Chapter 3145

Dannister asked the question at Flora behind the door, but her eyes looked at Xia De.

Xia De couldn't answer. He couldn't say what Flora did when she tied up her hair in the club that afternoon after the Willandale funeral.

And the witch behind the door said in a low voice after hesitating for a moment:

"He let me lie on the table and hit my p/i-gu a few times."

Although this still sounded very wrong, compared to what they really did, it was just a small matter.

Dannister's gaze shifted to Xia De again, obviously very surprised that Xia De would do this. Xia De coughed and avoided eye contact with her, because he didn't know what expression he should have at this moment.

The red-haired girl with pursed lips was silent for a long time before saying to the half-open door again:

"Flora, do you really know you were wrong?"

"Really knew! I violated your privacy just to satisfy my creative desire, which is obviously wrong."

She just wanted to find material for her creation, and it wasn't that she didn't know right from wrong.

Whether Dannister believed her words or not, no one knew, but the manager lady had already thought about how to punish the owl before coming:

"Today is the Year-End Festival, it should be a festival for everyone to celebrate happily. Since Xia De is here to persuade, I can give you a chance to let me forgive you. But that is definitely not something you can do by verbal apology. Even young students in the Academy know that if you make a mistake, you have to be punished."

"What do you want to punish me for? Can you not hit my face?"

Flora said very worriedly, Dannister was almost laughed at:

"Do you think I am that kind of person? Flora, if you don't want me to be more disappointed in you, just shut your mouth for now. Whatever punishment Xia De gives you, I will do the same."

The witch with gray-black hair hiding behind the door turned pale:

"You also want me to... I mean, you also want to hit that place of mine?"

Xia De also looked at Dannister, but she shook her head:

"I don't have that kind of interest. I mean let Xia De do it. 10 times is enough, right here. You come out and lie on the dining table now, and this punishment is over, and I will forgive you for what you did."

Saying that, she showed a smile:

"Of course, I will be present to supervise during this process, but I won't hide in the closet, and I won't paint this matter."

So she didn't care about the "punishment" itself at all, but that she also wanted to watch Xia De and Flora do private things.

"I feel like I'm being treated as a tool."

Xia De complained a little, but didn't feel that the request Dannister made was too much. The red-haired girl smiled with pursed lips:

"Xia De, be honest, didn't you look forward to what was going to happen at all?"

Because Xia De didn't want to lie, he turned his face away and didn't answer.

Flora in the washroom didn't consider it for too long before walking out actively. After apologizing to Dannister again in a low voice, she told Xia De to be lighter, and then walked to the dining table in the dining room of Room 2 on the third floor that had never been used.

This table probably didn't expect that its first use would be for this kind of thing.

However, Dannister at least didn't let Flora take off key clothing like a punished child, so it seemed she chose to be lenient.

As for Xia De, Xia De didn't want to express any opinion. But when his right hand was really raised, looking at the scene in front of him, he still felt that this matter was very absurd:

"Aren't we spending the Year-End Festival?"

Dannister, who was watching on the side, warned:

"If you don't do it now, I will think you want to do it in front of everyone when everyone goes to soak in the hot springs tonight. Or, if Flora is willing to be locked in a cage as an owl for the whole Year-End Festival, I can also forgive her."

"Xia De, come on, I'm ready!"

Flora said immediately. If Xia De didn't do it, she would have to lean back toward Xia De's palm herself.

In short, regardless of the process in the middle, after ten similar sounds, this matter could be considered to have ended peacefully.

Flora, whose face was red, was forgiven, although the look she gave Xia De afterwards was a bit like it was going to drip... probably tears; Dannister successfully completed the "revenge" and decided to share Room 2 on the third floor with Flora during her stay off-campus, but this revenge made her think of what Xia De had done to her, so she doubted whether she had chosen the wrong method.

Even Xia De had a brand-new experience.

【Does this count as brand-new?】

"Hmm... of course it counts, at least this time whether it's me or the girls, we are all wearing clothes... So clothes feel like this, it's indeed a bit different."

Evening approached, and the festive atmosphere in the city became more intense. Yiluna appeared after five o'clock, and Amelia welcomed her with a hug. And not long after Yiluna arrived, the sound of the bell downstairs rang again.

"Who is it?"

All the girls who should have arrived had already arrived, so Xia De thought it was Princess Lei Qianya and Ajielina who ran out of the Yodel Palace in advance, but Dorothy said the princesses hadn't come over.

The maid opened the door downstairs, and not long after, Vanessa and Xilisi appeared upstairs.

"Xia De! Surprise!"

Vanessa, who had met Xia De yesterday, gave Xia De a hug happily, and the other girls also expressed their welcome for their arrival. Now No. 6 and No. 7, only Room 1 on the third floor of No. 7 was still empty, which was just right for them to live in.

