So I became a witch

... Sure enough, no matter how you look at it, the guy sitting there is definitely "me".Or rather, another person with the same appearance as me.It's just different from the girl in my memory who always smiles at any time and place. The existence in front of me is not so much a little girl, but an exquisite doll. I can't feel this age group from her body at all. Some children should be angry, some are just an empty shell covered with skin.

"Really, you ran out again without authorization? I saw the rain stains at the door. And even the clothes are wet. If you don't change them quickly, you will be in trouble if you catch a cold."

I raised my head and saw a girl in a maid uniform appearing in front of the living room door.

To this, the girl didn't give too much explanation, but just replied softly: "Yes."

"...Did you come back with something strange again?" The maid scanned the room and quickly noticed my presence.

"Ah."

"Do you have anything to say in defense?"

"...Because Qin didn't come back, I went out. In the end, I saw it fell at the door, so I brought it back."

It seems that I am quite used to the girl's reaction. The maid sighed, stepped to the front of the stove, and hugged me: "It seems to be a newborn kitten. I don't know why it was abandoned. Do you want to raise it?" ?"

"Ah."

"...Really, I know." The maid sighed again.She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, but she looked very old-fashioned, obviously she had been with the girl for a long time.She held me up in front of her and looked straight into my eyes: "So, have you thought about a name for it?"

"……name?"

"Yes, whether it's a person or an animal, they should all have names given by their parents. That is, the proof that we have existed in this world."

"..." For some reason, the girl's expression became darker than before.

The maid suddenly realized that she seemed to have said something wrong, and quickly bowed: "Sorry, I didn't notice you..."

"...Pthahnil."

"Hey?"

"Just call it, Penny."

"...Meow?" I froze for a moment.

"Fanny? It seems that it likes this name very much. But, is this okay?"

Ghosts like it!I was just terrified.And when it comes to the name Pthahnil, as I remember, it seems that there is another meaning.

"Well, that's fine. Fanny, Fanny..." The girl gently took over my existence from the maid, repeated my "name" repeatedly, and the corners of her mouth gradually raised, "From now on , you are Penny."

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In this way, I, as a cat named "Fanny", lived in this mansion together with the maid and girl.

After experiencing the initial astonishment, I gradually understood my current situation.Like the previous notebook, I am afraid that this time I also appeared in someone's memory.As for the opportunity, it should be the piece of free information with the appearance of a cat. When we traveled through the database together, it was activated for some reason, so like this, I was pulled into the memory world again.Ariel and I are right in guessing that there is indeed very important information at the bottom of the star system. Although it is not the information about the members of the 103 team that we wanted at the beginning, as far as the results are concerned, we have successfully discovered the first Two memory fragments related to Ye Qianmo.

It’s just that I don’t know why, but this time I didn’t appear in my original appearance, but in the appearance of a long-haired puppet cat.Maybe something went wrong during the time travel, maybe it’s because the owner of this memory is a cat instead of a person. All in all, I’m slowly getting used to the leisurely life of a cat that eats, drinks, and sleeps every day. Humans are truly adaptable creatures.

Of course, I'm not completely idle.If I'm not mistaken, the girl who picked me up is very likely to be Ye Qianmo when she was a child.It's just that it's not clear why she feels so different now than when she was adolescence.Maybe it was something that happened during this period that caused her to become what she was later.And what I have to do is to observe and record her every move as much as possible. After all, I am just an ordinary cat now, even if I want to do something else, I can't do it at all.

Chapter 50 Two Years

Instead of the real "Fanny", I tried my best to play a cat, and before I knew it, I had spent two years here.Under the careful care of the maids and girls, my current body has also grown from the original thin posture to the chubby puppet cat I remember.It seems that my guess is not wrong. At the bottom of the database, the piece of information that has the same appearance as Fanny is probably the memory fragment left by his own cat.And the real Fanny, as shown in his memory, was once picked up by Ye Qianmo, and lived with her for an unknown number of years.

It's just why it left Ye Qianmo later, and how it lived for four full centuries as an ordinary cat, and finally arrived at Lydias Academy, it's not known.The only way to know all this is to maintain the status quo until this piece of memory world collapses automatically.

