Give the child a little shock to the world view

There was no way she could be here.

Everything here is nothing more than Mayumi Haga's subconscious longing for being loved in her childhood.

It’s really embarrassing when you think about it.

Mayumi Hanega should have felt her face getting hot. After all, for her, who had not faced her own weaknesses for a long time, it was really shameful to face her true thoughts.

But then she thought again, there was no one else here, and the so-called "shame" was alleviated more than a little when she only had to face self-examination.

The spiritual protection given by the world consciousness was indeed powerful enough, and she felt it deeply. After the spiritual protection expired, her original willpower still existed, but the emotions that had been suppressed suddenly surged up, making her feel out of control and exhausted.

...This is enough. Even though it is just an illusion, I can still see my mother whose face I almost forgot.

Mayumi Haga thought that she was standing in the house where she lived in her childhood, like a silent tree.

She wanted to smile, but it wasn't enough to relieve her. She didn't want to cry, but something inside her was growing.

She pursed her lips tightly, lowered her head and stared at her toes.

She didn't know when her nose started to feel sore, so she took a deep breath and suppressed the strangeness in her heart.

Mayumi Hanega didn't know how long she had been standing there. Finally, she slowly moved to the corner and sat down.

There is no day or night here, just pure darkness. There is only a little bit of candle left, but for some reason it will never burn out.

She sat in the corner, her back against the wall, cradling her weapon.

Unlike before, she relaxed her body at this time.

In fact, she came here after her mother passed away.

Out of a secretive and shy mentality, she would actually subconsciously tend to go to the Far East where she was born to collect information or choose it as her base, but she was a little homesick and often avoided the place where she used to live.

The last time I came here was after the disaster.

The house where I lived with my mother in my childhood was actually abandoned after she left. After years of abandonment, it was finally blown down on a rainy night and then became someone else's new house.

The people who lived in this house changed generation after generation, and finally came to an end after the disaster struck.

When Mayumi Haga arrived here, there was only an old man left in the room.

A sixty-year-old man who fell from a mountain many years ago and broke both legs.

Mayumi Haga originally wanted to take him away, but the other party rejected Mayumi Haga's kindness and hoped to die in the ancestral house.

"I have lived here all my life... My children are gone. After they leave, no one will come to talk to me in front of my grave." The old man said, "It would be too lonely."

The old man’s eyesight was very poor, perhaps because he was nearing the end of his life, or perhaps he had gradually gotten used to it and could no longer smell the odor of rotting corpses in the house.

Mayumi Hanega found a corner where there were no corpses and sat down.

She didn't say anything, but she felt that the layout of the room was strange yet familiar.

For example, many years ago, my mother Junko Yuga's bed was also placed in that position. It was not exposed to direct sunlight, but the light was good and warm.

She did not tell the old man that his children were actually near the house or even inside it, mixed into an indistinguishable pile. She just said: "I lived here when I was a child."

"Really...?" The old man's brain was indeed not very smart. He didn't realize that Mayumi Yuga looked about the same age as his granddaughter. How could she have lived here when she was a child? He smiled and said, "Then it's really fate."

Mayumi Hanega said “hmm”.

"My granddaughter is the same age as you. She doesn't like living at home either. She wants to run outside all the time..." the old man said, "Young people go too far away. She hasn't contacted me for a long time. Why did you leave home at that time?"

Mayumi Haga didn't really understand the answer to this question. She thought about it for a while and was about to answer...

Then I saw the old man on the bed closed his eyes.

The old man was clearly still breathing his last breath, but he began to rot. Fortunately, he had lost consciousness, so he did not feel inhuman pain in the last moments of his life.

Mayumi Hanega sat there without moving.

She watched the old man, who had long been eroded by the disaster, turn into a pool of foul-smelling liquid in front of her. She waited until the early morning before she stood up and picked up the bones scattered on the bed and bury them.

She didn't know the answer to this question.

Why leave...

She just followed her mother's last words and kept moving forward.

When she reached the point of stagnation in her life, she stood in this familiar house and fell into confusion again.

If I can't move on, doesn't that mean I will be swallowed up by the sadness that will follow?

Without the spiritual protection, the emotions of the past quietly surged from the bottom of her heart. Mayumi Hanega sat in a daze in the corner of the room, allowing herself to be swallowed by the rising tide.

It feels like there's a piece missing from my heart, and now the wound is starting to hurt.

Just when Mayumi Hanega was about to be completely swallowed, there was a sudden noise outside the door.

She looked back subconsciously.

All I saw was the dilapidated wooden door making a creaking sound, but the person pushing the door outside was not strong enough, so only some dust on the door fell off.

Mayumi Hanega didn't realize what it was and was just about to look away when she heard two knocks on the window.

It was a reddish-brown shrike, tapping on the window with its pointed beak, trying to catch her eye.

Chapter 156: Just Mayumi Haga

——Shrike.

Mayumi Hanega recognized the species of the uninvited guest that appeared in her spiritual space at a glance, but she was a little confused. Why would there be a living bird in such a place?

I don't seem to have any special liking for birds, so why would a shrike that doesn't look very polite appear here?

All I saw was the red and black shrike tilting its head, and seeing that Mayumi Yuga had no intention of opening the window for it, it pecked at the window several times, flapping its wings anxiously, hitting the window, making a banging sound.

At the same time, feathers exploded and he cursed, looking quite angry.

Mayumi Hanega thought she didn't know this unruly little bird and didn't want to open the window for it at first, but when she thought of the nothingness outside this spiritual space, she felt a little reluctant.

Forget it, just go open the door.

Just thinking so.

At the moment when her heart began to waver, Mayumi Haga heard the sound of the sharp bird's beak pecking at the fragile paper.

Only then did she realize that the windows of this house had always been covered with paper.

