[Zhongyingmei] The Spirit Master is backstabbing again

Among the most well-known concepts, [desire to survive] seems to be an instinct imprinted in DNA by biology.

No matter which country or which world the rich and powerful are pursuing longevity, even after death they have to place their hopes on 'resurrection' or a 'beautiful afterlife world', or the simpler and cruder 'afterlife'.

Desire 【life】, and hate 【death】.

Humans don't even want to use the word 'death' to describe the event itself, but always choose some more euphemistic and vague words to refer to.

Is death terrible?

Or is the parting, the regret, and the uneasiness caused by death more terrifying?

Hela, the goddess of death, once asked the supreme mage a question, 'Why do Selinya and Jason have such a strong breath of death? '

—— Strange was able to view countless parallel time and space, and witnessed countless endings, but he also failed to give any answers at that time.

The breath of death on Jason...that's why he's here tonight.

Because he has experienced death.

This is a robin who once passed through the kingdom of the undead, but with scars all over his body, he stubbornly flew back to the real world.

And Selina—

Where did the breath of death surrounding her come from?

Was it from the genocide that she experienced when she was just born?Was it from her experience of pulling herself back from the brink of death every time she fought for nearly a decade?Is it because of her weakening bodily organs?

Or, because she is an unknown variable that does not belong to this world?

When she was in the wizarding world, Selina had very few opportunities to communicate with the outside world, and it was even less likely that anyone would be willing to listen to her mentioning concepts such as family and parents.

In that era of scrambling for positions of power, of course available living people are more valuable.

But occasionally there is still a chance... For example, when Selinya was thrown into the Colosseum a few times before, she would hear those 'seniors' with more senior qualifications around her discussing their origins.

Selinya was only seven years old when she entered the Colosseum for the first time, and the enemy she faced was an adult werewolf.

The reason is also very simple, of course not to send her to die, she was still a qualified luxury item at that time.It was just because the nobles were dissatisfied with her learning progress, so they said: 'Only by understanding the feeling of death can I release my strength better'.

What a reasonable sentence.

Just as their righteous words explained, "We are cultivating you, and we are also giving you the most trustworthy treatment."

Before the battle started, several orcs who had just stepped off the battlefield looked at her suspiciously, "Huh? Such a small cub?"

Giggling and judging her ending, "Looks like we'll have extra meals tonight."

It was very obvious sarcasm, but the people who spoke didn't feel that they had much malice. After all, they only felt that they were talking about the future that would definitely happen to that girl.

To find a little entertainment in their blood life, they didn't forget to ask: "Hey girl, where are you from? Is your family from here too?"

"Maybe your parents lost to me too."

"..." Amidst the sharp laughter, Selinya didn't give any response.

Because she didn't know exactly how she should answer these questions.

Like the questioner, she does not know where she is from, nor does she know anything about her family.

She just remained silent, then struggled through the battle and walked down from the stage-like gaze alive.

Fight to fame.

As Selinya survived the battles in the Colosseum again and again, no creature dared to tell those jokes that were not funny in front of her.

But Selinya always remembered that question.

No matter how many books she read and how many names of gods she read, she couldn't get the answer to that question.

Just like her experience.She cannot find the past, nor can she foresee her future.

...But now, Selina finally found the answer to that question.

Because she finally met her family.

Wrapped tightly in her arms by a pair of arms, Selinya's mind went blank, and she couldn't immediately understand what happened.

But at this moment, her body instinctively began to jump up and down for joy, her heart beat hard into her ribs, and she let out the quietest and most powerful scream.

It was the instinctive joy of a young bird returning to its nest... It was like this. The youngest child in the family finally returned to his family after traveling for 18 years.

"...I..." Selinya stared blankly at the people in front of her, suddenly unable to find her own voice and thinking, and could only spit out broken syllables when she opened her mouth.

"We've heard it all, baby," the woman holding Selina raised her hand to caress her side face, "We've heard every call you've made to us."

Those voices almost broke her heart.

"What did the people you met just now say?" She was not willing to let go of her hands at all, wishing she could hold Selina so tightly all the time and never let go again, "As they said, we also I've been watching you all the time."

Watching Selinya save her own destiny, watching her change her own destiny.

She is such a brave girl, she doesn't wait for any savior, and she yearns for the sun even in a dark and small room.

After the mother finished saying that, those people who were still standing behind trying to restrain their emotions rushed forward in an instant.

Many voices crashed into Selinya's eardrums at the same time.

"Look at me sweetheart, I'm my sister!"

"...You don't bully children indiscriminately! You are an aunt according to your seniority!"

"Why! My last age was, only, 11 years older than Little Sweetheart! What's wrong with my sister!"