... Even so, the memory of this time is too long, right?And until now, there is no sign of the end.However, compared to the thousands of years spent in the sea of ​​nothingness, the daily life of a cat is still very fulfilling.Looking back, I haven't been so relaxed for a long time. My daily life is to eat, eat, sleep, and have someone to take care of me without worrying about tomorrow. This is the life I dream of.

As for the outside world, I'm not too worried.According to the previous experience, no matter how long time is spent in the memory world, it is only a moment in the outside world.And with Ariel taking care of my body, there must be no accidents.

So, in order to find the correct truth, I must continue to live as a cat... Absolutely, definitely not trying to be lazy, ok?Absolutely not!

"Penny, you won't steal the small fish in the kitchen again, will you?"

"Meow~" Facing the questioning of the maid Qin, I lay lazily on the sofa and responded with an ambiguous cry.

When the maid saw my appearance, she couldn't help sighing and shaking her head: "Really, I was so lively and active when I was a child, why did I become so lazy when I grew up... It's less than half a month away, Miss, she You are about to accept the ceremony, and you have to pull yourself together."

"Meow?" I called out in confusion.

"Well, even if I tell you, I don't understand. The young lady will soon be 12 years old, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to see each other in the future. After all, this is something that has been decided a long time ago. Qin said with a smile, but judging by her expression, it didn't look normal at all.

"Meow meow meow?"

"Ah, of course it's not a bad thing. It must be a very fortunate thing for the eldest lady to be selected as a container for the ceremony. Alright, I have to clean up, so you should come first Go outside and stay for a while." Qin picked up me who was lying on the sofa, and gently threw me outside the door.

I shook my body, climbed up to an old tree in the middle of the courtyard, and looked at the scenery of the whole town below the mountain.The words of the maid Qin lingered in my heart and could not go away for a long time.ceremony?What ceremony? What does 12th birthday mean?

Thinking about it now, the existence of this mansion itself is very strange.Although the style of the house is a bit old, the decoration is very new. It seems that it has just been built for a few years. Moreover, it is still built on the edge of a cliff far away from the town. If you want to reach the town at the foot of the mountain, you have to walk through it. Through the dense forest a few kilometers away.It seems that from the beginning, the designers of the house made up their minds to be isolated from the outside world.

And it is true.In the past two years, I have never seen anyone come to this mansion. From the beginning to the end, it was only me, Ye Qianmo, and Qin who lived together with a cat.Every morning before the sun comes out, the maid Qin will change her clothes for going down the mountain, go to the small town down the mountain to purchase ingredients and various necessities, and then rush back around noon, occasionally bringing back some Whenever this happened, the maid's face would become a little gloomy, and Ye Qianmo's originally emotionless eyes became more and more hollow.

In addition to the ingredients, sometimes Ye Qianmo would ask the maid to help her bring back a few books, but she herself hardly went out of the mansion, except for the rainy night when she picked up "I" that day, and never saw her again. I have left the mansion.

... No, maybe it's not that she doesn't want to leave, but that she can't leave here.

It's like a bird in a cage, and this mansion is the prison that traps this girl.

Why, it is such a simple thing, but it has not been discovered?Could it be that after becoming a cat and living for a long time, even the thinking has begun to subtly influence the cat?

In short, we still have to find Ye Qianmo first.What the maid said always made me a little concerned. It was a "mission" and a "ceremony" or something, which reminded me of some bad memories.

I turned around and started looking for Ye Qianmo, and finally saw her in the study on the second floor.The girl at this time was just as usual, quietly reading a document from an unknown era.I slowly lowered my body, jumped up from the tip of the branch, and landed on the opposite window sill.

"Meow~~~"

"...What, it's you." Ye Qianmo pushed open the window and let me fall into the room, "What's the matter?"

"Meow--"

"Me?... No, it's nothing, I'm just reading." She gently hugged me onto her lap, I stood up, put my paws on the table, and stretched my neck curiously to look in front of her book of.

"...This is "Divine Comedy", a poetry and myth written by humans, and it is a manuscript copy of the original scripture. It is relatively rare. It took Sister Qin a long time to find it."

"Meow?"

"...the emperor of the Kingdom of Pain

half of the breast bared from the icy lake;

Compare me to a giant,

Than comparing his arms with giants:

you can see the whole body now

How huge it must be, and how symmetrical it is with such a part.

