I must make the thief who stole my abilities look good! [Comprehensive]

Consciousness gradually came back, and Blanche seemed to be in the warm, soft, sun-baked cotton wool. Her body was very light and her spirit was very active. She had a dream.

It's not the kind of dream that can't distinguish between reality and fiction. In her consciousness, she clearly understands that she is in a dream.

This is a beautiful garden.

In the middle is an open plain, covered with well-rising and flat green grassland. The furthest distance that can be seen is a dense forest after another, stretching out, and the road ahead cannot be seen.

In the courtyard full of green plants, there is only one building - a tall, stone tower shaped like a watchtower, with only windows and no doors, like the tower where the witch imprisoned Rapunzel. The only way to get in and out is to wait. Rapunzel let down her long hair by the window.

Now it is daytime here, the spring sun caresses Blanche's face warmly, but the air is filled with the breath of summer; if it is night, the courtyard is full of autumn dry air, and the sky is covered by winter stars.

A place that cannot exist in reality, here is a peaceful plain, an island at the end, an ideal land that humans cannot reach. (Note ①)

Here Blanche saw a silver-haired man with a soft breath that matched the courtyard and was full of flowers.

The face wasn't exactly familiar, but Blanche remembered she'd seen him before.

The silver-haired man in a white robe was humming a pleasant tune, holding a staff in his hand, and walking towards Blanche.Everywhere his footsteps landed, a string of delicate flowers bloomed on the green land, but this phenomenon has nothing to do with any mystery or magic, it is just a phenomenon that should exist in him.

The white man who made the green field overflow with flowers walked up to her and said with a smile, "Ah, we meet again."

The man with long silver hair tied behind his head, full of spring breeze, has not changed in any way from his face two years ago, as if the long flow of time has bypassed him and forgotten him on this island at the end .

Merlin, the magician of flowers, he used to have many other names, at least here, he doesn't need it.

"Where is this?" Blanche asked.

"Avalon." Merlin said, spreading his arms and showing Blanche the place that could be seen at a glance.

The exact name here is Avalon—the Sea of ​​Stars, the Garden of Flowers, which was supposed to be a place where human souls bloom.

Even if she knew the place name, Blanche couldn't understand it, and she didn't have omniscience enough to know whether "Avalon" was part of the world she was in.

But Blanche didn't care, because she clearly realized in her head that the scene in front of her was real, Merlin was real, and Avalon was real, but she was dreaming.

Even if it wasn't a dream, Blanche wouldn't be afraid.It's not because the atmosphere in this courtyard is really comfortable, but because the silver-haired man in front of her is the one who saved her two years ago.

Not counting the tricky Nen ability, Nazuka Kazuki's basic combat ability is very strong, and Blanche was seriously injured in the battle with Nazuka before Nen fully broke out.

At that time, many of her organs were damaged, but the servants kept by Mingzuka came to capture her "dedicated to their duties". When they were almost pushed to the limit, Blanche's thoughts broke out in full force.

The burst of thought did kill all the living creatures in the mansion in an instant, but it seemed to overdraw her life, causing her to fall into an even weaker state.

The thin wrap around her body flowed very hard, intermittently, unable to completely cover her whole body.Blanche's thoughts were too weak to wrap the wound with thoughts, the blood flowed down, almost staining all the clothes on her body red, leaving traces of blood everywhere she passed.

But at that time her thoughts were still very clear, although her steps towards the gate were weak, they were firm.

——Even if I die, I don't want to die on Kazuki Nazuka's land.

Kazuki Nazuka's mansion is on a mountain in the outskirts of the city, a well-known wealthy area in the area, usually even taxis don't pass by there, and there are often no people on the road.From Nazuka Kazuki's mansion, he had to walk at least several kilometers before he could see the next family.

Blanche couldn't remember how long she had been walking, even though the temperature wasn't too low, the wind in the mountains was extremely cold.Every step she took seemed to be her last step, just like the last step, the last step, the last step, the accumulation of countless last steps, Blanche finally saw someone.

In the already ashen blue pupils, there was a man's face as warm as a spring breeze, and finally the last "last step" became the real "last step", and Blanche fell to the ground.

The silver-haired man in the hood knelt down and took a closer look. He neither lamented nor gloated, but said, "What a serious injury."

"..."

Her chapped lips moved, but Blanche couldn't utter a single word.

"Huh? Do you want to ask me why I saved you?"

