Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 323 Tears
"You said you were..."

"Strike Witches." Nana answered quickly.

I've never heard of this name before...Zelul thought to himself.

"And what about the Strike Witches...?"

"You can also be called the Cat Witch. Look at these ears." Nana stretched out two index fingers and pointed at the top of her head.

It does look like cat ears, and there's even a cat tail behind it, Zelul thought. The naming of "Cat Witch" reminded her of "Jellyfish Knight", but jellyfish can establish a consciousness link with knights because they are born with empathy, and cats... except for being cute, she never knew that cats had any special abilities.

Moreover, the girl who called herself the "Cat Witch" did not carry a cat with her. It was more like she had merged the characteristics of a cat into herself.

"So... what abilities can a cat give you? Also, the things on your legs before, are they thrusters? Do you control them with your tail..."

"Wait, wait!" Nana suddenly shouted.

Zelul paused.

"You asked me so many questions in one breath, but you haven't even answered the first question I asked!" Nana pointed at her, and perhaps because she was angry, the triangular cat ears on her head stood up.

"A knight should always be cautious." Facing the other party's questioning, Zelul explained as a matter of course, "However, fairness is also one of the principles that a knight should uphold. Therefore, out of fairness, I will answer your question: I know."

"Know? What do you know?" Nana looked puzzled.

"You asked me before if I knew a place called Medusu Zeya, and my answer was: I do," Zelul said seriously.

"Where is it then?"

"This is the second question."

"..."

"However, since you have answered two of my questions... although one of them was a quick answer, based on the principle of fairness, I can also answer this question for you: This is Medusu Zeya."

"..."

"..."

Nana tilted her head, as if trying to understand Zeluel's answer. After a long while, she finally slammed her palm and said, "So Medusu Zeya is a deserted island!"

Zelul opened her eyes wide, not understanding why the other party could come to such a conclusion, but before she could refute, Nana spoke first:

"I've heard of a small island where magic resources were discovered on the seabed. It prospered for a few decades at first, but then the magic was exhausted and the residents gradually moved out. Without the protection of a barrier, the buildings on the island collapsed under the etheric wind, and it eventually became a deserted island like this!"

Nana finished speaking in one breath, revealing a smug smile, as if to say: Am I very knowledgeable? !

"Medusuzeya was reduced to ruins three days ago." Zelul said expressionlessly, "It was destroyed by the moth beast."

The smile on Nana's face froze and then disappeared: "...Huh? Eh?"

Zelul nodded, turned and walked into the large pit formed by the explosion. At the bottom of the pit, she pointed to the remains of Saint Grinnell and began to talk about what happened on the island three days ago.

She concealed some sensitive information, such as what Saint Grace said to her before they parted, but she told Nana everything about the giant jellyfish on the dome, the unprecedented tide of moth beasts, the suddenly invalidated contract, the defeat of the jellyfish knights, etc.

The knight's intuition told her that the person in front of her might not be very reliable, but at least he had no ill intentions.

"'Old White' predicted that a fleet would come to Medusuzea, and I can use this fleet to leave the island." She turned her eyes away from St. Grace and turned to look at Nana.

"I...we do have a fleet, but...I'm sorry, I can't make a decision. You have to ask Xia...ask Captain Yaha. She is a very nice person and will definitely agree to you." Nana originally wanted to say "Lord Xia Ye", but Lord Xia Ye disappeared with the jellyfish on the dome and has not returned since.

Oh right...jellyfish!
Nana suddenly thought that since the person in front of her called herself the "Jellyfish Knight", perhaps she knew more about jellyfish, and might be able to find clues as to why Lord Xia Ye disappeared.

"Why do you call yourselves 'Jellyfish Knights'?" she asked tentatively, "We have cat-like ears and tails, so we are called 'Cat Witches'. Can you... grow tentacles from your body?!"

Nana was a little frightened by her own reasoning.

"How is that possible?" Zelul denied seriously, "We called it this name because every knight has signed a contract with at least one attendant jellyfish. The attendant jellyfish can assist the knight in operating the knight mecha, and the knight needs to ensure the safety of the attendant jellyfish in battle."

Partnering with a jellyfish... Nana couldn't imagine what that felt like.

"Does Miss Zelul have her own attendant jellyfish? What kind of jellyfish is it?" she asked curiously again.

"Yes, it is a very beautiful firework jellyfish, and its name is also 'Fireworks'."

Lillian became even more curious: "Where is it? Did you hide it? Can you let me see it?"

"It's dead."

Zelul said in a tone as calm as possible.

But Nana suddenly screamed: "Eyes...something is flowing out of your eyes!"

Zelul was startled, and quickly used the "Mirror" contract to generate a floating mirror. In the mirror, she saw herself crying, and her tears were black, just like the pus that flowed out of her body after the fireworks mutated.

……

"do not Cry."

Kelun said to Lillian, "Your Lady Xia Ye won't die so easily. Susha just said the same thing. Oh, although I can't contact her now."

"I can also see here that the bond contract that Xia Ye signed with me is still in effect. Well... she still owes me 500 moers." Yaha also comforted.

