A faint light flashed in the bathroom, and Shade, who still had lipstick marks on his face, fell into the bathtub, holding the door pendant in his hand.
He stared at the ceiling of the bathroom in a daze for a while before struggling to get up. The black key on his chest fell to the floor with a clatter. The familiar ceiling and bathtub showed that this was his room on the "Brilliant Messenger":
"I'm back now. The next time we meet, I have to wait for another month."
【Is this reluctance? 】
"Of course, I can't bear to have her stay alone in the doomsday era."
Shade thought to himself, and continued to struggle to sit up. Unfortunately, he got stuck in the bathtub when he came back, and he was too lazy to transform and fly, so it took him a while to stand up.
In order to prevent disturbing the sleeping girls, Shade did not turn on the lights when he came in. At this time, in the darkness, he packed up the things he had just left and changed his clothes into pajamas. Only then did Shade
Look at yourself in the mirror.
Of course, the main reason is to prevent traces of Adele on the face.
This series of actions took quite a long time, so that the sudden knock on the door startled Shade.
"Shadow, what are you doing in there?"
It was Luvia's voice. Shade hurriedly moved to the inside of the bathroom before speaking:
"You want to use this place? I'll be there soon."
"Mr. Knight, after you entered the bathroom, there was only the sound of changing clothes. I didn't hear the sound of you going to the toilet."
"I"
"Shad, don't tell us that you have to use the Silence Charm when you go to the toilet."
At this time, Dorothy's voice also appeared outside, and Shade could almost imagine their smiling expressions.
"Okay, I'm not going to the bathroom."
Then the purple-eyed girl's voice continued:
"Shade, are you secretly doing something bad behind our backs?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
Dorothy said:
"I heard you sounded so nervous. I definitely didn't do anything good in there just now. Speaking of which, you couldn't be"
Shade heard the whispers of the two girls outside the door, and then Dorothy asked worriedly:
"You weren't solving it yourself just now, were you?"
"What?"
So Dorothy continued:
"If others know that the two of us spent the night at your place, but you still secretly go to the bathroom to solve the problem in the middle of the night, Luvia and I will definitely be blamed by Carina and the others."
"Yes, yes."
Luvia is clearly still laughing:
"I just slept for a while and actually had a good rest. Shade, open the door and let's continue."
They were obviously kidding Shade, but it was really strange that Shade mysteriously ran into the toilet to change clothes in the middle of the night.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course, do you look down on us so much?"
So Shade opened the door, and seeing Luvia and Dorothy looking at him with a smile, he held one person in one hand, and then hugged them all at once.
"Really, Shade~"
He lightly hammered Shade with his fist, and then they were thrown back by Shade amid laughter.
Because of the activities in the second half of the night, when Shade actually fell asleep that night, it was already close to four in the morning. Luvia and Dorothy were still lying next to Shade, this time they were firmly
Lock up Shade and never let him sneak into the bathroom again.
However, Shade had no intention of going to the bathroom again, because with the arrival of the dream, he once again fell into the dilapidated No. 6 Saint Teresa Square.
Of course, this time it was just a dream.
When they found long-haired Luvia on the roof, the girl was holding her legs and looking at the sun in the distance. Shade held the roof and sat down next to her, so Luvia naturally leaned her head on it.
on his shoulders.
The two of them looked at the sky together. After a while, Xia De asked curiously:
"I never asked before, what is the meaning of the black sun?"
He still remembered that he summoned the light of the black sun when he used "Dragon Roar" to summon the Sword of Light to deal with the "Petitioner of Light" in the doomsday era, and "she" warned Shade sternly not to do anything like this in the future.
things.
But Rapunzel didn't answer, maybe because she couldn't answer. She just asked softly:
"Shade, when you went to the bathroom just now, you actually went to see Adele, right?"
"Yes, how do you know?"
Luvia then smiled softly:
"I just said that my nose can't smell wrong. It seems that her situation in the apocalyptic era was not very good. She is not even willing to use perfume."
As he spoke, he grabbed Xia De's right hand and squeezed it:
"Xia De, you are not very honest either."
"Can you see this?"
"I'm a professional fortune teller. Why, you still want to ask her for help this time, right?"
"I think I will if necessary."
Shade hugged her, and Luvia obediently leaned her back against Shade's chest.
"The City of Vista story is coming to an end, and I'm really worried about what's going to happen in the end."
