Chapter 146: The Flame of the Heart (Part II)
"Mrs. Duran. Jonah gently placed Hannah Stewart in a high-backed chair and bowed to the grandmother.
"Mrs. Duran!" the grasshopper screamed, pointing at the tip of the old woman's nose, "why are you here......! I don't even know what the hell it is!"
Madame Duran carefully shook the strainer to let the last drop of black coffee fall into the pot. She put down the strainer and closed the lid of the pot, and walked over with her coffee: "Look at what you said, the Black Cat Café could have appeared anywhere, isn't it? We are a café that is just open for business, and since you are the only customer today, it is natural to try our signature Black Cat Coffee." As she spoke, she bent down to pour fragrant coffee into four cups. Jofanie, a waitress next to her, added sugar and milk to Sibby, poured Jonah an ounce of fresh milk, and pushed the cup in front of the four customers. - Said four, but Yakong stood in the corner without saying a word, and Hannah leaned back in her chair and fell asleep. Danny Stewart's death had a major mental impact on her, and perhaps the coma was not due to pain, but simply a function of self-preservation.
Jonah lifted the hem of his shirt and carefully wiped the blood from Hannah's face. Jophany stood by, looking at Sibby's strange scales, horns, and tail, and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but Madame Duran tugged at his sleeve and said, "Everyone drink coffee first, it won't taste good if it's cold." No matter what happens, you always have to enjoy the delicious food in peace, right?"
"Okay! strange place...... "The little grasshopper stirred the coffee with a silver spoon, took a big sip, and suddenly opened her eyes wide and giggled: "Oh, it's delicious! A little sour chocolate taste, and like a little burnt brown sugar, the body suddenly became light, and the physical strength surged up!" She didn't know that the atavistic features on her body were slowly fading, the tail quietly retracted, and the scales faded back to smooth skin. Jonah, who was sitting across from him, looked gratefully at Mrs. Duran and took a sip from his coffee cup. The unsweetened coffee is very bitter, but you can still feel the esoteric aroma contained in it, which is unpredictable and has a long aftertaste, just like the first cup of moon grass tea that I drank in the Sukasa Canyon of the Western Continent.
Madame Duran moved her chair and sat down, smiling as she watched her guests drink tea. "Since only the two of you have called my name, one of you can make a wish, and I will do my best to grant it. She patted her apron and crossed her hands on her abdomen, waiting for the guest to make her request, "Eat a cookie, eat a cookie, hot cookie with hot coffee, right?"
Sibi took a big bite of the biscuit, washed it down his throat with hot coffee, and hurriedly said, "I was going to say that I would quickly resurrect my uncle, but now that the stupid Danny has also fallen, I don't know how to make a wish!
The old woman shook her head: "No, this is too much to ask, and it can't be said to be a normal wish at all." ”
"Brother Jonah!" Little Grasshopper suddenly had an idea, "I'll resurrect Uncle, you resurrect Danny, one person and one wish, okay?"
The astrologer was puzzled: "I can't let Danny go, but I thought about my wishes before I entered the door, after all, it was a big matter for the future......"
Sibi pouted and scratched his head, "By the way, why don't you wake Hannah up or let the wooden stake call out Madame Duran's name?"
The waitress said with a sad face, "That's against the rules, it's only valid to call out Madame Duran's name before the food at the Black Cat Café is served." ”
The little grasshopper rubbed his temples: "Ahhhhh......hh Can you make Uncle and Stupid Danny become one person, like a weirdo with two heads? Anyway, many of the monsters are two-headed, so it's probably okay to make do with life like the Ez people, right?"
“...... It's not my job to create new humans, and besides, how awkward it is for two men to use one body, there is no beauty at all. "The old lady has black lines all over her head.
Sibi let out a long sigh, drank his coffee, and slapped the table: "Okay! I'm sorry Hannah, but after all, Uncle is the most important person! Mrs. Duran, please give us back Uncle Uncle, this is my wish, all my wishes last time, this time, and all my future wishes!"
