I want to be a faded person for life

Xiangzi said this, but he didn't expect to see a happier expression on Melina's face.

"...Oh."

Suddenly, a dull low laugh interrupted their conversation.

"Does this mean I can send you to your death smoothly, unknown witch?"

Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a man wearing strange armor leaning against the wall of a dilapidated house in the forest.

Before he got close, Xiangzi smelled the smell he hated the most around the other person - the pungent smell of alcohol.

The man looked a little strange. His heavy armor inlaid with gold and silver and engraved with hundreds of beasts was extremely gorgeous, even comparable to that of Greg, who called himself the Golden King.

However, this exquisite beast armor was obviously in a state of poor maintenance. The knight just lay on the ground, letting the expensive cloak made of blue velvet hang down in the sewage and mud.

His face was covered in stubble and lacked care, his hair was messy and greasy and matted into seaweed-like clumps, and he only had a two-handed sword that he could grab at any time.

The man lifted the wine jug, but found that there was nothing left in it, so he simply threw it away.

"I can't pretend I didn't hear that... If you don't want to have a finger or two cut off, you'd better stand up and apologize."

This is a faded person, and Xiangzi has gradually learned to judge the other person's identity by the color of his eyes.

She held the hound's tusk in one hand and pointed it at the knight under the dilapidated house.

Melina suddenly reached out and grabbed the corner of Xiangzi's clothes. The last time she did this, she was advising the girl who was about to collapse to leave Stonewell temporarily.

The knight just glanced at her and showed no intention of getting up from the ground.

"Hmph... Another one deceived by the Golden Tree. I really want to see your expression then, little girl holding the Great Rune - when you realize that everything you do is just adding fuel to that damn cauldron."

With a loud bang, the storm tore the broken house into pieces.

Xiangzi pretended to step closer, but the figure of the down-and-out knight had already disappeared.

"—I think your expression will make the wine taste even better."

Xiangzi's expression froze completely, and his eyes dimmed.

The gauntlet engraved with a herd of beasts patted the girl's head and casually removed it from her white neck, leaving only the still wriggling cross-section.

-

"Cough...cough!"

Xiangzi stood up in the dilapidated house on the hill, still holding his sword.

She did not put down the sword, but subconsciously raised her hand and touched her neck.

Fortunately, the head is still connected to it.

What was in front of him was not the collapsed house in the forest, but the place behind the fortress where he first met Roderica.

"Did I just...die?"

Xiangzi put down the sword in a daze. This was the most inexplicable death she had experienced since leaving the Houwang Chapel.

I can't see the movements at all——

Even when facing Greg for the first time, this would not happen. Although the power of the demigod is so strong that it is irresistible, there are still traces to be found.

But that down-and-out knight just now... Xiangzi didn't even have time to react before his head was chopped off.

She didn't even realize when the sword pierced her neck. No - she didn't even have the memory of dying. The world in front of her eyes turned upside down, and the next moment she was resurrected at the blessed point closest to that place.

It was so fast that it seemed like a few frames were cut out of the video.

"Melina, that person just now..."

Without getting a response from Melina, another familiar voice sounded from a little further away.

"——Great, Xiaoxiang, you're really here."

Chapter 15: Black Hole of Corruption

Xiangzi turned around and his expression became complicated.

The figure in the distance is slowly approaching.

The other person took off his hood, revealing short gray hair and purple-black eyes - strange, are Deng's eyes this color?

Xiangzi looked away and didn't look at her.

There is no need to meet, let alone talk.

She immediately wanted to use the power of blessing to teleport directly to another place, but she found that the light of blessing in the dilapidated house had become extremely weak for some reason - it was almost going out.

Teleportation can't be used?

This unprecedented abnormal phenomenon made Xiangzi feel uneasy, and he subconsciously called out a name in a low voice.

"Melina?"

no respond.

"I won't let you escape again."

The light was low, making it impossible to see her expression, but her steps were getting faster and faster.

"——And even now she's still calling someone else's name, Xiaoxiang, who is Melina?"

"Melina is..."

Xiangzi took a few steps back in panic, and the feeling of uneasiness became stronger.

"Deng, what do you want to do?"

Gao Songdeng did not answer her question.

"I've told Xiaoxiang before, right? When I first arrived at the border, I encountered a teleportation trap."

"At that time, I also realized that I couldn't use the blessed teleportation ability no matter what... I tried many times, but to no avail. That was the most desperate time of my life."

"It was a truly difficult experience, like a beetle struggling in resin. Even now I can't forget it... So I recreated this experience and developed it into magic."

Xiangzi quickly glanced at the blessing that was about to go out, his face full of disbelief.

"What...you tampered with the blessing, but why?"

Deng had already taken out the staff with a purple-black gem inlaid on the top.

Xiangzi suddenly felt that his body had become several times heavier and he could hardly stand.

A deep purple light covered her entire body, the ground beneath her feet was sinking, and her armor creaked under the heavy pressure.

"I've already said it, I won't let Xiaoxiang escape again—at Crychic, in the music classroom, and in the Round Table Hall... Every time, he just suddenly left my side without any explanation."