And Xilisi originally thought that someone would tease them for saying they wouldn't come but finally came, but everyone wouldn't do this kind of thing that destroyed the festive atmosphere.

Also because of Vanessa's arrival, when Sylvia appeared before dinner at No. 6 St. Theresa Square, the young black-haired girl looked very angry:

"Wait a minute, Vanessa, didn't you say you wouldn't come? If I hadn't come myself, wouldn't this year's Year-End Festival have become only me missing this banquet?"

She was indeed the eighth Great Witch to arrive.

Megan and Xiwei, who were full of joy, pulled her to sit down:

"Don't say these things, and aren't you also coming over suddenly without telling others?"

Sylvia said she wouldn't come after the Battle of the Woodland. At that time, her relationship with Xia De was still the last step away. But now it was different. She wouldn't miss this family gathering for the Year-End Festival no matter what.

"I did say I wouldn't visit Tobesk this time, but after Vanessa came, you should have notified me, otherwise I would have become the only girl who didn't come."

She still complained unhappily. Matilda, who was arranging the dining table with the maids, placed the porcelain plates and knives and forks in front of her.

"Margaret is the only one who didn't come."

Miss Jia Lin Na sat at the table, supporting her chin with a smile and correcting:

"My grandnieces will come over after the banquet at the Yodel Palace. Although they don't participate in the banquet, they participate in night activities."

Margaret's teacher was Vanessa, and before Vanessa could speak up for her, Sylvia remembered the time she "stole" the opportunity from the young blonde princess at the funeral, so she asked Dorothy first:

"After dinner, we arrive at the woodland. Can you, Princess Lei Qianya, Grace, and Helen also pick up Margaret from Willandale? This kind of thing can't just leave her out, otherwise it's like everyone is excluding her."

The writer lady agreed, and Miss Jia Lin Na still thought she was talking about herself.

Since the Outlander owned this house, this living room had never been crowded with so many people. Eight Great Witches, their respective witch apprentices, Miss Yilaisa, Grace and Helen, plus Xilisi, Dorothy, Yiluna, and Amelia, such ordinary girls, if the living room wasn't large enough, everyone couldn't even appear at the same time.

But everyone liked this lively atmosphere. When Tifa brought the maids and pushed the dining car from the manor outside the city, the witches who had changed their clothes even took the initiative to participate in the serving and the rest of the dining table arrangement.

At this time, the sunset outside the window had gradually faded, and the last night of 1854 was descending. Xia De also wanted to participate in the arrangement of the dining table before the Year-End Festival banquet, but was pushed away gently by Luweiya and Dorothy together:

"There are hostesses at home, so why do you need to do it?"

With the cat looking forward to dinner on his shoulder, he stood on the side and watched the girls arrange the final touches while talking and laughing.

All the furniture in the living room had been turned into toys and temporarily put away, and the long dining table covered with a white tablecloth extended from the dining room to the living room.

Golden candlesticks, expensive porcelain plates, glass wine glasses, silver dining knives and forks, all seemed to be shining in the warm gas lamp light. The walls of the living room were rearranged, and the photos of the witches they brought themselves were framed and hung all over the wall.

The walls were replaced with new wallpaper, and the wooden floor under their feet was covered with thick carpets. Even the inside and outside of the fireplace were cleaned up, and the crackling fire well expressed everyone's good mood at this moment.

The dining car was parked by the table, and the maid ladies in maid dresses went in and out of the living room door. High heels and small leather shoes touched the floor, which was the most elegant melody. The sound of the witches talking and laughing was the best tune for the Year-End Festival for Xia De.

He stood there watching this scene in his home, and only after a long time did he look at the window.

Outside the window, window after window was lit up like No. 6 St. Theresa Square at this moment. Snowflakes drifted in the city where the night was getting deeper. People who had been busy for a year, no matter how this year had passed, just wanted to get a moment of rest tonight.

In this background of lights coming on, the night getting deeper, and the small snow in midwinter, he saw his own face reflected on the window glass again.

Looking at himself carrying the cat in the reflection, he suddenly felt that everything at this moment was a bit unrealistically beautiful.

Luweiya said "fate is a double-edged sword." He could now barely feel the edge of fate, but the edge was directed at others:

"Then for me, what will the edge of fate bring?"

The face of the dead "Chosen of Darkness" Ivan Darkness floated in front of him for some reason. Xia De, who was surrounded by happiness, remembered the ending of his future that more than one person had mentioned, so he felt worried for the first time, which had never appeared before.

He was not the kind of person who would be ruined by sudden anxiety, so he was not depressed at this moment, just curious about how he suddenly had such emotions.

【Because in the past, you didn't have so much.】

PS1: Picture in this chapter "Living Situation on Year-End Festival 1854-End".

PS2: Currently there are eight witches. Sylvia and Megan/Audrey have no apprentices. The former is too young, and the latter was too crazy before. Plus Vanessa's apprentice Margaret didn't come, so five apprentices appeared.

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