So I became a witch

There was an unquestionable meaning in Sora's words, even Tina, who had been with her for a long time, could not refute her will.

"...Why?" Tina said unwillingly, with tears in her eyes.

Kong sighed, smiled wryly and patted her head: "One day, you will understand, but that's not now."

How long will it take?Tina swallowed the words and nodded silently.She has always been a sensible girl. During the days of being imprisoned in the palace, she learned a forbearance and maturity that her peers did not have, but this disguise seemed vulnerable in front of Sora.At the same time, she faintly refused to ask this option in her heart, for fear that the stable life she finally got would be gone forever.

However, to her surprise, that day did not make her wait too long.

Kong's body got better the next day, as if everything that happened yesterday was just a dream. Go out to collect medicinal herbs, go home on time to prepare lunch at noon, make medicine with Tina in the afternoon, distribute to civilians in need, go out again at night, and don't return until late at night.

Tina silently recorded the free time to go out, and found that in the seemingly tight schedule, there was an insignificant gap.

And that, perhaps, has some kind of inevitable connection with the behavior she has been doing all along.

"Then, as usual, please guard the house." Sora said.

"Yes." Tina agreed.Sure enough, as usual, Sora was about to go out again.She suppressed her restless heart and watched Kong Yuan go away pretending to be indifferent. After a long time, she quietly took out a worn woolen coat from under the bed and wrapped her whole body in it.She fumbled around again to find a peaked cap and mask, looked at her completely changed self in the mirror, and nodded with satisfaction.

She slowly opened the door, and the street after the night fell was much cooler than in the morning, but there were also quite a few diners bragging about something in the lighted tavern.Although she often went to various places with Kong to practice medicine before that, it was the first time that she went out alone like this. Like a curious baby, Tina looked at everyone passing by from a dark corner. pedestrian.

"Speaking of which, has the range of activities of those monsters increased recently?"

"Don't worry, as long as the glory of that king remains, Hertis will never fall."

"That's true, but I'm always a little worried..."

"Well, those things have nothing to do with us, come and drink."

"Huh... ha. That's true, as long as there's a drink and a decent life, it doesn't matter. Cheers to our king!"

"cheers!"

Then there was a burst of drunken nonsense, Tina clenched her fists, and after hearing the king's name, her heart that had been silent for four years burned again.To her, the man who abandoned herself and her mother was the source of hatred.But in the end she just shook her head, and just about to leave from the window of the tavern, she heard another whisper from inside.

"Speaking of which, it seems that quite a few children have disappeared recently."

"Who knows... maybe the 'rats' did it."

"You still tolerate the existence of those disgusting guys... What are the adults in the imperial capital thinking?"

"It's just that I don't bother to do it...Compared to those, I remember you also have them at home? The girl who just turned seven years old this year is a very cute little guy, but you must be careful not to be abducted. "

"Ha... How is that possible."

missing child?Tina silently recorded the overheard information in her heart.Speaking of which, when she followed Kong out, she occasionally heard similar rumors.But, why a child?If it is to plunder adults, there is some truth to it. They can be used as hard labor and underground prostitutes. For most families, children are just a burden. In the era when people will die when they will die, it is unimaginable to take care of children. They are so fragile that even if they die at any time, it is not surprising that the guards will not pay too much attention to such cases, even if the parents of the children are looking for them. Will choose to give up after no results.

Unbelievable, Tina faintly sensed the hidden mystery behind this incident, but the most urgent thing is to consider what Sora is doing first, and put everything else aside.

"Lybe ower." She murmured a spell softly, and a white light slowly emerged in her hand.This is the most basic technique of summoning elemental spirits in magic tutorials, but ordinary people can at most summon a little bit of undetectable light spots. If the aptitude is a little better, it may be larger. Like her who can directly summon photo It's almost unimaginable to have an elf as bright as a street, which is enough to show Tina's high aptitude.But it is a pity that even if she lived in the palace that is the source of magic, Tina has never learned the ability to use magic at all. Death of her was regarded as the king's last mercy, and it was completely impossible to hand over weapons to possible enemies.

Even so, Tina still learned some simple magic methods by relying on her talent and studying with Yu Kong. Although not many, it was enough to use.

