41 Again, candles

Lilith rubbed her eyes, not because she was tired, but because she habitually allowed herself to see as clearly as possible in the dark, although she had long been used to seeing things in the dark, there were still many inconveniences after all. When Lilith found out more than 500 years ago that she was immortal, she was not too surprised, she knew that this was the way Wind Chimes saved her, and she was even more convinced that Wind Chimes would come to her.

Every time she takes control of the sand or the shadows, Lilith misses her father, who has followed the map instructions he gave him and found this "weapon" for revenge. Lilith didn't know how much time it took to learn to use it, and how much time it spent practicing and practicing. Now that Lilith knows everything about the "weapon", both Shadow and Sand are at her disposal, and after possessing absolute strength, she begins her actions.

"Even if I reclaim the empire that belongs to me, it will only be a matter of time." The more Lilith thought about it, the more excited she became, and she laughed unconsciously, it was a smile of satisfaction and smugness, which in the eyes of Wind Chimes should not be Lilith's true heart.

Five hundred years of darkness, five hundred years of loneliness, even if the date is not calculated, Lilith's senses are constantly telling her that this is a long time span, the reunion is far away, the resentment and loneliness accumulated in her heart are gradually out of control, and in the heart of the innocent girl who did not want to get involved in politics, an emotion that has never existed slowly surfaced in her heart under the prompting of her father's letter - revenge. The innocent Lilith bears the burden of revenge for no reason, and even though she is alone and in the depths of darkness, the flame of revenge in her heart has never been extinguished since it was ignited. Lilith figured out what to do with the "weapon" and frantically attacked passers-by around the desert, but due to her vision deficiencies, especially the fear of sunlight and her inability to act during the day, these revenge plans had little effect, and ended up being one of the many horror legends in the desperate desert. However, she did not give up, because the revenge was not completed, the ruler of the empire usurped the throne that belonged to her father, and Entekman betrayed her brother, which was enough reason and motivation for her to continue her revenge.

The arrival of the wind chimes gave Lilith hope for the realization of her revenge plan, and the progress after that was as she wished, all the way unimpeded, now, the dark shadows and dust under her control were about to consume the wind town, whether Milo Entecoman was there or not, it didn't really matter, she had shown the world the power of the dust and the dark shadows, and the fear generated became another weapon for her to deter more innocent people.

Lilith walked lightly through the dark room, releasing the pleasure in her heart, and since the arrival of the wind chimes, her mood has been getting better and better, almost the same as the wayward princess before.

"Wind chimes?" Lilith shouted loudly, knowing that the wind chimes were in a room in the building, and that it only took one call to come to her.

"I'm here! Princess. "The response of the wind chimes came from the dark room, which was very timely.

"What, it's so close to me......" Lilith quipped, she was in a good mood and made Wind Chime feel lucky, "I can completely destroy Windrun tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!" Then there was the whole empire, and then ...... Let's get married! Lilith said triumphantly, her cheeks burning slightly when she said the last sentence.

"The princess is still persistent, then I have to look forward to it." Wind Chime responded to Lilith with a smile, "Huh...... In which church is the princess going to get married? ”

"The Cathedral of Butler City, of course, that's where we both met...... It's full of memories! ”

"yes, it's all memories......," the wind chime muttered, but the inner monologue was "I'm sorry if I did something wrong...... Princess, it's all for your happiness. ”

Wind Chime smiled and said, "Before discussing the future, has the princess forgotten what day it is?" ”

"Today? I haven't counted the date in a long time...... What day is it? ”

"Hmm...... It's just past midnight, which means it's March 8th......"

"Ahh My birthday! Lilith said excitedly.

"yes, I won't forget. Remember the time when the princess was 12th birthday, I performed candle magic? ”

"Remember, hahaha, you were hit by a candle several times, and every time you remember it, it makes me want to laugh."

"Does the princess want to see a candle show?" Wind Chime asked with a slight smile.

"Okay, I'll see!" Lilith tilted her head behind her back, her eyes shining brightly even in the dark.

The wind chime took two steps back, saluted, and began to chant the incantation silently, as always, a string of candles floated from behind her to the front, but this time the wind chime joined the movement of her hand, as if using her hand to guide the direction of the candle's fluttering. The gestures of dance movements are beautiful and dignified, and candles also glide over the shoulders, waists, heads and knees of wind chimes...... Lilith was stunned again, and she paid a little attention to the number of candles, the last time it was twelve, and this time she couldn't count them.

"Smack-" snapped his fingers, a crisp sound echoed through the room, and in an instant all the candles lit flames, encircling the wind chimes. This beautiful moment seemed to overlap with the moment that melted Lilith's cold heart more than five hundred years ago.

