Hate Me, Miss Witch!

Endless sea, Elf King's Court.

This ancient court, which has experienced two eras, has once again returned to its appearance five hundred years ago.

It hangs above the vast ocean, far away from the western continent.

However, it is no longer covered by the curtain of eternal night, nor has it been polluted and secretly controlled by the ancient remnant soul.

This reborn island is no longer suitable for the name "Lost Island", which was taken out by the world with malice in the past, like a deserted island where criminals were exiled.

"Atlantis."

"This is the new name of the Elf King's Court that has now reappeared in the world, as voted by the Council of the Royal Court."

"I heard from Liliana that the myths and legends about Atlantis are well known to every elf living in that royal court, and the spread is as wide as fairy tales such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Daughter of the Sea", and "Snow White"-"

"So when the Council voted, this new name was passed unanimously without any debate. "

"That should be Augustina's doing. I remember that these stories all seem to come from your hometown..."

The sound of light footsteps came from the distant beach, getting closer and closer.

The girl's pleasant voice was mixed with the moist sea breeze blowing from the far end, with a faint warmth.

That was not a voice familiar to Xia Ya. It had been more than five hundred years since he last heard such a voice.

Even for demigods, more than five hundred years is not a time that can be easily ignored. The passing of time is enough to slowly blur and forget many insignificant details in memory.

But Xia Ya still easily identified the owner of the pleasant voice.

"I didn't expect you to worry about the affairs of the Elf King's Court, Sylvia."

"Those stories should be what Ye heard when she was still a young dragon, lying on my head and listening to bedtime stories... I didn't expect that after so long, she still remembered them all and helped me spread them. "

"However, I am still very happy to see the fairy tales of my hometown being spread. "

Char didn't look back, still maintaining his original lazy posture leaning against the parasol on the beach, and handed the glass of juice in his hand to the back.

"It's a pity that the sun is about to set now. What a pity, I don't have a chance to help you apply sunscreen."

Behind him, Sylvia couldn't help but chuckle.

"After all, this is the hometown of the golden elf predecessor of the Black Tower... As the three wizard towers, the Pure White Tower and the True Red Tower have also been taken care of by the Extreme Black Tower during their development."

"Although it was just the product of an unintentional act, as the nominal master of the White Tower, I have to repay the favor for Ishveta and others and help the Elf King Court appropriately."

"Besides-"

The witch who founded the White Tower took the juice in Char's hand and glanced at Char, who was lying on the beach chair in front of him like a salted fish.

"The eternal page of the Black Tower still has such an important position in your heart. "

"It will be a great benefit for us to let the golden elf accept my favor in our future life."

Sylvia lifted her silver hair with one hand and drank a sip of juice elegantly: "There is a bonfire party at the Elf King's Court, which seems to be to celebrate the rebirth of Atlantis. Do you want to go and see it?"

"No need."

Xia Ya turned his head and looked at the huge bonfire rising from the ancient city of the Elf King's Court behind the beach.

It was already dusk, and the night was about to cover the Elf King's Court again, just like the Lost Island was covered for a thousand years.

But at this moment, the residents of the Elf King's Court had a completely different mood from before.

Because they all knew in their hearts that this short darkness was not eternal night, and the sun would rise again as usual tomorrow morning.

"By the way-"

"When the whole Elf King's Court was busy, one person ran to the beach to bask in the sun. "

"Brother Xia, you really know how to enjoy yourself. "

She sat down on the beach chair next to Char, and imitated Char, looking at the sunset gradually falling from the end of the sky to the sea level outside the beach with him.

Suddenly, she leaned close to Char's ear and spoke in a very small voice.

"The other side of the sea should be the Grant Coast of the Cang Ting Principality."

"I want to go to the other side of the sea to take a look. ”

This is one of the few moments when Sylvia can speak freely and in her original voice.

Since she made up her mind not to escape anymore in the ancient country of Cang Ting, but to confront the half-body of the evil god of dusk sealed in her body, Sylvia has never spoken again.

Because, at that time, she could not fully control the power of dusk sealed in her heart, and every word she said could turn into a deadly word that deprived others of their lives.

Later, the girl who was ostracized by her tribe in the ancient country of Cang Ting and almost gave up her life in self-destruction, rose step by step with the passage of time, and grew into the "Silver Witch" who was famous all over the world and built the Pure White Tower.

And the power of dusk, which was originally sealed in the depths of the soul and could go out of control at any time, was gradually contained and restrained by Sylvia over a long period of time, and turned into a power that could be freely controlled by her mind.

But maybe she had already gotten used to silence, or maybe it was because of some deeper reasons that even Sylvia herself could not see clearly.

