Everyone's life is changing, and "getting better" is just a relative concept.

Some people have made friends with similar interests because of their studies, some people have mastered the secret of promotion because of talent or adventure, and some people continue to slide into the abyss without knowing it under the temptation.

Fate is a very wonderful thing, and there is something to give back in the dark.

Esther was so convinced that she walked out of the church in the warm night, wrapped her scarf tightly in the light snow, hugged the notebook she had bought yesterday in her arms, and made her quite happy with the animal-shaped baked biscuits she brought to Lady Langsa today, which gave Esther an extra sense of accomplishment.

She has been studying with Ms. Langsa for almost a month. If you look at the time of the original earth, these days are about Christmas, so Esther's baked cookies are decorated with raspberry jam.

Since the beginning of the week, Wendy has paid Esther her hard work, although her weekly salary is only three Soules, which is far less than Fiona's twelve, but it is already a surprise for Esther. As soon as Esther got the money, she went to a blacksmith shop, added her own small vault, spent a full five souls to cut a few small pieces of iron to make molds, and then pulled Fiona and Wendy to bake cookies with it.

Of course, this thing will become another feature of Sling's bakery in the future, and Esther happily fantasizes that the store will sell more and more things that will make both Fiona and Wendy happy, and Esther thinks that this is the best reward she can do.

Even if she suddenly disappears one day, Sling's Bakery will continue to sell these products, allowing Wendy and Fiona to earn more money to improve their lives......

Vanish into thin air?

Esther's eyes were empty for a moment, but she quickly came back to her senses.

"Did I just do something?"

Esther hadn't expected a response, but her neckline quivered, and the little bug passed on a strange idea.

"No, don't think about letting me use that power again, I always feel like I'm going to crash if I use it too much. After all, it's not you who hurt, I hate pain! ”

"What does it mean to be down? It's like my physical strength is not enough to support me to continue to move and enter a forced state of rest. ”

"It's some of my hometown's sayings, and this special local word is also a characteristic of my hometown."

"Where is my hometown...... I don't know, I don't know now, but maybe I'll know later. ”

"You're just a little worm, how can you have been to countries all over the continent, there will always be places you don't understand, right? You should think of the words that came from there. ”

Asther muttered to herself as she walked towards the corner of Daffodil Street.

Snowflakes are mounting and the chill sticks to the streets, eroding the body temperature of pedestrians, and according to Wendy, it's been an exceptionally cold winter this year.

This New Year, Esther is with Wendy. Fiona came to the bakery with her son, daughter, and husband, so Wendy prepared the food with extra care, and Esther piled a beautiful circle of white birds with cream on top of the huge cake base, and the two children pestered her happily to make Esther pinch the little animals they wanted on top of the cake.

Before returning to the bedroom, Esther cut off the remaining cake crust the size of her knuckles, coated her in cream, dipped the tip of her fork in chocolate sauce, and spent several minutes barely coating a blackbird on top, at least barely making out the shape.

Esther carried the little piece of cake up to the attic, careful not to touch the pattern on the top, and then she placed the teacup and saucer next to the little bug's nest.

The little worm crawled out and looked at the cake blankly for a moment, conveying an incredible emotion to Esther.

"Happy New Year," Esther laughed merryly, rubbing her frozen hands, "for you!" You see, it's the raven you talked about. My drawing skills have improved, right? ”

The little bug looked at the black pattern, and it was rare that he did not mock Esther's stupidity.

After the girl fell asleep, the little worm slowly ate the cake, which was not very delicious compared to all the things it had eaten in its past life, with too much sugar and very thin cream, but it made it feel very special.

Of course, this is far less than the pleasure and satisfaction of eating extraordinary characteristics, so why?

It never expected to receive anything from Esther, and neither did this humble "nest", nor did this cake.

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Esther didn't feel anything bad about this ordinary life.

