Chapter 4253: Side Story 5: Luweiya's Dream

Side Story 5: Luweiya's Dream

(This story takes place between Chapter 1991 and the end of Volume 6, during Luweiya's train ride back to Tobesk from Green Lake City.)

"Oh~"

The train swayed slightly as it moved forward. The purple-eyed girl at the table stretched, then closed the diary in front of her.

The small compartment was illuminated by the gas lamp on the wall. Behind the small table was the bed, with a suitcase placed on the side of the bed. As for the side of the table, the curtains covered the side window of the train.

However, Luweiya, who had finished writing her diary, quickly pulled back the curtains, looking at herself reflected in the glass, and at the wilderness scenery flashing by outside:

"It's already night; I should reach Tobesk very soon."

The layout of the compartment was compact, but it was enough as a residence for train travel. The hat hanging on the wall swayed with the vibration of the train, and the wood grain of the floor looked exceptionally textured under the dim light.

The fountain pen was placed on the thick diary with a brown leather cover. Luweiya had never told Xia De that she had the habit of keeping a diary, but keeping a diary was something that cultured girls of this era would do, and only the strange Xia De would think that normal people wouldn't keep a diary:

"If Xia De knew I kept a diary, he would definitely want to see it, but I won't let him see it."

Thinking of Xia De, she rested her chin on her hand, and a smile couldn't help but appear on the corners of her mouth. Her charming purple eyes looked outside the glass, but she also saw the reflection of the train compartment on the glass window.

The Divination Association had booked first-class carriages for the diviners returning to the Tobesk area from Green Lake City, and Luweiya naturally was assigned one. It wasn't very luxurious, but at least it was comfortable. It was just that train travel wasn't actually very interesting, and she already missed Xia De, who she didn't know what he was doing now:

"I don't know if Megan and Audrey can boldly take that step... Since Helen and Grace have set an example, they should have the courage too."

She seemed to be able to see the scene of Xia De and the witch sisters entangled, and for a moment, she didn't know what she was feeling in her heart:

"Sometimes, I even feel that I am very strange."

Thinking in her heart, she felt drowsy. So, amidst the rhythmic slight swaying of the train, she fell asleep on the desk.

Suddenly feeling the ground shake violently, the drowsy Luweiya opened her eyes, only to find that it wasn't the train swaying, but an earthquake.

This wasn't inside the train. Yellow sand was swirling under the dim sky over a dilapidated city. Her location looked like St. Deran Square, only the house on the side of Number 6 was still intact, while the other half had completely disappeared into the yellow sand.

The sand hitting her face was quite painful. She raised her hand to block her face and looked around. The sense of decay in the world actually made her want to cry. It was just that she was standing on the ground rather than high up, and with the obstruction of the wind and sand, she couldn't see what was happening in the distance of Tobesk, only some blurred, crooked buildings standing on the edge of her vision.

The sun was actually black, with a white edge and a red halo on the outside. And the black sun was like an opening, flowing a fiery red line downward:

"It looks like that unformed maze of Xia De... What is going on? Is this a dream?"

Just as she was confused about the current situation, she suddenly noticed a woman standing not far in front of her, near Number 6 St. Deran Square, with her back to her, wearing a dirty robe.

The woman's brown hair, reaching her waist, was already matted with dirt, and she stood there facing the door as if crying.

Luweiya thought she looked like a scavenger, or a poor, homeless, wandering woman. But looking at the other person's back, she felt an inexplicable familiarity. Shaking her head to clear away the strange thoughts, Luweiya asked:

"Hello, may I ask where this is..."

The woman turned around upon hearing the voice, and Luweiya was stunned the moment she saw the other person's face.

But at this very moment, another voice came from behind:

"Two ladies, hello. May I ask where this is? I remember I should have been in..."

Luweiya, who had been stunned, turned around to look at the third person. And the third lady also froze when she saw Luweiya and the woman in the dirty robe.

