Beauty and the Python

71.

The two of them didn't say a word, but they seemed to have reached some kind of consensus invisibly, and they suddenly turned into two streamers, flew straight to the sky, and disappeared from sight in an instant.

Leaving Elaine on the spot, he felt anxious for a while, not knowing where they went, nor how to stop the duel in time.He couldn't help biting his nails, and forced himself to calm down in the shortest possible time and do something... He hurried to check on the person who fell on the ground.

Under his repeated calls, Xiao Wei frowned, and finally opened his eyes. Elaine helped him up. He covered his chest and groaned in pain. The first sentence he spoke was: "Where is Edgar?" ?”

"They went elsewhere."

Xiao made a gesture to get up from the ground, "Hurry up..."

"Are you alright?"

"Of course." This sentence is said through gritted teeth.

Elaine said her proposal: "Let's go back to the castle and find other people to go with us!"

Xiao looked at him suspiciously, "They are from Ludvik, will they listen to you?"

In the end, Earl Cat and Bessie took them to find it together.

They found two brooms from the utility room and cast a levitation spell and a flying spell. Theodore carried Elaine, who couldn't use magic, and Bessie took care of the seriously injured Xiao. Xiao's expression seemed even uglier.

They went around the woods and finally found two people in the back of the forest.

From a long distance, you can see the dazzling streamer and lightning that all kinds of magic collided together, causing a huge wave of air, and the trees fell to the periphery centered on the two of them, and they were quickly wiped out. A flat land.

Theodore and Bessie dropped quietly on the edge.

The four of them hid in the grass together.

Theodore poked his head outside, then turned around and asked, "What should we do now?"

Bessie took a look, curled her lips: "I don't care, I can't beat both of them."

Xiao already got up and wanted to rush over.

Theodore quickly stretched out his arms and grabbed him, "Hey, what are you doing?"

"open!"

Elaine also stopped him, and calmly pointed out: "It's no use if you go."

"Then are you useful?" Xiao's attitude towards them was not very good.

Elaine stared at the two people in the field without blinking, "Wait a minute."

Shaw didn't think an ordinary person would be able to see anything from it.

In fact, Elaine really couldn't see anything—it was too fast, and as the two continued to release magic, they emitted all kinds of light, as if they were intertwined into a dense net, which was very dazzling. After observing for a while, he only found one pattern: every time they finished chanting a spell, there was a short pause between the connection with the magic.

He suddenly asked Xiao: "Edgar said Dylan couldn't hurt me, why?"

Xiao said impatiently, "How would I know?"

Elaine's tone was solemn: "This is very important."

Xiao thought for a while and said, "According to the style of the Holy Son, he will not add too insidious traps into the spell. Let me think about it..." He put his fist on his chin and began to think.

After a while, he snapped his knuckles crisply, "Maybe it's the simplest return spell? At that time, all the spells that Dylan cast on you will bounce back."

Elaine pondered for a while, then asked again: "Can you hear the next spell they are going to cast from the beginning of a spell?"

Theodore said: "I'm just a necromancer, others don't necessarily know."

Bessie patted her chest with a proud face, "Mostly, I'm a genius girl."

"Please, Bessie, to hear for me whether they have used some kind of milder magic."

Bessie turned her head and ear to listen, but gave up after a while, "I'm afraid not."

"Even that Edgar used a very harmful spell, it's terrible!"

Elaine looked stern, and bit her lower lip hard, "Forget Edgar, you can help me listen to Dylan's spell, is there anything that is relatively mild, or that he can avoid in time."

Theodore's mind turned the fastest, "Princess, what do you want to do?"

The next moment Bessie shouted, "This is it!"

He only heard the rustling of the bushes, and in the blink of an eye, there was one less person around him. He looked up and saw that Elaine had rushed into the battlefield quickly!

Bessie added: "... most maimed."

Xiao stood up abruptly, "He's dying!"

Theodore covered his face, "It's over, Bessie, you are over."

The girl glared at him fiercely, "Shut up!"

The situation in the field has changed drastically!

Dylan felt that his spell hit an invisible barrier halfway through, and bounced back in an instant. The speed was even faster than he cast it!He almost dodged subconsciously, but his left hand was still hit, and his skin was torn apart, emitting an unpleasant smell of burning.

When he looked up, his eyes turned red immediately.

Edgar was also stunned, and slowly put down his hand.

Dylan rushed over and caught the fallen man just in time.

"Elaine!"

