Rise of the Dark Witch

Hu Shu Street.

In Remy's Dessert Shop.

After a busy day, it’s time to close the door and get off work.

"Aww, Xiaoxiu is so cute!"

"Xiao Xiu, please stay here. There are many empty rooms..."

"Xiao Xiu, Xiao Xiu, Xiao Xiu, let's live here for the rest of our lives..."

Aunt Remi, who was usually gentle and caring, exuding a mature aura, was like a coquettish big sister at this time, hugging Roja tightly.

She has a beauty that is not inferior to that of her mother. To be honest, if we simply compare her looks, she is still above her mother.

Should we say that God is fair?

She has a perfect face that surpasses her mother's, but her breasts are...

Looking at Roja who kept sending her distress signals, Claire stepped forward and pulled her mother away, "Don't you see that Xiao Xiu is troubled?"

After scolding her nagging mother, Claire left the dessert shop with Roya.

Roya's residence is only about ten minutes away from the dessert shop, but Claire always takes Roya home personally for safety reasons.

"I'm sorry, my mother is always like that."

"It doesn't matter, I'm actually quite happy."

"Really? Are you happy?"

"You're not that happy!"

"Haha, who do you think is happy?"

Claire smiled happily while teasing the boy in front of her.

She stared at the boy whose face was red due to her teasing.

Hugh Kane, an orphan picked up by the scavenger Grandma Sally.

Xiu, who seemed weak, brought her great strength.

If it weren't for Xiu, how could she get over the blow of broken love so quickly?

After experiencing the double blow of lovelorn and broken outlook on life that day, she almost gave up on herself.

Feeling the dirty and despicable gazes of the gangsters following her, what she felt in her heart was not fear and disgust, but excitement and anticipation.

At that time, she was almost falling.

Because of Xiu, she cheered up again.

Although it was only a short time ago, when I think back to the girl she was not long ago, I always feel that she was so childish.

At that time, she wanted to be a messenger of justice, but she was too naive!

Not only did he fail to recognize his own strength, but he also failed to recognize the truth of the world.

Ever since she was little, she has always viewed the world through a filter.

She always felt that the world was beautiful and full of truth, goodness and beauty. She felt that beggars and princes could get along equally as long as they were given opportunities.

I feel like this is a world that values ​​ability.

When she entered Bailu Private Academy, she felt the strange atmosphere of distinct hierarchies.

When she got along with those noble "friends", she instinctively felt that something was not right.

But because of her inner filter, she subconsciously ignored those things she didn't like.

Ever since, her outlook on life was shattered that day.

If no one enlightens her, she will definitely go to extremes, right?

Or simply indulge yourself and join in the darkness of the world.

Either the justice in the heart becomes distorted and a terrorist becomes unscrupulous for the justice in the heart.

Fortunately she met Xiu.

That's why she was able to get out of the haze and grow up normally.

Who would have thought that that orphan scavenger who seemed weak and could be bullied by anyone would actually become her spiritual support?

It might have been unimaginable to her before, but after getting to know Xiu deeply, she knew it was a matter of course.

The seemingly useless scavenger orphan is actually more powerful than anyone else on the inside.

Xiu has eyes that can see through all the fog to get to the essence. Whenever he encounters overwhelming difficulties, he can always reveal the truth at once.

Xiu was smarter than her. Although Xiu was the top grader in the public school and got perfect marks in the exams, people in the past didn't think he was that smart.

After all, for the same 100 points, you can only get 100 points, while others can only get 100 points on the test paper.

Is there any point in getting a hundred points on a rubbish test paper from a rubbish school?

Then after she personally tutored Xiu's studies, she realized what a true genius is!

Although Xiu's studies have always been very good since he was a child, but because the school he went to was so rubbish, others didn't take him seriously.

In fact, Zixiu's knowledge level can compete for first place even at Bailu Private Academy.

"Sister Claire, I'm home, thank you." Roya said goodbye to Claire in front of the slum apartment.

Claire frowned slightly as she looked at the dilapidated slum apartment in front of her.

"Actually, you can stay at my house."

"No need, Sister Claire and Aunt Remi have already helped me a lot, I can't trouble you any more."

"Actually, we are the ones being taken care of... Don't you often help in the store? How about becoming a regular employee of our store? Food and accommodation will be included?"

"No, it can't be done."

Looking at Xiu who kept refusing, Claire let out a long sigh.

She knew that under Xiu's weak appearance, he had a heart that was tougher than anyone else.

"If you encounter any trouble, just come to me. You're welcome. After all, we are friends."

