Chapter 3088

"Being able to have three hours is already beyond expectations."

Xia De nodded gently:

"The rules of the Transit Station seem to be like this. This is also my first time using the functions here, and perhaps I will discover more applications for it in the future. Blaney, even if you cannot reach my time again, I will find you. I am just very sorry to have made you wait so long."

The yellow-haired witch smiled gently:

"Why apologize? We are stronger than you, so it should be us apologizing for not being able to reach your side to take care of you. But you said this is the first time you've used the power here, and it was to call me?"

She offered a gentle kiss:

"Just promise me, okay, Xia De? Don't use the 【Corridor of Time】 function just to see me in the future. Crossing time itself is a miracle, and miracles are for you to do serious things."

"Seeing you is a very serious thing. I am just very regretful that the area of the Transit Station seems to be limited to this small room."

The witch hummed softly, feeling even more reluctant about the upcoming separation:

"After I left the Vista Forest, did anything else happen there?"

"Everything is safe, all problems have been solved, and everyone is safe. More than half a week has passed in my time, and I have also returned home from the forest. What about you? After you returned to St. Byrons, did Miss Miss Feilian discover that you had ascended to a demigod?"

Xia De also asked her, and Blaney immediately showed a smile:

"Teacher naturally discovered it. In fact, after I went back, she immediately discovered that I had become different... different in every aspect."

Xia De heard her implication:

"So you didn't have to find a way to make her notice that?"

"Of course, Teacher's expression at that time was very interesting. She pretended not to care much, but her eyes kept staring at me. Fiona was talking on the side without understanding anything, but Teacher and I only needed eye contact to know what the other was thinking. After all, I am the student who has been by Teacher's side the longest."

Then she really laughed out loud:

"I will remember that day. After so long, I finally won against Teacher once! Although the price was that Teacher ignored me for two whole days, and there were even outrageous rumors in the academy that Teacher and I were at odds and that St. Byrons was going to split, but that doesn't matter. In short, I won this time."

"I find it hard to imagine the scene you described... Teacher Miss Feilian shouldn't have challenged you to a duel on the grounds that you were ready to graduate, right?"

Xia De thought of what he had experienced, but Blaney didn't understand his question:

"No, your question is very strange... But if she wanted to test my demigod power as an excuse and fight me, it's not impossible. I do need to be prepared."

"Teacher Miss Feilian isn't angry with me too, is she?"

Xia De asked again with some worry, and Blaney answered without thinking:

"No, we all know that Teacher likes you more than me. She will only think that I forced you, so she will only be angry with me. But you and I are both Teacher's students, and we are the same generation. Teacher being angry is inexplicable~"

She said while hugging Xia De. She only dared to say such things because Miss Miss Feilian wasn't here, so Xia De didn't express an opinion on this.

"Then Miss Miss Feilian didn't ask you to explain the method of ascending to a demigod? Even for your era, a 13th-level witch breaking through to a demigod is a major event, right?"

Xia De continued to ask, and the yellow-haired witch shook her head gently:

"I've only been back for three days. Although Teacher has started talking to me, I think she must be holding back for a while before she takes the initiative to mention this topic. But based on Teacher's wisdom, she should have guessed it already. Oh, Fiona did ask me about the promotion in private, and I told her directly."

"What?!"

She smiled and narrowed her eyes:

"Just kidding. I'm not a witch who likes to show off such things everywhere. There were indeed some witches in our era who were not very proper, but that doesn't include the St. Byrons Witch Academy. I heard people say before that witches outside privately called St. Byrons a 'nunnery,' but that doesn't matter."

She hugged Xia De:

"When Fiona asked me, I only said that you helped me. That girl misses you too. After she saw Wilde bring Emilia over, she regretted very much that she didn't participate in that 'Strange Tree Academy' exploration mission."

"We will definitely meet again in the future. You must persuade her not to think that she can see me just by running to dangerous places."

"Xia De, although I am her teacher, it's not like she will listen just because I give an order. The relationship between student and teacher is always very subtle, and Fiona is not the kind of girl without her own personality."

Although Miss Miss Feilian seemed a bit angry with her, Blaney had indeed told her teacher most of what she had seen and heard in the Sixth Era. The violet-eyed demigod witch didn't express too many opinions on the story of time, but she was very interested in the "Crystal Light" mystery lock of Xia De that Blaney described, as well as the great witch of time in the modern era.