This time, Rapunzel did not give any comfort. She leaned against him and continued to look at the black sun with him:
"If you really need to give up"
"I won't give up anything."
Rapunzel nodded slightly, as if she had made up her mind:
"I'll help you, Shade."
"Please note that the so-called 'I will never give up anything' includes you."
Although Luvia nodded again, no one could understand her thoughts:
"You know? In the beginning, I also had the idea of not wanting to give up anything. Fortunately, you came in the end."
"Do you know that I was born because of you?"
"You said this to me once on Green Island."
"Without your persistence, there would be no my appearance, there would be no sixth era, and there would be no story we want to experience now. Wait, shouldn't you be the one comforting me? How come I'm the one comforting you?
"
Rapunzel leaned against Shade's chest and chuckled. She leaned against Shade and continued talking to him. She even asked Shade and Adele what they had done just now, and then laughed at Adele's timidity.
.Just talking, she started to move, and Shade had to remind her:
"When we last met, didn't you say you would move this time to the last one?"
But Luvia doesn’t care about that:
"Your Adele also said that I am born to play tricks. Anat asked me to cover up the aura she left in your soul, so that when she comes to the present world, she will not easily discover you. Shade
, this is for your own good, but I have to work very hard."
Therefore, this night when the Dead Leaf Moon and the Frost Moon meet, is busier for Shade than any other day.
It was probably because he was so busy last night, but when it came time to actually sleep, Shade was sleeping quite soundly. So early on Saturday morning, when Carina, who had received the news, broke into his room, he waited until the witch approached the bed.
I opened my eyes only when I was standing by - last night it was Carina's turn to stay on duty:
"Wake up! Something happened in the woods again."
"Auntie, if your news is not big enough in the end, I swear I will retaliate against you equally in the future."
Lesia said sleepily, Luvia didn't say anything and just nuzzled Shade, but Tifa also walked in holding little Mia.
"Can I put my shirt on first?"
Shade, who was about to sit up amid the entanglement of the girls, yawned and asked, but Carina didn't care about this:
"Are you talking to me about this? I haven't seen anything about you?"
As he spoke, he touched Shade's face like a gangster, but he didn't forget to talk about business:
"Isn't it early winter now? The Vista Woodland should have been full of bare trees, but overnight the forest seems to have been rejuvenated. Now looking at the woodland from the air, you can see dense green areas appearing in the forest.
middle."
"It's just the forest recovering, it's not a big deal."
Lecia said with her eyes closed, obviously not wanting to get up yet:
"Let Tifa and the others mark the location of the resurrected forest area, and we can discuss what this means during breakfast later. Auntie, please remember to close the door when you go out."
As he spoke, he pulled Shade's hand again, trying to get Shade to lie down again.
Carina Cavendish shook her head because of her grandniece's laziness - although she herself would not have gotten up so early if she hadn't been on night watch:
"This is not just as simple as forest recovery. A towering tree appears in the center of every small piece of forest that has regained its vitality."
"How tall is the tree?"
Shade asked.
"A tree hundreds of meters high."
No one expected the sudden changes in the forest. Before this, people were only actively preparing to deal with the changes in time.
Although the 100-meter-high giant tree that Carina mentioned cannot be seen in the city, it can be clearly seen on Lake Ulen surrounded by forests. Even though this is a world with extraordinary power, ordinary people can't see it in the city.
Even if a tree grows for hundreds of years, it will be difficult for it to reach such a height.
Standing on the deck of the Radiant Messenger and looking at the huge trees standing in the forest, Shade felt that they were more like watchtowers for some reason.
With the help of the hermits in the forest, the statistics of areas with "tree changes" in the entire Vista Woodland were completed at ten o'clock that morning.
Miss Danister brought back information from the academy, and after overlapping the map drawn by the hermits with the sand table manipulated by Vanessa, although Shade did not find any patterns in it, at least he could see that the farther away from the city, the more distant the city.
The higher the place, the denser the trees that turn from brown to green.
The "Father of the Infinite Tree" was originally the god of time and trees. In today's chaotic time, it is not incomprehensible for the forest to undergo changes. But what the church and Shade are worried about is that this is not a natural phenomenon, but the ancient
The author's new plan.
The church's observations have shown that giant trees that are hundreds of meters high have a tendency to transform into tree people. This time, the elves who came for Emilia have all set out and spread out in the forest, trying to discover the secrets of these strange giant trees.