77. The eve of the confession
Pinching the beautifully drawn painting in her hand, Elliog's expression smacked her lips with great displeasure, because from her point of view, Bai Meng was worthy of mastering the art and mystical knowledge of the world, and could easily draw the picture so beautifully, as if it were a reproduction.
It seemed that the unprovoked flame spread from her fingers, and it seemed to spread all the way down where she came into contact with the drawings and burn them completely, but in the afterglow, Elliog still saw Fisher, who was looking down at the paintings, and seemed to see his slightly touched heart.
"Shh
The flame suddenly stopped, slowly retracted into her body, and spared the drawing, which was a work of art.
I still remember that when she told Fisher earlier, she was very sure that Bymon must have some special purpose to approach Fisher, so that he would put the "Favor Mark", which was very precious to the demon, on his body, and even erased and covered her mark.
Although until now, Elliog still feels the same way, but looking at the very detailed pictures in front of him, Elliog can't reiterate this point of view for a while.
However, Emhart, who was in Fisher's arms, just glanced at it and hid in Fisher's arms as if he didn't see it, and said without thinking,
"This must be a trick by Bymon! She arranged it in advance, so don't be fooled! β
β.β
Fisher touched the frightened Emhart, and he just looked at the drawings around him, and even the many that Jasmine had not taken out and laid out on the ground, each of which seemed so delicate that it had obviously been carefully carved by the painter.
He picked up one of them, looked at it for a moment, and then suddenly said,
"These are all images from when I met her in the past"
"Oh, it's not like her."
Elliog casually threw the huge painting back in its place, perhaps to reiterate the same point as Emhart, after all, in her eyes, it was likely that Bymon had planned all this in advance for them to see this scene.
Not only would it allow Fisher to see their previous experiences, but it would also anger the other women standing next to him, so why not?
But on closer thought, Elliog didn't speak, for she suddenly discovered a contradiction, as if she suddenly didn't know what she was thinking and disposition.
If Bymon had just designed it this way, and everything was as Emhardt said, then he didn't need to care about all the things she painted, because everything was fake anyway.
But when Elliog saw her delicately recording what it didn't seem to be her thoughts, recounting her teasing of Fisher, recounting Fisher's worries about her, the love that spanned 10,000 years was stuck in Elliog's throat like a fishbone.
If all this that Baimon has set up is not a design, but sincere, she has indeed remembered her lover who only exists in the future for 10,000 years, which makes Elliog even more unacceptable.
It was as if she was justifying her right to erase Elliog's mark and dye herself, to justify her possession of Fisher.
The combination of the two is not a matter of thought, but it can only make Elliog more and more unhappy.
Feeling that he had been unhappy in front of him, he almost fried his hair and was angry with Elliog, and Fisher could only quickly change the topic, he looked back at Jasmine and cut to the point,
"Whether or not Hellaire deliberately let me see it or if this was the case before, our priority now is to find the pedestal, Jasmine, can you still feel the exact location of the pedestal?"
Jasmine behind her was still puffing out her cheeks to collect the pictures on the ground, quite a kind of "I'm going to take this evidence back to Rafael to see", until Fisher turned around, she couldn't stop moving, pouted and said,
"I'll give it a try, I can feel it's so close to here."
"Hmm."
Originally, when she saw Fisher and found out that Baimon was deceiving him and felt angry, Jasmine still had a little bit of joy in her heart, but now when she saw so many sweet memories, Jasmine's heart rose again, and she was not even happy to look at the "evidence" collected in her hand.
Originally, she didn't have much feeling for this "Baimon" she had never met, especially since she had just eaten Teacher Fisher, but now that she had experienced this, she was also as wary and dissatisfied with Baimon as Elliog, just like she had with Elizabeth.
Well, as for Elliog, for the sake of her not being hostile to herself, let's cooperate with her for the time being.
Jasmine began to look for the location of the pedestal, but Elliog was surprisingly quiet, just re-hanging the crumpled corner of the painting back on the wall and standing in the doorway with her hands folded, waiting for Jasmine's movements.
Fisher glanced at the painting on the wall again, chewing in his mind the words that Hellel had left behind the painting, and at the same time, he saw the spiral staircase that led to the second floor of the palace next to the painting.
β.β
Emhart in his arms was already very uneasy, and Fisher thought for a moment and then took him out of his arms, telling him to wait here for a while, and he would go up and have a look.
Emhart behind him had tried to persuade him to be careful, but Fisher had already made his way up the stairs to the deeper second floor.
