Chapter 368: Different Wills
Leaving the witch's inner world is much easier than Si thought. In fact, the moment Klandi agreed with the mage, his soul was squeezed out of the woods and back into his body. Soon, however, Cheese noticed something strange. The thorns in the room did stop, which seemed to indicate that their owners had calmed down their out-of-control emotions. But Colante in front of her was still quietly bowing her head motionless with her eyes closed, her hands were no longer tearing her face, and the whole person seemed to be asleep. The threatening aura that emanated from the witch's body did not subside, but on the contrary, it seemed to increase a little.
"Did I make a mistake?" Cheese's brow furrowed, and he cautiously took a few more steps towards Corandy. The mage noticed that the witch's clothes shredded as she lost control, revealing a small patch of snow-white skin and two visible red spots under her collarbone. Cheese's pupils instantly shrank when he saw the red spot, and the scar from the vampire's bite should have disappeared, so why did it appear again?
Almost at the same time, Corandy's head was raised, her long eyelashes fanning, the pupils of her eyes were neither the usual blue nor the green of dreams, those blood-red eyes were all too familiar to the mage, but the person who had them should never be Colandy. "Sister Lily?" asked Cheese uncertainly. When the blonde witch's face showed a smile that didn't match Kolandy's words and deeds, but it was unusually beautiful, the man with red pupils spoke.
"Fortunately, you stopped it in time, and if it was too late, this little girl's body would have been permanently and irreparably damaged. The witch is such a nuisance, even I couldn't take control of her body just now. Colante's mouth was saying strange things, her legs tense, and she looked as if she was trying to stand up. But the witch's body was like a marionette with a broken string in the process, and due to her completely uncoordinated movements, she fell behind her and sat back on the ground.
"Wait, you're An Lina, right? Senpai, I don't understand, how are you...""How did you possess your little 'fiancée', right?" The mage was interrupted before he could finish his sentence. Cheese scratched his head, the change in front of him was completely beyond his expectations, but it was indeed the question he wanted to ask.
"Ah, by the way, this is the first time you've seen me use this trick. An Lina, who spoke with the body of Kolanty, seemed to give up on standing up, so she simply leaned back, leaned on the thorn vine behind her and said, "How is it? Okay, don't show that expression, in short, I can ignore the physical distance and temporarily control those who have been bitten by me. I made this insurance when you teleported this little girl back to the tower just in case, and now it seems that it is really useful. ”
"Are you afraid that she will really have a 'wedding' with me?" Ignoring the words in An Lina's words, Cheese directly pointed out the other party's purpose.
"Well, that's right. I can't watch you lose your life for a boring contract. Especially if you just said something like that. At this point, the expression on Kolandy's face turned pale, and it was obvious that what the mage had done in the witch's inner world had not escaped Ann Lina's surveillance.
"Is there anything wrong with what I said?" If there is anyone in this world who can eavesdrop on Cheese's words and deeds without annoying the mage, then this person is only Ann Lina, who has had complete trust in this nominal senior sister, but in fact he has a woman like a mother. And this trust has also made him always accept An Lina's advice in his life so far, but this time, hearing that the senior sister did not agree with his words to persuade Kelendy, Cheese's heart was inexplicably a little irritable.
Ann Lina chuckled, she was so familiar with cheese that she could spot it even if the mage only showed a slight displeasure in his words. "Listen to what you have to say, my little cheese. I know that you haven't had much exposure to the mundane world before this trial, but that doesn't mean you should be so easily influenced by the people around you. As she said this, a faint red mist began to be released from the witch's eyes, and the mage knew that only when the senior sister was really angry would behave like this. "You've been with these self-righteous mortals for too long, or it's a mistake for you to continue this trial. Cheese, you have to understand that you are not a knight, nor a warrior, nor a savior! You are a gray robe, you have enough knowledge in your head to make the world crazy, you have no one in you, those mortals can sacrifice themselves to protect their fellow citizens, that is because they are not much different in value, and it is worth sacrificing individuals to protect more of their kind under this premise. But you are different, and you alone are worth far more than this kingdom. Sacrificing you to keep this country alive? They don't deserve the price. ”
Mage, there was silence. Value, price, these two words are not unfamiliar to him, in the gray tower where cheese grows, almost all choices are made on the basis of absolute rationality, pay the price to get paid, learn like this, cast spells like this, and even sign a contract with Migo. From this point of view, the value of cheese is indeed far greater than that of all the creatures in the kingdom of the blue lion, after all, this is just a small remote country on the edge of the world. Even most of the people here don't know what the world really is, and they live naively under the protection of the sun, they don't help the truth, they just fend for themselves like other creatures...... No, it shouldn't be like this.
Cheese's eyes also began to glow with magic, but it wasn't because he was going to fight Ann Lina, but because of the natural reaction of overly intense thinking and mood swings. After a long time, the mage spoke, "I can't agree. I'm sorry, senior, I can't tell why. ”
"What did you say?" the expression on Ann Lina's face was distorted with shock after hearing Cheese's answer. The cheese she knew would never deny this logic, because this is exactly what she had taught the mage since she was a child, and in the prediction of the vampire true ancestor, cheese should recognize his recklessness and be more cautious about his next actions, instead... Push yourself back. "How dare you talk to me like that!" Ann Lina's furious magic burst through Kolendi's body as a medium, and the magic so powerful that Cheese almost suffocated that it was impossible to rise to the idea of confrontation, and for a moment, the mage even suspected that his body would be torn to shreds by the angry senpai.
Ann Lina certainly won't kill Cheese, but that doesn't mean she won't punish him. As Kolanty's body stretched out her right hand, Cheese's body was uncontrollably pulled into the former's arms, and a large number of chain patterns began to appear on the mage's skin, but due to the demon possessed by the Elder and the Ardor King, the battle caused the magic pattern on Cheese's right hand to disappear. When the witch saw this, her face twitched slightly, and then she opened her mouth, revealing two canine teeth that had grown at some point, and bit the back of the mage's right hand fiercely. The intense pain instantly robbed Cheese of his ability to think, leaving him with no chance to notice what was appearing on his skin.
The dark red substance flowed down the teeth and beneath the mage's skin, spreading like small snakes along the veins and other body tissues. And in the end, it magically connected with the broken chain on Cheese's right arm, and the new red lines were connected to the previous blue lines, which was exactly the same! But Cheese couldn't see this, he only endured the pain silently, and regarded this as his punishment for disobeying Ann Lina.
Canine tooth, leaving the wound. The gray-robed mage clutched his right hand and fell to his knees weakly, his face distorted from pain. An Lina saw all this, and a trace of unbearability flashed in her red eyes, but she was quickly forcibly suppressed. After a few moments, Cheese finally recovered from the pain, and he staggered to his feet, looking at Ann Lina, waiting for the other to speak, as his facial muscles had not yet recovered enough to speak.
"You think that's the end of it?" Kolante's face sneered, her red eyes full of teasing, "You think you're an adult, you're no longer an apprentice, and you can act on your own will? Cheese, listen, as an agent of the Grey Tower, I declare that from now on, until the kingdom of the Grey Lion is no longer infested by the nezumi, you will not be allowed to return to the Grey Tower!"
With that, the red in Kolanty's eyes faded, and the witch's body went limp as if it had lost its energy supply. This time, with the master's coma, the thorn vines in the room began to quickly return to the ground, and everyone who was originally bound by thorns also regained their freedom.