Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

……

"Ms. Verliden, please tell me... Is Rachel okay?"

After changing his clothes, Charles sat on the small bed in the observation room and asked Lao Deng outside through the special glass window.

Old Deng, who was using magic to carefully check whether Charles was contaminated by the black shadow, raised his head with a strange expression when he heard this.

She thought to herself, this boy... should we say he is really a young man? The first thing he said after seeing her was not to ask about Diesel's condition or the whereabouts of Victoria's steam armored troops, but...

She couldn't help but curl the corners of her lips, and her gaze towards Charles became more kind.

"Don't worry," she replied kindly, "Rachel is fine. She just got a little hurt when she blocked Donald's sword..."

Lao Deng said as he observed Charles' expression.

As she expected, after hearing this, Charles' expression immediately darkened and his voice dropped.

"It's my forbidden spell... If it weren't for my forbidden spell, Lacier could at least use protective spells..."

Old Deng understood why Charles blamed himself.

Forbidden spells are a double-edged sword. They can indeed turn the user into a wizard killer, but they will also make the user's companions unable to control magic power.

If Lacie had been further away from Charles at that time, she could at least have used magic to dodge Donald's sword.

Unfortunately, she and Charles were pressed tightly together at that time, and she couldn't use any strength.

As a mage, he has to fight alongside the heroes and put himself in danger...

Old Deng sighed imperceptibly and then told Charles:

"That's not your fault. I'm afraid no one could have imagined that Victoria's steam armor troops were equipped with forbidden spells that belonged to the brave warriors of all generations. No one could have expected that Donald would suddenly attack you."

She shook her head:

"Although that old man Donald has gone crazy a long time ago, after all... before he became a general, when he was just an ordinary mortal, he watched the wizard destroy his family and kill his parents, wife, and children."

"He once had everything a mortal could dream of: a happy life, healthy parents, a virtuous wife and well-behaved children... But because of the mage, he lost everything he cherished."

"That was a barbaric era before the White Tower was built, so the wizard who was the culprit did not receive any punishment. No, it can even be said that a high-ranking wizard like him would not care about the lives of a few mortals at all."

"And Donald - since then, he has become a different person. He joined Victoria and gradually became General Donald by accumulating merits on the battlefield."

"He began to hate all wizards extremely and became cold and ruthless. Some people called him "Victoria's Sword" and some called him "Victoria's Red-Eyed Mad Dog", but he never cared about those names. He just wanted revenge."

"But mortals are unable to contend with powerful mages, so Donald's revenge plan has not been realized to this day. I heard that the mage who destroyed almost everything he had has now achieved a super-level... His hope of realizing his revenge plan is becoming increasingly slim."

When Lao Deng said this, Charles in the observation room shook his head.

He remembered the forbidden force fields installed on every machine of that steam armored unit.

Forbidden spells apply equally to all mages.

No matter if it's a fledgling apprentice or an unpredictably powerful super-level being, they are as weak as mortals when facing forbidden spells.

The steam armor gave those Victorians the power to crush mortals with ease...

Today is not what it used to be.

I'm afraid General Donald's revenge plan is no longer difficult to achieve.

"But before he could realize his revenge plan, why did he come to Diesel, and why did he swing that sword at me and Rachel?"

"To silence me? No, he should know that the White Tower's advance team is nearby and can arrive at any time. Even if he has a whole army of steam armor behind him, it will take some time to kill a fake hero like me."

"If it's not for silencing someone, then what is it for?"

"Is it for the Holy Sword? Victoria needs a complete Holy Sword?"

As Charles was deep in thought, he tried to recall all the details of what happened.

After a brief conversation, Donald stretched out his hand to him. Rachel wanted to protect him, so she used the flaming spell on Donald. Donald didn't care about the flaming spell at all and still grabbed him with his mechanical hand. In order to resist Donald, he swung his sword at Donald.

So Donald also swung the standard holy sword at him.

——Use the spine of the sword, not the edge; use a strike, not a chop.

Rather than wanting to kill him, it would be better to...

"Rather, it was some kind of test."

Charles frowned and had such a ridiculous idea:

"He's...testing me?"

[To be continued]

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Just in case, after leaving Diesel, the witch and the hero were asked to stay in the observation room of the White Tower temporarily.

Over the next period of time, someone will be responsible for checking their condition every day to confirm that they are not contaminated.

In professional terms, this is called "harmless treatment."

It's not that Rachel can't understand the necessity of this process, but... life in the observation room is just too boring.

She even felt like she had turned into a monkey being pressed under the Five Finger Mountain by the Buddha. Although the deadline was far from five hundred years and she was not facing away, she would still feel a little bored after being trapped in the observation room for a long time.

"Why don't you ask Lao Deng to let you live in the same observation room with Charles?"

Rachel even thought about it.

Anyway, they both came back from Diesel together. If one of them is contaminated, the other will definitely not be able to escape.

Now we don’t ask to be born on the same day of the same month of the same year, but we ask to die on the same day of the same month of the same year.

It would be nice to die with Charles.

