I admired heroes but became a villain

Xia stared blankly at Guo Linglong, who looked at her with disgust. She had no idea what this man was thinking.

"Although I really want to tear up this contract right now, I must promise that you will not suddenly turn against me after the contract is torn up. You must provide evidence that you will not hurt me even if I set you free. Only then will I consider tearing up the contract. That's why I arranged a bunch of things for you. When you can serve me without any resentment, that will be the moment you gain your freedom."

Listening to this logically flawless statement, Xia looked at Guo Linglong in disbelief and couldn't help asking, "What you mean is... are you willing to cancel the slave contract? Are you willing to let me go for making things difficult for you?"

"You were indeed rude to me, but overall I was more rude to you, and I will do many excessive things to you in the foreseeable future, so we are even."

Guo Linglong threw the can on the ground and said calmly, "Now, pick up this garbage first and throw it into the trash can outside the house. Then slowly start the first step of cultivating your mind and character."

Xia stared at the drinks can thrown at her feet, holding it tightly in her hand.

Although, she was a powerful witch who used magic to create a large enterprise from scratch and was always the center of attention, but now...she had to endure...even if she had to become a tool for this man, she had to endure...endure until the day when the other party 'thought' that she had really let go of the 'humiliation' and was no longer obsessed with it.

Taking a deep breath, as if using up all her strength to suppress the injustice in her heart, the witch picked up the drinks can in frustration, slammed the door and left.

"Well, so young people..."

Guo Linglong shrugged her shoulders, found a chair to sit down, then closed her eyes, silently sorted out and summarized her wonderful experiences in the past few days.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. Guo Linglong, wondering why the young lady suddenly became polite, said casually, "Come in, the door is not locked."

pat...

The moment the door was slowly pushed open, Guo Linglong immediately realized that the person who came was not his tool, because the brightness and temperature of the room had increased abnormally after the person came in, and he had seen this phenomenon before.

Guo turned around a little stiffly, looking at Xingguang who was standing at the door with his arms folded, looking at him with complicated eyes, and couldn't help but hold his forehead and said: "Um, should I say it's been a long time?"

"It's been a long time indeed...about four years."

Starlight whispered, "Are you wondering why I found you so quickly?"

"Oh huh?"

Seeing Xingguang having no intention to fight, Guo Linglong also relaxed and frowned as she said, "I should have been very careful not to reveal any personal information to you, including my name. Did you use some kind of magic?"

“It is magic indeed.”

After all, meeting him... was her wish.

Xingguang bit her lip, her body trembling abnormally. "Four years ago, in an orphanage in this city, an entrepreneur brought his daughter here to help the orphanage, which was about to close down due to disrepair. However, his daughter fell into the pond of the orphanage because of playing around. She was rescued by someone when she was on the verge of death. But the strange thing is that the media that flocked to the orphanage searched the orphanage but never found the brave man who did this."

"I see."

Guo Linglong clapped her hands in sudden realization and said, "I was also questioned by the media at the time, and as the most handsome man in the welfare home, I was even featured in the newspaper. Did you find me through the newspaper?"

Xingguang did not reply, but looked at Guo Linglong seriously, and said word by word: "Four years ago, when facing the reporter's question, your answer was 'You were not in the welfare home at that time, so you didn't know the situation'. Now I want to ask the same question again. Please tell me who saved that girl. You... really don't know anything?"

Chapter 20: False Idols

Seeing Xingguang repeating the reporter's question four years ago with an extremely serious expression, Guo Linglong was silent for a long time... a long time... after a long while, she shook her head and said, "Do I need to answer? You already know the answer, right?"

"No, I do not know."

Xingguang shook her head with a complicated tone and said, "I really don't know..."

"You can't possibly not know about the girl who was rescued four years ago."

Guo Linglong looked at the stars with a nostalgic look and a smile.

"They say girls change a lot when they grow up, but you really have changed so much that I can't recognize you at all. I didn't expect that the first enemy I met after signing the contract with Dark Eden was an old friend from four years ago. How could there be such a coincidence in this world... Yes, this coincidence is really too much, so I guess that when you became a magical girl, you must have made a wish to 'find your former savior'? So even if I want to maintain the answer I gave four years ago, you won't believe it."