"..."

The silver-haired man smiled lightly, and said, "Whoever wants you to appear on my walk, just treat it as being rescued by a kind-hearted big brother passing by."

Immediately afterwards, the same gentle breath as his body enveloped Blanche, dispelling the infinite chill. She seemed to be in a warm bathtub, and the warm water penetrated into her wound, and then penetrated into every tiny corner of her body.

The pain was like ice, gradually melted by the hot water, the body gradually became lighter, the damage began to repair from the inside, and the outer skin also returned to its original shape like a perfect ceramic at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Except for the scars on the abdomen that had healed before, the puppet was restored to the appearance it should have by the hands of the magician.

The figure of the magician was clearly reflected in the blue eyes, and the picture was firmly engraved in her mind, until an inexplicable drowsiness hit her.

Before falling asleep, I seemed to hear the silver-haired man say: "Hmm~ a wonderful soul that doesn't belong here...Compared with it, a weak **?"

"..."

"Rest well, your dream is as sweet as extra chocolate to me."

"I don't know your name yet." Seeing this slightly frivolous man again, Blanche asked in a dream.

She speaks so naturally, she doesn't look like someone who has been expressing herself through mobile phone pronunciation software for two years.

"I'm Merlin."

"Although thank you very much, why did you save me?"

"I told you at that time that you appeared on my walk." Merlin held his chin and thought carefully for a moment, then said again, "Probably because I am a hybrid of nightmare and human, and I love human beings." , human beings are very interesting creatures. And your smell is very similar to Kathy Paluge... Ah, that is the beast of original sin that has been with me for a long time. It is really cute, a small one, fluffy..."

Wow, this person is really full of incomprehensible words, and the more he speaks, the more serious he becomes.

Blanche couldn't help tilting her head to look at him, as if she was observing the inner creature of some insect with a humanoid appearance.

It's useless to pursue the details of the past.It doesn't matter whether Merlin saved her because of coincidence or fate.

Anyway, she survived.

And there is also the opportunity to kill the enemy.

Even though the bible says, don't seek revenge, leave the wicked to God.

But there is no so-called god in her world, presumably the old man can't control her.

It's just that Blanche doesn't understand, why is she here now, seeing Merlin again?

She should have fallen into the sea. The sea water was icy cold and the water pressure was so strong that it seemed to crush her lungs and eardrums together.

After that, a hand pulled her out of the water...

who can that be?

Blanche continued to look at Merlin with her head tilted, a little confused.

"Why am I here?" asked Blanche.

The silver-haired man smiled at her, and he reached out and touched the top of Blanche's head, as if he was really soothing a young beast.

"Many people around you are a little more dangerous than I imagined. I thought you needed to live in a more ordinary and natural way, but now it seems that the restrictions no longer apply?"

As he spoke, he lowered his head and kissed the girl's forehead, and the soft light formed a mysterious magic circle with ancient characters engraved on it.The inner ring and the outer ring rotated in opposite directions, and finally found a gap that fit each other. There was a slight sound of unlocking, so short that Blanche thought it was an illusion.

"Sleep well, sweet dreams." The magician said softly.

Then she fell into darkness again, and a sense of weightlessness suddenly hit her, as if she had fallen from a 20-story building.Just because she couldn't see anything, Blanche reached out to grab it reflexively——

"Merlin." The girl called out the magician's name, sat up from the bed, and opened her eyes.

The eyes that were still in the darkness just now had difficulty adapting to the sudden light. Blanche blocked it with her arms, narrowed her eyes, and finally got used to it after a few seconds.

Very ordinary guest room, like the cruise ship where she caught Jacqueline.

Then she saw the black-haired man beside the bed, sitting on the sofa, with an unknown book spread out in his hand, watching her quietly.

Memories flooded Blanche's head like a flood that opened its gates.She remembered that before she lost consciousness, she bit off Nazuka's finger and fell into the sea. Kuroro picked her up, and then she witnessed Nazuka's boat capsize in the waves with a hoarse cry.

——but that man would definitely not die so easily.

Just like the instinct of survival, Blanche just didn't believe that mere wind and waves could swallow Mingzuka.

Presumably, even ghosts and gods don't want that man's life.

Blanche turned her head sideways, her hands still in the mid-air extended search position, and she looked blankly at Kuroro.

"Who is Merlin?" Kuroro asked, closing the book with a snap.