In front of outsiders, even in the White Tower, when facing the White Tower's high-level officials such as Ishveta, Sylvia was still used to keeping silent, and chose to communicate with words.

Only when she was alone with Char, she would briefly let go of the reserve of the Blue Silver Witch and reveal the original voice of the Grand Duke's daughter under the shell of the throne-level beastmaster.

For Char, that was a very distant memory, a memory that should have been forgotten.

But perhaps what remained in the depths of memory were the details that seemed insignificant at the time.

When the pleasant voice of "I want to go to the other side of the sea to see" rang in Char's ears, he seemed to have returned to the ancient country of Cang Ting.

At that time, Char was just an insignificant student in Saint Laurent College, who was still worried about not having enough extraordinary materials for his main pet to be promoted to the third level.

And Sylvia has not even entered the extraordinary realm. She is just a noble girl who still has innocent fantasies in her heart despite being discriminated against by others in the family.

On the outskirts of the Cang Ting capital, on the beach adjacent to the Grant Sea, Sylvia wrote "I want to go to the other side of the sea" on the palm of Char's hand with her wet fingers.

The background at that moment was also the beach with sunset like today.

The huge sun was about to sink below the sea level, and the last afterglow of the sunset burned the clouds in the sky into the color of flames. In the gradually becoming dark night, Sylvia's eyes were brighter than ever.

"Then go to the other side of the sea."

Char suddenly sat up from the beach chair and took the hand of the silver-haired witch beside him.

"Although the ancient country called Cang Ting has not been established at the time point of the First Epoch...but the Grand Sea is still the Grand Sea, and the beach is still the beach."

"Time does change many things--"

"But there are always some things that will not change with the passage of time."

He turned slightly and looked at Sylvia, whose beautiful silver eyes revealed a little confusion.

Obviously, the silver witch had never thought that her unintentional sigh would really make Xia want to put it into action.

At this moment, the sun set, and the overwhelming darkness swept the whole world.

Sylvia's hands were soft and cold, just like when Xia pulled her out of the cold water of the Grand Sea many years ago.

"If you want to go, then go."

"At that time, we didn't have the ability or the calmness, so the wish to go to the other side of the sea and see the mountains and rivers could only become a yearning and longing that stagnated on the surface of words."

"But now it's different."

Char looked at the silver-haired girl beside him seriously.

"When I was very young, I used to like something called a surprise egg. It was divided into two parts. One part was a dessert called chocolate, and the other part would hide a small toy."

"Maybe it was because of my childishness..."

"I like this little thing that can be eaten and played, but it is very expensive. At least as a child, I didn't have the ability to buy it. I could only pester my elders to buy it, but in the end I was always rejected for the reason that this thing was useless and a pure waste of money."

"Once I couldn't help it, and I secretly opened a surprise egg in a store. When my elders found out, they scolded me severely. Now I think it's still a bit impressive."

Char smiled.

"Of course, I was still a child at that time, and I had no ability to support myself. My food, clothing, housing and transportation were all funded by my elders... So it was normal for them to scold me like this. After all, from my current perspective, that thing is really a pure IQ tax that is a waste of money. It is not worth such a high price at all. It is just cutting the leeks of children."

"But I didn't see it so clearly at that time. I swore in my heart at that time-"

"When I grow up one day and can afford to buy surprise eggs... I must buy myself a carriage of surprise eggs, and I can open as many toys as I want and eat as much chocolate as I want."

"What happened later? Did you really buy a lot of surprise eggs, enough to fill a carriage?"

Sylvia squatted down, dipped her fingers in the sea water, and wrote on Char's palm.

As a listener, Sylvia was quite qualified. When Char talked, she just listened quietly on the side.

Even though there were many doubts in Char's narration, for example, as far as Sylvia knew, Char was from Ceylon, and that border town should not have such novel luxury goods for sale, and for example, the person who raised Char was an ice hunter, and he died when Char was very young, and he has been living alone since then, so how could there be a so-called "elder"...

But since Char didn't say it, Sylvia didn't ask.

And when Char paused, she would ask about the follow-up at the right time, so that Char's desire to tell was perfectly satisfied.

"After that... many, many things happened, and I can't find the store that sells the fun eggs anymore."

"But——"

Char suddenly smiled mysteriously.

He lowered his voice, clasped his hands together, and then carefully opened his hands little by little.

"This is a secret that even Xiao Ai doesn't know. I actually have a secret dessert factory in the folded dimension in the Garden of Eden. When I'm free on weekdays, half of Yui's computing power will be invested in it to help me develop new desserts."

"Those desserts that I remember but can't find anymore, Yui helped me reproduce them exactly, and even improved and upgraded them."

"Don't tell Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai is particularly opposed to me eating sweets... If she knew, she would probably say "eating sweets every day is bad for your teeth and body" and confiscate all my treasures. "

Char's palm gradually opened, revealing what was inside.

