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Chapter 2124: The Finally Ending Night

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"Whip? Is Xia De very fierce?"

Hearing Luweiya's words, the still-muddled Emilia felt a small doubt arise in her heart. So, she imagined the gentle young man helping her remove the "lingering shadow ghost" last Sunday night and bringing her home to rest, and then after returning to the bedroom with the blonde writer and the purple-eyed fortune teller, he took out a whip and let them all...

"Ah!"

Excessive shyness finally pierced through the thin mist covering the top of her memory. The false memories became phantoms, the real memories surfaced, and Emilia remembered!

And the two people outside the door certainly wouldn't leave just like that. After Luweiya refused to go out again, the Goodman couple stepped forward with gloomy faces onto the steps in front of the door. Luweiya did not retreat either, but fiercely struck the ground with the black long staff in her hand.

The ritual array that the two had just painted on the corridor walls and floor flashed across the ground and walls of No. 6 St. Deran Square. The complex chain ritual even made the scenery of St. Deran Square flicker, so Mr. and Mrs. Goodman stopped as expected, their expressions uncertain.

Luweiya showed a smile, and Emilia only then woke up like a dream, finally realizing that everything she saw before her at this moment was false. The transformation between illusion and reality made her heart suddenly clear. The elf girl felt that what she learned this night was more than what she had learned by staying up late for three days in a row for finals.

Luweiya did not stop, the Staff of Yggdrasil continued to strike the ground, and those ritual traces that seemed to emerge from the void became increasingly clear. The "Goodman Family," who had already reached the first step, seemed to be making a final attempt, trying to approach the door again against the faint light emitted by the ritual, but stopped again just as they lifted their feet.

"Actually, it's better not to mention the whip outside the house... I am also a person who cares about face."

A hand was placed on Luweiya's shoulder from behind, and a slightly exhausted Xia De, holding the dragon-scale sword, walked out from the darkness behind the foyer.

Although he looked a bit disheveled, Xia De felt that his current state was fine. Of course, most of the reason was because he had sipped some pink essence to restore his consumed spiritual power.

Being at the core of the relic's influence, because the relic still hadn't completely descended, the dizziness brought about by this only made him feel slightly uncomfortable, and the modification of his memory didn't affect him at all.

Emilia looked happily at Xia De standing side-by-side with Luweiya, while the purple-eyed girl pursed her lips and looked at him with a smile:

"Refusing to admit what you've done yourself?"

And seeing that Xia De had actually shaken off that giant head and appeared here, Mr. and Mrs. Goodman, realizing that a big problem had occurred, immediately turned around and plunged into the darkness behind them.

This originally meant the relic was detaching from the current illusion of St. Deran Square, but unexpectedly, the darkness around them dissipated, and the two were clearly still running in the scene of St. Deran Square. And after the darkness dissipated, the view was still not very clear. Because thick fog was diffusing outside the door of No. 6, and countless faint red butterflies were dancing in the white mist.

As for the deeper part of the mist, Emilia, who had good eyesight, clearly saw two girls holding hands standing side-by-side under the street lamp pole abruptly standing in the center of the square.

One wearing a white dress and one wearing a black dress, they both lowered their heads slightly. And when she saw their faces clearly, the two pale faces almost made the elf suffocate again.

Mr. and Mrs. Goodman ran toward them as if they hadn't seen them at all, and by the time they noticed the twins when they were very close, it was already too late:

"Red Butterflies!"

Mr. Goodman cried out, which was also their last sentence left here. The sky full of red butterflies shot at them like bees, and so, surrounded by those scarlet rays, the couple disappeared completely.

The twins holding hands nodded gently toward the entrance of "No. 6 St. Deran Square," and then darkness descended again. And when their vision returned, the three had already returned to the third floor of the Three Cats Inn, still at the entrance of Emilia's room, and standing here, one could even see the suitcase that Emilia had failed to close successfully just now.

It was as if they had never left, but that door next door that shouldn't have appeared had already disappeared.

By Xia De's ear, "She" said gently:

【Outsider, you have gained some insight into "prejudice."】

Luweiya did not relax her vigilance, continuing to divine to prevent other accidents. Emilia breathed a sigh of relief, and just as she was about to ask Xia De if everything was over, she looked up and saw the black-haired twin girls holding hands, walking toward them along the corridor.

One in a black dress and one in a white dress, this familiar appearance almost made Emilia scream.

Fortunately, she soon discovered that the fifteen or sixteen-year-old twin girls were no longer as pale as if they had smeared a layer of flour on their faces. At this time, they could even be said to be quite cute, which finally kept her from really screaming.

"Grace, Helen, you're here."

