Blooming Tower of the West Wind

The flowers must have all died.

She has visited Tius twice, and the footstool seems to still remember her heroic moments, and when she sees her, she jumps up and down excitedly, as if asking if there is still a fight to fight.

Her mana gradually recovered. As Hipper said, eating more and sleeping more is the only way to restore mana. At first, she thought that she was the only one who had never experienced the phenomenon of mana exhaustion. However, there were some signs that made her feel Familiar places, such as dizziness and blackness when passing through the teleportation circle, such as headache and lethargy, the last one is obvious, she can't summon Lenning, so that this mischievous water lord can only stretch out one tentacles every day Spend time with her.

These are all phenomena that Hipper once had. After carefully recalling the climate and details at that time, she was sure that Hipper had two mana overdraws.

The second time was because of breaking through the storm, but what about the first time?Why on earth did she need to face the storm alone?

But she didn't have many chances to ask Hipper, isn't the kiss more confusing between them than this incident?

But Hipper never seemed to intend to explain, and Theron couldn't help guessing what the "last thing I want to know" Hipper said at the time, why... why did he suddenly jump to a gift-like kiss.

She thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out what Hipper wanted to know and needed to verify it with a commanding kiss. In the end, she could only attribute it to "wanting to know if my students have any wrong thoughts about me".This gave her a thrill of being seen through every time she went to see Hipper. She waited for Hipper's sentence, but the sentence was delayed. She often looked out the window with a tired face, wearing her mage The robes are used to keep warm, and at most they can say some innocuous words.

"Theron, I'm sorry for the delay in your paper."

"I'm sorry you didn't go back to Aime Cortes until I got better."

"I'm afraid our library will be lost, and your progress will be affected."

"But I still hope that you can continue your thesis during this period when you can't go home. Don't delay your future because of me, okay?"

She always looked polite and alienated, as if she had forgotten such a thing, and it seemed to be a silent denial of their once intimacy.

Theron has a lot of time to spare. Although Aimee Cortes still has a lot of repair work for her, the first thing to solve should be the problem of the portal, and if you want the portal to return directly to Aimee Cortes, And there must be a mountain giant to send it back down-to-earth.

She went back and forth between the library in Setralo and St. Terence's every day, and once was lucky enough to meet Emerson who came to visit Hipper.When she hesitated to ask Emerson to teach her how to summon mountain giants, the other party agreed readily, on the condition that she perform a few water polo tricks.

It's that simple?She couldn't even believe it, but Emerson warmly invited her to be a guest in Selongkron. She not only visited the room where Hipper once lived, but also summoned a mountain giant on the wasteland directly opposite her room.

Emerson was especially happy from beginning to end, a little too kindly.

Then it went very smoothly. She spent her own money to order a new portal in the rebuilt Withered Leaf City trade union, and lied to Hipper that she would stay at school for two more days, and then asked the mountain giant to drive the person in charge of installation and commissioning. The staff trekked in the desert for two days (Virgil led the way) back to the gray and white tower.

Her flowers were dying, and this miracle plant had to use up the fat lower leaves to support the growth at the top when no one watered it.She quickly poured the water, and the gorgeous sight of watering scared the space mage who came with them from ear to ear.

There were wolf carcasses everywhere, but that was not the most important thing. Theron ordered the son of the soil who was sleeping faithfully at the door to leave, and then walked into the library.

Fortunately, she temporarily repaired the damaged walls when she left. Even so, a thick layer of dust still accumulated in the messy library inside. There are still traces of fighting on the texture surface, except for the deep plow marks, which are the remains of rock melting and solidification.

The old portal had been taken away as evidence, leaving only a pedestal glowing at the far end of the library, and the Sons of the Earth followed them, holding the new stone ring, at Theron's command to place it On the pedestal, after a burst of humming, the runes on it lit up one by one, and the staff breathed a sigh of relief. This journey was really not easy.

Yes, they encountered all the strange phenomena in the desert except the storm, as if the king was seriously ill and the princes were just about to move.

She was very happy, and asked everyone to leave from the teleportation array with her chest upright, and passed through three teleportations to St. Terences regardless of the dizziness, but fell to the ground due to the heavy load, which frightened the staff here. Two little priests even tried to help her up.

