Chapter 3760

She pursed her lips and smiled at Xia De, her expression still lonely and fragile:

"Xia De, why do you want to understand me? You clearly already have so many brilliant witches by your side. They are either younger than me, or stronger than me, or can accompany you for a longer time, or have more common topics with you.

And me, I am not worth you understanding."

"She" in his ear laughed gently, and the ashamed Outsider under the moonlight understood that the Xivi in front of him was indeed a suture of falsehood and reality. Even because she forgot the true reality, some words that she didn't want to admit even in the bottom of her heart before could be said like this at this moment.

Xivi Aphrodite was the second Great Witch Xia De knew after Galina. But in the development of the relationship, although the two had done many very, very intimate things, the relationship lagged behind Sylvia, Vanessa, and Megan who appeared later.

Although what she said at this moment was stating facts, it sounded like a condemnation of himself to Xia De.

However, the Outsider's confusion about feelings and self-doubt had already disappeared last year. Since he discovered the problem, he was willing to face it actively:

"Xivi, since the past me failed to continue to take the next step with you, at least now, can you let me get closer to you?"

She didn't agree but didn't object, but talked about unrelated things:

"Do you know, Xia De, I really like you."

The straightforward confession contained feelings that almost suffocated the Outsider:

"From the initial Cold Water Port, watching you walk forward step by step, watching you gather more girls to climb toward the highest peak of this world together. I am willing to look at you with them, holding you up, but, sometimes I also want you to have more of me in your eyes."

"Xivi, I..."

"Because of those powers, I live alone in this manor. Lonely, lonely, but the fire in my heart has never been extinguished. The Speaker said I need to stay away from the crowd, stay away from things that will cause me violent emotional fluctuations, but no one can talk to me. Actually, my soul will burn more violently."

She looked at Xia De in front of her, her right hand picked up a strand of hair hanging by her ear:

"Am I beautiful, Xia De?"

"Yes, you are beautiful."

"Since so, why, can't you look at me properly?"

She stood up from the edge of the fountain, and light gathered in her empty right hand, turning into a scepter that was not gorgeously decorated. The Ring of Fate and the Golden Staircase appeared together behind her, but the Ring of Fate and the staircase were all very blurry, and Xia De could not identify the specific level and spiritual rune information.

"Xia De, if I break your limbs, can you stay with me in this manor that only has me?"

She asked softly. Only then did Xia De notice that Xivi was actually barefoot... Recently, there seemed to be many barefoot girls.

"She" laughed softly in Xia De's ear. Xia De tried his best not to think about those strange things:

"Xivi, I want to take you away."

"Always like this, always like this, all of you are like this."

She turned into an arc of light that was not fast but beautiful and rushed toward Xia De. It looked like the speed was not fast, but Xia De felt his hair stand up.

This was definitely not the power possessed by the Great Witch of Light he knew. Although it was an arc of light condensed from the moonlight at this moment, there was no moonlight attribute in that light. What it had was only the pure quality of light itself.

Knowing that Xivi really wanted to do it to keep him, Xia De didn't dare to be careless. He crossed his hands in front of his chest and also turned into an arc of moonlight and rushed forward—after all, he just wanted to get closer to Xivi and then know her current situation.

The two arcs of light collided on the central walkway of the courtyard. The collision of light and light was silent, only points of light chips scattered into this quiet night.

The figures of the two crossed each other. Xia De, who stood firm in front of the fountain, immediately turned around. The collision just now could only be considered a draw. His moonlight slash did not gain any advantage in front of Xivi at all.

And the witch stood barefoot at the place where Xia De stood just now. She didn't continue to do it, but with her back to Xia De, while raising her slender right hand as if wanting to touch the moon above her head, she said softly:

"Do you know, Xia De, although light is the most important component of this world, most light does not belong to light itself.

The light of the sun belongs to the sun, the light of the moon belongs to the moon. Light is always just a foil, always needing to be mixed with other powers to manifest.

Just like me, I am the witch Xivi Aphrodite. Without the identity of a witch, in the Council, in your eyes, what am I considered?"

"Xivi, I don't have a good impression of you because you are a witch."

Xivi, who was barefoot under the moonlight, retracted her right arm, turned to look at Xia De and smiled calmly:

"Xia De, wait until I break your limbs and keep you forcibly, you will have plenty of time to tell me these things. I like listening to your love words very much, sweeter than honey water, but it won't make people feel disgusted."

