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I couldn't believe my ears, it was as if a thunderbolt from the blue had hit my head, and it was as if someone had poured cold water on it, and it was cold from beginning to end.

I looked up at Maggie in a daze, opened my mouth but couldn't say a word.

Maggie just nodded affirmatively.

I stretched out my hand to slowly touch my lower abdomen, but after the shock, I was at a loss, followed by uncontrollable grief.

Before that nightmarish birthday, I was just a daughter who grew up in the palm of my father's hands. Even in the eyes of many elders who watched me grow up, I was just a child. However, overnight, I turned into the mother of another little baby whose father was an enemy who brutally slaughtered my clan.

This poor child was destined not to be born with the expectation of love and happiness.

Seeing that I was absent-minded and silent for a long time, Maggie said lightly, "Whether to stay or not, the choice is yours. It's still too late."

"..." I bit my dry lips tightly, and when I spoke again, even my voice became dry, "Maggie."

She looks at me.

"Can you tell me...about Eliza?"

"..."

This is the second time she sighed today, the first time she sighed because of my situation, but this time she did not know why.

"...Before I joined the brigade, Elisa had already met the group leader... Kuroro and the others. She is very smart, cold and rational, good at calculating, maybe because of being a merchant's daughter, no matter what she does In transactions, she can always help the brigade to obtain the benefits they expect. In Meteor Street, there are very few people like her who used to live in wealthy families, so occasionally, former companions will ask her about the outside world. world affairs."

"It's only at this time that Elisa will pick up the past that she forcibly let go of, and most of the time, she will mention you."

"She said that you are the most beautiful, kindest, and most lovable child in the world. She was worried that without her by your side, would you be bullied by others, would you hide in a corner crying alone, would you Will still be as stupid as before and give all the valuables on my body to beggars."

——"Linsha, my sister will protect you for the rest of my life."

——"If there is a share of Eliza, there will be a share of Linsa."

——"We will be sisters again in our next life."

……

I couldn't help smiling wryly: "It turns out that while I miss my sister, she is also worried about me all the time."

My most beloved sister has never changed.

"Then... how did my sister die?"

"Only the group leader, knight, Feitan, and Pike who returned to Meteor Street know the details. I only heard that Elisa was once arrested by a district chief of Meteor Street and tortured for information about the Phantom Troupe. She went crazy after that, and then," Maggie paused, looked at me and said, "it was the knight who freed her."

Maggie's voice is beautiful, delicate and cold. When she said these words, her tone did not fluctuate. Maybe she is not a qualified speaker, but even so, my heart still hurts violently.

Unconsciously, I remembered what the knight said in the hotel in Rinca that day with a smile on his face: "...she is crazy, in pain and pain, screaming hysterically every day, living in fear Middle, then, and then I listened to what the head said, and then..."

He killed her with his own hands.

How painful should Elisa be when she was tortured madly?How much pain must the knight who said this with a smile have behind his smile?Is the pain in my heart at this moment worth what they felt at that time?

"The debt owed by the Nie Stola family to Elisa has already been written off. As for this child..." I reached out and grabbed the clothes on my chest, closed my eyes, and finally made up my mind: "I want to keep him, but He has nothing to do with the knight, so Maggie, please don't tell him about my pregnancy?"

Maggie took out a small mirror and a comb and combed her hair: "Except for the occasional necessary big events of the brigade, I basically won't meet the knights in private time, don't worry."

"Thank you," I bowed my head slightly, and said, "the Nestola family that would protect me in this world is gone, but I want to protect my child to live in this world, Maggie, I am always seeking your help I'm sorry, but I can only rely on you, can you please teach me how to survive."

She didn't raise her head, but her eyes seemed to look at me through the mirror: "Do you want to become stronger?"

I nodded.

"Forget it, you saved my life, and I'll teach you how to live. In this way, the kindness between us can be regarded as a write-off." Maggie put away the mirror and said, "Do you know how to read?"

I nodded, hesitated for a while, and said, "Actually, I haven't learned to read systematically, but one day three years ago, I seemed to suddenly possess a certain ability."

Hearing this, Maggie raised her eyebrows slightly: "Oh? A person who was born with the ability to remember? This is a bit interesting, what kind of ability is it?"

"Well……"

I stretched out my two arms for comparison, gritted my teeth, and stretched out my left hand in front of her: "Can you make a small cut on my arm?"

Perhaps it was because of my awe-inspiring expression that she could not stand it any longer. She saw Maggie cut her forearm neatly with her hand as a knife with a blank face. Those of them who struggled on the verge of death since childhood may really be Don't care about this kind of minor injury, it's clear that the trickle of blood merged into a small stream and dripped wantonly on her arm, but she didn't even blink her eyes as if she lost the pain.

"Is this okay? Or do you have to create wounds on your own body?"

"Ah, anyone's wound is fine, just wait a moment."

I resisted the slight nausea caused by the smell of blood, took the water cup on the bedside, concentrated my energy and poured my abilities into it, the center of the clean water in the cup briefly formed a small vortex and spun a few times , returned to the original calm.

I handed the water glass to Maggie and said, "Take a sip and see."

Maggie glanced sideways at me, then lowered her eyes, and did as I said. Within a few seconds, her wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only the previous blood stains on it.

"It's strange," I said a little puzzled, "I've treated Spein's wounds before, but it took him several minutes to heal. Why are you so fast, Maggie?"

Maggie stroked her arm, carefully observed the wound just now, and asked, "Is that person a person with the ability to read or an ordinary person?"

"It should be an ordinary person."

"That's right. From a preliminary judgment, your ability should be able to quickly increase the qi in the body. When it acts on the human body, it can speed up the movement and reproduction of cells and tissues, and the wound can heal quickly. The qi ratio in the body of a person with the ability Ordinary people are too strong, and the speed of healing will naturally be much faster."

As soon as the words fell, another column of blood spewed out in front of my eyes, before I could react, I saw Maggie moved her arm towards me with a blank face, and said, "This time you directly apply your ability to my wound. "

After repeatedly testing my abilities, I only felt mentally exhausted. Considering the special situation of being a pregnant woman, Maggie asked me to take more rest and left my room.

When I woke up, the room was already dark, only the bright silver moonlight slanted in from the window like delicate running water, leaving a mottled trace.

And my sister, who still looks like an eight-year-old child, is sitting on the window sill dangling her feet in the air, and the gentle moonlight does not print her proper reflection on the ground.

She raised her head, still maintaining the childish movements on her feet, and smiled at me: "Are you awake?"

"……Um."

"You're finally awake, finally...you won't be trapped by me anymore, my silly little sister."

I was dumbfounded, watching Elisa jump up from the window sill, and lightly floated down in front of my bed, her gaze was as gentle as water: "For more than a month, you subconsciously didn't want to face reality, or even live in this world. I can only guide you according to what you imagined, and I am very happy to see that you can become strong and have a reason to live."

She came closer and kissed my forehead: "This is the last time we meet, promise me, no matter what bad things will happen in the future..."

"You have to live for yourself."

Elisa's figure disappeared like a bubble as the voice fell. I stretched out my hand to touch my forehead and murmured: "I will, sister, I will learn to live on my own."

The author has something to say:

Sorry, just started school recently, a lot of things are mixed together, the update speed has slowed down orz

The end of the first volume~

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Volume Two