After saying goodbye to Xiu, Claire returned home under the moonlight.

Their home is a three-story house.

The first floor is used for a dessert shop, and the second and third floors are used for food and accommodation.

She looked at her mother who was resting her face on the table with her hands, wondering what she was thinking.

It wasn't until she walked over and knocked on the table hard that she realized what was happening.

"Has Xiao Xiu been sent home safely?"

"Well, I watched him come back into the house."

"Clea, do you want to..."

"What are you thinking about?"

"That's the one……"

Looking at her squirming mother, Claire was confused.

"Mom, what do you want to say, just say it clearly?"

"Well, that's it..." Aunt Remi hesitated for a long time, "Do you want a younger brother?"

"younger brother?"

Claire looked stunned for a moment, then reacted?

Does it mean cultivation?

She knew that her mother liked repairing very much.

Since Xiu came, my mother has been smiling every day, pestering Xiu all day long and leaving her biological daughter aside, which makes her almost jealous.

But she was more grateful to Xiu.

If you randomly pick up an acquaintance from Hushu Street and ask that acquaintance about his impression of her mother, you will get surprisingly similar conclusions.

A gentle and kind-hearted beauty with no worries.

Gentleness and kindness are true.

However--

No worries?

Cheerful?

She hadn't seen a genuine smile in her mother since her father's death.

She sometimes secretly observes her mother.

A mother who is cheerful and gentle in front of others, a mother who always has a smile on her face.

When there is only one person, there is no expression on the face like a puppet.

Those who didn’t know better thought it was the clothes dummy in the clothing store that was moving, which looked very scary.

If the mother who is gentle and cheerful in front of others cries secretly behind her back, although she will feel heartbroken, she feels that this is normal and can be changed through her efforts.

But the sight of her mother's soulless doll behind her back was so frightening that she felt scared just thinking about it, and she didn't even have a clue how to change it.

But since Xiu came, the smile on her mother's face has increased a lot.

It's not the fake smile like before, it's a real smile from the bottom of my heart.

Xiu was very popular with his aunt and uncle, but he didn't expect that her mother was not immune to the same.

The only thing that worried her was that once she saw her mother in a dark room with no lights on, looking at Xiu's photo with a very weird smile...

Just pretend you didn't see it.

but……

Claire rubbed her chin and thought about what her mother had just said.

Brother?

Ever since she was saved from a desperate situation that night, she had been thinking about how to repay her kindness.

Send money directly? If you seem too snobbish, you will definitely be rejected.

Hire the other party to work in the store? Food and accommodation included?

She tried, but was rejected.

But if it was adoption, if Xiu became her brother and her family, there would be no problem, right?

Why hadn't she thought of this before?

"Okay." Claire nodded immediately, "I'll tell him tomorrow... Will telling him directly scare him? Do you want to be more tactful?"

"Really? Claire, did you agree?"

"Why do you look so surprised, Mom? Do you think I will refuse?"

"No, no, I just see that your relationship with Xiu is not good, isn't it?"

"What's wrong with the good relationship? Oh..." Claire suddenly understood, and she explained with a flushed face, "I don't have that kind of relationship with him! I just regard him as a younger brother, and I won't do it because of being with him. Being a family member, being unable to get married, and feeling troubled..."

Claire put her hands on her hips and puffed her cheeks, "Mom, really, don't misunderstand my relationship with Xiu."

"Does that mean you really agreed to it, Claire?" Aunt Remi's cheeks suddenly turned extremely red, "Hey, is it Claire's brother? And Xiao Xiu's..."

Aunt Remi jumped away while stroking her belly.

"Mom..." Seeing her mother leaving like a little girl in love, Claire's face suddenly froze.

Is this the younger brother her mother is referring to?

Does it mean adopting Xiu and making Xiu her brother?

It's definitely not something serious, something that would lead to jail time for violating a certain minor protection law, right?

Absolutely not, right?

"Hey, Mom, I believe you. It will never happen, right?"

Claire suddenly felt her head hurt.

It should be a very happy thing to make her mother happy and get a brother she likes. This was how she thought a second ago.

but……

Do you want to ask in detail?

Claire, who had always considered herself very brave, suddenly felt so scared that she didn't dare to rush forward to confirm.

What should she do if it was really what she thought?

Is it a support or a hindrance?

"If mom goes to talk to Xiu, there will definitely be a problem."

"Although Xiu is a good boy with normal views, he is also a young man with a strong spirit. What if my mother..."

"Just let me say it!"

"Go and talk to Xiu about the adoption early tomorrow morning. Just let Xiu become my brother!"