The newcomer was dressed in a gorgeous silver-purple robe and wore a pointed hat. The aura radiating from her whole body was more powerful than any female sorcerer of the Sixth Era that Luweiya knew. It wasn't just powerful; the sense of holiness about her even made her think of the believers of the God of Toys who had become angels that she had seen in the underground ruins of Tobesk; and that sense of twisting fate like a black hole was even more powerful than Mr. Adelaide Lenormand, the current president of the Divination Association and a Thirteenth-Ring sorcerer, whom she had met in Green Lake City.

It was just that the other person's face was very blurred. Even as the other person walked closer in the yellow sand, Luweiya still couldn't see the true appearance of this powerful lady.

Licking her lips, which were a bit dry in the wind and sand, Luweiya Anatt was never a stupid person. Because she had seen the face of the first female sorcerer in the dirty robe, she guessed who this lady in the gorgeous robe with brown hair was. The other person's height, build, and hair color were exactly the same as her own and the lady at the door of Number 6 St. Deran Square.

Looking again at the female sorcerer in front of Number 6 St. Deran Square, seeing her red-rimmed eyes and the look of confusion as she watched the two, Luweiya knew that in her eyes, the faces of herself and the female sorcerer in the gorgeous robe must be blurred.

Luweiya instantly understood everything, and the lady in the dirty robe also spoke:

"This is the City of the End, Tobesk City, the era after the apocalypse, the last city in the entire material world. Did you come from a distant place? I'm sorry, this is the last sanctuary, and there is no future anymore."

Luweiya exchanged a look with the blurred-faced female sorcerer in the pointed hat—although Luweiya couldn't see the other person's eyes—and Luweiya asked with confusion:

"Apocalypse? Sorry, I just woke up. May I ask what happened with the apocalypse?"

The lady in the dirty robe was about to speak, but was stopped by the lady in the pointed hat:

"Do not answer her. Although after waking from the dream, neither you nor she will remember all this, but you cannot let her know the truth of the apocalypse now, even leaving a rough impression is absolutely not allowed."

The word "wake from the dream" entered her ears, and the world seemed to shake for a moment.

Thus, in the eyes of the "past" long-haired Luweiya in the dirty robe and the "present" Luweiya who had fallen asleep on the train, everyone's blurred faces became clear. And the face of the third lady in the pointed hat was still Luweiya. The Luweiya in the dirty robe appeared the most mature, the "reality" Luweiya who was asleep was in the middle, and the pointed-hat Luweiya was the youngest and most beautiful, which even made Luweiya think of herself at eighteen.

The three Luweiyas looked at each other, and the dirty Luweiya suddenly pounced on the two:

"Are you, are you... what happened in the future? Did I succeed? Which time are you? Did I save everything? I'm not the destroyer, right? I didn't do anything wrong, right!"

Luweiya didn't know what the other person was talking about, and facing the "self" that pounced on her, she didn't know whether she should dodge. But the pointed-hat Luweiya, with a gentle smile, hugged the dirty self first:

"It's okay, it's okay, why are you crying? I don't remember myself being such a fragile person. Doesn't the fact that the two of us appear here mean that the future still exists?"

Her voice was really gentle:

"You did wrong, yes, we all know, I really did wrong. But fortunately, our mistakes created an outlander who shouldn't have existed. He replaced us and finished what we were supposed to do. It's okay, everything is okay."

"Really?"

The dirty Luweiya sobbed and let go of the pointed-hat Luweiya, and Luweiya, who was watching the two, finally understood:

"You... are you the past?"

She pointed to the dirty female sorcerer.

"Are you the future?"

She pointed to the pointed-hat female sorcerer.

"But how could the past be such an apocalypse? I don't remember... my past... has time cycled?"

She widened her eyes, instantly associating it with the unknowable-level relic 【Time of Retracing】, but neither her past nor future self was willing to answer this question for her.

