1. "Don't talk nonsense, let me meet Liuli first!" ”

"Men are acute." The thin blade didn't drink a drop of wine, but at this time he had the interest to pick up the wine jug.

She poured a full glass of wine with a light and slow demeanor and motioned to her guests. "Here, let's have a drink first." Her originally cold masked face immediately became charming.

Thin Blade knew that he was in a hurry, and he was mocking himself. Yug silently clenched his fists and turned his face away, his usual calmness long gone.

Although he was anxious in his heart, his words were as sharp as ever: "Dear mercenary, your work efficiency ...... Is it really so slow as the person who appears at this moment? ”

With a flick of his hand, Blade slammed the glass down to Yug.

The soles of his shoes were wet with the drink. He didn't care about it.

Redblade sneered and snapped his fingers. After answering, a very small girl with long black hair came out from behind the curtain of the banquet.

Her steps are small, her face is childish and her expression is shy;

His eyes shone like black pearls, but at this time his eyes were dim and lowered, and he did not dare to look directly at anyone;

It wasn't until she found the familiar figure not far away that she suddenly cheered up and almost rushed over there.

Yug hugged the girl who was only as tall as his chest, his face full of excitement and relief. "You haven't changed!"

The girl just buried herself in his arms and cried, not knowing what words to use to express her feelings.

"You haven't done anything to her, have you?"

"Uncle, I'm not good at this!" Redblade flatly denied it and drank another glass of wine.

"What a touching reunion, what a year-old love." Thin Blade sneered.

Look at Yug is in his youth, mature in appearance, and has a stubble;

Liuli, on the other hand, looks no more than sixteen years old, at least not yet the age of adulthood that is generally accepted on the mainland.

In fact, Thin Blade has long known that Yug has resurrected his lover and fixed his soul to the puppet, creating Ruri that is still alive at this moment.

"You really haven't changed!" Yug was a little excited, and he was about to walk out with Liuli in his hand.

Thin Blade stood up to stop him right away, but Red Blade had already stopped drinking. "Where's the Wind Vortex Stone?"

Yug turned his head, his eyes not looking at anyone, "I need to find out if you guys have done anything first!" ”

Thin Blade thinks that Yug is too cautious, and if Continuation Blade returns from completing his mission, he will have already pulled out his twin knives against this grinding guy.

Anyway, Continuation Blade would be late, although he had already said that he would not come back and sit here obediently.

Red Blade replied impatiently, "Even if I really do do it, do you want to escape with him?" We can't escape the net we have laid out. ”

Yug glared at Redblade fiercely, but did not speak, and then walked straight out of the lobby with the girl. The two men at the banquet did not stop him any longer.

"You don't have to do anything." When Yug left, Redblade looked at Thin Blade with a puzzled look, wondering why she had said this.

She didn't explain, and her anger subsided at the moment, but she said silently: "Death Glass...... What a sarcastic title. ”

Red Blade ignored this and just ordered: "You are not interested in this table anyway, it is better to follow him quickly, and act immediately if there is anything wrong." ”

"Actually, I don't need to make a move, but it's better to watch the good show in the past." With that, the thin blade left the lobby without looking back.

Only Redblade was left at the entire table, and he continued to enjoy the fun. He snapped his fingers and called for a few of his attendants.

2. The moonlight is drunk and there is no one around. The two of them walked out of the mercenary base and walked several hundred meters away.

No one was found to be following them along the way.

Although the barren mountains are not the ideal place for trysts.

But this is the only place where you can enjoy a moment of silence.

The lovers talked about a long time ago. On the day she met him, she saw that this young man was able to skillfully use the filaments in his hands to weave all kinds of things, and she felt very magical. This is where the acquaintance begins.

After that, Yug plans to leave the town, so he sells all the belongings he has left there in exchange for money to take Ruri to travel around the continent, hoping to stay with her from now on.

It was an arduous journey, in which the relationship between the two parties gradually built and became inseparable, and the other was considered an indispensable part of life.

During the day, the two perform on the streets of big cities;

At night, he rested in a stable, and traveled all over the north and south. Yug and Liuli have braved icy snowstorms, weathered scorching volcanoes, traveled to the royal capital, and rested in mountain villages;

I have encountered daring bandits, met lascivious lords, and tried to perform in the homes of royalty and nobles, but in the end I only got a few copper coins;

has offended the powerful, helped the same people in distress;

I have tasted delicacies and nibbled on burnt bread;

Life is hard but extremely happy. This is a journey with no end, as long as we can accompany each other, there is no such thing as an end.

For both of them, hardships and pains are all in the past, and the best way to live is always the present moment;

And the destination is always the next place.

And after that...... Yug didn't say any more.

The two of them dug out the happy memories from their hearts and relived them.

At this time, the bright moon sprinkled a silver glow. The moonlight depicted the glazed face, and once again it could be reproduced from the eyes, so clear and beautiful that Yug had thought that he would never see it again in his life.

