The Witch and the Doll Swear

On the grassland, there is a hot spring.

Although it is said to be a common landform on the west side of the grassland, this hot spring is different from the springs distributed in those rocky valleys and valleys. Perhaps looking at the entire Elrond Prairie, or even in the south of the entire continent, All are unique.

If you want to say why, it's because this hot spring is located above a slope, in a depression caused by water erosion in the rock, the stone and water rise abruptly from the grassland, piercing the sky at a forty-five degree.

The oldest shaman searched through all the sheepskin books and couldn't find the reason why this whole big stone stood alone here, let alone why there was a scorching spring at the top of the slope, flowing along the slope. A warm pool of water is formed beneath the rocks.

Just because the nearby vegetation was withered, they hid away from here, calling it an unknown land. Among the strange rocks, there must be the remains of the demon defeated by the grassland goddess.

... In a sense, they were right.

The caravan entering the grassland called it the Sulfur Waterfall, and regarded it as a resting point and road sign. Although the number was not large and frequent, it was indeed a relatively lively place on the grassland.

It has been living here since it became conscious.

Although the brothers in the nearby cities often wrote letters to persuade it to leave this place where there are few people and no birds shit, and invited it to come with eager words, "There are seven-colored lights shining at any time, and there are convenient shelters everywhere. In the shadow corner, no matter which house or street, there are countless wines and fine wines at your fingertips, enjoy together "doing morning exercises in the dim light of dusk, wandering in the city full of wine all night, with Gold and gems adorn the long beard and nails' life, but it's not interested.

It has never left the grotto that it calls home for more than a night, and it doesn't quite understand the large texts written by its brothers in a language that only their kind can understand.

What is "Colorful Lights"? Is it one of the big round balls of light and tiny dots of light in the sky?

Wherever there is a shadowy corner to hide, so is this grassland, this huge jagged rock.

What are [house] and [street]?

Beards are fine, but nails are the most important weapon of their family. What decoration do weapons need?

--not understand.

It is even worried that its brother is too far away from home for too long, that he has already suffered from some kind of mental illness, or that his brain has been spoiled by the "fine wine" in his mouth. There will be a lot of coined words that it can't understand at all.

But "fine wine," seductive fine wine.

Admittedly, this is still very tempting.

It lives on the grassland, and its main source of food is the deer and wolves, which are never worrying about scarcity. Sometimes it is impossible to find them, and digging the land everywhere, even a dozen hares can make a meal.

fine wine.

That is a rare delicacy.

Every time it sees such words, it has to walk up and down in the hall of the house, and use its own eyes to see the stalactites that have grown from no toenails to grow higher than its own calves to persuade itself not to be so tempted.

Admittedly, that was insanely delicious food.

Dirty and smelly wild deer, rough skin, thick flesh and sharp teeth, prairie wolves, not to mention those stinky rats that pull their feces in their dens - compared to any of the above species, their tenderness and richness Elastic skin is more attractive, no wonder my brother uses this as stationery every time.

Especially the wood from outside the grassland, who often sits on a horse and wears exquisite clothes, hiss—they are like juicy berries, and when one bites down, it is a splash of sweet fermented glutinous rice.

However, commensurate with the ultimate delicacy, it is also the ultimate risk.

These guys who claim to be human are different from the silly deer who will be scared to the ground or run around without thinking when they see themselves.

They are cunning and dangerous, and maybe their thin bodies can be torn in half with just a casual force, but before that they will smash hard metal, stone, fire and light on you.

It doesn't matter whether it's those guys who claim to be civilized, or those guys who wear animal skins and bones.

Moreover, to deal with them, one cannot let go of even one.

This is also the experience that the brothers told it. As long as one person escapes and leaks his information, it will attract the pursuit of these human beings who are also particularly dangerous. What's more troublesome is that human beings are always in groups activities, it is even more difficult to solve them all.

Therefore, during the long time of inhabiting the grassland, the number of times it sips fine wine and pulls those interesting and beautiful things into the house is only a handful.

For such a situation, it is not too dissatisfied.

In the human language, its two favorite words are "temperance" and "cautious", which it learned from a human hunter.

The group of hunters went deep into the grassland for the best furs, and were not satisfied with killing more than a dozen wolves one after another. In the end, they were torn to pieces by the angry wolves. The so-called "temperance will not bring disaster" and "it would be better to be more cautious" are perfect comments.

