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Chapter 2081

~10 min read 1,834 words

The god let the three colorful bubbles float towards Xia De, so even the cat and Miss Theresa looked over. In the three bubbles, there were scenes of a girl swinging with her father in the garden, a boy running on the grass with his puppy and friends, and another boy holding his face and looking up at the stars at the window.

The colorful light was unusually soft. Just looking at these bubbles seemed to make all the bad thoughts disappear without a trace.

"Look at this light, only childhood dreams can resist the deepest darkness in the lightless place."

The curious cat stretched out its little paws to grab the bubbles again, but was stopped by Xia De.

The god smiled and said to Xia De:

"This is something purer and more beautiful than the crystallization of dreams. It is the most precious and beautiful thing that can be harvested in this sea area where light does not exist."

"No, the most precious and beautiful thing here is definitely not this."

Xia De unexpectedly raised an objection, and then held Miss Theresa's hand. The young witch blushed, and the god took back those colorful bubbles:

"Then let's continue fishing, let me see what else you can catch. Childhood dreams and past dreams are intertwined into the self after adulthood. And when using childhood as a beacon to try to find the past again, people can often see things they haven't noticed before. If you can lead them away from here, I can give you a crystal of childhood dreams, outsider, have you ever missed your most innocent and beautiful age?"

The maid's earrings had been tied up. As Xia De cast the fishing line, the pair of earrings fell into the cold seawater. Almost in the next second after the earrings entered the water, a pulling feeling appeared immediately. Miss Theresa grabbed Xia De's hand from behind, and together with him, pulled up the thing that was struggling constantly, and then found that it was a crumpled notebook entangled by the fishing line.

It was very magical that the completely soaked notebook dried up immediately after Xia De shook it a few times. After opening it, the ink inside did not blur because it had been soaked in water. The god flicked it gently, and the notebook glowed slightly.

A young black-haired girl appeared in the light holding the notebook. Miss Theresa looked curiously at the maid's appearance when she was young. At that time, Vane Maxim had some freckles on her face. She held her notebook, stood on tiptoe, and looked at the storybooks with colorful covers in the illusory shop window in front of her, finally lowered her head regretfully, and then turned to look at Xia De.

Without anyone explaining, Xia De also knew that this was the "Mirror Fairy Tale" that Miss Maxim mentioned last time that she had never really owned in her childhood.

At this time, the expectant look in the girl's eyes holding the notebook was almost the same as the look Little Mia looked at Xia De when she wanted to eat. Miss Theresa pushed Xia De gently, letting him take out the storybook. Xia De also reached into his pocket, but after taking the book out, he thought about it and bent down slightly to ask the girl holding the notebook:

"Do you like fairy tales very much?"

"Yes, sir."

The girl said timidly, her eyes still looking at the book in Xia De's hand.

"Why do you like fairy tales?"

"Because... I just like them."

The "Mirror Fairy Tale," which Xia De specially translated into the common language of the end of the Fifth Era, was handed to the girl:

"If you like them, you can try to write some yourself. This might be more interesting than reading stories."

The girl nodded timidly and pointed to the sea outside the floating board:

"Then you have to find the right direction, remember, I am there."

Her figure then disappeared, Xia De handed the notebook to the god, and cast the fishing line for the second time.

Dozens of seconds later, the fishing line tightened again, and this time the struggling force was stronger than just now. Fortunately, with Miss Theresa's help, this time it was also successfully pulled back.

The item tied by the fishing line was actually a rotten human severed arm.

Xia De was stunned, not understanding why it was this kind of thing. And Miss Theresa had already reached out to untie the fishing line. Seeing that she didn't mind, Xia De also took the hand in his hand. The god flicked it gently again. As the arm glowed slightly, the teenage Miss Maxim appeared in front of the two.

At this time, Miss Maxim looked like she was fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a black and white maid dress. She held a simple long sword in her hand, and there was a person standing beside her and in front of her.

Beside her was a maid whose face could not be seen clearly:

"Vane, go, prove your courage and guts. A maid who has never seen blood cannot become a qualified maid."

And in front of her was a curled-up humanoid creature that couldn't even distinguish its race and gender, wearing shackles on its hands, feet, and neck, shivering and holding its head.

