The Book of Maiden Contract

In the middle of the night, the clean moonlight shines on the cold earth, and the whole world is silent.

In a dilapidated church, a little black girl stood on a huge old cross, her head was raised, her red eyes were open, and she looked at the crescent moon in the distant sky through the hole in the roof. Looking at her eyes, no one knew what she was thinking, pieces of wings slowly fell from her side, like black snowflakes.

At the same time, a pale and frail human girl about fifteen years old was also standing in this church, staring at the petite girl like a black angel above him.

"The black angel." The girl's voice had a morbid feeling of malnutrition, and she looked extremely weak, but she had a smile on her face, and gently reached out her hand to call, as if she wanted to touch the black angel.

The angel lowered his head, moved his eyes from the crescent moon in the sky to the human girl, and said expressionlessly: "I should have said it several times, I am not an angel."

"I know, Mercury Lamp, right?" The girl didn't feel disgusted at all by the not-so-friendly treatment, and she still smiled and said, "But, in my heart, you are an angel. When I saw you for the first time, I Got it... Ah, it's finally here, the black angel who came to take my life, hey, when will I take my life?"

Listening to the girl calmly and naturally talking about her own death topic, as if discussing something that has nothing to do with her, Mercury Lamp shrugged her shoulders helplessly, "Hehe, I really didn't expect that there are people like this among human beings." A person like you who actively begged for death, even came here to see me every day just to beg for death...do you really want to die so much?"

"Yeah." Answered without hesitation, the girl sat down on the unclean chair, leaned slightly, and said without attachment, "At first I said I could only live to be five years old, but I didn't die, and then Seven years old, ten years old, I should have died, but I still didn't die. During this period, everyone was tired. Thinking about it, no matter how much life is extended, the fact that I will die immediately has not changed, so it is better to die soon .”

"You know? During the daytime today, my parents came to see me. Although they pretended to be very happy and told me that everything would be fine, their faces were full of exhaustion, as if they were sorry for me... this It's all my fault, without me, they would be a lot easier, after all, I am a broken child, useless garbage, not as perfect as Miss Angel."

Swish!

The slight wind was blowing, and the mercury lamp was falling down. Sitting on the back of the chair where the girl was sitting, she looked at the smiling girl beside her, "That's a matter of course. I want to be Alice's perfect girl." Dolls are two completely different existences from you."

"Yes."

"But..." Mercury Lamp turned his head again, looked into the distance, and said to himself, "Garbage or something, don't say it lightly, even if it's a mutilated body, it can't be called garbage, even if it's all The few remaining lives have meanings of existence, even for things that have disappeared, as long as there are still people thinking about them, there is hope of living... No one lives for the purpose of dying."

"Miss Angel..."

Mercury Lamp stretched out his hand and lifted the girl's chin, and looked down at her almost close to her face, with an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, "It's a pity, the thing I hate the most is human beings, who are vulgar and greedy, stubborn and cowardly. Just like you , Stubbornly wanting to die, cowardly hoping to use death to escape the responsibilities and pains of living, it is really ugly to the extreme, so I will not help you fulfill your wish to die...Remember, I am not an angel."

"Well, it's a mercury lamp." The girl nodded with her usual expression.

Mercury Lamp moved his hand away, and said again: "It takes more courage and strength to live than to die. There is no hope for a dying and powerless body like yours, but I will give you life." strength to go down."

"Why? I don't want to live." The girl said doubtfully.

"Didn't I say that I am not an angel, let alone help human beings, so when I leave, for you who yearn for death, I will fulfill your opposite wish, and then when you no longer long for death one day, you will be happy with life." When you go down full of hope, I will appear in front of you again, and at that time, I will take your life." After finishing speaking, the mercury lamp slowly floated up and flew towards the night sky, "This is the demon's Promise, don't forget."

"Angel... Mercury Lamp, where are you going?" The girl hurriedly got up and asked anxiously.

"I have sent invitations to my sisters, and now I will set out to take their lives."

