Snowflakes fell from the sky one after another, and the sky was gray, just like Xia's mood at the moment.

She sat on a chair in the backyard garden, looking up at the sky, in a silent daze, letting the snowflakes fall on her shoulders, on the tips of her hair, on her heart.

With difficulty, she raised her right hand to catch a falling snowflake and watched it slowly melt in the palm of her hand.

Even without a precise clock, she had already noticed that the snowflakes were melting very slowly, much slower than they would fall on normal people's hands......

Looking at the small puddle of water on the palm of her hand, she only felt a faint hint of coolness, as if there was nothing.

My situation seems to be getting worse and worse......

She sighed softly in her heart, wiped the water trails dry, and looked at the big tree in the courtyard, silent.

Time flies, and nearly two months have passed since the day she woke up.

If Mage Raj's guess wasn't wrong, then she only had a month or so left, right?

Oh, that's pathetic......

I would actually die in this way, without the company of relatives and friends, nor the passionate battle, just such a person, in an unknown corner, died in obscurity......

This is not in line with the fact that I finally came to this strange magical world!

Xia laughed at himself in his heart, although he smiled bitterly, he was always a little unwilling.

With such a result, where is it worthy of such a miraculous experience?

It's a pity that no matter how unwilling she is, she can't change such a cruel truth.

Her body, and soul, had been deteriorating since she woke up two months ago, and she showed no signs of improvement.

Her hands and feet became weaker and weaker, and it was difficult to control.

Today, it has become so difficult for her to even lift her hand that she has almost lost the ability to move on her own.

She was able to sit in this backyard garden because she asked a maid to help.

Not only did her body become extremely weak, but even her body temperature was dropping little by little, as if she was about to gradually change from a warm and soft body to a cold and stiff puppet body, just like the last time she was robbed of her blood essence by the vampire prince.

She didn't know if this was caused by a change in her soul, but it was all happening silently and irreversibly.

Yes, she felt it, she was dying.

With each passing day, she was one step closer to death, slowly but surely, and she knew it all too well, no doubt.

If it continues to deteriorate at this rate, it is estimated that the day she will turn into a cold body will probably not be far from the period that Master Raj had inferred.

In this way, Master Raj's judgment of how bad her soul is is quite accurate.

Xia could only smile bitterly at this, but he was helpless.

In these two short months, she went from being only a little weak to the point of being physically weak, and it gradually became difficult to move, which was a kind of torture for her, and no one would like this feeling of sitting and waiting for death.

One day, two days, three days, maybe someone can bear it, but as time goes by, the terrible feeling of death will become closer and closer, which makes people feel extremely tormented.

Rather than this helplessness of waiting for death slowly, she is more willing to fight with a strong enemy, fight vigorously, and then die happily in the hands of the enemy!

Yes, Natsu didn't have much hope that he would continue to survive.

She was also unwilling, and even more unwilling to give up, but she was helpless.

In order to be able to live, she was willing to grit her teeth again and again to endure the terrible pain of tearing her soul, believing that she could be healed.

But now, the person everyone was counting on to heal her, Raj Dore Kapkris, a legendary mage who specializes in soul magic, is now helpless against her dire situation!

In fact, for the past two months, Gen Raj has been trying to find a way to solve her soul problem, and even comes to check on her every few days, with an extremely serious attitude.

However, he has never decided on a treatment plan, presumably because he is not sure.

She had also heard from the private conversations of the servants of the manor that Master Raj seemed to have lost his temper several times, throwing all over the floor his treasured magic books, and even the table was overturned by him, leaving the whole study in disarray.

The legendary mage seems to have done everything he can to solve her problem, but unfortunately, he still can't find any way.

She was still very grateful for the efforts and intentions of this Raj master, and did not blame the other party because her situation had deteriorated.

Because she could feel it, for some reason she didn't know, the legendary mage really wanted to heal herself, and she did it with all her might, without reservation.

Although there is an accident now, how can she blame the other party, she is not a child who doesn't understand anything!

