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"Wait a minute!" Completely forgetting that this was an illusion, she stretched out her right hand and spread her five fingers to stop her.
However, at that moment, the phantom disappeared as expected.
Olga Marie then realized what was happening. She looked at the still-sleeping Yue Zhengling, her heart filled with mixed emotions.
The next day, instead of a person, a strange black cat appeared.
When the phantom appeared, the black cat was sitting on Yue Zhengling's chest, wagging its tail and looking at him. However, after a while, the black cat must have meowed and stood up, then licked Yue Zhengling's face a few times, and then closed its eyes and rubbed its little head against his face.
The black cat's eyes were full of intelligence, giving the impression that it was not an ordinary wild animal. Suddenly, the black cat abruptly raised its head from its comfortable state and turned its head alertly in a certain direction.
The black cat, seemingly sensing its surroundings, took one last, reluctant look at Le Zhengling before jumping to the ground and disappearing, presumably in the direction of an exit.
Then, a burly, white-haired man in a black trench coat appeared from another direction. His cold, hard expression and the aura emanating from his entire body told Olga Marie that he was not human.
"Dead Apostle?" Olga Marie looked at the man, relieved but also perking up.
I breathed a sigh of relief because this time it wasn't a woman, but I perked up because this was an enemy of humanity.
As representatives of blood-sucking creatures, the Dead Apostles are enemies of humanity, a fact that cannot be changed. However, it seems that Yue Zhengling has a connection with this Dead Apostle, which intensifies Olga Marie's curiosity to investigate Yue Zhengling's true identity.
The reason why it was clear that this treacherous disciple was related to Yue Zhengling, rather than coming to hunt, was because after the disciple appeared, he saw the blanket that had been messed up by the black cat and awkwardly tidied it up for Yue Zhengling, and even tucked the blanket in for him.
Then the burly man pulled out a stool, crossed his hands in front of his mouth, rested them on his thighs, and quietly watched Yue Zhengling.
Olga Marie noticed that the muscles in the man's face were twitching, as if he were saying something. Upon realizing this, she immediately shifted her angle to see if she could understand what he was saying.
After all, the people who appeared before were either silent or, judging from their lip movements, not speaking a language he could understand. But this person was different; judging from their appearance, they were Europeans, just like him.
Sure enough, several of the other person's lip movements matched some of the most frequently used words in daily life.
Olga Marie roused herself and focused intently on deducing the shape of the mouth, which was mostly obscured but still vaguely discernible.
"No! It's too hard to see! Put your hand down!" After squatting next to the man for three minutes, Olga Marie still couldn't make out a single complete sentence.
As if he had heard Olga Marie's request, the man lowered his hand, and a hint of excitement appeared on his stiff face.
Having finally seized the opportunity, Olga Marie did not immediately deduce what he was saying. Instead, she used memory magic to enhance her memory and memorized every movement of the other person.
Because there are no magic tools available, otherwise she would have used recording magic to record these illusions. Now, all she can rely on is her own memory.
As the last rays of twilight faded, the phantom vanished. Even after the phantom disappeared, the man continued to speak. Fortunately, this gave Olga Marie greater confidence, allowing her to quickly deduce the meaning of his lip movements from the changes in his mouth.
For the next two days, she kept talking to herself in the mirror, watching the changes in her lip shape, and comparing them with the man's lip shape and speaking speed in her memory. Finally, on the fourth day, she figured out what he had said.
"Bang!" Olga Marie stared intently at the notes in her notebook, which were being copied down to decipher the man's lip movements in the phantom.
"How is this possible! What's going on? Were those phantoms actually this guy's past?! And who are these people being mentioned?!"
The translated text in the notebook confused her.
Kid, I'm sorry it's been so long since I last visited you. After all, another year has passed. Besides bringing you here, there were the two visits before I got the recipe and left the country. This is probably my fifth time visiting you.
However, you still show no signs of waking up. Your body is so healthy, and you have already tamed the XXXX inside you, so why is your consciousness still not awake?
During this time, I went back to the Wandering Sea and recreated many amazing things based on the recipe you gave me.
Thanks to those things, my project is complete, and the XXXX within me has been reunited. Now, one is all, and all is me. I think even the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception would have a hard time killing me.
Now I can also handle other things. I entrusted your Chinese restaurant to Tsbia a year and a half ago, and it should be back to normal by now.
By the way, more than a year ago, when I went to your house to pick up the recipe, I met the two Aozaki sisters and the Clock Tower Forensic Division. The Forensic Division handed something they found in your shop to the younger sister.