Deng's slightly widened pupils suddenly met hers. The girl's eyes were like two purple-black crystals embedded in her eye sockets, connecting to the endless space.

It is so beautiful and profound that it makes people lose their minds, but it is also extremely cold, lacking the warmth that a living person should have.

"Anyway, you've run into some trouble again—it's okay, I'll handle it all for you."

"The difficulties, troubles, dangers, pain, sorrow, cruelty, despair... survival, fighting, betrayal, separation, predation, injury, death, reproduction, destruction, all are left to me to bear. Xiaoxiang only needs to be the most special one in the cocoon I weave, and stay with us forever."

"Can you just look at me and stay by my side—for the rest of your life?"

The insect's limbs, along with the purple-red petals, emerged from the girl's body, wrapped around Xiangzi's waist and back, and tried to pull her into his arms little by little.

How horrible, how horrible, how horrible—why did it turn out like this?

Where did the child who was as afraid of being hurt as a little animal go?

For the first time, Xiangzi felt that the child in front of her had become a stranger. She still remembered reading a silent cry in the other's notes - I really want to become a human being.

But that cry has now turned into a corrupt insect nest covered with spider webs. The existence that longs to become human has been transformed into a monster under the insect nest. Anyone who gets close will be dragged into the abyss and turned into a cocoon under the spider web.

Is this all her fault...?

Eh?

How could this happen? The lantern festival coming to the border was clearly an accident that had nothing to do with her, but she took it upon herself to think it was related to her.

In reality, her existence was meaningless to Deng. Even if she shamelessly stuck to him, she would only become a burden that needed protection.

This is how it should be - why did Deng become like this?

[Ha... You really have no self-awareness at all, actually forcing others into this state.]

[That's why I say that you have become so arrogant that you are deaf and blind, to the point where you can't even understand what people are saying.]

The dead man hanging from the fan let out a long sigh.

【In the end, I have to help you clean up this mess. 】

what?

Shoko, in confusion and fear, was unable to react and his body became completely stiff.

Gao Songdeng discovered that the blue-haired girl in front of him had closed her eyes, as if she had accepted her fate of entering the cocoon.

Xiaoxiang is so cute that he closed his eyes in fear, just like a woodlice that curls up when touched by fingers - it is obvious that it no longer needs to be afraid under his protection.

At this time, when Xiangzi opened his eyes again, his pupils had completely turned into the emerald blue color composed of pyroxene.

"Xiaoxiang, your eyes..."

Although there was no movement on the lamp's legs, it suddenly flew backwards for a distance.

With a crisp snapping sound, several insect limbs growing from the spine of the lamp fell off and twisted weakly a few times on the ground.

"it hurts."

Although he said this, there was no expression on Deng's face.

She just stopped suddenly, looked at her limbs that fell to the ground, and slowly raised her head.

Xiangzi's body was still surrounded by a purple-black gravity aura, but he had already raised his sword and his movements were not affected at all.

Could she ignore gravity magic? No, not at all—blood was constantly being squeezed out from under the armor plates of the Lost Home Knight. She was just able to perform such movements while taking advantage of gravity.

"...Xiaoxiang, no, who are you?"

The night and moonlight emerged behind the girl, and the faint light of stars and pyroxene dispelled the purple-black gravity magic.

"My name is Oblivionis? Why such a difficult name... Never mind, you can call me "The Forgotten."

The Forgotten One lifted the invisible hem of her skirt and performed an elegant ceremony.

[Long time no see, Xiao Deng. As expected... you're cuter without those limbs and tentacles. It's not appropriate for a penguin to have those things.]

"There are two...?"

The lights became a little chaotic, but the next second, the purple-black eyes were filled with bloodshot substances, and the voices also contained harsh noises like metallic friction.

"No...Give my Xiaoxiang back to me!"

A group of purple-black meteorites fell from the sky and crashed to the earth like cannonballs.

Chapter 16 The Principle of Regression

The meteorite was intercepted.

Azure pyroxene crystals grow from the ground, pointing obliquely toward the sky.

The base of the crystal cluster is wide, and the part extending towards the sky is more than ten meters long, just like a blue pyroxene throne spread behind the girl.

The meteorite and the crystal collided in mid-air, and the broken crystals continued to turn into starlight and purple dust, falling and then dissipating.

Gao Songdeng waved her staff twice more, and several exquisite pyroxene swords condensed around her.

The pyroxene swords did not attack directly, but accumulated in number as she moved.

[Kalia Circle?...Are you going to abandon gravity magic and use this kind of magic on me?]

The Forgotten One also waved his old staff and instantly constructed an equal number of shining swords.

“It’s not over yet.”

Deng actually let go of the staff and let it float up on its own. At this time, a dark red mark appeared on her palm.

Dozens of sticky silk threads gushed out from the hollow insectoid limbs on her back, hardening into sharp spears in the air, and attacked the ground together with the circle of shining swords.

This is sheer violence in numbers.

Even if the Forgotten One who is using this body is strong enough, Toyokawa Shoko's magic power is limited, and being able to use the pyroxene magic to this point is already the limit.

But suddenly, the throne made of blue pyroxene and the circular formation disappeared.