The fifteen or sixteen-year-old Miss Maxim was also trembling, holding the weapon in her hand and daring not to move forward for a long time.

Xia De felt Miss Theresa pull him, and then heard her voice:

"I have also heard that the official maids around Aunt Violet have to undergo special training... very cruel, right?"

Xia De didn't want to express an opinion. In a peaceful country in a peaceful era, this was of course very cruel. But for people living in this dangerous world, although he didn't think random killing was correct, he didn't think such training was meaningless.

"Should we help her? Help her... see blood?"

Miss Theresa asked in a low voice, and the god watched this scene with a smile, and then was satisfied to see Xia De shaking his head:

"Of course we can't do it for her. The god has already said that the meaning of fishing is to make up for those past regrets. Miss Theresa, do you really think that the regret Miss Maxim had for this past was that she really did it at the time?"

The young witch thought for a while and confirmed that the maid who was decisive in killing and ruthless to the enemy, and even tied alchemical flying knives on her stockings under her skirt, would definitely not feel regret because of such a past.

So she shook her head, but was still puzzled:

"So what exactly does Vane regret?"

The young maid holding the sword turned to look at them, with pleading in her eyes.

"Isn't this obvious?"

Xia De said and was about to go up, but immediately stepped back:

"You go, hug her from behind. Yes, no need to do anything else, just hug her and comfort her softly."

Miss Theresa suddenly realized, so she followed what Xia De said, gently hugged the teenage Miss Maxim, and then said softly:

"It's okay, it's okay, I will be with you."

Miss Maxim then trembled and raised the weapon in her hand again, and then closed her eyes and swung it forward fiercely. The three figures disappeared, not letting Xia De and Miss Theresa see what happened next.

"This is Vane's wish."

Miss Theresa looked at her hands, her expression a little lost:

"It turns out that all she wanted was some comfort and encouragement. I couldn't even see such a simple thing. Aunt always said I was immature, it seems she was right."

"People's wishes are actually not complicated most of the time. What's complicated is how to see what others want. I have experienced many things with Miss Violet, Miss Theresa, you will have time to grow."

She was destined to become the head of the Success Higher Medical College. The outsider downstream of the time river knew this.

Miss Theresa nodded again, and looked at Xia De, who had golden scars on his body, feeling that he must be very good at seeing what witches wanted.

Next, the fishing hook was cast for the third time. This time the direction was the direction Miss Maxim swung her sword just now. The "fish" hooked this time struggled even more fiercely. Even if Xia De and Miss Theresa used their strength together and used Strange Arts to enhance their own strength, they only managed to pull it up.

The "fish" hooked for the third time was still not their target. This time the fishing hook tied with earrings hooked up a silk handkerchief. Miss Theresa recognized at a glance that the handkerchief embroidered with roses was the one Miss Theresa carried with her when they went out this time.

Sure enough, when the god's hand brushed over the handkerchief, the black-haired maid who appeared from the faint light had the same height, appearance, and dress as the one sleeping by the campfire now.

But the scene shown this time was obviously not on the ship, because several other maids with similar attire stood beside her. The girls were chattering, envying Vane Maxim for being able to go to Silver Beach Island for vacation with Miss Theresa, and at the same time, they were giving her ideas and telling her what luggage to carry for this long trip.

This time, many maids showed their appearances, and Xia De had even seen several of them in the adventure of the "Lost Lake." Miss Theresa beside Xia De also introduced these phantom maids to Xia De one by one. They were all "Royal Maids" deeply trusted by Miss Violet, which meant that they were not only maids, but also the main helpers for Witch Empress Violet to manage the kingdom.

One of the maids with long black curly hair also smiled and took out a set of divination cards:

"Since you are going on a long trip, of course you have to divine the fortune. Want to try?"

"Of course."

Miss Maxim, who didn't know what would happen in the next journey, nodded with a smile and chose the 9th card from the top. Xia De and Miss Theresa also stretched their heads to look together, but the card face they saw was not a normal divination card face.

From the Fifth Era to the Sixth Era, although the names and contents of the 108 divination cards have been slightly adjusted, the change is not large. Although Xia De doesn't understand divination, he has been with Luweiya for so long that he is very familiar with the card faces of divination cards. He is quite sure that the "Dragon Entwined Ship" card face that appeared at this time is very wrong.

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