The Witch and the Doll Swear

In the crystal cylinder, the viscous silver metal slowly climbed to a small scale, and returned to the ball at the bottom with the flick of a small hand.

"...38.5 degrees."

"Still, with a fever."

Alice lay on Miss Witch's shoulder, blinked her silver eyes, and said two words coldly.

Putting the thermometer back into the storage box lined with red velvet, Liliana calmly read out the number represented by the scale, and recorded it with a quill pen.

On the piece of paper on which Tina's body temperature changes have been written in the past six or seven days, the number has not moved for three days. Liliana put the paper and pen aside, and looked at the girl's reddish face with calm eyes. Face.

"... How is Miss Tina feeling?"

"I've never been taken care of in such a meticulous way... the feeling?"

"..."

"unclear meaning."

The witch and the puppet stared at her silently with eyes like mercury in the night sky.

Tina couldn't see what Liliana wanted to tell her with her eyes.

But she saw that the extraordinarily cold Alice was blaming "this joke is not funny".

"It's true..."

The flushed cheeks because of the fever, no matter what expression she showed, she was dazed, even grinning bitterly, but this was the only thing Tina could feel besides the extreme discomfort of the fever.

Since she was bedridden with a high fever, Tina's daily life began when the six elemental elves came to this room located on the top floor of the mage tower.

When I woke up and groaned because of my headache, the stairs leading to the room would sound like water pattering on the ground, and footsteps like rocks walking on wooden boards.

Then, Wright and Knight, Sylph and Salamanda will appear at the girl's bedside.

The spirit of wind opens the windows to bring fresh air, the spirit of light lets the bright and comfortable sunlight shine in all directions, the spirit of fire warms the cold wind and maintains the temperature of the waterway at the most suitable level, and then the spirit of darkness takes He took out the equipment for medical examination, approached the girl, and checked her physical condition.

At this time, the first sound of footsteps came to the girl's bedside.

Unlike the pure stone mage towers that have been popular on the mainland for thousands of years, Liliana's mage towers use wooden decorations extensively. The floors and walls have a dark but warm wood color, which seems to directly lead to Without the two elves, Aqua and Nome, they can't directly use the characteristics of the elemental elves to move quickly like Wright and the others-especially Nome.

She also has the duty of a cook in the mage's tower, and she puts a hot and delicious breakfast next to Tingna every morning. move in.

As for Aqua, the water spirit Undine, Tina didn't quite understand the reason for not appearing in the circular bath directly near the bed.

After having a different breakfast every day, Salamanda will happily throw herself on the girl, make her sweat all over, and then come down and Akuya will take a good bath for the girl, and take care of her medicine until she is done All this, Tina's morning is over.

What follows is a relatively boring period of time.

This tower is the core of the hot spring system near the Emerald Mountain. Even when Liliana and Alice are away, the six elemental elves are responsible for the daily maintenance of the tower, so they will leave one person to look after Tina, and The shifts changed, and when lunch came, Norm and Aqua would appear again to take care of the girl's bath, meals and medication.

By the time of afternoon tea, the six elves had finished their work, so they would gather here to accompany Tingna. At this time, due to the weakness caused by the fever, Tingna often slept. After waking up, before dinner, the elves Tina will help Tina to do some massage and simple exercise on the bed. After dinner, around the time when the moon just rises, after taking medicine and taking a bath again, Tina will embrace the warm salamanda while enjoying Nate's massage while taking an early night's rest.

Then came the next morning.

So back and forth.

Tina has never been taken care of so meticulously by anyone.

You don’t have to do anything or think about anything every day, you can eat delicious meals, and you can take a bath three times a day like a princess in a fairy tale. After each wash, you can know the extra expensive essential oils just by looking at the bottle , It is said that things like perfume with medicinal functions make her fragrant, and the massage of the Dark Elf and the comfortable temperature of the Salamanda in her arms can make her have a good dream in an extremely relaxed state...

Except that the head is dizzy and occasionally aching due to fever all the time, and more importantly, Liliana and Alice often go out and don't see each other, this is the life that everyone dreams of.