Knowing that the treatment process would be extremely risky, Gen Raj had repeatedly reminded her, but it was a choice she had made, and she would not regret it.

If there is really anything that makes her feel pity, except that she will die in this obscure way, it is that she can't do what she promised a certain little girl.

Obviously, he had made an agreement with the other party and promised to go back, but he couldn't fulfill his promise...... Oh, it's really unwilling!

She knew that she might be about to lose her trust, and she was dishonest with a little girl who trusted her very much, but there was nothing she could do.

Xia looked at the big tree in the center of the backyard, looking at its branches covered with snow, and felt that his heart was also heavy, and he was a little depressed.

......

"Miss Xia, it's snowing now, it's cold outside, and you're not in good health, so let's go back to the house?"

A maid seemed to be unable to take it any longer, came to her side, carefully brushed the snow from her shoulders and hair, and whispered to her.

The servants of the manor actually secretly watched the change in the physical condition of this guest, and naturally knew that her health had become worse and worse recently, so a certain housekeeper specially arranged several maids to take turns to take care of her, just for fear that when she had something or needed, she would not even have no one around her.

"No, I want to stay here, I don't want to go back to my room. ”

Natsu didn't heed the kind maid's advice and insisted on staying here in the backyard garden, preferring to stay here for some fresh air rather than the oppressive air in her room.

Although it was snowing in the sky and the wind was a little cold, her days were running out, so how many more times could she see it?

Even if she died, she would prefer to stay here, under this luxuriant tree, in the company of these flowers and plants, under this empty and open sky, in this snowflake air, rather than in the exquisitely furnished but oppressive room.

When the maid heard this, she shook her head and had no choice but to retreat.

Perhaps, dying people will always become very stubborn in some way, right?

Xia smiled helplessly in his heart and did not change his decision.

She felt her body getting weaker and weaker, and sat silently, not saying anything more.

If that day comes, your body is completely immobile, or your soul has dissipated, and the rest ...... What could it be?

She guessed with some boredom.

Will it be the shell of an alchemical puppet, or a 'corpse' in some sense?

She had no way of knowing.

......

After a few more days, Natsu felt that her mental condition was getting worse and worse, and she was a little drowsy.

Just yesterday, Mage Raj approached her, seemingly intending to make a final attempt and effort, and she agreed, but when she went to the magic tower, and he was ready to do all kinds of auxiliary magic before he started, he was still unable to do it in the face of her poor soul condition.

Perhaps, her soul was too weak to withstand any tear or change?

Eventually, Master Raj ordered her to be sent back to the manor, and he sat in his study, looking like he was decades old.

Xia didn't say anything about this, and he didn't have any disappointment.

Maybe she already knew that she couldn't save it.

No one has felt the physical changes in the past two months more deeply than her.

She had the maid carry herself to the garden in the backyard, and looked up at the luxuriant tree, which was said to have been cultivated by magic, by the wife of the Raj mage, and envied its vitality more than once.

Even in the cold winter, there is no sign of its withering and decaying, and its branches and leaves are verdant.

I'm afraid, maybe long after she's gone, it'll still be alive and well, right?

Things in the world are always so unsatisfactory and always so wonderful and unpredictable!

......

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly, she felt a strange and familiar tremor in her heart.

She barely bred herself up, trying to wake up her consciousness from the drowsy and the trance, trying to capture the source of the tremor, and trying to recall its familiarity.

Soon, she remembered what it was and what it represented.

yes, this familiar feeling, how could she have forgotten it?

You know, that's her only connection to other people in this strange magical world!

In the depths of her soul, the contract mark that had been silent for a long time came with a throbbing that she was extremely familiar with, and along with her mood that had been low for many days, it also began to beat, again and again.

Knock, knock......

She could already hear her own heartbeat, and it was so clear that it could not be heard.

As a purple light lit up and dissipated, a figure familiar to her appeared in the backyard garden and called out her name---

"Summer!"