Beauty and the Python

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When Elaine woke up, she found that she was leaning against a tree, and the bat was flying up and down around him. When he opened his eyes, he flew to the other side, and opened his mouth to say: "He woke up!" gone."

Edgar turned around and walked over, "Elaine, are you feeling alright?"

"It's okay." In fact, he didn't feel anything, he looked down at himself, and then looked at the other person in confusion, "What about him?"

Edgar looked incomprehensible, "Who?"

Stop pretending.Elaine stared at him with wide eyes, and replied, "Your teacher, Holy Son."

"No wonder you like me to play your student so much..." he muttered.

Edgar smiled, this was the first time he showed a real smile today, relaxed and comfortable, looking at him with interest, "You don't seem too surprised?"

"There are more or less guesses..." Elaine rubbed her chin and thought, "There are some signs, didn't you give me a lot of hints? The portrait you drew for me on the card is not me, but St. right?"

Edgar smiled and said nothing.

Elaine continued: "It wasn't until I went to the 'gate' of Styx yesterday, that the gate required a pass issued by you to go out smoothly, but I was able to go through it directly, so I was sure of this—— Maybe there is some kind of inner connection hidden between this city and me?"

Edgar said: "This was the city you built in the beginning, so there is no reason why it should be closed to the master."

"But I didn't think about such a powerful identity." Elaine stretched out her index finger and tapped her lips lightly, exclaiming sincerely, "It's hard to imagine that I was such a great person a hundred years ago."

Edgar's smile deepened: It seems that Her Royal Highness is still a little excited.

"When did you recognize me as your teacher?" Elaine asked again.

Edgar acquiesced in his lip service. "When we met for the first time," he brushed aside the broken hair in front of his forehead, revealing the pale golden magic circle in the center of his brows, "this magic circle was left by the Holy Son. In this world, apart from him, Only I can see it, and that time you stared at me, I couldn't believe you saw it..."

"In fact, it was only after you went to that door yesterday that I was [-]% sure that you were him."

Elaine was stunned: "Are you following me?"

Edgar automatically ignored the question.

"When my horn was broken, don't be too surprised. When I went to pick you up for the first time, the horn was an illusion. After all, a unicorn without a horn...is too ugly." Gently stroked the position of the circle, "In order to completely heal me, the Holy Son drew this magic circle on my head and blended it with a drop of his own blood."

"In a battle with Dylan a hundred years ago, the Holy Son suffered a lot and was seriously injured. He used his last magic power to build this city, and his life came to an end. Before he passed away, he told me His real name, he said that he will be reborn in this world, if there is a day of reunion in the future, as long as I read his name, this magic circle will react with his remaining consciousness."

Only then did he answer Elaine's question: "That's just a touch of consciousness that the Holy Son left on you, and it has dissipated just now."

"Then...he really isn't a so-called god?"

"He..." Edgar's tone paused, his expression was rather subtle, "He is a great magician."

He looked at Elaine, opened his lips, and frowned slightly. The familiar expression gave Elaine a bad feeling.

Sure enough, the other party said the same thing again: "So, you really don't plan to leave?"

"The devil has returned to Dylan, and he has very likely identified your soul, and Dylan will know who you are." He reminded him solemnly.

Elaine smiled instead, a rather intriguing smile, "He will know who I am?"

"He used to hate mages, humans, and even all the creatures on this continent. Later, what he hated the most was undoubtedly the people who defeated and trapped him with a curse."

"Your Highness," Edgar said, "No matter how you think of this person in your mind during this time, you have to realize that he is completely different now."

"It's the same with those people in the castle," Edgar lifted the veil under the curse one by one, "Theodore, after becoming a cat, he is cute, but before he was an undead who treated skeletons and corpses as pets Mage. At that time, he was the happiest person on the battlefield. People died every day, and his undead army grew stronger day by day.

Bessie, a girl in her teens, no one would be wary of her at the beginning, and later people dared not take a second look at the displaced children on the battlefield. She has a veritable title , called 'Bloody Maid'..."

"And you, Elaine," Edgar looked at him with those sea-blue eyes, with almost a hint of unbearable in his heart, "you are people from two completely different worlds from them."

Elaine really found it appalling when he heard this at first, but he could still be called calm, and even calmly explained a fact to the other party: "You said this too late."

"Have you ever wondered what Dylan would do if I left?"

