Weird Stories: Gothic Lolita Begins

"I see... I have no problem." Lenari nodded, and turned around to ask Apophi to help him get one of each kind of snack.

The "stone table" that was neither Western nor Japanese, and seemed to be neither fish nor fowl, was quiet for a while, with only the sound of Lucia chewing the snacks attentively.

——These Japanese snacks carefully selected by Red Maple were indeed delicious, but some of them were too sticky... so sticky that Lucia even had the urge to switch to a second body on the spot.

In silence, Hong Feng suddenly said, "Old friend, I will leave next month."

Long Yue was stunned for a moment, and did not react for a while, but repeated subconsciously: "Leaving?"

"Yes, leaving." Hong Feng said, "Moving to the outside world with Coco and Coco's children."

"..."Long Yue's extremely light, almost white aqua blue eyes slightly widened, "Have you found a way to leave safely?!"

"Yes." Hong Feng looked into Long Yue's eyes and said slowly, "Not only that, just now, the god from the outside world - the real one, more powerful than the 'Great Fog God', the existence called 'Lord of Everlasting Darkness', conveyed a new invitation through his messenger."

"He invites you and the people of Takigawa Village to go to the outside world together." Hong Feng said, "I think that the situation in Takigawa Village will not get worse anyway, so why not take a gamble, what do you think?"

"..."Long Yue did not answer.

This conscientious protector was thinking about the feasibility of this plan, and... the reliability of the "Lord of Darkness" mentioned by his old friend.

Hong Feng did not urge him, but just picked up the finely crafted coarse pottery teacup in front of him and sipped the tea slowly.

He knew Longyue, and he would agree.

Just as he said, the situation in Takigawa Village would not be worse, and Longyue himself... his old friend, never considered himself.

Sure enough, Long Yue quickly finished thinking, and his eyes swept over the "people" who were eating snacks or drinking tea at the "stone table", and finally fell on Hong Feng, and asked softly: "Can I go out and take a look at the environment outside first?"

Lenari, who had just eaten the second plate of snack tower and was pecking at the third plate of snack tower that was not so stacked to the extreme, suddenly raised his head, with a lot of snack crumbs hanging on his beak, and spoke before Hong Feng:

"I'm afraid it's not possible... The time flow rate ratio between the outside world and the world inside this "God Hidden Mist" is 1 to 100. You should understand what this ratio means."

"A hundred times... …” Longyue muttered to himself, and finally sighed and nodded, saying, "Okay, I accept this invitation."

Lenari wanted to raise his eyebrows: "Don't you want to ask your people's opinions?"

Lenari shook his head and smiled bitterly: "As Hongfeng said, their situation can't be worse... Of course, I will still ask each of them for their opinions and respect their final choice."

Lenari nodded, feeling relieved that this "dragon" named Longyue was not foolish and kind: "It just so happens that my power is very convenient for traveling, and I will send you a way later."

"Thank you very much." Longyue said softly.

……

Takigawa Village, as the name suggests, is a village built beside a big river called "Takigawa".

More than a hundred years ago, Takigawa Village had a population of about 500 people, which was considered a rare prosperous village in Takamagahara. Unfortunately, since the village's protector, "Takigawa River God", was seriously injured and fell asleep, people began to accept "blood gifts" for some reason. Today, there are only less than a hundred people left.

To be more specific, there are only 89 people left, including those who were born not long ago and did not know whether they could live past one year old, teenagers, young people, middle-aged people, and the elderly who were already terminally ill.

And among these 89 people, almost everyone has obvious appearance deformation.

Lenari stood on Longyue's shoulder, looking at the deformed crowd gathered in silence and anxiety in the square in front of the dilapidated shrine, sighed silently, and used the magic "telepathy" to send a message to Longyue who was close at hand:

"I originally planned to let you and Hongfeng "move" together... but looking at this situation, I'm afraid it will have to be moved forward."

"... They may not agree to leave." Longyue replied silently with a similar technique.

Perhaps because of the lack of skill or the defect of the technique itself, Longyue's mental power used for communication was soaked with confusion and pain:

"Since I woke up, they have been silently resisting me most of the time... even if I just want to relieve their pain..."