Chapter VI Agreements
"You're still alive, congratulations. But why are you dressed like this?" "Rabbit" said as he straightened out his deformed collar.
As soon as he was put on the ground by Esther, he quickly took a few steps to the side, and then bowed gracefully to Esther, the whole movement was very smooth and natural, as if he was not stepping back to open up the distance.
The two of them were standing on the roof of a certain bar, and there was a commotion coming from the tavern window below, and at this point in time, these places would be brightly lit, but from the movement below, it sounded that the people who were drinking to kill their sorrows had gone too far, and the curses were getting louder and louder.
But for Esther on the rooftop, the environment was quiet enough for her to talk to the rabbit face-to-face, away from the other East End kids.
Esther narrowed her eyes and looked at the well-mannered boy, the "rabbit" was still fiddling with the ring, turning it around and around, but it was too big to fit the boy's slender fingers.
Eventually, Esther's gaze fell on the monocle in his right eye, "Enough, don't come with me, do you want me to ask you down?"
"You think I don't want to?" "Rabbit" put away the loose ring, and once again straightened the lens that kept slipping out, and his helpless eyes looked very sincere.
A moth flew up from the corner of Esther's skirt and soon flapped its wings and turned into a silhouette-like crow that flew to the top of the rabbit's head: "I smell the 'accident'."
As the crow approached, the rabbit's body tensed for a moment, and a look of incongruous horror appeared on his face, but it was quickly reined in, in contrast to the calm tone on his lips:
"That's not an accident, I was put on a role by you, and the doppelganger named Ben, what a despicable fellow."
Esther didn't hold back, and accidentally chuckled, causing the "rabbit" to show obvious dissatisfaction on her face, and Esther shook her head: "I don't know the inside story, although I may have left a little shelter, but I didn't expect it to be like this, and the hook without bait will catch fish."
The boy carefully tidied up the children's clothes on his body, because after standing above his head a freer doppelganger, he seemed to be more relaxed than before, and dared to take a step in Esther's direction: "Ha, do you really think it's me who took the bait? It seems that you are the one who was deceived in such a hurry."
Esther raised an eyebrow, but didn't reply.
The crow standing on top of the rabbit snickered twice, and then nodded at Esther: "I'm not wrong, your little friend is not in a good situation now, he can't be parasitized completely, and this unlucky guy can't get out of this body."
"Didn't he bring it upon himself......" Esther muttered quietly.
But she couldn't ignore it, so she raised her hand and pulled the rabbit over, and the boy had a little alarm on his face, but he didn't struggle. A bright mark lit up under Esther's eyes, and she stared at the rabbit in confusion for a moment, then circled around him, and finally looked at the crow standing above the rabbit's head.
"That's what I did?" Listening to Ashter's tone, she wasn't quite sure.
But before the "rabbit" could complain, Esther's frown gradually loosened again: "Not exactly, the shelter I left at that time was because of the hole in Benjamin's relationship, so that power unconsciously did what it instincted to do......
"It's a good idea to throw the problem at a guy who doesn't have a tombstone." The crow let out a hoarse laugh, only to be protested by another doppelganger, and "Rabbit" impatiently flailed its arms upwards before it shut up and flew high until "Rabbit" lowered its hand before falling back.
"What do you mean by instinct?"
"That's ......," Esther sighed instead of finishing, "It has nothing to do with you."
"Use your brain, I'm trapped by your stupid instincts." "Rabbit" put his hand on his chest and pressed the lens that had almost fallen off his right eye once more.
Esther smacked him on the top of the head with a backhand, and then
Then he straightened his face: "Don't think about it, I can't help you solve this problem."
"Seriously?"
Esther asked rhetorically, "Do you want to die?"
"I don't want to." The answer was not from the boy's mouth, but from the crow that shook its head.
The corners of Esther's mouth twitched visibly, "I don't want the rabbit to really be an Amon, and then you will become, well, a part of his consciousness, very thoroughly, and never be able to separate again."
There was a moment of silence, Esther just looked at the "rabbit" quietly, this expressionless doppelganger did not have a strong reaction, the previous moment of panic should have come from the consciousness of the rabbit itself, he was still trapped in a state of inability to control his body, and the worm of time parasitic on him could not even completely suppress this......
