Chapter 3104

The ghost lady complained to Sylvia, a bit unhappy:

"Anyway, I'm going to be sent away by you guys, can't I at least take a look at this world that belongs to the living at the end?"

"Sorry, no, Margaret has already taken a great risk for you."

The witch said, and one could tell from her expression that this was a threat.

So Miss Bethany had no choice but to leave the window and poke her sister:

"Today is my funeral, I'm not sad, so you don't have to be that sad either. It seems I really have to leave this time. Please help me take care of little Albert. I will think of you in the world over there, Sister Margaret."

Hearing this address, Margaret felt even worse. Although she hadn't spent much time with Miss Bethany, she truly regarded her as her own sister:

"I will take good care of him. Sorry, whether for you or for others, I really can't keep you here this time."

She also cast a spell to give herself the ability to touch spiritual bodies, then opened her arms and hugged her sister's soul.

Ashley Bethany also hugged her. After a little sadness, she asked Xia De, who was said to be opening the 'Door' for her:

"Then, what is the world after death like?"

"Peaceful, tranquil."

Xia De said two adjectives. After looking at Sylvia, the witch pulled the princess away. Then Xia De took a deep breath and slashed his right hand vertically downward:

"Door of Death!"

Because it was a one-way passage, after the black crack opened in the room, the power on the other side of the crack did not affect the normal world in any way. To the three living people, it was just a black slit, but the ghost Miss Bethany already understood her destination:

"Alright, it seems I really have to go."

She repeated dryly, waved at Margaret, took one last lingering look at this world that belonged to the living, and finally 'threatened' Xia De:

"You fickle guy, you must treat Sister Margaret well, otherwise I will curse you!"

Xia De smiled and promised her:

"Yes, I swear to the Underworld Moon you are about to see in a moment, I will treat Margaret well."

Miss Bethany was relieved. She carefully approached the crack, and after tentatively sticking her hand in, she let out a surprised 'Ah~' and was sucked in entirely.

Xia De looked through the crack, and the bewildered girl had already appeared on that dead, silent tidal flat. She gazed with awe at the Underworld Moon at the end of the black waters in the distance. This time, she didn't turn her head, but stepped into the water, becoming one of the countless souls heading toward the Underworld Moon.

The crack shrank and disappeared, and Sylvia supported Margaret, who had started sobbing. This was the Princess's first time seeing off someone close to her. All her close relatives were still alive, and even though she had seen human death before, this was the first time she truly understood the heaviness of death:

"Fate was too unfair to her."

Sylvia looked up and signaled Xia De to comfort her, so Xia De walked over and hugged both girls together. The witch didn't expect Xia De to do this, but Margaret really stopped sobbing. She looked up at Xia De and asked:

"If one day I pass away, will someone be as sad as I am now?"

Sylvia really wanted to say 'silly girl' in her heart, but the somewhat fragile princess now needed sweet words to comfort her.

"Everyone will be even sadder than you are now. Although I won't cry out loud in front of everyone, I will hold your mementos and shed tears in a corner where no one can see."

"Although you always say life only happens once, don't you want to resurrect me?"

Xia De looked at her very seriously:

"The death of Ms. Helena Carter happened before I appeared, so I couldn't save her. But for you all, I won't let you die. So your assumption is fundamentally invalid, Margaret, we will all always be by your side."

Margaret let go of her math teacher and then hugged Xia De tightly. The witch raised an eyebrow at Xia De, and Xia De took it as praise for himself.

After Miss Bethany's matter was over, the carriage carried Margaret and Sylvia back to the city. Xia De was left under a large tree at the crossroads in the southern suburbs of the city, but he only waited for less than five minutes before Miss Bell appeared driving a carriage.

"Xia De, hurry up and get on, it's really cold today."

Flora, wrapped in a white rabbit-fur scarf with a flushed face, poked her head out of the carriage window. Seeing Xia De holding a bouquet of white flowers, she asked:

"These flowers are really beautiful, are they for me?"

"... These are for your mother. But I have roses here, I'll give them to you after visiting your mother."

Miss Bell, who was driving, held back her laughter, but for some reason, she remembered the unique oil painting her master had just finished, and her eyes involuntarily turned to Xia De, wanting to compare the scenery under the clothes with the scenery in the painting.

As a prominent family in Willandale City, the Winslet family naturally has a family cemetery passed down through generations. The cemetery is located in the forest next to the Winslet family's large manor on the east side of the city. According to Flora, it was in that forest that she learned her first transformation spell.

