At the Green Lake Hotel, Agelina held her cat and looked at the bonfire in front of her. She nodded sharply, then woke up and realized that she had fallen asleep just now.
The little princess was so tired today. She was so frightened and nervous that she fell asleep sitting by the campfire at some point. When she woke up, she immediately felt that the surroundings were unusually cold. She opened her mouth and sighed softly, only to find that when she spoke, there was something in her mouth.
There is actually white mist coming out, which is a phenomenon that only occurs in winter:
"What's going on here?"
The cat in her arms was still held in her arms. The cat seemed extra warm now that the surroundings were extremely cold and even the fire in front of it could not provide warmth.
Worried that the cat would be frozen, the kind-hearted Agelina even wanted to stuff it into her clothes, but little Mia struggled to refuse.
She looked around, the rain outside the window was still falling, but she was the only one left beside the three dim bonfires on the first floor of the hotel. The temperature seemed to have dropped below zero, and the slippery ground and
The tabletop was covered with frost, which made Agelina, still wearing summer clothes, feel even colder.
"Where did everyone else go?"
She stood up shivering, but felt that this would expose a larger area of her body to the cold, making her feel even colder. She reached out to touch the flames in front of her, but even if she fully extended her hand into the flames, she didn't feel it.
to any temperature.
She felt that in addition to the cold, there was another kind of "cold" that made her soul tremble, making her body stiff, giving her a headache and feeling dizzy at the same time. The whispering element made this ordinary seventeen-year-old girl feel seriously uncomfortable.
, the only thing that comforted her at this time was that the cat in her arms was still there, so that she would not be completely alone.
I wanted to go around and see what happened this time, but when I tried to lift my legs, I found that my body was too stiff to move.
She wanted to cry again, but she thought that there was no sister, no Shade, and no mother here. Even if she cried, no one would see it, so she held back. She pursed her lips and looked around with red eyes.
Looking around, she saw a figure in a shabby black robe walking towards her in the darkness at the entrance of the stairs, and stretched out his right hand in the robe towards her.
Somehow, Agelina immediately thought of the God of Death often mentioned in stories. She felt helpless and wanted to retreat, and then realized that her body had become more rigid:
"Am I going to die?"
The young princess was thinking in her heart, and then thought that she still had a lot of things to do, that she had promised to help Shade take care of the cat, and that Lesia would be very sad if she found out that she was dead, so she decided that she must not die like this.
Lose.
She tried hard to control her body and tried to escape the hand reaching out from the darkness, but she found that the light around her was getting darker and darker, and she found that the chill was getting worse and worse. She even felt that her eyelashes were covered with frost.
I wanted to use my last strength to throw the cat out of my arms, so that the cat could at least survive. But the lazy cat, which finally felt a little cold, suddenly shouted at the black shadow in front of it.
Intimidation:
"Meow~"
It bared its teeth and barked with a "fierce" look on its face. Seeing that the black shadow was still approaching, the cat coughed a few more times, and when it barked again, an orange flower actually sprayed out of its mouth.
of small flames.
The flame was very small, inconspicuous compared to the temperatureless flame behind Agelina. But when the flame appeared, Agelina felt that her stiff body and her soul were about to sink deeper into the darkness.
It was like being thrown into the midsummer sun.
The feeling of heat not only made her get rid of her negative state, but also made her feel hot.
The black shadow in front of him immediately stepped back. Seeing that his "intimidation" was effective, the cat, which had always bullied the weak and feared the strong, suddenly became more energetic. It meowed and tried to escape from Agelina's arms.
He went out and continued to rush towards the retreating black figure, but fortunately Agelina hugged it tightly.
But seeing that the cat was still struggling vigorously, he had to take the initiative to take a step forward. As expected, the black shadow continued to retreat faster, which made the cat even more excited. It continued to make sounds from its throat, meow~ meow.
The sounds of ~ sound very nice together.
In the end, Agelina, who was holding little Mia, forced the dark figure to the stairs. When she wanted to continue walking forward, a hand held her down from behind, and then Agelina by the fire
Then he woke up.
Opening his eyes in confusion, he immediately saw the beautiful face of his great-aunt Carina Cavendish, looking at her with a worried expression.
Luvia and Lesia stood aside, Dorothy was putting a blanket on her, and the cat in her arms was struggling and meowing, obviously feeling that her hug was a little too tight:
"Auntie, Miss Anat, am I... asleep? Oh! Auntie, you are finally back!"
