How to become a sea witch

The most precious people and things.

Bernice was a little confused by this statement, she just instinctively felt that such an overly beautiful word had nothing to do with her, and she didn't know how to answer his question.

The sound of the cello in the ear continued, mixed with the bleak and high soprano singing continuously.The cold and transparent water flow in the crystal ball is still flowing along the edge of the glass tank,? Little by little, increasing,? Slowly but clearly submerging the girl's knees.

A faint blood flowed from the scar on her wrist, smeared on the wet white clothes, so eye-catching.

precious people and things...precious...

I don't know why,? Bernice suddenly remembered a little irritably, when she met Rodriguez at the bottom of the Fallen Garden.At that time, in despair, she basically told the other party about her past.Decades passed,? She almost forgot about it.

But I didn't expect that I would face a series of troubles that I never imagined because of this incident recently.

Now here comes another Lambert Greer.

She sat on the sofa expressionlessly, looking like she was in a daze, but she decided in her heart that after finding out the whereabouts of this human girl, she would kill her immediately.

It's just that the question he asked really made it difficult for her to answer it in the first place.

Or, make up a lie to trick him? Anyway, they've never met before, so what does it matter if it's true or not?

Thinking of this, Bernice began to think quickly, what kind of story should be fabricated.

Lambert sat opposite, watching her motionless across a curved-leg wooden table with two cups of warm black tea on it.

The exhaustion and stiffness of the body have always existed since the soul was traded to the magic lamp, and it is getting worse every second,? Sometimes he doubts that he will directly turn into a pile of flesh and dust in the next moment, but the spirit His obsession has been supporting him.

He must know the most cherished past in Bernice's heart.

This weird obsession came from the moment when she shook off the blond boy holding her hand tightly as if she was greatly frightened at the wedding.

She looked so terrified, afraid of every word, every movement, and even the eyes of the other party.But before that, he pretended to be sincere and kind, flattering the relationship between him and Dakota.

If Lambert were to judge for himself, he would have no hesitation in thinking that Bernice was a damned vicious liar who deserved the same vengeance as she had for using his magic lamp.

However, when she faced a hostage who had nothing to do with herself, despite struggling and hesitating for a long time, she finally chose to save him.In addition, at the wedding scene, Lambert could tell that even though Bernice always thought it was just a fake wedding, the blond boy was obviously serious.

Moreover, she obviously discovered this too.

Surprise or resistance is a normal reaction.

But it's not normal to be scared like that.

All her behaviors showed a complex and contradictory state of mind, which made him very curious.

A being with a similar appearance to Dakota, but a completely different heart.

While thinking about it, Bernice had already figured out how to deceive the past, so she began to adjust her facial state appropriately, so that she seemed to be in a kind of real tender memory: "When I was young, once I Go to the North Bay Ice..."

She told the story of a non-existent experience, a sea girl who rescued a human boy at the seaside of a beautiful snow-covered town, and then continued to maintain a deep relationship for decades.

The process is even detailed and vivid to how they hunted deer in the forest to pick up fruits, and how they took advantage of the short summer time to go fishing at sea.When the long polar night season comes, they will pile up branches filled with white sea salt, and light a blue-green bonfire that is as beautiful as the aurora above their heads.

This is definitely a story that is flawless and touching enough without being too deliberate.

After Bernice finished speaking, she purposely remained silent for a few seconds, then quickly adjusted her posture and looked straight at him: "I've told you what you want to know, now it's up to you to tell me where this girl is."

"It's really a beautiful story." Lambert nodded in approval, while raising his hand and hovering over the crystal ball for a few seconds.

More water frantically poured into the glass tank where the girl was, raising the water level from her knees to her waist in the blink of an eye.The girl cried out even more frightenedly, coughing and screaming for help, and kicked the surrounding glass vigorously to try to slow down the flow of water, but she could only watch it keep climbing until it had submerged her chest.

"What are you doing?" Bernice was stunned for a moment, and quickly stood up, the snow-white layered gauze skirt unfurled immediately, reflecting the long black hair.

She clasped the opponent's hand with such strength that she could almost break it directly, and her tone was obviously fierce: "Believe it or not, after I break your hand, I can still keep you awake to feel it." That pain, until you're a pile of bones."

