Chapter 2937

"This..."

Facing the nun's question, Xia De originally wanted to say that it would be fine on the outside of the right arm like the other witches, but for some reason, he suddenly thought of the fair eyelids under the nun's eye patch. And as soon as this thought appeared, Xia De actually felt a strong sense of immorality, guilt, and even blasphemy.

Even just thinking that the brand would be hidden under the mithril eye patch, and when the nun carefully lifted the eye patch, with her right or left eye glowing while her eyes were tightly closed, he would...

【Please maintain your composure.】

"She," who had been chuckling since just now, finally couldn't help but remind him. Xia De then hurriedly threw those distracting thoughts to the back of his mind, only to find that as long as the nun and that pair of silvery eye patches were still in front of him, he could not completely forget the thought he just had.

Seeing that Xia De was slow to give an answer, Sister Devlin asked:

"May I choose the location of the brand myself?"

The voice was still ethereal and calm, and very pleasant to hear.

"Of course you can."

Xia De breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, he was intensely thinking about whether to follow tradition or his own heart.

Then, he saw Sister Devlin turn her head slightly again to avoid his gaze, and then she raised both hands, lowered her head, and took off the eye patch. At this moment, he held his breath, and when the nun, with a slightly flushed face, turned to face him directly, Xia De could no longer remember when the last time was that the nun had let him see her without the eye patch.

The mithril eye patch gave Sister Devlin a unique sense of mystery and a coldness that kept people at a distance, beyond her aloofness. Sister Devlin without the eye patch looked like a quiet, introverted, and fragile girl.

Xia De found it difficult to describe the stunning feeling he had at this moment, but he still remembered the topic at hand:

"Sister, you mean..."

Sister Devlin's eyes were closed at this time. After hearing Xia De's question, her left eye opened. The pure white eyeball "gazed" at him, and the feeling of being peeped at appeared immediately, but it was not very serious.

Xia De held his breath, and Sister Devlin reached out and pointed to her pure white eyeball:

"Please apply the brand here, Hero of Cinder."

"She" in his ear continued to laugh, and Xia De tried his best to keep his tone calm:

"This... although the 'Undying Fire Brand' itself does not rely on damaging the skin to leave a brand, it is still a mark after all. Doing this, won't it affect your... vision?"

The nun shook her head gently. At this moment, the mithril eye patch was lying on the table beside her, shining brightly in the morning sun. Without the restraint of the eye patch, the gray hair on the nun's temples became more disheveled with the movement of her shaking head, even covering her side face. The cat watching this scene walked into the eye patch and lay down for a while, continuing to enjoy this boring morning drama.

"The eyes are just an appearance; the soul is the truth."

"Okay, then I'm coming."

He raised his right hand again, and the pure moonlight on his index finger was already burning. Then Xia De noticed that his right hand was actually trembling slightly, so he immediately controlled his hand and brought it in front of the nun's opened eye.

The two were standing very close to begin with. At this moment, as he moved closer, more details on Sister Devlin's face without the eye patch came into view. At this moment, the Outsider felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity. This was clearly a morning after breakfast with nothing to do, and at this moment, he was facing Sister Devlin who had taken off her eye patch, and the nun was opening one eye and closing the other, "looking" at him.

Every element in this scene was sound, but Xia De clearly felt that if a third person were present, neither he nor the aloof nun in front of him would have taken this step.

"Meow~"

The cat crouching in the eye patch meowed softly, reminding Xia De that it was still here.

After his fingers paused slightly, he continued forward, and the fingertip burning with pure silver flames successfully touched Sister Devlin's eyeball. The touch was still hard to describe; Xia De could only say that he clearly perceived the eyeball his finger touched was moist and fragile, and it was twitching slightly.

The activation of the miracle was very smooth, and when Xia De removed his finger, the burning silver crescent was already clearly branded into Sister Devlin's eyeball.

Or rather, the vertical length of the silver crescent mark far exceeded the vertical length of Sister Devlin's left eye. The moon mark was actually branded into her eyeball and skin, but neither exceeded the range that the eye patch could cover.

When the moon mark shone, it was as if Sister Devlin's entire left eye was glowing, but it also looked like a silver tattoo on her fair left cheek. So the nun's left eye closed and no longer gazed at Xia De, and the bright silver crescent-shaped brand truly ran through her entire left eye vertically.

The "normal" right eye opened and "looked" at Xia De. This pure white eye actually faintly shimmered with the luster of the silver moon. He hadn't felt like he was looking at her when he was being "gazed" at by the nun's left eye just now, but now, with her left cheek glowing and her right eye shimmering with silver, for the first time since he met Sister Devlin, Xia De felt that he was truly making eye contact with her.