All psychics have free souls.

Even after death, he will be scattered with the wind and integrate himself into this world.

After that disaster, Serenia was the only survivor among them.

Also the smallest of them all.

The race they belong to has always had a small number of people.Compared with [race], it is more like a medium-sized family.

Before Selina, the last latest born child was even nearly 30 years old...

Children are to be pampered and grown up, to be well protected and cared for.

——Before Selina was born, her clansmen had thought so confidently.

But they hadn't had the chance to do so, and she had never had their protection and affection.

So they blessed the youngest girl in the family, 'Live well, you will have more protection and love. '

During the battle, Selina suffered many injuries, fatal, broken bones, cut skin...

But the breath of death lingering on Selinya's body is not because of these.

It was the dead who had died a long time ago, giving her blessings.

But this wish was realized too slowly, too slowly.

So slow... When they watched the little girl being taken as an exhibit in front of everyone to watch, when they watched the little girl being thrown into the Colosseum as waste to drain the last bit of effect, when they watched When the little girl struggled to pad her feet to look at the sun through the narrow vent...

They really have regrets.

... regretted leaving Selinya in that world.

A free soul that can't even be restrained by a coffin is trapped in such a square for storing weapons.

...if this is considered alive.

But luckily, luckily.Although this wish was too late, it has finally come true until now.

...but also, it finally came true.

... so many voices.Listening to the noise around her, Selinya couldn't help thinking in a daze.

It turned out that she could hear so many—so many voices from her family.

This is a story that is unimaginable in the best extravagant hopes.

Celinya felt something liquid suddenly fall on her face.

She blinked blankly, thinking that she was crying while hugging her mother, and even opened her mouth to comfort her; but after the other party stretched out his fingers and gently wiped the tears on her face, Selinya realized belatedly. arrive--

Oh, it turned out that she was crying.

As long as she can remember, Selinya seldom cries.After all, tears have no positive effect on her other than consuming physical strength.

And she didn't like it, making her life that she had worked so hard to maintain into a crying and miserable life.

...But now, Selinya feels that all her tears have probably been shed in the past few days.

I cry when I see the sun, and I cry when I see my family.

So childish.

But she couldn't help it.

The little girl who seldom shows her emotions is quiet even when she cries.

Because I am used to no one responding to my emotions, and I am used to dealing with wounds by myself, so when I vent my emotions, I always reveal clumsy rustiness.

Not even forgetting to try to explain to others, "I'm only crying because..."

I don't usually cry so much, I'm just—just so happy.

It's just... so happy that I can't control my emotions.

Serenia's mother smiled softly, "Okay."

"You can vent your emotions in front of us as much as you want," she patted Selina on the back comfortingly, "it's okay, family members will tolerate each other's emotions, won't they?"

...Their little girl didn't have the opportunity to start learning about 'what is family', 'the concept of family', and 'how to get along with family' until she came to this world - she should have started from the very beginning. will do things.

"Those people you saw tonight, aren't they also tolerant of each other," she said, turning her head to look at Jason, using his opinion to support her statement, "What do you think, boy?"

"...Well." Of course Jason would only agree.

Celinya also turned her head to look at Jason, her eyelashes parted for a while, and she replied softly, "Okay."

very nice.She saw a lot of family members today, including her own.

The strange but familiar man walked up to Selinya, raised his hand to stop the noisy voices of the others, looked at Selinya firmly and said, "Although it's a day late, I still want to tell you... Happy birthday."

"...Well." Even though she has witnessed so many children's relationship with their parents tonight - from the Wayne's house to the Parker's house, when such an incredible good wish falls on her, Selina will still be at a loss, "I, I'm very happy."

Looking at her father and mother, Selinya could only stare at them closely, nodding her head constantly, trying to tell them how excited she was now in such a hard way.

Under the guidance of her mother, Selinya also greeted her other clansmen one by one.

She has a slight face blindness, but now she is trying very hard to keep everyone's faces firmly in her mind, not daring to forget even for a moment.

"I never thought that I could still hold you like this." Holding her daughter in her arms, she continued in a sad tone, "Before that, we could only visit you quietly when the festival of the dead comes."

But for a mother who misses her child, those opportunities are too few—too few.

They were able to all show up here to meet Selina—because they had only one relative living in the real world to visit.

"..." Selinya showed an unnatural expression, "Is it the same when I was in the magic world?"

After seeing them nodding, she lowered her eyes and stopped looking at her mother, "Actually, those...are not very important things."

...and nothing worth remembering.

Selinya doesn't want her family to see the bad things she has experienced.

Even if there are no tears, there is still blood flowing.