"I believe you can, but by then, I'm afraid this girl will already be the same as me?" Lambert replied calmly, "I have already traded my soul to the magic lamp, what else is there?" What am I afraid of? Death?"

"No, it's the gift I've been waiting for. And you, Bernice..."

He looked at the other party, focusing on the pair of light green eyes that showed vitality due to emotional fluctuations, and an illusory sense of satisfaction filled his withered heart: "This is your punishment for lying to me. Now You have one more chance, if you lie again, I will completely drown her."

"I didn't..."

"If you're really going to be on friendly terms with a human boy for decades, easily struck by someone's genuine affection, what are you afraid of at a wedding?"

Bernice was stunned again, she didn't expect him to change the topic to a direction that caught her completely off guard.She blinked, and tried to maintain the same attitude as before and replied: "If you encounter such a situation where the other party suddenly doesn't follow the plan, you will be shocked."

"Yes, that's true. But since it's the last step, shouldn't you cooperate with the other party no matter what happens, so as not to waste all your efforts? You don't look like the kind of person who will easily give up halfway."

"You don't know me at all, how do you know if I will do this?"

"That's why I invited you here to get to know you better." Lambert said, gently breaking away from Bernice's hand, and motioning for her to sit down again, "During the wedding, I was at the In the ensemble not far from you, you seem to be looking for me when you see it?

Later, when the groom next to you said those words to you, I can see that you still want to continue to cooperate with him for a period of time to continue this episode that was not what you expected. "

"But you didn't do that. Because you seemed to realize something at that time, which scared you very much, didn't you?"

He spoke slowly, each syllable was a passage of time, and together with the water that was still pouring in even though it was much slower, it made Bernice very uncomfortable: "What are you afraid of? ? Because you found out he was serious?"

Not knowing whether it was because he had guessed her mind, or because the topic involved Tiago, Bernice suddenly felt a very strong resistance, and a daze that she didn't even know.

It always seemed to be like this, as long as it was related to Thiago, she couldn't understand or understand it. She just subconsciously chose to ignore or simply avoid him, just like this time.

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is the instinct of any creature, as is staying away from all dangerous unknowns, and she doesn't think there is anything wrong with this.

but……

But at the wedding just now, what she was afraid of was not these at all, but his answer.

The answer that might change everything.

Thinking of this, Bernice began to become nervous uncontrollably.When her fingertips brushed against the exquisite diamond ornaments on the wedding dress, she felt an obvious tingling sensation, which seemed to be caused by sweating.It was hard to imagine that in such a hot midsummer, the palms of her hands were covered with fine cold sweat.

The girl in the crystal ball was already on the verge of death, and her physical strength was exhausted by kicking, beating and struggling for too long, leaving only the strength to sob from time to time.

"Well." Bernice suddenly heard Lambert say to her, "how about you just tell me about you and the groom? I think this question may be more meaningful than the one I asked before." ."significance?

Bernice withdrew her gaze and raised her head, and sat back on the sofa behind her with a blank expression. Her whole body was almost completely wrapped in those fluffy and wide skirts, as if she was sitting in a snowdrift. In a second, it will be completely swallowed up by those surrounded by whiteness.

Soon, she gave an answer in a cold voice: "He is the supreme god like the God of Light, and I am a sea witch. This wedding was held to attract you and the magic lamp, that's all."

Lambert believed that she was telling the truth this time, but this answer was obviously even more unexpected.So much so that after listening to Bernice's words, he was obviously taken aback for a moment, and then he laughed strangely: "You mean, a god can find any angel or elf to complete this task with you. In the case of a fake wedding, you have to attend as the groom yourself, is that right?"

His words made Bernice stunned for a moment, as if something shattered suddenly, and a certain part of the confusion in her mind that had existed for a long time was finally answered at this moment.

Lambert was right, there was no need for Thiago to do this by himself, this kind of behavior was completely weird and redundant.

Thinking of this, Bernice's face suddenly turned pale for a moment, as if she had seen something that frightened her.But soon, she blinked and quickly adjusted her state. Her straight back unconsciously seemed to be under some great pressure, and she replied in a blunt tone: "Whatever you think."

