"Agnes, have you heard of the Dark Race?"

Xia regretfully retracted the idea of intimacy with Natiana Vida and asked.

"The Dark Race?"

Agnes frowned:

"I'm a mage who uses dark magic, and I have some research on wraiths, black knights, and skeletons, what do you want to say."

"No, no, these are just simple dark creatures, and the Black Knight is a summon who has been given an evil mission, and skeletons and wraiths are necromantic monsters, and by dark races I mean those who have established a stronghold in the kingdom of Jophim."

"Natsu, you're talking about demons?"

Natyavida asked suspiciously.

"It's still a little different."

Xia shook his head:

"The term demon is too broad, and some races, such as vampires, are also considered demons, but in fact demons are otherworldly creatures from another plane, such as abyss demons, and they are not beings who belong to this world at all."

"With all that said, what exactly are you trying to say? These and my ...... What does it matter to parents? ”

Agnes gritted her teeth.

Xia's eyes were sharp, and he saw that her hand was holding the armrest of the wheelchair tightly, and she was trembling a little, and her heart was obviously very excited.

With a sigh in her heart, she walked over and placed her hand gently on the back of Egnes' hand.

Agnes shuddered and looked up at her.

Natsu's voice seemed to come from a long time away:

"Nature is related...... Because your parents are not human. ”

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Once upon a time, under the slopes of a hill with purple flowers in full bloom, lived an eccentric couple.

They live by hunting, do not farm, and do not raise livestock.

Because of the ...... of the hunt It's human blood!

They are a pair of vampires who have escaped the Order's pursuit and live in seclusion.

There is no overly long story, no plot twists and turns, this vampire couple has been here for a long time, there are no human beings here, there is no divine grace, vampires move quickly, it often takes a day and a night to get enough blood from distant mountain villages and towns, and they are only hypnotic, they do not kill and intimidate, and the human beings who are sucked by blood will be weak for two or three days, without any notice.

It was on these extremely uneventful days that they had a daughter.

Strangely, when a vampire and a vampire are combined, they must give birth to a vampire, but this law is broken.

Because their daughter is actually an ordinary human being.

"My dear, our little darling will grow up sooner or later, but there are no cute little animals here, no childhood playmates, only the same purple wildflowers, and cold mountains and stones, can the two of us really give her happiness?"

The vampire wife said to her vampire husband.

"We're still in danger, my dear." The vampire husband said, "Even if we can't give her happiness, at least we can give her a safe life." ”

"But the Order hunts us all over the world, and even if we hide underground, they will arrest us and burn us at the stake, just like they did with the lichs and magicians."

The vampire wife burst into tears and lay on her husband's lap:

"I'm scared."

"Don't be afraid, dear." The husband said:

"Our daughter is very good, she already has a huge magic at a young age, maybe we can ......"

One dark night, the vampire husband came to the crib, there was no moon or stars in the sky, and he slowly approached the baby's snow-white neck, revealing his sharp teeth.

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"No ――――――――――――――――――!!!"

Agnes suddenly grabbed her head and screamed.

At this time, only she and Natsu were left in the house, and Natya Vida was long gone.

Because it's not a past that people can just know.

"I'm not a vampire, I'm not a dark race, I'm human!"

Agnes's tears flowed uncontrollably, and she cried out hysterically.

"The story isn't over yet, Egnes."

Natsu was right by her side, gently caressing her thin back.

Even after receiving preferential treatment, due to the hardships of her childhood, her body is still much worse than ordinary people.

"You're lying to me, you're lying to me, you must be lying to me, making up a story to fool me, right!"

Agnes jerked her head up and looked at Natsu angrily!

Natsu didn't answer her anger, but looked at her quietly, his other hand still gently touching her back.

Egnes had never seen her parents since she was sensible, and rightfully so, she thought she had been abandoned.

Her legs were immobile, so she was ridiculed, scorned, robbed of her food, and even left her alone when she went out, only to crawl back on her own, and her young hands were covered with blood.

Although the Order's higher-ups severely punished those who bullied her because of her incredible potential, she was also feared because of it, and she no longer had a friend to talk to.

Now that she suddenly heard the news of her parents, it was such an astonishing fact that her heart was completely messed up.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and the room was covered in silence.

I don't know how long it took, but Agnes said in a hoarse voice:

"Sue sù me, Xia, sue sù the end of my story."

Speaking of this, she suddenly showed a look of madness, raised her head and laughed:

"I'm ready! What else can't be lost? What else is there to throw away? ”

"I'm different from everyone else, am I? From birth to the present, I have been hated and abandoned by others, but because of the power I have, I can make everyone fear me and fear me! There's nothing wrong with that! Even if I'm no longer a human being, I'm still feared, I'm still above the weak, and I can ravage and abuse them, hurt them, even—"

Kill them.

Kill them all.

Kill these indifferent, ruthless, and abominable inferior beings.

"You're wrong about something, Egnes."

Xia suddenly stopped touching her hand, and there was pity and love in her eyes:

"I don't know the end of the story, but if you really want to know Yiqiē, go to the old schoolhouse."

