Chapter 317
"When will your internal conflicts be sorted out? When will you ask me to forget about it? Oh, by the way, to put it bluntly, if this continues, even with me, you will not be able to conquer the End of the Ice Abyss."
Leah still spoke with the same venomous tongue as before.
only……
Compared with the venomous tongue that she used to just slander people, she now adds some very direct "suggestions" to her words, and it can be said that every sentence hits the point.
She picked up her hat by the door, put it on, then opened the door and walked out into the street.
The witch doesn't care much about the flow of time, or even the seasons, but...
Leah looked at the crowded shopping street. Where there are dungeons, the Adventurers Association will attract investment and let many merchants settle here. Whether they are adventurers who make a living from this, or nobles who simply have a little money at home and can come to the dungeon to experience entertainment, they all gather here.
The town of Hollanda is a city located in the north of Entak, and it is also in the mountains. It is originally a little "colder" than the cities in the north.
Because of the "popularity" at night, she could feel a little bit that the cold winter when everyone was hiding in the house and staying closed at night seemed to have passed.
It also means that Will's death was at least three months ago.
"Forget it, although I don't like crowded places, this is the nearest way."
As Leah can get a lot of money-making jobs in the dungeon, she doesn't want to live with the smelly adventurers. She has always lived in a luxurious suite in the best hotel in town.
Then……
Feeling the cold magic circuits drained away by boring, long, noisy meetings.
Eager to return to my room as soon as possible, open pages and pages of related research, and complete that "mission" as soon as possible the next time I enter the dungeon...
When she walked into the crowd...
Bang.
Someone lightly hit my arm.
It happened to be the side that was rubbed by the ice blade before.
"I didn't know where to look when I was walking. There were obviously people here..."
For Leah, being bumped into the body was a common occurrence in crowded crowds.
Even though she wears a big hat, she is a bit shorter, so she often gets bumped into by people who don't have eyes.
but……
"Wait, this feeling...what are you carrying...how could..."
Why?
At this moment, she seemed to be unable to feel anyone else, and the red color of her eyes suddenly lit up. Along with the red light, there was also the pink color in her eyes that represented love.
Her brain didn't realize anything, but her body had already reacted first.
Her whole blood was boiling, and her magic circuit began to scream "excitement" in her blood in a rare moment.
Why just...
The man who just passed by, who seemed to be wearing all black clothes, just touched me, but his magic circuit...
But it ignited in an instant?
Even when she first came into contact with the bloody peppermint essential oil, she didn't feel like she was burning when someone bumped into her like she does now.
etc……
When did you first come into contact with bloody peppermint essential oil?
Leah stood on the street in confusion, and then, as if she remembered something, she reached out her hand into her pocket.
The man just now used a very powerful breath-shielding magic, so that she didn't realize that he was so close and was hit hard.
but……
He definitely didn't use the breath-shielding magic just to hit himself. He... he seemed to have put something into his pocket at the time of the hit...
Leah's fingers fumbled inside the pockets of her robe.
There is a pocket on the outside of her magic robe, but because the inside and outside are black, it is not obvious enough. If...if someone is not particularly familiar with her, they may not know it at all...
She touched it.
The moment she touched that thing, she could feel her heart beating wildly.
Opening her hand, she saw that what was placed in her palm was...
It's a coin with the image of a witch in a big hat printed on it.
Witch Coin.
The witch now often uses them as matchmaker props, but because the batch she stored before was too consumed, she has not used them for a long time.
But yes...
Imitation.
Undoubtedly an imitation...
"No, could it be...could it be that..."
Before her mind realized it, her footsteps had already started running down the street.
"Get out of the way, get out of my way!"
The blood in the body is boiling crazily, burning crazily, crazily craving and expecting something...
She walked out of the crowd, just following the pure physical reaction that the coin brought to her.
"Very familiar...too familiar..."
"This feeling..."
"It feels the same as the past three years..."
Leah's grip on the coin tightened.
It wasn't until she realized that she found herself out of the town limits of Hollanda and in the woods on the outskirts.
In the forest, thick fog shrouded.
There is often such fog in the mountains and forests at night, but...
Leah held the coin and moved forward step by step...
In this mist, she saw...
Two doors.
It was like the dungeon ghost story trick I once played on Will in the dungeon.
Place it in front of her.
Chapter 353: Touched Dreams
"...Why is there a door here?"
Leah, who was very vigilant, took out the staff from her ring and held the staff of ancient flame tightly.
She subconsciously set up an offensive stance and surveyed the surrounding situation.
But... there's nothing nearby.
In the forest in early spring, most of the trees have not yet sprouted branches and buds. Even at night, if you raise your head, you can see the "moon" among the sparse trees.
She now knew her location very well. She was in the mountains and forests on the outskirts, not on the main road, and sparsely populated.
If someone wants to use some method to harm her as a witch - although this sounds a bit funny, who would be so bold and hope to harm a witch through a small "method"?
"But... people who know about the ghost story, and people who have experienced the ghost story that I personally used..."
Only he...is right.
"And now, in the outside world, besides witches, there are also people who know what witch coins look like..."
Only he...is right.
"And the person who can make my magic circuit turn and burn again..."
Or is it just him...?
Leah tightened her grip on the coin in her hand.
Just like the two of them met because of an ordinary witch coin.
When she got the coin again, when many clues pointed to that answer, she was actually already prepared in her heart.
Leah kept thinking silently in her heart about the result that "maybe there is such a glimmer of possibility".
She walked towards the door step by step.
I could only feel my heartbeat speeding up little by little as I stepped on the grass in the mossy mountain forest.
From two beats per step, to three beats per step, to four beats per step.
"Actually, you are waiting for me behind this door... right?"
Leah stood at the door. She could already hear the restless heartbeat beating in her chest, as if there was a drum there, beating non-stop.
Even without thinking or using her brain to analyze, Leah would still be like this...
Reach out...
Choose one of the two doors and walk straight in without hesitation, no matter what is inside.
…
She felt like she had suddenly stepped into nothingness.
Like a person falling asleep, he slowly lay on the soft clouds and entered a bright "dream".
Dream.
Leah realized that she had not dreamed for a long time.
Even if she could recall her past with him in her dream, or even if she could meet him again in her dream, she had never encountered it before.
"So, it turned out to be just a dream...?"
"That's right. After all, I got bumped on the arm on the road, and then I received the witch's coin, and then walked into the forest, and finally found two strange doors or something..."
"What was I expecting?"
"This sounds more like... a dream with no beginning and a messy connection, right?"
"Maybe... maybe I'm lying on the luxurious bed in the hotel now, thinking that I can see him again and smile."
Leah stood in a white "space".
After she knew this was a dream, she stopped looking here and became much calmer.
"But...since it's a dream, at least...just a glimpse, let me..."
"Teacher Leia?"
"……Um?!"
She didn't finish her soliloquy. She took a deep breath and turned around slowly.
In a pure white space, she saw the person she "dreams about".
Will was wearing the uniform of Entak First Academy, which he usually wore only for large-scale events, and dark blue glasses. No matter from any angle, he looked like an excellent student, standing there.
In his usual sweet tone, he shouted these four words.
A dream indeed.
Because I should be in the "dream" now.
She knew clearly that he was someone who was out of reach, knew that he could not come back, knew that he was in a dream, but Liya still spoke to him——
"Yes, it's you. Okay... okay, I knew you... you would still appear here."
"Teacher Leia, are you crying?"
"No, no. I...am I the kind of person who would be moved to tears just because I saw in a dream...the person I miss so much but will never come back to?"
"Hmm, I think Teacher Leia is - wouldn't it be better if that person was me?"