The other party smiled, the skin on his shriveled face was so fragile that it would be torn apart by such a small movement at any time, and he continued to ask in a hoarse voice: "Tell me how you met, I'm curious about this. A demon, how is it?" An encounter with a god."

Meet?

Bernice's thoughts were hazy for a few seconds, and she recalled the volcanic eruption a hundred years ago, which was also the first time she and Thiago met, and a deception started under Ursula's instigation.

Lambert looked at her with a little surprise when he heard half of it, and there was no focus in his cloudy eyes: "So, you were not born to be a sea witch? Then how did you become like this?"

"Then how did you become what you are now?" Bernice asked back.

When she said this, Lambert immediately understood: "It seems that our experiences are very similar. So, you later became a sea witch's subordinate, and what happened next? Did you think about running away at that time?"

"I have thought about it, why haven't I thought about it, and I have succeeded once." Bernice replied casually, all the subtle expressions faded from her face, and the light green eyes became empty as a result, like It is two dead lakes.

She remembered that one time after she was imprisoned in the sea witch's lair, she once escaped with other sea creatures who were also imprisoned in the cage through joint efforts.

That was probably the fastest time in her life when she swam, all she wanted was to stay away from the hell full of demons and infinite horrors, to escape to the place where the sea water was clear, and to the safest place in the hearts of every ordinary marine creature, the Abyssal God's Domain. Go, expecting to be born again, to be able to live a normal life before.

"Then, what happened later?" Lambert's voice was soft and hoarse, like the old murmur of those dusty memories that were gradually awakened and broke out continuously.

Later, they did escape to the edge of Sea Witch territory, Bernice being the last.

When she dragged her bruised body and tried her best to climb to the top of the thorny city wall made of cooled magma stones, she could step out with just one step forward.

She gave up.

"Why?" Lambert asked inexplicably, but immediately realized, "Did you see something?"

Bernice didn't answer right away, but after a long silence with empty eyes, she said in a lifeless tone: "I saw them..."

Numerous well-trained mermaid troops armed with sharp knives surrounded the sea witch's territory, avenging the entire royal inspection team killed by Ursula before.

And those sea spirits who fled together, the moment they crossed the thorny city wall, before they had time to tell their own experiences and asked for the protection of the mermaid tribe, they were alienated by the sudden explosion of the sea witch curse and became vicious. monster.

Bernice stood on top of the thorn wall in a daze, watching all her companions screaming and struggling.The thin and small body swelled and twisted, with sharp fangs growing out of its mouth, it crazily rushed towards the mermaid army in front of it, and was killed by them cleanly into bloody fragments.

A mass of rich and ominous crimson gradually spread in the sea water, accompanied by sharper and piercing screams.

Bernice was so frightened that her entire body went limp and trembling, she could barely kneel on the top of the thorn wall, when she faintly heard a hoarse voice that was struggling so hard that it seemed to be squeezed out of her trachea, it was difficult to penetrate the blood, to her Howling in pain: "Quick...don't come here, run away, run away..."

But where could she go?

Going forward, she will end up dead like them.

Afterwards, a large group of sea demons were loyally following Ursula and coming here.

There is no one to turn to, nowhere to escape.

She was stuck in place, and any advance or retreat would be an abyss.

Bernice couldn't remember exactly what she was thinking at that time, or maybe she didn't think anything at all.

She stared blankly at the countless mermaids in front of her, at their beautiful but impersonal and delicate faces, and the sharp spears in their hands that were bleeding bloodshot, and then looked back at the mermaids who were smiling contemptuously at her. The sea witch who stretched out her hand suddenly lost any strength.

From that day on, she was Ursula's most obedient and capable subordinate for hundreds of years, until the news of the Sea God's birth came from the Abyss Sea God Territory.

Defrauding the heart of the ocean is the most difficult and last task for Bernice.

She didn't finish it, and paid dearly for it.

Lambert listened quietly to every word she said, until Bernice finished telling how she was imprisoned in the Sin Garden, without any interruption or question in the middle.And those eyes that were cloudy like a rainy day kept looking at her, the dim light in the eyes changed several times, seeming bright but not bright focused.

After a while, Bernice spoke again, with obvious irritability in her expression, and her attitude was strong and cold: "Okay, you already know everything you want to know. You should tell me where this human girl is. It's time."