Yug didn't say anything more, and kept looking at Ruri until the latter blushed and bowed his head. He finally made up his mind, because if he hesitated any longer, he would be nostalgic.

"I really love you...... So...... I want you to die as a human being. ”

Didn't give Ruri time to react.

Yug weaves the crystalline silk in his hand into a spear.

At the same time as the tearful farewell fell, it quickly stabbed into Liuli's abdomen. The sharp blade of the spear pierced through the girl's abdomen, and the screams resounded all around.

The thin blade under surveillance almost shouted, a scene that even she never expected.

He's such a ruthless man! It turns out that Yug only came this time to end the life of Ruri, who has already turned into a monster!

There's nothing wrong with that, and there's one fact that can already be deduced - that Yug never intended to hand over the Wind Vortex Stone!

Ruri's face suddenly turned wrong, and her childish and innocent face was smeared with a layer of gloom, and she shook Yug away with one hand, and the latter fell a few meters away due to the former's incomparable brute strength.

"Why...... Why...... I'm already ...... I tried hard to restrain ......" Ruri pulled out her spear and threw it aside, then folded her arms and cried bitterly.

"Didn't you restrain yourself just now......" Yug struggled to get up, and his abdomen was also hit hard, and the pain was so severe that he couldn't help but cover his hands hard.

Liuli's brute strength is really monster-level.

Estimate your own internal organs...... I've broken it in several places.

Yug spat out a mouthful of blood and faced Ruri, who was kneeling on the ground and crying helplessly.

"Before I came...... I've already inquired about the strange news of nearby towns. ”

At first he didn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it, stubbornly believing that it was just some other evil monster.

"It's all rumored in the neighborhood...... Man-eating monsters haunt every night, and eyewitness testimonies are a white spider with an eight-legged scythe...... I guessed it was you, right? ”

By the time he found out, he couldn't deny the facts. Undoubtedly, it was Liuli, the crystalline monster that he resurrected with his own hands.

Ruri stopped crying like a switch. "Since you've found out, there's no way to do it-"

Without warning, an instantaneous shadow obscured the moonlight above Yug's head.

At this moment, in front of Yug was a huge eight-legged monster, four pairs of sharp scythes that shone silver in the moonlight, which was the limb and foot of Ruri in her true form after resurrection.

The compound eyes look at the prey, and you can see the fierce light of excitement in it.

Yug deftly leaned to the right, dodging the White Spider's indiscriminate swing of the "Sweeping" scythe in front of him.

But as soon as he moved to the wound in his abdomen, he had to gasp for air to relieve the pain.

It seems that the injury to the abdomen is ...... It's deadly, he knows it all too well.

The white giant spider roared, with endless anger and sadness: "You made me like this!" ”

He couldn't help but admit that the one in front of him was Ruri, a monster that he had resurrected with his own hands. It is this monster that has taken countless innocent lives, including the lives of his old acquaintance and beloved wife.

A few years ago, Yug finally lost Ruri under the siege of the enemy.

Later, he escaped and returned to his hometown of Amethyst, which was the place where he first met his lover, and began to secretly plan the resurrection ceremony.

He rummaged through the ancient books, and according to the scattered clues in the books, he tried to retrieve Ruri's soul from the hands of death and fix it in the doll, so as to resurrect his lover.

He failed hundreds of times. Eventually, the glass-like puppet moved. At that moment, he thought that his wish to continue happiness with Ruri was possible and was about to come true.

As soon as Ruri opened her eyes, she threw Yug against the wall with a strange force.

Her body underwent inexplicable changes, expanding and twisting from within her flesh, new limbs growing out, and finally turning into a white spider-like monster.

It frantically smashed houses and fled, attacking the inhabitants of Amethyst Town, killing and injuring countless people.

Liuli left countless wounds for Amethyst Town, and then disappeared without a trace, never to return.

Yug would never believe what was happening in front of him. It took a long time for him to admit the truth and know that Ruri would never come back.

Even if you can resurrect her, you can't completely reshape her soul. In other words, what Yugg resurrected was nothing more than an empty shell of glass.

The roar was deafening, bringing Ugra back to reality. In front of him, he was already mortally wounded, and it was difficult to kill Ruri who had become a monster again.

But there's no reason for him to relent.

If Filsa had been there at this time, there would have been a turnaround...... Yug thought so, but then he threw away his illusions and concentrated on weaving a spear again with crystalline silk to fight.

Just as he was about to take the first step, he was stabbed in the left calf by a knife thrown from nowhere.

"Damn! Who sneaked up on me! Yug cursed angrily, leaning down to avoid the scythe that almost swept to the tip of his nose, and limped back a few steps.

Then he vomited a lot of blood, and his abdomen was extremely uncomfortable.

The battle was very unfavorable, and there were assassins in the shadows behind him.

