Ten minutes later, the slums on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Whoosh.
The boy and the girl teleported to a dilapidated iron house.
"As you can see, this is my home." Daniel whispered.
"I saw it." Liana looked at the iron house and said in a daze: "I've also heard that your family used to be poor. I wouldn't mind. Besides, aren't you a Silver Knight now?"
The salary paid to you by the Knights of Great Britain should still be enough, right? Then I have even less reason to dislike you."
"No. What I want to show you is not this..." Daniel hesitated and said: "I am not poor now...I can even say I have a small fortune. But...
..."
"but......?"
"I have a secret that might scare you." Daniel plucked up the courage and continued: "Since you are willing to be my girlfriend, I think I should tell you this clearly in advance so that you can be mentally prepared.
Okay. If I keep this secret in my heart and continue to associate with you, I will always feel very rude."
Daniel's solemn tone really frightened Liana, so she asked doubtfully: "Are you... a cultist, or a cannibal... or something like that?"
?"
"No, no no no no, why do you think that? Have you watched too many horror movies?"
"Ah ha ha ha ha..." It seems that I guessed it right.
"Come with me." Daniel walked around the hut, not intending to enter his own home. Instead, he took a side path and entered the woods on the outskirts of the city. Now the night was getting darker, and the moon shadow had not yet climbed onto the branches. In the woods,
It was extremely dark. In order to allow Liana to see the road more clearly, Daniel pulled out the lightsaber and used the emerald green light emitted by the lightsaber to illuminate the surroundings.
Liana followed Daniel, and suddenly became alert: "Could it be that you want to do something *something* on the first day you dated me? Could it be that your secret is, [You are a big pervert]
This matter?"
"Have you watched too many love movies this time?" Daniel couldn't help but said helplessly.
"Hahaha..." In fact, they were all guessed, the girl said with a smile.
"Here we are." They didn't go far when Daniel stopped in front of a wonderful plant in the forest: "This is...this is my half-brother, Bart."
"Huh...?" Liana half understood. What she saw in front of her was clearly a plant. The plant looked like some kind of giant sunflower, although the structure and shape were slightly different.
.
"It's not this plant, it's the wriggling piece of meat hidden in the corolla." Daniel whispered: "If you want to see it, I can lift you up to see it, but you might be scared by his current appearance.
. There was a witch named Morgoth who used a special poison to turn my brother into that appearance, leaving him unable to survive or die, and he could only exist forever as a disgusting, squirming piece of flesh.
.....But I can't do anything, not even restore him to his human appearance."
"Daniel..."
"I'm so desperate, Liana." The young man sighed: "Bart is the only relative I have left, but he suffered such misfortune and suffered endless pain and loneliness here. In comparison, I
But I have a free body and can associate with you like a normal person. Although you agreed to associate with me, my only relative is a monster, and I am such a despicable and selfish person. Do I really deserve your love?
"
"It's not worth it. In order to restore him to a human, you have done and are doing everything you can, right?" Liana asked in a low voice.
"I am. I'm working hard to climb up. I thought that the higher my status in the Knights, the better I could mobilize more connections in the Knights of Great Britain to find the witch Morgose. I hope Morgose can help
There really is an antidote in the world that can turn Bart back into his human form. But...even I am not sure."
"But you did try------are trying."
"I have promised to be your boyfriend, but I may not be able to care about you wholeheartedly, Liana." Daniel added, "Bart is my only relative in this world. If he is not here,
I am alone. So I can't devote myself to you. I have to devote half of my energy and time to trying to save my brother. From this point of view, I will definitely be a very bad boyfriend, right? So in the final decision
Before, I have to let you know all this, and then confirm whether you really want to date me. Please don't say [yes] to me out of pity for me. There will be no happiness if you force it. Even if you say [no],
I will also understand you. After all, you are a normal person, and you will definitely not want to step into my world with a monster in your home."
Liana was silent for a moment, seeming to be hesitating.
After about ten seconds, she made up her mind and replied: "Despite this, I am still willing to date you."
"......real?"
"Whether you have a monster in your home or you are a monster yourself, I have contacted you in my own way, got to know you, and finally decided to be with you. You will find that I am a very stubborn person, and I will not
I changed my original intention because of some boring little things. Therefore, my decision will not change. Please give me your advice in the future, Mr. Daniel."
"Really." The young Silver Knight breathed a sigh of relief: "You are really a rare and good girl, Liana. You are probably the only one among 100 million people."
