Start with Dragon Maid and start dueling!

The magic of the moon shines through the window onto the floor inside the house, emitting a gentle glow.

Quiet and peaceful.

Until there was a gentle knock on the door.

Who is it? (single choice)

Schindler

Flamme

Parula

Nathalie

Fu Liusi

House boy

I woke up from my sleep.

Or, not sleeping at all.

The hazy dream is nothing but an imagination of desire.

My throat is so dry.

I lifted the blanket in annoyance and slowly sat up.

It was like I had experienced a nightmare and woke up in a sweat.

Although he was extremely thirsty, his whole body seemed to be soaked.

In a trance, I looked at the moonlight coming in from the window.

It is bright and clean.

Bright and dazzling.

I was possessed, staring at the pure moonlight, as if my soul had been hooked away.

A few seconds? A few minutes? A few hours?

I do not know.

Until there was a gentle knock on the door.

Knock, knock.

Simple and crisp.

I could hear it clearly because I was completely awake at this moment.

Whether it was a dry throat or the anxiety lurking in the heart, it took the sleepiness away from the body.

I turned on the dim night light on the cabinet, got out of bed and walked to the door.

Without asking who it was, I opened the door.

Before I opened the door, I had already guessed who it would be.

There weren't many people I could guess from the crisp knock on the door.

Although I was mentally prepared, I couldn't help but be a little surprised when it really came to me.

It was Schindler who came.

The head maid of the dragon maids.

At this moment, she had taken off her heavy dress and temporarily put aside her duties as a maid.

Now, Schindler stood in front of me in his pajamas.

The dark gray and white long skirt has faint light pink ruffles on the cuffs and hem.

A nightgown that looks a bit loose.

Schindler did not wear glasses at night.

Less severe, but younger.

It was only then that I realized that Schindler looked only about seventeen or eighty years old, just entering adulthood.

It was that strictness that made me subconsciously exaggerate the maturity of the head maid's appearance.

"Miss, I'm sorry to bother you so late at night."

Schindler kept a certain distance from me so that she was not looking down at me while she spoke to me.

"No, I was just looking for some water."

"Would you like to join us?" I extended an invitation to her.

I am very familiar with the Wanlong Hall at night.

So eerie and so scary.

Haunted house, that's exactly what it deserves.

Now, even though it has become completely different, it still exudes a lonely sadness.

The bustle of the day makes the night seem even more deserted.

This time, I'm not alone.

Schindler poured me a glass of water, which I drank in one gulp.

Sweet and refreshing.

The feeling of thirst was finally dispelled.

But I had no intention of going back to my room to sleep.

Sleepiness is still blocked behind a tall iron door, longing to embrace me but unable to touch me.

Maybe he saw through it, or maybe he had known for a long time that I was troubled by insomnia, so he visited me at night.

Schindler smiled at me gently, pointed upwards, and said softly, "Do you want to go up there and take a look?"

The Wanlong Hall has a rooftop, and a flat open-air area has been built on the roof of the western-style building.

Compared with the entire huge mansion, the renovation of this area is nothing.

Climb up the stairs and come to this open space.

I saw the moon hanging in the night sky.

It was much dimmer than what I saw in the room.

This makes the stars around it stand out clearly.

The only facility on the empty rooftop is a bench.

The wooden carved bench has been wiped and tidied but still looks old.

Schindler and I sat down in chairs without saying anything.

Looking at the starry sky and breathing the cool wind, my heart felt a lot more open.

"I am afraid."

I spoke first.

“Fear of moving through the world.”

I didn't dare to look at Schindler's expression and just kept talking to myself.

"That world, because of my arrival, has been tainted by disasters that it should not have suffered."

"Not only that world, but even here, where I grew up, has been invaded by monsters from another dimension."

I kept thinking about the card that signaled a warning.

"If, if I continue, this place might also be attacked by the Chaos Source Disaster."

"I don't want that to happen... But, maid, your agreement, I..."

Can't do it.

I absolutely don't want to say this.

To reclaim the home of the dragon maids, they must travel across dimensions.

I am not needed since I cannot travel through time.

"That kind of agreement has been abandoned."

Sure enough, I am no longer valuable!

My cold body, which I had given up control of, was suddenly embraced by a warm embrace.

"Why do you always feel so inferior to me?"

Schindler's gentle voice sounded above my head.

"You are much more important now than our home that we can no longer save."

"It was because of you and me that I was able to see Qi Yim again."

I looked up and met Schindler's eyes as he looked at me.

There is no dislike towards me.

Those were eyes full of tenderness.

“Whatever choice you make, we will be there for you.”

Gradually, in the warm embrace, my relaxed body began to become out of control.

Falling, and falling again.

Sleepiness easily destroyed the defeated iron gate and joined hands with me to enter the real dreamland.

"Good night, miss."

The tree roots reach up to the sky, twisting and entwining to form a gigantic giant tree.

To the stars.

I was on one of the tree roots, climbing towards the infinite top.

The withered road under my feet remains unchanged.

No matter how long I climbed, the surroundings were all desolate and silent.

There will be no changes, no progress.

When I look up at the stars——

The twinkling stars came alive.

They fell like rain, falling into the eternal darkness under the giant tree.

Suddenly, my sense of direction was reversed.

The abyss became the night sky, and the night sky became the abyss.

When the stars fall and reverse.

Everything was dyed black in an instant.

From the original starry sky that fell into the abyss, pure black emerged.

Then I knew exactly what it was.

【Chaos Source】

A disaster that wiped out the colors of the world.

They ignored my insignificant existence and chased the stars rising into the night sky.

Parts of nearly countless stars were dyed black, making them unable to shine with dazzling starlight anymore.

I just stared at it blankly.