Yug estimated that someone from the midnight slasher followed him here, and he took action when the situation was not good. Yug is moving slowly at the moment, and if he can dodge once, it will be difficult to dodge a second time.

The crystallized silk in her hand could have been used to tie up enemies to limit movement, but Ruri had eight scythes and ropes didn't work for her.

At this moment, he didn't have time to move to the side because his left leg couldn't jump, and the blade left a bone-piercing wound on his chest. This is already the second fatal wound.

Yog introduces the monster into the nearby forest, taking on a number of new injuries along the way. He eventually collapsed beside a large tree, never lifting his weapon again, and continued to produce blood and some clots.

He was already dying, and even if he could escape the claws of the glass, it would be difficult for him to escape the death of his injuries.

He watched as the monster approached.

Ruri's figure once again covered the night sky above him, and each raised two scythes in a posture of being about to eat. This time it's really about to bring the shadow of death.

"I expected......" Yug laughed, not knowing whether it was a mockery of himself for half his life, or a smile of relief that he could finally die at the hands of his lover.

Before dying, the scenes of getting along with Liuli in the past resurfaced, this time it was so clear, as if I had experienced it again.

He felt like he had lived one more time by remembering the moment in the past.

Now he closed his eyes contentedly, waiting quietly for the fangs of the glass to cut open himself.

As for what he didn't do for his friend Filsa...... Yug was a little regretful, but he had already arranged everything, and he would definitely find the clues and hints he had left behind.

On his deathbed, Yug wished Filsa all the best and sincerely hoped that he would not repeat the tragedy.

"You should be able to do it......"

Just a second before Ruri swung her scythe, Yug suddenly heard a sound from the grass beside her. He turned his head with difficulty, and saw a woman flying out of the shadows, drawing her sword in mid-air and slashing at the monster's two scythes.

The thin blade strikes at the right time to defuse the monster's attack and keep Yug out of danger for the time being. Liuli took a few steps back, staring at her prey with compound eyes, waiting for an opportunity to move.

The thin blade stabbed Yug in secret, and then saved his life at this moment.

She protected the seriously injured people behind her, and opened her mouth to make a deal: "Hand over the Wind Vortex Stone, and I will help you fight off ......"

Before she could finish her sentence, Yug suddenly jumped to her feet with all her might, and swung the spear in her hand to sneak up on the thin blade.

With so many injuries and his slow movements, she easily dodged to the side, separating the two of them for some distance, making it impossible for Blade to protect Yug any longer.

At this moment, Ruri saw that it was a good opportunity to get close to her prey, and she jumped forward with all her strength, instantly pressing her body against Yug.

In order to prevent the prey from resisting, the monster easily cut off his right hand holding the gun.

Yug endured the pain and didn't say a word, but shouted to Thin Blade: "Stinky woman, don't get in the way for me." ”

She was so angry that she could barely speak, and she saw the monster open its bloody mouth, its fangs already tearing open Yug's shirt.

Thin Blade then oblivions to the scene in anger, and the monster tears and devours the body of its prey, enjoying the long-lost dinner.

The thin blade turned his face, he couldn't bear to see the scene of the monster eating people, as long as it was a person, he would not want to see this scene.

Even the midnight slashing mercenaries who have become accustomed to killing.

However, the sound of chewing meat and crushing bones is still harsh. She was thinking about what to do next, and she didn't know if she should kill this monster.

After a while, while Thin Blade's heart was still hesitating whether to make a move, the monster's mouth finally spit out an indigestible piece of dyed red cloth to complete the meal.

But the monster didn't seem satisfied, and then turned its gaze to Thin Blade. She shuddered at the monster's hungry light, and it seemed that she had to fight, so she raised her knife.

Yug eventually refused to tell the whereabouts of the Wind Vortex Stone.

Thin Blade thought to himself that it would be good to put all the blame on the monster, so that it would be easy to explain.

It's just that this time the bounty is definitely going to be in vain.

"I'm so busy tonight, and I need to clean up the mess, this guy Yug will still hurt people until he dies. I thought I had calculated him, but in the end I found out that I was being calculated by him. ”

The monster and the thin blade were separated by a distance of about six or seven meters, and there was still no movement. Thin Blade took a closer look and saw that it was trembling inexplicably.

Seeing that this was a wonderful sneak attack, she rushed forward with her knife, the tip of which was aimed at the compound eye on the monster's face. Unexpectedly, it reacted more sensitively, and with a wave of his hand, the left sickle defused the thin blade's sneak attack, because of the great force and pushed her into the distance.

The monster then screamed, its whole body moving uncoordinatedly, its sickle-like legs scraping the ground, digging up a pile of dirt and flying around, and then bouncing around again and again, as if it had nowhere to vent its strength.

After a while, a layer of inky black began to dye the surface of its pure white body, and continued to spread until it reached its entire body.

