Behind the door is a huge room, which is not only larger than the entire floor of Shade's house, but also three times the height of a normal room.
It was obvious that Granny Cassandra had tidied up this room carefully. The antiques, paintings, furniture, and even the music box and crystal ball ornaments on the table all looked valuable.
The room as a whole has a bronze tone, because the surrounding walls and the ceiling above are all written with copper powder like runes like spreading vines. If you look closely, you can see that these are the runes of various sealing rituals in different eras.
Wen, together they pieced together the seal of this house.
If the ground wasn't covered with a soft red wool carpet, Shade believed he could see similar runes on the ground.
There is a fireplace on the wall to the left of the door, and crossed swords hang above the fireplace. At this moment, the blazing flames in the fireplace provide light to this dim room. I don’t know what kind of burning wood Granny Cassandra used.
, or perhaps there is an incense burner burning in an invisible corner, and a fragrant smell permeates the air.
Except for the fireplace, there is no light source here, so the room is a little dark. After Shade entered the door, the first thing he saw was the white and black gauze skirts scattered on the carpet. Looking forward, the largest area in the entire room was
, is the four-poster bed in the center of the room.
It was a large mahogany bed, which seemed to be more than enough for thirty people. The height of the four pillars reached directly to the ceiling, and the shadows of the pillars swayed on the wall as the bonfire swayed. Three layers of curtains were hung around it, one in white.
yarn, pink yarn and the innermost black yarn.
The barrier of the gauze curtain and the dimness of the room made it difficult for Shade to see his sister Grace and Helen. He could only see the figures of the two girls sitting on the bed, cuddling together, but he could not see their specific appearance and appearance.
clothes.
One of them rested his head on the shoulder of the other, and the other put his hands around the other's back and half hugged him in his arms. Maybe they have not been separated since they met again in the narrow room yesterday.
It's just that these two figures don't look like humans.
It does not refer to their appearance, but to their height. Although they are sitting on the bed under the gauze tent, the height of their upper bodies alone is definitely not less than three meters. They seem to be enlarged.
It looks like a giant, but the figure of this giant is so beautiful, just like the so-called "god man" depicted in religious oil paintings.
The change in body shape is probably one of the effects of the temporary abnormal state after the Red Butterfly twins met.
The evidence is that the whispering element in the room is very obvious. Although it is weaker than yesterday, it still makes Shade feel difficulty breathing and a slight headache.
There were obviously no butterflies in the room, but he could hear the sound of butterflies flapping their wings. If he listened carefully, it sounded like two different female voices intertwined.
As the influence of the whispering element deepened on Shade, he even saw some very illusory red butterflies in the air, but most of them just flashed past, leaving behind dots of red light before disappearing.
"Long time no see, sir."
"Long time no see, sir."
The voices of the twin sisters were actually different, so Shade finally figured out that it was her sister Grace who was holding her sister Helen.
Their voices were hoarse and not particularly clear.
"Long time no see, Grace, Helen."
Xia De looked at them behind the three-layer curtain. He clearly had many things he wanted to ask when he was at the door, but at this moment he couldn't say a word:
"How have you been these past years?"
He asked this question again, and light laughter came from behind the curtain:
"Sir, how have you been doing these past few years?"
"Not bad. In fact, for me, the separation from you is only one month."
He did not hide this, and Helen, who was resting her head on her sister's shoulder in the curtain, moved and turned to lean on the chest of another figure. The shadowy red butterflies also flew inside the curtain, and one of them stopped on
on Helen's shoulder, but soon disappeared like melting:
"Sir, for us, the separation from you has not actually lasted long."
This is Grace's voice. As a sister, her voice seems calmer.
"But, it's obviously over."
"First of all, I want to apologize on Helen's behalf."
Her figure gently stroked her sister's hair:
"I could have seen you earlier, but I had to wait until the end, hiding my identity and taking you to such a dangerous place."
"it does not matter."
Shade shook his head.
"For us, in each of these reincarnations, it is not simply that the body returns to its original state, but that even the memory and emotions return to the original state. Only the memory before being blessed by God is fresh.
Other memories of the past five thousand years, as the 22-year cycle washes away, become blurry like stories."
This explains why although they are immortals, their temperaments are still similar to those of the past.