It was a small metal egg, which was neatly split into two halves at this moment. One half was sticky and rich milk chocolate, and the other half was a metal doll with a miniature rune array engraved on it.

The metal doll made a muffled mechanical sound - "Autobot Transformation", and then under Sylvia's gaze, with a series of gears and mechanisms running, it turned into a red and blue truck model.

Not only the fun eggs that Char used magic to upgrade and transform.

Sylvia also saw a chocolate frog made of chocolate, but it was jumping around.

And the multi-flavored beans that looked inconspicuous, but Sylvia used her throne power to find that the taste inside was constantly changing randomly.

Char handed the chocolate frog to Sylvia and swallowed a multi-flavored bean himself.

But soon he frowned: "Why is it lemon flavored. "

Silvia couldn't help but cover her mouth lightly: "With your spiritual power, brother Xia, what flavor is the multi-flavored beans? Isn't it enough to just use spiritual power to explore it?"

"That's boring. Only unknown things can bring novel experiences."

Char's brows slowly untied and looked at Silvia beside him.

"So, Silvia."

"You should understand what I mean."

"If you want to do it, just do it... Not only for us now, but also for the self who was full of longing and yearning but powerless at the beginning."

"We work hard to practice and improve our strength, isn't it so that we don't have to regret our weakness anymore, but can freely do what we want to do?"

He pointed to the end of the sea and stretched out his hand to Silvia.

"So, Silvia. ”

“Want to make up for our regrets?”

“Take a look at the ancient country of Cang Ting, the scenery we longed for but never had the chance to set foot on.”

“Come with me to see the mountains and rivers on the other side of the sea.”

The young man in front of him had black hair and black eyes.

At the end of the skyline, the last ray of sunset illuminated his profile, and his outline was clear and deep in the sunset.

Sylvia mobilized all her mental strength to prevent the ripples in her heart from showing.

Many years ago, at the shore of Grant, the boy made a promise to the girl to take her to the other side of the mountain, to the end of the sea, to see the endless golden plains, to see the holy Three Sages Snow Mountain...to travel through the mountains and rivers of the Western Continent together.

For a long time, the promise to see the mountains and rivers together became a bond between Sylvia and the sealed in her body. The power of fighting against the dusk, persisting in the vast darkness, and never losing the original intention.

However, until the black-haired boy completely disappeared in an extremely fierce way, which was undoubtedly a betrayal in Sylvia's eyes, the promise was never fulfilled.

Later, Sylvia was promoted to Legend and knew everything that Char had done for her in secret before.

And the responsibilities that the boy had to bear, everything he had to shoulder and face——

So, even if the two met again five hundred years later, Sylvia never took the initiative to mention the original promise.

The boy was carrying too much Responsibilities and missions, there are too many things to do, and too many powerful enemies to face... The casual words that I said to myself a long time ago may have been forgotten by the boy. All this is reasonable.

In the days since she woke up from the White Tower, Sylvia never expected to fulfill that promise. He was too busy and too tired. He didn't know how many times he had hurt himself. How could Sylvia have the qualifications to ask the boy to accompany her to do something insignificant and meaningless because of her willfulness.

For Sylvia herself, as long as Char could be safe, Being healthy and staying by her side, she would be satisfied enough.

But——

Even Sylvia herself had never thought of it.

That young man, in fact, never forgot the promise he made from beginning to end.

When he stabbed her in the back, he said that it was just "sweet words that are common on the street"...but he clearly kept his promise more than anyone else.

The promise made five hundred years ago finally came true today.

Sylvia quietly placed her hand in Xia's palm.

She said softly: "Xiao Ai usually ends meditation at four or five in the morning."

"If we set out now, we can still make it back in time for breakfast early in the morning, without Xiao Ai discovering that we sneaked out to play at night."

Hiss~

Xia Ya took a breath and looked at the silver-haired girl in front of her with a quiet and well-behaved face in shock.

"When did Xi Baoqian become so skilled?"

If only Char hadn't heard Sylvia's true voice... No one else could pretend, then Char would have wondered whether the rich dragon lady's dreaming skills had improved again, and the Silvia in front of her was actually Oguti Na is in disguise.

Is this still the innocent and romantic daughter of the Grand Duke in Xia Ya's impression?

"No matter how innocent and romantic a girl is, she cannot remain unchanged after experiencing lovesickness for so many years, brother Xia Ya."

The sweet voice of the silver-haired witch sounded softly in Char's ears.

"Don't forget, brother Xia Ya, I am also the founder of the White Tower, the "Blue Silver Witch"..."