The old woman turned to Jonah, "What about you?" ”
The astrologer nodded, "Yes, Lady Duran." If I'm not mistaken, this space is the world of the 'Promised Land', that is, the aggregate of all things that may exist but are not actually there, and the Black Cat Cafe, as the most magical drifting space on the entire continent, will naturally open in this place. I think you'll open your door to us when you find us, because we still have a wish to fulfill. ”
The hostess of the café smiled wryly, "Yes, I haven't forgotten a day since you left. She snapped her fingers, and the sound of heavy footsteps sounded in the depths of the café, and as soon as she heard it, Sibi immediately stood up, and the exquisite coffee cup rolled down the table and smashed to pieces. Madame Durand shook her head and said, "Don't get excited, it's just your body, the last answer was made in response to your wishes." Before it is injected into the soul, it is just a moving piece of flesh. ”
Before she could speak, the green-clad half-elf had already passed through the café, throwing herself into the chamber chief's generous bosom like a returning bird. Toba's majestic body stood there, as tall as a mountain, and his soulless body unconsciously folded its arms and gently held the little grasshopper in its arms.
Jonah secretly wiped his eye sockets with the back of his hand. He confronted Madame Duran and said aloud, "All right, then it's my wish." ...... I'm going to open the seventh door. ”
"Do you know what you're talking about?" asked the old lady calmly.
"Yes. The boy replied without hesitation.
"Well, then what I want for you now......" Mrs. Duran was as she spoke, when suddenly a cold hiss of "choking" resounded through the café, and the wind blew the ground, and Jonah blinked, and a long knife covered with sharp serrations was placed under the old woman's neck. "What are you doing, Jekong!" exclaimed the astrologer, "put the knife down!"
The southerner stared into the eyes of the café owner with gray eyes, and said word by word: "Give me a wish." I will also resurrect a man. Mrs. Duran. No matter what it takes, you can. ”
The old woman waved her hand to signal that Jonah should not panic, and with a slight touch of the blade of her coffee-stained left hand, the tooth of the Buddha turned into a bunch of barbed red roses. Yekong was stunned for a moment, and waved his hand to summon the golden red Buddha light of the Nine Light Secret Technique, "Boom!" King Ming's spear shot out, grazing Madame Duran's head and blowing the male waiter behind her to pieces. "Oops, it's annoying!" "Isn't it the third time I've been here?"
Jonah threw himself over and hugged Jekong's waist, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he's just a little excited, his head is not very good, and he was a little impulsive when he heard the news of the resurrection." Pulling the red-haired man back a few steps, the boy whispered in his ear: "Don't worry, my wish is related to resurrection, you will soon be able to see your lover, believe me!"
Jekong's body stiffened and softened, and he bowed to Madame Duran vigorously, inserted the red rose into the scabbard, and turned to the corner and said no more.
The old woman sighed, "What a reckless child." Let's go on, first of all, the grasshopper's wish, I can't make Toba's soul out of thin air, but I can teach you how to find the soul, you have all the conditions. And Jonah's wish is becoming one with this path, and what you are about to uncover is the most primordial secrets of this world, and the unexpected will happen in the future. ”
Jonah said, "I'm ready. ”
Madame Duran stood up and wiped it with her hand, and the round table became clean and empty. With a flick of her fingers, a few drops of coffee landed on the ivory-white tabletop, and the middle drop slowly blurred into the shape of a four-petaled flower. "This is the continent on which we live, the whole world that actually exists. And countless parallel planes, including these six very bizarre remote worlds, are all small droplets of water floating on the periphery of the continent. ”
Jonah nodded, which was basically the same as what the original mentor said.
The old lady pointed to the top of her head, and a drop of coffee swirled in the air, "The continent and all other planes are on the table, and above the plane, there is a higher world. ”
Jonah understood that this was what the first teachers called the "first world."
The grandmother took out a sugar jar and threw six sugar cubes on the table, each covering a separate drop of coffee liquid. "There are six keys in six different planes, and when the keys are turned, these six planes are no longer flat, but have a new dimension of 'upward'. When the six keys rotate at the same time, what you call the seventh door will appear. She suddenly poured the entire jar of sugar cubes down, and the sugar cubes automatically lined up on the table to form a spiral-shaped tower, rising and rising, and in a few seconds touched the droplets suspended in the air.
"Open the seventh door and you'll be able to access the world above. "You must already know a lot of things, even the truth about these keys." ”
Jonah's chest heaved, "Yes, I see. The seven Seals of the Gods are the keys to the seven doors, and the hidden seventh artifact, 'Umang Heimang', can open the legendary seventh door. The prophecy of the Nameless Book and the legacy left by Segres to the Elemental Elves actually point to the same purpose, the ultimate fact of breaking through the passage of the two worlds. He turned in the direction of Grasshopper and Yakong: "And when the seventh door opens, the rules of our world will be rewritten, and in that moment, our loved ones will find a way to return to this world." ”
"It's just that we may not exist anymore. ”