Every time he thought of that scene, he would quickly strangle the buds of greed that popped up in his heart, and firmly determined to live a restrained life in the grassland.

But that being said.

Even with such a tragic situation in mind, the wonderful taste of human beings is still unstoppable. It would be too unreasonable to say that it can be calmed down so easily.

——Do you want to have a dick today and run a little farther to find those people wearing animal skins?

Spreading out a piece of rabbit fur, it was thinking about it as it was about to reply to its brother, while shaking its ears because of the noise not far away.

There are horses neighing next to the hot spring.

And human voices.

Unmistakable, it belongs to the voices of those people outside the grassland.

Smacking its mouth, it put down the pen made of antlers and wolf fur.

It's already winter, and according to years of experience, there will be fewer and fewer humans who will stop here, and this may even be the only batch of this winter. Once you miss it, you don't know when the next time will be.

And although human beings are not easy to deal with, they are not impossible to deal with. The dismantled carriages at home are proof that it believes in its own strength.

Besides, even if it's really tricky, you can hide again when the time comes. It doesn't mean that once you get out, you will pounce on their necks and never give up until you eat them all.

——In the final analysis, "temperance" and "abstinence" are still different.

The temptation of delicious food finally prevailed.

It didn't hesitate for a long time, and quickly came to the conclusion of "see first, then talk", and used its natural ability to hide its figure, and quietly left the nest.

It is still early for the snow to melt. If you look down from the sky, on the ground buried by the winter snow that fell a week ago, only the color of rocks and soil remains near the hot spring, which is extremely conspicuous.

Several carriages were approaching from the west.

Horses with chestnut flowers, carriages painted with light yellow paint.

Several bay horses guarded the carriage, on which rode men in leather armor.

One, two.

Hiding on a big rock, it silently counted these delicious but tricky foods.

Two carriages with two persons on each.

There are five bay red horses, and there are five men with swords on their waists.

There was also a man riding a black horse, whose golden hair and golden eyes were particularly striking among these men.

Is there a total of 10 people...

As the carriage approached, it hid in a more secluded place. Although it didn't see the guy in a big robe with a stick in his hand among these humans, it decided to be more cautious.

The number of people is a bit too much, it has never hunted and killed so many humans at one time, if the brother didn't arouse its appetite in the letter, maybe it would have given up.

But this number is still within the range that can be shot. Therefore, it cannot be taken lightly.

It is very painful to be cut by those metal bars called "swords" by humans. Some swords have strange powers. They have been chopped by a human with a shiny sword. It is a very shallow wound, but it has been fully repaired for most of the spring.

Soon, the convoy of carriages stopped at the foot of the sloping rock, and stopped on a relatively dry muddy field beside the steaming pond.

"Let's rest here today, it's rare to come to Sulfur Falls, let's enjoy it here, and kill the fleas on the horses! Especially Demo, you kid, the fleas on all the horses add up to less than you Too many flea nests!"

After a man in the first carriage said so, the humans laughed and began to build a cloth nest by the pond, drive sticks into the dirt, and harness the horses to it.

Two other humans sprinkled a very unpleasant powder around them. When they smelled the smell, even the stinky rats hiding nearby couldn't stand it and ran out of their stone holes.

But this poor little guy obviously doesn't understand the horror of human beings. When it ran out, the man who was sprinkling another kind of light green powder found it, ran over quickly, kicked hard— —

——Paji.

Its big and long ears couldn't help shaking.

"Hey, there's a mouse! Everyone, watch out for that thing between your legs, don't these little beasts bite it off in your sleep!"

The man grabbed the rat that had nearly been crushed in two, and yelled at his companion.

"Don't worry, Kang Bo, even if there are a hundred more mice, they won't be able to find that thing you hid in your fur!"

"What are you talking about?! I'm going to stuff this mouse into your belly!"

There was another burst of laughter.

It smashed its mouth regretfully.

Why can humans laugh at such meaningless words? It doesn't quite understand anyway.

That's all food, humans are such a waste.

But according to its brethren, laughing humans are tastier, so that's probably a good thing.

In addition to these guys, some human beings searched for stones to pile up a hollow in the middle, put black charcoal and dry grass stems together, unfolded a roll of sheepskin, and a flame gushed out of the skin, Fired those up.