If I take advantage of this, can I counterbalance uniqueness? It's not realistic, but it's a viable option right now.
As soon as the voice came out of her mind, Esther quickly suppressed it, tilted her head slightly, stopped looking at the "rabbit's" skeptical eyes, and silently rejected its proposal.
I always felt that something was wrong.
Squatting on the head of the "rabbit", the crow took two steps and shook off a few messy brown hairs that had been caught: "That's right, then let this doppelganger die, it's useless anyway."
"Rabbit's" expression froze visibly for a moment, and then he smiled brightly, "Makes sense, remember to take me back."
Esther's eyes were cold when she stared at him, "Is this a threat?"
"Since you can't help it, then I'm not so resistant to the status quo." "Rabbit" smiled, and even turned and walked towards the edge of the roof.
"What exactly do you want?"
Before the rabbit, the crow spoke, "You know what I want, and if you really don't agree, we can each take a step back."
Esther didn't speak, but just "snorted" and motioned for Amon to continue.
"You know, we're not just hanging around." Even though he was sitting on top of the rabbit, because of the boy's height, the crow had to look up when he looked at Esther, "We all have our own tasks, including those postmen or coachmen who don't look very serious."
"It doesn't look like it." Esther replied indifferently.
However, Raven could see that her attitude had softened, and as long as she didn't get involved in anything related to the Source Castle, she did become more talkative, especially now that she had a weakness.
With Esther's current temperament, she worries about too many things, and it is really too easy to catch her tail feathers.
The crow flapped the top of the rabbit's head with its wings, and the rabbit's eyes turned black, and his body completely relaxed, and an interested smile hung on his face: "If you had said yes earlier, you wouldn't have had this unpleasant conflict, would you?"
"What do you want me to do? I'm just a 'thief' now, and strictly speaking, the sequence is nowhere near yours."
The "rabbit" and the crow spoke at the same time, and the two voices overlapped in full harmony: "Help me find the hidden Pales, and help me complete the ritual of 'mistake'."
After a pause, Raven added, "Whatever the outcome, I can spare this child, after all, he seems to be useless."
The corners of Esther's mouth twitched again, and though she wanted to respond with a smile like Amon did, she couldn't do that this time.
The wind from the rooftop was still a little cold, and the noise in the tavern below grew louder and louder, and with a loud "bang", a figure was thrown out of the door, mixed with a long stream of inarticulate curses.
She let out a long sigh and regained her composure, "I know, but I'll give you a word of caution."
"I'm sorry, only the dominant person can make a condition, Zoya, whether it's a transaction or a fraud."
Although Esther looked at the crow, she knew that everything she said would be unknown to the crow
Where the "essence" knows: "If you ask too much from fate, you will definitely pay a far greater price than you expected."
The crow disagreed: "You also think too highly of yourself, as you yourself say, you are now just a 'thief' - a pathetic demigod, with nowhere to go, weak and full of weaknesses, completely able to be held in the palm of someone's hand......
The light in Esther's eyes flickered slightly, causing the crow to end the conversation with a low chuckle.
She put her hand on the shoulder of the "rabbit", and it was the black crow who had just said the provocative words that she had just said:
"I'm sorry, but there's something you can't hold in your bird's talons."
A veiled glow fell from her hair, surrounding Esther and the Rabbit.
The crow was oblivious to the change: "You mean to say light?"
"It's fate." Esther replied softly.
The soft light continued to cover the "rabbit's" vision, and the sense of resistance in his body suddenly became stronger, and when the doppelganger subconsciously wanted to make a sound, he found that the crow had already taken off into the air, hovering happily in the air, away from the center shrouded in light.
Esther's right hand was still tightly on the boy's shoulder, and she raised her left hand close to the rabbit's right eye, and more light shrouded her, obscuring her gentle and compassionate demeanor, but the smile in her tone could not be hidden:
"Seriously, Amon must know Amon best, how can you trust an Amon?"
However, to Esther's surprise, the doppelganger gave her a calm smile back: "Because I'm bait, you see, someone is taking the bait." So, what about your answer?"
Esther took off the monocle on the rabbit's face, allowing the light to completely sink into the boy's spirit, "As you wish, I agree to your proposal."
But she didn't promise anything.