Her eyes were on the sky:

"There is a closed cave on the east side of the old school building, and there is a hidden basement under the cave, take this card, go there, and you can know what you want to know."

Agnes is gone.

She left on her own, quietly.

With the black card that Natsu gave her.

"Remember, don't let anyone find out you're there, not even your mentor!"

Before leaving, Natsu said this to her.

"Natia Vida and I will be here to wait for you until you return."

In the evening, Agnes did not return.

Instead, Natia Vida took a small package and came to the lounge again.

"She's gone?"

"Natsu, you're not hurt, are you?"

She continued to ask worried questions, carefully scanning Xia's body.

Although she didn't know what happened in the inquiry room, why Xia had changed her clothes and didn't cover her body, there were no obvious injuries; But staying with someone like Egnes was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing in itself, at least she was not sure that she would be able to get out of it.

"Don't worry, Natya Vida...... Believe me, and please believe Egnes, she was a good boy, but she was treated too much cruelly to become what she is now. ”

Apparently not convinced by her words, Natya Vida did not say anything, she bent down and silently opened the package, and placed the contents on the table.

Inside are three compressed boxes, as well as three drinking potions.

Seeing the number of boxes and drinks that did not match the number of people in the room, a smile appeared on the corner of Natsu's mouth.

"Cai, don't you care about her."

Noticing Natsu's smile, Natya Vida became a little shy and turned her face to the side:

"I just think it's pitiful if it's just the two of us eating, and she's watching us by herself......"

Hey, the characters are out of order, Miss Natia Vida.

Xia looked at her blankly:

You're positioned as an empathetic royal sister-type protagonist.,Why did you suddenly become a tsundere now?

"Well, I've been hungry for a long time, and I've been putting up with it."

Xia secretly sighed that women were really inscrutable creatures, and then picked up a compressed box.

"Let's eat together, Egnes, I know you've just been back, why don't you speak."

"What? She...... Where is she. ”

Natyavida tensed and looked around.

As Natsu's words fell, the air in the room seemed to tremble.

After a long time, a black hole appeared in the void, and Agnes took on the form of a lifeless puppet.

This is the action magic of dark magic, folding black holes, which can penetrate some obstacles and hide their whereabouts, and it is because of this magic that Xia is relieved to let Agnes go to the old school building alone.

At this time, Agnes's eyes were gray, her knees and arms were covered with dust and scars, and she was holding a white doll she had never seen before, this was a rabbit, with a big mouth grinning to her ears, and her eyes were scarlet, which looked a little strange.

"Saw them?"

Natsu asked, walking up to Agnes' diminutive body, crouching down, and touching her hair.

Agnes' gaze was unfocused, and she nodded at her words.

Then, unexpectedly, Xia suddenly took her in his arms.

This action not only made Natia Vida cover her mouth in surprise, but even Agnes's lifeless eyes showed a look of surprise.

But......

This embrace is so warm and soft, like being carried out of the cradle by my mother when I was a child, and gently resting in the crook of her arm.

"There is no need to be scared anymore, and there is no need to hurt yourself anymore...... Agnes, I will be by your side from today onwards. ”

Egnes's face was buried in Natsu's arms, and her arms were tightly wrapped around the doll, not saying a word.

But then, she realized that her hand was being held.

"Natia Vida, come and help."

Natsu gently pulled Agnes' hands out, revealing a thrilling scar.

In order to move without being detected, the squeaky wheelchair is obviously unusable, so she can only climb there with her own hands like she did when she was bullied as a child, and then climb back like that.

"It's ......"

Undressing Agnes, Natyavida looked in shock at the body, which was covered with old and new wounds.

There are not only abrasions and bumps, but also wounds cut by people with knives, deep marks pierced by sharp objects; One can imagine how harshly the owner of these arms had been treated, and her beautiful eyes had become moist at some point.

"Healing-rain".

Softly chanting the water healing magic, circles of blue light shrouded the slightly young arms, this is a B-level healing spell, although it has a limited effect compared to the restoration technique, but water is the spirit of all things, and those fresh wounds still heal quickly.

"No, the water system rejuvenation magic is very weak in healing old wounds, she'd better find a nun to heal her......"

Natia Vida frowned at the wound, although the effect of the healing rain was visible to the naked eye, but it was only for the freshly born wounds, and those ugly old wounds were still like the body of a worm, covering Egnes's body.

"I don't want the Order's treatment!!"

Agnes heard the words of the Order, suddenly broke free from Natsu's arms, and interrupted Natia Vida with a roar!

"I'm going to kill the dogs of the Order, kill, kill them all! One by one, kill them all! ”

Killed.

Slay.

Kill, kill, kill!

There was a terrifying murderous intent in her eyes, and at this moment, it seemed that she had returned to her original crazy state.

"Agnes, tell me, what did you see in the secret room under that cave?"

Originally, in this scene, the male protagonist Lorraine should have given her a slap in the face to restrain her madness.

But instead of choosing to do what Lorraine did, Natsu gently hugged her to her lap and whispered behind her ear.

"Both...... He's dead. After feeling her warmth, Agnes's hysteria slowly stopped, but then, as if recalling some devastating scene, she turned her head and threw herself on Natsu's chest and cried loudly:

"I saw the records left by those people, and those horrible tools...... Abused, killed, chopped...... The two of them were decomposed like livestock.

