Anne used to wonder how she was going to die.

Strange to say, she doesn't like to die cleanly. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info She had dreamed of being mutilated and dying a miserable death, but she was not terrified or disturbed at all. Once, she dreamed that she was peacefully dying in her hospital bed, and people held a beautiful funeral for her, and Michelle stood quietly in front of the tombstone and handed her a bouquet of lilies.

She woke up from her dream, drenched in cold sweat, tossing and turning, unable to sleep again.

Since meeting Michelle, it seems that all of Anne's dreams have become related to her. He was chopped up by Michelle, burned to death by the church with Michelle, and strangled with a rope...... There was even a time when she was tumbling with Michelle in a dirty little hotel, and when she was sober, she never had that thought.

Until she decides to betray Michelle.

The idea of betraying Michelle started when Michelle no longer believed in himself, but that was not the initial estrangement. Before Sally came along, Michelle was her faith, her spiritual pillar - Michelle was her god.

Michelle can kill anyone, and Michelle can get anything.

Just like when she first met Michelle. In the middle of the night, Michelle, like a god, descended from the sky and cut off the heads of his guests with a sword.

The scene was like yesterday: the guest's headless body was still pressed against her, twitching and trembling like a stripped. The skull had a slightly comical expression, and its bones rolled on the ground. Blood splattered everywhere, staining the yellowed bedding and sheets, diluting even the most stubborn musty smell on the quilt.

God knows how much she hates that musty smell.

Every time she received a guest, she could only concentrate on the ceiling of the hotel so that she could forget the disgusting smell. No matter how unbearable the guests were, she could empty herself and ignore the sensational fat and greasy nose. There was only that musty smell, and she couldn't stand it.

It smelled like a childhood bed sheet, sticky and damp, a constant reminder of what a despicable person she had become.

To escape the smell, she would open her mouth wide to breathe. Sometimes the guests take her performance as a compliment and act harder, but she doesn't pay much attention to it.

Looking back on her five-year career, the only thing that impressed her was the hateful smell on the ceiling and quilt that she used to daze out.

Therefore, when Michelle killed the guest, Anne was not afraid, but felt a hint of relief and pleasure because the smell of mildew was diluted by the blood.

Then, Michelle put away the sword in his hand, looked at her with an expressionless face, and said to her:

"Follow me, and you will become a mage. ”

At that time, Anne didn't even know what the word mage meant.

But she nodded, and took this sentence to heart. To this day, she can repeat it word for word. The scene in that moment was like a frozen painting, every detail on Michelle's clothes, the angle at which the door opened, the position of the head rolling off, the shape of the stains on the walls...... Everything seemed to have just happened, and the picture was as fresh as a fish fresh from the sea.

Michelle is such an incredible being.

Perhaps that's why Anne became so angry when she found out that Michelle didn't believe in herself anymore.

The turning point occurred in the third month of studying magic with Michelle.

That day, Michelle came back with a woman who looked like a bamboo pole. It was supper time, when the strange woman followed Michelle into the door, and without waiting for anyone else to speak, she sat down with a smile on her face, as if she were the master of the place, and took the only sausage on the plate.

It was the dinner she left for Michelle.

Anne stared blankly at the woman, at her towering cheekbones and mean eyebrows. Anne was shocked, she didn't know who this woman was, and she didn't know if she should be angry.

The woman looked at her and grinned:

"Hello, my name is Sally. ”

Sally, what a stupid name. Only the stupidest peasant woman, who accidentally fell into the dung pit after drinking three barrels of ale, and was confused, would give her daughter such a name.

But she still didn't get angry, didn't slap the shameless woman, but looked at Michelle cautiously. Michelle didn't do anything, just threw her a word, or an order:

"From this day on, she is our companion. ”

Anne fell into Lake Pearl in winter, cold, stinging, and sore bones.

This feeling is all too familiar.

She seemed to have suddenly returned to her childhood, that ignorant little girl.

When she was five years old, her mother did the same, holding a crumpled baby boy in her arms and saying to her, "From this day on, he will be your brother." ”

How similar.

Her mother was a well-known abandoned woman in the village, and her father left on the day she was born. In order to find her husband, the mother sold her land and cows and embarked on a journey to find her husband. Sometimes for three days, sometimes for five days, Anne could only rely on a little help from her neighbors, waiting for her mother to return disappointed again and again in her dilapidated home.

When she was five years old, her mother left for ten days and finally brought back a baby boy, her younger brother. I heard that it was her father's child with another woman outside, and as for where her father was, Anne did not know, and her mother did not say a word when she returned.