If he dared to delay or refuse again, kill him, Bernice had already made a decision.

However, unexpectedly, after a brief silence, Lambert quickly handed Bernice an iron key, and quickly reported a series of place names, and reminded him quite thoughtfully: "It's just here There's a small town across the sea that you can just ask. Crossing a shallow sea shouldn't be a problem for you at all, right?"

She froze for a moment, glanced at the girl in the white dress who had been submerged in the crystal ball to the chin, and took the key, but was quickly held by the other party, and touched the back of her hand with her lips.

A sudden hand kiss.

Bernice was frightened by him, and immediately threw him away, her green eyes were full of fright and anger.

"I apologize for all the malicious guesses I made about you before, Bernice. At the same time, I can fully understand Your Majesty the Sea God." Lambert didn't seem to mind the other party's actions, he just sat on the sofa, his body stiff He said to her, every syllable full of sincerity, "You're the best girl I've ever met besides Dakota."

"What are you talking about? Are you crazy?" Bernice frowned, with a weird expression on her face.

"Go and save her."

He said: "Your future will be bright and beautiful, just keep your head up and move forward."

For a moment, Bernice really wanted to grab him and shake him wildly, until he said something the devil could understand, instead of a few words that made her skin crawl and chills ran down her spine.

But time has not allowed her to hesitate any longer.

She glanced at the keys in her hand, and couldn't even remember to pick up the veil that fell aside, so she turned and ran out of the manor without hesitation, and came outside the sunny house.

Standing on the terrace, Lambert watched her go all the way through the green grass full of flowers, the gauze skirt dragged behind her to reveal the flawless whiteness of the ground, and finally jumped into the deep blue sea at the end of her sight.

everything is over.

He thought silently, and at the same time felt a heavier sense of fatigue sweeping over him, which was the expression that after losing his soul, his only remaining witchcraft support was about to be exhausted.

After standing by the terrace for a while, Lambert finally decided to go back to the room and quietly wait for the end of his life.

But when he just turned around, he suddenly felt a slight tingling pain on his cheek, as if he was cut by something suddenly.

He opened his eyes, and saw a thin crystal snowflake falling to the ground, and soon disappeared without a trace.Immediately afterwards, the second and third pieces fell down like large pieces of torn tinfoil, which were extremely light but dazzling.

At this time, the sky has been covered by a thin layer of gray clouds, the light is gradually weakening, the temperature has dropped from midsummer to midwinter, and everything around has lost the bright and brilliant summer that should have burst out, only cold The wind is hunting, and the ice and snow are everywhere.

At the same time, the sea water around the island suddenly became manic, and the raging dark waves were like wild beasts out of control.They engulfed the reef, broke into the land, destroyed the forest, approached to the foot of the manor, and reduced the whole house into an isolated island. The huge roar was deafening.

Through the dense blizzard that kept falling, Lambert saw a familiar blond boy who had arrived in the room at some point, holding the veil that Bernice had forgotten to take away.

He was still wearing the dark silver fine-striped black suit from the wedding ceremony, his long platinum hair was a little disheveled by the cold wind, there was no readable expression on his beautiful face facing the light, it was completely indifferent like a mask The unpopular face, just appearing at the blurred junction between the dim skylight and the shadows, looks like a chilling feeling.

"Your things." Thiago said, throwing the tangled red thread and the torn all-seeing eye totem in front of Lambert.

Before he could say anything, the ever-growing frost around him completely froze Lambert in place.

"Where's Bernice?" Thiago asked calmly, while slowly walking out of the shadows, his brows and eyes were cold, "I don't want to repeat it again, so this is your only chance."

The extreme low temperature made Lambert's already reluctant mental state even worse. He struggled to breathe, and the icy air almost frostbitten his throat.In a trance, he began to instinctively chant prayers softly, trying to keep himself a little awake.

"Do you think it's useful to pray to Augsig now?" Thiago interrupted his self-talk, his blue eyes were as bottomless as the sea roaring around him.

"Even if the God of Light you believe in is really here..."

The heavy snow was still falling, and the dark clouds piled up deeper, and the ubiquitous cold buried him.Lambert looked at the eyes of the boy in front of him with blurred vision, not knowing whether it was the temperature of the environment that made him feel the deadly cold, or his gaze.