"I have gone through cycles again and again, and I just want to meet my sister again. Time flies so fast, sir. In the blink of an eye, we have already reached the sixth era."
She said softly, her tone rather sad.
"Has it been this many years?"
Helen also asked softly:
"I remember the original story, and meeting my sister again and again, waiting again and again, then falling asleep, and then waiting again. The meaning of life seems to be only reunion and waiting, and we should not be considered human beings anymore.
.”
"Why did you accept the blessings of the Twin Gods back then?"
Shade asked, he even thought there was almost no difference between blessing and curse.
"This is of our own free will. Because there is no other way to realize our wishes except this method. Sir, my sister and I are different from you."
Grace said, Shade knew that the blue eyes of the tall figure inside the curtain were looking at him through the curtain:
"We are just ordinary mortals. Even if we survive the god's drinking party with your help, we are still just mortals. It is a great honor for us if the great one looks at us for even one second."
The figure of the tall girls hugging each other behind the curtain is obviously a very charming scene, but it makes people so sad.
The blazing bonfire in the room cast the tangled shadows in the curtains on the walls carved with runes. Shade's shadow was watching them quietly from the side.
"What we want is to get rid of the family curse of never meeting each other, and then be together forever. Hasn't the god who protects the twins fulfilled our wish?"
Grace asked.
"Yes."
Helen sighed:
"The gods came in person, defeated the subspace evil that the family had guarded for generations, liberated the mission that had been passed down for generations, and broke the curse that my sister and I would never see each other; the gods gave us blessings and allowed us to To live forever, let that bond and attachment last forever; God even gave us the power to be His favored ones. Even now that God has long since left, this power still allows my sister and I to Being able to travel through this world at will. God has already done enough for us."
"And the price we need to pay for this gift of destiny"
The figures of Grace and Helen in the curtain looked at Shade who was standing beside the bed:
".It is just a 22-year cycle to assist the Phoenix in suppressing the narrow realm of life and death."
Shade didn't know what to say for a moment. Their choice was really voluntary.
"The phoenix is reborn in the fire again and again. Although we were just mortals originally, it is almost as if we can be reborn in the fire now. Sir, look at these red butterflies."
The fluttering butterflies surrounded Shade. But when Shade wanted to reach out and touch them, the butterflies dispersed again.
"This is a witness to time, a witness to the relationship between my sister and I, a witness to our mutual torture and entanglement. Time will wear away feelings, but our strong emotions and love, amidst this torture and entanglement, have Become deeper. Look, God even helps us use this method to always maintain our original intention. The bitter waiting, the painful farewell, and the bruises on the neck polish the emotions and soul."
This kind of mellow emotion can actually be described as "distorted", but for them, this is what they want.
"God has not bound us. If we want to leave, we only need to die together to end everything. But after so many years and so many times, no one is tired of the waiting and reunion."
The power in Grace's words shows their determination.
The outsider suddenly felt that he might have understood their thoughts. This might not be the best, but at least it was not bad:
"Grace, Helen. I want to know, if we could go back to the time when I met you, would you still choose this way?"
"Yes, sir."
The tall figures in the curtain almost answered in unison.
"We understood a long time ago that all mortals are mortal. We are not afraid of death, we are afraid of separation. It is my sister and I's eternal wish to be together forever."
Helen in the curtain sat up from Grace's arms, and the figure pinched the chin of another figure, and then kissed her.
Shade could not understand this twisted emotion, but he believed that this feeling called family affection, love or more complex feelings was actually the curse imposed on Grace and Helen.
At that God's Wine Party, everyone had their own wishes. Although Shade could see the specialness of the twins at that time, he never expected that they would use this method to continue the story to this day.
Torturing each other, loving each other, waiting for each other, parting from each other, walking alone in the material world for 22 years, just to climb to the top of the mountain again to meet another person.
The outsider has witnessed many stories in this world, but the story of Helen and Grace still makes him feel sad. Hongdie has witnessed the cycle that lasted two eras, while Shade has witnessed everything.
start.
He knows the current situation and is very good to Grace and Helen. But he doesn't like this story, not at all. If he can complete the path to the sublimation of the twelve gods, the outsider will definitely not let this story, and