"Go, search for traces of the sky." Tina said softly, raising her hands.After spinning a few times in the air, the ball of light suddenly drifted towards a certain direction. Tina followed closely behind, but the ball of light flew faster and faster, and finally completely disappeared into the sky.

Tina stopped in her tracks, because the direction in which the light cluster finally disappeared was outside the city wall.

Yes, is that so?Tina suddenly realized that she finally understood why she hadn't been able to discover Sora's secret behavior.Whenever the artificial sun floating above the city falls, the rage of the virtual beasts will increase greatly. For safety reasons, the gates of the city will be firmly closed. People who stay overnight can almost be said to be certain to die.So Tina never thought about the possibility of Sora going out of the city at night, she just thought she was wandering somewhere in the city.

Chapter 110 Six Slums

However, although I don't know how Sora was able to go to the outside world when the city gate was closed and locked, at least he couldn't do it with his own ability.However, it was enough to have such a harvest. Tina silently recorded the traces left by Kong, and when she was about to turn back, she heard a slight noise from the side of the alley.

She subconsciously hid aside and held her breath. After a while, two figures suddenly appeared on the empty street.Each of them was carrying a huge sack, and they didn't know what was inside, but they were still wriggling slightly.

The two of them walked towards Tina's hiding place seemingly leisurely and silently.Tina shrunk her body subconsciously. She felt a deadly threat from those two people. Her small figure and darkness became her protective color. The two people didn't seem to notice her existence, while chatting One side passed in front of her.

"This time the goods are really good..."

"Hmph, if you didn't waste too much time, there's no need to get it so late."

"Ah, who told you that that damned woman would not let her go even if she died? She is obviously a lowly low-class citizen. It would be nice if she just handed over her daughter honestly. It's really annoying."

"Hmph, with your habits, even if she did that, you wouldn't let it go, would you?"

"Hoohoo, you really understand me, because I haven't dared to do anything these days because of the explanation from the superiors, isn't it anxious?"

"Who told you to go too far every time... have you dealt with it all?"

"Ah, don't worry, it's just a few civilians, no one will care."

The two talked and laughed, and the sound gradually faded away.Tina desperately covered her mouth to prevent herself from leaking a little sound.She was keenly aware that both of them were magicians with "aptitude". Although the level of magic power might not be as good as hers, their level of proficiency was obviously far higher than hers. There was an extremely strong smell of blood clearly surrounding him.If he was discovered by accident, he would probably be killed immediately, right?

While feeling terrified, Tina unconsciously had another thought.Why do magicians with noble qualifications come to the common areas?Coupled with the fresh smell of blood on their bodies, it is obviously impossible to do anything good.Coupled with the conversation between the two, Tina suddenly thought of what she overheard at the tavern.

The children who mysteriously disappeared, and the strange combination of magicians who appeared in the civilian area, it is impossible not to connect these two things together.

Could it be that these people were the murderers who robbed the children?

Tina fell into deep thought, completely oblivious to the fact that a pair of hands were quietly stretched out from behind her, and suddenly covered her mouth.

"!!!" She wanted to struggle subconsciously, but the other party obviously anticipated this situation, and took the lead in locking all her limbs and joints.

Can't move your body? !

Tina panicked instinctively. No matter how mature she pretended to be, she was still a child under 14 years old. Faced with this sudden situation, she still felt a little unnatural.

No, you have to calm down.Magic can't be used, and the body is locked, so use the moves I learned from Sora!

Tina's body sank suddenly, and with the help of this sudden gap, her hands finally got room to move. She clenched her right fist and slammed backwards with an elbow.

The other party groaned, but because Tina's strength was still too weak, the tightness only caused a little impact, but it was enough. Tina grabbed the other party's hands suddenly and stepped on the ground. On the wall, he suddenly turned his body into the air!

Everything is as expected, and next, as long as you can use your strength to throw the opponent out, it will be your victory.

However, her hand was suddenly empty, and the opponent seemed to have expected her action, and broke away from her counter-grasp one step ahead of time.It was the first time that Tina felt this powerless feeling like eating flies from someone other than Kong. She quickly changed her figure, distanced herself from the opponent, and landed staggeringly on the ground. on the ground.Fortunately, the other party didn't immediately rush up while her balance was unstable. The moment she landed, Tina began to chant the spell:

"Ifre irova..."

