The Witch and the Doll Swear

Once the solid wood door is closed, the hidden magic circle will be completely integrated with the part on the door, and the hidden magic circle will be integrated into the pattern of vines and thorns etched by alchemy on the cabin wall. Immediately establish an invisible barrier of sound insulation.

The noise of the propellers warming up for takeoff disappeared, no longer tormenting the girl's head, which seemed to be lying on the glass whose paws had been rubbed by a thousand cats.

But in fact, this is just to free Tina from the state of [extremely uncomfortable] and become [very uncomfortable].

"Hangover...so uncomfortable...vomit..."

Tingna walked into the room staggeringly, and slammed herself on the big soft bed of the first-class cabin, like a goldfish off the shore.

"Finally, it's quiet..."

"Yes, thanks to the magician who invented the sound-proof barrier technique."

Alice picked up a cup from the cupboard and poured a glass of ice water for the girl to sober up.

"The magic of the soundproof enchantment was developed because of the development of the airship, because the noise of the mechanical structure of the airship is too complicated after it is activated, and people can't find a suitable noise reduction method anyway. ...Wow, Miss Tina..."

The effect was not very good. After the girl drank the cold water in one gulp, her thirst and headache did not subside in the slightest. So, Ting Na grabbed the little doll and hugged it in front of her.

In the hangover, the soft body and the slightly cooler body temperature seemed so comfortable. Tingna buried her face in the doll's chest and took a deep breath.

It smells like wheat waves under the sun.

"...Although it's a doll...it's so big and soft..."

"Because it is a replaceable part, in order to conform to the identity of [Sun Queen], in addition to the costume, the figure must also be changed. It should be said that it is because it is a doll that it can do this."

"Hmm..."

The girl hugged the doll's waist and rubbed it vigorously.

"Is this the first time I've had such a strong hangover? I'm sorry, Alice under the [Siwa's Daughter] costume is a little cold, and forgot to remind Miss Tina of one thing: Lily's wine storage is collected from all over the mainland Most of the old wines are the ones that you can't feel when you drink them, but they have a lot of stamina, and Miss Tingna drank so much..."

——The wine is still so bad.

Alice stuck out her tongue at this sentence, but didn't say it.

"Because, because, after drinking until midnight, Miss Liliana invited us to continue drinking in the room—it was [us], it was [us]! Even the little guy Ai invited us together, and, and ah! "

Tingna, who was staggering all the way to the hatch, was able to walk properly only with Liliana's support, crying in vague words.

Even after drinking sober medicine overnight, the residual alcohol still made her brain in a state of numbness. Now Tingna seems to be paralyzed by the residual alcohol, becoming like a child. cried in Alice's arms.

"I was actually scared! It was Liliana's invitation, but I felt a kind of fear at that time. I could only watch Ai and Liliana go to the room on the top floor, woo, woo, why am I so ignorant?" Use it..."

"Well……"

"I, I clearly understand what that means, and I clearly know that it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! But I backed down! Backed down..."

"Once in a lifetime is a bit exaggerated. Alice thinks that is the instinctive reaction of creatures when they face danger."

Touching and stroking, wearing a veil like a nun, Alice stroked the girl's blond hair, and softly comforted the girl who was hit hard by this incident and drank in the middle of the night.

"It seems that Miss Tingna's intuition has been tempered by the trip with Lily during this period. It is natural to feel scared, but Lily has been holding back for a long time... The blood of the black dragon will also transform the body, making the emotional You and your energy have become stronger, so you're lucky if you don't muster up your courage? Ai... Poor kid, I won't be able to walk properly for about a week..."

At the same time, the puppet also looked at the witch who released herself from the shackles of her clothes as soon as she entered the living room of this cabin with some reproachful eyes.

The sunshine of the Saigon Sun was exceptionally warm. In the heating of the first-class cabin, the brown skin of Miss Witch exuded fine beads of sweat, the blood from the world's eldest son. Even the immortal Witch seemed unable to heal quickly. Assimilate it.

"...?"

Sensing the doll's gaze, Liliana turned her face away from her treasure—the big magic book.

"Shouldn't Lily say something...or forget it, now Lily will add fuel to the fire no matter what she says."

"……Yeah?"

"That's right, although it's very attractive to say that Miss Ai is so proactive..."

Quietly plugging Tina's ears, Alice complained helplessly to her little master.

"Lily, it's not a day or two since you don't understand people's hearts, but please take care of the mood of Miss Tingna, who is just an ordinary person."

"...I don't want to use the same tactics I used to deal with politicians and spies."

Liliana calmly turned her gaze back.

"Yes, Alice knows that Lily is serious about the relationship between Miss Tina and Miss Ai, but ah..."

The little puppet looked at the witch sipping black tea with some headaches, but couldn't utter any words of reproach.

Probably there is no one in this world who is more familiar with Liliana than Alice. The little puppet watched the girl escape from the conspiracy with her own eyes. At the age of love, he was involved in the vortex of royal power, and was infiltrated by darkness before he understood the beauty of the world.

Until it was re-bleached by the pure white fairy, and it became what it is now in a long time.

In the long, long time, she stopped growing, whether it was body or soul, time did not smooth her edges and corners, because from the moment we met, she was a perfect "circle".

It is not a smooth circle, but a "circle" drawn by myself in this troubled world.

until now.

Liliana Einstein, until now, she is still the same deadpan girl holding her broken self and saying she wants to fix herself.

"..."

Seeing Tina moaning on the bed, the witch was silent for a moment, her starry eyes did not glance indifferently this time, [Laplace] disappeared from the witch's hand, and she walked out of the deck chair by the porthole. Stand up.

"..."