"This will create a world in which none of me, Xiu, and mom will get hurt!"

After taking a shower, Claire came to the roof wearing a translucent gauze pajamas and holding a cross sword.

She sat cross-legged on the roof, with the cross sword lying across her knees.

She closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing.

Under the moonlight, her snow-white skin glowed with a faint fluorescence.

What Claire learned at Bailu Private Academy was beyond common sense, and no one would believe it if she told her about it.

Bailu Private Academy is the best and most expensive academy in Lowe City. It costs millions in tuition fees a year and is truly an aristocratic academy.

If you want to enter Bailu Private Academy, the most important thing is money, followed by status, and finally grades.

However, Bailu Private Academy is not just an ordinary aristocratic school.

At Bailu Private Academy, in addition to the most basic cultural courses, you also need to learn etiquette, horse riding, archery, sailing, skating...many courses that are completely meaningless in Claire's opinion.

and a wonderful program called the Occult.

Occult courses include ancient mythology, ancient text learning, interpretation of lost texts, etc.

Moreover, the occult course is a required course for everyone in Bailu Private Academy.

And after the second grade, the occult course no longer teaches content, but becomes like a reading class, and the content of the class is reading.

Deep in the Bailu Private Academy, there is a library called Yuexing Building.

There are many ancient and mysterious books placed in Yuexing Tower.

Many of the books inside are priceless single copies. Many of the solitary copies are written with ancient and mysterious words and patterns that are simply incomprehensible.

I obviously learned various ancient characters in the first grade, but it turned out to be of no use at all.

Do the things taught in first grade occult really make sense?

Most people start their second year of occult teaching with this idea in mind.

What you need to do in the occult course is to choose a book to read in the Yuexing Building Library and submit a reading review after class.

The teacher will grade based on the impressions, and those who fail will be eliminated and will no longer be able to participate in the study of occult courses.

However, the books inside are full of weird graphics and text that are simply incomprehensible. How can I write my thoughts?

Everyone can only read books and write their thoughts.

What a waste of time!

What a waste of life!

Every day in school, I encounter many people who complain about the course of occultism.

But I have to go.

After every reading class, a group of people will be eliminated.

Claire was sincerely envious of those who no longer had to take weird and useless occult courses.

It would be nice if she was eliminated too.

That way she can spend more time studying cultural courses.

You must know that as a free student, she needs to maintain her grades to a certain level in order to continue to enjoy the free quota.

The occult course wasted too much of her time and energy.

If she randomly wrote down her thoughts after reading, maybe she could fail?

It's a pity that her serious personality prevents her from doing such a thing.

She attends class carefully every time, reads carefully, and writes her thoughts carefully.

Even though she couldn't understand it at all, even though her thoughts after reading it were all based on her feelings.

The number of people who could participate in the occult course gradually decreased, and there were only less than twenty people left, but Claire was still one of them.

But unlike at the beginning, she gradually felt the fun of the occult course.

I don't know if there is something wrong with her brain, or if she really feels it.

One day, when she stepped into the Yuexing Tower Library, she suddenly felt something calling her.

"Is it an illusion?"

The voice of calling grew stronger and stronger.

Faced with this situation, not only did she not feel scared, she actually felt happy inside.

"What exactly is it?"

"Is it a book?"

"A book is calling me?"

"I must find it!"

After hearing the call, Claire couldn't help but search carefully in the Yuexing Tower library.

She passed the bookshelves one by one, and each book passed her eyes.

When the course ended, she still hadn't found the book that called to her.

When she heard the bell ringing, she suddenly woke up.

She's not reading!

She didn’t write a review!

Could it be that she is going to fail?

Could it be that she was going to be kicked out of the occult course?

What she had dreamed of doing before was now so stressful.

She secretly glanced at the teacher of the occult course.

She was a tall beauty with waist-length purple hair that covered her eyes, wearing a loose black robe, and exuding a mysterious aura.

She was worried that she would be assessed as failing and kicked out of the occult course.

It didn't.

She was still able to attend occult classes regularly.

She can still study in Yuexing Tower.

Since it’s okay not to study, then…

She spent every class in the library looking for books that called to her, not reading at all.

Finally, on the third time, she found it.

It was an ancient leather book that seemed to have been buried in the soil for hundreds of years.

Just touching the rough cover, you can feel the traces of time.

The title of the book seemed to be written on the cover, but it had disappeared due to the erosion of time.

"Is it you who's been calling me?"

With excitement in her heart, Claire opened the first page of the ancient book.

So cold!