Although Xia De's mystery lock was almost impossible for others to master, the miracle of freezing time had been passed down since ancient times; as for Adele's matter—

"Teacher told me that the demigod great witch of time you summoned definitely didn't come purely from the future."

Blaney said softly.

"Yes, but for some reason, I cannot tell others her specific origin."

Blaney smiled and said:

"What you said is the same as what Teacher said at the time. Alright, alright, let's not always discuss other girls. Tell me more about yourself, Xia De. What have you done in the days since I left? I like listening to your stories, I want to know about your life."

The time after Blaney left also included some stories with Danister, but since she liked to listen, Xia De skipped some parts and told her in detail.

Until the Transit Station was about to close, they didn't talk about other topics. And since they knew when they would leave this time, the farewell was much more formal than the last time.

"Let's set a date, a date for when I will open the Transit Station to see you next time. A month later? Three months later? A year later? Blaney, you choose."

Xia De, who was sitting on the edge of the bed tidying his shirt, said. Blaney, who was looking at her clothes in the full-length mirror Xia De had moved out of the cloakroom, shook her head:

"No, please don't give me hope.

Once a date is set, if you fail to open the Transit Station on time, I will be very worried about you. And... if a date is set, I will feel that I can never see you again before that; but if there is no date, every night before I close my eyes, I will look forward to seeing you smiling at me at the next dawn."

"Blaney~"

Xia De stood up and hugged her, and the yellow-haired witch kissed Xia De's cheek gently:

"I know you already have the power to see me at any time, and that is enough for me. After I go back, I will explain to Teacher why you didn't see her but chose to see me. Don't worry about Teacher being angry with you... I even suspect that Teacher will never be angry with you. She is really biased."

She reached out again to help Xia De tidy his shirt collar, and then looked at his face very seriously, as if she wanted to pack all of him at this moment into her own eyes:

"You said there is no one else at home except you and Little Mia, so don't feel too lonely after you go back. I will always be thinking of you in the previous era... Good night, Xia De, have sweet dreams."

"Good night, Blaney, have sweet dreams, see you next time."

The two closed their eyes and kissed, and when Xia De opened his eyes, the bedroom scenery under the tipsy gas lamp light had disappeared, and the surroundings had returned to the vast white fog. The girl in his arms had, of course, also disappeared.

He sighed:

"It's over."

【Satisfied? Or, open it again?】

"She" asked softly, but Xia De shook his head. He raised his hand and clenched it, feeling that after this tryst with Blaney, he was full of energy again:

"There are still many things waiting for me to do in the future, and many people waiting for my reappearance. I cannot indulge in the Transit Station anymore, otherwise, what is the difference between me and those who seek to make up for the past in the Transit Station in Bennett?

If I really miss them, I should find a way to truly let them come here as soon as possible."

There were still 18 mission counts left for the Time Key, so even seeing Adele was possible. But Xia De didn't intend to use these opportunities now, at least not in the short term. A moment of gathering would only make the longing heavier. The tryst with the girls here belonged to "small desserts," and what the Outsider really wanted was a "big meal."

After walking out of the white fog behind the bedroom door, Xia De saw Little Mia lying somewhat lonely on the windowsill of the living room in Room 2. In the winter, one could not see clear moonlight in the "City of Steam," Tobesk, so the cat was not basking in the moonlight.

Hearing Xia De's footsteps, the cat jumped down from the windowsill and pounced on him happily. And when Xia De picked up the cat and returned to Room 1 next door with it, looking at the empty home and the leaping flames in the fireplace, he actually felt a little bit of loneliness, just as Blaney had said earlier.

"I remember, I used to like being at home by myself with the cat."

【Probably, you have already gotten used to always having someone by your side.】

He took books from the study, brewed black tea for himself, and poured the small cookies from the cookie jar onto a plate. After sitting down in front of the fireplace with the burning fire, he gently stroked the cat lying on his lap.

"Meow~"

The Outsider opened the book, letting his mood calm down completely. His eyes shifted from the night outside the window to the fireplace, and then from the firelight to the letters on the page in his hand. After returning home after a long time, he was ready to spend this cold and ordinary winter night alone.