Xia De, who originally should have had to persist until Luweiya dispelled 【Friendly Neighbor】 to stop the battle, was able to go upstairs a step early precisely because of the arrival of Grace and Helen. Although he still didn't know why the Red Butterfly girls had come, he still smiled and greeted them.

The Red Butterfly girls were of course also very happy:

"Good evening, sir!"

The twin girls, who clearly claimed they couldn't easily leave Mid-Fort, but still appeared on this night, said sweetly. Helen even opened her arms and hugged Xia De enthusiastically, while Grace smiled at her sister and then said to Xia De and Luweiya:

"That couple has already been expelled by us, and they have completely left this city. Sir, really, when encountering such a thing, why didn't you use the Butterfly-Calling Flute to find us the first time? If that thing hadn't run to the auction house, we wouldn't have known."

"Xia De, it was I who told them Helen and Grace's address."

Luweiya explained briefly, because she knew "The Goodman Family" definitely wasn't Helen and Grace's match, so although she wasn't sure if the other party would really go there, she still chose to try:

"Now I'm relieved, I hope I didn't disturb your rest just now. Oh, the victim this time wasn't me and Xia De, it was her."

Luweiya returned the staff to Xia De and introduced Emilia to them.

The Red Butterflies, who had lived from the previous era to the present, of course knew the elf race, but seeing a pure-blooded elf in a city like Tobesk was indeed very fresh. And although Luweiya didn't explain in detail who Grace and Helen were, only saying that they were also family, Emilia still knew very clearly that they were dangerous:

"Hello, I am Emilia Siamonode, a fifth-year student at St. Byrons."

She said in a low voice, her bloodline instinct reminding her to stay away from them, but for the sake of politeness, she endured the fear and didn't dare to hide. Grace and Helen both laughed, and Helen even asked Xia De:

"Sir, have you started to become interested in elf girls recently? Look~"

She raised her hand and touched her ears, and so her normal ears also turned into elf-style pointed ears.

"Ah!"

Emilia finally screamed, and seeing everyone looking at her, she covered her mouth again.

In short, the series of things surrounding Emilia seemed to have ended completely. And Helen and Grace, who had come in the middle of the night, didn't stay here long; they just avoided Emilia, hugged and kissed Xia De, and then said goodbye. However, Xia De would go to Mid-Fort tomorrow or the day after; he still had to verify his current bloodline.

Afterward, Xia De helped carry Emilia's luggage—to let the inn waiter see that she had really left so she wouldn't turn into a toy—and Luweiya found a carriage, carrying the three of them away from the Three Cats Inn and returning home.

Little Mia, who was watching the house alone at night, saw the carriage approaching from the second-floor window and immediately ran happily downstairs. While it crouched on the shoe cabinet, Xia De also happened to open the door from the outside:

"Good evening, Mia, we're back."

Xia De then touched the obedient cat's little head, very happy that it had been waiting here for him all night, while in his heart he sighed that this night had finally ended.

Emilia had to stay here for two days, so a fixed room had to be arranged for her. Xia De originally intended to let her stay on the relatively spacious first floor, but Luweiya asked Xia De to carry the luggage upstairs:

"Let Emilia stay in yesterday's room; there's no need to tidy up another room."

Since she said so, Xia De naturally had no objections. So the three of them walked through the stairs, which were still a bit dim although the lights were on. The sound of shoes stepping on the stairs was truly reassuring to Xia De.

Emilia, walking at the end, looked back at the empty foyer. After arriving on the second floor with a heavy heart, she finally summoned the courage to tug at Luweiya's sleeve:

"I, I, can I sleep with you tonight?"

"What?"

Even the purple-eyed girl was stunned, but immediately realized what she meant.

So Luweiya pushed Xia De, asking him to put down the luggage, and only then said to Emilia:

"Scared?"

The fifty-something blonde elf girl nodded. Luweiya smiled gently, turned around, and said to Xia De again:

"Xia De, tonight Emilia and I will stay in the guest bedroom; please help prepare an extra quilt. If you need to use the washroom in the middle of the night, go upstairs or downstairs, don't cause any misunderstandings."

"No problem."

Xia De expressed his agreement very understandingly; Emilia indeed needed to adapt.

The night was deep, and there was nothing else to do tonight, so soon No. 6 St. Deran Square reached rest time. Xia De returned to the bedroom with Little Mia, and the cat was very satisfied with this, while Luweiya went to the guest bedroom with Emilia.

The gas lamp in the room was turned off, and the girls, each covered with their own quilts, also closed their eyes. But after Emilia closed her eyes, she still couldn't help but recall everything that happened today. She didn't know if Luweiya had fallen asleep, and hesitated for a long time before whispering in the darkness:

"Are such dangerous relics everywhere outside the Academy?" ===== CHAPTER 2125 =====

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