After a while, Summer Night stood up again, but she was still too embarrassed to look directly at Lillian, her gaze locked awkwardly on a nearby clearing, as if a moth beast would pop up there at any moment.

"That...... Lillian, before you blew yourself up, you said you were my pet, is that true? She asked in a whisper.

"Huh? Sister Summer Night, did Lillian say that? ”

"Said, said, absolutely said, although the last two words are not very clear, but looking at the shape of your mouth, what you say is the word 'pet'."

"But Lilian really doesn't remember."

“…… You don't think you're trying to deny it, are you? ”

"Lilian wouldn't do such a thing, probably ...... I exploded as soon as I said that, so I haven't had time to upload it yet, right? ”

"So, are you my pet or not?"

"Pets, pets or something, of course Lillian isn't!"

"Okay......"

For some reason, seeing Lilian's resolute denial, Xia Ye secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Probably deep down, she didn't want Lillian to be an "object", even if it was owned by her.

She turned her head and looked at the girl: "That...... You have to give me an explanation for all those secrets, right? ”

Lilian had an innocent expression on her face: "Sister Summer Night, why don't we go home and talk slowly?" ”

Xia Ye shook his head: "No, there is still a matter of going home when I go home." ”

"Huh? What's the matter with Sister Summer Night? ”

"Punishment."

"Punishment, punishment?"

"Well, you made me such a big ugly person, I must take revenge and come back, so when you get home, you just wait to be punished by me."

Lilian looked at the summer night, the look in her crimson eyes was clearly serious, she hesitated slightly, and nodded slightly with a red cheek: "Oh, I see." ”

"......" Summer Night didn't expect that the other party would agree so easily.

"That'...... Sister Summer Night, can we go home first and explain while punishing? The girl asked again.

"No, you can't speak when you're punished."

"Oh."

"So, if you want to explain it when you get home, you'll have to accept the punishment now."

"Now? This, here? ”

Summer Night nodded.

"Woo......"

Lilian hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Sister Summer Night, do you remember the story I told you in the past?" That story about my mother. ”

"Yes." Summer Night nodded, "You said that your mother was a traveling witch who left Debussota shortly after giving birth to you. Because she didn't think you had any talent, she didn't take you on the trip. ”

"Hmm......" Lillian replied, but didn't continue.

"What, is that story a lie to me?"

"No, Sister Summer Night, it's just ...... Lillian omitted a few things. ”

Summer Night didn't answer and waited patiently for her.

After a long while, the girl finally began to speak:

"My mother was a traveling witch, and nothing was more important to her than to explore the mysteries of the witch's contract.

"So, when she gave birth to me and raised me a little older, she began to study the mystery of the witch's contract - using my body."

"Huh??" Summer Night looked at her in surprise.

Lilian nodded, and said, "I'm the daughter of a traveling witch, how can I not be special at all?" So, of course, I was a research material for my mother. However, the experiment was not as terrible as I had imagined, and for me, it was just two or three hours a day, doing all kinds of tests, or signing and erasing all kinds of strange contracts. The rest of the time, my mother was busy with her studies or other things, and I could play as much as I wanted.

"This life lasted for more than half a year, and my mother's research finally came to fruition, and she developed a new contract based on my body, which is a contract that separates and reunites consciousness, cup, and body from each other, called 'node'. I, on the other hand, am the first and only signatory.

"From a research point of view, the mother has been a huge success, but from a practical point of view, the 'node' contract is a failure.

"First of all, only I am adaptable to this contract. At that time, with the help of my mother in Shangcheng District, Huamor found a lot of 'volunteers' to test the new contract, but in the end, none of them succeeded in signing it......

Speaking of this, Lilian hesitated for a few seconds and added:

"To be precise, there is no one who has successfully signed and survived."

"......" felt a chill on the summer night for no reason.

But even so, my mother did not think it was unacceptable, because 'a research result is not universal, it does not mean that it has no value' - this is her exact words. But the next discovery made her completely admit her defeat.

After hundreds of attempts, she finally determined that the 'node' contract was very exclusive. In other words, since I signed the 'node', I can hardly sign any other contracts, and even if the few that can be signed, the adaptability is very poor, and the node contract cannot be erased, which makes me a person who has almost no use.

And my mother couldn't even determine the direction of improvement, because there were no test subjects to control, and she used to talk to herself, saying that she couldn't figure out how she made this contract and how she got me to sign it......

In this way, after trying for a while, my mother finally gave up completely. She gave me some possessions, took all the test data with her, and left Debussota without looking back. At first, I was still immersed in the sadness of being abandoned by her, but soon I realized that the truly terrible things were just beginning......

"A month after my mother's departure, I was captured by men from the 'Aether Exploration', who took me to Uptown, declared me a 'dangerous uncontained entity', and imprisoned me......

"But you must have more than one body, right?" Summer Night asked.

"That's right, so they imprisoned all my bodies, and even if I moved to other bodies, it didn't make any sense."

“……”

"In the period that followed, they started all sorts of experiments on my body. But unlike my mother, they don't care about my feelings, or even whether I'm alive or dead - anyway, even if I break it, there will be another one, as long as I don't break too much at once, because the 'node' contract can automatically replenish new body ...... on a regular basis."

In an unusually flat tone, Lillian told a terrible story.

"But after all, you are the daughter of a traveling witch......" Xia Ye couldn't help but ask, "Don't they have any scruples?" ”

Lillian shook her head: "I thought the same way at that time, even at the beginning, I kept shouting 'Mother will come back to save me' or something, but Mother never appeared, and later, I finally understood that she was gone forever and would not come to save me again..."

She was silent for a few seconds, then continued, "After an unknown number of tests, 'Aether Exploration' has really achieved two results. The first is to create a new contract based on the 'node' contract, which is less effective than the 'node', but has the advantage that it can be engraved on a specially crafted item, and based on the item, people can also gain a 'node'-like ability, this contract is called a 'mask'. ”

"Mask?!" Summer Night suddenly thought of those masked witches from the 'Venture Capital Seven'.

Lillian understood her thoughts and nodded, "Sister Summer Night guessed correctly, those masked witches are wearing items engraved with the 'mask' contract on their faces. ”

"And the second result is that they finally let me successfully sign two other contracts, which are 'Blind Sight' and 'Witch's Cry'. Sister Summer Night has seen both of these covenant abilities, among which 'Blind Vision' can make the people around her unable to perceive the Covenanter, and 'Witch's Cry' can cause the Covenanter to blow himself up during their near-death experience, causing great damage......"

"But why did they ask you to sign these two ......?" Xia Ye stopped in the middle of speaking.

She thought of something.

Sure enough, Lillian said, "Because they have finally found a use for me, the 'node' contract gives me a body that can be consumed almost infinitely, and with the addition of 'Blind Sight' and 'Witch's Cry', I have become a very useful assassination tool." They wore a collar around my neck, and when I approached the target with 'blind vision', they activated the collar, putting me into a near-death state, triggering 'Witch's Cry' and blowing them up......"

(End of chapter)