"After a few days, I almost forgot that Feng Xia is just an honorary title that cannot be hereditary, and I want to treat myself as the princess of a certain country..."

"..."

"..."

After listening to Tina's complicated words, Liliana and Alice silently looked at the elves who were quiet because of her presence.

"Sylph is definitely not playing any tricks."

The free and lively cyan elf raised his thin and small arms, and was the first to express his opinion.

"...With me watching, Knight didn't do anything rude to Miss Tina."

Then there was the girl leaning against the French window, almost melting into the morning light. In the shadow beside her, the black elf seemed very dissatisfied with such reports, and twisted the fair skin on her waist.

"?!"

The calm girl immediately turned into a pussy-haired cat. Liliana wordlessly turned her eyes away from the frolicking light and darkness, and looked at Salamanda, Aqua, and Nome.

"We are taking care of Miss Tina in the same way we used to take care of Princess Lily, it's so warm every day!"

"Although the effect is relatively weak, the fever-reducing potion is indeed taking effect slowly, but the effect is getting less and less obvious."

"There is no problem with nutrition. Although I still can't eat greasy meat, I can supplement the protein with milk and soybeans."

"...It stands to reason that he should have been cured long ago after being taken care of like this..."

"Healed, but weak."

After getting a flawless answer, Miss Witch, Alice, and the six elves all turned their attention to the girl.

Ting Na, who was one of the only neatly dressed people present, shrank her neck and looked away from those beautiful bodies with some embarrassment.

Elemental elves are older than the original dragons. Of course, they don't have the concept of clothing. Liliana at home is even less likely to wear clothes that get in the way.

Ting Na gave up trying to tell whether her face was so red because of a fever or the beautiful bodies in front of her eyes that even sex envied her.

"... Are you weak..."

Alice's words seemed to remind Liliana, she blinked her eyes, and looked at the doll in a bold dress that exposed her back and sides, as cold as an ice sculpture.

"Weakness...Speaking of which, am I so sick after being frozen..."

Tingna also felt that she was too weak. The fever that lasted for seven or eight days seemed to have burned away her physical strength. With the help of the elves, she would be out of breath after doing three or four sit-ups, and her appetite was not as good as before. Nuo Although the food prepared by Tom was delicious, he couldn't eat much by himself.

This made her wonder why she was rescued all night.

"...Miss Tina wants to know?"

"I'm a little curious..."

"..."

Liliana nodded, and took out a printed image from the interspatial storage ring.

"...Miss Liliana, this bruised, bloody thing is..."

"...Miss Tina who just thawed out."

"That's enough, don't tell me any more."

"……learn."

Liliana retracted the image.

"Physical factors cannot be ruled out, and the possibility that it will be fine in a few days exists."

Alice climbed to the top of Liliana's head, tidied up the ruffled and hollowed-out silver dress, and stared at Tingna coldly.

"No deterioration, nothing to worry about."

"……makes sense."

So, the witch and the puppet simply gave up discussing this issue and stood up from the bed. Knight immediately stood beside the witch with a black dress, and the black lace wrapped the witch's petite body.

It was the same bold design that exposed the entire back like Alice's body. If you wear it in this snow-covered city, you might be considered as having a brain problem. So I posed for Miss Witch from a butterfly-shaped group in Wright. After putting on white stockings on the outstretched legs, the dark elves wrapped a velvet cloak around their master.

The white and smooth back and the crystal-clear and lovely feet were wrapped in the material. Noticing that Alice, who had a particularly cold personality, had been staring at Tina coldly, she moved away her face that seemed to have turned redder a little.

"Are you going out today too..."

She asked with a little resentment.

"...Well, I have a job at the Supreme Council, and I have to visit a few friends. Maybe I need some blood from Aonian..."

"I'm sorry, it's all because of me that Miss Liliana and Alice have worked so hard... blood?"

The girl who lowered her head in frustration raised her head in astonishment because of a certain word.

"...Nothing, then, I'm going out."

"Night, come back."

However, Liliana, who had already walked to the balcony, just shook her head, her expression without any waves seemed to say "don't worry about it".