Looking at its bitter form, the thin blade seems to be poisoned?

Could it be ...... She guessed something.

It turned out that Yug had already guessed that he was invincible to the monster Ruri, and he should eventually be devoured by her. So before the battle, he drank a deadly poison, which may be able to poison his whole body, and tried to die with Ruri.

The monster opened its mouth, but nothing but a pile of foam was spitting out, and its whole body convulsed, banging its head against the tree and swinging its blade in all directions.

This is when the monster went crazy, and the thin blade did not dare to approach it, so he had to mention the defensive posture.

The monster's strength was so strong that it knocked down several giant trees in a row, and she was afraid that even she would be unable to resist it.

The monster was swinging its blade to slash through the surrounding trees and grass.

Strange screams resounded all around, presumably attracting night watchmen soon. Thin Blade was about to retreat, but when he thought about it, he realized that its movement was slightly smaller.

The monster was wandering around, ignoring its prey a few meters away. Eventually, when Blade saw the monster go mad and flee, it lowered its knife and breathed a sigh of relief.

Liuli's hurting the innocent is not the business of the thin blade, and it has nothing to do with her at all. It's time for her to go back to the base and explain the situation to the Boss, and can imagine Redblade going berserk. If the bounty goes down, it will be as angry as someone touching his sword without his consent.

Before leaving, she found that the demon she had released had returned, and she didn't know what news it would bring.

She commanded the demons with a whistle. A crow flies out of the forest.

Thin Blade looked at it and saw that the color of the demon was ink, and he was terrified.

The Ink Demon returns, meaning that the Midnight Slasher has lost a companion forever.

That said—much to the Thin Blade's shock—that the Continued Blade lost his life in the decisive battle against Filsa, the Polar Ice.

The Midnight Slasher has lost a companion forever.

3. Before leaving, Mr. St. Fes carefully instructed Filsa and Jielu not to return to Amethyst Town for the time being after today's war, let alone complain about the local hotel, and it is best to stay away from here as soon as possible.

Don't take the sidewalks of the mountains when you leave, take another off-the-beaten-path path. At this point, the teacher roughly pointed out the direction.

Less than a quarter of an hour after St. Fess left, Filsa also set out.

Before leaving, he asked his companion if there was any major physical condition, and Jielu smiled and said that he could hurry.

Until the early hours of the morning, the two walked out into the wilderness. This is a prairie, with endless scenery and green fields on the ground in addition to the dark night in the sky.

The two of them walked for almost half a night, not to mention Firsa, Jielu was already exhausted, and her pace gradually couldn't keep up.

The whole body is weak, and it seems that today's inexplicable pain has left a lot of sequelae.

She endured exhaustion and walked for another quarter of an hour, her pace slowing down significantly.

The sluggish Filsa only realized the discomfort of his companion behind him at this moment, and decided to let her rest until dawn.

He asked Jero to look around for a place to rest, just in time to see a sparse jungle in the distance.

"Let's take a few more steps...... I'm fine. ”

"It's too late now, let's rest first. Unsure if there is any other jungle ahead, do you want to sleep on the grass without cover? ”

Filsa explained that the middle of the night was not a good time to travel. Jielu reluctantly agreed, feeling a little guilty in her heart.

She built a bonfire under the tree to ward off the cold of the night.

Filsa had planned to rest against the trunk of a tree, but decided that it would be better to lie down. Especially for Detergent, it will be much more comfortable to lie down and fall asleep, so that you will be more refreshed the next day.

Jielu gathered some leaves, and he took his cloak and spread it out to the maximum extent possible on the pile of leaves, making a makeshift simple bed, but it was not spacious enough.

"Let's sleep back to back, maybe it'll be warmer."

Jielu thought about it for a moment and nodded, it was the first time that the two of them had slept so close. In the past, when they were forced to do so in the wilderness, they would either go to a nearby town or village to make plans or lean on either side of a tree and sleep down for the night.

Filsa also took off his coat as a quilt and slept on the ground without covering.

Neither of them knew what to do for tomorrow, so they had to sleep first. Jielu takes off the hairband, and the ponytail will be inconvenient when back to back.

In fact, she hadn't touched her headband for a long time, let alone laid down properly, so she hadn't even combed her hair properly.

She noticed that the headband had become rough, probably because she hadn't touched it for a long time. Even though there is no mirror, you can clearly feel your haggardness;

If your companion can see it, you should be able to spot it.

Filsa was already lying down. Jielu also lay down, leaning close to her companion with her back and clutching her saber tightly.

A coat is obviously not enough for two people.

But she did feel warmth in her companions.

He breathed evenly and steadily, and seemed to have been hoping for a good night's sleep. If none of this happened, it would have been possible......

She was obviously tired and sleepy, but she couldn't sleep, thinking about what had happened today and what her companions had said.

It is only to this day that Filsa tells Monsieur St. Fess the details of the tragedy of the loss of his companion, which he recalls with great pain.