It was like a cold wind rushed out from the pages of the book, and goosebumps appeared all over Claire's body.

Snapped!

The ancient book fell from her hands.

The ancient book was obviously open when it fell, but it was closed inexplicably after it fell to the ground.

Claire picked up the ancient book with a puzzled look on her face, hesitating whether to open it again.

"Is this the book you've been looking for for three classes?"

An ethereal voice that seemed to be a world away reached Claire's ears.

It’s the occult teacher, Teacher Fulla!

"Yes." Claire nodded nervously.

"This is the seventh book. It's not the one you should read now." Teacher Fulla took Claire to another bookshelf, pulled out a book and handed it to Claire, "Here it is, if you can't find it after reading it, If you get to the second book, you can ask me for help."

"Thank you Teacher Furla!"

Claire quickly took the book.

Watching Shi Shiran leave, the secretive teacher Fulla, Claire's hand holding the book became even harder.

"The first one? The seventh one? Are these books matching each other? Does the calling I feel really come from these books?"

With doubts, Claire slowly opened the so-called first book that Teacher Fulla gave her.

Hiss——

A chill came from the book.

She didn't know what the chill was the first time just now, but she knows now.

That's a silver snake!

A looming illusory silver snake with eyes flashing smartly crawled out of the book, slowly climbed along Claire's body, entered her body deeply, and swam inside her body.

When the coolness in her body disappeared.

Claire was shocked. She found that the book in her hand had unknowingly turned to the last page, and it was less than half an hour before get out of class ended.

"What is this book about?"

"What about the silver snake crawling out of the book?"

"The silver snake crawled into my body, should it be okay?"

Claire has too many questions.

Maybe Teacher Fulla knows something?

Faced with her question, Teacher Fulla just smiled and shook her head slightly.

"Kleia-kun, you can come every day from now on, and..."

"You can choose a weapon of your choice."

Following Teacher Furla's line of sight, Claire's eyes fell on the sculpture in the library.

There are many statues placed in this library.

These statues come in different shapes and have different weapons.

There are strong men with big axes, mysterious assassins with daggers, and armored soldiers with shields...

From the first time she entered the library, she had been surprised by the statues.

There is nothing wrong with the statue itself.

The problem is that the weapons held in the hands of the statue are all real weapons, right?

Now Teacher Fulla asked her to choose a weapon...

She doesn't need a weapon at all!

She wanted to say no.

However, Teacher Furla's order cannot be questioned.

She had no choice but to look at the weapons.

Swords, daggers, bows and arrows, shields...

In the end, Claire chose a cross sword.

And on the recommendation of Teacher Furla, he learned swordsmanship from a swordsmanship teacher at Bailu Private Academy.

Time passes day by day.

Her swordsmanship became more and more exquisite.

The ancient books she read in the library went from the first, to the second, to the third... and finally to the thirteenth.

Claire, who had read all the books in the Silver Serpent series, was told that her occult course was finished.

She has graduated from occult studies and she no longer has to take occult courses.

Until the end, she was still filled with doubts.

But she knew that those thirteen books brought her great benefits. By studying the contents of those thirteen books, she gained some kind of power beyond common sense!

Claire was sitting cross-legged on the ground with her eyes closed.

As she thought, a long silver snake spitting out letters appeared.

This long silver snake climbed and swam on Claire's body.

The silver snake absorbs the moonlight from the moon, and then transforms the moonlight into a strange energy to feed back to Claire.

When Claire felt that her body had been charged to the extreme, she slowly opened her eyes.

The silver snake disappeared, and the fluorescence on her body also disappeared.

She stared at the cross sword placed in front of her knees and moved her hands.

Clang!

The long sword was unsheathed and thrust out with one strike!

The sound of supersonic sound breaking through the air sounded, spreading extremely far at night.

"Even if my current strength is compared to those of those great masters of martial arts, is it not necessarily weak?"

Regarding her own powerful strength, Claire was more confused than excited.

"I must find an opportunity to ask Teacher Fula in the future."

The sword is sheathed.

Claire walked off the roof with her sword in hand.

On the way to her room, she heard some strange noise from her mother's room with her sensitive hearing comparable to that of a martial arts master.

Not that she wanted to eavesdrop.

It's just that her hearing is too sensitive.

Even though she was tens of meters away, she could clearly hear the rat's breathing, not to mention that the sound was much louder than the rat's breathing.

It was from her mother, a whimper that seemed to be suppressing pain. She could also hear the faint sound of running water, and her mother's coquettish voice calling a name that was very familiar to her.

"..."

Claire covered her head.

"Head hurts."