The iridescent wings of light stretched out, like an aurora passing across the sky.

Under the sky where the witch and the puppet flew away, the city covered with fresh snow is stirring up torrential clouds in the sea of ​​clouds high in the sky.

"I hope I won't be like Bike City, I have to leave in a hurry before I have time to visit..."

Ting Na muttered a little disappointed, and turned her head.

"Let's go..."

"..."

"But... Aonian..."

The expressions of the elves were a little strange.

and……

"...that...Miss Knight?"

"Huh? Miss Tina, what's the matter?"

"Why are you so close..."

The dark elf propped his chin and leaned tightly against Tina.

"Because Miss Tingna has a very good smell of shadows on her body, I like it very much, it's better to smell it if you get closer."

The dark elf licked his lips, the tip of his pink tongue licked his lips, and smiled like a little fox preparing to play a prank.

The likes and dislikes of elemental elves are extremely simple, and they will be particularly close to individuals who have a high affinity for the elements they represent. And Tingna, who was parasitized by the shadow demon, now has an unusually high affinity for dark elements. For this reason, the dark elemental elf with the name of the night is the most attached to her among the six elves.

The second is Aqua, who used to be a water element with a higher affinity than other elements. The other elves treated her as ordinary courtesy.

"Then, you don't need to unbutton my buttons!" "It must be very uncomfortable to wear clothes only by Miss Tingna, come on, come on..."

"It's cold to take off your clothes so hold me—"

The flame elf cheered, jumped directly onto the bed from the floor, and crawled up to the girl, his eyes glowing—this is not an adjective, Salamanda's fiery red eyes were really burning with fire.

Unlike Nate and Aqua, the reason why this fire elf likes to cling to Tina is simply that this race has an instinct to feel happy by warming creatures that feel cold.

"Wait a minute, please! I'm not uncomfortable, ugh..."

Ting Na folded her arms and curled up into a ball, but how could she resist the power of the two elemental elf lords? Just yelling twice, the girl began to pant tiredly, but at least she held on to Nate's wriggling fingers.

"In the end, what are you going to do..."

Although she has been together day and night for seven or eight days, she can't understand the thinking and actions of these elves at all. The weak and helpless girl is thrown into her arms by the warm Salamanda, not shivering because of the cold .

"We want to bestow the blessings of the six elements on Miss Tingna."

However, at this time, the mischievous expression on Knight's face disappeared, and the elf with black hair and black pupils sat in front of the girl, lifting her chin with his fingers.

"Miss Tina was seriously ill because of us, which made Princess Lily and Alice stop her footsteps for a while, from the continuous running around, let us have a long-lost meeting with her after hundreds of years. Princess Lily and Alice get along day and night, but neither Princess Lily nor Alice likes the tedious work of being a member of the Supreme Council, and also hates visiting people who are far from being friends one by one. Princess Lily doesn't like false greetings, even academic exchanges, because there are too many self-righteous fools."

If you suck it, you can taste the sweet chocolate. The finger touched the girl's forehead, and along the high bridge of the nose, gently flicked the tip of the girl's nose.

"In any case, it's our fault, but even if we apologize to Princess Lily, we can't solve this dilemma, but if Miss Tingna recovers from her illness, Princess Lily will be freed from such tedious affairs, and, We also want to make amends to Miss Tina who was unfortunately affected, although giving blessings to others will consume a lot of energy, but if this can make Miss Tina forgive our mistakes."

Akuya also came to the bedside. The voice of this girl who would flustered and apologized under Tina's silent gaze made Tina think of the waves in her hometown.

Only then did she notice that although Sylph was floating around freely, Noam was like a rock sitting not far away in a daze, and Wright was also in the light, as if she had a very low affinity for the light element as before. Lack of interest, however.

However, they all stared at themselves, pupils like black pearls, pupils like lava, pupils like water, pupils like emeralds, pupils like the sky, pupils like the sun.

The six elemental lords declared to Tina seriously.