The dirty Luweiya looked urgently at the pointed-hat Luweiya:

"Someone saved the world?"

"And saved me too."

The pointed-hat purple-eyed girl showed an increasingly gentle expression, then signaled for her to ask the still-ignorant Luweiya:

"She is experiencing all this; she knows."

"Who saved us?"

So the dirty Luweiya went to ask Luweiya again. The purple-eyed girl had wanted to say "who is the outlander created by our mistakes," but the image of the detective holding a cat immediately jumped into her head.

She breathed heavily, still unable to fully accept the scene before her. She didn't know if this was just a dream, or something else:

"He... a very strange man, very greedy, but very good to me too. He is really good; he is the lover I chose."

The dirty Luweiya nodded gently. She still wanted to ask, but Luweiya also had her own questions.

She asked the pointed-hat Luweiya, her purple eyes carrying scrutiny:

"Since you refuse to say what the apocalypse is, then at least tell me, how is the future?"

"You won't remember anything after you wake up, so why are you obsessed with the future?"

The lady in the pointed hat asked, but looking at those stubborn purple eyes, she smiled with relief:

"As expected of me. The future... not bad, at least I think it's not bad. It's just him... this can't be said."

"Do you know that saying only half of what you mean is hateful?"

"But this is a diviner."

The lady in the pointed hat was still smiling, a smile that didn't blend in at all with the yellow sand-filled place:

"No need to worry about the future. Look, our past selves have become so disheveled, don't the future you and the future me look like we are living quite comfortably?"

She pointed to the dirty Luweiya again, but the latter wasn't happy at all:

"But is it a dream, or have three periods of time really converged? I don't understand, I don't understand at all."

Luweiya didn't understand either, but she at least knew that the current her didn't have the ability to make time converge, so she looked at the lady in the pointed hat:

"Is this a dream or reality? Did you make us meet?"

"No, absolutely not."

The lady in the pointed hat shook her head:

"I have just changed my clothes, preparing to go to the party and gathering of the ladies tonight. Do you know how important that gathering is?"

The dirty Luweiya and Luweiya both looked at her, so the purple-eyed girl in the pointed hat said very seriously:

"Queen Angelina married Hamilton of Lejiede. Tonight is their wedding night, and all the ladies are going to the Queen's bedroom to attend the revelry with Xia De, while Her Majesty the Queen can only guard the door outside, spending the first night of her marriage... and the second, and the third night, after all, the party will last for several days. Lixia even suggested that Angelina be responsible for delivering food halfway through. Such an interesting activity, why would I do anything else to delay it?"

Luweiya opened her mouth slightly, not understanding what she was talking about at all... or rather, she understood some of it. She just didn't understand how much Lixia "hated" her sister; something else must have happened in the future.

And the dirty Luweiya asked:

"So, Angelina became Queen again? That Cavendish princess with huge ambition swept across the entire Old Continent once more."

"I cannot answer other questions, but she is indeed the Queen, it's just that, to wear the crown... one must bear its weight."

The pointed-hat Luweiya showed a mysterious smile.

"It seems this is also a predetermined fate."

The dirty Luweiya sighed softly. Luweiya listened to these incredible words with suspicion and asked again:

"If it wasn't you, then what is this dream about?"

"Predetermined fate has been greatly changed. Although I don't have the memory of my past self having this dream, I guess it should be just after the Battle of Green Lake, and Xia De knows his origin. The outlander's hand has caused the trajectory of history to deviate even more. The Red Butterfly, which shouldn't have existed after the Battle of Mibao, actually became the Chosen One of Space. This is the first time in all the Sixth Eras. So, in the chaos of fate disturbance, we girls and ladies who have strong connections with time, space, and fate met by accident."

"Women... you really gave it to a man? The male pronoun you used just now, was it really for a man?"

The dirty Luweiya widened her eyes in disbelief:

"That outlander is a man?"

"That is my choice, so it is also your choice."