There was blood all over his face.

72.

"Okay." Edgar stopped casting the healing spell, and the warm green light dimmed silently in his palm, and the scarred wound on Elaine's face was now smooth as before, "It's just Scars..." He was about to say something, when Dylan lowered his head to wash the towel, Elaine gave him a wink.

So Edgar continued very naturally: "Maybe...it's a little troublesome."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a cold gaze stabbing straight at him.

"You're really useless." Dylan said coldly.

Edgar didn't see his anger, but smiled instead: "It's true that the Duke's magic is much better than mine, but it's a pity that he can only kill people, not save them."

Elaine coughed pretentiously: "Stop making noise."

So Dylan didn't answer any more. He stretched out his hand and wiped Elaine's cheeks with a towel. His movements were extremely gentle, as if he was treating a fragile gem, and he wiped away the glaring blood bit by bit along the contours of the other's face. During the process, he kept furrowing his brows until the other person's face became spotless again, and then his brows slightly relaxed.

The room suddenly fell silent, but the atmosphere made Edgar clearly feel his own redundancy.

"Dylan, I'm thirsty." Elaine said suddenly.

"I see."

Dylan put down the towel, glanced at Edgar again, turned and walked out.

Edgar listened attentively to the sound of his footsteps coming down the stairs, and asked, "Why doesn't Your Highness let me heal your scar?"

Elaine touched the shallow scar on her left cheek.

"You should know the sword of Damocles."

Edgar knew everything, and said clearly: "You have to remind him with yourself."

His gaze suddenly became extremely complicated, and he asked in a low voice: "Could it be that you plan to feed a tiger with your body?"

Elaine was taken aback for a moment, then smiled after realizing it: "I'm not as great as you think."

"I..." His tone hesitated for some reason.

Then Edgar noticed that his face was turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He said: "...Maybe I really like him."

Edgar was stunned, thinking about what the soul in this body once represented, he suddenly found it difficult to accept, "Why?"

"This kind of question doesn't have to be a dead end." Elaine waved her hand freely, "There is no reason."

He thought for a while, then said: "...he is very good to me."

"Dylan is a person who can't hide or can't hide enough. After I found out his mood, my mood was... I don't know." He shook his head and smiled distressedly, but the smile Does it contain a hint of secret sweetness?

"But I do want to give something back to him, and if I make him happy by smiling at him, then I'll walk up to him and give him a hug, and I don't hesitate to do that."

Edgar remained silent for a while, and finally he gave up this kind of thinking that seemed to be harder to grasp than arithmetic, and there was a trace of uncertainty in his tone when he spoke again: "Is this... the perfect ending of a fairy tale?"

Elaine said: "Well, the princess and the cursed monster are together, but after the curse is lifted, the monster finds out that the princess is actually a man, and the princess finds that the monster is actually a big devil?"

They laughed together.

Edgar's smile gradually faded away, but he kept a smile on his lips calmly, with a gentle face, "When you stood in front of him just now, you said I was your friend."

Elaine looked at him suspiciously, as if asking if something was wrong?

Edgar said, "I'm sorry."

Elaine froze for a moment, but understood what he was talking about.

"You mean your spell hit me? That's my own risky charge, none of your business. Or did you once see me as the shadow of your teacher? Well... I don't mind having another one like you Such a powerful student. Or are you hiding a lot from me? In fact, you told me directly at the beginning that I wouldn't believe it."

"It seems that I am really too bad." Edgar lowered his head in frustration.

"It's okay." Elaine patted his shoulder and said generously.

"I also regard you as my friend, Elaine." Edgar stared at him sincerely with sea blue eyes.

Elaine's smile was even brighter, "Of course."

"I hope we will have the opportunity to have afternoon tea together in the future."

Elaine sensed something sensitively from this sentence, "Are you leaving?"

Edgar nodded, "The Holy Son gave me a key to his hometown. I will go to another world to find the source of magic, in order to rekindle the fire of magic on this continent."

He just doesn't understand why this unicorn has such a big obsession with magic... It seems that the disciples accepted by the Holy Son are destined to be extraordinary like him.

Elaine laughed and made a joke: "If the Tower of Faith is still there, maybe you are very suitable to enter it."

Edgar also smiled when he heard this, it was a smile with a little nostalgia, "You have said this before."

Eh?

"Good luck."

"It's just that I'm afraid there are many things that will bother you."

*****

Edgar and Xiao walked out of the castle together, and when they looked up, they saw a person standing in the yard.

