After the meeting, Esther and Crane went back to their respective quarters.

Because she was in the same bridge district, and only took a ten minutes ride in the public carriage, Esther returned to her newly rented house, this time she still rented it for only half a month, and in the second half of the month she planned to go to the Tasok River to find a hotel for three or five days, and then go to the edge of the East End to find another house.

In order not to attract too much attention, Esther can only endure the trouble of moving around, she no longer buys all kinds of small things to satisfy her consumption desires, but keeps her luggage as light as possible, to ensure that she is in a state where she can leave at any time.

So her apartment environment is not much to enjoy, basically all of her own furniture, Esther just moves in with her bag, and she will not arrange many things that belong to her.

At this time, Xiao Wu was still asleep in her coat pocket, and Esther leaned cramped back in the single armchair, remembering the honorable name at the party, and carefully sensing the feedback in her mind.

The most bizarre thing is that Esther's intuition shows opposite tendencies at the same time, both for and against her to attract the "fool", such a paradoxical situation Esther has encountered for the first time.

When facing the Aurora Society, the situation of spiritual intuition and Esther's wish is very extreme, but this time Esther does not have any preferences, but her mind seems to be divided into two factions, which makes her at a loss for what to do.

"What's the matter......" Esther sighed with a headache.

Just as she was staring at the ceiling and letting her spiritual instincts fight, a muffled noise came from the window.

"Bang!"

Esther reflexively jumped up from her armchair, immediately pulled out the "obsessive-compulsive bow tie" from her bosom and put it to her lips, and turned warily in the direction of the window.

She saw a black figure with fluttering wings lying on the outside of the window, and quickly lifted the glass and took the crow into the house.

Xiao Qi looked very embarrassed, its original soft and black feathers were messy, as if it had experienced a violent storm, one of its wings hung obliquely, and there were a few shallow blood cuts on its body, but it was already scarred.

"What's going on!? Did you do it with someone? Esther nervously dug through her medical bag, which contained herbal powder and bandages she had bought from the drugstore to stop bleeding.

After Esther found a pen, fixed the crow's wings slightly, and tied the bandages for it, Xiao Qi, who was silent throughout the whole process, spoke: "I found that person, and without alarming the other members of the family, he helped me circumvent a few restrictions and told me something that could be conveyed." ”

Then it turned its head to look into the room: "What about Xiao Wu?" ”

"It's still asleep," Esther cleared her throat uncomfortably, "Well, it must still be under the influence of my use of light." ”

Xiao Qi looked at Esther in surprise for a few seconds, lowered his head and chuckled: "Haha, you actually learned to guard against it, it's really progress......"

The next moment, the ridicule in its tone was all subdued, and Esther subconsciously sat up straight, knowing that Xiao Qi was going to talk about something very important.

"In terms of dealing with you, Xiao Wu and I have the opposite opinion, and you should also be aware of this before you try to affect its sleep."

Esther nodded and acknowledged the matter.

"What I'll tell you next, you'd better not reveal it to Xiao Wu. Although its current state does not do anything to you, once it is free, it will be completely out of our control. ”

"Threat to life?"

"Esther, there are many horrible scenes that can make people rather die."

When Xiao Qi said this, there was a smile in his voice, which made Esther shudder even more, and he didn't want to think about what Xiao Qi was referring to: "I know, so what exactly do you want to tell me?" ”

"The light in your body has been in the real world since the Second Age, but it has returned to the Spirit Realm since the Third Age."

Esther's pupils gradually dilated, and there was a tendency to turn dark, and the buzz in her head suddenly became much clearer, and the scattered and aggregated thoughts gradually outlined a clear whisper, converging into another voice.

Xiao Qi's beak is still opening and closing: "He is coming back to life through you, trying to walk in the world." Our speculation about the 'vessel of divine descent' has always been correct. ”

Tiny specks of light escaped uncontrollably from Esther's hair, and were constantly recalled by her suppressed thoughts, like flowing coils wrapped around her hair.

She covered her mouth until all the points of light were retracted, and Esther lowered her hand, which was enough to calm her fearful heart.

She knew what it meant to be a "vessel of divine descent", and although she had been joking with Klein about "sleeping for a thousand years", Esther didn't expect her ability to "walk the talk" to work so quickly.

It was obviously just a joke, but now it seems like a prophecy of her end.

Xiao Qi gave Esther time to regain her composure, but what it had to say was not completely over: "You will attract that 'hanging man' because of the existence that sleeps on you—he can stabilize and even anchor the other through a more abstract and objective river of fate outside of time and space, and can dispel the madness felt by the high-ranking person to a certain extent." ”

It's out of place, Esther thought of the kind of filter that was clogged up in the drain.

The thought should have made her laugh, but she couldn't laugh at all, only felt a tightness in her chest, and even the urge to cry disappeared.