"But after coming to this world," Selina brought up this topic, her original intention was to divert everyone's attention, but she couldn't help being really happy, "I'm doing well!"

She pulled the hem of her mother's clothes, her tone subconsciously proud, "Did you see that? My teammates are very reliable, and they are all my friends and—"

Speaking of this, Selinya's voice paused and suddenly stopped.

"With family." Selinya's father completed what she hadn't finished saying, "Is that right?"

"……Um."

Selinya added nervously: "I think so..."

"They must all think so," the man chuckled, and turned to look at Jason casually. "They must also regard you as an important family member, right?"

Jason: "...um." Just like what he had just experienced, Jason could only agree.

...after all, it is true.

"That's great, are you worried we'll be mad about it?"

"Never. Honey, we're only happy—" Mother tapped the tip of Selina's nose as the elders would tease her when she was newborn, "You have the love of two worlds." Love."

"We all love you."

Selinya never thought that she could get such a sentence.

【Love from Two Worlds】...

For a long—a long time, she didn't imagine the 'love' and 'kindness' that she never had. '

It was a beautiful feeling, but none of it belonged to her.

It is not an unbearable suffering even if you have never been exposed to those feelings.After all, that's not what she needs to survive.

Of course - it would be even better if you can experience it.It doesn't even need too much, a little is enough, just a little can make her understand the meaning of those feelings... as long as it exists, it can make her understand what it feels like to have [love].

So after hearing what her mother said, what else could Selina say in response?

All she can say is—

"...Me too," the girl who doesn't like to cry shed her tears and replied word by word with a smile, "I also——love you."

She doesn't want to cry.

She wants this reunion, which has been waiting for so long, to always be accompanied by a smile.

I don't know if it is the world setting in the mission, or another gift sent by the system itself.

Selinya's words seemed to trigger some key words, and the sky that had just been silent for a long time slowly brightened up again.

The night sky was covered with a layer of twinkling stars, and the light poured into the world from high above, coating all the memories and emotions they experienced tonight with a layer of bright colors.

Since then, it has become a beautiful treasure that never fades into her life.

"Of course." Mother touched Selinya's back and whispered in her ear, "Remember to say hello to your non-human friend for us too."

She closed her eyes and thought of too many things that happened to Selina in an instant, "... I really want to thank him."

"Helped you get out of that place, and helped you get here."

Selinya has many non-human friends.

From Hela, the goddess of death, Skadi, the goddess of winter snow, to Superman from Krypton...

But Selinya's mother's precise name-calling made the system startled in an instant.

"..." The system now finally knows what Bruce Wayne was thinking after his mother exposed the secret just now.

The starry sky in this world is really beautiful. In the last few minutes of the mission countdown, Selina lay on her mother's lap, silently listening to the other party singing a lullaby to lull the child to sleep.

It was the tender tune she had heard for the first time.

——It might not be right to say that, maybe before everything happened, when she was just born, she also heard this song.

It sounds good, and it's really gentle.

Selinya closed her eyes, forgetting at this moment the countdown to the task and the reminder that the world was about to close.

She just fell asleep peacefully following her mother's voice.

She's got everything she wants...it doesn't get any better than this.

Looking at the goodnight kisses and hugs left by the host's parents, the system silently switched to silent mode and hid the countdown.

good night.

Celinya returned to the real world in her sleep.

—But Jason was a little later than her.

When the starry sky dissipated and everyone else returned to their own world, Jason stayed in this castle-like environment for another 7 minutes.

Then he was finally sure that this environment was not a randomly generated map.

Pushing open the carved door again, Jason saw the outline of this place under the light of the distant lights.

There are ancient but luxurious large fountains, carefully enclosed gardens, and several tall European-style buildings.

All the places they passed tonight are places that some people can't forget.Such as B's Crime Lane, Dicky Bird's Circus—an important node in their lives.

...then here...

The surroundings were dim, and the only source of light came from the building in the most remote corner.

Quiet and simple, it is a corner left behind by that extravagant manor, and becomes another lonely world independently.

In this abandoned corner, Jason Todd saw little Selinya standing on the bookcase looking at the night sky.

It looks like he is only eight or nine years old. Standing on the bookcase, he is looking for balance, and if he is not careful, he will pull his unhealed wound.But his eyes kept looking out through the narrow window, "There is no moon tonight."

With this exclamation full of regret, Jason woke up suddenly.

"..."

So Jason immediately realized where it was.

——The place where Selina used to live.

She was not good at lying, so when Jason asked her if she had any impression of that castle, she shook her head and answered truthfully.

Then there is only one explanation—she has hardly seen the whole picture of the old castle manor, and only stayed in that abandoned corner, so of course... she has no impression of its gate.

"..."

