The days when I helped the protagonist come to power [System]

Hei Luomi stood on the spot, looking at the huge "birdcage" that was "woven" by layers of barriers and magical prohibitions in confusion, and there was a strong sacred atmosphere coming out of it, much like the handwriting of a temple. .

Suddenly, Hei Luomi heard voices coming from inside.

"...It's been two years."

Heluomi was slightly startled.

—he couldn't be mistaken, it was... Ersie's voice.

He went around to the other end of the "birdcage", and sure enough, he saw that person.Just now, Hei Luomi felt that the blank space in the center of the third layer of enchantment seemed to be traces of someone's life, but he didn't expect it to be so.

As seen in previous memories, Erxi is in the form of a demon at this time. He is wearing a thin white robe and sitting cross-legged on the ground covered with a thick white carpet. His long silver hair hangs down from his shoulders and keeps winding To the ground, spread out like a waterfall.Behind him, someone was carefully combing the scattered hair with a golden comb, and occasionally cutting off the split ends with small scissors, with delicate and gentle movements.

"Specifically, it is one year and 330 days." The man responded gently.

"It's been so long..." Essie sighed faintly, a bit of confusion appeared on his pale face.Hearing the sound of hair trimming behind him, he lowered his eyelashes slightly.

"Just cut it all for me," Ersie said suddenly, "cut it short, just like you."

The movement of the person behind him paused immediately.

"Why?" the man asked, "It's actually very nice to keep it like this. It's a pity to cut it all off."

Like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, Ersie's voice rose instantly.

"Looks good?" His voice was even a bit sharp, "Who will see it? You? Hei Luomi, do you regard me as a locked canary?!"

"I'm sorry." The black-haired young man apologized immediately, and he could hear him being very nervous, "Erxi, I really didn't mean that, don't think too much about it."

Neither of them spoke again.The air was almost heavy in silence.

After a long time, someone finally sighed softly, breaking the oppressive silence.

"I don't want to quarrel with you when I'm rarely sober." Ursi said, "I just want to ask you a question—Helomi, will you let me go or not?"

"Give me a little more time, Ersie." The dark-haired young man said evasively, and he combed the man's beautiful long silver hair again with a slow and gentle movement, "You have been awake for longer and longer, and everything It's getting better, isn't it? After a while, you'll be back to normal, I promise."

"Normal?" The silver-haired demons smiled coolly, "What is normal? No longer falling into memory confusion, no longer yelling at you, no longer begging you to kill me-do you think this is' Normal?"

The man didn't speak, he just stroked a strand of silver hair with his hand, and gently cut it with scissors just as Ersey wanted.

"The abnormal person is you, Heromi." Erxi said in a deep voice, "It's meaningless to drag on like this."

With a "click", a strand of cut silver hair fell onto the white blanket.

"You're still alive, that's what it means."

Ersey let out a short sneer, raised his arms, and stared intently at the gray chains fastening around his wrists, and the silver-white chains fastened to them.

"Are you alive..." He murmured, whether he was speaking to the other party or simply talking to himself, "I am no longer living for myself, but for you. This time It’s actually the same as the previous 99 times, and it’s even worse—I don’t even have the right to decide my own life or death.”

After a long, long time, the sound of hair cutting sounded again from behind.The man's hand was still very steady, as if it hadn't been affected in any way, and even his voice was impeccably calm.

"Whatever you say, I will not change my mind." The black-haired Son said, "I will let you live, and no one can take your life away, whether it is me or you—you just need to know That's enough, Ersie."

The silver-haired demon didn't speak any more.

He curled up his knees, wrapped his arms around his knees, stared at the small piece of white carpet in front of him without blinking, his expression was as blank as a piece of white paper.It wasn't until the man finally helped him cut his hair and cleaned up all the scattered hair that Ersie seemed to have recovered, and his stagnant blood eyes regained some luster.

"Is this okay?" The man walked around in front of him, took out a silver mirror from the storage ring, and showed it to Ersie.

This was the first time Ersie saw her hair cut short, and she still felt a little fresh.But this sense of novelty only lasted for a moment, and was overwhelmed by a kind of silent sadness and heavy depression - he saw that the person in the mirror was pale and haggard, his eyes were dim, no longer She has the spirit of youthful vigor, but the arrogance and vigor of the past have long since disappeared between her brows. Even if she stretches her brows, she looks preoccupied and lifeless.