"Pause!" The other party spoke suddenly, and it turned out to be a girl, and the voice sounded young.Tina froze for a moment, but the speed of chanting remained unchanged: "idoa vrh..."

"Hush! Do you want to bring those two people back?" The other party quickly made a silent gesture.

Hearing this, Tina also hesitated a little.If they are also magicians, they will naturally be extremely sensitive to the fluctuations of elements.If those two guys who were obviously doing some dark business found out that there was an eavesdropper hidden by their side, they would definitely kill without hesitation.

Although the use of magic has been cancelled, Tina still did not let go, and deliberately asked in a low voice: "Who are you? Why did you suddenly attack me?"

"I was just afraid that you would call out suddenly, so I used a special method. Don't worry, I am also tracking those two guys and the forces behind them. Even if we can't be called companions, we will definitely not be regarded as enemies." He was orderly, without any disorder in his tone, and he didn't look like he was lying.

Even so, Tina still did not let go of her vigilance, but carefully scrutinized the other party's appearance.The broken cloak, and the tattered clothes that looked like they were found in a trash can, and even the naked body was almost exposed to the air. Even in the civilian area, Tina had never seen such a shabby dress up.Well, there is only one answer...

"Are you, the 'rat' from the ghetto?" Tina whispered.

In the civilian area, there have always been such rumors, it is said that in those uninhabited extrajudicial places, there is a forbidden area that no one knows.The environment there is hundreds of times worse than that of the poorest civilian area, and the degree of curse pollution is also several times higher than that of towns. There, almost no life can exist there, but there are also some criminals who committed felonies, or some extremely Evil people live inside, they do all kinds of evil, they can easily break through the bottom line of human ethics, they can be said to be the scum of scum, and the outsiders often call them "rats" contemptuously, if they are found by soldiers, He will execute him without hesitation, the status of the slums in the eyes of everyone is so low.

Chapter 110 Seven Promises

"It's really a ruthless statement... Well, it's just like what you said." The girl in the tattered cloak admitted this easily.

"...Why, the 'mouse' appeared here? Sure enough, the cases of missing children in the civilian areas these days are related to you?" Tina took a few steps back vigilantly.For a magician, distance is the best weapon.Although she learned a few moves and a half of fighting from Sora, even with her frail body, the effect would not be very good.Especially, in the case of not being able to find out the details of the opposite party.Although he looks very weak on the outside, a guy who can grow up and survive in a slum area is definitely not a good stubble.

"That's a huge injustice, but if you say it doesn't matter, you're lying. As you can see, I'm following those two people. I saw you on the way and wanted to say hello."

"The way you greet is really special." Tina sarcastically said.

The other party spread his hands: "I can't help it. If you shout out, we will all be in big trouble, so we have to use that method. I wanted you to calm down before talking, but I didn't expect You broke free directly. Hey, the clues that I finally found are lost again, and it will be even more troublesome to find those guys again."

"...Are you trying to blame me?" Tina raised her eyebrows.

"How come, how about just taking a step back? You and I don't know each other this time. Well, anyway, if you continue to track down those guys, we will meet again sooner or later."

"I didn't..." Tina just wanted to explain that she happened to encounter such behavior by accident, but immediately changed her words, "Okay. But if there is a next time, I will definitely make you look good."

"Hmph, she's really an unforgiving little girl."

Tina was taken aback, and didn't understand why her disguise was so easily seen through, but she still pretended not to care and replied: "If this is the case, you should be the same."

"Then, goodbye." The other party suddenly jumped up, and his figure melted into the darkness in the blink of an eye, and disappeared mysteriously again just like she suddenly appeared.

Weird guy.Tina whispered something in her heart.She had heard countless rumors about the "rats" in the slums. Some said they were criminals, some said they were monsters in human skin, and some said they were Frankensteins mixed with mud, but Tina never Never thought that the other party would be such a "clean" person.

Unintentionally during the fight just now, Tina met the opponent's eyes under the cloak, pure and almost free of any impurities, which made people suddenly think of the eyes of a wolf, beautiful but with deadly killing intent.

Speaking of which, I still don't know the other party's name at all.Tina suddenly thought of this question.

Well, forget it, just as the other party said, if I continue to investigate, I will meet again one day.For some reason, she began to have a faint expectation in her heart.