I was a little curious about this, so I looked it up and found something was off. That thing that seemed to be a manuscript caused a big change in the Aozaki sisters.
The magic world always assumed that the older sister would inherit the title of magician, but Aozaki Touko publicly announced that she would give it up. The two sisters had a fight over this, and the younger sister ran away from home and moved into the mansion of the fairy tale witch.
After Aozaki Touko announced the relinquishment of her inheritance rights, Aozaki Oki directly declared Aozaki Aoko as the next successor to the Fifth Law.
Aozaki Touko used her connections to enter the Clock Tower, and in less than six months, she alarmed the entire Clock Tower.
Although he could not inherit the title of mage, at the age of sixteen, he obtained the rank of Brand in just six months and was taken in as a disciple by Inolei Balyeleta Atolohom, the monarch of the Creation Department, so his future was limitless.
Strangely, it seemed that Aozaki Touko knew from the beginning what was best for her. Her choice of courses and research topics was so precise that it was incomprehensible. She submitted her first paper in less than three months, and in the fourth month, she tackled several problems about the human body in the Department of Creation. In the fifth month, she applied for rank evaluation with a commanding lead, and in the sixth month, she obtained a rank and color.
It was for this reason that she was taken in as a disciple by Lord Balyeleta, and then spent another six months studying. Before the sealing designation was issued, she took the initiative and published a paper on the "Substitute Type". She also announced that she would provide the patent to the Clock Tower free of charge, which caused the sealing designation to be rejected before it was approved.
He eventually escaped after causing a series of troubles and left the clock tower to return to Japan not long ago.
In other words, in less than two years after meeting you, she accomplished something that others could not achieve even in a lifetime.
Although others may not know, I know this must be related to what the forensic department gave to the Aozaki sisters.
Following this line of inquiry, the Clock Tower did investigate, but it was forcibly severed by several forces before it could reach you.
After all, your identity is too special. From this incident, I discovered that not only people I know were involved, but even the plant department of the Clock Tower spoke up. It seems that the fairy tale witch doesn't want you to be disturbed either.
By the way, although you don't know, I still have to say that we've lost contact with the Gemstone Elder, who is also the Second Magician. Tsbia mentioned to me that during one of his regular communications with the Gemstone Elder, the other party seemed to have been attacked, and for some reason, he tried to find out if it had anything to do with you. It seems that he still doesn't believe that I have really lost control of the XXXX in your body.
It's ridiculous. He funded the construction of the hospital where you're staying, and you've been under his surveillance the whole time. Yet he still asks me. But I also find it a bit strange. It's impossible for Tsbia to ask this without a reason.
Also, I have some clues about Roja's turning point, and about Death Perception—
That was all the phantom said before it disappeared, but the content and hidden meaning behind it shocked Olga Marie.
At this moment, she finally realized the identities of the two familiar girls among the three girls she had met earlier.
The Aozaki sisters, a family of magicians scorned as heretics.
The pinnacle of contemporary magicians, the Grand Doll Maker, and the eldest of the Aozaki sisters, Aozaki Touko!
The magician who possesses the fifth law, the human rocket launcher, Miss. Blue, Aozaki Aoko!
No wonder they looked familiar. These two people are both big names in the magic world. The reason she didn't recognize them was because the two people she saw were the same as when they were children!
Not to mention, she couldn't detect any trace of a magician in the other person's appearance and behavior. She guessed that either the other person was hiding it well, or Aozaki Aoko at this age hadn't been exposed to magic yet.
The fairytale witch mentioned last is, without a doubt, the black-haired woman I met at the beginning. No wonder I was so wary of her, as if I had encountered my nemesis. That's because she is a witch, and a witch of the creation type at that.
If I, as the Star Maiden, am the embodiment of Gaia, then the woman who created the witch is the embodiment of Alaya!
Chapter 197 Cohabitation (Part 5)
Olga Marie was well aware of the special nature of witch bloodlines; witches were beings born from humans, a branch of magic born from the union of gods and humans.
There are not many witches left to the present day, among whom the creative witches are the most special, and the fairy tale witch, Kuonji Aratsu, is one of the most famous.
As one of the twelve monarchs of the Clock Tower, Olga Marie, when inheriting the Animusfia family, first had to know about the forces in the world that needed to be watched, and the final witch, Kuonji Aratsu, was on that list.