— Only two years have passed.

No, in less than two years, he has become this lifeless look.The sacred breath filling here has gradually begun to wash away his innate skills. Even if he can leave alive one day, he will never be able to return to the Demon Race. After all, after losing his power, he has made many enemies and has no power to protect himself. Apart from Hei Luomi, he has nowhere to go.

Moreover, in the eyes of the world, he had already "died" two years ago, no one would want to come to him at all, and no one would remember him after a long time.In this world, Hei Luomi is the only one who knows that he is still alive.

The person he wants to escape the most may end up being the only one who can take him in. This is... how ironic and sad.

Erxi stared blankly at the mirror, and after a long time, he slowly looked away.

"Hei Luomi," he asked suddenly, "do you still remember the crystal pendant I gave you?"

The black-haired young man was obviously taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

"Of course I remember." He said, "That was a gift you gave me on my 20th birthday."

"Could you bring it with you next time you come?" Ersey looked up at him. "I suddenly want to see it."

The man was silent for a while. He put away the mirror, pulled off the high collar of the Holy Son's white robe, took off an ice-blue pendant necklace from his neck, and handed it to Ersie.

"You can watch it now, here."

A hint of surprise flashed in Ersie's eyes. He looked at the pendant, and then at the black-haired Son in front of him.

"Did you wear it all the time?"

The man nodded, with a nostalgic smile on the corner of his mouth: "This is the only gift you gave me."

"And you've been wearing it for 15 years?"

"Ah."

A strange look flashed in Ersie's eyes. He opened his mouth, as if he still had a lot to ask, but in the end he closed his mouth again, and silently took the pendant necklace from the man.

The pendant was a clear sapphire in the shape of a drop of water, very similar to the "Goddess Tears" that Ersie had seen before - that's why he bought the necklace in the first place.But because of the past, he always felt that this necklace that looked like "Goddess Tears" did not really belong to him. After getting along with Hei Luomi, he gave it to Hei Luomi as a gift.

"Why do you want to watch this all of a sudden?" he heard the man ask.

Ersie gently stroked the sapphire with his hand, feeling that it still carried the warm body temperature of that person.He slowly clenched his palms tightly, holding the gem firmly in his hands.

"There's no reason, I just remembered it suddenly, so I want to take a look." Erxi whispered, "I don't know why, I always think of some past things recently, and I think...we were still at Horstburg School of Magic and Magic. When I was studying."

A trace of nostalgia flashed in the eyes of the black-haired youth, but it was quickly replaced by bitterness.

"Were those days difficult for you?" he asked.

Ersie was slightly taken aback: "Why do you say that?"

"Because you will see your enemy all the time, but in order to get revenge, you have to swallow your anger and endure everything. Considering your personality... this is very tormenting."

Ersie was silent for a moment, then shook her head slightly.

"Not all." He said, "Maybe it was true at the beginning, but after getting along with you, I found that you are actually very different from what I imagined. I used to think that I didn't need friends, but after interacting with you, I It’s actually not a very annoying thing to find a friend like you. Sometimes I even think... If we don’t have to fight and hate each other, but can always live in peace, that would be great.”

A hint of surprise appeared on the face of the black-haired youth.

It was the first time for him to hear this person express his feelings so bluntly. Although it was very unexpected, his heart couldn't help softening, and the gaze he looked at each other was also very gentle and sincere.

"We can." He said sincerely, "This time, we will be able to live together peacefully until the end, as long as you cooperate with me and wait for me, Erxi."

The silver-haired demon smiled faintly, but did not speak.He suddenly stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to return the pendant necklace he was holding in his hand. The black-haired young man raised his hand to take it, but the other party did not let go of the pendant, but stretched out the other hand, holding the black-haired young man His hand covered the back of his hand holding the pendant tightly, as if the other party was holding the clenched hand tightly.

"Heilomi." Erxi said suddenly, "Do you know? I spent thousands of years hating and hostile to you, I spent hundreds of years investigating and studying you, and then I spent another 20 years getting closer to you." and got to know you."

The man frowned slightly, as if he didn't understand why the other party suddenly mentioned this.

"I've always been very clear about what I'm doing and what I'm trying to achieve. Do you think I'm tolerant enough, or because you've acted sincerely enough, that I can get along with you regardless of the past? No, I just thought that this might be the only way to change my destiny, so I will become friends with you by default."

