This villain, please exercise some restraint.

Akun looked intently.

He didn't know much about Tarot cards, but he could still read the simplest cards.

"Oh, the number two card in the Tarot is the Priestess..."

Temperance holds the cards between her fingertips. The one standing above the cards is a priestess dressed in pure white.

"Come out, priestess."

With a gentle murmur, the power card disappeared in an instant. At the same time, a dazzling and slim white figure appeared out of thin air not far away. She dragged her unsteady figure and walked towards it step by step, unhurriedly. control.

With every step he took, his body became more solid.

When you walk in front of Temperance, you are nothing more than a real...priestess.

The priestess raised her head slightly, revealing her rather quiet face.

Wearing a pure white and conservative robe, holding a pure white book in both hands, where she stood seemed to be a symbol of gentleness and restraint.

"Temperance...you...are Temperance, right?"

With a slight movement of thought, the pure white book disappeared.

With her outstretched hands, she gently opened the wide hood. When the priestess saw the delicate and familiar face hidden under the hood, there were ripples in her watery eyes.

This revelation also made Akun surprised by his ability to control, and he also saw the true face of the man behind the scenes.

Just looking at the appearance, no one would put bad words on Temperance, but he had seen the layout of Temperance, so showing the true appearance of Temperance gave him an...inexplicable sense of contrast. .

A pretty boyish face, if paired with that smile that didn't contain any malice... that would be... the best disguise.

Temperance frowned slightly.

Why do these summoned guys seem to know me? The Fool is, the Magician is, and even the current Priestess is.

"Do we know each other?"

Due to the lifting of restrictions outside the cave, wisps of light from the sun shone directly through the gaps.

Temperance raised his pale and bony hand to cover it in front of his face.

Seeing this, the priestess gently put her hood back on the boy in front of her.

Temperance subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and retracted his hand into his cloak.

I don't know why, but when he faced this priestess, his heart no longer felt as gloomy as before, nor did he feel empty as before. Instead, he became peaceful.

It was a kind of peace that...he couldn't describe, derived from the wealth in his heart.

He didn't seem to hate...the priestess.

"Knowing you, I always thought you had - but now through the guidance of the world to see you again, Temperance, I am really... happy."

The priestess said this, and in her rippling eyes were sincere emotions that could not be slandered even if she was restrained.

how so?

Looking at the priestess like this, Temperance was confused.

It seemed that the priestess really felt joyful because of his presence.

However, he clearly didn't know her, but she made it clear that she knew him.

It’s not the silence of a fool, or the secrecy of a magician, but the clearest answer.

"You must not remember me, right? It doesn't matter, as long as I remember you, as long as you are still alive, as long as the world -"

At this point, the priestess suddenly stopped talking.

She raised her head and met Temperance's eyes looking directly at her. Those dark eyes perfectly overlapped with the Temperance in her memory.

But looking at the current restraint, looking at this face that had obviously become immature, she felt a slight soreness in her heart for some reason.

Memories of temperance flashed through my mind as quickly as a fleeting glance.

When they first met, the magician led the young Temperance in front of her. At that time, Temperance was still a small one, with a pair of round black eyes hanging on a face that was a little baby fat, and the whole person looked quite cute.

[Little Temperance, this is the priestess, please call me sister. 】

The magician raised his hand and gently hooked Temperance's still strong little nose, and then received a precise slap on Temperance's palm.

[Magician, do you know how much the world favors me? If you touch my nose one more time, I'm going to snitch on you. 】

Temperance, who was fashionable and young at the time, said a little impatiently.

But in the blink of an eye, when Temperance looked at herself, she had already put on a decent smile and called out sweetly——

【elder sister. 】

That sound didn't seem to be special, but it seemed to be very special. She was stunned at that time, and suddenly thought that no one had called her "sister" like that for many years.

The long and endless time she had had made her somewhat forget her gender, her age, herself... herself.

She has always been the master of reason. She remembers her responsibilities and the mission she shoulders. She divines qualified successors for the power cards and witnesses the new iteration of the successors.

Seeing the little restraint at that time, she felt a real sigh of relief and curled her lips from the bottom of her heart.

In her heart, the Temperance card is undoubtedly the most difficult one to find a successor to power, and it is also the card with the fastest replacement of successors.

In fact, for the other cards, once the successor is selected, there is basically no iteration phenomenon. This situation only happens with the control cards.

Therefore, the heir to the power of the Temperance Card has always been the one she is least familiar with.

This is not just because the Temperance card itself does not have power, but the source of its power comes from the world.

In other words, what the Temperance Card has is the ability to use the power of the world, and whether this ability can be implemented, the size of this power, and the final choice still lies with the world.

It can be said that moderation and the world are tightly bound.

Temperance uses the power of "the world" to balance the world, and the world achieves its own internal harmony through "decentralization".

It is conceivable that this ability will be infinitely amplified when it is recognized by the "world". However, once it is not recognized by the "world", or is only partially recognized by the "world", what it can do is very limited. .

Unfortunately, in the long years before minor moderation appeared, the relationship between "the world" and the successors of the moderation card had never been good for various reasons.

She didn't understand the reason, but the appearance of Xiao Jie changed everything.

Since his appearance, the Temperance Card has become stable, and the power the Temperance Card brings to him has become more and more unfathomable as he grows step by step.

She has witnessed the growth of Temperance with her own eyes, and whenever Temperance encounters any difficult problems, he will come to her for help. At first, he came often, but later, he came less frequently.

She attributes this to Temperance being able to handle problems on her own.

While feeling relieved, she sat at the table and looked at the blank white book, feeling a little unconcealed in her heart.

Perhaps unknowingly, the long time together has made her really regard Xiao Jiji as a younger brother.