"Ah... However, we can't be sure that our blessings will definitely make Miss Tingna healthy, because everyone's physique is different, and the expression of blessings will also be different, but no matter..."

"Although this is the case, it's better not to say it at this time."

Saramanda wagged her tail and told Tina very seriously, so Akua knocked her on the head when the hair of the fire touched the palm of the water, and steam came out.

Well, really serious, very serious...

Tingna looked at these cute elves who couldn't keep up with her thinking, and it was true that they made her seriously ill for so long, but it was an accident. She has been taken care of by them these days, saying To be honest, she didn't mean to blame them, and she didn't want to trouble them any more.

Maybe it's just like what Alice said, it's just a matter of my physique that my fever hasn't subsided yet, so I'll be fine after two more days of recuperation?

However, other thoughts than "causing trouble to others" completely occupied the girl's mind now.

——The blessings of the six elements.

This is not an unfamiliar word for girls who love to read novels.

This is almost the standard configuration for the protagonists of all adventure novels. The only ones above this are [both parents died], [princess threw herself into her arms], and [thought it was an ordinary person who actually had an extraordinary bloodline].

According to the statistics of an entertainment magazine, the brave/knight/adventurer/witch/magician/thief/orphan/lost/ There are almost enough beggars/kings to start a kingdom where all have been blessed by the six elements.

However, even if it is a clichéd novel setting that can no longer be clichéd, when it really hits Ting Na in front of her, Ting Na finds herself unable to laugh.

The girl didn't know exactly what these blessings contained.

However, in the novels I’ve read, after the protagonist gets the blessing, even the weakest one gets the power of the highest-level elementalist——the power of the elf messenger, and becomes able to manipulate elements, use magic, maybe——

"..."

Teenage girl feels parched.

The idea that had taken root in the bottom of my heart when I was in the grassland, the seed that fell asleep in the words of the little magician who laughed at himself that he was not as good as a street girl in front of Liliana, germinated at this moment.

——This is a door for me, who had never had anything to do with mystery and magic in my life, to step into the world where Liliana and Alice lived.

Even if most of the novels are just lies, but if so many people write like this, so many people think like this, then there is some credibility, right?

The strong desire gushing from the depths of her soul almost made her nod without hesitation.

Then I realized that this was a bit impolite, I lowered my head and whispered.

"Thank you very much, then... I will trouble you."

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The blessing ceremony is held at dusk.

dusk.

Many large-scale magic and rituals will be chosen at this time, as the dividing line between day and night, which is more obvious and softer than dawn, confusing the world and cognition.

Along the waterway bridge built on the top of the tower to the top of Feilengcui Peak, Tingna followed the elves to the top of the snow-covered mountain. This is the highest mountain in the city of thousands of towers. Because the city of a thousand towers is floating in the sea of ​​clouds in the high sky, even in midsummer the snow line here will only move up a few meters.

The only snowmelt spring in the City of Thousand Towers is here.

"Speaking of which, why is this place called Fei Leng Cui? If I remember correctly, this is..."

"...Florence, the famous capital of emeralds in the southwestern part of the mainland, is nicknamed because of its rich emeralds and emerald green mountains."

The snow is heated and melted by the temperature in the mountains, and it gathers to form hot springs. Liliana, who likes to build beautiful large baths in various styles, doesn't seem to have left too much decoration here. Apart from Liliana's room, there is no road that can directly reach the top of this steep mountain. The spring water created by nature's skillful hands is only enjoyed by witches and elves.

"But, rather than emerald, it's more green..."

Tingna, who was overlooking the hill by the hot spring, did not understand why the hill was called that name.

The evergreen black pine under the white snow is a vigorous green, and the shrubs on both sides of the mountain road have lost all their leaves. The bare brown and deep green are in no way associated with emeralds.

Or, is there a vein of emerald in this mountain?

"... Fei Leng Cui before the Thirteenth Jihad, that was Princess Lily's former hometown."

The spirit of light said lightly.

"The hometown I can never go back to."

She gazed at the Saigon Sun who was about to fall from the edge of the City of Thousand Towers in the distance, and nodded to her companions,

He didn't care about Ting Na who showed a puzzled expression because of this sentence, and he didn't answer her "Why."