After stretching her arms forward, the witch's fair palms clapped together, and then the palms opened, and pure white light rushed forward. That thick beam of light looked like it was going to collapse the entire building behind the fountain, but when it came into contact with Xia De, it disappeared silently into the night.

The 【Night Curtain Seal】 that absorbed the light disappeared after Xivi stopped the attack action. Xia De looked at her:

"Can you not do it first, listen to me say a few words first?"

Xivi's voice was ethereal and cold:

"Xia De, your words can always make us happy, but what I want is not just your words. From our encounter in 1853, time has passed too long. Do you remember what happened when we first met?"

"Of course, you grabbed me out of the cabinet."

"I could grab you then, and I can still grab you now."

She turned into light again, and the movement speed was almost equal to instantaneous movement. The light imprisoned Xia De's whole body, but then his body scattered into large pieces of red butterflies.

But those lights caught every red butterfly trying to fly away, and the red butterflies quickly gathered together and turned into a silver snake without hands or feet, escaping from the silk net made of white light at once.

The silver snake turned into Xia De again, but Xivi, who turned into light, reached out and hugged him directly after Xia De recovered his human form. Red lips were sent up, and the white dress was close to Xia De's coat. Her right hand wrapped around Xia De's waist, and while kissing Xia De, her left hand reached downward—just like the beginning.

"Xivi!"

Her body melted into the light and disappeared again.

"She" in his ear was still laughing, she had been laughing since just now. And Xia De slapped his forehead with his right hand, sighed, and then the singing voice drilled into his ears again, but this time the singing voice sounded more lonely and lonely.

The sound came from underground, so it sounded particularly blurry. After Xia De used 【Strong Spatial Perception】 to determine the underground situation of the manor, he walked from the courtyard to the basement, found the location of the hidden damp small church, and then entered the underground secret passage that had been completely closed in the real world.

This secret passage had collapsed when "Desire" left, and Xivi specially used the secret arts of the Witch Council to seal it afterward. But in this illusory yet real world, the secret passage was almost exactly the same as when Xia De first entered.

Returning here after two years, Xia De also had many feelings.

At the end of the secret passage was a closed iron door. The singing came from behind the iron door. Xia De did indeed worry that this singing was not Xivi, but issued by some familiar thing. But out of worry for Xivi, he still pushed open the iron door amidst the harsh creaking sound~.

Behind the door was a small square dark room. In the middle of the dark room was a pool that occupied three-quarters of the entire space. There were no lights in the dark room, but there was faint light in the pool from which the singing came, as if there was a light source under the pool.

Memory seemed to bring himself back to two years ago. Xia De walked to the edge of the pool carefully, and then saw that what was in the pool was indeed not "Desire", but it was really a mermaid.

Xivi maintained the appearance of a human body and a mermaid tail, singing softly in this pool. Xia De had seen Xivi's mermaid form, so he was not surprised by her appearance.

Brown hair was scattered on the water surface. She stopped singing and stretched out her arm to Xia De in the water, issuing an invitation:

"Do you want to be with me?"

The light at the bottom of the water could let Xia De clearly see Xivi's posture. Although the lower body was not human, the upper body without any clothing was moving enough.

She caught Xia De's gaze, and then stretched her body as if deliberately showing her figure, letting Xia De see more clearly.

Because he had seen it once under the moonlight not long ago, Xia De easily moved his gaze to Xivi's face this time:

"From 'Desire', what kind of power did you actually obtain?"

What Xia De obtained at the beginning was the purest "Great Sin", but it was clear that what Xivi obtained was not sin, not even the shallowest "lust" represented by "Desire".

She submerged her whole body in the pool, leaving only the part from the nose up above the water surface:

"Lady Desire wanted to give me the power of desire, but I refused, so she gave me the cursed desire, gave me the most terrifying curse for mortals—love.

Xia De, do you know why love is a curse?"

Xia De shook his head, and Xivi answered:

"Because when you fall in love with someone, you are no longer just yourself. Your soul will be stained with someone else's colors, and your nature will change because of another person. Love is the collision between two fates, a process of two souls changing each other.

This is the curse given to life by wisdom, and it is also the most difficult curse to understand and break."