“You’ve been controlled for nearly a thousand years, and you’re about to die right after waking up. You haven’t had a peaceful sleep, nor have you eaten anything delicious. Think about it, isn’t that a huge loss? It’s truly a huge loss! How about I treat you to some grilled meat?”
Ye Lin spoke with righteous indignation, and he had no intention of removing his hand. Because she had no heartbeat, he was unusually calm at this moment…
Seven parts clear-headed but three parts hazy, he acted on whatever came to mind, which was also one reason for his sudden impulsive action.
If he were fully conscious, he would still consider whether Alice would use maryllete to smash him to death with a zither after waking up…
Alice’s memories of hatred and regret rapidly vanished into the shadows, replaced by a shining rhomboid crystal. The memories within this crystal were from not long ago, so they were very, very new…
“Ah!”
Celia, who had been closing her eyes, had just opened them slightly when she suddenly saw Ye Lin frowning and muttering something in that rhomboid crystal. Then, her gaze dropped, and inside the slit of the white and purple combined robe’s hem, there was a sinful hand…
Subsequently, this crystal became brighter and brighter, more and more dazzling, its strong light dispelling the gloom of the entire space, like a rising sun!
She had been in a daze for nearly a thousand years, and the first vivid memory after waking up was that scene at the Magic Academy!
“Could you please remove your hand? That’s not what a gentleman does.”
Alice was so angry that she gnashed her teeth, her eyes returning to their purple state, filled with intense fury. However, her cursing ability was truly not commendable, even ten streets worse than Siate.
“I am actually a polite good person. Everything I’m doing now is to save you. Don’t you feel very relaxed right now? Clear-headed? Agile all over?”
The key now is to awaken Alice’s beautiful thoughts of “life,” otherwise, if she recovers and becomes mentally withdrawn again, no one can save her.
“The past is in the past. You are now a complete, soulful, pure person, no longer that puppet. Held can no longer control you…”
“Held-sama…”
Alice was clearly stunned. This name, which had been with her day and night, this person whom she had placed in a more important position than herself for nearly a thousand years, suddenly had her faith completely collapse, even subtly turning into an enemy.
“Held-sama is for… the revival of Terra…”
“Yes, yes, yes, from her perspective, she’s not wrong. From the perspective of the Demon World Alliance, she’s not wrong, she’s even a great savior. But for the people of Arad, she’s a disaster of destruction. We in Arad haven’t done anything wrong.”
Ye Lin nodded repeatedly. Directly refuting Held’s actions to Alice at this moment was not advisable. He needed to change her thinking step by step until Alice became one of their own.
“You are very weak mentally right now. We’ll talk after you have a good sleep and wake up, but remember, if you die, everything is gone.”
While Ye Lin was painstakingly lecturing here, Tana outside was a bit impatient, pacing back and forth. The time had far exceeded the scheduled half-hour, and the Evil Spirit Curse had been eliminated, so why hadn’t she woken up yet?
Alice suddenly entered a special state of flickering light and darkness again. Various unclear emotions intertwined, making her soul like a candle flame swaying in the wind, possibly extinguishing at any moment.
Seeing this, Ye Lin gritted his teeth, cursed under his breath, and his eyes turned cold, “I can’t talk about Held. She won’t listen even if I do. I need to drop some heavy stuff, right? Damn it, I’m not going to be a human anymore!”
“Listen, Alice, your body is still in my manor, in my house! If you dare to become mentally withdrawn and turn into an idiot, I have two choices: either I kill you directly and get it over with, or I have to feed you, give you water, change all your clothes. Even if you’re a doll and don’t need to eat, I’d still have to bathe and wipe you regularly to prevent dust from accumulating. You’re beautiful and have a good figure. Which one do you think I’d choose? Look at me, think carefully, I’m not a good person!”
Silence…
Frozen…
Celia’s hand trembled beside him, almost dropping the lamp at the entrance. Only he could say such an incredible thing, but it had to be admitted that it seemed to be very effective!
Alice’s eyes lit up as she stared at that memory crystal. Her soul became more and more solid, and finally, after giving him a fierce glare, it directly turned into a sheet of white light spots and dissipated…
“Did she kick the bucket?”
Ye Lin was dumbfounded. Alice was actually so terrifying, ignoring his threat?
“No, this is a sign that she’s completely fallen asleep. She’ll be fine when she wakes up.”
“That’s good. My left hand of justice is sweating…”
“You…”
The flame in Celia’s palm grew stronger and stronger, the burning embers slowly forming a gate of fire. Passing through this gate, they would wake up.
“For the three of us, this is just a dream, a very bizarre dream. Alice might not remember what you did when she wakes up, and you and I will infinitely amplify that three parts of confusion, maybe not remembering anything at all.”
Three people, one dream. Dreams are inherently easy to remember in fragments but difficult to recall entirely, being vague and hazy.
“Let’s go back. They might be worried.”
Celia smiled and was about to step into the door lightly when Ye Lin grabbed her, pointing gravely to a corner.
Because Alice had regained the thought of life, the haze in the entire mental space dissipated, filled with soft light, and their vision became clear.
But in a place not far from the two, a mysterious, ancient gray scroll was conspicuously suspended, floating up and down, emitting an extraordinary yet eerie aura.
In Alice’s spiritual world, there should only be memory fragments. So what was this gray scroll?
“Wait a moment, I’ll go take a look.”
Ye Lin approached the mysterious scroll with great curiosity. Although reading minds and prying into people’s memories were not polite behaviors, he inexplicably had an intuition that he had to see it, he absolutely had to see it!
Bang!
An accident occurred. Within a certain distance of the scroll, he seemed to hit an invisible wall, bumping his nose and forehead, unable to get closer.
“I guess that’s Alice’s own sealed memory data, integrated with her mental space. Unless she’s willing to show you, there’s no way.”
“I see…”
Ye Lin touched the invisible wall with his hand and slowly walked around it. What precious information could be in Alice’s mind, information she had specifically sealed?
Suddenly, a thought flashed into his mind like lightning. He realized with a start that it was very likely information about the life water!
At the first Demon World Alliance conference, Alice proposed a great battle between representatives of various forces to delineate territorial ownership and share information about the life water.
Ultimately, Tarakuta’s Alice won and naturally obtained the information about the life water.
Although Alice herself sealed the memories about the life water, it remains a mystery whether Held knew all or only part of it…