Study the Dark Race.

This has been a long-standing subject for the Order.

Caught werewolves and vampires? It's not like a skeleton, isn't it a pity to just kill it?

Strong, very different flesh from humans can be cut open for study, and perhaps for food—this has really been tried; And those females ...... It can be used for other things, isn't it?

After the vampire couple was caught, the husband was locked up on the other side, with the boorish werewolves and ghouls; Beautiful, ageless vampire women are the most popular subjects to study, such as poking her delicate body through centuries of steel, watching her struggle desperately in front of fire and sharp weapons, making her wail with an awl and pincers, and no matter how many men she is toying with and hurting during the process, she can be restored after a while with a little blood—oh my God, is there a better toy in the world than this kind of thing?

It's a pity that the researchers of the Order didn't dare to give the blood of the vampire that contained too many powerful factors, and the inferior blood extracted from those ordinary people and domestic animals didn't take long to make the vampire couple weak, old, and lose their health and vitality, and the dark race lacked the meaning of continuing research.

"Sell me the two of them." Someone big said to the people of the Order.

This is a big man from Westminster, a fat man with a bald head - according to the journal left by the Order, and it is not clear what happened after that, except that the big man did not take the vampire couple away, but locked up in a torture room that he rented with money, and the bald fat man would go there once a week, and then from the torture room came all kinds of screams that made the researchers with their hands covered in blood feel chills.

Not only vampires, but many people also saw some sacks transported to that room from time to time, and someone had secretly opened several of them curiously, and found that they were all young and beautiful human girls.

But even the best toys will always get tired, and soon the big man will stop patronizing that room, and the people of the Order will not bother with it, because the big man has paid the rent for twenty years, and now that the money is in hand, what do you care so much for?

There are also researchers who can't hold back their desires and quietly go to that room to have fun, but then no one sees him again, this is a kingdom after all, and the power of the big man can completely affect the fate of the small characters in the order.

"What do you mean...... Is that the ...... Truis, the Order? ”

When Natia Vida heard this, she felt her throat be choked by something unusually heavy, and her voice became so inaudible that she couldn't even hear herself:

"The Order of the World, which preaches the equality of all beings, the boundless grace of God, and is full of compassion, goodness, and goodness?"

She seemed to be listening to a story from another world, and this kind of extremely dark plot made her, an elite of the well-informed guard regiment, feel unacceptable, and her heart was deeply shocked.

"Yes, I can sue you for the last part of the ...... The reason why the old school building is still in ruins is because a certain strong man is not used to seeing what the Order is doing, and in his anger it has become that scene. ”

Natsu hugged Egnes, who was already a little delirious because of excessive sadness and anger, and said to her.

"That strong man is a person.,Weak power.,Can't fundamentally shake the power of the Order.,But his strength is too strong.,Strong to the point that the Order and the King of Westminster don't want to provoke lightly.,So the old schoolhouse of the school park is so preserved.,After all, no one dares to guarantee that person will come back.,If it triggers his new anger.,It's definitely worth the loss.。

"Sister Xia......"

Agnes squealed weakly.

Hearing this, Natia Vida and Natsumian looked at each other.

Neither of them thought that the lonely, arrogant Egnes would one day be so affectionate and sister-in-law.

"Egnes, I'm here...... I just wanted to ask you, what is this rabbit in your hand? Why are you going to bring it back from there, and you're still holding it all the time. ”

Xia opened the topic and didn't embarrass her because of this sentence.

"This, the rabbit is, my mother left it for me inside."

One of Agnes' hands grabbed Natsu's clothes, and the other hand gripped the rabbit's body tightly.

"Sure enough, it's here."

Natsu stared at the rabbit for a moment, and noticed a dark red spot that looked like a blood stain somewhere behind it.

"Agnes, I have a request, can you show me this rabbit, I won't take it from you, but want to take a closer look."

Natsu touched Gornice Gornice and said.

“……”

Agnes was silent for a moment, slowly handing the rabbit to her eyes, but not letting go of her grip.

This is the only connection between her and her mother in this world, although I don't know if I was abandoned by her.

"Agnes, did you find the ending you wanted to know in that dark place?" Xia looked at it for a long time, had a little eyebrow in his heart, and asked her.

"Xia, let her rest well, don't ask again."

Natia Vida looked at the pale Egnes, couldn't help but reach out and touch her head, and said to Natsu.

"No, I haven't found what I'm looking for...... That answer. ”

Agnes shuddered at the touch of Natia Vida's hand, but didn't shake her hand away.

But when she heard Xia's words, she lowered her head sadly, and her eyes were blank.

Natsu motioned to Natia Vida not to worry, then looked around and pulled out a soft white cloth.

"It might hurt a little, Egnes, good boy, bear with me."

She dipped the white cloth in some water, and then rubbed it lightly against Agnes' wound, which had not yet fully healed, and the white cloth was immediately imprinted with red blood.

Then he placed the bloodstained cloth on top of the dark red blood stain underneath the rabbit, and the position immediately changed!