When Tina got home, Kong hadn't come back yet, so she breathed a sigh of relief, quickly took off her clothes and hid them, and got into the bed again.Not long after, there was a creaking sound from the door, and Tina knew that it was time to come back, so she deliberately pretended to be awakened, rubbed her eyes and sat up on the bed, and said weakly, "Are you back?"

"Ah, sorry, did I bother you?" Sora said apologetically.

"Where did you go?"

"Ah, um, I went around the street and bought some ingredients for tomorrow and necessities for life, look." Sora said with a smile while raising the bag in his hand.

"It's so late?"

"Well, after all, there is such a saying as "the pearl shines at night"."

Lie, obviously went outside the city.Tina thought to herself, but nodded anyway.Thanks to her natural poker face, no one will be able to tell if she's lying.

"Go on and sleep, I'll sleep after washing up a bit, good night, have a good dream." Sora said with a smile, but he couldn't hide the exhaustion all over his body.She looked like this every day when she went home. Originally, Tina was worried about whether she had done some bad work, but now it seemed that things were far from being as simple as she thought.

She suddenly thought of the rumor of the child's disappearance and the matter of those two strange magicians. If she told Sora, it would definitely be resolved immediately, right?In her eyes, Kong is such a omnipotent existence.However, when she thought about the situation where Kong suddenly fell down and vomited blood before, she suddenly didn't want to tell Kong about it.

If there is no problem, even if you don't rely on emptiness, you can solve this matter yourself.

Already, I can't add any more burden to her.

Tina made a decision in her heart.

After washing, Kong also lay down on the bed, and Tina silently pressed her body tightly against it.Although in this country her age can be regarded as a person who is about to become an adult (adult at 14), she still can't change this habit. Perhaps only in this way can she feel a little satisfaction in her empty heart.

Kong smiled, touched her head lightly with his hand, and said softly: "Go to sleep."

"What the hell is Sora... doing?" Tina suddenly asked a question that she would never normally ask.

"Huh?" Sora's expression was obviously troubled, and he said half-jokingly, "Probably, you are saving the world?"

"But, is it really necessary to save this world? Obviously everyone is in pain, even if they are alive, they can't feel any joy at all..."

"No! It's not like that!" Sora said loudly, which startled Tina.In her impression, Sora has always been a gentle mother image, and she has never been so excited.Noticing his gaffe, Sora's voice dropped, and he said in a low voice, "This world was not like this. Everyone can smile, everyone is so gentle, and every child born is born Those who came to this world because of love... I want to find that kind of world, and find that world where everyone can be loved... But, I am the only one who can't do it, and I have to do it Only then..."

"Empty, empty?" Tina called her name softly.

However, Sora seemed to be in some kind of unprecedented chaos, and even Tina's voice seemed to be unknown.She suddenly hugged Sora tightly: "So, don't die. Even if this world is full of sorrow and misfortune, even if the future has long been lost, you must live bravely. For the hope that the day will come, for those who struggle Those who fall with all their strength must live, okay?"

The words were difficult to understand as always, but Tina grabbed her hand subconsciously: "Well, I promise you. I will definitely live. That's it, the agreement is made."

"...Thank you, Tina. It's really great to have you here." Sora's mood gradually calmed down.

No, I just want to thank you.Tina said silently.

Thank you for saving me and telling me so many things I never thought of.The bright blue sky, and the starry sky that is still bright even at night.If that's all you've ever hoped for...

I will gamble on this and make it happen.

Chapter 110 Eight Forgotten Dreams

"Sterler... the name means the twinkling stars in the never-fading sky, which symbolizes the eternal hope and the future. I hope that you can become a star , guiding everyone to the hopeful person.”

"It must be painful, right? Sorry, but please bear with it."

"Run away! Escape to a place where no one can find you! From now on, even one person must survive! You are our last hope!"

In the endless black tide, terrifying monsters are surging.A creepy roar came from behind, but was interrupted by a more cruel voice.

I dare not turn back, dare not stop, even if my feet are already numb, I dare not stop and run forward.

No, no, no, no, no!

Hurry up and stop!Can't continue anymore!otherwise……

She, will die.

The line of sight involuntarily shifted backwards.

red.

The color of blood is everywhere.

The torn limbs, the dissected internal organs, the body without head and neck, and the eyes that have lost all energy.