Go back? There's no going back.

"Now, do you have any last words?"

Although his question was not answered directly, Su Wei already had the answer in his mind just by staring at the confident look of the witch in front of him.

"…Rather than saying my last words, I have something more I want to do right now."

The next second, Su Wei sat up straight, took a deep breath, and raised his right hand solemnly:

"Um, can I apply to work under you? I can start as a handyman. No salary, but accommodation is no problem at all—"

"Ok?"

Hearing this, the witch blinked and stared at Su Wei's face with confusion for a moment.

She was inexplicably confused because she still couldn't catch any trace of fear on the face of the little ghost in front of her.

"...Probably not. My patience will run out soon and you will have to go to sleep. Besides..."

After a brief silence, as if she had really thought about it seriously, Eve slowly shook her head and smiled and rejected the latter: "I don't need a little waste who hasn't even started practicing yet."

"I... I'm not useless. I just became an adult yesterday and just reached the age to start practicing. I have the qualifications to practice. As long as you need me, I will work hard to practice in the future--"

After being rejected, the kid in front of him seemed to want to argue something.

"Shh, stop it."

The witch who brought disaster to the country looked down at Su Wei with her index finger playing with the ends of her hair. Her calm eyes were like a cat looking down at a mouse:

"Let's not talk about how far you can go in the future. Even if you have enough qualifications to cultivate to the fifth level, it will take at least two years to achieve it. Why do you think I will wait for you for so long?"

"Are these your last words?"

Their eyes met and the words that came to his ears made Su Wei's face completely frozen.

At the same time, even Eve herself was a little surprised. She was surprised that she was willing to patiently explain the reason to a little mouse.

"...Um, could you please not rush to kill me?"

At this moment, Su Wei, who was sitting on the ground, felt that the death star above his head was becoming brighter and brighter.

"What's the reason?"

The witch tilted her head and looked at him quietly.

"The reason... uh, for example, I'm actually a person with a little background... or something like that?"

After a moment of silence, Su Wei gritted his teeth, looked at her, mustered up all the courage in his body, and said, "You... really have no impression of me?"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he felt that the originally lazy eyes of the witch in front of him turned completely cold.

"Relationship household?"

The corners of her lips slightly opened as she murmured these words again and again, a trace of undisguised murderous intent appeared on the face of this witch who brought disaster to the country.

"What a pity! What I hate most in my life is the so-called connections. Maybe you will have a more painful time later, little brother with connections."

"Come, let me hear it. Who are you connected to? Is your background so strong that I can remember you? Are you the illegitimate son of the empress of this empire, or the gigolo kept by those two princesses?"

"..."

Looking at the witch in front of him who clearly had no impression of him, Su Wei moved his lips, but in the end, he did not make any sound.

At this moment, the words that the bodyguard had reminded him of when he went up the mountain suddenly emerged in his mind.

……I see.

…It turns out that I am really a burden.

She is very good.

She was not in danger.

She didn't disappear, she just left.

She never needed to worry about a loser like herself.

Now, eight years later, she probably...had already forgotten her own existence and appearance.

Realizing this, Su Wei became completely quiet.

"..."

He stared blankly at the strange face in front of him, which was completely different from the one in his memory. After a long while, he suddenly smiled and said, "I'm glad you're okay."

"I... don't have any relationship that I can talk about. I just lied to you and wasted your time. I'm very sorry."

"I saw something I shouldn't have seen, please do it."

After taking a deep breath and saying this, Su Wei lowered his head. He no longer looked at the witch in front of him, nor did he want to let the other party look at his face again.

"…Um?"

Noticing the abnormal reaction of the little ghost in front of her, the witch frowned slightly: "Give up just like that? Don't you plan to say anything more?"

Eve's patience, which had always been quite scarce in the face of many things in the past, had not yet reached its limit for some reason. She waited quietly for a moment.

However, the little ghost's desire to survive seemed to have completely died down.

Finally, she smiled with relief: "Forget it, it doesn't matter."

Although her face is quite cute, that's all.

Since the other party has given up, there is nothing more to say.

Unlike the other little mouse that was just caught, this mouse has not even started practicing. It has no value and is no different from trash.

No matter what he said, his final result was the same.

"Well, goodbye, little brother."

The next second, an undead holding an axe who was waiting beside Su Wei slowly raised his right arm.

I don’t know if it’s because of her physique, but witnessing every living thing reach its end has always been one of Eve’s few interests.

In the past, she would usually step back a little at such times to avoid being splashed with the blood of the dead creature and getting her clothes dirty.