Human beings can always produce fire and light inexplicably, but some people rely on sheepskin, and some don't. This is where we must be vigilant, it thought, and it hides deeper in the shadows.

There are three more people who made it out of skins... what? In short, things made of very soft animal skins came to the source of the spring water, and the water was filled with water to make them big and bulging-the young man with blond hair and golden eyes was also in the group, rubbing his nose and saying hello to him Too pungent for sensitive noses.

On their way to the spring and on their way back, they were very close to the stone pile where it hid, even so they didn't find it, and it didn't act rashly——

Now, it is far from the time.

After they returned to the camp, some other humans took metal pots and bowls from the wagon, as well as dry meat and grass... Humans seemed to call those things vegetables, and they put those brains into the pot , Put it on the hole made of stones, pour it into the spring water and start boiling.

This behavior is called cooking. If the food is not "cooked", humans cannot eat it. This is something that can already be recognized, it thought.

People eat when they are hungry.

It eats when it's hungry.

However, it wasn't hungry just after waking up. Although its appetite had been aroused by the scent of humans flowing through its nostrils, it wasn't that hungry yet.

Once a person has eaten, he sleeps at night.

At that time, in the words of its brother -

It's time to enjoy the feast that I haven't tasted for a long time.

Dusk soon came to an end.

The human settlements also gradually quieted down. The pot and wine bottle were all empty, and the scent of spirits filled the icy night wind. It didn't take long before they all hid in the cloth house, leaving only two people sitting by the fire to watch the night.

The winter night in the grassland is lonely.

The cold wind blowing, and the howling of wolves coming from nowhere in the distance, if you stand on the top of the rock and look around, you will find nothing but a cluster of fires on the edge of the pond, and you can't see anything.

It likes this dark night.

The light falling from the sky provides bright vision for its huge eyes.

The ubiquitous shadow becomes its veil, its cloak, its refuge of absolute stability.

The deeper the night, the greater the advantage that belongs to it.

Even the two humans who were guarding the campfire started to yawn, saying some incomprehensible words to drive away the drowsiness.

The night is its absolute home, and from the shadows it descends.

"...I said, did you hear any rustling noises?"

"The noise in this wilderness is either the sound of the wind or the sound of mice. It can't be the sound of a beautiful woman twisting her ass at you out of thin air."

"I'll go and have a look, and take a pee by the way."

"Be careful that the thing will be bitten off."

A man who was attracted by the noise, had just walked to a pile of rubble, and disappeared from his companion's sight for a moment because of the standing stone.

—Click it.

After confirming that neither a drop of sweet wine flowed nor made a particularly loud noise, it gently lowered the man whose neck was completely broken to the ground.

First.

Once again, he used his natural ability to hide his figure, crept around behind the yawning man who was still bored by the campfire, pressed both hands on the sides of his head and twisted it before he had time to scream—must It's very light, otherwise the head will be unscrewed directly——

—Click it.

This is the second one.

Next, the remaining 8 humans slept soundly in the four cloth nests.

——How can we catch them all without wasting any delicious food?

It is not in a hurry to reveal its figure. Although stealth requires a high degree of mental tension, it is better than safety.

Maintaining a state of invisibility, it fell into deep thought, but the thinking was not smooth, listening to the powerful beating heartbeat, it was a little difficult.

Facing the guys lying down, it can't kill them by twisting their necks without moving, or even twisting their necks. Its claws are too sharp and too long.

...In this case, waste a little bit.

It would be too greedy to take all of these into the belly, greed will bring disaster, and there are already two unscathed human beings, so it doesn't matter if the rest are wasted a little.

Licking his parted lips, it thought so.

It didn't take long from the beginning of thinking to the conclusion, and finally came to a cloth nest.

It slightly opened the soft curtain, thinking that they would be unable to make a sound like the previous two, so it aimed its sharp long claws at their throats and hearts, just for a moment.

In just an instant, the sharp claws pierced the hearts and throats of the two men, and in their deep sleep, gave them peace that they would never have to wake up again.

The fiery liquid gushed out of the man like a fountain, with an unstoppable fragrance. It let out a low cry, and then threw itself on the man's chest and opened its mouth wide.

Ahhh, my brain is shaking.

The warm liquid diffuses between the tongue and the teeth. It is an indescribable but addictive taste.

This is the source of life, the currency of the soul, the sweetest spring water and wine!

