Fairy tale: Little Red Riding Hood's wolf mentor

"Of course, my love for flowers far surpasses everything else."

Little Ida looked at Leake and Polo, saying each word carefully, "If you can really do it, save my flowers, and not let the last of them... die because of pursuing a free soul."

As Little Ida spoke, her slender fingers gently reached towards the flowers in her arms.

That flower also stretched out its slender green leaves, curling up to touch Little Ida's fingers.

"In that case, I will agree to do anything for you."

"As long as you can help us, that's enough. As for the rest, we won't ask you for more – trust me, and trust yourself."

Polo said, looking at Little Ida in front of him.

The gray-haired girl stared intently at the talking wolf in front of her, unable to explain her feelings.

For some reason, her heart trembled. She didn't know if she should believe these uninvited guests she had just met.

But her obsession with saving this flower, which gained a soul because of her, had become too deep.

"If you can't do it, or if you hurt her, I definitely—"

The gray-haired girl's lips trembled slightly, and she finally spoke.

But the flower in her arms suddenly made a faint, mosquito-like sound:

"Little Ida, it's okay..."

The gray-haired girl's voice was interrupted by the faint voice of the flower, and the outer corners of her sad eyes turned slightly red again.

Then, she slowly pushed the flower pot in her hand towards Polo:

"Okay, let's start. Even if you fail, I... I won't hurt you.

Help me, if you can, save Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower)."

Little Ida said with a slightly trembling voice.

Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) was the name of this flower.

Polo took a deep breath. He didn't know if he could do all of this. From Little Ida's words, killing these plants was a kind of extremely powerful force, almost the underlying rules of the world!

But he believed in the power of the pages, the powerful circular return, had not disappointed him yet.

Golden pages appeared in front of Polo's eyes, emitting a faint light, and wrapped around Little Ida's flower.

Polo's spirit also attached to the flower, sensing some... emotions, or memories belonging to the flower.

In the vague memories, many colorful flowers were dancing around a gray-haired girl in a lush green garden.

The gray-haired girl sat beside a piano, her slender fingers dancing.

A series of beautiful notes flowed from her fingertips.

The soul sang in the flowing music, and the green leaves and flower branches stretched out in the spring...

Comfortable, beautiful.

In the gray-haired girl's happy smile, there was... love?

"Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower), how do you feel?"

Little Ida opened her eyes wide. She looked in surprise at the last flower she had left. Within its dim and slender body, a spring-like vitality seemed to suddenly emerge!

"I feel like before, when my consciousness was first born from your magic..."

The flower's dim petals visibly gained a trace of new green.

It raised one of its petals and waved it in the air.

"My illness, it seems to be cured? The feeling of life is like spring?"

"Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower), you—"

Little Ida opened her eyes wide. During the time she maintained Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower)'s life, she had the highest perception of the vitality within Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower)'s body.

She could see that this flower in front of her did indeed have new vitality!

The newly emerging vitality was intertwined with the aura of death caused by that abnormal magic, but soon, the aura of death was suppressed.

And Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower)'s life even became more vibrant than before!

Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) tried to move the flower branches. Her roots carefully stepped out of the soil, but her own vitality did not drop as a result.

She stepped with her roots, jumped out of the flower pot, and jumped onto Little Ida's open hands.

"Thank you, I didn't expect that I didn't help you at all, but I got your help first."

Little Ida stood up and solemnly saluted Leake and Polo again.

"The vitality you created is enough to contend the death dissipate from the root of the world. You... are indeed very remarkable people!"

Polo shook his head and continued, saying:

"No, this vitality does not only come from my influence, but more importantly, from your own power.

In the original fairytale world, love is the most powerful force."

"Fairytale(童话: fairytale)?"

Little Ida was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding.

Polo turned to look at the flower Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) next to the gray-haired girl's cheek:

"Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower), did you feel it? Where does the spring light that brings you life come from?"

The flower listened and turned its flower plate to look at the gray-haired girl:

"Little Ida, I feel that the light that feels like spring to me comes from you, which made me feel a lot of things..."

"That is indeed, very warm."

Little Ida listened, thoughtfully, and the magical light in her eyes flickered slightly, as if thinking about something.

After that, she looked at Leake and nodded slightly:

"I will do everything I can to help your grandmother complete the resurrection ceremony in today's spreading death aura."

"Thank you!"

Leake also bowed her head in response.

……

Outside the wooden house, Little Ida looked at the sky.

After a short rest, the long night had come to an end.

In the distance of the withered forest, at the horizon, golden glimmer emerged from below.

Dawn has arrived.

"So, what you said earlier, that you saw free plant spirits that were not adhered by death aura elsewhere, is also true?"

Little Ida asked, looking into the distance.

"Yes, in the Giant King's garden, the plants created by magic have formed a forest. That forest is always in spring and will never wither.

In the Giant's Garden, there are many plant spirits, and they can live freely."

Leake replied affirmatively.

"Now, to perform the resurrection ceremony for your grandmother, I also need... a plant guide that can resist death aura. If there really exists a plant that can resist death.

I also need plants from there as a starter, or that kind of power that can resist natural death aura."

Little Ida explained as she stroked the flower Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) standing on her shoulder, continuing:

"Although my power can create plants, in the case of distorted magic, the plants I create now will inevitably lead to death.

They are not qualified to carry the heart of the forest."

Little Ida reached out and stroked the flower Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) on her shoulder, and continued:

"Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) was created by me before the world headed towards death, so she has the possibility to continue living."

"I see."

Leake and Polo exchanged glances, and they probably understood what Little Ida was saying.

And everything the magic mirror said, the things that needed to be prepared, finally showed its due effect at this moment.

"In fact, we do carry plant seeds from the Giant's Garden."

