Dazzling sunlight fell from the southwest, hitting a not-so-tall building, pulling out slender shadows. At this moment, many young people and girls are coming out of it one after another, and their faces have a special joy, because tonight is the so-called "holy night", and after tonight, it is the new year. It is very important because it is the time of the transition between the old and the new, and everyone will wait until the new year on this evening, so every holy night is especially lively.

Doris looked at the looks of the young girls around her, but there was an inexplicable sadness in her heart, because she couldn't go home anymore. Before parting with Snub Star, Snub Star gave her some gold coupons to get her into an ordinary academy, and she was also studying all kinds of knowledge very seriously. She knew that this knowledge was very important for what she would do in the future, so she could not afford to be sloppy.

Today's lesson is over, and the students are all heading home, but Doris is different. In order to support herself, she also works in a tavern, and she has to go over every night to help, although the pay is not much, but one gold coin a month is quite good, and the owner is also very good. It's Holy Night, and everyone will be with their families, and although there are probably no guests, they still have to go.

Leaving the Academy, she walked through the streets of Oran City, the sun had begun to set, and the orange-red glow shone on her thin body, but it gave a sense of determination. At this special time, even the pedestrians on the street have become hurried, and the stalls that can usually be seen everywhere on the roadside are gone, making the whole street empty and unusually deserted. Doris looked at the closed doors on both sides of the street, feeling as if she was cut off from the world, and felt an inexplicable sense of blockage in her heart. She had had such a feeling before, similar feelings, all for the same reason, that is, her loneliness. Looking at this holy night street scene, she suddenly understood that she had been alone from the beginning, because she was different from everyone else.

After a short walk, Doris came to the tavern where she worked. It is said to be a tavern, but in fact it is really a tavern, which was renovated by the owner after the living room of the house was enlarged, and its space can be imagined.

"Doris is here," the owner of the tavern, a man over forty years old, saw Doris coming, and quickly apologized: "I'm really sorry, today is Holy Night, it was supposed to be the time to reunite with your family, but I want to trouble you to look at the store here." The proprietress next to him also smiled apologetically.

"It's okay," Doris shook her head slightly, "I don't have anywhere to go anyway, and I want to thank you for taking care of me during this time, you should go back quickly, your son should have arrived home." The tavern was one of the couple's two houses, and their son was studying at an academy in Oran City, and they were going back to another house, so they had to leave one to look after the shop.

"Doris," said the proprietress with a slight fat body, but the kind smile on her face made people feel very harmonious: "All the wine in the store is here, if you feel bored, you can drink a bottle or two, you can open the door or not, you can also invite some friends to stay here, after all, a few days should be a happy time." ”

Doris smiled gratefully, "Thank you for your concern, don't worry, I'm fine." ”

"Well, then we'll go back. With that, the boss and his wife left the tavern, and Doris lay on the counter, watching their backs gradually disappear, and for a while her heart was a little empty, and she didn't know what to do, so she was stunned.

In the distance, the tavern owner who was going home suddenly sighed slightly: "This child, she really has too many things in her heart. ”

"Yes," the proprietress sighed, "just like that kid eight years ago, I just hope she's not like that kid." ”

Gradually, night fell into the city, and the heavy black sprinkled every corner of the city, and the sporadic lights were lit up one by one, adding some different colors to this special night. From a high place, tonight's Oran City is much dimmer than usual, without the usual lights at night, but with a faint warmth, as long as you see those lights, you will feel a kind of peace of mind for no reason.

When Doris was in a daze, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her, she hurriedly looked over, and a tall woman in the middle, wearing a black leather coat, completely outlined her delicate figure. She has short hair and a very conspicuous pale color, which adds a powerful aura to her. However, at this moment, there was a hint of imperceptible loneliness in her pale yellow eyes.

"Teacher?" Doris was taken aback: "It's Holy Night, why are you here?"

When Doris was working here, every Wednesday night, this woman with a strong aura would come here to drink, and drink all the spirits, and drink it all night until she was drunk. She noticed that every time this woman drank, her eyes would involuntarily reveal a kind of decadence and loneliness. Every time the woman was drunk on the table, she would go and put away the empty bottles on the table, and the boss or proprietress would bring out a quilt and ask her to cover her, apparently knowing her for a long time. Later, when she was covering the woman with a quilt, the woman suddenly said to her, "You are very much like a person." ”

She was stunned: "Like a person?"

"That's right," the woman nodded, and asked, "Seeing that you are not very old, and you are not the boss's child, you should be at school age, why are you here?"

"I did go to an academy," Doris replied, "and after I went to school, I would work here to earn a little money." ”

"You work here all night long, what about your family?" the woman frowned.

"I can't say the same, after all, there are basically no guests after midnight in the evening, you can rest for a while, and you can rest at the academy at noon. Doris said calmly: "I was a slave and my family was dead, but then someone bought me and released me, and gave me some money so that I could find an academy to study." ”

"Really, it seems you're lucky. ”

"Yes, lucky indeed. Doris said that if she hadn't met the snub star, she would have been signed a slave contract by someone else and would never have a chance to turn over, so from this point of view, she was really lucky, and those who were not as lucky as her...... Thinking of this, she sighed. Those people are in the same situation as themselves, they were saved by chance, but they are still suffering.

The woman looked at Doris's expression, and her eyes suddenly showed a trance, as if she had seen something. That look, she had seen five years ago, was a sadness from someone else, no wonder she felt like that person. She thought for a moment, and suddenly asked inexplicably, "Do you have any wishes?"

