Crimson Servant

"When I met that guy, it was when I fled here and came to Artemis's harbor for the first time. As a fugitive, the consciousness of being not tolerated by society is like a disease that tugs at my heart."

"I want to hide myself in a safe and deep place."

"But when I came to this harbor, I decided to take a look for the last time. It was a strange feeling. Even when I was on the boat, I already hated this unchanging scenery."

"I met him on the beach, the man kneeling on the sand, his eyes looking towards the sea, tears flowing silently, like a cup that couldn't hold tears."

"He glanced at me. At that moment, my heart disease seemed to be cured, because a greater sadness infected me. His eyes, his face..."

"In Artemis, a place where everyone is wary of being stabbed in the back, I hugged him from behind, just following a vague feeling that this was how we were meant to be."

"Getting to know each other, falling in love, everything goes smoothly as if following the laws of nature."

"[Barnes], I will keep this name in my heart and feel good about remembering [Barnes] for the rest of my life."

The sea witch threw the bottle against the wall so hard that it shattered on the rocks and shattered.

"Maybe a year, maybe a few years, that time passed very quickly, and one day I saw Barnes hooking up with another woman."

"I was so angry that I rushed up and beat him. He kept begging for mercy and used all kinds of sweet words to cover up his indiscriminate feelings."

"Soon I gave up. There was no original passion in his eyes. I realized that everything was over and the vows I had made were gone. I returned to my cabin alone, feeling funny about my naive self. .”

"But that shameless thing stuck up and got into trouble and came to me for help."

"I suppressed my anger to get rid of all his troubles. I watched this shameless guy constantly harassing me and using his love words that made me sick."

"It was during this process of wearing down my patience that I discovered something unusual about him."

The sea witch stretched out her finger and tapped her head.

"There's something wrong with him, there's a hole in his soul."

"It was like a curse, or a more vicious form of torture."

"There is an emotional threshold for Barnes. The closer you are to him, the closer you are. When you cross that threshold, your memories will fall into that hole and disappear."

"I discovered that by accident. In his memory, he only has the witch who punched and kicked him when she first came up to him. The person who hugged him, kissed him, and lay in his arms. , the person he should love, disappeared from his mind. My existence seemed to be torn into two non-overlapping parts, and only a ruthless and useful sea witch remained in his mind. "

"As long as it's the memory of our passionate love, even if it's just a tryst place that happened once, even if we go back three or four times now, he can't find the original meaning."

"That is not something that can be repeated by experiencing it again. [I] have been thrown into the hole by him and cannot climb out. Everything related to it will be ignored and forgotten."

"I tried to test whether the so-called love is a state and whether it is time-sensitive. So, every time Barnes comes to the door, I have to ask him my name."

"If he answered wrongly, I would poison him to avenge him for the disappointment he caused me. As a result, he answered wrongly every time, every time."

The sea witch raised her left foot, hugged her leg, and supported the side of her face with her knees. Her face was flushed with drunkenness, and she gave John an ethereal smile.

"He won't remember because he still loves [me]."

"I will still be the insignificant person in his life because he still loves [me]."

"So, Barnes's [friend]. If you want to maintain the friendship, don't continue to get close to him. The deeper the love, the deeper the hurt."

"It's not worth investing your emotions in Barnes."

John Camp looked at the sea witch's face, her slightly drunken expression softened her terrifying makeup, making her look like a woman in love.

"Really, but you can't even convince yourself with these words."

"Those memories aren't completely gone, you know."

"Even if he can't remember, he will still bring your usual rum with him, and even if he doesn't get used to it, he will drink it day after day."

"He doesn't trust anyone easily, but he will believe every word you say without hesitation, even if it's a toad that can't be right at first glance."

"You are his first choice in Artemis, the place he subconsciously thinks is the safest."

"Even if he loses his memory, he still pursues traces of the past. Even if he forgets, he still gropes blindly, as if he is instinctively pursuing the air of survival..."

"Well," the sea witch nodded in agreement with John, "he does come to Artemis every year, sleep with the first strange woman he meets on the beach, and also comes to me for energy potion."

John's expression twisted and he looked at the witch.

"Is there no cure for his brain?"

As if her thoughts were aroused, her eyes struggled for a moment before regaining their composure.

"I tried, but gave up. The curse came from an evil ritual of a different race. The caster's skills were superb. Even after so many years, the curse has not been weakened. It is more likely to stay with Barnes throughout his life."

"But the important factor is not the difficulty."

"When I first fell in love with Barnes, he was crying into the waves. Where did his tears come from, who did his sadness come from?"

"If our love can become a forgotten past, is there a previous person? Who was she? When I first met Barnes, he was no longer young. Maybe he had a wife and a family. If he Remembering everything, who am I? Part of his broken life?”

"All I love is [Barnes], the man who cried on the beach, a part of the captain. If I did it and he had to fall into the arms of someone else, wouldn't it be worth the loss?"

"What's more important is..." The sea witch's eyes moved to the bottom of the cabinet. Raven and John stuffed Barnes into the space that fit his size perfectly.

"If he regained all his memories, how would he choose... He has experienced so much and done many things as a bastard. If he had been an upright, resolute and aboveboard person, how could he accept the embarrassment? Now. And his emotional entanglements, I get a headache just watching."

"He was a charming man and always has been."

"I thought about it again and again, and I still feel that Barnes just needs to be [Barnes], a heartless bastard, a prodigal son who never makes a move."

"The suffering of reality is already so heavy. I would rather see him live happily without worries."

"He belongs to the sea, to the thick clouds of conspiracy, to the dangerous storms that imprison the ship in the harbor, and time will only make it rot."

"He was destined not to stop until he died."

John looked at the sea witch, and her eyes reflected a determined light, which surpassed gold and silver jewelry and became the brightest flame in this dark basement.

"Barnes, we ask him to take us to the Chaos Sea."

The sea witch said indifferently: "Then go. Do you think I will worry about him?"

She puffed out her chest and answered proudly.

"He will come back again, and there will be no room in hell for him."

John asked, feeling a strong feeling of jealousy rising in his heart.

"Living dead water, the panacea in the sea, the last material, the sublimation of the elixir, is what I thought."

The sea witch raised the corners of her mouth with a teasing look in her eyes.

"What? Are you still the kind of little boy who believes in fairy tales?"

"It's not that I want to believe it, but the reality is that I can't believe it."

That is an invisible and intangible treasure...

John looked at the sea witch and bowed.

"Ma'am, may I know your name?"

The sea witch raised her chin and tapped it toward the cupboard.

"You can ask him again when he wakes up."

"Otherwise, it's pointless, isn't it?"