Leake said, taking off the bag on her chest.

Inside, next to the heart of the forest, the thumb-sized magic vine seeds were reflecting a verdant light with vitality.

"Eh?"

The gray-haired girl looked at the magic vine seeds in surprise, stretched out two jade-white fingers, and picked up one of them.

Her eyes emerged a slight glow made up of magical combinations.

The magical circuit deep in the seed, and some energy outside of magic, were also exposed in her eyes.

"Besides another plant magic similar to my magic, there is also a most important force?"

Little Ida squinted her eyes, as if thinking about something.

After a few seconds, she opened her eyes again, and the surprise in her pupils was even greater:

"This is a... it seems, related to the power of heaven?! And among them, the highest-ranking one? A kind of creation and life power left behind by a saint..."

"Very pure, this is what existed in large quantities before the world perished, just like the kind of magic you just cast.."

Little Ida said, looking at Leake and Polo, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice:

"Am I right?"

When Leake and Polo heard Little Ida's words, they instantly recalled the Giant King's magical garden that had withered before welcoming the children.

And remembered the short, low grave that looked neither gorgeous nor sacred in the center of the garden.

A small cross nailed together with wooden strips.

"You're right, a saint is indeed buried there."

Little Ida nodded, but a little disappointment appeared in her eyes, but when she saw Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) swaying and dancing on her shoulder, she showed a smile again.

"Coming straight to me, and bringing this special seed, and helping me save Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower).."

The gray-haired girl tilted her head and thought, then suddenly said, "You seem to know in advance that I can definitely do all this, even more sure than myself - why is that?"

But then, she shook her head again, "Forget it, I have made up my mind to help you."

As she spoke, she took the remaining magic vine seeds handed over by Leake, and outlined a slightly complex magic formation in her hand with cyan magic light.

The seeds floated, gathering together under the motivation of the magic formation.

"Uh, this is not actually that we deliberately concealed it from you."

Leake was a little embarrassed. She watched the gray-haired girl finish the first stage of the short spell before hesitantly answering.

"What's the reason then? You saved Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower), even if you say you are robbers, I... uh, so what's the reason?"

A hint of curiosity appeared in the gray-haired girl's eyes.

After Xiaorui(小蕊: Xiaorui, name of the flower) survived the danger of death, Little Ida's mood improved a lot, and her expression became much more lively.

"Finding you, and this seed, this is what the magic mirror told me."

Leake continued.

"Magic mirror? Oh, I know, the magic mirror witch, did she help you? This is really unexpected, I thought she was the kind of person who would never lend out her magic mirror..."

"Uh, it wasn't borrowed, but, we killed her..."

Leake said softly.

"Well, some small conflicts broke out between us, so, if the Green and Red Witch and the Magic Mirror Witch, if they are all from your witch tea party—

Sorry, we may have killed three of them."

Polo also followed closely.

After that, he keenly realized that the petite body of the gray-haired girl in front of him was obviously stiff.

"Ah?"

After a long while, she opened her cherry mouth slightly, and replied tremblingly, "Then after today is over, you won't kill me to silence me, will you?"

Little Ida blinked her eyes pitifully. If Polo and Leake didn't know she could do magic, they would probably mistake her for an ordinary silly and cute little girl.

"Ah, of course not, of course not!"

Leake hurriedly waved her hand and said, "I know you have never killed an innocent person, I will not attack you."

"Oh, then I will believe you, I am actually not familiar with those witches, and I will not avenge them!"

Little Ida blinked her eyes, restrained the fear on her face, waved her hand and smiled, then straightened her body and clapped her hands.

Then, in the windows on the second floor of the wooden house, two vines grew out.

They rolled up a somewhat old piano and gently placed it on the ground. After that, the vines quickly dried up and withered.

A piano?

Leake and Polo watched Little Ida walk to the piano and sit down.

She turned her head and smiled:

"When I was little, my mother told me that life's ball will always need music.

Every flower is tired, she lies in the soil, wakes up again in the next spring, and then can become more bright, beautiful, and full of vitality!"

Speaking, the seeds gathered together under the magic light fell into the pit.

The soil covered it. Then, the soil turned over, and emerald green vines stretched out. They did not instantly go straight into the clouds like the previous magic vines.

Instead, they seemed to carry some life and soul, extending towards Leake.

Leake felt the peace and warmth brought by the heart of the forest in her heart, took a deep breath, and placed the glowing crystal nucleus on the tender branches of the vine.

After that, Little Ida's fingertips pressed the keys.

A series of magic-filled notes emerged from her fingers, and the emerald green vines began to grow rapidly. They firmly wrapped the heart of the forest in the center, not growing upwards, but wrapping it layer upon layer—

Like a silkworm's cocoon.

Little Ida's music carried a certain artistic conception of spring and joy.

The vines grew, the leaves were drawn out, and a huge bud grew out from the center of the intertwined vines. A tiny crack split on its surface.

After that, the emerald green forest magic condensed into entity.

Entangled on the surface of the bud——

Under the morning glow emerging in the sky, the bud bloomed in the bright halo.

A hand reached out from the bud!

The owner of that hand... is a...

A little loli with green hair and fair skin, wearing petal clothes?!

Leake's expression stagnated, opened her mouth, but did not make a sound.

Until, the girl who had just emerged from the flower bud looked at Lake and asked with a voice that had become somewhat childish, yet with a familiar tone, in slight surprise:

"Lake?"

Lake's eyes instantly burst open, tears surging uncontrollably.

She first sobbed briefly a few times, then rushed forward and tightly hugged the green-haired little girl who had changed her appearance:

Her voice was filled with uncontrollable joy and surprise, and she whispered:

"Grandma, I...missed you a little."