Like this blizzard, he was pale and cold.

"Do you think you can die well?"

That's right, the moment he heard Bernice reveal the identity of the other party, Lambert had already expected this fate for himself.

He trembled violently, and his obviously purple lips squirmed out a few words: "You... care about... her, care..."

"Yeah." Thiago admitted without hesitation, his eyebrows and eyes changed slightly, as if he was a little helpless, but soon turned into a more complicated and difficult emotion, "I usually don't deal with you like this, after all Anyway, you are also a believer in Augsig, so it is unnecessary to make it like this. But..."

As he said, he returned to his original expressionless face: "For me, Bernice is the most important thing."

For this, everything else can be indifferent.

Lambert looked at him and easily understood the second half of Thiago's unspoken sentence, but he didn't feel scared, but rather pleased, and even laughed intermittently.

Because he saw something so similar to himself in Thiago, the same obsession to the point of morbidity, the same unscrupulous means, but still decorated with a gentle and harmless demeanor.

Like an apple painted with bright red paint, the inside has long been rotten.

"It seems that you are very happy?" Thiago looked at him indifferently, smiled slightly, and reached out to take out a necklace from his pocket, "Do you remember what this is?"

Lambert glanced at it, and his already cloudy pupils shrank immediately: "This is... Give it back to me! This is mine... Give it back to me!"

"It seems that you still remember." Tiago nodded casually, "Yes, I asked Queen White to find this from Dakota's house before. It should be an important witness for you, right?"

"Give it back to me..." He struggled, his weak strength was not enough to shake the heavy frost restraint on his body, so he was forced to listen to every word of the other party.

"I've always been curious why you kept refusing to talk about Dakota's death, whether it was in the opera or otherwise. Until just now, I asked the lamp about you by the way, after all, I think he should be considered I know you well."

"Don't say it...shut up, don't say it!"

"Because she didn't die of illness at all, did she?"

Thiago clung to his ear, and slowly and softly said softly: "It was you who accidentally killed her in an accident."

"It's not me—!" He roared, his dry and skinny face was distorted by an intense emotion, and even his voice was hoarse on the verge of collapse, "It's not me—! I didn't hurt her! I didn't Might hurt her—! You have no right to say that! You're a fucking..."

Before he finished speaking, Thiago made a silent gesture at him, and at the same time held the necklace in his hand, ready to crush it into dust at any moment: "I said, I don't want to repeat that question anymore , that is your only chance."

"No——! No, don't destroy it!" Realizing his plan, Lambert's anger immediately turned into fear, and he explained Bernice's whereabouts completely, "She played on the flute across the sea. In the town of Walla, I still have one last hostage there, and she is going to rescue the human being."

"That's right." Thiago let go of his hand, and at the same time removed the ice seal on his body, "This necklace belongs to you."

After being imprisoned in low temperature for a long time, Lambert knelt down almost instantly when he was freed, his whole body was twitching violently, still wanting to reach for the necklace.

However, in the next second, Thiago lightly raised his hand and threw it directly into the sea water.

"Dakota..." Without any hesitation, Lambert immediately followed the faint light and jumped into the sea at the same time.

The blizzard in midsummer was still raging, and the sea water was also surging rapidly, completely destroying and engulfing the entire Red Manor without leaving a trace.More water began to rise continuously, gradually converging into a soft and beautiful female appearance, and saluted Thiago respectfully: "Your Majesty, he is dead, what should we do with the body?"

"Throw it back to the shore." He replied without thinking, and then added, "By the way, let the Queen know, and they can do whatever they want, as long as they don't stay in the sea. The water quality here is close to the industrial area of ​​the human city. Dirty."

"Understood. Do you need me to follow you to find Miss Sea Witch?"

"Need not."

As he said, he lowered his eyebrows and folded the veil in his hand: "I'll just pick her up."

"As ordered."

The author has something to say: Fat off the corpse, let me see who else is in the pit...

ah! ! ! !Only myself! ! ! ! !

The escape in Bernice’s memories is connected with Chapter 4. In Chapter 4, it is written that the day she was almost bitten to death by a sea turtle, many companions are saying that a mermaid from a royal inspection team was killed by a sea witch. up.I don't think anyone will remember this point, so I will mention it again.