The spaceship passed through many cities. Reina, who was traveling in the sky on a spaceship for the first time, liked best standing on the deck and looking down at the ground, even though the wind was a bit fierce. Her excellent eyesight was able to see people moving slowly on the ground.
They were as small as ants, and some birds with big wings liked to follow behind and to the side of the spacecraft. Rena felt that she could reach out and touch them.
This is really interesting.
However, at this moment, she saw two long black lines on the ground. When she looked carefully, she found that they were neatly organized troops. Seeing the long lines, Reina realized that the war was not a rumor.
"That's the army of our Ika Empire. There are only 20,000 people. Originally, I would be among them."
Suddenly, Kate's voice came from behind. He stood behind Reina, as steady as a rock.
Reina turned around and Kate grabbed her hand, but the latter pulled away easily like an eel.
Kate was a little surprised. He didn't expect the other party to retract his hand, maybe because he didn't use any force.
He has trained hard over the years, and under the guidance of his master Silver Knight Sieg, he has become an outstanding warrior. Although there is still a long way to go, at least he has the strength close to the dark adventurer. Male strength is generally
He is stronger than women, so he is no longer the little boy who can't beat Reina, he should protect Reina.
"It's dangerous here, you could get blown off the boat."
Kate said quickly, and in order to hide his embarrassment, he put his hands behind his back.
"Don't worry about me. I've been to more dangerous places than this. Look, I'm still alive and well."
Reina said.
Kate frowned and said displeasedly: "No matter how many dangerous places you have been to, you should not put yourself in danger. Come back to the cabin with me."
"I want to stay here for a while. It feels dull in there and I want to take a breath."
Take a breath, the rapid wind makes it difficult to breathe, at least Kate feels that her breathing is not smooth.
"Stop doing such dangerous things, please come back soon. Don't be as willful as before."
Kate yelled, he seemed angry.
Reina was silent for a moment. Was she very willful before?
When someone mentioned her shortcomings, Reina was stunned for a moment, and then thought about whether she was really willful. Thinking about it carefully, she seemed to be so.
"Okay then, let's go in."
Rena no longer argued, she decided not to be so willful, she turned back, said goodbye to the beautiful scenery, and walked towards the dull cabin.
When the iron door is closed, the wind outside seems to be cut off, and no sound can be heard inside.
"We are almost back to our hometown. With the help of my master, we found your home, but..."
Perhaps out of apology, Kate's voice became much gentler.
"But what happened?"
"You may be disappointed, but I believe you will remember everything when you go back there."
Why is he so showy?
Reina wondered in her heart.
…
After dragging the land for three days, Rena finally returned to the Ika Empire, the hometown that Kate said she was.
But the strange thing is that when Rena returned here, she didn't feel at all like going home. She still felt that this place was so strange.
It happened that the town where the spacecraft landed was their destination. Kate took two days off for her and took her back to see if she could recall the past.
The first place they went to was the street where they used to work. According to Kate, there weren't many changes here. Reina was walking on the street. Kate pointed to the street while talking, describing the scene when they went home together from get off work. , she fell into deep thought. Perhaps because she had traveled for so long, she had a hazy feeling about this stable life.
Along the street, passing by the snack street, Kate bought some food for her that she had eaten before. Reina couldn't remember whether she had eaten this kind of food before.
Then there is the Adventurer's Guild here. He said that in the year when Reina left, a major incident occurred in the Guild, which caused the entire building to collapse and the city to suffer extensive damage, but fortunately the Silver Knight
With the efforts of a group of adventurers, the enemy was defeated.
As they watched the two people pass by, an old man sitting in front of the union suddenly put down his newspaper and looked at the two people with squinted eyes.
The next stop was Reina's home. Walk along the wide road to the suburbs. There were shadows of farmland there, but not much. Next to it was a large forest. No one coming and going knew Reina, which made her doubt whether she was here.
Have lived in.
The houses here are very weird. They are made of stones and look like small bumpy balls. There is still smoke coming from the chimney, which means that people can live inside.
Finally, he took Reina to a ruins where there were burnt black stones and were covered by weeds.
"This is my home?"
Rena said confused.
"Well... on the day you left, you burned down the house. When we found out, everything had been burned down."
Carter said calmly.
Burned.
Reina looked at the ruins and felt a little pity in her heart. Maybe when she left, she didn't think about coming back.