"I'm not really a human being, am I?"

In any other situation, Xiao Qi would probably applaud this self-deprecation, but now it just nodded quietly and looked at Esther wordlessly.

The crow's black eyes were absorbing the pain and unwillingness on her face.

——

Esther didn't sleep that night.

The bad news that almost hollowed out her heart was like a "birthday gift" from the world, and on the same day last year, she appeared helplessly in this world, next to "Xiao Qi" who was full of malice towards her.

Why is this so? Why is it such a weird and scary world? Esther couldn't help but ask herself.

When Xiao Wu woke up from his deep sleep, he saw Esther moving the armchair to the position by the window, and was staring at the scenery outside in a daze, through the faint clouds, a round of moon was emitting crimson moonlight.

Xiao Wu had long suspected that Esther had manipulated the restrictive power in her body, but it did not point this out, but it was just to maintain a superficial peace so that she could have time to think for herself. Every time he thought of the situation he was in, Xiao Wu felt a kind of cold anger rise in his heart - this was not in line with "Him", it was the effect of suffering from Esther's excessive emotional resonance.

Xiao Qi has been by her side longer than me, no wonder it seems so abnormal......

Xiao Wu turned his head to look and saw that Xiao Qi, who had finally reappeared, was napping on a cushion, his bandaged wings exposed.

However, under Xiao Wu's gaze, Xiao Qi quickly opened his eyes and lazily jumped to Xiao Wu's side: "Don't sleep for a while?" ”

Xiao Wu in the form of an insect of time shook his head: "I've slept enough lately. Have you really seen Him? ”

"See, what He told me is incomplete, and I only know a limited part."

Xiao Wu turned to Esther on the other side: "You told her too?" ”

"Of course, of course!" The cunning in Xiao Qi's eyes was all too familiar to Xiao Wu, it was the pleasure of lies and deception, "I relayed everything I heard to Esther, seeing that she can't sleep tonight like this." ”

Xiao Wu didn't like to see this doppelganger so happy, its tail was about to open the screen, but directly debunking Xiao Qi's concealment of part of the news would only make Esther's trust in herself even rarer, and it was in a disadvantageous position.

Esther still quietly hugged her knees, huddled in the armchair, like an isolated sculpture, as the protagonist of the discussion, she had no desire to intervene in the conversation between the two, and kept staring at the red moon in a daze.

"Why are you so embarrassed?" Xiao Wu didn't rush to ask, but provoked other topics.

Xiao Qi shook his wing, which was still intact: "He doesn't really want me to leave so soon, and I'm not sure what he wants to do if he leaves me, if he really wants to inform the 'house master', then I might as well try to escape, so as not to get the time...... Anyway, he didn't have a strong desire to stop me, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance. ”

Xiao Qi was worried that Esther was still beside him, so he didn't say everything.

Xiao Wu chuckled: "You don't really think you're special, do you?" Don't even lie to yourself, 'Little Seven'. ”

It bit the word so hard that the mockery in it made Esther's empty gaze turn and fall on them.

"The head of your house is 'Amun.'" She spoke weakly, as if she were sleepwalking.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi did not speak. Esther's current mental condition is not right, they don't want to be the object of venting, and they are afraid that they will provoke Esther and cause her to suddenly lose control, and silence has become the best choice.

Esther didn't care about their response, and continued to speak, "You are also 'Amun'. It's not a surname, it's not just an identity, it's a first name...... Everybody is Amon? ”

She lifted her hand and pinched her right eye socket.

Esther's fingers pressed hard against her own eyeballs, and Xiao Qi was worried about whether she would directly buckle her fingers and gouge out the whole eyeball. But she didn't, and the pain from the oppression of her eyeballs was a constant reminder that Esther still had a fragile, ruined human body.

If she pressed it like this, she would go blind.

Esther's arm hung limply, and a jumble of snowflakes and lines appeared in front of her right eye.

She didn't have the courage to dig out what would hurt under her eyes, nor did she have the courage to face the strange light in her mind, and Esther never realized that she was so cowardly, so afraid of death.

She looked at Xiao Wu and Xiao Qi again: "I thank you for telling me so many things, otherwise I might not know why until the moment I lose myself." ”

"You shouldn't trust us." Xiao Wu suddenly spoke, and Xiao Qi next to it shaved his paws and did not make a sound.

Esther actually laughed, but the smile was as hollow as her eyes, like a pot that had been chiseled, leaking all steady and gentle will to the outside: "You are rarely so frank. If it weren't for Xiao Qi standing next to me, I would have thought you were Xiao Qi. ”

"Do I trust you? It's such a weird joke that I can't even trust myself. ”

After saying that, Esther seemed to be really amused, and the chuckle that came from her mouth was only the sound of air, like the "rustling" of the dead trees shivering in the cold wind.

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