After that time, my mother seemed to have lost her heart and no longer went out to look for my father, but she became obsessed with ale. The drunken mother scared Anne. Sometimes she wakes up at night and finds her mother looking at her, not like her own daughter, but at an enemy.

But the mother's eyes on her younger brother were completely different.

Even when he was drunk, his mother would only touch his brother with the gentlest arms, sing him lullabies, tuck him under the quilt, and steal milk for him in the next village. Sometimes, Anne felt that her mother looked at her brother not like her son, but at her lover.

What's more, it wasn't the mother's son at all.

Anne hated her brother, but she couldn't help it. She goes to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, she does all the housework, she helps the neighbors with the farm work. And the money she got in exchange for not only her mother's wine money, but also spent it on her younger brother, the best clothes, and the best food...... All just to satisfy her mother. Every time she mended her brother's clothes, she could feel that her mother's eyes had softened a little when she looked at her.

This made her feel that her mother still loved her.

As time passed, her mother became more and more decadent, her attitude towards her became more and more bad, and her devotion to her mother and brother gradually deepened. Eventually, everything accumulates to the top.

The turning point happens, like maggots born from a corpse that has rotted to the extreme.

At the age of twelve, she was taken to a hotel by a bald middle-aged man in order to earn money, and experienced the first time in her life. For the first time, she fell in love with the dirty, moldy ceilings of the hotel. She looked at the ceiling and thought about how happy her mother would be if she got the money and how much food she could buy for her brother. It made her happy too.

But when she returned home with the money, the neighbors told her that her brother had drowned in Lake Pearl.

She will never forget the way her mother looked at her when she came home that day.

In fact, from beginning to end, the mother did not make any comments on the death of her younger brother. As usual, she sat on the bed, half-covered with a worn-out quilt, and carried a half-drunk bottle in her hand, and looked at Anne coldly.

Anne read the words in her mother's eyes: "I hope you are the one who dies." ”

So, Anne didn't speak. She silently walked to the bedside, took out the small bag of money she had just earned, and placed it next to her mother's hand.

The mother looked at her again, and finally spoke:

"Cheap. ”

The next day, Anne found her mother's body in Lake Pearl. Like her younger brother, her mother's facial features were deformed, and her face was swollen like leavened bread. At the moment of seeing the corpse, Anne thought that her mother would be happy, and now that her brother and mother looked so alike, no one would ever say that they were not biological.

At the funeral of her mother and brother, she shed a lot of tears. It was the first time she cried, and she felt light.

After the funeral, she left the village.

Until she met Sally, she didn't know how she felt about her mother and brother. She felt like she loved them and that she had given so much for them. She was so sad by their death that she left her hometown and wandered around.

But the moment she saw Sally, she realized that she hated her brother as much as she hated Sally in front of her.

She wished she could slap Sally in the face, just as she wished she could strangle the baby boy in the first place.

But she didn't. She maintained a blank expression, watched Sally eat the sausage, and said a little timidly, "Hello...... I'm Annie. ”

She walked into a new dead end.

Sally is smarter than she is, Sally is more gifted in magic than she is, and Sally is more eloquent...... Everything was just as Anne had expected, and Michelle's scales gradually tilted to Sally's side. No matter how hard she tries or how obedient she is, Michelle's attention to Sally will always be above her.

Every late night, she wanted to get up quietly and slit the woman's throat with a dagger, letting the blood cover the disgusting smirk. But she didn't dare.

Just as she didn't dare to kill her brother, she didn't dare touch a single strand of Sally's hair.

This made her hate herself even more.

She also discovered that she was such a person: the worse others treated her, the better she couldn't help but treat others. This became a motivation for her to try to get rid of her own lowliness. She wanted to change herself completely.

As a result, she became more and more radical. She tortures all the hostages captured by Michelle, and she kills her enemies with the most brutal means. It made her happy. She felt that she had changed, she had become very powerful, she was no longer the humble silly girl she used to be, and everyone else was afraid of her.

But in front of Michelle and Sally, she still didn't dare to come out.

Sally wasn't killed by her.

Anne was shocked that Michelle didn't believe this. How could she have killed Sally? How dare she kill Sally? The dead mother and brother had long since become heavy chains, binding her in place. She would never have taken that step.

After Sally sued, Anne didn't even argue with Sally. She knew that Sally was such an unscrupulous person, and this was not the first time Sally had spoken ill of herself. It happened several times in front of her, and there must have been more in private. And she never resisted, not even complained.