Theron waved his hand and said it was okay, and walked from here to the depths of the holy city of Terensis.When she reached the depths of the rest area of ​​the temple, she couldn't help but look up at the neat row of windows.There were only a few rooms inhabited, and only Hipper's had the curtains drawn.

What is she doing behind the curtain?are you sleeping?Theron's leather shoes hit the ground of the overhead corridor, it was too quiet here, even if she deliberately stepped lightly, the tranquility here was disturbed by her.

This kind of disturbance seemed to disturb this not-so-big courtyard. Hipper's curtains moved, but that was all, and there was no more movement after that.

She went upstairs. There were almost no people here. The paladins and inspectors who had been standing guard outside when she just woke up had withdrawn as Hipper recovered.She knocked on Hipper's door, and a faint voice let her in.

"teacher……"

There was no one else here, and Hipper was sitting on the bed alone, with her knees bent, and her fingers resting between her eyebrows, as if she was uncomfortable.She was still wearing her robe, and the shoulders were outlined in a sharp shape due to gravity.

Then who was the cause of the flickering of the curtains just now?

Such a question arose in Theron's heart, which was quickly replaced by another question.

"Teacher, what's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?"

Hipper looked up, her pale face making her more like a statue than something alive. "It's nothing, just a little tired. Have you found anything new? After spending two days and two nights?"

"Uh... When will you be discharged from the hospital? Do you still need to stay in the temple for a long time?"

Hipper smiled, "Is it too stuffy here? The priests said I just need to rest, and I don't need to soak in holy water anymore."

"Eh? Eh? Why don't I know..."

Hipper smiled faintly, "You didn't ask."

It sounded damn harsh, like Hipper was blaming her for not caring about her.

Hipper had withdrawn her smile at this time, and her frown showed that she was not feeling well. She whispered, "Come closer, please."

Theron happily sat beside her bed, and Hipper lowered her eyelids and said in a voice that was almost whispering: "We are just homeless, and now I kind of regret that I set my home in a desert where there are no people."

Theron patted her hand by her side and said, "Don't worry, we can go home already."

Hipper looked up in astonishment.

Theron smiled and said, "I've put the portal back in."

"When?"

"Today, today."

"Are you going these two days?"

Theron immediately showed a bright smile: "I'm going to deliver the goods."

But Hipper didn't show the gratified expression she expected, just looked at her quietly and said calmly: "Before you do such a dangerous thing next time, you must tell me."

Theron also lowered his head and said in a low voice: “Teacher, aren’t you happy?”

"Going home is certainly a joy, but what happened these days scares me. What you do is commendable and thankful, but I'm always worried... worried about your safety." Hipper looked at her, hesitating to speak again and again. It can be seen that she is not very happy, her brows are slightly frowned, and she is so unhappy that she is too stingy to say the compliments that she used to say like modal particles.But at the same time, the expression on her face was faltering, as if that layer of marble-like appearance would soon be broken into pieces.

However, in the end, her hesitation was over, and when she looked at Theron again, the moving look in her eyes was gone, and the layer of marble was as firm as ever, "I need...to be alone."

Theron had to stand up and cover up his embarrassment by saying, "I'll see you again at dinner."

When she went out to close the door, she turned her head to look at Hipper, but she could only see her expressionless face, just like... just like when she saw Hipper for the first time, her face was frosty, as if Nothing in the world could please her.

But after she closed the door, the archmage fell down on the bed in frustration, and there were obviously a few red marks on her open hands, just on the lower edge of the palm, matching the marks of the nails.She squeezed her fist too hard just now.

"What the hell am I... what am I doing..."

I want to... make her happy because of me...

She touched her lips, looked at the line of sky between the curtains in a daze, and if she wasn't in a daze, she kept recalling her good mood of viciously destroying Theron one by one, as if being forced things.

But what the hell am I doing?

Self-loathing surrounded her, but she couldn't think of a solution, and it was like that until dinner time at night.Miss Priest helped bring her dinner, checked her body by the way, and explained kindly that she "just needs to rest more and not think too much, especially you should put down your work."

The author has something to say: The old mage just had a migraine.

The old mage is about to wither.