Although other questions were important, Luweiya seriously reminded her:

"Don't look so unhappy. This makes me feel like I am questioning my own feelings. I don't know what you mean by saying I did something wrong, but choosing him was absolutely not wrong."

"Yes, absolutely not wrong."

The gentle Luweiya in the pointed hat also nodded with a smile.

"Then the future..."

The dirty Luweiya still wanted to ask, but Luweiya, who had understood everything, shook her head:

"No need to ask, you will meet the right person."

"No need to ask, fate will reveal everything. Although those painful things are still being staged, at least... he saved me."

The dirty girl pursed her lips and looked at the two:

"So, the future..."

"I don't know about the more distant future, but at least at this moment, I am happy."

"The future has been changed, and those who should have been saved have been saved. The apocalypse has appeared with slight deviations, and the mistakes we made have also been made up for. Yes, we are very happy."

Tears were already falling on the dirty girl's face:

"Good, really good, this is even better than a dream."

The pointed-hat Luweiya looked at her with a sad expression, then held Luweiya's hand:

"In my opinion, I am your future. But for you, you cannot determine whether this is a dream or reality at this moment. Your future is not necessarily what I said."

They were all diviners, and they all understood what the lady in the pointed hat said. And the pointed-hat Luweiya looked into Luweiya's purple eyes, but with even more intense sadness:

"So, please be sure to hold Xia De's hand tightly, be sure to hold his hand tightly."

Luweiya heard the wrong meaning from her tone:

"What do you mean by this? In the future, what will happen to Xia De? What do you want to remind me of? Will Xia De and I separate? How did you achieve the future you possess?"

"If you don't want to lose him, you must hold his hand tightly!"

The world of yellow sand and the two Luweiyas began to blur; this dream seemed to be ending.

"In the future, can the world really be saved?"

The dirty Luweiya was still asking, and the purple eyes began to shed tears again.

"Believe in him, and believe in Iluna Beias. She has never been your enemy. Don't be bound by responsibility anymore, leave everything to him!"

The lady in the pointed hat answered this question, but then gritted her teeth and said to the dirty Luweiya:

"And you, yes, my past self, can't you manage your own mouth? Do you know how many more people you let be by his side in the future with your casual words?"

Luweiya also widened her eyes and turned to look at her past self:

"What did you say?"

The girl with a crying voice also gave an answer:

"What do you want to ask? Could it be, is it, if the witches of the Witch Council want to..."

"Oh, so it was you!"

Clang~ Clang~ Clang~ Clang~

"What?"

The girl, who was a bit dazed from sleep, suddenly raised her head and looked at the train compartment under the gas lamp. The memory of the dream faded away like a receding tide. She felt a sense of loss in her heart. She looked down at her arm, which was numb from being pressed, and after her arm left the table, for some reason, she actually found a grain of sand on the table.

"Where did it come from..."

In a moment of loneliness and cold, Xia De's figure jumped into her head again. She didn't think about whether she had just had a dream, but lay on the desk again, pillowing her left arm, her eyes looking at the wood grain of the desk:

"Xia De~"

Her right hand fiddled with the fountain pen, letting it roll back and forth before her eyes. Thinking of the knight in her heart, thinking of his embrace, thinking of his warmth, thinking of everything about him:

"Xia De~"

She bit her lip, her fist clenched unconsciously. She would definitely hold his hand tightly, hold it firmly, and would never give up.

"I remember there seems to be a coat of Xia De's in the suitcase."

【What do you want to do?】

"She" asked softly, and the transparent figure with long hair appeared behind Luweiya sitting at the table, but she didn't notice it at all.

"Hug it to sleep... what do you think?"

The blushing diviner lady said to herself, and "she" just smiled lightly, looking nostalgically at the figure in front of her:

【So, it was that dream...】

She didn't know the past, she didn't know the future. "She" had already seen the future, and "she" knew that she and "she" had already grasped the future. ===== CHAPTER 4254 =====