Candy Wizard and Travel

After failing to achieve her goal for a long time, Irena waved her hand.

"Senior brother, when he was a kid, did he—"

As soon as the words were spoken, a trembling sense of terribleness exploded in my heart.

——What did I say?

Irena wanted to slap herself twice.

She didn't know much about her senior brother's life experience, but she thought with her toes, how could a normal family be like this?

As if seeing her self-blame, Xidi shook her head and said with a smile, "Don't pay too much attention. I said goodbye properly. Although it is still regrettable... but it is not that regretful anymore. My life is very good now. I hope she doesn’t miss it.”

Irena came over and hugged her senior brother tightly, and said no more.

Maybe there wasn't before, but now and in the future, she, Teacher Fran, and the people that senior brother cherishes will all be new family members.

Xi Di came back to her senses, hesitated a little at a loss, then hugged her back, slightly adjusted the angle, held Irena's face in her arms, and shook her body slightly.

Coaxing children... is this?

He probably doesn't have any knowledge in this area, but he seems to be doing pretty well.

……

Out of self-blame and emotion, Irena overcame her fear of trouble and forced Hidi to go out to find the way and walk around Dorothy.

To become a close family member, of course, the better we know each other, the better. She also wants to know how the people her senior brother knows in this country view her senior brother, and whether there is a chance to get to know him better.

……

"Irena and I went out and will be back before dinner."

"Good~"

Mal's voice became lazy when she wasn't having fun watching.

After Irena also shouted, the two put on their hats and went out.

In fact, there are umbrellas, but both of them are the type who find it a bit strange to hold an umbrella on a sunny day. The traveler's simple and capable character also makes them not interested in unnecessary things.

But the hat is really hot in this weather.

Irena simply walked beside Xi Di, hiding in his shadow, and then took off her hat to send cool breeze to her senior brother.

Xi Di found it funny and held up a piece of ice and handed it over.

"If you can't stand the heat, just use this, or you can lean over and use cool breeze magic."

"No, I want to seriously experience the summer in this country."

His junior sister refused with a very solemn attitude.

Irena wanted to know her senior brother better, and imagined that in the summer, the young senior brother would be like her, and the family would use magic to create ice for cooling. She was still very childlike at that time, using her body temperature to cool down. A hole in the middle of the ice cube was melted, which was big enough for fingers to enter. I competed with my father to see who could let go of the ice first.

She always won then.

Xidi smiled and listened to her junior sister talk about her own affairs.

From what he said, the summer he came to this country seemed like he and Mal were working on an order together in the workshop. They were sweating profusely, but they felt very happy and had a sense of fulfillment that they didn't have in Clock Country in the past.

As they talked, the two walked side by side through the hot streets.The sound of the wind was as thick and dull as a nap. There was no one around, and I could only vaguely see one or two shadows lying on lounge chairs behind the display window.

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In this era of very difficult transportation and communication, communication between people and places is very troublesome.

Not to mention emerging countries like Dorothy, even places with a long history or powerful power such as the country of magicians, the city of faith, [Garden] Theomeia, and Royal Celestilia are basically only famous. It is spread around, and no one except a specific group will deliberately try to understand a place that may never be visited.

As a standard traveler, Irena treats most of the countries she has visited equally. Except for a few annoying places, she is still deeply impressed. Even now, she is often troubled by confusing memories and needs to read her diary from time to time. confirm.

But she felt that this country called Dorothy would also be deeply remembered in her heart, not just because of the long hair she lost.

……

In the boring summer, there is a stone road, a gray-haired girl holding a gray-haired doll, and a magician with white hair and red eyes.

There are not many tourists coming to Dorothy, and there are not many such combinations.

At first she felt that she was getting some attention, so Irena took out the doll and hugged it. Sure enough, there were far fewer people watching, as if she had recognized some friendly mark.

Xidi also took out Mayuko and put it on her shoulder to bask in the sun for a while. Finally, she was worried that the heat would damage the doll's skin. After walking through a crowded street, they were put away by Minova and Mayuko.

"...The Doll Restaurant on this street used to be very famous. However, after the old manager retired, the new manager gave up on the quality of the dishes and renovated it to become a popular landmark restaurant. However, it seems to have failed. Now the local Most people won’t go there, they just hand out leaflets to travelers near the city gate.”