This person, clearly recorded in the Clock Tower archives, not only possesses all-around abilities that surpass all modern magicians, but even a long-standing family lineage may not be able to match her.
In that battle for the Fifth Law, the witch revealed her power to the world for the first time.
After completing her studies at the Clock Tower, Aozaki Touko returned to her hometown of Misaki Town, where she committed several major crimes and then forcibly seized the leyline nodes in an attempt to obtain the Fifth Law.
As a result, this witch, who was entrusted by the Aozaki family to manage the ley line nodes, used several great magic spells that have disappeared from the current magic world, and even achieved a stalemate when facing the illusionary species Golden Wolf.
As a dreamlike fairy-tale witch skilled in fairy-tale themed spells and medicine, she possesses several familiars that have moved the magic world. Although she was the first to leave the battlefield in that sealed battle, neither the Holy Church nor the Magic Association underestimated her.
As a witch, Kuonji Yuzu's forte is fairy tale-themed jutsu, familiar summoning, and protective magic.
She possesses three extremely precious Demon Lord-level items left by her previous witch (her mother) (Bridge Giant, Flat Snark, and Scratch Dumpty), and a blue robin familiar (Robin). Her specialty is spells based on Mother Goose rhymes.
The amount of magical markings engraved on the body was astonishing, from the entire skeleton to the internal organs, which was something even specially made artificial humans could not achieve.
After the battle between the Aozaki sisters, the Clock Tower dispatched a special investigation team to investigate the battle. Although this later caused Aozaki Aoko, who had officially become a fifth-level mage, to cause a ruckus at the Clock Tower, it also allowed the Clock Tower to obtain a lot of information.
She still remembers everything in that record clearly.
Kuonji Yuzu possesses an outrageous magic system; she is the last witch, and when she gets serious, she might change the world.
That single line of text deeply shocked her at the time.
The familiar is called a fairy tale monster (PLOY Kickshaw, or simply PLOY).
Familiars based on fairy tales. An independent magic system inherited from the previous witch. The First Fragment. Considered a mystery beyond the realm of mystery.
In the world of magic, it is also known as a "special case." It is not publicly disclosed to the Mage's Association to obtain rights and benefits. Even if it were disclosed, no one could use it because this magic requires the bloodline of a pure-blooded witch.
Because it follows the traditional fairy tales, it has complex conditions for use, but when the conditions are met, it can often exert extraordinary power with the help of the environment.
Possessing a special rule called "Inheritance Defense," modern technology and ordinary magic have difficulty interfering with the monster after it is activated. To fight against it, one often has to exploit the weaknesses in the original fairy tale.
There are about twenty PLOYs inherited from the previous witch, and about ten more that Kuonji Yuzu made herself later.
Among them, three particularly powerful PLOYs were created by the first witch of this bloodline: Thames Troll, Flat Snark, and Wander Snatch.
Although the record did not specify the abilities of these three fairytale monsters, Olga Marie searched through the records about this type of witch, which belonged only to Animusphia, and learned that these three were extremely difficult to deal with, and were familiars worthy of the word "monster".
What's even more terrifying is that these familiars are created by human hands, and if the full power of these fairy tale monsters were unleashed, they could easily destroy a city.
“A fragment of the First Law, a witch of the Creation School.” Olga Marie bit her lower lip, her mind in complete disarray.
She closed her notebook, took a deep breath, and sat down beside Yue Zhengling's bed. She had completely lost her composure; she didn't understand Gaia's intentions in showing her these visions. If it were a direct apocalypse, perhaps she wouldn't have thought so much about it.
But Gaia didn't say anything, which inevitably led her to have bad thoughts.
As a Star Priestess, she shouldn't have cared too much about the existence of the Fairy Tale Witch, since the two wouldn't have any interaction. However, an anomaly has now appeared: the existence of Yue Zhengling.
The appearance of Yue Zhengling created a connection between Olga Marie and Kuonji Yuzu that is hard to say whether it's good or bad.
If those phantoms are indeed Le Zhengling's past, then it means that Alaya also pays attention to this person. And considering that Gaia specifically designated a place for Le Zhengling to live, Alaya's attention is even more likely to be something more.
This made Yue Zhengling's identity even more mysterious. Although she understood that those phantoms were not in this timeline or even the world line, Olga Marie had a premonition that she would one day officially meet Kuonji Yuzu.
As the representative of Gaia and Alaya, she could already foresee how things would turn out between them, not to mention that Yue Zhengling was now involved, making their relationship even more difficult.
