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Morgan the witch was already close to Arthur's ear.
She began in a light and cheerful tone:
“Arthur, the death you are ordained to die will be given by me.”
But for now, I'll let you live a little longer.
The voice just fell.
The girl leaning on Arthur's shoulder suddenly went limp, as if she had lost consciousness and fainted.
Arthur remained vigilant, holding the girl on his shoulder close to his body.
Only after seeing the girl's serene face as she fainted did his tense nerves finally relax.
Arthur thought to himself:
Did I successfully save Miss Lani?
However, the witch's last words...
Just as he was pondering this, the girl in his arms slowly opened her eyes.
Lani's return to consciousness and her affectionate call pulled Arthur back to the present:
"Little lion... what am I doing...?"
Only then did Arthur notice:
The gray haze surrounding the area had completely dissipated at some point.
They returned to the lawn of the lord's manor.
However, after losing the invincible buff of Lv.1 "Blessing of Valor".
Arthur finally couldn't suppress the fatigue that had accumulated from the long battle.
This cannot be compensated for simply by restoring vitality and energy.
This feeling of exhaustion washed over his limbs and torso.
Arthur suddenly realized that the girl leaning against him in his arms was even heavier than the demon David he had just encountered.
then.
Under the pressure amplified many times over by his exhaustion, Arthur leaned back and fell to the ground with a thud.
He also dragged the girl Lani, who was in his arms, to the ground.
For a moment, the two were caught in an awkward atmosphere.
Arthur scratched his head and started joking:
"Miss Lani, perhaps you should lose weight?"
Lani, who had just regained consciousness, barged close to Arthur's face and pouted:
"Ha! Little lion, are you saying I'm heavy?"
"Just kidding, Miss Lani's figure is impeccable!"
Lani, enraged, pinched a soft piece of flesh beneath Arthur's skin:
"Little lion, who taught you these indecent words? Tell me honestly."
"Ah, it hurts!"
Chapter 115 Sincerely for You
After they had been bickering with each other for a while...
Remembering his business, Arthur sat up from the lawn and pointed to the bracelet that Lani was holding in her hand:
"Miss Lani, why is this bracelet able to suppress the witch who has revived within you?"
"This is an item that Grandpa Lawson specially gave to me after the little lion learned that the Black Rock Territory invasion crisis had passed."
Lani held up the strange bracelet in her hand, whose inner and outer rings were completely different, and recalled carefully:
"He told me that if I ever encountered any extraordinary events that I couldn't handle, this bracelet would be my talisman, protecting me completely."
"That's true! Without it, I don't think I would have been able to deal with the witch who possessed your body."
Arthur nodded in agreement.
At the same time, he also realized:
This bracelet was something I traded for Mr. Lawson from the alchemist Merlin in exchange for a dagger forged from dark elemental essence.
It seems that Mr. Lawson had already prepared for the crisis that Miss Lani might encounter.
Thinking of this, Arthur couldn't help but recall another important matter at hand.
He hurriedly placed his hand on Lani's shoulder:
“Miss Lani, the ornament I gave you seems to have a great deal to do with that witch. Please take it off immediately.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Arthur's hand reached out and touched the exquisite silver ornament hanging around Lani's fair neck.
But then she looked at Lani.
Arthur's affectionate behavior caught her off guard and stirred her heart.
At that moment, a blush quietly crept onto the girl's face.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Lani blinked and came to her senses.
"Cough cough!"
Then, after nodding and coughing.
She glanced away again, concealing the shyness flickering in her eyes:
"Then please, the owner of this ornament, our esteemed Lord Blackrock, take it back and return it to its rightful owner."
At this moment, Arthur's gaze was fixed on the exquisite silver ornament around Lani's neck, completely unaware of the girl's embarrassed and shy demeanor.
then.
"Miss Lani, I'm sorry to offend you."
After obtaining permission from the girl of similar age in front of him, Arthur then reached out, unfastened the clasp on the back of the ornament, and took it off.
He held the exquisitely crafted piece in his hand and gently stroked the two tiny cracks that appeared on its surface.