What's more, according to himself, he dreams about it almost every night, and every time he dreams about it, his eyes hurt sharply.

I don't know if Filsa has fallen asleep at this moment, if he still dreams of the same scene after dreaming, whether he is still in pain in his dream, repeating the tragic scene of losing Shirley.

He missed Shirley so much that he had the idea of resurrecting her and bringing her back to earth.

And this accident—I don't know if it's my own fault—Yog disappeared along with the Wind Vortex Stone, leaving the target and Firsa a big step away.

Presumably, he is anxious all the time, but he is not good at expressing it on the outside, or he doesn't want Jielu to blame herself. She didn't know about this before, otherwise she would have started to feel guilty early in the morning.

Thinking about it, Jielu wondered if her companion had begun to hate herself.

She had promised to defend the Wind Vortex Stone, but she broke her promise. Not only that, but I couldn't help myself, and I kept delaying Felsa's trip since then.

The more she thought about it, the more sad she became, and she felt that her suspicions were getting more and more real. King Auguste was the culprit for Shirley's murder, and according to this reasoning, Jero herself was the one who was delaying her plan to bring Shirley back to life.

By this time, she was already convinced that Filsa had already hated herself.

If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely have this kind of mentality, and you will definitely have it. Jielu blinked, tears streaming from her eyes.

But she didn't dare to move too much, and she didn't dare to sob, for fear that her companions who were leaning back to her would find out.

She wanted to leave, not wanting to delay her companion any longer. Anyway, he just thought he was a burden, even though he didn't say so.

Jero was sure he would have that thought in his heart.

Case...... She had to leave.

Firsa's breathing was so even that she must have been deep into her dreams. Jielu quietly flipped open the coat covering them and got up cautiously, without making a sound.

"Can't sleep?"

"I ...... I ......"

Filsa could clearly hear her crying, and must have been sobbing before. He had been sleeping lightly, not daring to let his guard down, but despite this, he sometimes fell asleep.

The slightest movement from his companion woke him up. Originally, it wasn't a big deal, but then he heard that something was wrong with his companion. "Are you crying?"

"I'm sorry...... I...... I...... I'll go first. With that, Jielu was about to get up and leave.

Filsa grabbed her hand and hurriedly stopped her.

"Where are you going so late? Didn't you say that you should rest first? He had vaguely guessed that something was wrong.

"I ...... Don't want to ...... anymore Delay you. I lost the Wind Vortex Stone...... I've also delayed your ......."

"What the hell are you talking about, get to sleep." Felsa urged and then pulled her down.

Unexpectedly, she broke free with all her might.

"Actually, you're suspicious of me."

Filsa looked surprised as she listened, and her sleepiness disappeared, "Midnight slash makes that guy talk nonsense, don't care." He has already died under my sword. ”

"But you certainly haven't forgotten what he said."

“……”

"If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely be suspicious." Jielu was resolute, and her companion didn't know how to answer.

At this time, she continued to talk to herself, sobbing, "I've always been in the way, and I can't help much. Instead, you're taking care of me all the time. Baggage like me......"

"Don't think about it!" Filsa interrupted loudly.

Jielu was startled: "Sure enough, you're angry......"

He realized that he had never drunk his companion like this, and he was a little upset, and he was at a loss for a moment. Indeed, he has always been very uneasy, and as time goes on, it gets worse and worse, there is no doubt about it.

He found that Jielu was ready to stand up again, and this time it was really time to leave. If he doesn't do something, he'll lose an important companion. In desperation, he took his companion's hand, pulled her back, and took her into his arms.

Jielu froze completely, stopped thinking, and only knew that her heart was pounding, and she felt a warmth that she had never felt before, but she felt even more guilty because of it.

"Let Me Go ......"

"Then don't go."

Filsa felt her companion's body so delicate and soft that she could feel her trembling and sobbing, and her breathing becoming more and more rapid.

Time passed, and the two remained silent, until he clearly knew that a strange emotion began to sprout in his heart, an emotion that was different from ordinary companion relationships.

"I'm sorry ......"

"Don't say anything."

"I'm really sorry ......"

"Be obedient, don't say anything, don't think about anything."

Desol also ignites a craving. She wanted "atonement." But she didn't want to admit that it was just an excuse, an excuse to vent the truth that had been buried deep in her heart.

She took his hand, "You want to know...... What do I look like now? ”

Filsa nodded slightly. He bit down his left glove with his teeth, and his right hand was reluctant to let go of his companion in his arms, for fear that if he let go, she would run away.

The hand was slowly approaching, and she didn't dodge, waiting quietly. The rough fingers touched Jielu's face, which was slightly warm and could be broken with a snap of the fingers.