Xi Di looked at the fancy-looking building in the distance with some regret. When he passed the apprentice witch exam, Mal was here to celebrate him.

Now when I go in, it's full of bells and whistles, and the quality of the dishes has dropped to the point where it's even worse than the family restaurant on the street next to it - the price of the latter is one-twentieth of what it is here.

To describe it, it's like Teacher Fran's "masterpiece". She once combined high-end ingredients such as beef, lobster, and truffles to create a dark thing that even a dog wouldn't taste. Irena couldn't even take a second look. He didn't have the courage, and Xidi gave up after hesitating for a long time when he picked up the spoon - as soon as he fell, life here would be in chaos.

This restaurant is like that. Running a business is not as simple as putting out everything that you think is good. And if the new boss thinks something is good, people may not necessarily buy it yet.

"It's that family."

Irena had a slight impression. At that time, she was sitting in a carriage transporting goods. She was a little bit disgraced. When the person handing out leaflets saw her, he walked around and handed it to the next person as if he hadn't seen her. She was furious at the time. After looking at it specifically, it was a price that she had to grit her teeth to accept in the past. After being with her senior brother, she would not spend money on such inexplicable things.

Now that I think about it, I'm really lucky that I didn't go. Spending money just made me angry.

She can quite understand this feeling. When she was in Roberta, she also experienced the closure of her favorite restaurant. It didn't mean that the food was the best in the world, but she simply ate it once on a special occasion. When I want to use it to recall the past in the future, I can no longer find it.

Really sorry.

After sighing for a while, the two of them walked through the deserted-looking restaurant. Irena looked back and saw that the employee in a doll costume at the counter had taken off his hood and was leaning against the wall, half asleep.

……

"Is this the new type of doll shop that flourished some time ago?"

Xidi looked at the shop that looked very new overall, but the glass doors and windows had been smashed.

He hasn't been back for more than half a year and has completely avoided the trend of new dolls. Now that I think about it, it is theoretically just a temporary closure. After liquidation, it may be changed to someone else's name to continue operating, but now it seems that many The people in Rosie are particularly attached to the past, and there is little hope of reopening.

"What a pity, I still want to see those mechanical dolls." Xidi shook her head.

His master, Mal, was the type who scorned dolls other than those of the classical school. There would never be anything like that in the store. As for him, he had no preference and wanted to experience it.

A tentative blockade was pulled around the store. A man wearing a city guard uniform was drinking water under the shade of a tree not far away. Hidi walked over and was actually recognized. As a student of Mal, he was in Duodu. Rosie's place is a bit thin.

After a brief negotiation, the man glanced around, confirmed that there was no one around, and whispered.

"Now the things in the store should be auctioned. The remaining worthless things were smashed by everyone in the past two days. Look, now I'm just waiting to sell the land to someone to do something else. You If you want to see it, go in."

"Thank you."

"Where, Dorothy still relied on masters like Ms. Mar to become famous. Now this kind of thing..." The soldier sighed, showing a complicated expression that "the times have become incomprehensible."

The weather was hot and dry, so Xidi used fruit, syrup, milk and ice magic to make some shaved ice on the spot and gave some to the soldiers.

When I wanted to prepare a container for Irena, she said it would be great. Two people could eat from the same cup, even with the same spoon.

It feels like the cooling effect is not very good, Xidi's face is still hot.

They walked in from a remote location on the warehouse side.

"The last time I came here, it was still very lively. It's only been a few days."

Irena bit her spoon and sighed.

It seems that the "human touch" has not dissipated, but it is no longer possible to open here. There are fragments of glass and mirrors on the ground, walls with swear words on them, scattered parts and some scary puppet limbs... If the dust continues There are more people who believe it even if it is said that it has been ten years.

There are no puppets waiting for the last audience to play the starry sky, nor are there any defective products on standby due to power outages, nor are they preparing to restore the glory of mankind. It is just a place where goods are simply sold, but this is Dorothy as far back as Hidi can remember. The largest new building.

Most people hope that their hometowns can become prosperous, but for such a popular place, forget it.

Dorothy, in the future, she will still rely on the rarely produced dolls to accumulate her fame bit by bit, like a pearl in a shell, waiting for the day when her glory will bloom.

Finally, Xidi picked up a gear as a souvenir and left this once bustling place.