"You've never even told me who you are, so why should I worry about how to get along with the people around you in the future!" Olga Marie glared angrily at the still-sleeping Yue Zhengling.
"If only you had died back then."
With regret and longing, she reached out and gently touched Yue Zhengling's face. "No matter which version of you you were, the method you suggested to kill yourself was feasible. But why did it end up like this? And why did I develop feelings for you?"
Yes, the reason why Yue Zhengling didn't die wasn't because of the method of killing the "id" and "ego," but because Olga Marie stopped the ritual at the last moment.
In fact, after the "id" lost control and the "ego" was severely damaged by Olga Marie's concept of death, Olga Marie stopped the ritual that connected the magic circuits of both sides. Although she maintained the state of fluid exchange, after that, she simply replenished her mana.
She had long sensed the presence of someone nearby, and under the pretext of safety, she used Yue Zhengling's bodily fluids to replenish her body, which was completely depleted of magic power, because the black mud she had collected had been used up before this body was officially formed.
Even the magic used to activate the ritual was provided by Yue Zhengling after the two entered close contact. After he lost consciousness, the magic transfer between the two stopped, so in order to collect the magic, she used the bodily fluids he left in her body.
This proved necessary, as she learned during negotiations with the Einzbern family that the body Le Zhengling was using was a special product commissioned by the Gemstone Elder to be made by the Einzbern family.
Midway through the conversation, Yubstakuhaid von Einzbern proposed taking back the body, which she naturally refused.
The other party had considered making a move for a moment, evidenced by the sudden surge of magical energy emanating from the maids standing nearby, but was ultimately stopped.
The reason was that she launched a long-prepared grand magic spell of the starry sky, although it was just an empty shell, but that was precisely to demonstrate her determination.
The conversation ended without incident, and afterwards she received a decree from Gaia's will to bring Yue Zhengling to this mirror space.
Although the Einzbern family is not a martial arts-oriented magician family, they are, after all, in each other's magic workshops. As the Einzbern headquarters, Winter City provides a boost to the Einzbern homunculi.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief the moment she left Einzbern Castle.
Gently stroking that delicate face, Olga Marie began to make plans for the future.
Olga Marie knew perfectly well that her feelings for Yue Zhengling were not love, but rather an instinctive possessiveness amplified by her own personality flaws and the strange allure of Yue Zhengling.
This kind of feeling, which cannot be explained in a few words, has had a deeper and deeper impact on her, and now she is unable to extricate herself from it.
"The so-called perfect body is really unreasonable." As she touched it, Olga Marie involuntarily climbed onto the bed, kneeling down and looking down at that face that she could never get tired of looking at.
"Although I don't know what your relationship is with those women—those people, you yourself admitted that I am your Master, and now I also admit that you belong to me as my Servant. What is mine will always be mine, so you belong to me. No matter who it is, I will not allow her to take you away from me."
As she asserted her dominance, she finally lowered her head and gently kissed Yue Zhengling's lips, the awkward movement carrying a passion as fiery as magma.
Even though the two had already engaged in more intimate acts, this slight contact sent a shiver down her spine. At that moment, Olga Marie finally understood what the descriptions she had read in the written records meant.
As time went by, Olga Marie was no longer satisfied with such simple touches. She slightly opened her eyes, looked at the still sleeping Yue Zhengling, and then gently stuck out her tongue, pried open his teeth, and slowly probed into his mouth.
Although Yue Zhengling was unaware of it, his instincts made him unconsciously move his tongue to retrieve the long-lost moisture.
Two tongues began to play like swimming fish. Olga Marie was completely intoxicated by the contact because she felt that Yue Zhengling was craving her. She knew that the other person was not conscious, but this instinctive craving made her feel excited and happy.
At this moment, she felt a sense of fulfillment she had never experienced since birth, because no matter what the future held, this person belonged only to her now, this person needed her, and now only she was by his side, only she could save him, and this kiss represented everything!
"Ha, ha, ha..." Olga Marie, with her eyes glazed over, took the initiative to tease him, making him chase after her bodily fluids.
Unable to bear the intense heat, she didn't notice that dusk had arrived and a new phantom had appeared.
This time, it was Kuonji Yuzu and the black cat who appeared. The black cat was lying quietly on Yuzu's lap, lazily yawning, while Yuzu was quietly holding a book of poems and reading it attentively.
But when they were fully revealed, they both looked up at the same time and stared intently at Yue Zhengling on the bed.
——————World Line Divider——————
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