The girl stared blankly at the black angel who was gradually blending into the night sky. Just as the other party was about to disappear, she suddenly seemed to think of something and said loudly, "Megumi Kakizaki! My name is Megumi Kakizaki!"

"I will remember it as proof that I will come to take your life next time."

When the voice fell, the mercury lamp had completely disappeared into the night sky, but before she left, she bestowed the power and hope to live in this human girl named Kakizaki Megumi.

"You must come back, Mercury Lamp... This is a promise."

The girl looked up at the silent night sky, smiled and said, although the mercury lamp did not take her life, but gave her the strength to live, but in her heart, the mercury lamp is still her angel, so she hopes to live, Live until the mercury lamp appears in front of her again and takes her life away.

... It has been a month since Mercury Lamp left the Ming Realm and returned to the world where she was born. Although she felt that her father must be here and searched almost all over the world, she still found nothing Finally, she stopped in this city with the presence of Rozen Maiden.

The meaning of the Rozen Maiden War is to give birth to the most perfect doll Alice in her father's ideal. Although Mercury Lamp has been working hard for this for countless years, since she met her father, she only hopes to be with him forever It's good to be around, as for whether you can become Alice, that is no longer important.

But now that her father has disappeared, she has no choice but to start the war again, because collecting all the Rosary Madonnas and making Alice a perfect doll is the only hope she can think of to find her father. .

It's just that although the goal is clear, she has been hesitating, but this hesitation is over.

The encounter with Megumi Kakizaki was just a coincidence, but for Mercury Lamp, this encounter is of great significance... As she herself said, it takes more courage to live than to die, and she swung the butcher knife at her sister Folks, it takes more courage than life.

However, if she didn't even have such courage, the meaning of her returning to this world would be meaningless.

Although he no longer has any enmity towards other Rozen Maidens, and although he had originally decided not to participate in the Alice game, but if it is for the sake of his father, then... let alone the younger sisters, he would not hesitate to destroy the whole world with his own hands!

This is what she realizes now.

The first puppet Mercury Lamp, the second puppet Canary, the third puppet Emerald Star Stone, the fourth puppet Cangxing Stone, the fifth puppet True Red, the sixth puppet Hinaberry, and although they can clearly exist The most mysterious Seventh Doll who is alive, but has never appeared, has been sleeping or something, has no information, and does not even know the name... This is all the Rozen Maidens.

Ever since the Rozen Maiden was born, even they themselves don't know how much time has passed, hundreds or thousands of years? The only thing that is certain is that ordinary humans born at the same time as them have already turned into dry bones.

And in such a long period of time, in order to become the most perfect doll and fulfill the wish of the father who made them, this war called Alice's game of killing each other between the sisters has happened one after another. Several times, except for the most mysterious seventh puppet, the other six Rozen Maidens had more or less frictions and battles, but the winner has never been determined.

The reason for this result was that apart from the repeated interference from the Demon of Laplace, the Rozen Maidens had never awakened at the same time, which was also the most critical reason.

However, in this era, Mercury Lamp can clearly feel that, except for the seventh puppet, which is still a little fuzzy, her other five younger sisters have all woken up. Therefore, in order to find her father again, she asks her five The sister sends out the invitation that they must come, and waits for them in the unreal world she has created.

Yes, just wait, because she is very clear about the strength of the Rozen Maidens. In the past, she was qualified to be the strongest Rozen Maiden even if she did not rely on media, but now she needs nothing more to say. So she didn't need to play any tricks at all... As for why Mercury Lamp invited all the Roses over instead of killing them directly in the real world, only she knew.

Although it is a false world, if you just look at it this way, it is no different from the real world. In a bright environment, there are mountains and seas, and an endless sky. The mercury lamp is standing on a tall building in this world, quietly Waiting quietly.

Then, I don't know how long it took, a gray vortex appeared in the calm void, and then a pair of blue pupils, golden spiral double ponytails reaching the ground, wearing a 19th century red queen-style dress, with a noble temperament The girl fell from the sky and appeared in front of the mercury lamp.

The first to arrive is the old enemy of Mercury Lamp—the fifth puppet is really red!

(to be continued)