Ersie raised his head and met the man's turbulent black eyes.

"But now I understand that we were born to be sworn enemies, not friends. Like now, although I understand that you have done a lot for me and can recall all the times we have been through in the past, but No matter what, I can’t remember the feelings we had when we made friends.”

"When I see you now, there is only endless hatred."

"——the same hatred that I felt before I died 99 times before..."

A dazzling blue light burst out from Erxi's hand that was holding the sapphire pendant tightly. He had just held it so hard that the nails had already been deeply embedded in the palm, piercing the skin of the palm, and the blood of the demon race flowed out.The blood soaked the pure magic gemstone, arousing its latent power. After the bright blue light dissipated, the round gemstone had turned into a flat, prismatic blue blade. It was so sharp that Erxi immediately I felt my palm was pierced by it, the wound was deep enough to see the bone, and the pain became stronger and stronger.

He smiled.

He stared closely at the black-haired young man in front of him. The other party obviously realized that something was wrong, and desperately wanted to withdraw his hand, but Erxi held him tightly, not giving him a chance to withdraw.

—Only in this way can you obtain liberation.

The mechanical voice sounded again in the depths of his mind. During these days, these words have been echoing in his mind, like the temptation of the devil, like the curse of hypnosis.

——Only by his hand can you truly embrace death.

Erxi held the man's hand tightly, and thrust the sharp blue blade into his chest.

The gushing blood instantly soaked the white clothes into a blood shirt, and the familiar pain spread from the chest, followed by the freedom and relief of finally being released, and... a trace of indescribable desolation and sadness.

"Hei Luomi..." Blood gushed out of his mouth, and the last words were fragmented in the rapidly fading breath.

"I'd rather die... than... see you... again..."

The man lowered his head, finally closed his eyes, and never looked at the person in front of him until his death.

"No...no...no----!!!"

Just like the tragic howl of a wild beast before it was about to die, the wailing sound shook the entire golden hall. The man finally shook off the opponent's hand that was clasping him tightly, and threw the blood-soaked blue-bladed murder weapon aside, he was in a hurry. He pressed his hands on the man's chest that was constantly bleeding, desperately urging the healing spell, trying to restore the man's dwindling vitality.

But it's too late.

A circle of scorching white light shines from the knife wound on the man's chest, like a flame licking and burning the white paper, the white light eats away at the man's body little by little, no matter how he tries to stop it, he can't stop the man's attack The body turned into dots of streamer in the white light, drifted into the air, and finally disappeared without a trace in the air.

nothing left.

Can't catch anything.

Nothing was left.

Only the pendant necklace, which had been turned into a round gemstone again due to losing its blood infiltration, lay quietly on the ground in the distance.That sapphire is still clear and beautiful, and the shape of the water drop is like tears shed quietly.

The surroundings became quiet again, that person was kneeling alone in the center of the "birdcage", the beautiful magic crystal inlaid on the wall still exuded a soft and warm light.He knelt in the center of the light, but behind him cast a thick shadow like an abyss.

Something dripped down.

One drop, one drop, another drop.

It dripped into the pool of blood that hadn't dried up on the ground, forming small bloody flowers.

"I know you hate me. I always knew."

The man covered his face tremblingly, and transparent liquid flowed from between his fingers.

"But do you know that I have fallen in love with you a long time ago?"

"I am willing to pay any price in exchange for a chance to start over, but time cannot be restarted. I am still the murderer who killed you 99 times."

"I don't know what to do... I don't know what to do to change our past, but at least we still have a future—I don't want to continue the mistakes of the past in the future, so I shut you down Here, even if I am hated and hostile by you, I will stubbornly not give you relief, and stubbornly want to keep you."

"Did I do something wrong? Or was my falling in love with you an unforgivable mistake from the very beginning?"

"Can anyone tell me what is the right thing to do? What is the right thing to do so that you don't hate me so much anymore? How can... we have a good ending?"

***

The sun has finally risen.

The first ray of morning light broke through the dark night, and the projection of the Devil's Abyss dissipated in the morning light. The Holy Light Secret Realm finally ushered in a new day of peace and tranquility.

When Ersey arrived, he saw the man sitting on a stone on the bank of the holy river.He quietly stared at the gurgling river at his feet, his back was quiet and silent.

For some reason, the moment he saw the man's back, Erxi immediately sensed something, and his heart sank quickly.

——I...it was still too late after all.

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