Wright, who only announced to the girl that she was ready to start, let Tina, who took off her clothes, stand in the spring water that was so clear that it didn't seem to exist.

"...Go forward, living life."

Knight was standing beside the Fairy of Light, smiling slightly, her tone suddenly became old, which made Tina realize that from the time she said this sentence.

"To understand, life.

The ceremony began. "

The sun fell.

Perhaps the City of Thousand Towers is the only city that overlooks the setting sun. Under the crimson sky, everything disappears.

"……Eh?"

That's right.

Tina stared blankly at the sudden darkness.

Everything, all disappeared.

"Miss Knight? Miss Wright? Miss Aqua?" Into the night.

The girl looked around instinctively, but there was only darkness here.

The elves are gone, the white snow is gone, the old pines and dead trees in the mountains are gone. Overhead is starless and moonless darkness, and all around is emptiness of darkness,

"Sylph, Miss Salamanda, Miss Noam?!"

no respond.

The unresponsive darkness seemed to remain unchanged forever.

"Xiao, I didn't say such a thing in the novel. Is this the real blessing of the six elements... It seems that something is wrong... Anyway, anyway..."

Miss Knight said, Go ahead, so.

Nervously, Ting Na took a step forward with a bang.

... Huh, huh, huh?

Tina looked down.

Then saw the water.

There was no light around, but I saw the surface of the water.

The water gently wrapped her body, covering her neck. The girl soaked in the water and stepped on the water waves to walk.

One step, two steps, the neck out of the water.

Three steps, four steps, chest out of the water, waist, thighs, calves, ankles.

Tingna suddenly felt the touch of sand on the soles of her feet.

She is very familiar with this feeling. In the summer in her hometown, when she walked up from the sea step by step after swimming, the sand flowed into her toes along with the water, and the salty sea water dripped down her body. She walked away from the ocean step by step, only the soles of her feet , still submerged in a puddle of thin waves.

The water behind her suddenly made a gurgling sound, and Tingna turned her head subconsciously, and the water elf stood behind her, gazing tenderly.

——Life, born from water——

She chanted the ancient ballad softly, held up the girl's bewildered face, and pressed her lips tightly against the girl's lips.

The water flowed between the lips, moistening the dry coughing throat, and the heart-wrenching thirst that Tina was only aware of now disappeared.

"Miss Aqua..."

What exactly is going on. Such words could not be uttered.

The water spirit held her lips with her fingers and shook her head. At this moment, the warmth suddenly dispelled the cold.

A fire was lit in the darkness.

Salamanda hugged Tina tightly, wrapped her tail around her, and before the girl shivered from the sudden cold, the fiery kiss stopped all her words.

——Wisdom and soul ignited by fire——

The warmth is flowing, different from the fever, as if the whole body is wrapped in warmth, accompanied by the mischievous Salamanda's ballad, giving the girl her thoughts and warmth.

The thrust from behind made Tingna take a step forward, staggering and falling.

The moment of falling, what you see when you look back at that moment is the spirit of water, like the kind eyes of a mother sending off a child who has left home.

At this time, Salamanda had disappeared, and the hands and knees supporting the body touched rough rocks and fine sand.

Then, looking back to the front again, Norm squatted in front of Tina, reaching out to pull her up.

—Stand up from the ground—

The elf of the earth, who is usually a little dull, is smiling at this moment.

She imprinted her lips with a delicate clay touch on the girl's lips, sending the fragrance and sweetness of plants.

She pulled Ting Na, and retreated towards her back, one step, two steps, and disappeared into the ground under the girl's feet.

got windy.

A free-spirited elf appeared between the girl's disheveled hair, mischievously blowing an invigorating wind into Tina's lips that had just swallowed the nectar.

——Guided by the wind——

Sylph flapped the transparent wings on her back and flew into the distance.

"Wait, wait a minute, I don't understand at all!"

The girl who was finally able to speak felt that her body seemed to become lighter. She followed the direction the wind was blowing, and instinctively took a step.