On the second floor, in line with the image of wisdom that had been passed down thousands of years ago, there were many bookshelves, Fisher stood in place and looked around for a while, and then walked through the bookshelves to the end of the second floor, and the light on the first floor has become more and more dim here, and can only be vaguely seen that at the end of the bookshelf there is a dusty desk, which looks like it has not been used for a long time.
At the back of the desk is the image of the demon god "Baimeng" that has been passed down to the world.
It was a shadowy back, with angel-like wings on her back, and a holy, flawless appearance, so that she was called the "Lord of the Angels" by humans.
She wore a crown full of jewels and rode on the back of a human-speaking dromedary, as if she had been on the journey, walking on a desolate desert.
Fisher looked up at the back, which did not record her true appearance, and suddenly reached out and lifted the painting up to look behind itβHellaire had a habit of leaving the name and caption on the back of the work, and this painting was no exception.
But I saw that it was written:
"Me"
"I seem to be tirelessly searching for my way to the 'future', waiting for the person in the future to meet me."
Only then did Fisher realize that the image of "Baimon", which was widely circulated by the world, was actually closely related to him.
He remembered, of course, that the crown on her head had been formed by herself clumsily placing the gems into it one by one; Of course, he remembered that the she-camel she was riding under her had been picked up for herself by the snake tribe she was visiting.
He looked at the picture above, then turned back and sat down at the desk where Baimon was sitting, quietly looking at the dark library in front of him, and sat quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.
It wasn't until his face and body began to squirm, as if some pitch-black fluid was moving in his body, that he heard a childish voice,
"Fisher, you seem to be thinking?"
"Well, Cupid."
"What are you thinking?"
"Thinking about the real owner of your name."
So the name Cupid has an owner?"
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay, can I use it again?"
Fisher was noncommittal, just leaned lightly back in her chair, and suddenly asked at the black mud,
"I suddenly felt that I couldn't see a person clearly, I didn't know whether everything about her was true or false, I didn't know why she was close to me, and all the doubts I had before could be interpreted by 'believing', but now I don't know if I can entrust the same belief to her again."
"Do you know her a little better now?"
Fisher leaned back in her chair, and suddenly remembered the words behind the huge picture she had just made, and she said,
"During the night of having each other, what he held was the woman he loved the most and loved him the most."
Fisher rubbed his temples, and before Jasmine had the last time to find the pedestal, under the gaze of the shadowy back behind him, he muttered,
I don't know."
β.β
Black Mud didn't say anything more, just quietly accompanied him, as it had said before, "love him".
On the first floor, as Fisher walked alone to the second floor, Jasmine began to look for the exact location of the pedestal, but Elliog still stood in front of the wide open door of the palace with his hands crossed, his expression no longer lazy, but he did not know what he was thinking.
"Why, suddenly the expression is so ugly?"
It was at this moment that Sidi's voice behind her suddenly sounded, interrupting Elliog's thoughts, and she looked back unhappily to see Sidi, whose fingertips were constantly entwined with her long red hair, looking at her with a smile.
"What?"
Sidi glanced her up and down, and then said with some schadenfreude, "It can be seen that your 'sleep therapy' is still quite effective, and it hasn't even exploded before the patron was snatched away by Baimeng, is it because the body has not been unsealed yet?" β
"If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have a fart, let it go."
Elliog yawned and wagged his tail behind him.
And Sidi didn't mind Elliog's words at all, they had known each other for an unknown amount of time, and naturally they wouldn't highlight their birth points because of these fur trash words.
"Your Barbatos is still running around for you, and you can still stay here and do nothing in peace? You don't look like that. β
"Ever since I was with Barbatos until I was sealed by that false god, we haven't seen each other very often, mainly because you basically sleep all day, and it's normal for me to change, isn't it? I have nothing to complain about the current situation, not to mention the trust of the friend related to Fisher, who is also my junior, and it is very difficult to help either side, so I simply don't do anything. β
"That friend. Who exactly is it referring to? β
The smile on Sidi's face became more and more presumptuous, he cocked his fingers, and smiled,
"You're curious because of your relationship with Fisher?"
"You want to care?"
Elliog glanced at Sidi like a fried hair, and Sidi no longer said against her words, but honestly admitted,
"The guy who helped me connect with Barbatos, but Barbatos didn't know her, and I have a lot to do with her now being so free, I have to say, it's really happy to get rid of that [nature]."
"Happy?"
Elliog's eyes narrowed, and before she could feel the ease that flowed from Sidi's words, Sidi nodded her chin and continued,
"I'm secondary, it's up to you, Elliog."