These two cracks were caused by two full-force attacks he delivered during his battle with the witch Morgan.
The hardness of this piece of jewelry is so incongruous with its delicate appearance.
So much so that when he obtained it from the alchemist Merlin, he had never even tested it.
His original intention was to give it to Lani, who had been helping him build his territory, as a talisman because of its extraordinary property that "can transfer some of the damage suffered by the wearer to its owner".
But then she recalled what Morgan the witch said after she was revived from Lani's body.
This ornament, whose origins even the alchemist Merlin couldn't ascertain, seems to be closely related to the witch Morgan and happens to facilitate her revival from the "container".
With this in mind, Arthur deeply reflected on himself:
In the future, we must handle things whose origins are unclear with care, and in particular, we must not let them harm people who are important to us.
My thoughts returned to the real world.
He also sincerely apologized to Lani for this.
"I'm sorry, Miss Lani, it's because I gave you this 'protective charm' that you've gotten into so much trouble."
But Lani shook her head:
"No, the witch's resurgence is simply my inevitable 'destiny.'"
After saying this, Lani felt a pang of sadness and lowered her eyes.
Arthur was slightly taken aback by the girl's sudden sadness.
He began nervously searching his mind for words that could comfort the girl.
But just as he was about to speak...
Lani, sitting on the lawn, bent her legs and hugged them with both arms, then started talking:
"Little lion, do you remember how many years ago we met?"
"Nine... years ago, I think."
Arthur swallowed the words of comfort he had just prepared, and after carefully searching his past memories, he answered her.
Soon, Lani chimed in, but her words were surprising:
"But what you don't know is that I was actually 'born' only ten years ago."
"Hmm! Miss Lani is joking with me, right?"
Arthur looked surprised after hearing this.
Lani seemed to have anticipated his reaction, and he lowered his head, resting it on his hands.
Then, his gaze drifted, and his thoughts began to drift back to the past:
"Ten years ago, I was born in a sea of fire."
I still clearly remember that when I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw were two unfamiliar faces, pale and strange.
At that moment, they embraced me tightly with their bodies.
I noticed that on their backs were two fatal burns from the pillars of fire.
Grandpa Lawson later told me that they were 'my' parents.
When the fire broke out, they sacrificed their lives to shield their own daughter from the dangerous flames.
However, as a survivor, I have absolutely no memory of this period.
No, it's that there was no memory of the eight-year-old girl's body at that time.
Regarding that fire, aside from those two faces that still feel completely unfamiliar to me, all I remember is my uncontrollable sobbing.
Grandpa Lawson told me that it was thanks to my crying that he was able to find me in time and rescue me.
Later, Grandpa Lawson told me that he was Mann Logan's apprentice.
My identity is the daughter of his master's granddaughter, and my name is Lani.
When I heard this name, I was completely confused.
A voice echoed in my mind, telling me that I am not Lani.
But Grandpa Lawson noticed my confusion about the name and told me it was just post-traumatic amnesia.
As you grow up, you'll gradually remember everything from the past.
So, over the next year, I began to try to accept the identity of Lani.
However, whenever I recall the faces of my parents that I saw when I first opened my eyes, they still feel incredibly unfamiliar.
A voice inside me keeps telling me, "I'm not Lani."
As she spoke, Lani's voice trembled slightly, and she became increasingly agitated.
But soon.
She calmed herself down and continued speaking:
"After a year of traveling around the North with my grandfather Lawson."
He told me that he no longer needed to wander; at the invitation of a friend, he was going to settle down in a remote border region in the north.
"Nine years ago? You and Mr. Lawson were invited by the butler Leon to move to Frostraven Town in Blackrock Territory."
Arthur's thoughts also followed Lani back to the past, recalling what happened at this point in time.
Nine years ago, he was only nine years old, just beginning to grow.
At that time.
He worked tirelessly from dawn till dusk, either training in various knightly skills or nurturing a bond with his newborn mount, Little Nightshade, whom he had named himself.