One step, half the world appeared light.

Two steps, the other half of the time is still dark.

The third step is to alternate day and night.

The deep crimson sunset light falls from the sky.

The silhouettes of towers and streets swayed in the light, Tina blinked and found herself standing on the top of a mountain.

Behind is the hot spring filled with mist.

In front of him was a steep cliff.

The elves of light and darkness were floating in front of her, and even Wright's indifferent face showed a slight expression of approval.

I... came back?

They still didn't give Tina the time to speak, one left and one right, like the twins in the mirror, took Tina's lips together.

—Watched by light and darkness, until—

Lip points.

Tina took two steps back in a daze.

In the distance is a strange city, and farther away is the end of the sky and the earth. This world seems to have changed in an instant—wrong.

What changed was myself.

It seems that I understand a lot, and it seems that I don’t understand anything.

Tina didn't have time to check whether her body had changed because of this weird and ancient ritual. There seemed to be many strange scenes in her mind. There were fish, shrimps, and monsters with strange shapes. Live and multiply on the ground, birth, old age, sickness and death...

She saw that life was born from water, ignited by fire, soul and wisdom, stood up from the ground, followed the guidance of the wind, spanned the alternation of light and darkness until——

until... what?

The singing voice kept echoing in my mind.

But only the last phrase.

Only the last [what] can't be heard anyway.

It seemed that it was not something that human ears could understand, but it kept echoing, hitting the girl's soul, waves of dizziness flooded in like tides, and finally Tina couldn't stand still anymore.

Fell into a soft embrace.

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"... 40 degrees, huh?"

Liliana flicked the thermometer blankly.

The room was very quiet, even Sylph, who was the most active, sat obediently on Noam's head, only the little wings on the back fluttered nervously.

"Elemental erosion, serious."

The doll, which was wiping off the sweat and tears mixed with the girl's face with a towel, swept the elves one by one with its silver pupils.

Now, Sylph didn't even dare to flap her wings anymore. Beside the nervous Wright and Knight, Akua was tearful, as if she was about to throw herself down and apologize.

"...As I recall, erosion is..."

The slightly delirious girl struggled to speak just a single word.

She felt that there was fire burning on her skin, but it was very cold, there were dazzling spots in front of her eyes, and tears, saliva and sweat flowed uncontrollably.

Her breathing was not smooth, the irregular sound of the wind was buzzing in her head, and she was numb everywhere, and her body was also very heavy, as if her hands and feet had turned into stones, and she couldn't move.

"...Elements and magic power compose everything in the world according to the [laws and principles] set by the Creation Mother, and humans are no exception. These are self-balanced by the law of elements. When the balance is broken, the elements and magic power will corrode the human body and cause diseases. .”

For example, if the balance between the human body and the fire element outside the body is broken, the body temperature of the person may rise or fall abnormally, and the worst case may even lead to self-immolation. If the balance of the water element is broken, people will be unable to restrain themselves. Due to one's own thirst, the water in the blood may uncontrollably turn into sweat and ooze out, turning people into a horrible mummy. If the balance of the wind element is broken, the hearing will be confused, and smooth and regular breathing will not be possible.

The external manifestation of this balance is the strength of elemental affinity.

The stronger the affinity, the more temperature-balanced the corresponding element can be.

Tingna, who originally only had a relatively good affinity for water elements, is now blessed by the six elements. Not only is the earth, water, fire, and scenery dark, but the affinity of the frost element, which is a variant of the water element, and the lightning element, which is a variant of the wind element, have also increased a lot. However, her physique, which is just an ordinary person, of course cannot adapt to the sudden change of balance in a short time, let alone resist the ubiquitous elemental erosion.

As a result, the disease that was not cured in the first place became more serious.

"...Miss Tingna is just an ordinary person who doesn't understand magic, but you are the elemental lords who once assisted the six first dragons in managing the elemental plane, those who are able to accept your blessings and those who are not able to accept your blessings Can't tell the difference?"

"Unreasonable."

Rarely, Liliana's tone was very severe.