"Me?" Elliog looked at him and yawned again, "What's wrong with me?" β
"What's wrong with you? Didn't you still feel bad about that Baimon when you first came in, and that Fisher had the mark of Baimon's patron on him, not yours. β
"What, you want me to go my old way?"
"It's not a matter of the old way, Elliog"
Sidi also leaned against the wall, looking at the wave outside that was hidden by the β symbols, his eyes were also a little empty, and then said,
"Barbatos and Agareth may have been exploited by Bymon's tricks, and I'm sure you can see that, and you and Fisher are working hard to break it. But how have you ever thought about what will happen after this? β
β.β
Elliog was silent, but Sidi was still saying,
"Barbatos and Agareth are still in the seal, the seal of that false god is both a curse and a blessing for us, you know, we are driven by our nature to walk freely only for ourselves and for others, and you are one of them, so, after this incident, what about you?
"You're going to return to your seal when you're done, as you have done in the past? Or do you want Fisher to use the pedestal to release you alone? I guess you wouldn't want to accept it even if I had to release you, wouldn't you? Otherwise, why have you slept in your lair for thousands of years? β
Elliott had become completely expressionless, but he didn't refute Sidi's words, just clasped his hands and asked,
"What the hell are you trying to say?"
"I'm trying to say that you may have overcome your true nature in the depths of your heart. Xiang Baimeng admits defeat. β
Sidi smiled, lowered her head and hid her face in the shadows, leaving only the pink mist circulating in it, which looked as terrifying as two pink stars spinning in the darkness.
"You can't leave here from the Seal itself, you don't want to leave, you're afraid to go down the 'old path' of the past, so you go to the opposite extreme. I know what you're thinking, Beckon can walk freely outside, and she has such a relationship with Fisher, so she is indeed more suitable to be Fisher's patron than you, so you silently accept in your heart the fact that she has erased your mark.
Elliog remained silent, just looked at the scorching heat in the palace outside, apparently acquiescing to Sidi's statement, and her expression remained unchanged until he had finished speaking.
Sidi also turned his head to look at her at this time, and after a pause, he couldn't help but ask,
"Is that really what you want, Elliog?"
β.β Elliog looked at the flames outside, shook his head and said, "It's just a night of dew, this level of unwillingness, even if I let go."
"Do you think that the way to avoid the old way is to go to the opposite extreme?"
Elliog's words were interrupted by Sidi who was smiling next to her, she was slightly stunned, turned her head to see Sidi holding up a finger, and then suddenly blinked and said,
"I always have that need for Barbatos, and he likes to be praised for his penchant for being satisfied by me. I no longer see outsiders, and Barbatos no longer cherishes his earthly name, but that doesn't mean we've completely abandoned who we were. The more generous you are now, the more you will be driven down the old path
"It's just that you don't have any experience in this area, and you don't know that the choices you're making now are completely useless, do you want to try to confess to him, before everything comes? Or do you want to go against your nature and give up everything to Bymun? β
Elliog's expression was a little hesitant, as if he was struggling inwardly, until Sidi beside him left the wall he was leaning on and walked towards the depths of Baimon's palace, and finally waved his hand and muttered,
"Don't forget, what is the next sentence to defeat the invincible~"
"Victor. There is no beating"
Elliog muttered, her eyes glowing with a terrifying flame in her eyes like fiery serpents, but the tail behind her still swayed slightly with her hesitation, with a hint of unclear meaning.
It's just that in this quiet thought, all the sounds around her seem to be wrapped in the silence in her skull, and it becomes silent.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! β
It wasn't until a long, long time later that a powerful heartbeat exploded from the depths of her mind.
The faint smell of saltpeter in her nasal cavity suddenly became viscous, as if it had been stained with the smell of rust, and it was about to be poured into her seven orifices, so thick that it was about to erase everything.
With that heartbeat came a past that seemed like she was hallucinating.
She heard the roar of the sword breaking, the roar of the golden iron horse, and the shuddering wails of countless races.
Feel their fear, feel the intoxicating feeling of overcoming them.
Elliog couldn't see anything, but heard their begging and wailing in the smell of saltpeter and blood.
They bowed down to the pillar of fire, and they sang the name of the demon god.
Until this fear and trembling were passed down from generation to generation along their bloodlines, and finally washed away by the years and fell on the pen as a short two-line text,
"Elliog"
"Duke, the first pillar behind the door"
"Greedy, ferocious, war-loving, destroying"
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