"In fact, I don't believe it."

Xingguang shook her head and looked at Guo Linglong with a tangled look in her eyes: "I really don't want to believe that four years ago, when I was on my deathbed and in complete despair, the person who suddenly extended my life, gave me a second life, and allowed me to complete a complete transformation... turned out to be a guy who is adept at committing crimes."

"I am who I am. I was like this four years ago and I am like this now. I have never changed."

Guo Linglong extended her index finger and pointed directly at the starlight.

"You have never actually met your savior. When you couldn't find your savior in the film, you just made up a perfect character in your mind and fell into self-admiration."

Xingguang staggered, and her whole body seemed to have no bones pulled out, and she sat directly on the ground... After a long while, she hugged her knees with her hands, buried her face in them, and remained silent.

Looking at this magical girl who had been knocked down by her bed and had never shown such a vulnerable side, Guo Linglong stood up with a sigh, poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Xingguang.

"I'm sorry for letting you see the real me. It must be hard to feel your idol shattered after meeting him in person."

Xingguang silently reached out her hand, holding the cup of water that was warm to the point of being hot, but her heart was still cold.

"I used to be a naughty rich girl who completely ignored other people's feelings. I despised poor people who needed help and charity to survive, and I thought they were parasites of society. So I was very disdainful of my father's plan to donate money to the welfare home to gain a good reputation. I even left him impatiently while he was chatting with the director and ran out to play by myself. I kicked and hit things along the way to vent my anger, but I slipped and fell into a river."

"I can't swim, so the first thing I wanted to do was to call for help and curse, but I needed to breathe more. So no matter how anxious I was, I couldn't make any other sounds except exhaling and gasping."

"I tried to wave for help, but my hands were flailing wildly at my sides so that I could get my mouth to the surface and breathe oxygen."

"My nose was filled with too much water, and I was coughing and choking, which was very painful. My long hair, wet by the water, covered my forehead and eyes, making it impossible for me to see a ray of light. At that time, I was completely desperate and even stopped struggling. I wrote a suicide note in my mind... Then, a pair of hands grabbed me."

Xingguang stretched out his hands and whispered, "I was already conscious at the time. I only vaguely felt that someone was constantly pressing on my chest and giving me artificial respiration. He snatched my life back from the hands of death after it had been on the verge of death. Then he or she left just like that. Even if my father used his connections to look for it everywhere, he couldn't find the person who saved me..."

After saying that, Xingguang raised his head and looked at the silent Guo Linglong and said, "I really can't understand why the man who had the great merit of saving the entrepreneur's daughter chose to hide it when faced with the reward of wealth and fame. But for the first time in my life, I had a strong urge to chase the light that saved me that day and become a person like him."

"Then you have surpassed the person who saved you in the past, really."

Guo Linglong shrugged, staring at the stars and said, "After all, the person who saved you was not a good person."

"Eh?"

"In fact, on that day four years ago, you were not the only one who ran away because you also hated the hypocrisy of entrepreneurs... I saw with my own eyes how a girl who was looking for death fell into the water, and how she was forced into a desperate situation step by step by the water. I was watching the whole time, and that was all I did."

"Why...just watch?!"

Xingguang asked excitedly, "You actually have some difficulties, right?"

"I don't have any hardship or reason. I just know better than anyone how unreliable human nature is."

Guo Linglong sighed and shook her head.

"When I saw the drowning girl cursing, I knew that with her character, if I had rescued her right after she fell into the water, I would not have received thanks, but rather, 'Why didn't you do it earlier?' 'Why wasn't there a sign by the river saying the water was deep?' 'Why did I have to deal with this? Who can take responsibility for this?' So I didn't do it right away."

"I saw the drowning girl soon lost the ability to curse. Water entered her nose and she looked extremely painful. But I still didn't do anything because I knew if I went forward, her desire to survive would make her desperately step on me and get closer to the water. In order not to be pulled into the water, I continued to watch."

