"What's wrong with you?"

As soon as Mason finished looking at the area where the cosmic tuning fork was located, and returned to Osborne's tower to open the office door, he saw a dejected Ciri sitting barefoot in his chair.

He rarely saw Ciri look so embarrassed, and he stepped forward quickly, and saw that the eyes of the hunter were red.

There were still traces of water in her hair, and she was wearing only a dressing gown or even underwear. Uh, well, not the time to focus on those.

After seeing Mason appear, Ciri's tears couldn't stop flowing.

She thought she would never cry again, but it turns out that such strong emotional fluctuations are often not controlled by her own thoughts, and if you don't cry, it only means that you are not sad yet.

"Don't cry, what's going on?"

Seeing Ciri's appearance like this, Mason's heart sank, he pulled Ciri up from the chair, took out a handkerchief to help her wipe her undried silver hair, and took off his coat and put it on her shoulder.

"He caught them"

Ciri lay in Mason's arms and said in a hoarse voice:

"I thought they didn't die, they didn't get that merciful death it was a conspiracy. Seventeen years of conspiracy, Old A and Mephisto have teamed up.

It's not just a trap he's set for you, the devil is involved.

Don't go!

Don't go. ”

Although Ciri's words were reversed, Mason quickly understood, he stared at Ciri, and asked very seriously:

"You mean, Mr. Geralt and Lady Yennefer didn't die in exile seventeen years ago? No, their bodies can't survive in the shattered core, so, souls, right?

The devil's best trick.

Mephisto hid the souls of your parents and handed them over to Old A as bait to lure you in? In taking advantage of the fact that you are sure to pass and I am also in that death trap prepared for me? ”

"Hmm."

Ciri snorted and lowered her head.

It was the first time in 17 years that she had been so distraught.

Mason let out a sigh of relief, reached out and patted Ciri's head in his arms, and he said with relief:

"It's okay, I finally know to say hello to me before I act, instead of running over on my own."

"Aren't you angry?"

Hearing this, Ciri looked up at Mason in surprise, and said:

"You know I can't sit back and watch my parents' souls be disposed of by old A, I must go, but. I didn't know what to do anymore, I kept thinking about how to break the game, but I couldn't think of a way.

I know there's no way you're going to give up on me.

But that's a trap. ”

"On the bright side, it means that I finally have the chance to meet the most legendary witchers and witches."

Mason grabbed Ciri's waist, lowered his head and squeezed his eyes, and said to him:

"They are the idols of the previous old K, and I, the current old K, are also very interested in those legendary stories, and I have always wanted to see how heroic and chic the protagonists in those stories should be."

"You may be disappointed, but my father is a very dull man."

When Ciri saw Mason's smile, the pressure in her heart dissipated a lot, and with tears in her eyes, she pouted and said:

"But shouldn't you be worried? In this kind of situation where we have to live and die if we don't get it right, in this situation where you are likely to die because of me.

Your career, your ideals, everything you have will fall apart because of me, a woman who is not worthy of your love.

Why are you still laughing? ”

"Because if I said it was all in my expectation, wouldn't you feel angry?"

Mason lowered his head, and the lips of the two touched as Ciri took the initiative to stand on tiptoe, like warm fingers soothing uneasiness, and like snuggling up to each other in a winter night.

Today, Ciri is as active and enthusiastic as if he is back in the swordsman's hospital room, and it is as if he wants to finish the last thing on his bucket list before he meets death.

After a long time, Mason looked at the cat-like eyes in front of him, and he explained:

"As soon as Old A sent that message, I knew he must have one or more backup plans, and he wouldn't have hoped that my mind would fall off and step defenselessly into the trap he had prepared for me.

He didn't try to lure me in with this text message from the start.

The two key points that I am most worried about are the first sequence and you, it turns out that Lao A has grasped the point, remember the first sequence in the second text message he gave me, he has already suppressed it?

That's another threat. ”

The captain sighed, grabbed Ciri's waist and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of his office with her, watching the sea swell in the distance and the warm sunlight cast in the sky.

The size of the island of the Forbidden Forest is a little larger than it seemed two days ago, which proves that the soul of the forest seems to sense the hidden hope and has begun to grow.

Mason looked at the scene in front of him and said:

"You're the second threat he gave me, and I imagined how he would coerce you, but I really didn't expect this trick to be hidden for seventeen years.

From this point of view, Lao A really impressed me.

