It's dark outside.

How many days have passed?

Theresia didn't know.

There seemed to be some movement from downstairs, and she didn't care.

These days, she has been hiding under the covers, cowering in dark corners.

She didn't care if it was bright or dark outside.

It seems that something very bad has happened outside, and everyone in the embers is still being forced and bullied by the "Spiral King", and she didn't go out.

Knock knock.

There seemed to be a knock on the door, and a soft female voice came from outside the door:

"Theresia, are you there?"

She could hear that it was Galina's voice, and that the other party was a member of Ember, a companion who had grown up with her in Ember.

She curled up the quilt tightly and said nothing.

But Galina knew she was there, always there.

"Theresia, we don't know what happened to your last meeting with the Spiral King, but whatever your troubles are, you can tell them and let us all help you share them."

"Theresia, Theresia?"

Theresia covered her ears, not wanting to hear her voice.

As if this can be done when the other person does not exist, as if silence can be made for the other person to be non-existent.

The air was silent for a long time.

Half an hour later, Galina's deep voice came from outside the door.

"Treed has just returned from City Four, and you won't go out, so he decided to take your responsibility and go to negotiate with the Spiral King."

"He was badly wounded."

Brother...... Going to see Xia Ming?

Theresia, who was buried under the covers, was breathless, her face was in pain, and she wanted to open her mouth to say something, but in the end she just buried her head deep in the pillow.

Xia Ming.

Xia Ming.

As the name came to mind, the cold and heartless face and figure once again appeared uncontrollably, reminding her of what a stupid and ridiculous crime she had committed.

It's not just her, it's even her brother...... Has it been affected by this?

"Theresia, you're not going...... Look at him? Outside the door, Galina cautiously proposed.

Theresia pursed her lips and didn't say a word.

After a while, Galina asked again.

There was still no response from inside the door, as if the beautiful flame-like woman named Theresia had already died.

Her whole face was gloomy, and she raised her hand to knock on the door, but her fingers were about to knock on the door frame but she withdrew it gloomily.

She didn't know what to say again, so she chose to leave in silence.

In the room, Theresia clenched her fists, as if to smash the snail's shell, but she still didn't have the courage to get out of it.

In the corner of the room, the Sword of Red Flame leaning against the wall was dim.

It was late at night.

A starless and moonless night, thick pitch black.

Theresia quietly opened the door and wandered through the rooms like a ghost.

She eventually walked out of the locked room.

After Galina came, some people came to the house, listening to the movement, as if they had brought their seriously injured brother back to the house.

She quietly opened the door to Tree's room, looked cautiously inside, and saw that he was covered in bandages, revealing only a pair of eyes.

The eyes did not close to rest, they were open like a silent stone, quietly watching her outside the door.

She took a step back in fear, like a shadow banished by the light.

Her footsteps paused at the threshold, and she reluctantly stood still, bowing her head to avoid Tried's gaze and gaze, and spoke in a voice like a mosquito.

"Brother, I'm sorry ......"

Treed didn't blame her, nor did he try to encourage her to pick herself up.

He just said lightly: "Theresia, I went to see him in City Four today." ”

"He wears the mask of the Spiral King, wears a robe as ornate as a gown, holds an ivory scepter in his hand, and a group of men treat him with respect and serve him as a master, and he is doing well, you don't have to worry."

Had a good life, don't worry...... Is it ......

The teeth unconsciously bit her lip, and Theresia knew that coming to see her brother would likely hear Xia Ming's news from his mouth again.

I wanted to cover my ears, I wanted to turn away, I wanted to escape.

But for some reason, the soles of my feet took root in the ground as if they had taken root.

She buried her head lower, as if she wanted to retract into her chest, but she couldn't retract it at all, she was not as good as the evil dragon, she didn't have that capital.

"Theresia, from now on, let's treat it as if he never appeared, he has found his own belonging and happiness." Treed looked out the window and said suddenly.

Found a ...... And happiness?

Obviously she didn't want to hear about him again, but as soon as she heard Tried say this, Theresia's fists tightened unconsciously.

He didn't say who he was, but she knew who he was talking about.

The night outside the window grew darker, and Treed sighed as he looked at the darkness of the night.

"In fact, if you think about it, when you are with us, he is always helping us, supporting and encouraging us. And over there, he shares the power of the evil dragon and sits in the chair of the Spiral King, perhaps...... We were just a burden for him, and that's where he really felt happy. ”

Burden...... Happy......?

Theresia's teeth dug deep into her lips, and before she knew it, she was biting out blood.

"That's why he's lost in the dragon's side, and he doesn't want to come back."

Tried was unconscious, and said to himself depressed: "Follow us to suffer, fight for your life, and call for wind and rain over there, and sit on the Northland." We can't give him anything, but the dragon can give him everything. Theresia, you know, I saw him and the woman in the dragon's form hold hands and be intimate in front of me. ”

"They clasped their fingers together, and in front of me, she sat in his arms, kissed him, and rubbed his cheek......"

Tried's tone was flat, as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

However, the more he spoke, the harder Terecia's fists became.

The more he was so bland and sad, and said that Xia Ming was happier over there, the more hatred and resentment surged in Theresia's heart.

Even if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, even if she had only heard it, the image that made her painful and angry automatically appeared in her mind.

"Theresia, I know you're having a hard time coming out, but...... Let him go. ”

"It's been ten days, maybe ...... They've done everything. ”

Anything...... Done?

Rumble!

This sentence was like a lit fuse, completely detonating the fire in Theresia's heart.

Ten days.

She hid in her room for ten days.

Pretend not to see, not to hear.

However, who knows how the damn dragon will feast on Xia Ming's body outside when she escapes and hides in that pitch-black snail shell!

At the thought of this, the pain and jealousy suddenly turned into flames of hatred and anger.

Theresia couldn't hide under the covers at all and escaped as an ostrich.

(End of chapter)