"I saw the drowning girl stop struggling violently. The river water was like a bottomless pit and took away all her strength. But even so, I still didn't take action for fear of being hated. It wasn't until her consciousness was blurred and she was really about to die that I took action."

After saying that, Guo paused for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, "I'm really sorry for giving you such terrible memories..."

An obvious disappointment appeared on Xingguang's face, but she quickly put it behind her. She looked at Guo Linglong and shook her head, saying, "No need to apologize. You are my savior. How could I have the nerve to ask for more? But I still can't understand it."

The girl clenched her fists suddenly, lowered her head, raised her voice, and asked excitedly: "Why did you change me from a willful and capricious young lady to the person I am now, but joined the evil organization Dark Eden? And became a notorious evil cadre?"

"Oh, because I was too young four years ago..."

Guo Linglong scratched her head and couldn't help but laugh bitterly.

"I didn't know the importance of money, I didn't know how high the sky was, I thought I was a hero who could solve all problems. Until a few days ago, I was still regretting it. If I hadn't been so 'stupid' and stood up to admit that I was the one who did what was right and got the donations for the welfare home, maybe my life... would be completely different."

Chapter 21: Is it natural that I was born to be useful?

This is really fate playing tricks on us...

Guo Linglong looked at the stars with a little distress and relief. She thought that this life that she had saved with her own hands must have saved more people and become the hero that she could only admire.

"How despicable can those people in Dark Eden be! They actually took advantage of you when you needed money the most and coerced and bribed you, who should not have fallen into darkness, into becoming their leader?!"

Xingguang gritted her teeth, her nails digging deep into the flesh of her palms, and unspeakable regret gnawed at her heart...

The benefactor whom I had been unable to find, whom I had been expecting to repay one day, was kidnapped by those despicable villains for just a few dollars and belongings right under my nose. Five million might be a lot for others, but to me it was just pocket money!

"Why... don't you come to me?"

Looking at the helpless man in front of him, Xingguang asked in a complicated tone: "As long as you are willing to confess your identity, I will definitely help you."

"I'm not that shameless yet."

Guo Linglong spread her hands and said, "After giving someone such a desperate near-death experience, I even went to his house to ask him to give me money. Let's not talk about whether you will believe someone who has lied before. I can't get over this myself. Besides..."

Reaching out her hand with pity, she pressed it on the starlight's black hair that was trapped by frustration and regret. Guo Linglong shook her head and said, "Don't regret it. It's not your fault that I joined Dark Eden. If anyone should be held responsible for this, it should be me who told the big lie in the first place."

Feeling the warmth coming from above his head, Xingguang felt a little relieved from the bottom of his heart despite the regret... He was relieved that although his benefactor was different from the morally perfect person he had imagined, he was still an idol who was willing to sell himself to save the orphanage and was worthy of his constant pursuit.

"But there is still a chance, there is still a chance to save it!"

Xingguang grabbed Guo Linglong's sleeve and pleaded, "I know two sages from the Three Sages Alliance. As long as they take action, they will be able to remove the magic power in your body and get you out of the evil organization of Dark Eden. Come with me!"

Guo Linglong's body stiffened, and she took two steps back with a sigh.

"I'm sorry, but it's impossible for me to join you..."

"Eh?"

Xingguang stared at Guo Linglong blankly, and asked in confusion: "Why? Did Dark Eden threaten you?"

"That's not the case. It's mainly my own fault."

Guo Linglong looked at her hands, shook her head for a while and asked, "Xingguang, have you heard of the poem 'I was born with talent and it will be useful'?"

Xingguang nodded somewhat dazedly.

"That guy Tumao has always been curious about why I, with my talent, would fall to the point where I had to sell myself for five million. Then he presumptuously thought that it was because I didn't clearly understand my talent before and that it was he who guided my talent. How ridiculous! I know my talent better than anyone else."

The man spread his hands helplessly and said to Xingguang: "I can easily see through the weaknesses of human nature. Based on your tone and actions, I can tell that you will be easily coerced by the hostages. I can easily manipulate the evil of human nature and mobilize people's malice to kill Ito Makoto. I don't even need to get my hands on any blood. I don't even need to lie to others face to face to deceive others..."