He touched his pointed chin first, then his cheeks—smooth and delicate, without the stickiness of powder, as flawless as clotted cream;

The thumb swiped the shallow corners of the mouth, then the small nose, and then along the wings of the nose and the bridge of the nose to wipe the closed eyes, and inadvertently wiped away the tears left in the corners of the eyes.

He felt his double eyelids and long eyelashes.

At this moment, he was holding an incomparably rare piece of precious jade in his hand.

"You're beautiful, I know." He suddenly remembered Shirley's ...... No, no, it's not Shirley who is facing at the moment, and it's best not to think too much.

"I don't look good, you...... Lie to me. Jielu's cheeks were hot, and her mouth was spitting out a whisper, but she didn't push his hand away.

"How so."

Jielu felt a little dizzy, I don't know if she was overly tired or too nervous at the moment, she almost buried herself in her companion's chest, but her consciousness was clear.

She looked up again, and saw that each other's faces were so close that they could feel each other's snorts growing more and more rapid. The two parties are not looking at each other, in fact, the eyes are not the only bridge to convey the heart.

Then, both parties were finally convinced of each other's feelings, and they didn't want to let go or miss it, and their lips quickly intertwined. In a wonderful intoxication, his head began to heat up, and he pressed Jielu to the ground.

On this night, the two were desperate and something happened that shouldn't have happened.

The momentary pleasure made Filsa and Jielu completely forget the cold of the wilderness.

Forget the restlessness.

Forget about the future.

Lose track of time.

Forget everything but each other.

4. The residual temperature is still there.

"Will you tell her what happened just now?"

Filsa was silent. Jero knew he wasn't asleep, but he didn't answer, so she sulked.

After a long while, she muttered, "Don't tell her, it's an absolute secret between the two of us." ”

Filsa rolled over and hugged his companion tightly in his arms.

Before you know it, the night is fading. Jielu fell asleep for a while, then came back to her senses, her mind full of bits and pieces of the past.

The air grew colder, but warmth came from the heart. With his back to his companion, he could feel his even and steady breathing, and he was satisfied.

Even if it can't be, she also hopes that this moment can be transformed into eternity. She didn't fall asleep with her saber in her arms that night, because she had other "companions" she could rely on besides her saber.

It was getting close to dawn. Jero wanted to get up first and get ready so that she could leave as soon as Filsa woke up.

Her slight movement also woke him up suddenly. Jielu thought she had woken him up, but in fact he had been sleeping very lightly.

This time, he also immediately grabbed Jielu's hand, "You shouldn't want to ...... again?"

She couldn't help but chuckle and deliberately broke free from him, reaching for the headband that was placed nearby. "Huh......"

"How?"

It wasn't until today that she realized that there was something strange embedded in her headband, revealing a thread. She carefully pulled it out.

It is a transparent and soft filament.

Jielu handed it to her companion, and Filsa touched it, and after thinking about it, she confirmed what it was, and said in surprise, "Is it Yug's crystallized silk?" ”

"What's going on?"

Filsa immediately instructed his companion: "Yug's crystallized silk is enchanted and can move on its own. You put it on the ground and try it. ”

Jielu nodded and complied. It was grassy, very rough, and she was worried about whether it would affect it.

As far as Firsa had expected, the crystallized filaments "wrote" a series of letters on the ground as if they were connected by a pen. After careful observation, anyone can recognize it as a "simple house by the lake".

Racking her brains, Jielu still looked confused.

She read the words written by the Crystal Silk for her companion, "What the hell is this?" ”

Filsa guessed: "Yuge told us to go to Amethyst Town earlier, and I think this so-called lakeside house must be in Amethyst Town. ”

This is a very important message that Yuge left behind and hid on Jielu, maybe he hid the Wind Vortex Stone in the place called the Lakeside House.

"I don't understand. Why did he do this? Is it threatened? Is it threatened by the Midnight Slash? ”

Filsa pondered for a moment, and judging from the previous experience, the truth should be like this:

That night, Yug was blackmailed by a man named Thinblade by Midnight's Slasher, who asked him to bring the Wind Vortex Stone to Midnight Slasher in exchange for a hostage named Ruri.

Yug didn't intend to betray his companion, or that he had already thought of a temporary countermeasure, and no one could guess what it was.

Anyway, he didn't intend to hand over the Wind Vortex Stone, but hid it in a safe place, on the headband where the clue was left on Jielu, and it happened that Jielu was attacked at that time, and he didn't know about it until today.

"It's been a long time since you've taken off your hairband...... Filsa suddenly remembered, facing Jerro, "which means you haven't had a good rest in a long time before." I'm sorry I didn't find out. ”

Jielu turned her face away, and the discomfort in her heart had disappeared. "I'm fine."

Filsa noticed that her tone had become gentle, without the cold feeling she had before. "There's something I don't understand yet."

He continued, wanting to find more clues: "Don't you know that the headband has been tampered with? ”

He tried to be as calm as he could, lest his companion misunderstand that he was blaming her.

