Chapter 31: Four Hundred Years of Waiting
The night was deep, the moon hung high, unobstructed by thick clouds, and the bright moonlight penetrated the windows and shone into the forbidden library.
Jotaro, who was gradually regaining consciousness with "Hmm......", could feel as if he was lying on a particularly soft bed before he opened his eyes.
Then came a fresh fragrance like a flower, mixed with the scent of books.
Soon, Jotaro understands what is going on, it is nothing more than that he is unconscious, and Emilia and Rem find out that they are mentally frustrated, and take themselves to the forbidden library for Betty to be treated.
[But how does it work so well?] The last time I woke up from a coma, I wasn't in as good shape as I am now. Jotaro, who was a little strange, thought so puzzled, and slowly opened his eyes.
There is no light in the forbidden library, and even if there is moonlight shining through the window, it still looks a little dim, but this is enough for Jotaro, who is no longer within the range of normal people, to see everything in the forbidden library.
At this time, the forbidden book library was no longer as clean and tidy as it used to be - the ground was full of bookmarks, stacked on top of each other, and Jotaro could not find a few places to stay in the extremely spacious forbidden book library at a glance.
Jotaro immediately noticed that something was wrong and sat up from the bed, only to find Betty, who was tired and leaning on the edge of the bed as if she had fallen asleep, and she was still holding the Gospel in her arms, which was almost half the size of her own person.
"Betty!" Jotaro hurriedly got out of bed, put his hand under Betty's Joan's nose, took Betty's snort, and was relieved to find that Betty was just asleep.
Of course, at this time, Jotaro didn't care if the young girl would be angry afterwards, and gently picked up Betty, who was asleep.
Jotaro frowned slightly, although he knew that the elf was relatively light, but Betty's abnormal lightness did surprise him a little.
[This is not as heavy as the schoolbag I carried in junior high school before I crossed, right?] Jotaro thought so, and began to feel a little uncomfortable in his heart, indeed, Betty's current situation is indeed not very optimistic.
Looking at Betty's situation, it is obvious that it is a magic overdraft, which can also explain why Jotaro feels that his mental trauma has recovered better than the last time, and he basically doesn't feel anything abnormal anymore.
It is clear that Betty has consumed the magic she has stored over the past few hundred years to heal Jotaro's mental wounds.
This discovery made Jotaro even more uncomfortable, and even began to feel a little guilty, after all, Betty became like this for herself.
Gently placing Betty on the bed, Jotaro stretched out his right index finger, and a little blue-white light began to condense on the fingertips, and gently touched Betty's white and smooth forehead.
Jotaro is in the forbidden library these days, but it's not just about learning words, but the basic magic is still learned, not to mention that this is actually just a simple transmission of magic, in layman's terms, it's the so-called "mending magic".
As the magic in Jotaro's body was channeled into Betty's body, Betty's pale cute little face slowly became rosy, and her eyelashes moved slightly.
Noticing this detail, Jotaro immediately whispered and kept calling, "Betty...... Betty, wake up, I'm Jotaro. ”
Obviously, Jotaro's method worked very well, and Betty slowly opened her eyes, but her beautiful flower-like pupils were a little dim for some reason.
"Cheng, Jotaro? Your injuries seem to be recovering well, and Betty doesn't seem to have wasted her magic. Betty, who had already woken up, looked at Jotaro who had pulled up a chair and sat on the edge of the bed, and smiled slightly.
"Babble," Jotaro pressed the brim of his hat, and under Betty's somewhat dull gaze, picked up the gospel on the floor next to the bed, patted the dust on it, and handed it to Betty.
"Thank you." "No, I should have thanked you more, Betty." Jotaro subconsciously and habitually stretched out his right hand to Betty, and only reacted halfway through, so he had to withdraw his hand in embarrassment.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward, Betty looked down at the gospel in her arms, and Jotaro was now struggling with whether to talk to Betty about the contract.
In his previous life, Jotaro hadn't seen much RE0, and he had seen the king's selection, but he was still relatively clear about some details, such as the "man" that Betty had been waiting for.
Betty was an elf created by the witch of lust 400 years ago, and signed a contract with Eggdonna 400 years ago, and Eggdonna gave Betty a degraded version of the Book of Wisdom to act according to the Gospel's instructions.
The contract requires Betty to guard the vault for Agedona until the arrival of "that person" and sign a permanent contract with "that person".
But the fact is that no one who has been in the library for four hundred years has made Betty's Gospel react, and the Gospel has been blank for a long, long time, decades? Or a few hundred years?
Jotaro didn't know, but Shiroshi saw it, and when Jotaro handed the Gospel to Betty, with Shirokoshi's amazing eyesight, he read the whole book, except for a few sentences at the front, it was all blank.
In other words, "that person" does not exist at all, or rather, everyone can be "that person" as long as Betty wants to sign a contract with him.