"Hey. Don't you feel very lucky that you met me?" She said with a smile.
"Yes. Very lucky." Daniel also smiled and replied: "Probably the luckiest thing in my life."
"Hush! Don't talk nonsense! You will be punished!" Liana quickly stopped and said: "Always bragging about how lucky you are, be careful you will use up your luck one day!"
"Isn't that superstitious..."
"I have to believe it." Liana said jokingly: "Bart...can you let me take a look?"
"Do you really want to see it?" Daniel was a little worried: "Maybe it will disgust you. What he looks like now is a pile of squirming flesh and internal organs, which is very scary."
"...Nevertheless, I still want to confirm." She said. Then before Daniel could lift her up, the girl carefully climbed along the huge plant and slowly climbed up.
"By the way, he won't attack me, right?" She asked uneasily when she was halfway up.
"He's just a wriggling mass of flesh and won't attack anyone." Daniel smiled bitterly and said, "When we first put him in the coffin, he would scream and seemed to be suffering pain. But I don't know who put him in this place."
Such a plant grew. When I put Bart's coffin in, the fragrance of the plant seemed to have a soothing effect, and his screams gradually disappeared. I thought this was good for him, so I kept him here.
."
"Really?" She felt relieved and continued to climb up. Liana was worthy of being the daughter of a knight. She was more cautious than Daniel imagined. Even with Daniel's words as a guarantee, when she headed towards the huge plant
When I peeked into the bud-like structure, I was still full of vigilance, guarding against possible sneak attacks from inside the bud.
However, nothing happened. However, after a period of silence, Liana hummed in a low voice: "Ah?"
"What's wrong?"
"This is a little different from what you said." Liana said doubtfully: "It's not as disgusting as you said. By the way, what is this? An embryo? Another bud within the bud?...Insect's
egg?"
"What are you talking about?" Daniel couldn't help but be more curious. His last memory of Bart was that Bart was a squirming mass of flesh. That was a few days ago, and he didn't think it was possible.
After a few days, Bart will suddenly change. Bart should have turned into a melted ball, caught in the gap between life and death, a monster that can only struggle and suffer endlessly. He cannot become anything else.
Something to relieve the pain of endless destruction and regeneration.
"I'm not going to lie to you." Liana was very neat on her way back. She climbed down from the top of the plant in a few clicks and jumped back to the ground: "Go and take a look for yourself."
Daniel didn't answer, but hurriedly climbed up the plant in confusion, used the lightsaber as lighting, and quickly took a look into the buds. Liana was right at all, the disgusting lump of flesh that was originally lying in the buds turned into
The appearance.
What is that? It's always a bit hard to describe. The shell-like structure is close to the size of half a person, and has a vague outline of a person. To put it bluntly, it looks a bit like a person curled up, being looked at from the outside.
It looked like this after applying a layer of plaster. There was something shimmering in the gray-white thing. When Daniel extinguished the light of the lightsaber and tried to observe it with the naked eye, he could
I could vaguely see the faint light flashing alternately with a rhythm like the beating of a heart.
This is... a chrysalis. This idea suddenly popped into Daniel's mind. His intuition told him that there was something in this chrysalis that was hatching.
Could it be that this is Bart?!------This is actually Bart?!?
"Why did it become like this?" Even Daniel himself wondered: "It shouldn't look like this? Has anyone done anything to him?"
"I don't know much about things like magic, poison, monsters," Liana, who was waiting below, asked, "but are you sure that the evil spell that the witch Morgoth cast on your brother is permanent?"
Is it effective? It won’t gradually become ineffective due to changes in time?”
"I don't know." Daniel actually didn't understand either. He only knew that it was Morgoth who changed Bart like this, but he didn't know the specific reason and principle of the change: "But...he looks better now."
It turns out that he is much more peaceful and peaceful. No matter what he looks like, it is better than the painful appearance of a squirming mass of rotten flesh...right?"
"Maybe." Liana replied noncommittally. She couldn't make any judgment on a situation she didn't know at all.
"Oh, Bart..." Daniel let out a long sigh.
Of course, the "coffin" originally used to contain Bart is still there. It was the entire coffin, together with the "contents" inside, that was lifted into the air by this mysterious plant. As long as it was not weathered for a long time, this would have been lost.
Coffins made of elm wood can be preserved for a long time. Daniel did see something next to the pupa. It should be said that it was piled with something.