"Fate did not give me the talent to become a hero, but it gave me the talent to become a criminal master. I can attack the weaknesses of human nature and use human malice to kill people. I want to ask you, can you really accept such a despicable 'talent' with confidence? Can you really use it with confidence?"

Xingguang stared at Guo Linglong blankly... and then fell silent.

If the man in front of him was not the benefactor who saved him four years ago, would he be able to accept him without any suspicion? Especially after the two sides had actually fought each other?

Obviously, she couldn't even convince herself, let alone other magical girls who hated evil as much as she did. This fact made her lower her head in even more frustration.

She had grown to this point, and she had finally found her benefactor, but she was unable to help him. This feeling made her extremely depressed and powerless...

"I told you not to blame yourself."

Guo Linglong ruffled Xingguang's hair and said unhappily, "This kind of God-given talent is obviously the fault of fate, so if you continue like this, I will be unhappy."

Hearing this, Xingguang sniffed hard, took a deep breath to suppress all the complexity and powerlessness in his heart, then raised his head and asked seriously: "What are you going to do in the future? If you continue to go along with those guys in Dark Eden, you will definitely fall into darkness at some point."

"Since we're already there, we can just keep living on. Don't worry."

Guo Linglong shook her head at the stars and laughed heartily: "Although I have the same or even comparable talents, I will never degenerate into someone like the Joker or Moriarty. If fate has given me this talent, it is because it wants me to become a villain without any bottom line..."

I will resist this fate until the last moment of my life.

Chapter 22: The Shameful Hero

She was clearly here to help him!

She was clearly wanting to repay her gratitude and wanted to lend a helping hand to this benefactor who had fallen into the evil path due to fate, so why was she the one being comforted?

Xingguang looked at the man who was comforting her, and suddenly realized that although they met again after four years, she was still the one being helped by the man, just like four years ago.

Powerless...

She really had no idea what to do. Could she just watch her benefactor fall into a dark fate because of her incompetence?

"well."

Guo Linglong considered her words for a while before slowly saying, "Why do you think I am falling into evil? I did join Dark Eden, but that doesn't mean I will work for evil. Rather, in the eyes of others, you magical girls...are more like the evil side."

"Eh?"

"Is not it?"

Seeing Xingguang's puzzled expression, Guo Linglong shook her head and said, "If I hadn't changed the future of Katsura Kotonoha and Ito Makoto, then Ito Makoto would not only die tragically, but Katsura Kotonoha would also be imprisoned for murder. But because of my intervention, Ito Makoto saved his life, and Katsura Kotonoha let go of her hatred and knot in her heart and embraced a new life... So, aren't you the evil party who tried to stop me?"

"Yes, it does appear to be so on the surface."

Xingguang nodded calmly and said, "But you have just joined Dark Eden, so you must not know what harm this will cause, right?"

"Oh, would you like to know more?"

"Dark Eden uses wishes as bait to lure girls to change the future. Of course, it is not for good deeds... but the changed future will allow those cats to gain something called 'distortion value'. Once the 'distortion value' reaches its peak, the evil god trapped in the seal by the three sages, 'the sage of kindness', 'the sage of morality' and 'the sage of power', will awaken and bring a terrible disaster to civilization."

After saying that, Xingguang shook his head and said, "I also dislike Ito Makoto, and I feel sorry for Katsura Kotonoha who will be thrown into prison, but in order to prevent the sleeping evil god from waking up, we must be ruthless and protect the future from being distorted."

"Stop it, stop it."

Guo Linglong squinted at the stars and said noncommittally, "The cat told me that they want to awaken the eternal god, and then let the god change the poor status quo of Dark Eden... It didn't mention anything about evil gods or disasters."

"Of course they will lie to you!"

Xingguang said excitedly: "Otherwise, how could the witches be willing to awaken an evil god that brings disaster to the earth? The evil god does not distinguish between friend and foe. Once awakened, he will equally bestow destruction upon all life."