"I really don't know ......"

"It must have been taken off at the time, and how could Yugg know how to help girls retie their headbands......" Filsa remembered that Yug had said a long time ago that he rarely had contact with women, thinking that they were troublesome and would get in the way a lot of the time.

He carefully studied the crystal silk left by Yug again, and made another surprising discovery: "No, this is not Yuge's crystal silk, and his is not so soft...... As far as I know, every crystallizer's silk is not exactly the same......

At that time, there must have been another crystallizer by Yug's side...... Or maybe it's a woman, or maybe she's the one who helped you put your headband back on. ”

Filsa was also skeptical of his own reasoning, as there was no evidence to prove that he was right.

However, he has already insisted on returning to Amethyst Town to find out.

"Aren't you afraid of another trap?"

"Even if it's a trap, be sure to break into it! I won't miss every possible opportunity. ”

Jielu nodded, "um" in agreement, and carefully received the filament into the pocket.

There is still a lot of things that the two of them have yet to figure out.

But at this time, all they can do is to move forward according to the current clues, even if they end up in a great trap.

It's better than stumbling like a headless fly in a hopeless desperate situation.

Jielu stood up, feeling still a little pain under her lower abdomen. Thinking about the events of last night, that scene flashed by, and she suddenly retracted the hand holding her companion, her face flushed.

Fortunately, her companions couldn't detect her expression. She walked a few steps and found that there were no serious obstacles, and her companions, although they had magical senses, should not be aware of their discomfort.

She turned back, only to find Filsa standing still as if she had been immobilized.

This time, it was changed to Jielu urging him: "Don't go quickly." ”

Felsa did not answer, did not react.

Jielu noticed that he seemed to be quietly listening to the sound of the wind blowing in the distance, or maybe it was his "tentacles" that emitted his magical sense to grope for movement in the distance.

After a few seconds, Jielu gradually heard the sound of horses running in the distance, and her companion finally confirmed:

"Someone is catching up. Leading the way is the boss of the Midnight Slasher. It must have been staring at me, and the direction was towards Amethyst. ”

At the moment, the jungle in which the two of them were located was very sparse, and could not be used to hide at all;

There is no place to hide in the grasslands outside, and the only way to escape is now.

This is not the time for a battle to the death, so you must avoid encountering them as much as possible, and the first goal is to retrieve the Wind Vortex and Yog.

"Firsa, you go to the destination first, and I'll stop him."

Jielu's proposal was unexpected, and he immediately refused: "No, let's go together!" ”

Felsa remembered that time when he was separated from his companions, only to have one disappear and the other to fall to the ground.

Splitting up is not always so auspicious for him.

Jielu shook her head, took a few steps back, and stubbornly retorted, "I can do it alone." ”

"There are so many people on the other side that you can't collide with them head-on. Besides, even if you're just facing the boss of the Midnight Slasher, you're no match for him! Obedient, go! There was no time for them to argue any further, and Filsa urged anxiously.

"I ...... Can't run. Jielu quietly lowered her head, her voice faint.

The sound of horses' hooves is approaching. There was no longer any longer delay, and Filsa forgave his companions. But he still couldn't guess the reason why she couldn't run, so he took her hand and picked her up.

Jielu was taken aback by her companion's sudden move: "You? ”

"-Magical Liberation!"

"No! Your magic hasn't been restored yet! ”

Filsa hugged the struggling Dew, and the burst of aurora enveloped the two of them. Suddenly turned into a meteor and rose up, and began to flee.

Although he had his companions in his arms, his speed was as fast as he was in battle—because he paid twice as much for his mana. After a while, Jielu didn't dare to struggle anymore, for fear of slowing him down.

From a distance, Redblade witnessed the sudden aurora, and knew that his prey was aware of the movement and was already pulling out his legs to escape.

He quickly whipped his horse, drove his horse out of his comrades at the fastest pace, and decided to pursue his prey alone.

He had received bad news from the Thin Blade.

A colleague who has known each other for a long time and has been in trouble many times, continues to die, and dies tragically under the chaotic sword of Filsa of Extreme Ice.

The blade of his blade was still a few pieces broken, and he was nowhere to be found. It is said that he did not have a single intact piece of skin on his body, and was covered in blood and wounds, and he could not look directly at his death.

"When I have caught my prey, I will go and worship you."

Unforgivable. Unforgivable.

Thinking like this, the red blade unconsciously unleashed his magical power, and his whole body was dyed as bright red as flames.

He even injected some of it into his horse, causing it to run wild for a short time.

The red meteor galloped across the turquoise grassland, but the target was the aurora meteor flying in mid-air.

Two rays of magical light pierced the seam between the earth and the sky, as if in a race, a race between the predator and the prey. It was as if the curtain of dawn had been opened by them.

The Red Blade was approaching, whipping the horses with all his might, and the distance between the two sides was getting shorter and shorter. Red Blade's killing intent has spread behind him.