She loved that Fiona and Wendy smiled at her, that responding to and helping every guest in the bakery made her feel grounded, and that Esther loved being complimented on her progress by Lady Langsa, and that she was now able to recite the Night Church's canon and most of the church stories in its entirety, and had read almost all the books in the Church School.

"Esther, you're ready to graduate, and there's no need for you to spend it."

Lady Langsa persuaded Esther, but Esther was reluctant to visit her in the church: "But I still have questions that I don't understand, and I look forward to seeing you." ”

Ms. Langsa shook her head amusedly: "You can come to church at any time, you can worship with a goddess, you don't have to come to study, do you?" ”

However, Esther did not want to believe in the goddess of the night, so she was always silent about Lady Langsa's proposal. It was hard to say if scientific atheism was at work, and even though Esther knew that there was a "true God" in this world, she didn't want to believe in anything, and she always felt that it would be dangerous for her to delve into it.

It's all Esther's wonderful instincts that have guided her, and since coming to this strange world, her instincts have never been wrong, and even allowed her to come from the back kitchen to the store just right, and deal with a few tricky rogue customers for Wendy.

Since the New Year's Day, the little bug has communicated with Esther more often, but most of the time it is concentrated at night when Esther is alone, which reminds Esther of the feeling of chatting with her roommates in the middle of the night in her high school dorm.

The memories of the modern city are gradually blurring, but the feeling of nostalgia is too deep, and Esther can't help but talk to the little bugs every time. She didn't care if Rune could express what she said clearly, she just poured out her brains, treating the little bug as a "tree hole".

Esther also likes to hum songs, and in her memories, Li Xing was a very good singer, and even had a dream of being a singer when she was a child. Most of the time, she blurs her language and only hums the tunes she remembers, so that it wouldn't be strange if she was heard by Wendy and the others once in a while.

The little bug would often ask Esther about the name of the song after she had finished humming, and Esther would tell him the name of the song translated into Rune, and the little bug would secretly write it down.

There are too many doubts in Esther's body, which makes the little bug's boring "captivity life" a little more interesting, if there is a chance, it must pick up the clones above the demigod to try to parasitize, and dig out all the memories and knowledge in Esther's mind that are very different from this world.

But now it was still encircled by an invisible force, and it could only barely maintain the form of the Time Worm, and it could not even go too far from Esther, otherwise the force would devour it completely in an instant. This feeling of being treated as "reserve food" made the little bug always want to speak ill of Esther, it had never felt such a threat, and even cut off its connection with its main body or other clones.

Even the phrase "reserve grain" was learned from Esther.

The little bugs try to instigate Esther to abuse her powers, and if the extraordinary powers of the thieves are frequently seen here, the other clones will naturally be attracted to them. But Esther is unusually stubborn in this regard, preferring to save money like a clumsy normal person, to eat and sleep at a minimum, rather than use the power of a thief to improve her situation.

Something stupid and stupid. If you have the ability, why not use it?

Esther's reply was, "Others are working hard to live, and I can't encroach on the fruits of other people's efforts." ”

She's quite stupid indeed. The little bug thought.

Capable people should live better and make themselves go further, which is the instinctive pursuit of living beings.

It wasn't until the weather warmed up and spring came that Esther realized that she had been living at Sling's Bakery for months.

When Daly walked into the store, Esther was pouring freshly fried sweet potato balls into a woven basket, and the bran on the surface gave off a rich oily aroma, causing the green-eyed youth behind her to sniff.

Esther greeted the two warmly, and over the past few months, Daly had become a regular customer of Sling's Bakery.

"New for today! I didn't make it that sweet, do you want to taste it? ”

The young man looked at Dai Li expectantly, which made Dai Li very funny: "If you like it, let Esther help you decorate, the new products she has studied will never taste bad." ”

Esther directly scooped up two with a shovel and handed them to the two of them: "It's okay, I'll invite you for this!" ”

Wendy squeezed her eyes at Dai Li, "Don't forget to advertise it for us if it's delicious, Miss Dai Li." ”

The moment the young man threw the croquettes into his mouth and bit them, his expression was stunned for a moment, and soon he returned to normal, chewing a little strangely, Dai Li picked up another one suspiciously, the crispy outer skin and the soft inner layer were combined, and the taste was rich and sweet, which was quite delicious.