Xiao's face suddenly darkened.

Edgar gave him a comforting look, and walked over alone.

"I didn't expect you to calm down and have a chat with me?" He looked at Dylan, really surprised.

Dylan said lightly, "I just feel the need to warn you."

"I can't ask for it."

Dylan said: "The devil is not with me, no need to search for his trace in vain."

Edgar was stunned, and stared at the man suspiciously, "What do you mean...?"

"Don't you understand? There's never been a devil." There was a dark malice bubbling in those scarlet eyes, and Dylan whispered, "I've been devouring him since the beginning." His voice was cold and Sandy, mixed with a strange texture.

"Actually, the devil came in the Titan Tower in the second year, and then my eyes became like this..." He raised his hand and stroked his brow bone along the corner of his eyes, and sneered, "It's just those six people Too stupid to be fooled by me. That year, he and I fought for control of this body in the body almost every moment of the year. In the end, as you can see, I won and all his powers belonged to him. mine."

Edgar frowned, his tone considered: "So..."

Dylan directly affirmed what he hadn't said: "The devil has never ruled me."

"It's just... I wanted to do that, so I did it." He said flatly, as if he was just talking about a trivial matter.

"Should I say you are powerful, or scary..." Edgar felt his hair stand on end, he had never even thought about this kind of thought - a human being who can devour devils?What kind of soul does he possess... He revealed a complicated and wry smile, "You really haven't half a heart of repentance so far."

Dylan looked up to the sky, and the bottom of his eyes reflected a ray of light, which became more and more beautiful, "That person came to this world, so you also know that he is in this fallen world There is a higher world, and he reminded me that I was only one step away from reaching that world..." It was also that person who shot him down from the sky.

It was only then that Edgar realized that this person had originally had such an idea.

He said coldly: "In order to enter another world, you don't hesitate to build on a lot of bones and corpses?"

"What's wrong?" Dylan lowered his head and sneered, "But...forget it, if everyone in that world is like him, it will be like hell to me."

"I failed, I admit it, but the essence of tolerance in giving as a winner is nothing but stupidity and hypocrisy. I forged the figure of the devil in my brain, and I really deceived the innocent Son, and he let me go. "

"Now, Edgar, you are his only apprentice, but even you can't kill me, who else can deal with me?" This sentence is not a provocation, but a statement.

Edgar had calmed down, and even smiled with the corners of his mouth, "Dylan, you are too arrogant."

"Haven't you ever thought that the Holy Son has actually seen your trick from the very beginning, and the devil is just an excuse for him to let you go."

Dylan frowned, "What did you say?"

"You should also think about it, why did he choose to extract your memory?"

Edgar then gave him an answer: "He is willing to give you a choice-maybe you who forget the hatred, can start again?"

Dylan said coldly: "You guys are the ones who are arrogant."

"I know Elaine thinks the same way." Edgar said, "He and the Son have something in common."

"They don't trust you, but they place hope on you."

He looked at the silent person in front of him, and finally said: "Dylan, don't let him down."

Dylan's face was extremely ugly, he was the one who came to warn, but in the end it was himself who was persuaded.

Edgar walked back to Xiao's side.

The two walked up the mountain road silently, and the shadows under their feet walked side by side. Edgar turned his head to look at the people around him if he felt something.

As soon as Xiao caught his gaze, he moved closer, "Why, finally you are willing to look at me."

Edgar withdrew his gaze and said lightly, "What's so interesting about you."

"Edgar!" he roared, his voice weakened again, "I'm in so much pain, so uncomfortable."

Edgar: "Well, it's good that I'm not dead."

Xiao curled his lips and complained: "You are not like this to other people, not to mention Your Royal Highness, even you are ten times gentler to that Dylan than me?"

Edgar glanced at him and commented: "...too sour."

Shaw: He swore he wouldn't talk to this guy again for a day, no, an hour.

After a while, Edgar spoke: "Why rush up?"

He was stunned, and realized that he really felt wronged. He didn't know whether the unicorn's EQ was too low or it was on purpose, "You can't kill people, he can kill you casually with a single spell."

"Of course I want to strike first!"

"Why did I do this, do you still want to ask?" He stared at him sadly, "How many times have I said, I..."

"Stop," Edgar quickly stopped, "You've read too many rubbish romance novels."

Who is he for?

"Next time, don't do this."

If he heard correctly, the man's tone seemed to soften a bit.