It was only a dozen seconds before Filsa began to slow down, but he continued to move forward.

The Red Blade was about to catch up with Filsa and Jielu, but the horse under his crotch was no longer able to withstand the huge magic of his master, and the horse's swift hooves left a continuous trail of blood along the way.

The horse was neighing violently, and Filsa could hear it very clearly, which also meant that the Red Blade was not far from him, biting his tail.

The Red Blade is waiting for the moment when the prey is exhausted and falls. Then it will be the time of death for the prey.

The distance continued to shorten, and he realized that Filsa of Extreme Ice was not fleeing alone, but still holding a person, so he mocked: "Hey! It's all dying, and you still have to take your so-called companions with you. ”

Aurora didn't look back, still staring ahead, but its physical strength was no longer able to respond to his desire to accelerate.

The Red Blade is already on par with Firsa;

And his horse has long since broken through its limits, and even has lost its breath, and its running limbs are completely controlled by the magic of the red blade.

The color of this galloping meteor is half magic, half dyed by horse blood. Red Blade didn't care about the horse's life and death, causing it to run wildly, "You can't escape the palm of my hand!" ”

Filsa interrupted with a loud shout, and his mana ran out, but he and Jero didn't fall, still flying at high speed.

From this moment on, Filsa consumed demon blood to sustain herself.

He suddenly felt that his veins were about to burst, his blood was boiling, he was roaring, and he was about to lose control.

Jielu hugged her companion tightly, staring at her back, and her heart was ready to go to the ground at any time.

At this time, the speed of the aurora meteor has increased by a level, and it has become more and more dazzling, comparable to the rising sun. Filsa flicked the Red Blade behind again.

In the distance lies a cliff.

If you get closer, you can see that it is a huge crack, dozens of meters away from the opposite cliff. Unless a red-bladed horse has wings, it is impossible to cross over.

So Filsa only needs to hold on until he flies to the opposite side and lands to escape completely - but it is doubtful that his demonic blood will last until that time.

Even Filsa himself didn't have much chance of winning.

There is no doubt that there is an abyss under the cliff.

Red Blade also spotted the cliff in front of him, guessed Filsa's current situation, and shouted, "Don't you leave your baggage behind?" Would you rather die than give up your companions? ”

What follows is a life-and-death struggle above the abyss.

Auroras shoot out from the edge of the cliff, looking at the opposite shore;

At the same time, Redblade drove the horse into a slam of the ground, leaping into the air and crashing away from the enemy.

The aurora on Felsa suddenly faded completely, and he could no longer control the demonic blood—at this moment, he stayed in mid-air with Jielu, and it seemed that he could no longer touch the opposite cliff;

And the red-bladed horse failed to leap even with all his might—and at this moment, it stayed in mid-air with its master.

The red blade lifted his feet, squatted up from the saddle, kicked the horse hard one after another, used the horse as a pedal, abandoned the dead horse, and flew away by himself.

With this final leap, Redblade finally crossed the crack in the earth, grabbing a sharp stone that protruded from the edge of the cliff with his hand.

Filsa didn't have enough physical strength after all, and had already fallen off the cliff out of balance—and just as he was expecting this, Redblade suddenly felt a strong gust of wind whistling overhead.

When he looked up, he was shocked to find that the light on Firsa's body had begun to turn purple at some point, and his flight speed was still unabated.

He managed to cross the cliff and tossed away from the Red Blade in an instant. His magic seemed to have refilled.

"How is that possible?" Redblade was shocked, but even if he had such a question, he would not tell him the answer.

Filsa's physical strength and magic were exhausted in mid-air, and at that moment, Jielu unleashed her magic and replaced Aurora with her own purple light, helping her companions cross the cliff together.

Redblade climbed up and found that the purple meteor couldn't even be seen. He "cut" it.

The two of them continued to sprint. It wasn't until she was completely away from the enemy that Jielu was willing to let up and release her magic.

The two of them lost their balance and almost fell to the ground, but it was Filsa who hugged her tightly and cushioned her to land first, but fortunately it was grass.

Jielu fainted in her companion's arms, breathing weakly. Felsa gently hugged it, and it didn't take long for her hands to feel wet.

I smelled it, it smelled of blood, but I was not hurt.

Looking back at the previous scene, his heart trembled for a moment, and he had an epiphany: the Red Blade had slammed into him as he crossed the cliff.

It must have been at that time that the enemy slashed Jielu's back with their blades. He tried to wake up Jero, but she was unconscious and didn't respond.

Despite her serious injuries, she still unraveled her magic, endured her injuries, and worked with her to overcome the difficulties of life and death.

With that in mind, he caressed Jero's face lovingly, carefully holding her steady, trying not to touch the wound on her back.

The two were out of danger for the time being. But the enemy will catch up at any time.

And the two were a long way from their destination.