Whispering Verse

Chapter 2728 Man, Cat and Fish

The lake bottom, which looked clear from above, was completely dark under the water. Shade, who jumped into the water without any protective measures, felt a little tired and sleepy almost immediately. The lake water under the starlight was actually quite warm, which reminded him of amniotic fluid for some reason. Fortunately, he could tolerate this level of sleepiness.

He had memorized Flora's location, so he did not let go of his senses to explore what else was at the bottom of the lake, but focused on swimming towards the witch.

The further down he went, the more sleepy he became. When he finally held Flora's somewhat cold hand again, he could hardly open his eyes.

He pulled the chain around his waist to inform Iluna on the shore that he had successfully reached the witch. After a moment, the chain was pulled upwards, and Iluna responded with "received".

A stream of bubbles came out of Shade's mouth while breathing underwater. He gently pulled and found that he couldn't pull Flora, so he gently touched Flora's sleeping face, closed his eyes, and put his forehead against hers.

The dream began again.

Shade, who was originally half floating in the water, slowly fell to the bottom of the water as if he was hung with a heavy object, until he was hugging the witch like hugging her.

The battle on the lakeshore had already begun, but the dim water was still calm.

Just a few seconds later, a shadow suddenly swam over the people under the water. Ten seconds later, white arms that seemed to be glowing under the water appeared from behind Shade and hugged his neck, and the amazingly beautiful "mermaid" head also appeared beside his ear. The part below the head could not be seen clearly in the large shadow behind him.

It didn't dare to put its head directly on Shade's shoulder. Its stunning face looked around, and then its red lips whispered in Shade's ear:

"You, won't you show up to stop me?"

No one responded to it, so its purple eyes, which resembled Luvia's, showed a cruel and crazy look that Luvia would never show:

"Even he can feel the malice of my test this time, are you so confident in me? So confident that you let me appear by his side?"

The whispering in the underwater world can only be heard by the ear that is tightly pressed by the red lips, but there is still no response. After all, Shade has gone to dream:

"The end is coming, so do you believe that even I will help him who you choose?"

It said gently, but the emotion in its eyes was no longer human. The crazy, weird and greedy look represents its essence, and after the last inquiry, it chuckled underwater:

"Is it because you trust me too much like him, or do you not believe that I dare to attack him?"

It opened its mouth and bit towards Shade's neck, but behind those two rows of white teeth were not pink ko/u cavity gundao, but densely packed small teeth.

But it didn't bite Shade's neck after all, because at the last moment it hugged Shade's neck and looked up, and saw a new figure appearing in the water.

"Desire" saw purple eyes, which is also one of the sources of its current image. It only knew the existence of Luvia Anat in the past, and this was the first close contact.

But when the two pairs of purple eyes looked at each other, it was the evil thing that originated from the oldest times that retreated.

Most of its body was hidden in the darkness at the bottom of the lake, and the smile on its beautiful face had disappeared at this time.

The long-haired fortune-teller holding the [Staff of Yggdrasil] looked at it expressionlessly from above the water, and the staff and eyes glowed slightly in the water. Even if it was just watching, "Desire" had already felt the pressure it had not faced for a long time. That kind of indifference and calmness due to absolute madness, that kind of eyes born from witnessing the most terrible and desperate things, and that power.

Its slender tongue stretched out and licked its chin and nose:

"I knew that the girl he could fancy was indeed extraordinary. But, what are you?"

Long-haired Luvia pointed the top of the staff at it, but the "mermaid" hugging Shade smiled instead:

"If you could really show up, instead of being a shadow now, I would probably have retreated long ago. But you are just an illusion, and he is in my hands."

It hugged Shade's neck more tightly, and was about to continue whispering in his ear, but suddenly found that a glowing cat had stood on Shade's head and looked at her without knowing when.

"Meow!"

The amber eyes and the tip of the tail ignited golden flames. The cat was not angry, but just grabbed Shade's hair with its claws, and then looked at the "fish" very close to it. The orange lines on the cat's body exuded a faint golden glow, and the white lines were the light of "Moon Fire" given by Shade.