But, for some reason, this time, looking at the little ghost in front of her who remained silent even when facing death, and even inexplicably refused to look up at her again, she felt a little weird for the first time.

Even in her subconscious, a series of meaningless thoughts emerged, making her want to temporarily stop the execution.

But soon, she put this thought behind her.

She began to feel confused. Could it be that she had rested for too long this time?

Since when did I become so slow even in dealing with an unfamiliar insect?

He pursed his lips slightly, and the next second, under the witch's silent gaze, the undead swung down the giant axe that was raised high in his hand!

Wow——!

In an instant, a huge head rolled to the ground, and countless boiling liquids splashed in the air.

"?!"

In the slums, Celsia, who had just walked through the messy furniture on the floor with a stern face and pushed open the bedroom door in front of her, suddenly felt a sudden shock in her heart, turned her head abruptly and looked out the window.

"..."

Quietly watching the head rolling to her feet, Eve felt a little lost.

But soon, she noticed something strange.

In front of her, the young man's blood did not splash onto the ground. Instead, it gathered in the air, rapidly expanding, and finally... turned into a gigantic white fox.

嘤——!

Looking at the white fox in front of her that hummed softly towards the sky and crushed several fifth-level undead with one claw, the witch remained calm. Instead, she seemed to be relieved, and her tone became even more lazy and frivolous.

"…It seems that there is a rather interesting creature following you."

The next second, the shadow under her feet twisted and spread, covering the surrounding ground, and black air rose, like a gate to the underworld.

The earth began to tremble visibly and wail.

Then, a huge, ferocious bone claw suddenly stretched out from the shadows and visited this world with its master.

That... is a skeleton that looks like a giant dragon.

"嘤——"

Facing the giant dragon whose skeleton alone was several times larger than its own, the white fox did not flinch. Its nine tails stretched out, and cold white flames ignited at the ends of its tails...

But the next moment, before the white fox could launch an attack, the dragon's huge and ferocious white bone claws fell from the sky at a speed far beyond common sense, directly knocking the entire white fox into the ground, with blood and flesh splattering everywhere.

A shrill wailing sound rang through the ears. Just as the giant bone dragon slowly raised its other bony claw and was about to slap the fox's head again, the witch who had been standing by and watching all this quietly suddenly frowned.

The ferocious dragon claws that slammed down stopped in mid-air, and the giant dragon, which was only left with bones, suddenly raised its head to the sky and let out a deafening roar -

The next moment, everything the witch saw began to spread with dense cracks, and finally shattered.

When she opened her eyes again, a huge shadow enveloped her, and the giant bone dragon's falling bony claws were only a few meters away from her body.

"…I thought it was just another mouse, but it turned out to be a piranha that hid deep inside."

The witch who brought disaster to the country looked around as she sank the giant bone dragon back into the shadows with an expressionless face.

At this moment, both Klina who was caught earlier and the little mouse who suddenly didn't want to talk to him anymore had completely disappeared.

However, even so, there was still no sign of anger on the face of the witch who brought disaster to the country.

Since you've escaped, forget it.

After all, they were just two mice.

There is no need to chase them and kill them all.

Soon, everything here will be in your pocket.

The little mouse is no exception.

Thinking of this, the face that had left a deep impression on Eve appeared in her mind again.

Although the prey she had forced into death before had also begged for mercy in various ways.

But... this was the first time she had encountered a mouse that was obviously very afraid of death but not afraid of itself at all, like before.

Shouldn't I be more terrifying than death?

With such doubts in her mind, Eve tilted her head and looked down the mountain.

After a moment, a slight smile suddenly escaped his lips.

Although just a little bit.

But she realized that for the first time she seemed to be interested in a little mouse.

Not as material for the undead, but simply as a toy to relieve fatigue...

Yeah.

It’s not a bad thing to expand the types of collections occasionally.

Chapter 21: Family members?

"Thank you for your hard work. From now on, we don't have to meet again."

……

"I don't need any trash here."

"Why do you think I would wait so long for you?"

……

Two completely different voices were circulating in his confused mind. Su Wei froze and slowly opened his eyes.

"what……?"

The soft light shone on his face, and Su Wei was a little dazed for a moment.

After regaining consciousness, the first thing he saw was the unfamiliar ceiling.

But soon, after he regained some of his ability to think, the scene of the undead raising his giant axe and swinging it at his neck under the moonlight flashed through his mind.

"Where is this place?"

A chill ran through his body. Su Wei struggled and subconsciously sat up from the bed.