

"But, maybe it's because my emotions have stabilized a bit, and the death magic on those dead bodies has been unraveled in an instant."

"That evening, I made it back to my house without any problems. And then...... I was scolded by my parents and pressed to apologize to my next-door neighbor. I also thought that this would not happen again, and it would not be long before I was able to get back to my old life. I secretly promised that I would never leave my brother alone to play again. ”

"But...... It's clear that something like this doesn't end there. ”

"From that day on, I realized that I could have some unique 'toys'. I just have to touch something that's dead and it'll be able to move again. My favorite thing to do is when my mother kills a chicken for the Holy Eve sacrifice and I sneak in and touch it, and I get happy to see the chicken that has been stripped naked, its head chopped off, and its belly has been cut open. The happiest thing was that my mother was taken aback. ”

"I started deliberately killing small animals, like catching a bug, stomping on it, and then touching it. So that the worm will listen to me, and it will go wherever I want it to go. ”

"Gradually, I stopped being content with bugs. I wanted something bigger. Once I went to play alone in the mountains and saw a rabbit caught in a trap. The rabbit was still alive, and without the slightest hesitation, I picked up a rock and stoned it to death, and then touched its body. Miraculously, the rabbit, whose head was already bloody, got up again and began to jump home with me. ”

"That night, my parents were scared. I also remember that from that time on, the way they looked at me had changed a little, no longer the kind of reprimanding look, but a kind of ...... Panicked eyes. ”

"Because my parents stopped caring about me from that time, and they almost avoided me every day, I was even more unattended. Then, I started hiding a pocket knife around me whenever and wherever I wanted. It's not because I want to use this knife for self-defense or anything, but as long as I have this knife, I can make those little animals who don't listen to me and don't play with me become good children who listen to me anytime and anywhere. And my mom and dad didn't say anything to me after they knew that I had this knife hidden next to me, but moved away from me, so I felt that there was nothing wrong with carrying such a knife. ”

"I'm a little tired of playing with dead rabbits, so I want to kill one of our chickens."

"When the chickens were completely rotten and smelly, and they couldn't even walk well, I started to focus on my neighbor's dog. Because the neighbor's dog would yell involuntarily every time he saw me, and I hated it a little bit at that time. ”

"It just so happened that the dog had several puppies at that time, so I crawled to the neighbor's house one night, rushed in with a knife I had stolen from the house, and stabbed the dog in the head at once."

"The dog struggled for a while and then died, so I picked it up and saw a couple of puppies lying on their stomachs. I didn't hesitate, one by one, all of them were stabbed. Then I petted the dogs again and got them back on their feet. ”

"I was really happy to see them, especially when the big stopped yelling at me when they saw me, but licked my face with great joy. At that time, I really thought that as long as they didn't like me and hated me, then I only needed to slash them in the neck with a knife, and then touch them, and they would not hate me, but would be very close to me and be friends with me. ”

Although, all that is heard now is something that has been going on for several years now.

But as these words came out of Coco's mouth, Arrow couldn't help but shudder.

Napa exhaled a little and said slowly, "Since ancient times, a large part of necromancers have been classified as freaks and unapproachable by ordinary people, and many times it is because of this situation. ”

Arrow nodded slightly, reached out and stroked Coco's head, and said with love and pity, "No one taught the necromancer when he was a child what to do and what not to do. Young children may not be able to tell the line between death and life very well. Especially when the young necromancer discovers that it doesn't matter if he kills someone, he can use his power to make the dead move again, and his sense of life and death will be even more blurred. Over time, they will naturally become what people call terrible evil magicians who have no respect for the living. ”

Feeling the warm palm of Arrow's hand, the smile on Coco's face became brighter. She raised her hands and also covered the hands of the elder brother, her cheeks flushed slightly, and said softly, "Brother Senior...... You're the first person who thinks I'm not that scary...... I will always remember the kindness of my elder brother to me, and I will always remember the ...... of my elder brother's teachings to me over the past year."

Arrow smiled slightly, raised his other hand and gently scratched the little girl's nose: "Don't say it, it looks like we're about to separate." If you'd like, let's move on to the past? Would you still like to go on? ”

Coco clutched the palm of Arrow's hand that was attached to her face and let out a soft "um".

"From that day on, everyone in the village began to fear me. They didn't dare to talk to me, they didn't even dare to come near me, and every time they saw me, they avoided me. ”