It was Sally who took the initiative to find her.

"Anne, don't be angry, I didn't mean to sue you just now. ”

Sally explained it to her.

"Don't you think it's strange to Michelle, Anne, she knows so many things, but she never tells us, and we still don't know what's in the vault. You say, why does she have to hold us down? I don't think she's any better than us......"

Sally complained to her.

"Annie, I heard that Michelle has a treasure that can multiply people's magic power in an instant, let's go and snatch it! Don't be afraid, Michelle is not as powerful as she looks, as long as we ...... while she is resting"

Sally was so inciting to her.

"Don't do this, Anne! Don't tell Michelle, no! Michelle will kill me! Please, don't tell Michelle that I want to betray her, okay?"

Sally pleaded with her.

When Anne defeats Sally and binds her with magic, she realizes that she is already so much stronger than Sally. And Sally's usual arrogance is just pretending to be arrogant.

She still wasn't going to kill Sally. She's going to tell Michelle and let Michelle handle it all. Michelle hates betrayers the most, and if she recognizes Sally's true colors, she will definitely kill Sally - how good, this thing she wants to do but does not dare to do.

As long as Sally is dead, Michelle will definitely value herself again. She thought so.

It's just that she underestimated Sally's determination.

With no way out, Sally makes an even more tragic decision - although she is bound by Anne and cannot escape, at least, she can control her own life. So, before Anne could react, she detonated her magic from the inside and killed herself.

"Annie, she'll never believe you again. ”

These were the last words she left before she died.

Anne is thrust into the abyss of despair.

Sally framed her by suicide, and she didn't know how to explain it all to Michelle. Compared to Sally's suicide for some twisted reasons, killing Sally himself is obviously more reasonable and credible. And in Michelle's opinion, she has a long-standing grudge with Sally.

Needless to say, there are traces of fighting in this place.

"Sally, Annie, it's time to go!"

Before Sally's warmth had faded, Michelle began to call out to them. In her panic, Anne realizes that she has done another stupid thing - she hastily disposes of the body and makes up a lie in an attempt to convince Michelle that Sally is missing.

However......

"Annie, you killed Sally?"

These were the words of the nobleman, and they exploded in her head like a thunderbolt.

Sally had it all, and Michelle would rather believe the incompetent nobleman than trust her.

She found herself back to the cowardly and incompetent little girl who could do nothing but keep repeating the pale excuses. And Michelle's attitude made her feel like she was in an ice cellar. Although she said that she believed in herself, the look in her eyes was exactly the same as her mother's when her brother died.

After many years, Anne read that look again.

Michelle was going to kill her.

After repeated washes of despair, a strong thought finally welled up from her heart.

She wants to change, she doesn't want to change back to her old self, she can't repeat the same mistakes.

Anne decides to betray Michelle.

She's going to surrender to the Rieser family's pursuers, and she's going to tell them about Michelle's plans. Although the church has a strict ban on mages, secretly, many nobles have severed ties with mages and sought the power of magic. She is willing to do something for the Reese family, who will spare themselves and kill Michelle.

Kill Michelle ......

The thought of this made Anne tremble.

Anne convinced herself that she was trembling with excitement.

After running through the woods for a while, Anne finally saw the knights. They must be from the Reesers!, she thought. So she ran to them as fast as she could, waved at them, and shouted:

"I have no ill will, ...... of your family"

She was greeted by a holy light.

Within the Holy See, there are actually many kinds of Holy Light. There is the holy light used to baptize knights, gentle and holy, there is the holy light used to torture pagans, which can scorch people to death, and there is the holy light used to kill enemies, which is so powerful that it can purify people in an instant, leaving no trace.

Anne was confronted with the third light.

The terrifying temperature evaporated her robes and skin in the blink of an eye, and the burning sensation was so intense that she couldn't unleash even the simplest of protective magic. She couldn't see anything, and everywhere there was a holy light that was too dazzling to look at.

Before she could betray Michelle, she was purified by the "Purge".

Fine pieces of ash fluttered in the woods in the middle of the night, fluttering like butterflies, trampled into sludge like butterflies by the iron hooves of the "cleaners".

Anne died.

In the moment before she died, she suddenly thought......

No, she didn't have time to think about anything. She didn't have time to make an assessment of this way of dying - she didn't know if the evaporation of the light was tragic enough for her, and she didn't have time to regret betraying Michelle or anything else. There is no flashback of her life in front of her eyes, and there is no flashing of the joys and unhappiness of childhood.

She's just dead.