Just when Carreta felt infinite panic, another voice sounded in her ears:

"Hehehehehehehe..."

It was a woman's beautiful laughter, and it sounded familiar.

A fishy smell came from the darkness, and a soft hill came over the ground.

As it approached, Kareta could see that it was not a hill, but a living person lying on the ground, crawling a little bit on all fours.

Her body was skinless, like a soft-bodied worm that had been skinned, and the most terrifying thing was her face, which had disappeared, leaving only visible muscular nerves and white teeth, as well as two spherical eyes, bulging outwards like a toad.

"You, Helen?"

Kareta asked carefully in a trembling voice, finally remembering the name of the monster in front of her, and at the same time her heart was beating rapidly, and she really didn't know if she would suddenly be bitten by it.

"Hmph, thank you for remembering me. ”

The monsters stilled their grunting eyes as they spoke, and the moment they fixed their gaze on Carret, it gave her goosebumps.

It goes on to say in a triumphant tone:

"I'm here to see how you fail this time. I said a long time ago, you are actually more pitiful than me, your love is only based on a promise, and you will lose love if you break your promise. Now, what does it feel like to lose love? haha... Ahaha..."

Helen then burst into another burst of laughter, and Hector and Jose began to quarrel again in the midst of wild laughter, and the three voices mixed together seemed endless.

Kareta was almost suffocated with fear, trying to escape but not resisting.

At a loss, the dark god Demos appeared.

He appeared silently behind Helen, directly in front of Karet.

As if seeing hope, Carette immediately exclaimed to him:

"Demos!—help me—"

She didn't expect that she was so dependent on him and needed him.

He did not act, but continued to look at her quietly, his black eyes full of resentment and sadness.

"What's wrong with you, Demos?"

Being stared at by him for a long time with this kind of gaze, Karet's heart was inexplicably sour, and she felt the urge to cry very much.

Hector and Jose's entanglement weakened, and she was finally able to break free.

As soon as she broke free, she approached Demos. Looking at him from a distance, all fear vanished, and she was also deeply attracted by his gaze.

"Demos, what's going on, why do you have those looks?"

Kareta gradually approached him, and when she was about to reach his side, she suddenly stepped on the air and fell into the bottomless black abyss...

——

"Ahh

I knew that those were terrible dreams just now! But how could I have such a dream? I could dream that Hector and Jose became two people, and ...... Helen –

She didn't dare to recall the scene in her dream anymore, and sat up lazily with a long sigh. The temples on my head hurt terribly, and my throat was swollen uncomfortably. Looking sideways, she saw a glass of cold boiled water on the bedside table, and as if she saw a savior, she grabbed the cup and drank it all in a big gulp.

Putting down the empty cup, he glanced around, and the layout of the room was familiar. Thinking about it carefully, she finally remembered that this was the bedroom of Villa Demos, and that she had slept with him on the same bed under her since she had been injured by Cali!

When did I come to Demos's house? I don't remember it. Strange, what's wrong with my body? It's so uncomfortable! And how can my clothes smell like a bad booze--

When Kareta saw that her white gauze skirt was stained, she subconsciously lowered her head and sniffed the hem of her skirt, and the unpleasant smell of fermentation immediately made her grin.

Puzzled, she rubbed her painful brain, obviously tormented by the sequelae of drunkenness. No matter how she racked her brains, she couldn't figure out where she had been and what she had done before Demos Villa.

The door creaked open, and Demos walked in, holding a porcelain bowl in his left hand.

Karete's face flushed. The moment she looked at him, she remembered the heart-beating and heartbroken eyes in the dream, and her eyes flickered for a while, and she avoided his gaze in a panic like a shock.

"Are you awake?" asked Demos softly, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"I ...... Why did I come to your house?" was Karete's concern.

With his right hand, Demos picked up the spoon in the porcelain bowl and stirred the contents of the bowl, and then asked her:

"You've been asleep for almost a day, and you don't remember what you've done before?"

When he asked her this, she immediately mentioned it in her heart and shook her head nervously.

"What the hell happened?

After waiting for a few seconds, Demos was still silent, and Carette couldn't help but hurry.

Could it be that I really did something embarrassing-

She guessed wildly.

Demos stopped stirring the spoon and let out a heavy puff of air in his nostrils before replying:

"You go to a speakeasy to get drunk, hang out with drunkards and abuse spells...... The human world is complicated, do you know how dangerous it is for a girl to go to that kind of third-class bar alone!"

The reason for Demos's resentment was more of a concern for Karete's safety. After explaining, seeing the extreme shock on her face, he added:

"But thanks to your spell, I was able to perceive the location of your divine power source in time, otherwise it would be really difficult to find you. ”

Kareta lowered her head slowly and gloomily.

I can do such a crazy thing, and I have no impression after I wake up, it seems that whether it is a human or a god, my heart is seriously injured to a certain level, and I will feel desperate when I am at the bottom of the most desperate valley -

I'm like that, and what about José? Where is he at the moment? What is he doing?