He could see the nun's inner thoughts from that eye, and he could see the strength and loneliness beneath her calm surface.

"Can your eyes see the normal world now?"

Xia De asked incredulously. The right eyeball moved slightly with the movement of his gaze, and then it closed just like the left eye. Sister Devlin's skin was already fair, and now, with the glowing brand on her left eye, her face looked even more fragile and quiet.

The situation of the "Undying Fire Brand" on Sister Devlin was different from that of the other girls. Xia De guessed that this was related to the uniqueness of the nun's eyes and her own uniqueness as a "Fire-Keeping Nun."

"The so-called normal world was originally a relative definition."

The nun said softly:

"But I have indeed become stronger because of this. Xia De, your fire guided me to see the deeper truth of the world. I think I am not far from advancing to the Thirteen-Ring."

The light of the brand on the left eye finally extinguished after this sentence fell, but after the pure moonlight dissipated, Xia De clearly saw several traces like scars running through the nun's left eye vertically.

"This is..."

Subconsciously raising his hand to touch the nun's eyes in front of him, he stopped halfway; his action was quite impolite.

The nun continued to say softly:

"Your fire directly affected my soul, and the change in the soul in turn affected the body. This is the proof of the brand, the manifestation of the power you bestowed."

She did not say the word "stigmata," but reached out her left hand to grab Xia De's right hand, and then pulled his right hand to touch the skin of her left eye.

His fingers touched those "scars," and they were indeed physically present. However, the nun's skin felt very good, and Xia De clearly felt Sister Devlin tremble when the two touched.

"It looks like just a brand; there is indeed no problem."

He withdrew his hand in time, so she turned around and picked up the silver eye patch with the cat crouching inside, turned her head slightly again to avoid Xia De's gaze, and put the eye patch back on, letting it bind the hair hanging beside her ears, thereby covering the brand in front of her left eye.

The re-wearing of the eye patch seemed to be a strange sign, meaning that the somewhat private matter just now had temporarily ended. "She" in his ear continued to laugh, and Xia De knew what "she" was laughing at. The tension of that matter just now for him was as if a girl was for the first time in front of him...

No one spoke, and the room fell into silence again. This silence lasted for a long time, and Xia De, who finally pulled himself out of that strange train of thought, spoke:

"Sister, besides the matter of the moon mark, I actually have two other things I would like to ask for your help with."

"I will help you do anything."

"It's not a very difficult thing. The first thing is that I want you to help investigate a corpse. That corpse is from a long time ago, probably when I first arrived in Vista City; the second thing is, I remember you can now roughly investigate a person's time of death. I want you to go and take a look at a woman; the other party is likely an ordinary person."

"I will fulfill your wish."

The nun, with her head slightly lowered, said softly. Xia De still felt the atmosphere was very awkward, so he reached out and picked up Little Mia and put her on his shoulder:

"Let's go take a look at that corpse first... I'll go call Grace and Helen. When that corpse was created, they were also present."

The Red Butterfly sisters had not returned after being invited by Xia De to attend the banquet last night. These days, Grandma Cassandra was not in Mid-Hill Fort, so they were responsible for the work of the Cassandra Auction House.

Although Vanessa did not appear at the breakfast table this morning, the sisters who slept in the same room as Vanessa appeared. They sat beside Angelina, laughing and talking with Grandma Cassandra on the other side, making the little princess a bit nervous all morning.

As for the corpse Xia De mentioned, it was the strange man who crawled out of the cabinet when he first arrived in the Vista Forest and discovered the "First Tree Hole" cabinet in the Accordion Hotel, intending to go to the past through the cabinet to find Miss Danister (Chapter 2550).

At that time, because Xia De did not know the characteristics of the "tree hole," he specifically blew the Butterfly-Calling Flute to find Grace and Helen for help. And the strange man with a scorched face, an injured right eye, and an emerald ring on his hand crawled out of the cabinet at that time.

The other party was proficient in time power, using time stop, time reversal, and time acceleration, but was eventually killed by Grace and Helen while fleeing in the world of time stop.

Because the focus at that time was to find Miss Danister who had accidentally entered the past time, Xia De did not pay much attention to that man, just turned the other party's corpse into a toy and continued to study the cabinet with the Red Butterfly sisters.

And last Sunday in the White Ape Canyon, the thing that crawled out of the crack leading to the doomsday era reminded Xia De of the man from two months ago.