"Wish?" Doris smiled wryly, "Forget it, I know this wish is impossible to come true." ”

The woman's eyes suddenly became extremely complicated, and she didn't know what to say, and her expression and words were almost exactly the same as the person's answer when she asked the question.

"Well, but there's one more wish," Doris paused, and again, "that wish should come true." ”

"Oh?" the woman was stunned when she heard this: "What is your wish?"

Doris looked at her and was silent for a long time, and then as if she had made up her mind, she said slowly, "I hope that there will be no more slaves on this continent. ”

As Doris said this, the woman felt as if she had returned to six years ago, and the words of the ordinary-looking girl in front of her and the words of the man coincided letter after letter, making it difficult for her to make out the call. At that moment, she seemed to forget who she was and where she was, only the firm words echoed in her head. She stared at the girl, was silent for a long time, and asked, "Are you willing to take me as a teacher?"

Hearing her words, Doris was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood something, and immediately bowed down and made a great bow to the woman.

Seeing Doris's answer, the woman nodded and asked, "You should know how difficult it is to realize such a wish of yours, and why do you think it will come true?"

"Because I know that this is the right path and the necessity of history, so no matter how difficult the process is, it will always be achieved. ”

"The inevitability of history?" the woman was stunned: "Why?"

"I don't know what to say, it's like I just know. Doris felt a little bitter in her heart, teacher, I really can't tell you this, because you can't understand it.

"Is that so......" the woman muttered, and then Doris asked her, "Teacher, why do you suddenly want to teach me?"

"Well," the woman looked at her with a complicated look, "maybe you'll find out later." ”

Just as Doris wanted to say something, she was interrupted by the woman: "Okay, I'll go back, next time I come, you have to be ready, I don't have much time, so it's mainly up to you, after all, no matter what you want to do, you can't do it without enough strength." ”

"I see. Doris nodded as she watched the woman, her future teacher, leave. When the woman walked out of the tavern door, she suddenly stopped, "By the way, what is that impossible wish you are talking about?" she asked, but without waiting for Doris to answer, she walked away on her own, leaving Doris standing there by herself.

"An impossible wish?" Doris looked through the tavern door, at the starry sky, and her gaze seemed to look beyond the vast night sky to see somewhere else.

From then on, when the woman came every Wednesday, she would bring her some books and tell her to find her own time poison, and the next time she came, she would be tested. However, those books were not martial arts or magic, but books about the astronomy and geography, political forms, history and culture, and military strategies of the Demon Martial Continent, which had nothing to do with cultivation anyway. According to the woman's words, it is: "You are a magician, but your current magic strength is not even level nine, so it is useless for me to teach you any magic, it is better to use this time to read these books, they will be of great help to you in the future if you want to fulfill your wishes." Doris also understood this truth, so in addition to increasing her cultivation time, she spent all the time she could use on reading, and she could also sense that she was transforming little by little.

When Doris saw the woman, she hurriedly greeted her: "Teacher, why are you here? It's not Wednesday." She was a little puzzled, today was Holy Night, how could the teacher come here to drink by himself at this important time?

"It's all right," the woman glanced at her, "I'm just here today for a drink." As he spoke, he placed a gold coin on the counter.

"I see," Doris nodded, knowing that her teacher had always been a drinker, "I'll get you a drink." Or is it just spirits?"

"Well, go ahead. The woman nodded, walked to a table and sat down, her hands on her cheeks, and stared blankly at the dark night sky, as if she wanted to see something out of it.

"Teacher," Doris brought the wine, looked at her appearance, and asked cautiously, "Do you have something on your mind?"

"Hehe," said the woman with a little dryness, "at such a time, I wonder who else spends this holy night alone like us?"

As he spoke, he poured Doris a glass of wine: "Come, have a drink with me." ”

However, as if in response to her words, footsteps were heard at the door of the tavern. Hearing the footsteps, Doris and the woman were stunned at the same time, because they could hear that there was only one person in the footsteps, and was there really anyone like them, alone in this holy night?

At the door of the tavern, a young man walked in, dressed in a black robe, and the pale yellow light that overflowed from the tavern shone on his rare long silver hair, adding a touch of warmth to his cold temperament. Seeing this teenager, Doris couldn't help but blurt out, "It's you?"

Of course, she remembered that it was the silver-haired teenager who bought her from Dakris and gave her freedom and something else important. And her teacher narrowed her eyes: "It turns out that there really is." ”

Seeing the two of them, a trace of doubt flashed in the cold eyes of the cold star, as if he was very puzzled as to why they were together. At this time, the woman beckoned to the snub star: "I remember that you seem to be a student of our academy. ”

Snub Star walked over and nodded, "Teacher Dolores." He remembered the teacher, who had been taken by Sally when she had taken him and Caroline to pay their tuition, and that her decadent appearance at that time was somewhat similar to that of now.

"I didn't expect there to be someone as lonely as us," Dolores smiled suddenly, and said, "I'll treat you to a drink." With that, she picked up the liquor on her table, poured a glass, and handed it to the cold star.

"Lonely?" Snub Star chewed on the word slowly, took the glass, and touched it with the glass in Doloris and Doris's hands, the pale yellow wine swaying in the glass, like a stormy sea.

At the same time, on the balcony of the dormitory of Violet Academy, Caroline raised her head, quietly looked at the night sky with stars twinkling, and raised the goblet in her hand: "To you, my distant relatives." The night breeze blew through her developing body, making her look very thin. On the holy night of the reunion of thousands of families, there are also some people like her, who can't go home for various reasons, so they can only entrust the lovesickness in their hearts to the stars in the sky. How will they feel in their hearts?