When the name "Jose" reappeared in her mind, she remembered the moment of yesterday, when she thought of the time when she and he proposed to break up face to face, and at this moment the man's extremely calm but sad look appeared in front of her eyes again.

I'll never see his face again, I'll never hear his voice again—

A heart-rending pain struck her, causing Karete's entire body to tremble as she sat on the bed.

Demos looked at her for a long time and bowed his head silently, and then his body trembled, concluding that it was a normal physiological reaction to the fear of cold after waking up.

He took the spoon again, put it in his eyes, and fed it to her lips, and said softly:

"Noah has cooked some light porridge for you, drink it while it's hot, your stomach is always empty and it's easy to get sick. ”

Carette looked up slightly, and saw a world of white flowers in the bowl in Demos's hand.

Snow-colored white rice wrapped in emerald green leaves, pink shrimp, dark snail meat and fatty fish fillets, boiled in boiling water until it is moderately viscous, and the umami of the sea is wrapped in the aroma of rice, making it a light but nutritious delicacy.

Carette took a sip, her tongue unsavored.

She thought of the soup José had cooked, and the joy of teasing her to ask for a kiss when he brought her soup......

Tears rolled outward.

There was a sudden warmth on her clammy face, the warmth that had been left on Demos's face as her soft fingertips wiped away her tears.

Kareta felt something strange and avoided it again and again.

It is still extremely difficult for her to be separated from the man she loves and immediately accept the warmth of another man, and she always feels very awkward in her heart no matter what.

"You don't have to hide your vulnerability in front of me. Ay...... How long will it take?"

Demos stared at her and sighed, already seeing through all the sorrow in her heart, and his words were full of infinite pity.

Carette suddenly burst into tears, but she resolutely stroked her face a few times with both hands, and after steadying her tone, she asked Demos:

"How did you remember to come to me?"

"I didn't feel right when I was on the phone with you two days ago, and then I got a call from Mentor Jose. Coincidentally, the multi-talented and conceited professor and I were both members of the European Art Association, and we knew each other. José's sudden request for a leave of absence from school was about to leave him on the verge of graduation, and when he angrily complained to me about how his protégé had failed him, I realized that something must have happened to you. The next day, when I went to deliver my bag and mobile phone to your hotel, the front desk told me that you had checked out......"

Demos put the porcelain bowl on the bedside table, explained it in detail in one breath, and kept his eyes on Carette's entire face with a lost expression, hesitated, but couldn't help but ask.

He ...... Left you, huh?"

"You know it all...... Is it over, I'm with Jose...... It's over!"

Carette didn't want to deny the facts, so she curled up after answering truthfully, wrapped her arms around her bent legs, and buried her head between her knees, and said in a voice as ethereal as smoke:

"I realize now that I was wrong. I thought I loved him more than anything else, but when he wanted to take me, I couldn't make myself accept him. I'm afraid, afraid of too many things, afraid of too many consequences. I finally realized that I didn't really love anyone, and that I really loved myself, the cowardly and selfish self......"

"You're not afraid, you're too responsible. The more I carry it, the heavier it feels......"

Carette was silent, and at the moment of recognition and comfort, she finally regained her courage and looked up to meet Demos in silence.

Through those dark eyes, she seemed to see a deep universe, and the more mysterious power was hidden in the vastness of the universe, so that her consciousness was firmly absorbed from the moment she entered this boundless time and space, and could not be easily separated.

With a shock in her body, Carette suddenly came back to her senses, and she no longer dared to look into Demos's eyes easily. She was afraid that she would fall into the black and boundless universe again, and be attracted and lost by the mysterious charm.

Demos did not want to disturb her any longer, so he said to her:

"The porridge is warm, you can eat it quickly. It's afternoon, and you can take a shower and go to sleep. There is also a convenient bathroom on the second floor with my dressing gown, which you can change into if you don't mind. Tomorrow I will take you out and choose some of your necessities. ”

Karete's heart tightened, and her cheeks began to heat as she looked at him in surprise.

"You...... You want to take me in?"

"Where else can you go but here? I don't want to taste the taste of looking in the middle of nowhere, that feeling of helplessness is sad to think about......"

He said abruptly, getting up and walking out of the bedroom.

In bed, Carette was completely sleepy, though her head continued to ache. She took the porridge bowl and drank it in three or two sips, and then she was in a daze again.

She misses Jose!

In the moment of solitude, she misses the figure of Hefa even more!

Jose –

For the first time in her heart, Carette got rid of Hector's figure to shout the Chinese man's name, and for the first time thought of him instead of calling him "Hector"—

But it didn't help! she'd lost him completely—

Sometimes fate is like a chain, sometimes it is like a full circle.

For the millennium, she rejected Demos. A thousand years later, she actually returned to his side again.

Just as the minute hand of a clock can never be separated from the dial, it was only when she struggled to walk the whole circle that she suddenly realized that her fate was like this, and the god of darkness was the hour hand of the dial, and from the moment the minute hand left the hour hand, she was destined to return to the hour hand.

......