"As innocent as you remember, how could the noble girl following you have the title of "Blue Silver Witch"? "

Sylvia's words suddenly contained a hint of cunning.

"In the past, because I was worried that my true self would be unaccustomed to or even disgusted by you, Brother Xia Ya, so I have been forcing myself to restrain myself and maintain the original appearance in your impression."

"Actually, I don't hate that look. If you want, Brother Xia Ya, I can always look that obedient and obedient in front of you."

"only--"

Sylvia's voice paused slightly.

The softness, but with some indescribable meaning in the words, rippled in Xia Ya's ears word by word.

"I think now I have that confidence."

"In front of you, brother Xia Ya, I can show my true heart a little bit."

"Such a real me... shouldn't make you hate Brother Xia Ya, right?"

Xia Ya shook his head: "I don't hate it."

Then, he heard the girl's sweet voice again.

"Then let's set off."

"On this trip, I am——"

"I have been looking forward to it for five hundred years."

Xia Ya nodded.

His mind moved slightly, and he was about to use the power of the Flash Soul Pact to activate "Flash" and head towards the Western Continent from the endless sea.

But the next moment, he saw that Sylvia beside him had a slight mental movement, interrupting Xia's movements.

"No need to bring a pet."

"As for space travel, if you travel to the astral world, you can achieve the same effect."

She leaned close to Char's ear, lowered her voice, and spoke at a volume that only Char could hear.

"I heard from Xiao Ai that you like swimsuits very much. Even in the videos you make, you often like to include swimsuit benefits."

"So, I prepared a special swimsuit just for you today."

"However, I just want Brother Xia Ya to see it alone, not even Yin and the others."

If he can still withstand temptation, he is no longer a man at all.

Having said that, does the real Xi Bao actually have such a side?

It's really...even more likable.

Feeling the soft words of the Cang Yin Witch in his ears.

Xia Ya only hesitated for a thousandth of a moment in her heart.

The next moment, he flashed.

The sky at dusk suddenly cracked open, revealing the illusory starry sky behind it, and then the crack closed.

thump--

thump--

The pet beasts that were sleeping soundly in the soul covenant space fell from mid-air and landed on the soft beach like fur balls.

And when the little ferrets got up from the beach in confusion, Char and Sylvia had disappeared.

Only Xiaya's last instructions were left, echoing on the empty beach.

"You guys have fun first, your beast master has to do some adult things."

…

When Char and Sylvia returned to the Elf King's Court, it was already late at night.

The silver moon sheds its bright light, illuminating the silent sea surface.

The sky shattered silently, and a dark crack opened.

And Char just walked out of it holding the silver-haired witch's hand, and the passage between the astral world and the main material plane quietly closed behind him.

Their appearance looked the same as when they set out before, as if they just went out for a casual walk and came back.

However, only Sylvia's fair and flawless pretty face was stained with a faint blush for some reason.

"It's so enjoyable."

Xia Ya expressed sincere emotion.

Then he unceremoniously snatched a skewer of grilled fish from the tail of the little ferret who was grilling it with Amaterasu's flames on the shore.

"The feeling and taste are not as good as mine looking up at the stars."

Char took a bite of Gin's grilled fish and made a sharp comment, which attracted an angry glare from the little ferret.

The beastmaster left his pet beasts behind and went to hang out with his mistress alone.

All the pet beasts had nothing to do on the beach, so they could only use barbecue to build a team.

Unexpectedly, the first thing my beast master did when he came back was to usurp the fruits of his labor, and he even boasted that his stargazing was more delicious than my grilled fish.

Although I am not a human, you are a real dog.

Char certainly would not indulge his silver's temper, and directly picked up the little snow ferret and started petting it.

At this moment——

The bright moonlight on the dome of the sky suddenly became dim.

Then, in the star realm that ordinary people could not perceive, only the legendary side could sense it.

Crack——

At this moment, a crack suddenly appeared on the star body that symbolized the moon.

The crack was not big, but it was clear.

"What's wrong?"

Sylvia couldn't help but look up and looked at the silver moon that suddenly became a little dim, with a little confusion in her beautiful silver eyes.

She was also a strong person at the throne level, and could clearly sense the changes that happened in the star realm at this moment.

"It's not a big deal."

Char also looked up at the moon and chuckled.

"I didn't expect the pangolins to have such high subjective initiative."

"Also, it seems that I am really destined to be with the moon god."

The light in Char's eyes gradually deepened.

"Originally, I was a little confused as to why I didn't sense my old acquaintance "Vermillion Moon" in the First Epoch..."

"Now it seems that "Vermillion Moon" should be the second generation moon god who inherited her divinity and power fragments after the death of the current moon god."

"And, what a coincidence--"

"The fate of the two generations of moon gods..."

"It seems that there are some surprising similarities."