The sound of Longjing Tea and Selicia's conversation sounded from around them.
Elle looked down at the coffee in the ceramic cup.
She was a little uncomfortable with it, so she carefully pinched the spoon with gorgeous and delicate patterns, stirred the coffee like the Longjing tea around her, and watched the snow-white sugar cubes quietly melting inside.
She recognized that this was the "Alpine Wine" of the United Kingdom, a specialty product from Alpine Island. Without the need for transformation and synthesis, it could be used to make a natural energy mixture that could resist the invasion of sleep and prevent herself from entering nightmares.
In the Kingdom of Noah, some old nobles would take a very small amount of it. Of course, it was only as a brain-building drug. No one would be so luxurious as to use it as a drink. Of course, does it have any brain-building effect?
It’s unknown…
Alpine fruit production is already scarce. It is produced on only one island, but it is supplied to many countries. Its price is even more expensive than the same volume of silver.
Elle knew it because Amos was given a small box when he was painting for Viscountess Roseburg. She also counted that there were eighteen pills in total...but she was not willing to eat it at all.
In the month when Amos's mental state had just become bad, Elle carefully roasted and ground the box of alpine beans, mixed them with sugar, mint and pepper, and gave them all to Amos.
Drink it.
I don’t know if the medicine took effect, but Amos’s spirit did improve a lot in those two weeks. But unfortunately, there were too few alpine berries in her hand...
Thinking of her adoptive father, Ai Lei felt a little distracted.
What kind of emotion is that...
Is it nostalgia? Is it hate? Is it love? Is it admiration? Is it fear?
...she couldn't tell the difference.
But that experience was something she couldn't forget.
At least...the period when her mother Clara was dead and Amos had not fallen into evil ways was indeed the happiest period for Elle.
Amos loved himself with all his heart, even turning down his job and taking good care of himself. He was afraid that he would be sad because of his mother's death and his life would be shortened.
...But actually Ailei doesn't know how.
She had seen her mother use herself to threaten and blackmail Joseph, and knew how limited her "love" was for her. She was just a prop she used to extort more "love" from her biological father.
She had also seen how Joseph ruthlessly abandoned herself and her mother, and even directly used the command spell to immobilize them... She was also full of disappointment in her biological father.
It was after reading the occult books that Joseph gave her that Clara became a "Spider Whisperer".
After she believed in the Black Widow, she mixed bottles of poison with toads, bats, and mice... and used neighbor dogs and wild cats to test the poison. She even murdered Amos' biological sister. On the one hand, maybe
Because of jealousy, and on the other hand, because she was worried that someone who was too close to Amos would enter her study and discover her secrets while she was out killing people or purchasing cursed materials.
Amos was very obedient and never went where she didn't let him go...but the same could not be said for others.
So when Amos didn't notice at all, his sister unexpectedly "died" of illness. While Clara comforted Amos, she threatened Elle not to tell the truth.
Afterwards, she dug up the body of Amos's sister and completely destroyed it to hide the fact that she peeled off a small piece of skin as evidence of a sacrifice to the Black Widow.
Ailei witnessed all this and she was very afraid of her mother.
That was a truly vicious woman. She had almost no love for her mother, only fear.
For Elle, who was still a girl, her father's love and mother's love... were all given to her by Amos. Although Amos was famous for his skills back then, he did not have the kind of magic that he later became.
To this extent, their family's life is relatively prosperous, but not that wealthy.
Most of the time, Amos didn't have much work. Especially when she was still very young, he was the one who accompanied her...
As for Ailei's mother, she was still practicing apprenticeship spells without giving up, and went to other places to purify nightmares. But she did not have the talent to be a wizard... Later, she stayed alone in the study, reading one book after another.
The book is thicker than Elle's arm, and she is studying the eerie and terrifying rituals in the basement.
When her mother is at home, Ai Lei is always a little afraid. She never dares to go to her mother's study alone, let alone go to the basement. Only when her mother needs a ritual assistant, she will take her to the basement.
Whenever she saw the bottles of poison and the corpses of various poisoned animals, she worried that sooner or later she would turn into a corpse... and Amos didn't even know that he was killed.
Clara's death did not so much make her sad.
Rather... it made her feel more at ease.
You don’t have to worry about being poisoned one day, and you can still enjoy Amos’ love all to yourself.
And in this nightmare.
...As soon as Elle woke up, she saw young Amos.
He is still a painter and a quite well-known painter, and he is very busy at work. He does not communicate too much with Ai Lei... Of course, if there is too much communication, Ai Lei may not adapt to it.
In that case, she might think of Amos sacrificing her to Skeleton King, and her past of watching Amos die hundreds of times in nightmares.
This kind of "meeting" is just right.
However, Amos told her...her mother would go home tonight and asked her to go back early tonight.
...Ailei doesn't want to go back.
She didn't even want to see that woman.
Even though she is an angel now, she still has a sense of fear towards her...
When she woke up in the middle of the night, if she had a vision of her mother standing in front of the bed, it would still scare Elle to the point of sweating on her back.
Hope she never comes back.
But let's talk...does Ai Lei still have attachment to her?
It can't be completely absent.
Especially after being immobilized by Joseph, her mother held her hand hard and left silently... At least at that moment, her mother was the whole world in the frightened Elle's heart.
And when her mother was studying rituals and spells, Ai Lei tried her best to make her laugh. When she saw her mother showing a relaxed smile, the happiness that arose in her heart was not false.
So it's not pure hatred and fear.
Of course...
Naturally, she would not mention this unknown fear that was hidden deep in her heart, even to herself.
She hopes to see Amos again, but she doesn't really want to see him again; she doesn't want to completely forget her mother, but she doesn't even want to recall her name...
She hopes to spend this day quietly in this "future world"; but she doesn't want time to come to tomorrow.