But when I think about it, my alliance with Mephisto doesn't surprise me at all, like the relationship between a toilet and a fly. ”

Ciri didn't answer.

She just quietly put on Mason's coat, rested her head on Mason's shoulder, and quietly listened to her partner talk about his thoughts and plans.

It wasn't until this moment that Ciri really realized that she had inadvertently had a solid wall that could protect herself and support herself in any situation.

It seems that any wind and rain can hide in Mason's shadow and no longer have to worry.

This feeling is not bad. No, it's a great feeling, and it makes you want to indulge in it, let it be wrapped in tenderness, drown in this reassuring touch and never wake up in the cruel reality.

"Now that they are united, I don't have to spend any time worrying about how to prioritize this confrontation, and since the two enemies have joined forces to bury me and my ideals with a despicable assassination, we will simply take this opportunity to defeat their evil alliance together.

It may be difficult, but it's not impossible, and I've always had a plan. ”

Mason's eyes froze.

He said:

"Both sides advance at the same time, so that they welcome their demise in anticipation of my death! This is the day they have chosen their place to pass, so be it as they wish.

Ciri"

"Huh?"

The Hunter snorted, and heard Mason say to her:

"The problem you've been worrying about may have come to be solved."

Ciri shuddered.

She understood what Mason meant, so she sighed and said:

"So, tomorrow night is my death, which is really not surprising, but I am not as hopeless or painful as I imagined, and I don't find it all difficult to accept.

Maybe I've resigned myself to my fate. ”

"You will die, but then you will be resurrected and become a new, beautiful, pure you."

Mason took a step back, took a small box from his pocket and opened it in front of Hee, which contained a ring identical to the wedding ring on Harley and Quinn's fingers.

Only slightly different in the details, the ring face is polished to the shape of a wolf's head, which looks beautiful and mysterious.

The captain said apologetically:

"I've given a promise to my little cuties, and it's disrespectful to both of you to pass it on to you.

I can't promise you a marriage agreement, but I think we may be able to spend a long life as lovers. If Black Strange hears what I say at this time, he will definitely send down thunder and shatter my skull.

But that's just the way it is.

I chose to be a bad man.

It's not that I want it to be, it's just that I've met a soul who can't keep me in pure love. ”

"I've never had that expectation."

Ciri was more calm than she expected.

She looked at the ring in front of her, and did not even need Mason to bring it for her, but to take the crown and put it on her head, and she took the ring and put it on her finger, and said:

"It is unthinkable for a witcher to have a stable life, and my parents were not engaged to marry until their deaths, but this does not prevent the sincere affection between them from becoming a model for tormenting each other.

Do you know?

They were bound together because of Dick's curse, and there was a time in their lives when they went crazy and wanted to unlock the curse and set each other free.

They are completely unworthy in every aspect of their lives, from their personalities, identities, status to pursuits, and they themselves think so, it's just a bad fate.

They want to give each other relief as the end of a chaotic relationship.

And then they did.

They found a conglomerate of powerful supernatural powers in a world that had been destroyed, and demanded that Nadi end their cursed relationship.

They've finally regained their lives, but guess what? ”

Ciri smiled and said to Mason:

"On the night that the supernatural partner's contract ended, they realized that they should come together, not because of the contract, not because of a simple physical relationship.

That's love!

In the process of tormenting each other, hating each other, arguing and getting back together, they have been connected by fate, just like us.

Is the so-called marriage still important in front of such a relationship?

Leave the steady, neurotic part of your personality to Hallie and Quinn, who need it more than I do, and if I can come back from death and come back to you, then the rest of you will be mine. ”

"Well, even so, it always feels like you three women are going to strangle me to death in bed one night, and then divide me into three parts and take me away."

Mason shrugged his shoulders and said:

"But it's not a romantic way to die, right? Don't you ask me how I'm going to make you do the miracle of resurrection? ”

"No, I don't care at all, although I thought I would care too, but I didn't."

Ciri reached out and peeled off Mason's tunic, she looked at Mason, placed her ring hand on his shoulder, and pulled his head towards her with determination and no refusal.

She said:

"I know you can do it, and I believe in you! Even if you can't, please let me leave this not-so-good world in a beautiful lie, and let me live forever in your memories in romance

The bride and groom have exchanged rings, and now it's time to complete the final part of the wedding.

What are you waiting for?

Do you want me to take the initiative all the way? Well. It's not impossible. ”

"Shh

Mason held out his finger and pressed it against Ciri's pursed lips.