He smiled suddenly, and said: "I thought, he likes me so badly."

Edgar was silent.

——"He won't go with you."

A familiar voice came from behind.

70.

Elaine looked at the person opposite, and felt that it was not much different from the first time he saw this person. He later realized that it was just an illusion cast by Edgar on Dylan.And Dylan himself looks thinner, paler, with deep contours, eyes like pigeon blood are deep, and that melancholy temperament has all turned into another kind of gloom, so he looks like a sick nobleman, Rather than the "demon" that Edgar kept saying.

At the same time, the other party was also looking straight at him, his eyes seemed to have no emotion at all, or seemed to be blurred into a darkness due to too many emotions, so that people couldn't see anything.

After a while, he called out, "Elaine, come here."

Edgar immediately looked at Elaine, and found that the other party turned his head away instead. This commanding tone was useless except to be annoying.

The strange thing is that when Dylan saw the other party like this, the originally tense facial lines softened, and he called again, "Elaine."

"Forgive me," he said.

Edgar was stunned, and then doubted his own ears. It was surprising enough that Dylan would say such a thing, and in the presence of him as a bystander, some things seemed to be beyond his expectations. estimate...

After the other party said this, Elaine finally looked at him again, and after a while, he took the first step towards him.

Edgar subconsciously pulled him back.

Dylan narrowed his eyes, staring at the hand he was holding on to Elaine.

Elaine turned her head and smiled at Edgar and shook her head. Edgar sighed in his heart and let him go.

He walked towards Dylan step by step.

Dylan looked at the people who were approaching, and it was difficult to describe his mood at the moment, but it was indeed a wonderful experience that he had never experienced before.Every step of the other party seemed to step on his heart, and soft flowers grew wherever he walked. He heard the heart that had been silent for a hundred years revive in his chest, beating and trembling.It almost brought out a subtle pain, but he couldn't resist it, and he didn't want to resist it.

The other party was already standing in front of him.

He reached out to hold his hand and felt it was warm and soft, a little warmer than he remembered.For the body that has recovered its previous strength, it is weaker than in memory, as if he could easily crush it with a single force... He suddenly caught a glimpse of the red marks left on the opponent's arm, and immediately dismissed this thought He just gently grabbed his wrist and pulled him behind him.

When he looked at Edgar who was standing there again, a gloomy storm was brewing in his eyes.

"Edgar, just make a break between you and me."

Edgar was slightly taken aback, not too surprised that Dylan would choose him.

It seems that the other party intends to ignore the connection between the Holy Son and Elaine, and put all the new and old hatreds on himself.He felt a little helpless, but more fortunate, from another perspective, the teacher's plan was a success.

So he nodded and accepted, "It's an honor."

Elaine couldn't help raising her voice, "Dylan!"

Dylan looked back at him.

He pursed his lips and didn't know what to say, saying that I am your enemy, you should come to me if you want a duel!But the other party should have been clear about this... Whether he accepted it or ignored it or something else, he finally chose not to pursue it with him, but Edgar was different.

His tone suddenly weakened, and he said dryly: "Edgar is a unicorn, you can't do this..." He remembered that Edgar said just now that unicorns cannot kill people.

Dylan's tone was indifferent, as if he was just stating a fact that could be seen at a glance: "The winner lives and the loser dies. I will not kill him during the battle, I will kill him with my own hands after the battle is over."

At this moment, Elaine clearly felt that this person was indeed different.He was still able to struggle and resist under the dispute last night, but now facing this person, he only felt a huge, bewildered powerlessness.

As soon as the words fell, someone moved first, and the bat on Edgar's shoulder suddenly flew straight towards Dylan, and changed back into a human form halfway.

"resemble!"

"Overthinking one's abilities." Dylan snorted coldly, and as he raised his hand, a red snake-shaped lightning shot straight out, but in the blink of an eye, Xiao had already fallen to the ground.

Edgar's foot changed direction, and soon stopped. He stared at Dylan, his expression suddenly turned cold.

"Then let us wait and see whether my magical power has improved to the point where I can compete with Duke Dylan in the past 100 years..."

"Dylan!" Elaine stood in front of Dylan, "Edgar, he is my friend." There was a hint of pleading in his eyes.

Dylan watched him for a while, then finally smiled.

His tone is soft.

"Elaine, you don't need friends."

"From now on, there is no need for it."