However, just as she sighed, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head, as if something was coming out of her head.
"ah!"
Hearing Rena's scream, Kate looked back and found her lying on the ground, her face pale.
"Rena?! What's wrong with you, Rena? Don't scare me, what's wrong with you? Can you see me and talk? Rena!"
Kate's voice became farther and farther away, and Rena felt as if she was being sucked into a whirlpool. The force was extremely powerful.
"Mom, do we want to live here?"
The childish voice woke up Reina. She opened her eyes and found herself in a chaotic place. It was difficult to distinguish up, down, left and right. They were all moving pictures, and they were densely packed and stained.
her vision.
"Well, look at this round house, isn't it cute? Come and see what it's like inside, there might be dwarfs in it."
"Yeah! I'll go take a look!"
A voice caught Reina's attention. She turned around suddenly and saw a person she missed so much in the picture behind her. And she saw herself, with her golden hair. She didn't remember that she had such a period at all.
memory.
"Mother?"
Reina looked at the person in the picture. She had white hair like herself, but the difference was her face, which was kind and weathered. Reina's eyes instantly became moist.
"Ahem!"
Just as her younger self ran into the house excitedly, she coughed softly and spread her palms, only to find that they were full of blood.
This deeply hurt Reina's heart, but just when she stretched out her hand to touch the person in the picture, a force dragged her away and left.
"No! Wait! Wait a minute!"
Reina screamed, but she could only watch the pictures fly away from her, flying far away.
She looked at the pictures, which contained only brief fragments.
"Ha ha!"
It started with laughter, and she danced happily in the field. She combed her hair in a small braid, and her mother was holding a hoe beside her. The fields had just sprouted and were still full of green crops.
Then came the scene of eating and washing clothes by the river. She always had two cute dimples in the picture.
However, at some point, the style of painting changed.
"Witch!!"
"The Witch's Daughter!"
On a cloudy day, she saw her young self being chased away by the children throwing stones. There were many crows flying in the dark sky, and she held her head and ran wildly along the stone fence path, as if
What are you running away from?
is home.
"Mother"
She saw her young self timidly opening the door to her home. There was a waxy candle burning inside, and a plate of unappetizing food on the table.
Under the illumination of the light, she saw her skinny and extremely weak mother. She stretched out her hand, her eyes still gentle, she touched her young self and whispered something.
She didn't hear it, why!
"Ah!! Ah!!"
Reina shouted, wanting to crawl back and want to know what her mother said.
But she couldn't do it, the force was dragging her, and she couldn't stay.
That picture was deeply imprinted in Reina's mind, and then the picture became darker and darker. Strange adults broke into her room. She hid in the corner and watched through the shadow as they carried the quilt out. She saw
Among the ruins of the quilt, there are white hairs.
Her face was horribly white, and someone walked towards her. She opened her mouth and bit it as if she was crazy.
Even Reina herself was frightened by that scene. She couldn't imagine that she...had been like that.
She felt so uncomfortable that she didn't want to look any further, but she still kept her eyes open.
The adults left, looking at themselves with strange eyes.
When she was young, she lived alone in a small house. She became thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye, her hair became increasingly dirty, and so did her clothes. She could even smell the unpleasant stench.
Her eyes were bloodshot, and she wandered on the street or on the side of the road. Sometimes someone would give her something to eat, and sometimes someone would hold a broom.
Seeing herself getting more and more haggard, Reina felt a hint of despair.
She saw her little self hiding in the room, holding the stones she picked up, and drawing something in the room day after day.
It was a terrifying pattern. It looked like a magic circle, but it was crooked and different. It didn't look like a good magic circle. Could it be...
She had a bad feeling. Could it be that her younger self wanted to...
Resurrection of mother?
But she soon discovered that she didn't understand herself at all, because she heard her younger self say horrible things.
On a full moon night, she knelt in front of the magic circle, and something extremely dark appeared behind her.
"The strongest and baddest demon! I beg you, help me destroy this world!"
Reina saw a strange thing, that thing did not belong to this world, her magic took effect, and what was even more terrifying was that she actually said these words.
Just when she saw a person spitting out of that weird thing, everything went away from her.
"No!!"
All the images converged into a black dot, and then the world returned to its original state, and she came back.
Reina, who was sweating profusely, got up from the ground. She turned around and saw that Kate, who was covered with scars, was standing in front of her, surrounded by insect-like monsters.