"You know, unicorns have a particularly long life, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life missing a vampire."

Xiao froze in place.

Seeing his appearance, Edgar shook his head helplessly, thinking that this vampire was still as stupid as ever after living with him for so many years... He walked straight past him.

When Xiao reacted, he could only catch a glimpse of that person's back from afar.

He ran after him.

"Edgar!"

73.

When Dylan returned to the room, he found Elaine asleep.

He walked to the side of the bed without a sound, and lowered his head to stare at the sleeping face of the other party.

——If the person who troubled you and the person who rescued you has the same soul, what should you do?

He didn't know that at the moment when he learned the truth, he also felt the strong hatred from a hundred years ago come back again. After a hundred years, it seemed that he still couldn't escape the cage set by that person, and was still deceived again.

But just one look at this man and all the anger and hatred melted away.

All he knew was that he wanted to have this person—this desire was so strong that it overwhelmed everything else.

It was already dusk when Elaine woke up again. He looked at the stunned sunlight outside the window and thought: This is a magical time.

Then he turned his head to look at the person sitting on the side of the bed, and smiled slightly, "Dylan, you're back."

The man looked at him with those scarlet eyes, like the setting sun in the sky, with rare gentleness.

He asked softly: "Wake up, are you hungry?"

Elaine leaned over to lean on him, and Dylan changed positions accordingly to make him more comfortable.

Elaine rubbed against his arms to show that she still didn't want to wake up.

A cool hand ran through his hair, and finally landed on his left cheek, caressing gently, "Can you remove this scar?"

He refused decisively: "Not good."

Dylan whispered, "You're punishing me."

"That's right." Elaine sighed softly in his heart, and also felt his despicableness. He had nothing to contend with, and the only thing he used to threaten him was this person's feelings for him?

"sorry."

Elaine didn't expect to hear this sentence from the other party's mouth. He froze for a moment, then bent his eyes and smiled, "I thought it would be another three words."

Dylan only paused for a second, then he wrinkled his face, "Because I'm ugly, you don't want to talk about it?"

"No……"

Elaine muttered to herself, "I knew that you liked this face. After all, I am nothing but this face."

"Edgar said that I am the Son of God. Actually, I have no real feeling about it. After all, I don't look like that kind of person."

"I don't know magic, my personality is not decisive enough, and I don't have any charisma."

Dylan stopped him: "Well, you can't say that."

"why?"

Dylan hesitated for a moment, "Because..." He stumbled and whispered, "I love you." When he finally said this, he felt a sense of relief on the one hand, and his face became hot again uncontrollably. Not being able to hide this after returning to humans is probably the most troublesome thing.

But when he lowered his head and found that those amber eyes were filled with bright smiles, he felt a great satisfaction and... happiness?To be watched by such eyes is indeed an incomparable happiness.

Elaine's face was also red, and she continued to ask: "Is there any more?"

Dylan said: "I asked you about the flower language of roses...

"That's..." Dylan looked at him so intently that Elaine now felt those eyes were like rose-colored swirls, and he heard him whisper in his ear, "Everything about you is lovely, my princess."

"This is what I wanted to tell you from the beginning."

As soon as the words fell, a kiss was like a butterfly landing on the beloved flower, and gently tapped on his forehead.

Elaine did feel a huge throbbing in her heart at this moment.

He suddenly thought of what he said: love happens naturally and comes suddenly.He didn't know when that moment was between them, but the man fell into that river and offered his hand to him on the bank, and he could have said no, but he didn't.He always found it difficult to keep himself out of this person.

He also knows what the other party wants.

So he put his arms around him and said, "Dylan, stop wallowing in the dark. I won't leave you, and you'll never be alone again."

At that moment, Dylan seemed to have returned to a hundred years ago. He was imprisoned in the cold and damp tower with heavy chains. He could not see the sky and the sun, and time lost its meaning. One day, a hand reached out in the darkness. He hesitated to hand over his hand, which led him all the way out of trouble, and he saw him in the evening sun—and then everything was different, history was rewritten, and he was truly saved.

Dylan closed his eyes, hugged the person in his arms tightly, and even felt a burning heat in his eyes surged up uncontrollably.

So the kiss fell all the way down to the other's soft lips.

He uttered a loving word between his lips and teeth: "Queriendoserfrío, mederritonadamásrozartupiel."

——Fin——

2017.11.01

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This is the end, the article I started on Christmas Eve last year has finally finished writing this year's Halloween (.

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