However, just as Lilith was looking forward to the next wonderful performance, the wind chime made a soft "ah-" sound, and then, one by one, the candles smashed into the top of the wind chime's head like a broken marionette, and she showed a panicked look, covered her head with both hands, and squatted down in fright, looking embarrassed.

Once again, the performance of the wind chimes came to an abrupt end and ended in failure.

"Hahaha......" Lilith laughed out loud, "Why, why is this again......" She clutched her stomach and laughed as she looked at the wind chimes as she did when she was twelve.

The embarrassed wind chime shook her head helplessly, this time there was no one behind her back to comfort her, "You succeeded!" She smiled wryly, fiddling with her fingers as if reflecting on her own problem.

"Wind chimes," Lilith leaned back to her, "after all these years, you can't possibly not have grown in your magic level, you must be teasing me!" Hahaha...... "Indeed, the wind chimes are teasing Lilith, and this embarrassing "failure" makes Lilith very happy.

"But, princess," Wind Chime got up and dusted off the wax stains on her body, "this show isn't over yet—" Lilith stopped at the sound of this, and looked expectant, and Wind Chime stood up again, bowing again.

The wind chimes silently recite the incantation, and the candles fly up from the ground again, not around the wind chimes, but around the two of them in a large circle, with a certain gap between each candle.

"Smack-" snapped his fingers crisply, and the candle lit again. Wind Chimes raised his hands flat, tilted his head and smiled, as if calling for something. The candlelight flickered, the darkness gradually dissipated, and countless candles appeared in the darkness, surrounding the two of them, except for the inside of the circle formed before, the space outside the circle was all candles floating waist-high, one after another, like a little starlight, like a little boat lamp floating on the water, illuminating the room very brightly, full of warmth, and filled with a warm atmosphere.

Lilith was stunned by the countless candles that gradually appeared around her, she thought that the wind chimes could only control the few candles beside her, but she did not expect that almost the entire room was now almost filled with candlelight. How many are there? Lilith didn't count, the surprise and joy made her forget everything, and she didn't even notice that the light of the candle was beyond the limits of what she could bear.

"Five hundred and seventy-nine." Wind Chimes looked around the room at the fluttering candles, the two people in the candlelight were extremely happy at this time, the red and yellow light mixed together, illuminating the two of them extremely beautifully, "Princess, happy five hundred and seventy-ninth birthday!" ”

Lilith hesitated slightly, then laughed again, as if the wind chimes were telling a joke. Then, she calmed down and said, "It's incredible, I used to think that life would pass quickly, and when I was a teenager, I felt that life was so long...... Now, I feel ...... again," Lilith sighed, as if she didn't know how to say what to say.

"Are you feeling a little tired - should you go get some rest?" Wind chimes help Lilith add.

"Well, it seems like that's what it feels." Lilith sighed and said, "However, I always feel that there are some things that I can't rest until I finish them." "What Lilith meant, of course the wind chimes know.

The surrounding candles dotted the room like bright stars, illuminating the surrounding walls, reflecting the words on the walls, which the wind chimes recognized as ancient characters from the Saknusem Manuscripts, which she had seen by candlelight while she was in the building. But Wind Chime understands that these words no longer mean anything to her, and that they are essential to the person who is seeking the truth of her fate. Of course, the wind chimes have mentioned this in the magic letterhead sent to this person.

The atmosphere was good, and Wind Chime proposed, "Princess, haven't danced with you for a long time?" ”

"yes, yes!" Lilith held out her hand, and in the candlelight, she looked happy and confident. There was no accompaniment, but the wind chime nodded to the side and gestured habitually. The light dance steps, slow as a fine sand, no chaos, only silence, arcs gliding in the center of the room, skirts dancing in the flickering candles—still the moving dance steps, still the dance of the heart.

Lilith rested her head on the chest of the wind chimes, closed her eyes and felt the heartbeat of her beloved, and she felt that it was a great happiness in the world to be able to do so; In the same way, the wind chimes also felt the temperature of Lilith in her arms, and they were extremely happy.

"Princess," the wind chimes whispered softly, "remember the princess's weekly visit to the church to help the poor there?" ”

"Remember, thanks to the queen mother, we can get to know each other." Lilith said with her eyes closed and smiling.

"The princess has always set an example, hoping that the princess will become a kind person, not a person who does evil with unwarranted hatred."

"Wind chimes?" Lilith raised her head slightly, she froze, stopped dancing, and asked, "...... Wind chimes? She screamed softly again, she really couldn't understand what the wind chimes were talking about, but she vaguely felt that something was wrong, and her little body began to tremble slightly......