And the sound made by the Shrike was like knocking something...

…It was the sound of a wizard desperately trying to pry a small hole in the unbreakable wall of his heart.

...

"We need to open Mayumi Hanega's heart." The white-haired wizard turned into a red and black bird emitting a faint light. As she spoke, she flapped her wings to lead the way for everyone.

After Mayumi Haga's spiritual space began to collapse and only the last corner remained, the surroundings turned into nothingness. Without Rania's protection, everyone would be swallowed by the concept of "a destroyed world" and stay here forever.

By the way, because Rania's wizard name is [Shrike], this wizard name, which is related to the characteristics of the soul in a certain sense, determines the way she moves in this space.

It is indeed much more convenient to become like this. After all, if it is just a remnant soul, it cannot exert enough power here.

Rania followed the three of them and guided them to Mayumi Haga when the time was right.

Her analysis made the three of them feel a little tricky.

"Mayumi's defenses..." Shanshan Rihua's face was serious, "It seems to be a major challenge."

Although she has top-notch magical abilities, she is a bit clumsy when it comes to talking nonsense.

Moreover, Mayumi Hanega was the most stubborn child she had ever seen.

Rania said, "Wait a minute, I will peck open the wall of my heart, and you can take the opportunity to go in and pull her out."

……peck?

It turns out that it is not a spiritual breakthrough, but a physical one?

The three of them looked at each other.

According to their understanding, the more such companions fall into mental crisis, the more likely it is that spiritual power and magic will be used.

It has always been like this.

That's why they find it so difficult. After all, the difficulty of conquering Mayumi Hanega seems to be extremely high.

Moreover, after seeing the scenery of Mayumi Haga's spiritual world, everyone feels that words have become as heavy as a thousand pounds at this moment. Those words that could be said easily in the past, when facing Mayumi Haga's heavy past, just feel light and powerless, and even an offense.

For Rania, a wizard who comes from the same world as Mayumi Haga, the power of the heart in the world of Zigong is a more mysterious thing.

For her, all she has to do now is to forcibly break through the wall of Mayumi Hanega's heart. She doesn't know where things will go next... but it's better than doing nothing.

So she brought the three of them to the door of the hut where Mayumi Haga was hiding.

This is a wooden house with a high roof.

In the Far East, it snows heavily in winter, so the roofs are made with a steep slope to make it easier for the snow to slide down from the roof without crushing the house.

The shape of this room is too clear, and looks strange due to the lack of background, like a texture that suddenly appears in the darkness, and the edges are gradually being infected by the darkness.

Rania knew she couldn't delay any longer, so she stepped forward immediately and used the last bit of her witchcraft energy to peck open the window.

Mayumi Hanega in the room looked over in surprise.

In her sight, the door lock was broken silently, and the figure that appeared at the door was very familiar.

The world outside suddenly became brighter, and the light passed through the gap in the door and shone on Mayumi Hanega's face.

"...Why are you here?" She was stunned for a moment, and her reaction was a beat slow because it was so beyond her imagination.

But Mayumi Haga's expression was not as happy as imagined, but gloomy instead.

"It's too risky...!" Mayumi Haga's second reaction was to feel a chill all over her body because of the dangerousness of everyone's actions.

If these people were accidentally trapped in their own spiritual world or even died here, she would not feel the warmth of being redeemed, but endless regret.

These things haven't happened yet, and all Mayumi Haga feels is annoyance that these people came here without thinking.

She was not unhappy because her vulnerable side, which she didn't want to be seen, was exposed, but she was angry at the risky behavior of these reckless guys.

How dare they come here like this... You have to know that this is a one-way street. Once they are completely destroyed by this forbidden technique, the souls of Touno Hitomi and the others will never be able to return.

Since they have already made their decision, why are they coming here to die?

Mayumi Hanega's whole body was filled with resistance. She just wanted to drive these guys out as soon as possible and didn't want to get them involved.

This room seemed to have come to life following the will of its owner. The wooden boards underfoot suddenly stood up and intertwined into obstacles, the walls began to squeeze, and the door panels also emitted scorching heat, vowing to drive out the intruders.

It seems that Mayumi Haga has expressed her ideas quite firmly both in words and actions.

However, no matter who they are, no one has any intention of leaving here.

If you ask why, it is of course because...

... "Don't be ridiculous, Mayumi," Shrike Bird directly popped the balloon of Mayumi Yuga, and she said, "Aren't you crying?"

The white-haired guardian, whose eyes had turned red without her knowing, was startled, and only then did she feel the wetness on her cheeks.

Here, Mayumi Haga's emotions could not be concealed, so as soon as she entered the door, no matter how she resisted, all people could see were her alert and red eyes.

Those were not the eyes of a guardian, for they no longer had the firmness and composure of the past.

Those are just Mayumi Haga's eyes.

Chapter 157 Don't Stop

Although her true thoughts were exposed by Rania, Mayumi Haga still maintained a resistant attitude.

It was as if that moment of weakness was just an illusion. The soft heart that was on the verge of breaking carefully opened a small opening, but was frightened back by the overly dazzling light, and the door of the heart closed tightly.

After a moment of shock, Mayumi Yuga adjusted her mentality and put on her aloof look again. The only difference was that the redness in the corners of her eyes had not faded, and she looked more human than before.

The inner curiosity finally prevailed, and under the gaze of everyone, the door of my heart quietly opened a small gap.

After a moment of silence, Mayumi Haga asked, "Why?"

Why did you want to save her?

"Aren't you afraid?"

After seeing the scene outside, knowing what she had been through, learning about her suffering and embarrassment, and the ugliness of her struggle between life and death, would he continue to treat her as [Haga Mayumi] instead of a monster?

Mayumi Haga knew how disgusting the process of her regeneration was.