The most beautiful human face looked at the most beautiful cat. After a moment of silence, the man, cat and fish under the water let go of Shade's neck as bubbles came out of the woman's head:

"So you are here too, I was just wondering why cats can..."

It smiled and nodded:

"If that's the case, I roughly understand. This is indeed a safe plan, but I don't know if he can make it to the end.

As long as he completes this debt collection, then I will help him until the end of the world. In fact, this is not bad. Harvesting his soul at once is almost the same as watching him perform those performances about desire and greed.

Pretty good, isn't it? Yes, it's very good, the tragedy of desire, the struggle of human nature, the hero on the road to despair, and..."

Its eyes widened, taking in the sleeping man, the staring cat, and the indifferent purple-eyed girl into its field of vision:

"Do you really want to be so cruel to him?"

It murmured in a low voice and gradually retreated until it truly disappeared into the lake. In the water, the long-haired Luvia's phantom had quietly disappeared, while the cat continued to scratch Shade's hair, then curled up on top of his head and fell into a peaceful sleep.

"Meow~"

A small string of bubbles came out of the cat's mouth. Just like Shade didn't know that little Mia, who hated water, could swim, he also didn't know that the cat could even breathe underwater.

In the past, dreams always started with the feeling of falling, but this time it started directly like a time jump.

The night was getting dark, and Shade, who had regained consciousness, found himself standing in the forest by the lake, but there was no longer the thick fog when he left. Only then did he have time to think that what he just saw was actually the "God of Mist". He was very sure that this old god who was very friendly to him had left in the fifth era, and just now...

"Is it because the blessing God gave me in the desert was activated that I woke up from the fog?"

He wasn't quite sure about the time-changing ratio between dreams and reality, so he didn't stay in the woods for too long before turning around and returning to the lake. This dream was so real that even if Shade entered it in a awake state this time, except that he could not see the moon in the night sky, he could not detect the illusion here.

Back in the cabin, the gray-black haired girl on the bed with them was still sleeping. The starlight illuminated her side face from the window, making the witch who usually looked capable look somewhat coquettish at this time.

Shade smiled subconsciously, and then quickly patted his face to prevent him from indulging in this moment of happiness again.

"Wake up, wake up~"

Shade then stood by the bed and shouted softly. The sleepy girl opened her eyes, but when she saw it was still dark outside the window, she turned her body lazily and ignored Shade:

"It's not daylight yet, let me sleep a little longer. I know we have to repair the roof tomorrow, but wait until daybreak before asking me to get up and make breakfast."

So she was turned over again by Shade's shoulders. Seeing that she still didn't want to open her eyes, Shade lifted the quilt from her body.

"Yeah~"

The witch in her nightgown screamed, then sat up reluctantly:

"Really, Shade, what are you going to do? You don't want to call me to see the stars now, do you?"

"It's time for us to go. Not stargazing or hunting, just getting out of here."

Shade held her hand, so the witch asked doubtfully:

"Let's go? Isn't this our home? Where are we going?"

"Do you remember Miss Bell? Charlotte Bell."

Shade stared into her golden eyes and asked, Flora said subconsciously:

"Of course I remember. She is my apprentice and assistant, and she is the best I have selected."

She pursed her lips and frowned, obviously realizing something was wrong:

"Speaking of which, haven't I seen Charlotte for a long time?"

"Do you remember your identity? What do you belong to?"

"Parliament, have I not attended a meeting of the Council for a long time?"

"So do you remember Carina?"

"Of course you remember, wasn't she your lover in Tobesk?"

When these words blurted out, Flora Winslet was stunned as if her head had been hit by a giant hammer. Shade knew that she was about to wake up, and was just waiting for her to recover, but he didn't expect to see two lines of clear tears flowing down the witch's fair cheeks.

She sat on the bed and looked up at Shade with tears in her eyes:

"I am, this lake, Vista City, Tobesk, autumn to winter, our house, this home. So, our current life, everything here is... fake? No, I Don’t believe it, all of this, us, you and me, this family, all of this.”

"Listen, even if this is all fake, I'm sure it's true."

So Shade hugged her directly:

"It's time to wake up, Flora, we really slept for too long."