"Leonard, don't you like this?"

The young man looked at Esther a little embarrassed: "I...... Can I ask for another one, I didn't taste anything just now. ”

Esther couldn't help but snicker, and seeing that Wendy didn't mean to stop her, she scooped out another croquette: "It's not bad for this one, please eat it, you can buy it." ”

After the young man ate the croquettes this time, he showed a rather satisfied expression: "I want half a pound!" ”

Esther choked: "Half a pound? Half a pound is too much, this kind of fried stuff will not be fresh the next day, and you will get tired if you eat too much. ”

Dai Li waved her hand indifferently: "It's okay, we'll bring it back to the captain...... Our colleagues eat. ”

Wendy happily urges Esther to bag it, but Esther doesn't insist, it's all business anyway, and everyone is happy to sell more. Daly then asked for the store's signature lemon cake and a pack of cranberry animal cookies, and the young man stood beside him with a bag of croquettes, stealing several more while waiting.

The young man's action of stealing food suddenly stopped in mid-air, and he stared at Esther, who was helping to weigh the biscuits and calculate the price, and Esther's right hand subconsciously rubbed her right eyebrow as she calculated.

But this momentary sense of déjà vu was like an illusion, and the old voice in the young man's ear did not speak again after making a "huh".

The young man covered his hand to his mouth by stealing food: "Old man? What's wrong? ”

"Be careful of that girl, there's something wrong with her."

After that, the old voice gave no explanation, leaving the young man full of questions, and he could only wait for Daly to settle the account and leave the bakery with her. Despite the youth's efforts to observe Esther and everything around her, he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, instead giving Daly a strange glance at him.

When Esther returned to the back kitchen, she felt the inside pocket of her clothes squirming, and the little bug popping up again, and she rarely interacted with Esther during the day.

"What's wrong?"

Esther sensed it carefully, and the little bug reminded her that there was something abnormal in the young man, which made Esther immediately worried: "Is he dangerous?" That wouldn't hurt Ms. Daly and her colleagues, would it? ”

And then she was disgusted again.

Esther knew that Ms. Dali, who she had always thought was very handsome in goth makeup and black dress, was not an ordinary person.

"Are there many extraordinary people in this world?"

"If there aren't many, why would Ms. Daly and her colleagues be?"

"I've seen that young man? How I am not impressed. ”

"Church...... I see. ”

Esther felt that her mind was racing, connecting the dots, and in fact she didn't have to go to the Night Chapel to study, but at that time she happily accepted Wendy's offer, and didn't even think about the enlightenment courses elsewhere.

And after she arrived at the Church of the Night, except for the increase in her affection for the church staff, nothing special seemed to happen, and her life was quite stable during that time. No, that night, Esther was stopped in an alley and her head almost exploded after using her strange extraordinary abilities, and she ran away in the direction of the Condor Bar, where she met Ms. Daly.

Something about Ms. Dali soothed her.

"Esther? What are you in a daze? Help me go to the warehouse and bring a new bag of flour. Fiona suddenly walked over and patted Esther on the shoulder, bringing the girl back from her stupor.

"Okay, I'll go!"

Esther managed to hold her nerve as she rubbed her uncomfortable brow and walked in the direction of the warehouse behind Sling's bakery, trying to put her instinctive uneasiness behind her.

"I don't know, but it should be okay. The night won't hurt me. ”

After this sentence was blurted out, Esther felt more and more that something was wrong.

Night? Who does the night refer to?

The little bug shook its head and retracted into Esther's pocket.

"yes, I think I'm ...... too It's weird. ”

Esther's voice was soft, with a subtle smile.