The most troublesome problem of who dies first and who is left to grieve alone in the world is solved, isn't it?

However, she still didn't know how to face Charles.

Should she show her face as a witch or as a priest? Should she say "long time no see" or just pretend nothing happened and call Ciel an idiot?

Rachel was hesitant about this.

She had no choice but to toss and turn on the small bed in the observation room, rolling around with her pillow and rolling herself up like a spring roll with the quilt.

However, the ugly daughter-in-law still has to meet her parents-in-law.

No matter how much she didn't want to face Charles, the day of ending the observation finally arrived.

She is free.

The one who greeted her when she was released from prison was Tathagata Buddha... Oh, no, it was the kind-looking Old Deng.

However, she did not tell Lacier to turn over a new leaf after she got out. Instead, she asked with a smile:

"So it's him. I was wondering why that guy suddenly came to me and asked if there was a spell that could revive the dead..."

She smiled even more happily:

"It just so happens that I heard that the priest who was very close to that boy in the Brave Team was assassinated. Oh, my dearest student, once people get older, their memory begins to decline. I can't even remember the name of that priest lady..."

Just like Jing Ke's assassination of Qin Shi Huang, the dagger was revealed when the plan was fully developed.

Lao Deng showed a distressed expression, but there was a smile in his eyes:

"——Can you help me recall the name of that pastor lady?"

"?"

Lacie slowly typed a question mark.

She thought to herself, I, I, I… I can’t reach it!

If Lao Deng wanted to know so much, why didn't he ask the magic conch instead of asking her?

She is...

"I'm a otaku!" Lacier declared loudly, "I haven't left the Sea of ​​Forest for several years, so I'm cut off from all information. You, you, you... I don't understand what you're saying!"

It’s a pity that whoever speaks louder is not innocent.

Besides, the witch's red cheeks and wandering eyes have already exposed her true condition.

She was completely flushed.

However, Lao Deng added fuel to the fire:

"Don't understand? What don't you understand? Why don't you understand? I haven't said anything yet, why do some people want to jump out and try to prove their innocence? Don't you agree, my dear student?"

Lacie was startled when she heard that and almost jumped up.

"I'm not taking it personally!" she said. "I'm warning you not to slander someone out of thin air!"

"Really?" Old Deng tilted his head at her. "Then why? I heard that the priest lady in the Brave Team is also named Lacey, just like you, the witch?"

"This, this, this... This must be a coincidence! After all, the name Lacier is not uncommon... I can't possibly be searching the entire continent for someone with the same name as me, right..."

"Oh~" Lao Deng stretched out the ending tone, speaking in an ups and downs manner, "So that's how it is, it's just a coincidence~"

She sighed, shook her head, and said with great regret:

"I thought it was some idiot who was dumb enough to use his real name when disguising his identity."

"!"

Lacey was completely enraged.

She pointed at Lao Deng and retorted:

"What's wrong with me using my real name? Anyway... Anyway, not many people in the entire Pan-Continent know that there is a Twilight Witch in the Sea of ​​​​Forest, and the number of people who have heard of the Twilight Witch's real name is even rarer, okay! I..."

She suddenly closed her mouth and her expression became stiff.

Oh no, she accidentally said baldness!

Deng is indeed still the most ruthless old man!

It's a shame, Xiao Deng doesn't remember Lao Deng's mistake. If he can't win the argument, can he also run away from her?

Lacie made up her mind, so she lowered her head and acted like an ostrich, pretending to be dead with the mentality of a wild beast, ready to escape.

Old Deng watched with a smile as Lacie walked past her with her head down, like a sneaky little mouse.

However, this big white cat had no intention of stopping the little mouse that was desperately trying to escape. She just watched the little mouse tiptoe away...

—but not completely gone.

When she was halfway there, Lacie suddenly remembered something, so she stepped back to Lao Deng.

But she didn't dare to look Lao Deng in the eye. She just lowered her head and grumbled for a long time. Finally, she stretched out her hand and stammered:

"Quick...quickly give me some gold coins!"

"Hmm?" Lao Deng raised his eyebrows in confusion, "What did you say?"

The stupid witch, whose ears were red all the way to her neck, urged with a voice as loud as a mosquito's buzz:

"That...that's the prototype of the contraceptive spell! Hurry...quickly give it to me!"

Lao Deng suddenly realized what was going on and burst out laughing.

Being ridiculed by her, Lacie became more and more ashamed and wished she could turn into a piece of tofu and hit herself to death with it.

But she really needed that spell prototype. For that spell prototype she...

"I can't do everything! Don't think you can fool me with just a spell prototype! If your request is too much, I will turn around and leave!"

She swore so in her heart.

However, contrary to her expectations, Lao Deng did not take this opportunity to make fun of her. On the contrary, he readily handed her the prototype of the spell.

She was almost grateful - until she heard Lao Deng, in the tone of a person who had experienced it, earnestly admonish her to protect herself and not to kill anyone...

She realized once again that Lao Deng really couldn't say anything nice, so she immediately covered her ears and shouted desperately, "I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen, I don't want to listen," and ran out of the door.

She moistened.