"Clerical relic [Long Sleeping in a Cold Dream]. You are trapped in the relic. If you are not awakened in time, you will eventually freeze to death in your dream. Don't recall that cold dream, it's okay, it's okay."
The red-haired duchess gave her a worried hug and patted her back. This made Agelina once again think that she was still in a dream. In her memory, she never remembered her aunt hugging and hugging her like this.
She comforted herself. Therefore, when Miss Carina let go of her and asked her if she felt uncomfortable in any way now, she was so nervous that she didn't know how to answer.
"If this is a dream, that's fine. Everyone is very kind to me."
However, she did not forget the dream just now, but it left a deep impression on her. Although it was indeed extremely cold at the beginning, she did not remember that she almost froze to death in the end. In fact, if she had not been awakened, it might have happened again in the future.
Something even more unexpected.
He took the potion-added tea cup from Lesiya and glanced at the first floor of the hotel, which was half fog and half light. Although it was still dark and the rain outside was still heavy, he looked at so many ladies.
They were all here. Seeing that the people who cared about her were all here, she felt inexplicably at ease.
Agelina quietly looked at the cat in her arms again, and little Mia fell into a drowsy state again. No one knew whether it really fell asleep or was pretending to doze again. The little princess was not sure.
She wonders whether the abnormal behavior of this cat is her imagination. After all, she doesn't understand why there is a cat in her dream.
But soon she hugged the soft cat and convinced herself:
"Are dreams and reality really that important? What I think is true is the truth."
I huddled next to the fire with a blanket, sipping tea comfortably. Amidst the crackling sound of the flames, there seemed to be another voice saying in my heart:
【reality.】
"Miss, you are back."
Tifa, with water still dripping from her hair, walked out of the door. The duchess looked at her head maid and apprentice with a smile:
"You're back, I hope it's not too late. You did a good job."
After taking care of Agelina, Miss Carina and Luvia, who had just returned from the second floor, briefly learned about the current situation from Tifa. They knew that Shade had left fifteen minutes ago.
Shade's friends, doctors and priests had also set out to find him not long ago.
Miss Carina is more concerned about where Shade is now, while Luvia is concerned about other things.
So while the witch was communicating with her apprentice, she found Lesia and Dorothy alone:
"Did Shade tell you anything before he left?"
The red-haired princess and the blonde writer looked at each other:
"Shade said he won't let us leave here easily."
Luvia pursed her lips and held the last [Home Coin] in her hand. She didn't know if she should divine now whether Shade's worst plan for tonight was what she thought. But not yet.
After she made her decision, Miss Carina walked over:
"Luvia, it was really hard for you to help with the divination just now. You can rest here for a while. Shade needs help now. I will leave now."
Luvia also knew that even if she rushed over, she wouldn't be able to help much, and waiting here, other witches should be welcomed soon:
"Okay, let me see where Shade is now."
"Can you divine Shade's location?"
The witch asked curiously, Luvia shook her head:
"Of course not, but he has my handkerchief with him today."
The red-haired witch had a teasing expression on her face, and the purple-eyed fortune teller just pretended not to see it:
"Although the divination may be biased, the general direction should be fine. Huh? Didn't he go to Edwards' old house? Why is he on the shore now?"
"That's the shore."
With that said, he said hello to the girls on the first floor, and then walked directly into the rain.
Miss Carina did not doubt Luvia's judgment, so although the direction she pointed out was quite remote, she still headed there in the heavy rain.
Facts also proved that Luvia proved herself right once again. Less than three minutes after leaving the hotel, the red-haired witch jumped up the tree and saw a huge red moon in the dark night in the fog in the distance.
rises in the middle, but then immediately falls to the lake:
"Shadow."
She quickly approached in that direction, because she couldn't move quickly in the fog to prevent herself from getting into a state of spatial confusion, so it took her a few more minutes to leave the woods and come to the shore. She watched Shade on the beach fly up and kick the huge thing that fell from the sky.
Snowball, the snowball immediately turned into ice and fell into the lake. Then a violent explosion blew up the black figures that had not yet landed in the water. Flesh, flesh and mechanical parts floated on the water, but they were soon floated up from the lake in a steady stream.
The monsters drowned.
Shade held a card in his hand and looked at this scene seriously. The constant flow of water ghosts was a trivial matter. The key was that the location of the "door" he perceived was at the bottom of the deep lake. And at the bottom of the lake, a huge creature like a whale was guarding it.