Swallowing and swallowing, licking and licking, but this delicious nectar gushed out from four different places, sprinkled on the soil, absorbed by the fabric of the human body, and it couldn't take them all anyway. Drink that warm liquid.

"Temperence" and "caution" mean nothing in the face of this ineffable delicacy. It regrets it.

Waste, this is too wasteful!

It was covered in this extravagant serum for bathing, and regretted its rough behavior.

Humans in the next cloth nest, just try not to kill two at once!

It blushed all of a sudden and beat its chest because of the waste. It didn't come to the next cloth nest until its heartbeat calmed down a bit. It opened the curtain and pointed its blood-stained long claws at the sleeping The top of a person's head.

Just at this time.

The other man whose paw wasn't pointing wrinkled his nose and opened his golden eyes.

There was no warning, it came suddenly - it stopped its movements immediately to prevent its invisible self from being noticed.

The same goes for that man.

Until it saw panic and fear from those golden eyes, and then.

"There are monsters------!!!!!!"

It was only when the man screamed that he finally remembered that he was drenched in "fine wine".

And his own racial talent cannot hide things that do not belong to him.

It took some time for my mind, which was duller than usual, to realize this.

At this time, the man with blond hair and golden eyes jumped up like a sensitive leopard and slammed into the door on the other side of the cloth nest. The man's head was chopped up.

A large amount of pink and red liquid was sprinkled on the rock, but it felt neither pity nor greed.

Its sanity returned.

--not good.

Its ears heard the sound of several other humans in the cloth nest getting up and drawing their swords, and heard their shouts, which made it extremely flustered.

--not good!

The cozy dinner turned into a dangerous hunt in an instant. In a panic, it immediately made a decision to kill them all, and stabbed towards the other end of the cloth nest with its long sharp claws.

However, its eyes were blinded by the flying cloth, so it failed to stab.

However, its perception was affected by the confused mind, so it couldn't escape.

It didn't rush out of the human cloth nest until it felt a pain in its chest.

"—Bloodfiend! By God! This guy is a bloodfiend! Run!"

And the blond man with the crossbow ran away as soon as he saw it.

Then he ran towards the place where the horse was tied.

It hurriedly wanted to rush over, but several arrows pierced its skin, and the humans who crawled out of the cloth den screamed "What is this?" and started to attack it.

Is it impossible to maintain invisibility because of mental chaos?

it thought, and then.

Because of the pain in his chest, he had to stop.

——That was not the pain of flesh and blood, a suffocating, nauseating feeling was permeating from there.

It stretched out its hand and pulled out the crossbow bolt, and the memory flowing in its blood told it that it was silver, its natural enemy, and the poison of silver required a lot of blood to dissolve——

So don't let even one go!

"——!"

It jumped up greatly, and rushed towards the human beings who were running with their backs.

But because of [Silver]'s poison, the moment it jumped up, it felt a burst of collapse, and Ben's scratch that pierced its chest only left four scratches on his back.

"I'm—"

The man screamed, but he didn't stop.

"I'm going to be a great adventurer, how can I die here!!!"

While screaming, he ran to the horse at a faster speed, stepped on the black horse, and fled towards the east.

——Ahhh, I couldn't catch up with him anymore, I was escaped.

That night, it buried a bunch of dry corpses in the soil, thinking anxiously.

--what to do?

—Do you want to leave here?

Fear followed the despair, and it knew from its memory that there are many terrifying individuals in human beings who can kill themselves, and even enjoy hunting their own kind.

Wearing black cloth, they held silver crosses and spikes, trying to nail it to the oak cross, and let the brilliance of Saigon burn to ashes!

will they come

Will definitely come! Not even the best hounds are as brutal!

Can you defeat them yourself?

can't do it! They are experts in hunting them!

In great panic, it wrote a letter to its brother, and the reply from the brother brought by the bat was just as it expected, urging it to leave the grassland and live with it in the city.

But the letter also said that human beings are very fragile creatures, and the escaped human might have died somewhere in the grassland due to infection, so don't worry, just erase all traces of their existence.

If you are really worried, just seal up the cave and sleep for decades. For a few decades at most, forgetful creatures like humans will forget everything that happened there.

After thinking for three full days, it decided on the latter two methods.

Grind the blood-stained stones, drag the carriage and its contents into the lair, sink the blood-stained soil into the pond, and hide all the corpses in the depths of the cave so as not to be dug out by the wolves.