"I, I'm not crying..." Lillian quickly wiped the tears from her cheeks, but her eyes were still red, "I'll go to the kitchen and prepare something to eat for everyone."

After that, she ran away. "Look, you scared her away again. She must have gone to the kitchen to cry." Yaha said to Kelun.

"Why didn't you scare him off?" Carune protested.

Yaha was about to speak when Tang Li walked in from the doorway: "Saniya is back. When they went out to investigate, they found a deserted island. Nana decided to land on the island to investigate the situation and let them come back to report."

The two immediately gave up the idea of ​​continuing to argue on a meaningless topic. Yaha walked quickly to the chart table and asked, "Where is the island?"

Tang Li picked up a pen and circled the location where the Strike Witches discovered the island on the nautical chart. It happened to be within the area that Xia Ye had marked earlier and where Medusu Zeya was located in his memory.

"What they found might be Medusuzeya, but according to Xia Ye, it shouldn't be a deserted island." Yaha frowned slightly.

"Salia and the others did not find any barrier blocking the ether wind near the island, nor did they find any ships coming and going... However, she said that Nana seemed to have seen someone, so she decided to land on the island." Tang Li explained.

In any case, since Nana landed on the island, the Moby Dick had no choice but to pick her up. Without Xiuji's help in ejecting, the Strike Witches could not take off on its own.

A moment later, the fleet began to turn under Yaha's command. According to the current speed, it would reach the island discovered by the Strike Witches in about three hours.

……

The disgusting sticky feeling peeled off my body, and was replaced by a biting cold.

Xia Ye opened her eyes and found that she was still in the state of "Thunder Knight". The armor formed by lightning had been completely damaged in the previous battle. A vine-like thing was coiled around her almost naked body, binding her so that she could not move.

With the power of the Thunder Knight, the vines could not hurt her even without the protection of armor. But psychologically, she still found it difficult to accept this state...

She tried to pull at least one hand out, but just as she began to struggle, a voice rang in her head:
"Don't move, if you don't want to become space junk."

——It’s Susa’s voice.

Because Susha hadn't spoken to her for such a long time, Xia Ye was stunned for a second before she reacted.

She stopped fighting the vines and let them pull her body and drift in the dark space. Her vision was all over the place. Suddenly, the vines loosened their restraints and she fell on the soft red ground.

The feeling of suffocation, which was not fatal but not comfortable either, suddenly disappeared, and Xia Ye was surprised to find that there was air near the ground.

"Thanks to my quick reaction, otherwise you would have been taken away by that jellyfish." A cold voice sounded behind him, "Why don't you say thank you to the Lord God."

Xia Ye turned around and, as expected, saw Su Sha, a petite girl with white hair and red eyes. She grinned, and before the other party could react, she suddenly rushed forward, grabbed the girl under the armpit, and lifted up the girl, who was shorter than her.

"Wow! Long time no see, Sister Susha!" Xia Ye was so excited that he seemed to be playing with a new figure he had just bought.

"Hurry, put me down!"

“Hehehe, this is not up to you… ah!”

The little foot kicking in the air successfully hit Xia Ye's knee. Even though she was not wearing shoes, the pain almost made her kneel to the ground.

The girl took the opportunity to get rid of Xia Ye's clutches, and blushed as she straightened her messed up dress: "Stop fooling around, and follow me."

After saying that, she turned and walked in one direction.

Xia Ye is still confused. She only remembers that she rushed towards the dying giant jellyfish. When she regained consciousness, she was brought here by Susha's vines.

But seeing that the other party had no intention of explaining, she had no choice but to rub her knees and follow. The two walked for a few minutes, and the red ground in front of them was still endless. Finally, Xia Ye couldn't help asking:
"How long do we have to walk? Can't we use a faster method? Like flying..."

"We're here." Susha suddenly stopped.

What has arrived? Xia Ye looked around, and the surrounding scenery had not changed at all compared to a few minutes ago.

But at this moment, the ground in front of them began to disappear, and the boundary between the ground and space quickly approached the two of them. As the distance got closer, Xia Ye finally discovered that the ground did not disappear, but curled up below. The boundary of the earth came to an abrupt stop at Susha's feet. The girl held up her skirt, sat down at the edge, and pointed downwards:

"Look."

Xia Ye followed her finger and looked down. Just one glance made her hold her breath -

It turns out that this red earth is a half-rolled-up petal.

And this petal belongs to a flower as big as a mountain.

There are hundreds of similar flowers, connected by slender branches, belonging to an unimaginably large flower.

Under the stem of the flower, spider-web-like roots spread out, clinging to the surface of an object that was even larger than the entire flower. Xia Ye initially thought it was a planet, but quickly denied his idea - no planet would be this shape, it was more like...

"What is this flower?" she asked somewhat dully.

Su Sha turned his head and looked straight at Xia Ye: "Of course this is me."

"Then what is wrapped under this flower is..."

"It's a witch egg."

"…Whose witch egg is this?"

"yours."

"…………"

"Yes, it's just as you guessed. I'm helping you hatch the eggs."

The petite girl said expressionlessly.

(End of this chapter)