How dirty is Howl's castle? No one knew before, but now Sophie knows, after a tiring day, Sophie finally tidied up the first floor, and then the second floor, where there is Maruk's bedroom, Howl's bedroom, and the bathroom, Sophie cleans the whole castle diligently, Sophie is a diligent girl, this is something that everyone has to admit, she is also kind, she also nags, like a real old woman's nagging, and there is another mysterious taciturn who has been buried in the magic and witchcraft book Mr. King, As the castle gets cleaner day by day, Maluk and Cassifer have the illusion that Howl's mobile castle is becoming more and more like a big family.

Time passed like this, and gradually Hall, Maruk, and Cassifer all accepted Sophie's hard-working, kind, clean, and nagging younger and younger 'old woman'.

Yes, Sophie's peculiarity is finally visible to both Hal and Cassifer, a girl with a holy heart, the curse magic of the Witch of the Wilderness is weakening in her body, and now Sophie looks only in her fifties, no longer an old woman.

As time went on, Sophie became known in Bohaivan and the royal city, and people were curious about her identity, some thought she was the wife of the wizard Jenkins, some thought she was the mother of the magician Pendraken, oh, and in fact she was just Howl's cleaner mother-in-law.

Sophie once jokingly replied that Hal is like a child who has not grown up, and what does it matter if I am a mother at my 'age', let alone that I take care of you every day. You're all my children.

Yes, henceforth, Howl's Mobile Castle has guests when visiting. Sophie will call herself Howl's old mother, and at the same time, she is also a magician mother-in-law who loves cleanliness, loves neatness, and hates messiness!

And Mr. KING, who was chattering all day long and studying research, was automatically ignored by them, and this guy was sometimes like an invisible man. If you don't smile and greet people often, you eat together every day, Maruk. Sophie, I've almost forgotten about this person.

Until one day, Hal dragged the body of a bird-like human head like a flying swallow, with the smell of gunpowder in war. He sat in a chair in front of the fireplace. With a slight sigh of relief, Tuan's eyes rested, and the illusionary magical body on his body gradually disappeared.

He had just flown back from a battlefield, and the magical creatures he had incarnated had prevented the war from continuing and saved many civilians.

Cassifer in the fireplace spoke.

"Howl, you're on the battlefield again, I hate the smell of burnt creatures and iron on the battlefield. There is also the irritable smell of gunpowder, and I hate the flames from gunpowder the most. Those guys don't know what politeness is! ”

Hal sighed and said: "This war is very tragic, from the sea in the south to the border in the north is a sea of fire everywhere, and Ingrid has entered a white-hot war with his neighbors. ”

"Howl, are you going to stop the war again, to save the civilians who are threatened by the war? It's useless, you can't stop the war with your own strength, and you can't save many people, and you can't use the transformation magic often, otherwise you will be eroded by my magic and become a monster too much, you have saved so many people, but you never say your name, how many people will care, how many people will care about you. ”

"It's one that can save one, at least within my reach, how much can I save, at least the people I save they care about, they care about ......"

Pap ~ Pap ~ ~

"Ideal peace and kindness, very pure, very bright, very kind, worthy of applause, this is the real truth, goodness and beauty, is the real positive energy, reminds me of a familiar fable, it is the fable of a little boy who rescued fish on the beach, the story says, there are big waves in the sea that wash up a lot of young fish on the beach, and soon they will die of dehydration, the little boy keeps throwing those fish into the sea, so that these fish can continue to live, many people question that his behavior is meaningless, no one cares, But the little boy picked up the fish, and it cared, and the fish cared......"

IN HAL'S VIEW, KING STOOD BESIDE HIM AT SOME POINT, WITH A GENTLE SMILE ON HIS FACE.

"Are you that little boy? Isn't that right, Howl? ”

"Yes, it's a good fable, and the little boy in the story is very much like me, and I'm that kind of little boy." Hal heard the story and resonated with the little boy like never before, yes, I am that kind of little boy.

"BUT......" IN HAL'S EYES, KING'S EYES FLASHED WITH AN INEXPLICABLE LOOK THAT MADE HIM FEEL BAD, AND HE ONLY HEARD KING SAY: "...... It's useless! ”

"At first glance, you will feel that what the little boy said makes sense, but children are children, and real adults will understand that the fish that are thrown back into the sea by the little boy will be washed up on the beach again by the big waves, and as long as the big waves do not stop, the fish will never be saved, and when the fish are washed up on the beach again and again, will the little boy who saved the fish always be there? Even if the little boy is tired to death, those fish, whether the little boy rescued or not, will eventually die on the beach, so it is useless and meaningless. ”

"The only, probable, meaning is probably that the little boy got the joy of helping the fish, but the fish died in the end." The voice of the aria, which seemed to be near, but also seemed far away, reached Howl's heart.

In the end, he died, and there was no meaning, and in the end, he died, and there was no meaning......

'In the end, he died, there is no meaning' twelve words, like a spell shattered Howl's heart defense, his hands clenched, his eyes began to turn blood-red, he wanted to be angry, he wanted to be angry, he wanted to refute KING's words, but in the end he could only hold his head in his hands, choked and kept repeating: "In the end, he died, there was no meaning, in the end he died, there was no meaning......"

In the midst of this self-denial, Howl's mind is lost, and a trace of gloomy dark negativity grows in the castle, and the shadows around him begin to twist, begin to change, and swell, even startling the sleeping Maluk and Sophie.

Cassifer screamed, "Don't do that, Hal, don't! ”

Maruk leaned close to Granny Sophie and said in fear, "Cassifer, what's wrong with Hal, why are you summoning the dark elves?" ”

"KING, IT'S ALL KING'S FAULT, HE SAID A FABLE THAT MADE HAL'S MIND DESPERATE, LET THE DARK NEGATIVE EMOTIONS OCCUPY HIS MIND, NO, THE DARK ELVES SUMMONED THIS TIME WILL BE MORE TERRIFYING THAN EVER, AND WILL EVEN DEVOUR ME AND HAL! No, KING, it's all your fault, you have to find a way to solve it, or Hal and I will both die. (To be continued.) )