Finally, the hole was closed with rocks, and it fell into a deep sleep with worry and fear.

……………………………………………………………………………………

When I woke up, it was already an unknown how long.

——I am still alive.

As soon as it woke up, it desperately began to think.

I was defenseless in my deep sleep, and since I woke up alive, it meant that the danger was basically eliminated—whether the reason was that the human died in the grassland without revealing my existence, or I hid well so that those The hunter returned without success, or humans have forgotten about it.

But I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

So, it was relieved, and then took a deep breath.

——? !

At this time, it smelled human.

Accompanied by the recovery of the body, the strong hunger made it tired even to breathe, but because of this, the sense of smell and hearing became more sensitive.

The hunger that almost tore apart the mind drove it to quietly leave the lair, just like before falling asleep, and climbed to the top of the rock.

Same winter.

The same white earth.

There are several carriages by the pond, and the number of people is very large, there are almost twenty people, and more than half of them are armed with weapons and crossbows. By absorbing the knowledge in human blood while sleeping, it understands Yes, this is the existence called mercenaries.

They are experts in killing, and they are more dangerous than the previous group of "adventurers", and there are more people.

On my side, I just woke up from a deep sleep, hungry, and my physical strength is not as good as before.

Can't win.

Especially, after it saw a man who reminded people of flames just by looking at his hair, he stuck a sword in the ground, and the flames immediately burned there, and he suppressed the urge to be hungry even more.

--not now.

—At least, not now.

It bit its dry lips hard, and slowly climbed down from the top of the rock.

"Why, don't you agree? Let me tell you, as long as I think, when we buy men and women from that tribe and pass here again, the fire I stay here will not go out!"

At this time, the wind brought the voice of the man with the flame-colored hair.

Its steps stopped.

— will come back, won't you?

He grinned uncontrollably.

This is the best news it has ever heard in its life.

——Then, wait for you to come back.

After that day, the wolves and deer on the grasslands in this area suffered.

However, the caravan did not return.

One day, two days, three days, five days...

Regained its strength, it sat on the top of the rock every day, looking towards the east where they had gone.

The trap for learning the lessons of the last time has been set.

The state of the body is also complete.

The means to counter the man's flames were also prepared.

But the most important prey has not appeared for a long time.

—Have they decided to change course?

——Or has he been buried in the wolf's mouth?

Almost restless, it is on top of this rock, watching from a distance.

Then, at dusk of the day.

...?

With anticipation and anxiety, it smelled the smell of "fine wine".

……What's this?

It has an even more inescapable aura than ordinary humans.

If we compare human beings to fine wine, this is the mellow Yulu fine wine that has been decades or hundreds of years old. The mere faint smell completely overwhelms its vigilance and prudence, and it almost forgets to hide itself. Xing left the nest.

...is that a human... woman?

Climb to the top of the rock.

Look along the fragrance that makes it unable to extricate itself.

What it saw were two women standing near the source of the hot spring.

The one with blond hair and blue eyes, and the one with platinum long hair and black pupils, who showed their naked body in the cold winter wind without any shyness.

"Miss Liliana, are you going to build a hot spring here again..."

"...a hot spring is a gift of nature, and I have simply made this most precious gift more pleasant."

Their conversation was carried on the wind, along with the fragrance that ate away at its sanity.

The brunette and the blonde were on the shore about twenty meters away.

On the shoulders of the blond-haired and blue-eyed woman was a smaller woman with black hair and black pupils, wrapped in a magician's robe, but she couldn't feel the breath of life from her body, so it was obviously not a living thing.

"Give it up, Miss Tina. If you want to persuade Lily to turn a blind eye to the hot spring, it's better to pray for world peace."

Though not alive, it speaks.

Interesting.

Its curiosity was quickly suppressed by the surging "appetite".

The caravan that missed the appointment has not been placed yet, and the hunger that wakes up from the slumber is extremely exaggerated to magnify the deliciousness of the wine that was drunk before the slumber. The lives of the wild deer and wolves that are sipping day and night are also like this becomes dull by comparison.

It never thought that one day it would be so hungry

"...This time, let's try the style of the Anlaisi dynasty."

The young black-haired woman exuding an unprecedented graceful fragrance turned hard rocks into soft soil with every gesture, kneaded them into various shapes and then turned them into solid rocks, and burned them out with pitch-black or scorching flames. Ceramic with smooth surface...