So that's what she's been through.

With the end of the mission, people returned to the real world from [Undead World], and they were all positioned and placed in their original locations.

Selinya, who was asleep, curled up on the carpet, surrounded by piles of gifts she hadn't finished opening.Snow Wolf carefully arched her head and helped her master choose a more comfortable position.

Selinya slept deeply, probably due to the aftereffects of being a "mediator of the two worlds" after a huge consumption, as well as the intense mood swings that lasted all night.

And of course... the total security of letting her relax.

She knows that she is at home and who is there, so there is no need for her to be nervous and be careful not to sleep.

Before going to that world, Jason was opening Selinya's room to find someone.

So of course he was cast in this position.

Jason lowered his head, Selinya's eyes were still swollen, and she cried for too long tonight.At the moment of touching, he could feel the bitterness of tears through his skin.

"..." Jason went and returned with an ice pack wrapped in a towel.

Staying in her sleep, Selinya vaguely felt a sense of emptiness.

Wobbly and not stable.

But very safe.

She opened her eyes subconsciously, but after seeing and confirming that it was Jason, she fell into a drowsy sleep in an instant, and only squeezed out a particularly vague question from her throat, "Jay?"

"Yeah." Putting Selinya back on the bed, Jason silently pressed an ice pack against her red and swollen eyes.

Breath spilled between the two of them.

Serenia slept for an exceptionally full 36 hours.

She completely broke through the twelve-hour lethargy caused by her frequent space-time transition last time.

For Selinya, this was definitely an extremely long sleep.

... After all, she had always felt that sleep was not a necessary condition for her to survive.

When she finally struggled to get up from the bed, Selinya's hands and feet were still weak, and even her reaction speed plummeted.

"I'm still so sleepy." The whole person melted onto the sofa, Selinya just wanted to move her vocal organs, "but I can't fall asleep at all..."

"." Silently, Jason pushed the pasta lunch aside, and replaced it with soft bread and hot milk that is easier to digest.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket and put it in Serenya's hand, "All messages have been answered."

"Great!" Celinya raised her arms with difficulty to signal, "Otherwise, I really can't imagine what will happen if I lose contact suddenly-fortunately, you are here!"

It's such a great feeling to have teammates!

yeah!

Jason: "..."

Damn speechless.

There are a lot of new messages in the inbox, and almost all the people Serinya knows have sent messages.

Since Selinya really couldn't afford to keep fighting eyelids, the system had to silently turn on the phone's built-in voice broadcast mode.

Many different messages, from the sender, the tone, to the things described, are completely different.

— but as Serenia's family has said.

She has love from both worlds.

Families from the wizarding world.

And of course—family members from this world.

Leaping out of every letter, into Serenia's heart.

And Selina also replied to them in turn.

With text, with text, and—with love.

She agreed to many invitations. For example, Clark asked her if she wanted to go to the real farm to eat apple pie. Dick asked her when she would like to have BBQ again. Tony said that the study in the manor had been designed and she must go to see it. Mary asked directly Do you want to help her apply for a visa...

That was an invitation.

It is also the future they have.

It’s a future in which we all will always be in each other’s lives by default.

Arranged according to the emergencies of the events, the first thing Selinya accepted was the invitation of Peter and the others to go to the art exhibition hall.

"...it's part of my social practice," Peter said with a heavy expression while holding the notebook, "and I almost forgot about it."

Celinya: "...I really want to write 'Save the World' into a homework report for you."

"I'm afraid not," Pietro spread his hands helplessly, "Peter's teacher won't believe it."

"And our teacher—"

Probably in the group of X College, there will be a message: 'Who hasn't saved the world yet? '.jpg Solitaire.

For Selinya, this was another brand new and unfamiliar experience.Surrounded by Wanda and Jessica, she looked at all the exhibits curiously.

Behind them, Peter and Pietro sighed in a low voice while recording:

"It's a beautiful picture—it's as vivid as a photograph."

"It's an exquisite picture - it's as well composed as a painting."

Selina: "..."

She assured from the experience of reading countless books that no teacher would want to see this kind of description in the practice report.

Don't you think there is something wrong with these two sentences?

"Hey! Parker!" When Selinya hesitated to speak and tried to correct her, a voice sounded.

Peter's classmate, Lightning Thompson, often bullies Peter at school. —and also a huge fan of Spider-Man.

"Haven't you noticed it! My clothes!" After saying a few words of nonsense, Lightning finally couldn't bear it, and pulled the long-sleeved top that was draped inside his coat, wishing to lift it up and get close to Peter's eyes, "Look Reached!"

"Spider-Man's signature!"

"I paid a lot of money to get it!"

Peter: "...???"

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