The familiar body temperature brushed the girl's back, just like a brave shepherd in a fairy tale playing a little tune to put the dragon to sleep, but just like that, Tingna, who was crying like a child while holding Alice, gradually became quiet down.

"Hmm... Liliana... Liliana..."

The girl let go of Alice, whose holy golden robe was wet with tears, and threw herself into Liliana's arms. She lay her pillow on the witch's lap, puffing her cheeks angrily.

"Unfair, biased, you like Ai more than me, right?! This trip is also for breaking Ai's engagement!"

"...Humans like to divide love and hate into different intensities and classes, but it doesn't really make sense to me."

"snort!"

"Lily, now Ms. Tingna can't use logic to understand Lily's view of emotions... and Miss Tingna is not allowed to use mechanized mind! It will only backfire on ordinary people who have not been trained in emotional control!"

"...Then what should I do..."

"Alice doesn't know."

"..."

Liliana lowered her head silently, looking at Tingna's flushed cheeks and those blue eyes of resentment.

Normally, he could easily analyze the structure of magic, and deduce the overall structure from a few fragments of the original scriptures, but under such circumstances, he couldn't think of any way.

As an immortal witch, there are countless love encounters in her long life, but if you think about it carefully, confession to yourself, marriage proposal, night attack, hunting a Beamon giant beast to show love... No, these are just forms of love.

The point is that these people have firm and clear will and emotions, and they can quickly get out by themselves even if they are confused and entangled.

As for myself, all I have to consider is whether to accept it or not, and then continue to be the "self" I am most familiar with.

There is even no need to make changes for this, no matter how many times she declares to these lovers that she will not change herself because of her love with them, the answer she gets is "Liliana just needs to maintain this kind of herself."

Thinking about it carefully, what I have paid the most for love, the time and life that are extremely precious to mortals, are actually cheap enough to be ignored for the immortal witch.

She can let go of her magic and spend a hundred years living with her lover on the top of the snow mountain just to catch the most holy and bright dawn, but she doesn't know how to appease an ordinary girl who is troubled by her love for herself.

Liliana doesn't understand love.

One, because in [eternity], there is no long-lasting love.

And the second...Liliana searched all the memories, and none of the people who traveled with her had ever had such...common troubles, whether it was humans, dwarves, orcs, elves...these traveling companions had no problems. Every exception is excellent, a talent with strong self-awareness and assertiveness will never be bothered by such things so[2]...

So, when faced with the love of an ordinary person—with magic, truth, mission, dreams, curses—that has nothing to do with these things that she has seen countless times and is used to, Liliana is helpless.

…Follow your own heart and do what you want, okay?

She never lived an ordinary life.

Or her ordinary is completely different from Tina's ordinary.

Liliana couldn't understand why Tingna was so entangled.

To love what you love, to hate what you hate, if you don't even know what you want to do, how can it be called life?

"..."

But in this case, for many people, they can only listen to it.

At the end of the thought, the witch just reached out and stroked the girl's blond hair, staring at her silently.

Silence, of course, cannot satisfy Tina, who has been washed away by alcohol and all doubts and restraints.

"Ugh...then, at least you need to know about Liliana, you need to know everything!"

Tina was fussing in the arms of the witch, hugging her slender waist tightly, as if saying that if you don't tell me, I will never let go.

"I want to know about Liliana's past!"

"...Mine, did you go there?"

"That's right! Ai knows, but I don't know..."

"What Miss Ai knows is only a part of Lily and Alice's past..."

"Then tell me what Ai didn't know!"

"...That's a lot, a lot... Even if this trip reaches its destination, it won't be finished."

Liliana froze for a moment, then looked at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window with her starry eyes.

The airship has taken off.

Before following the magic emperor's letter to the ancient country of Sinai on the edge of the great sandy sea in the far west of the mainland, the first thing they have to do is to go to Olympian to break off her engagement with the prince for Ai.

This is for the sake of Ai's family.

As for Ai himself, although Liliana recognized her talent and hard work as an apprentice, her ability was not enough to travel with the witch, so the girl was left in the city of a thousand towers, where the six elemental elves and Liliana studied and exercised with the help of several friends.

——When you pass the Dragon Academy's skipping exam within one year, you will be able to travel with us.

This is what was written in the letter the witch left for the girl before departure.

And from the City of Thousand Towers to the capital of the Olympian Kingdom, it only takes one day in this latest airship jointly developed by the Wizards Association and the dwarves. In such a short period of time, my long life ... how much more can I mention?

"Then tell me... the story of Liliana and Alice..."

Tina muttered unyieldingly on Miss Witch's stomach, but the girl's arms became looser and looser, her voice gradually dropped, and finally, it turned into a series of light breaths.

"……Fell asleep."

"Because I fell asleep because I was drunk in the middle of the night, and I was called up to catch the airship early this morning. Now I can't hold it anymore..."

Looking at the sleeping girl, Liliana and Alice looked at each other, and couldn't help lowering the "volume" in the spiritual connection.

——So, do you want to tell Miss Tina? The encounter of Lily and Alice.

... There is no reason to refuse, although it is just a boring conspiracy.

——But Lily thinks that Miss Tina should know?

...Miss Tingna wants to know my past, and I also want to know what Miss Tingna will think after knowing my past. I am a little curious and have some doubts.

——Because Ms. Tina and Lily have come into contact with different things before.

……Yes.

——Then, tell Miss Tina when she wakes up.

……Um.

—Where should I start?

The witch and the puppet looked at the drifting clouds outside the porthole at the same time.

The airship is flying west and south, that is the end of this short journey, and the beginning... the journey of everything, the first beginning, but in the east of the distant skyline, no name in time .

all of that...

Yes.

Where do I start...