Chapter 517

Liya's palm was still gently stroking Mu En's face, and a hint of playfulness suddenly appeared in her eyes:

"You worked so hard today, it seems that I have to reward you later."

"Really? How should the Saint reward you?"

"Well... I prepared a few new clothes, do you want to take a look?"

"New clothes? What style?"

"Guess?"

"You little goblin, don't learn from senior sisters in the future."

Mu En laughed and scolded, trying to suppress the fire that was really about to burn in his body. He patted Liya's small hips with his big hand, hugged her small waist and turned around:

"Go back?"

"Yeah."

Liya finally looked at the bright stars around her intoxicatedly and nodded:

"Go back."

"Don't worry, if you want to see it, I can always... show you again..."

Mu En waved his hand and slowly gathered the light spots around.

But as the light spots gathered and gradually became brighter, illuminating the surroundings, Mu En looked at a certain place, and the smiling words gradually stopped.

His expression gradually froze.

"What's wrong?"

Liya looked at Muen, who seemed to have suddenly turned into a wooden man. She tilted her head and followed his gaze.

Then she was stunned.

Because among the dense flowers and bushes, in the most inconspicuous corner... I don't know when, a figure holding flowers stood.

The closing starlight illuminated the pale and dull face of the figure.

Ariel!

55. I should be under the bed

"It's cold in spring."

In the shaking carriage, the former saint Latina leaned against the window, not caring about the increasingly cold wind, holding her chin and staring at the dark clouds that kept piling up in the sky.

"Maybe it will snow."

"Snow?"

The pink bear next to him also peeked out of the window:

"Will it snow in the warm Holy City?"

"Normally not, but the previous battles in the Holy City seem to have slightly affected the celestial phenomena. It's possible that the first snow in a few years will come next time."

"Will the church not intervene?" Pink Bear asked curiously.

"Why should it intervene?"

Latina glanced at the dead bear who had become more and more courageous recently and even dared to take advantage of her, and said:

"This is a good thing. After a snowfall, the vitality of spring will be more vigorous... No, according to the time calculation, it won't be long before the most beautiful summer in the Holy City will arrive."

"The most beautiful... Is it beautiful?"

"Of course, the vegetation will be very lush by then, and the whole Holy City will be shrouded in endless vitality."

"Really..."

Pink Bear thought about the picture and nodded:

"Yes, it will be green and beautiful."

...

...

Click.

The most beautiful flowers in the Holy City fell to the ground, awakening the three people who had turned into wooden figures at the same time.

"Ai... Ariel?"

Liya was the first to come to her senses. She pushed Mu En away temporarily, sorted out her messy clothes, and greeted Ariel who was standing in front of her with a stiff smile, but her tone was still a little flustered:

"When did you stand there?"

"Since... Since you hugged each other."

Ariel's eyes were dull, like a dying fish on the shore. Her delicate body trembled slightly, and her lips kept opening and closing, but in the end she couldn't say the word "kiss".

The starlight was bright, illuminating the slightly pale face.

It seemed like a statue, standing there for eternity, with eyes wide open and full of disbelief, as if she saw the frog she had boiled for ten years, now swimming in someone else's pot.

She looked at Liya, then at Mu En, and finally at some traces that the two of them could not erase even if they quickly sorted them out...such as the lip prints on Mu En's mouth, such as the blush on the girl's cheeks that had not yet faded.

Intense pain spread from the depths of her heart to her fingertips.

"Why... why?"

Ariel staggered back a few steps, looking as weak as if she were seriously ill.

"Why..."

Some kind of sad singing voice came from somewhere, making her look even more miserable. The dress that was most suitable for her in the Holy City looked like a clown's costume at this moment.

"Why!"

Ariel raised her head suddenly, stared at Leah fiercely, and roared the words that had been accumulated in her heart for a long time since she saw this scene just now:

"It was obviously me who came first!!"

"I..."

"Is it because of him? Is it because of what he did to you? Wait for me, Leah, I will rescue you now!"

The biting wind pressure tore through the air, the piercing buzzing shattered the eardrums, and the great sword burning with fire was unsheathed, wanting to turn all the enemies in front of him into ashes!

But, the great sword did not fall in the end.

Because...

"Ariel!"

Liya opened her arms and protected Mu En:

"Calm down!"

"..."

Ariel held the sword blankly, with a look of embarrassment.

It hurts, too much.

It hurts my heart, and it hurts my soul.

What else can make people feel more painful than this picture?

Ariel felt that her heart was being trampled back and forth by a huge monster until it broke into pieces.

"Why... why? Liya, you don't know..."

"I know, I know what you think, Ariel."

Liya's eyes softened, she looked into Ariel's eyes seriously, and said:

"But, I always... treat you as my best friend."

"Friend...friend?"

Ariel's body trembled again.

Friend...

Friend.

Friend?

Just a friend!

Why do these two small words hurt so much?

"But...but two days ago, you clearly..."

"That's not what I said to you."

Liya took a deep breath. Although it seemed cruel, compared to long-term deception, a short-term wound seemed to be the best choice.

"That question at that time, and the goal of the answer, were..."

Liya glanced at Mu En beside her, and said nothing more, but she had already said everything.

"I...I don't believe it. At that time, the room was clearly..."

"Alas..."

The teacher's sigh sounded in Ariel's ears, shattering her last hope:

"At that time, there were indeed four people in the room. I thought it was an illusion caused by the disturbance of the great barrier, so I didn't tell you. Now it seems..."

"..."

Ariel staggered again, as if struck by lightning.

The accumulated magic power and fighting spirit all dissipated, and the strength in her body seemed to be completely drained away.

She didn't even have a reason to swing her sword now, so how could she clear the obstacles in front of her?

What must win, what general, what Liya waiting for me...

So the so-called clown... was actually me?

The whole world became blurred, as if filled with thick fog, and in the end, she could only see Liya's slightly worried face.

"Ariel, you..."

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

The longer Ariel stayed here, the more she felt the pain of burning like fire, so she turned around and ran away regardless of Liya's call and retention.

Soon she disappeared in the vast night.

"Ariel!"

"Forget it."

Mu En grabbed Liya who wanted to catch up and shook his head:

"Let her calm down for a while, this can't be solved by persuasion, she has to figure it out herself."

"..."

...

...

The wind was whistling.

Like a knife, cutting the skin.

Ariel didn't know how long she had been running. The scenery around her gradually became unfamiliar. She only felt that the night was like a giant beast, gradually swallowing her.

She finally stopped and looked blankly at the scenery somewhere.

Suddenly, she felt a slight chill on the tip of her nose.

She raised her hand and saw white ice crystals falling into her palm with the whirlwind, and then melted by her body temperature in an instant.

"What? Will it snow in spring...?"

Endless sadness emerged from her heart. Ariel finally couldn't hold on and fell to her knees with a plop.