Alice glanced at the elves angrily, making the heads of the elves, who were already bowed down, even lower.

"Ahaha... Please don't blame the elves, Miss Liliana, I am also responsible, I don't know... Huh, Huh... I don't know that the blessings of the elves are not available to anyone, so please be silly... Cough ,cough!"

She was clearly breathing, but no air flowed through her throat. The suffocation made the girl cough painfully, and it seemed that the trachea was stretched open by the viscous air like water, which made her roll her eyes in pain.

"Fool."

Alice held a towel to wipe off the saliva sprayed on her when the girl coughed, and frowned dangerously, "Why don't you wait until Alice and Lily come back"—the silver eyes seemed to reprimand.

Miss Witch frowned, drew a magic circle with iridescent magic light on the bed, and silently sang the [interpretation] of the balance element, while staring at the dark elf hiding behind Wright.

"...Tell me why you want to bless Miss Tina."

Nate, who proposed this proposal—at least on behalf of the elves to Tina, shrank his neck and whispered.

"Yes, it's for apologizing, but we don't have anything that can be used as an apology—"

"……to be honest."

"...We knew that Princess Lily would only visit the dragon at night, so we thought that if we cured Miss Tina, Princess Lily would not have to owe that rude little female dragon..."

Wright's expression is very tense, it's like... yes.

Tina thought in a daze, although she couldn't see the expression of Liliana who turned her face away, but Wright's nervous expression seemed to be facing the queen's anger.

"...It's for me, isn't it?"

Liliana's tone softened a little.

"Um……"

The elves nodded.

"...then don't implicate others."

"yes……"

Tina always felt that she heard a whip from somewhere, bad, the tinnitus became more serious...

Oops, consciousness too...

After educating her own elves, Miss Witch turned around and gently stroked the girl's hair with her usual calm expression.

"...Be patient a little longer, Miss Tina, I will find a way to make you heal right away."

"Hmm... Lily, Yana..."

[Thank you] Two words, no and I couldn't say it.

For the second time today, Tina lost consciousness.

Dawn of the next day.

"……Eh?"

When I woke up, I found myself sleeping naked under the blanket, holding Liliana, whose skin had turned wheat-colored for some reason, in my arms. I felt refreshed like never before.

"Hey, hey hey hey?!?!?!?!?!"

Looking at the blood on the quilt into chaos.

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Postscript of a certain day:

"Miss Liliana! Miss Alice! I want to know what happened! Why did Miss Liliana turn black! And what's going on with this blood stain!"

"...I found a folk remedy and cured Miss Tingna."

"Please tell me in detail!"

"lengthy."

"It's okay to be verbose Miss Alice! Please tell me or I'll be overwhelmed with guilt!!!!!!"

"...guilt?"

"Because I told Miss Liliana——no, it's not this question, anyway, please tell me!"

"...To put it simply, I asked Aonian about the method of treating Miss Tingna, and the answer I got was to strengthen the physique, which can only be temporarily improved and has side effects. The best choice is dragon blood. Nian is a black dragon, so I asked her to give me some."

"..."

"...However, for ordinary human beings, directly drinking pure dragon blood is tantamount to committing suicide. Miss Tingna must not be able to bear it, so I settled for the next best thing and chose another material with a more common effect. Miss Tingna knows why Are the protagonists of many legends of heroes on the mainland raised by witches?"

"Using one's own body to filter the poison of certain potions is a simple ritual that ordinary people who don't understand magic know."

"...As Aonian said, after being filtered by my body and then transferred to Miss Tina to drink from the body fluid, the effect is remarkable, and the erosion disease is also cured, but the effect is too strong, and Miss Tina has some nosebleeds. At the same time , because I drank black dragon blood, my affinity for dark elements was too high, causing my skin to darken...Miss Tingna, are you listening?"

"Walking off, it's forbidden."

"Yes, yes, yes...but...I...I drank dragon's blood?"

"...To be precise, it is my bodily fluid that drank dragon's blood."

"...that... what exactly is it..."

"……unimportant."

"...I, I will be very concerned! Miss Liliana!"