"The first transformation spell I learned was turning into a cat, what about you, Flora?"

"An elk. Right by the pond over there, it was a winter night, and it was snowing at the time. I was huddled in the snow feeling like I was going to freeze to death, and in a daze, I suddenly felt warm. When I stood up, I realized I had successfully transformed."

Although she claimed to hate this city and her family, in reality, it carried many of her memories. When they got off the carriage and started walking on the forest path, Flora was even excitedly telling Xia De about the interesting things that happened in this forest during her childhood and girlhood.

It sounded like Flora wasn't that kind of traditional noble lady in the past either. She claimed that before she was twelve, she often climbed trees to steal squirrels' stored food, and had also brought a gun to hunt in the forest with panicked maids.

It's just that looking at her quiet, young lady appearance now, it's hard to imagine she was so... lively before. The turning point seemed to be the death of Flora's mother; she eventually lived into the person her mother hoped she would be.

The road in the snow-covered forest wasn't easy to walk, but compared to the real woodland, this wasn't much. After seeing the corner of the cemetery from afar, Flora, who had been talking the whole time, immediately shut her mouth.

She grabbed Xia De, helped him check his jacket and tie, and then turned to let Miss Bell, who was helping to hold the flowers, check if her outfit was appropriate.

Flora comes here to visit her mother every year on the day of the Year-End Festival, and since she promised Xia De to visit Tobesk this year, she naturally couldn't come during the festival like in previous years, so this visit a month early could be considered making up for this year's absence.

Pushing open the cemetery gate, her expression gradually became solemn. Walking among the tombstones of ancestors through the generations, Flora's footsteps also became less light.

Mrs. Sophie Winslet was buried under a bare tree in the southwest direction of the cemetery. On the white marble tombstone, besides her name and life, the letters 'Love of a Lifetime' were also inscribed.

"This is Father's handwriting, he had the stonemason carve it."

Flora said this to Xia De, but Xia De believed that if they weren't in front of her mother's grave now, she would definitely use very exquisite sarcasm to mock her father's actions.

Xia De didn't comment on this. After reaching out to take the bouquet handed over by Miss Bell, who was wearing a black dress, he bent down and placed it on the stone platform in front of the tombstone. Flora squatted down in front of the tombstone, her black dress blooming on the snow. She gently stroked the tombstone with her hand, whispering about the new changes in her life over the past year.

Xia De stood behind Flora, listening quietly to her narration, and didn't feel annoyed by the snowflakes falling on his shoulders. The first half of 1854 was unremarkable for the Great Mage of Death, but after entering autumn, it was the story of the tree and time.

"This is the Xia De I mentioned."

After she finished talking about this year's events, she turned around and grabbed Xia De's hand, and Xia De pulled her up with force.

"Xia De, introduce yourself. Be as detailed as possible, tell Mother I didn't let her down."

After she made the request, she stood behind Xia De, so Xia De coughed and said to the tombstone:

"Hello, I am Hamilton from Lei Jiede, a knight conferred by the Delarion Kingdom, recipient of the Delarion Honorary Knight Medal, Honorary Doctor of History. I have a house in the capital of Delarion, and both the house and the land are mine.

I currently make a living as a detective, having opened my own detective agency, though Flora says that's just my hobby. I have shares in a gold mine, serve as a school director at an obscure academy, have been receiving correspondence education for the past two years, and am also doing business with others selling some very expensive high-end fabrics.

I have no elders at home, or rather, there is only me and a pet cat at home. I am in good health with no hereditary diseases. This spring, I also won the championship of a national-level equestrian competition, and I have considerable accomplishments in swordsmanship, horsemanship, and archery. I don't smoke and rarely drink, and have no bad habits other than liking to collect cards. I go to bed early and get up early, and I'm in good health..."

He introduced his situation as detailed as possible according to Flora's requirements. Of course, only his situation as an ordinary person. Flora took Xia De's hand halfway through, and after he finished speaking about everything he could, the girl with black-gray hair asked her mother:

"This is the person I chose to spend the rest of my life with. Mother, you will bless me, right?"

The wind blew gently, and a few snowflakes fell from the tree branches hanging with snow overhead. Flora gazed at the tombstone of her mother who had passed away many years ago, remained silent for a moment, and then closed her eyes and revealed a smile:

"Yes, Mother, I will definitely be happy."

(End of chapter)