Since it was so beautiful then, as he is so ugly today,

He dared raise his eyebrows against his Maker,

All the pain in the world should be produced from him.

Ah, I saw three faces on his head,

What a spectacle this is to me!

A face was in front, and it was bright red;

Two other faces are connected to this face,

Born above the center of each shoulder,

Then it extended to the place where the crested hair grows..." She read the content of the poem softly, her voice was like a bird singing after the rain, "His name is Lucifer, according to legend, because he refused to surrender to the Holy Son, And an angel in hell. "

Chapter 51 The Bird in Prison

I blinked, I am afraid that almost everyone has some understanding of the stories in the Bible, and one of the more famous stories is the war led by Lucifer to challenge the authority of God .At that time, one-third of the angels joined the rebel army, were defeated in the end, and became fallen angels.

"No one can resist God, not even angels. Because he is such a supreme existence." Ye Qianmo said in a low voice while stroking my head, "But even so, Lucifer can He still chose to fight against God. Because he is so proud, even if he falls into hell, he can’t hide the light of his wings... Really, it’s enviable."

The sky outside the window suddenly became gloomy, and the air was suffocatingly hot.

"It's going to rain." She said, staring at the sky.

In an instant, there was heavy rain pouring down.The world became blurred and noisy, Ye Qianmo got up and closed the window, and I jumped off her lap and jumped back to the floor.

"Sorry, miss, can you come and help me put away my clothes?" the voice of the maid Qin came from downstairs.

"Okay." Ye Qianmo replied naturally, and she quickly went down the stairs, leaving me alone in the room.Although I wanted to follow her subconsciously, but I remembered what the maid said in the morning, and I stopped again. The human nature temporarily defeated the cat's nature.

Although I have lived here for two years, I can say that I know every part of the mansion well, but there is only one place that I have never entered, and that is Ye Qianmo's private bookcase.The bookcase is tightly locked by a small lock from beginning to end, just like the heart of the owner of the bookcase, which has never been opened to others.But I don't know why, the lock on the bookcase was opened today. Of course, I couldn't miss this opportunity. I first jumped onto the seat, and then used it as a springboard to jump when the time came. Meowpaw hung on the doorknob like that.

Damn, it's not tall enough, if that's the case...

I began to sway my body, using myself as a hook, desperately trying to pull the doorknob of the bookcase.The fat accumulated during the weekdays has fully played its role at this moment. With my unremitting efforts, the door of the bookcase was finally slowly swung open by me. A large number of white envelopes poured out from the inside, and I was caught off guard. Under the body.

I shook my body and slowly climbed out of the envelope mountain.I took out one of them with my claws and placed it in front of myself.

On the surface of the envelope, there is neither an address nor a postmark, and it seems to be just a paper bag containing a letter.It took me a lot of effort to drag the letter out of it.

The letter has already been opened and read. It uses the unique words of the demon hunter. It first expresses greetings and blessings to the recipient. At first glance, it seems that it is just an ordinary chat, but between the lines, there is a sense of saying Unbelievably weird.

"..." I took out the second letter, and the third letter... It wasn't until I didn't know how many letters I pulled out that I finally found the words I was familiar with.

"Dayuan".Sure enough, according to time, the erosion from the witch had already started a long time ago, and Ye Qianmo would be sent to that endless battlefield after that, until he died in battle.

However, what happened to her during the time she stayed in the mansion until she went to the battlefield is what I want to know most now.Although these two years of life can’t be called fun, they can still be called warm, even though this place is just a prison for girls, and neither I nor Qin are just the “guardians” of girls.

"..." Impatiently, I tore open one envelope after another with my cat's claws. The deep malice hidden behind those countless sweet words made me feel more and more uneasy.No, it's not this, it's not this, there should be something else, exactly, where is it hidden...!

Suddenly a hand picked me up from the ground, I turned my head subconsciously, and happened to meet the girl's empty gaze.

"Peanny, you're wreaking havoc again," the girl said softly.Facing the confetti all over the floor, she didn't blame me for anything, but squatted down, refolded the letters one by one, and finally hugged them and stuffed them into the bookcase.

"Meow!" I yelled at her desperately, eager to ask her, but I could only make a meowing sound.After sorting out the letters, the girl squatted down again, and as usual, gently stroked my head.