"Princess," said Wind Chime, earnestly, "on the night of the coup d'état, I resurrected you in despair and locked your time in order to better protect you...... But what I didn't expect was that neither His Majesty nor the Crown Prince survived in the end...... Princess, you survived, but your fate fell into misfortune, and you have to bear the pain of losing your loved ones and the mission they have not completed...... Fate even wants you to become an avenger and continue to live in pain and despair in search of the pleasure of killing......

"Princess—this shouldn't be your fate!"

"Wind Chime, isn't revenge what I should do?" Lilith said in a trembling voice, her eyes filled with tears, she understood what the wind chimes said, she had indeed borne the burden of not her own over the years, but loneliness, loneliness had swallowed her joy and sorrow, and the reunion with the wind chimes was far away...... All that remains is revenge – in her opinion it is the meaning of her continued existence.

"Princess, in fact, on that night, I was also an avenger - I took revenge on those who murdered you and Your Majesty, and I know what it feels like: cold, desperate, disregardful, without regard for the consequences...... Now, I see in you the person I was then, and I see the hatred and ...... of the enemy and the thrill of approaching the success of revenge. But......

"But, Princess, your revenge against Entekman and the Empire is pointless."

"Why is it meaningless? Also, you say you have avenged my father? Did you kill my uncle? Lilith's emotions also began to get excited, and she didn't want to see the wind chimes suspect that her purpose was incorrect.

"Yes, it is pointless, for the man who kills your father and brother and even you is not the prince's man, but the servant of the castle. And their relatives have to take revenge on your father and brother because they died in the battle at Heimen...... You see, among these people, there are no people who are Prince Lane......"

"What about Entekoman? Wasn't he still made a nobleman for killing the crown prince? Lilith said through gritted teeth, her eyes on fire echoing the candlelight around her.

Ente Koman...... It was he who used the head of the late crown prince to attract attention and help us escape from Butler City, and this plan was planned by me and Earl McQueen......" Wind Chime bowed his head as he spoke, as if to apologize to Ente Koman on that night five hundred years ago.

"What about Uncle Lane? If he hadn't staged a coup d'état, his father and brother wouldn't have died! Lilith began to wipe away her tears, and her voice trembled.

"Prince Lane didn't want to kill His Majesty or anyone at all, he just wanted to express a demand contrary to His Majesty's opinion...... Even if he hadn't staged a coup d'état, the servants' plans for revenge would still have taken place...... And the burden of revenge will fall on an innocent person like the princess like an infectious disease. Tell me, Princess, if Prince Lane really wants to kill us, why did he later cancel our wanted warrant? Lilith doesn't know about Wind Chime's "cancel wanted", but she understands that it means Uncle Ryan has no intention of killing him.

"What about you...... Then you...... Wind chimes you ......" Lilith's tears broke down, "why did you know this for a long time...... Now, only tell me now...... You helped me before, but you kept it a secret from me...... Why, why......" wept silently, intermittently—and finally did not resist the collapse of her inner will, and Lilith fell out of the arms of the wind chimes and half-knelt down.

The wind chimes helped Lilith in time, and her tears fell.

"Princess, when Your Majesty was assassinated, I should have rushed to your room to save you as soon as possible, but I chose to strangle the assassin's servant, and although I avenged Your Majesty, I lost the best opportunity to save you...... In the end, we will never be able to die, and we will continue to suffer in the world...... I have asked myself countless times, why didn't I think about your safety, princess?

"Now think of how sluggish I am trapped in hatred—as I said before, I see myself in you, and I understand that the princess must also be troubled by the impulse of revenge, and will be unreasonable about the truth of what I say...... So I waited until today, both your birthday and the eve of the completion of revenge, and I believe that at this time, the princess's inner reason and emotions will be able to accept the truth of what I have recounted......"

"Wow-" As soon as the wind chime's words fell, Lilith cried bitterly, the flame of revenge in her heart had been burning for more than a hundred years, but at this time she encountered cold water, coupled with the wind chime's persuasion, she was extremely struggling, confused, and overwhelmed......

"Princess," continued Wind Chime, knowing that she was only one step away from opening Lilith's heart knot, "revenge is not the meaning of your existence, think about the memories you have with Your Majesty and the Crown Prince, whether it is happy or painful, as long as it is missing them, it is the meaning of our existence, it is the motivation for us to continue to live in this world, and it is also the proof of the existence of our lives...... If fate doesn't bring us together here, Princess, all the memories of being with you are my point of existence......

And the emotion of hatred – it's time to leave our consciousness...... Princess, choose to give up......"

Lilith's cries echoed through the building, echoing through the dark rooms. Wind Chimes wept with her, and tears soaked the ground beside them again, but this time, it was not only tears that flowed, but also bitter water and knots that had tormented Lilith for more than 500 years.

……

Shaling's footsteps stopped.