In the end, Jotaro chose to talk to Betty about the contract. Because of his own reasons, the plot has been disrupted, and it is no longer possible for Natsuki to sign a contract with Betty.
Moreover, Jotaro can be said to be completely ignorant of this world, and there are still many hidden enemies in this world, and Jotaro doesn't know, if he can have Betty's big help to join, it will naturally be the best.
Finally, and the most important reason, in the case that the plot is affected by himself, and Natsuki Pleiades will not sign a contract with Betty, if he doesn't sign a contract with Betty again, Betty can be said to have waited for four hundred years.
But because of the contract with Agidona, Betty has no way to commit suicide, that is, Betty has to continue to wait, but it is very likely that she will not be able to wait, and she can only be bound to this forbidden library forever, continuing to suffer the pain of a long period of loneliness.
In the end, Jotaro decided that he still had to make it clear to Betty and sign a contract with her.
"Betty, I have something to tell you." Jotaro's words pull Betty back to reality, and Betty looks up at Jotaro with tears in her eyes.
Without waiting for Betty to answer, Jotaro took a deep breath, looked at Betty, and said solemnly, "Sign a contract with me, Betty." ”
Betty was stunned, and then two lines of tears fell quietly, her shoulders shrugged slightly, she bit her lip lightly, and muttered in a low voice, her voice could not hear joy and anger: "No, no, no, it's not you......"
Before Jotaro could answer, Betty suddenly lost her voice and shouted, "You're not 'that person'!" Betty isn't the one you're waiting for! ”
After saying that, Betty cried even more, tears were like pearl necklaces with broken threads, and while crying, she choked up with a crying voice: "Why, why, why are you not 'that person'." ”
As she spoke, Betty slowly raised her right hand, and Jotaro's keen intuition suddenly felt that something was wrong, and at the same time, he sensed that the magic in the mansion was converging, and he had to do something.
"Akamasi! Betty, calm me down! Jotaro yelled as he put his arm around Betty's slender shoulder.
Apparently, Betty was stunned by Jotaro's sudden voice, and looked at Jotaro blankly.
Seeing that his method was useful, Jotaro breathed a sigh of relief, if he had slowed down just now, it was estimated that Betty would be blasted out of the forbidden library with magic like he did to Natsuki Pleiades.
"Betty, listen to me," Jotaro, who finally had a chance to speak well, took out a handkerchief, and while carefully wiping the tears from Betty's face, he said slowly in a comforting tone:
"I know a little bit about you because of some of my abilities, and I know that you have had a hard time in the past four hundred years, but I want to ask you if you have ever wondered why there are no follow-up prompts in the Gospels."
Betty slowly stopped her tears and nodded slightly.
"Very well, then, neither Agidona nor the Gospels mention who 'that man' is and when he is coming, right? The Gospels have not reacted to anyone who has walked into the forbidden library for 400 years, right? ”
As soon as she heard Jotaro say this, Betty, who had already calmed down a little, began to lose control again, and her eyes were full of tears again, as if they were about to flow out in the next second.
"Don't cry yet, I'm not done yet, since the Gospels don't have any hints or reactions, could it be that 'that person' doesn't really exist at all? In other words, "that person" is not for you to wait, but for you to choose. ”
Betty was stunned, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, as if she couldn't accept it, and shook her head desperately: "It's impossible to ......" but Jotaro interrupted her mercilessly:
"How is it impossible, only this answer can explain why neither Agidonna nor the Gospels give hints, because 'that person' is for you to choose."
Without giving Betty time to react, Jotaro took a deep breath and gently shook Betty, looking at her:
"I ask you, Betty, do you want to sign a contract with me? Leave the rest alone, I'll just ask if you want to?"
"But......" Seeing that Betty was still a little sluggish, Jotaro stretched his face closer to Betty and said loudly: "Don't be, just tell me something, do you want to do it or not?"
"As long as you want, you stretch out your hand, and I can pull me out of this endless loneliness and darkness you have made! Tell me, do you really want to?! ”
"Yes! Betty thought! Betty is fed up with sitting alone in the forbidden library and enduring the loneliness day after day, year after year! I've had enough of the disappointment of dreaming about a book with something new and someone pushing open that door. Betty wants to make a pact with you. ”
Betty was in tears, and although she was crying, she still said it loudly and clearly, as if she was venting the emotions she had suppressed for hundreds of years.
At this moment, the gospel in Betty's arms suddenly emitted a bright and not dazzling light, which made Jotaro and Betty stunned.
It took Betty a long time to react, threw the gospel aside, and threw herself into Jotaro's arms at once, while pounding Jotaro with her pink little fist, while crying and crying:
"Why, why are you here now, do you know how painful Betty has been in these four hundred years? How desperate is it? ”
Jotaro gently hugged the young girl in his arms, and suddenly felt very sad, so he stroked her head like a child, lowered his head and comforted softly: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm already here......"
(The long-lost update is finally over.) I am here again to emphasize that I will not be a eunuch, and that I will finish this book unless I die.
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