He squeezed his eyes into a scowling smile on his face, and waved his fingers to lift the coat on the ground back up and over the Hunter's shoulder.

He leaned down and whispered in Ciri's ear:

"Save this until you truly belong to me, and now you are one with Mephisto, can you understand? It always feels like I'm getting closer to you when I'm going to do something with that disgusting old devil that can't pass the trial.

Be patient.

If you're expecting our story to be as classic as your parents' tear-jerking and terrifying love story of tormenting each other, be patient.

And we don't have time to waste, my Lord Hunter.

We're going to have to talk about how to keep me alive and get your parents back before we die.

I guess Old A would never have thought of that. ”

Mason kissed Heeri's smooth forehead and said:

"He would never have imagined that we would respond to his malice with death, and from that point on, his defeat was already doomed when he bullied you with despicable means.

If you have decided to die, then Liana and Shazam the Elder, who are connected to your fate, must also be assured. I mean, you're probably going to have to be a test of the Mason's own drug.

But don't worry, you're special, so I'll have an 'insurance' for you.

However, considering that we have already complained to each other, can I write my name in the beneficiary column of this insurance? ”

"You're really bad for this joke!"

——

Ciri returned to the Star Castle an hour later, returning alone, but he was undoubtedly in a much better mood than when he was lonely and desperate.

Although the problem was not really solved, the pressure to share it with others was no longer able to shake her will.

Not to mention the promises and promises obtained, they are like embers of a long night, warming people's hearts in the darkness and solitude.

But the Hunter is a Hunter after all, and after witnessing her parents face death in the Star Core Banishment in order to maintain the morality of her heart, she is no longer willing to give her life to others, although she has made Mason's promise, but she still hopes that this last step can be completed by herself.

After returning to the Star Castle, Ciri travels alone to the well-guarded City of Shadows, where she walks the path surrounded by countless candles, her shadow stretched for a long time with a beating light.

"What are you going to do?"

Old Shazam, who was still in the sea of candles, felt the person behind him, and said:

"You shouldn't be here, Ciri, Mason told me not to move every candle here, especially not to let you do it."

"I'm not going to interfere with anyone else's lives, wizard."

The Hunter whispered:

"I'm just here to take the candle that belongs to me, I'm going to travel far away, maybe never to return, and I feel entitled to take the last thing in this castle that belongs to me."

"Has the situation come to this point?"

Old Shazam seemed to understand, and he said with a sad face:

"It seems that you have made up your mind, and compared to your decisiveness, I, a wizard who has lived for nine thousand years, are still greedy for life and afraid of death."

"Who wants to die if they can live? I also brought it with me just in case. ”

Ciri grumbled, leaped past the old wizard from under the bright crystal chandelier, and took one of the three candles at the top.

The one that belonged to her, still burning silver, shone brightly in Ciri's hands.

There is nothing magical about this candle and the light of the fire, and perhaps it will not have a second use other than to illuminate the darkness, and even a vigorous pinch can leave a fingerprint on it.

It is like a symbol of the fragility of life and the impermanence of life.

"Be careful with it."

Old Shazam advised:

"If that thing is blown out by the wind, you'll be finished. Mephisto can make them indestructible, but he wants to use the most ordinary raw materials to make these things that can control life.

This may be his bad taste, but it also proves that we are not as strong as we think.

Every soul may be fragile and needs to be tenderly protected by a pair of hands. ”

"I got it to extinguish it, it's the same whether it's blown out by the wind or by someone, it's just death, if you're not afraid of it, it's not worth being afraid of."

Ciri looked at the burning candle in her hand, and the ring on her finger shimmered with a different light as the light pulsed, illuminating her eyes and outlines.

In a chic wave of goodbye without looking back, she said:

"My heart has been filled with gentleness and light, and there is no place for fear and darkness. Good luck, old man, and may you be like me in the face of death. ”

"Hey, let's go, you have to stuff me with a mouthful of dog food when you say goodbye."

The wizard watched the hunter leave Shadow City, pursed his lips and pulled out a cigarette, which he casually lit on a nearby candle.

He complained:

"This bad time is so unfriendly for a single dog, maybe I should pray that it will be destroyed in the next second. Well, I'm a mage who knows the spirit of speech, so forget it, just because I haven't prayed.

There are still so many people who have not lived enough, don't manifest themselves."

(End of chapter)