What is left are some brisk places. This is a slow era, and Dorothy is also a slow country. Like craftsmen polishing parts by hand, the replacement and replacement of every building seems to require lengthy thinking.

Like it or not, change is change.

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"This is Dorothy's Forest Park. It is one of Dorothy's three apprentice witch examination venues. There are usually no people. It is only lively on the day when it is used as the examination room. I passed here. Now that I think about it, it is considered a success. lucky."

Xidi introduced the forest in front of her very seriously.

"Uh, senior brother's strength?"

"I didn't have much magic power to use at that time. If the opponent was as good as Irena, I would have to give up the attack tactic. Once the candidates are scattered, something might happen."

"Can I take that as a compliment?"

"Okay," Xi Di nodded, "Irena is probably on the borderline among all the witches I have ever seen. The only ones who can beat you are famous witches."

"Hmph, don't underestimate me," Irena said with her hands on her hips, assuming a strong stance, "Even the stardust witch Fran was defeated by me, and a strong person like Xi Di from the Association has to fight for me. Bring tea and water!"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

Irena continued to daydream, smiling, and suddenly remembered.

When she first started her apprenticeship, she couldn't suppress her emotions and wanted to kiss her senior brother very frankly.

As a result, he was avoided and the kiss only reached the corners of his eyes.

"Brother."

"Ok?"

"Don't hide."

She took a few steps back, recalling the joy and anxiety she felt when she had a secret crush, and flew towards him.

It had to be said that she had high regard for her senior brother's physique and knocked him over. Fortunately, Xidi reacted quickly and used her telekinesis to buffer him. The two of them fell on the dense and hot grass.

The climate is not the warm comfort of spring, but these inconsequential things more than make up for it with atmosphere.

Irena looked at her senior brother's confused and slightly shy eyes, and she felt quite happy. Every time at this time, she had a kind of heroic spirit of "senior brother is nothing more than that", and the slight sadism deep in her heart was aroused, and she couldn't stop. .

According to the description of the client Miss Traveler came into contact with, the gray-haired witch lady had a slight "S".

The current performance is that every time she kisses, she wants to bite her senior brother's lips, and does so most of the time. Her hands must also be pressed on the lower back. Not only can she feel the slender waist at that position, but also He can guess his senior brother's mood through the movements of his waist and spine.

It's like landing quietly during a flight to touch the deer that are addicted to eating grass.

The fawn has a high chance of running away and a small chance of giving her a hoof, but the senior brother will just close his eyes and pretend not to feel it, so the senior brother is cuter.

But now Irena acted very innocently, she didn't even touch her teeth.

This is very satisfying.

Think about it, at that time, the most precious time for her every day was to hug her senior brother before Teacher Fran got up. Except for special circumstances, kiss?Don’t even think about holding hands!

Now I feel a sense of satisfaction that my childhood wish has come true, and even further. If my wish in the past was to have a piece of fruit to eat every day, now I can drink juice as much as I want, for as long as I want, and wherever I want. The fruit will only blush and sway slightly.

"Hey--!"

The sudden shouting startled both of them, and the more shameless Xi Di took out her hat and pressed it on her face.

"Don't pout in public! It will have a bad influence!"

"Yes--"

Irena wanted to make a face, but considering that no one might know her, not her senior brother, for the sake of her fragile face, she decided not to.

……

Next stop was the river near Dorothy.

It has the common characteristics of inland river tributaries. There has been no recent precipitation. The flow rate is slow and the depth is suitable. There are children turning over stones on the gentle shallows downstream. One is looking for smooth pebbles, and the other is looking for small fish and shrimps. Listen to them. The conversation seemed to be about digging a small hole at the edge of the forest not far away and preparing to fill it with some residents.

There are already several finger-sized fish, two crabs, and one translucent shrimp.

Xidi walked over and told them that if crabs and small fish came too close, they might be pinched to death. The water in the pit dug on the mountain might disappear overnight. If you like fish, you can use a bucket to carry it. go back.

They hesitated for a moment, threw the crab out, said thank you loudly and ran away. I don't know if they heard what was said behind.

"Senior brother, do you like children?"

"Cubs always cause pain, but only if they are good ones," Xi Di picked up a flat stone and practiced throwing it. "I have another way to deal with guys who need education."

"It's really senior brother's style, unexpectedly harsh. From now on..."