Even after seeing this scene, he instinctively realized that this was an extremely dangerous object, and his hunger and thirst were still about to move.

This makes it involuntary.

Take a step forward.

from the top of the rock.

The woman towards the spring, and the edge of the spring—

"..."

Just at this very moment.

Those slightly incandescent black pupils are slightly dim.

It really just seems casual.

Glance here.

"Miss Liliana, what's the matter? Is there anything over there?"

"...No, it's nothing. This seems to be a road sign where merchants often gather. When we get here, we will almost cross this grassland..."

"Yes, it's finally here, although it's only a short journey of one or two months..."

"Miss Tina's eyes are starting to look like a traveler's."

"But I can't bear it if it happens again..."

"Don't worry, Alice and Lily probably won't take this kind of journey that is completely outside civilization in a short time..."

………

When he woke up from hunger and thirst again, he felt muddled.

How long has it been this time?

The whole body is abnormally stiff, the sharp claws that have not been taken care of for many years are covered with dust, and the nest is already full of spider webs.

But compared to the fear and majesty that almost crushed the soul brought by the careless glance, this kind of thing is not unacceptable.

Rather, it is really a fluke to escape with only paying such a price. It must be their ancestor Cain's blessing.

However, encountering such things one after another, maybe this homeland that has lived for hundreds of years is no longer suitable for its lurking, should we abandon all these and go to the city to find its brothers...

He came out of the nest in a daze, and climbed to the top of this rock as if he was used to it.

Compared with before Shenmian, this place has completely changed. The spring is surrounded by smooth and gorgeous stone steps. The stone pillars are erected into a hill.

There are various sculptures on the top of these columns, and at the top of one of them, it also sees itself.

He has a stooped figure, big and pointed ears, three-petal lips covered with wrinkles, showing proud fangs, short claws on his hands, powerful sheep's hoof-like hind legs, and a big beard.

Even the sharp corner on the left that was accidentally broken was the same.

Is this a warning?

That horrible woman on it?

Or is it for the humans who stop here?

Thinking in this way, you will recall that terrible glance and your heart will tremble, and you will bow your head to these stone pillars and statues in worship.

But it doesn't, a certain [emotion] or [mission] has filled it with all its heart and soul.

In the fountain surrounded by these stone pillars, there is a girl.

Petite body, and white and delicate skin.

Long silver hair and ruby ​​eyes.

When it realized that a certain aura emanating from this girl was the reason for awakening it from its slumber, a certain feeling that was born out of desire but surpassed desire drove it to the spring water without hesitation. walk in.

It didn't think about anything, and now all thinking is so pale and powerless.

It jumped at the girl.

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Postscript of a certain day:

"Chris, what's the matter? I seem to see something flying away from you..."

"Please continue to bathe, Master Lilian, it's just an ugly and filthy gorefiend, exactly like the one on the statue, probably sleeping nearby, it's a very old, probably very cunning and dangerous guy , but was attracted by your blood, Master Lilian, and lost his mind, and didn't even feel that the concubine of the true ancestor was nearby."

"Blood devil... I remember, it is the most common type of vampire, and it seems that it is indeed a monster that is often confused with blood race..."

"They are the [families] created by the [blood clan] who endowed blood to humans. After several or dozens of generations, they cannot control the blood power from the blood clan and lose their minds and become monsters. That is the predecessor of vampires. This grassland and temple The relationship between the church and the blood race is very deep, so it is not surprising that there are such monsters inhabiting it."

"But, that lady witch who likes hot springs, actually tolerates such existence near the hot springs? She even made a statue..."

"Even if you are a powerful adventurer, you won't deliberately destroy a monster that does not cause actual harm to you during the journey, and..."

"and?"

"The blood demon's soul is a little abnormal, probably because of something done by that witch lady, such as protecting this hot spring... It's just that Master Lilian's blood is too tempting for vampires and vampires, so it directly surpasses this. Let's run out even in this daylight... Speaking of which."

"Um?"

"Master Lilian, why are you retreating..."

"K, Chris is the one, why, why did you approach me with a blank face... It's still noon."

"Yes, we have to have lunch at noon."

"Eh? Wait, wait a minute, you'll lose your mind if you come here just once in the morning—"

"Master Lilian?"

"Eh, um, um..."

"...The concubine is starting to move."

"Ah--"