"Fanny, Fanny... It seems that this can only be the last time I call you that." The corners of her mouth slightly raised, showing a smile, but in my opinion, it was not a smile anyway, "Excuse me Don't get caught again."

"Meow!" I wanted to say something, but was picked up by the maid and left the room silently.Looking at her back gradually going away, I suddenly realized something.

In the two years since I came to this mansion, I have never really learned her name from the beginning to the end.The maid Qin has always addressed her as "Master" and "Miss", and those letters often use code names such as "You" and "You".I just preconceived that her name was Ye Qianmo.But just as I once wondered, as Yehe's daughter, she takes "Ye" as her surname.It is possible that her name is not Ye Qianmo, but something else.Or, now she doesn't have such a thing as a name at all, in other words, she doesn't need it.

……Why is this so?No, in fact, the answer is already very clear, but I have never thought about it in that direction.

The ceremony, the girl without a name, the Void Eye, what Elvis said...

That's right, Ye Qianmo was the sacrifice who was chosen to be the Emperor's Vessel.

That's why she didn't have a name, and she was always imprisoned in this prison called "home".Because from the very beginning, she was destined to become the new Star King at the age of 12.Only when I noticed it was too late.

One day after that, Ye Qianmo suddenly disappeared from this home.I just vaguely remember hearing some noise in the early morning, and when I opened my eyes, the girl beside the bed had disappeared.

The maid Qin seems to have known all this for a long time, and she still silently cleans up the mansion that the master seems to never return to every day, and continues to feed me who "knows nothing".I'm just a cat, and I can't do anything in this fragment of memory that has happened.

Chapter 52 Infiltrating

It has been a week since Ye Qianmo left this mansion. On a certain night, Qin suddenly entered the girl's bedroom and quietly picked me up who was sleeping in the cat's litter beside the bed.When I woke up, I found myself in a carriage.

"Meow?"

"Sorry, be a little quieter, I'm taking you to that lord's side now." The person sitting in the driver's seat was Qin.

"Meow meow meow~" I lay down on the seat and stretched, and retracted into a ball again.

"Ken to be quiet is really helpful. Sometimes I really feel that you can understand people's words... Forget it, let's pretend that I am talking to myself. The lord, since birth From the very beginning, it was destined to become a certain supreme vessel, leading us back to our former glory. For this matter, no matter who feels the incomparable honor, but...it shouldn’t be like this.”

"Without exception, people have arbitrarily attached their emotions to that girl, and have always regarded her as an 'Emperor', admiring and fearing her. However, no one has ever cared about the adult himself. Isn't it strange to feel... such a thing?! But why, everyone is taking it for granted, even the adult himself..."

I think it is the right thing, so naturally, I firmly believe that others will agree with its correctness.But this is wrong, because everyone is an independent individual with their own ideas and thinking, so there are so many chaos and wars in this world.People cannot understand each other.

However, Ye Qianmo is different.On the basis of understanding all of this, she chose to kill her emotions and accepted to survive as someone's container.From the beginning to the end, she never wanted to resist this unfair fate, living in this cage, quietly waiting for that day to come.

Because this is her own choice, so even if I know it's wrong, I can't and can't interfere.What's more, I'm just a cat now, and I can't do anything even if I want to.

However, some people seem to think otherwise.

"Sorry, I'm going to speed up next time, sit tight with me!"

"Meow meow (even if you let me sit still)...meow!" Caught off guard, my whole cat's body was pressed on the back seat by the powerful acceleration, "meow meow meow meow (what the hell is this? )! Meow (the whole carriage is flying up for Mao, hey)!"

"I always feel like I can understand what you are saying... Don't worry, this carriage has been repaired by those lunatics in the mechanical department, and some small functions have been added, and the horse that pulls the cart It is also a fantasy species with the blood of the dragon, so there is no need to worry at all."

"Meow meow meow! (Worry more! I want to send you to death alone, don't drag me, meow!)" It seems that the original owner of this body replied on my behalf.

"Hey, hey! Don't forget that you were rescued by that lord, otherwise you would have turned into a dead cat by now. Now is your chance to repay that lord!"

"Meow! (Let me go back quickly, I still have to sleep!)"