Chapter 297 Family Event III: Witch Night (XI)

In the corridor in front of him, the boy with red eyes was lying on the ground like a spider, crawling towards him at a very fast speed.

Seeing this scene, the Lost Witch's pupils shrank slightly. At this moment, the night came, the setting sun sank below the horizon, and the whole city was swallowed up by darkness in an instant. Only a trace of red remained in the world, but it was not the afterglow of dusk, but the madness in the boy's eyes.

It's like... a red tide floating on the sea.

At this moment, the Lost Witch actually felt something she hadn't felt for a long time...some long-forgotten emotion.

Even though she was very familiar with all kinds of emotions, it took her a full second to understand the name of this strange emotion she was feeling...

That is:

--"fear".

That's right, as a witch who is best at manipulating other people's emotions and has lived for hundreds of years, she thought she had become numb and indifferent to all emotions, but at this moment, the Lost Witch actually felt an unknown fear.

In an instant, the Lost Witch raised her hand. Since Nezha's Hun Tian Ling did not restrict her, despite the special structure of this spiritual space, she could still exert some of her power. So she created a barrier in front of herself to block the boy who was crawling towards her like a spider.

"What exactly is this……"

Through a layer of barrier, the Lost Witch stared blankly at the boy with bloodshot eyes.

He seemed to contain the most chaotic, mixed, and violent emotions that humans have ever developed. It would be better to say that this kind of thing can no longer be called a human being, but a mixture of pure negative emotions.

If it is described in terms of a painting, then it should be a mess of lines like a ball of wool, but now it appears in human form, maintaining the human form in this spiritual space. This is what is most incredible to her.

The next moment, in the endless darkness, the Lost Witch felt rows of uniform gazes coming from the side.

It's like a multi-eyed spider suddenly opened all its eyes, hiding in the bushes and staring at you motionlessly.

The Lost Witch felt horrified and got goosebumps all over her body.

She turned her head suddenly and saw figures standing by the windows of the classroom, staring at her out of the corner of their eyes.

Ke Mingye just sat quietly among them, like a statue, peaceful and stable.

In the classroom, everyone gathered around him, just as children would naturally gather around the head of the family.

Ke Mingye sat on his desk with his eyes downcast, his face calm, the last rays of the setting sun reflecting on his pale cheeks.

At this moment, the boy in hospital gown who had been leaning against the wall in the corridor and reading silently suddenly turned the pages of the book, his fingers stroking the pages, making a rustling sound.

"Ke Mingye is not afraid of anyone's death." He said softly amid the sound of pages turning.

"What do you mean?" asked the Lost Witch.

"Because all the people who died in front of him, all the people he once cared about, will eventually come back to him in another form, so he is not afraid of any form of death..." The boy in the hospital gown paused, "...just like her."

As he spoke, his eyes turned towards the inside of the classroom and landed on Stro's silhouette.

"I don't understand." said the Lost Witch.

"What it means is that Ke Mingye allowed himself to destroy everything from the bottom of his heart, and then...he had this."

Like a machine without emotions, the boy in the hospital gown spoke calmly, then raised his finger and pointed at the "monster" crawling on the ground with red eyes.

"so what?"

The Lost Witch asked.

"So... Ke Mingye will not be restricted. It is better to say that he can completely not set any restrictions for himself."

The boy in the hospital gown spoke slowly.

"One day when he gives up struggling, he will accept the dull emotions in his heart, and then very calmly...kill everyone in a way that is taken for granted. Because he firmly believes...this is the center of the world, and everyone he cares about will eventually return here. No one has ever died, they just returned to where they should be...In his eyes, this is not a grave, nor is it some kind of alternative memory museum, nor is it a cold storage for storing corpses, but a kind of inevitable 'end point'."

After a slight pause, he raised his eyes from the page and glanced out the window.

"In the end, this school building, this welfare home, this city, this world will be filled with countless people, just like a family. And he is the pillar of this family... His spirit will not fall, but will be like a symbol, supporting the operation of this world until his death."

The Lost Witch was silent for a moment, then looked over the personalities in the classroom.

In the darkness, the ice-blue eyes of the girl in the Christmas dress stared at her; the eyes of the red and blue figure stared straight at her from behind the mask; a pair of dark and empty eyes behind the ghost mask of the psychic seemed to be still in mid-air, also facing her.

Through the window, the looks they cast at me were so peaceful.

It was like...looking at a dead body.

When the Lost Witch's gaze swept across the faces in the window and gradually reached Stro, the red-haired girl in the wheelchair was stunned for a moment, then raised the corners of her mouth cunningly, glanced at her with the corner of her eyes, and waved at her gently with her chin in her hand.

The Lost Witch retracted her gaze and said slowly:
"He is really a madman... an absolute madman... but it seems that you are not on their side?"

She knew very well that since even Ke Mingye himself was afraid of the two personalities in the corridor... and had to leave them outside, then there was no doubt that the weakness of this spiritual world lay in these two personalities.

What this means is that as long as she can convince them, she will have the opportunity to destroy Ke Mingye's spiritual world.

"Don't you feel sad that you were excluded from the classroom and stayed in the corridor with this monster?"

As she spoke, the Lost Witch lowered her eyes to look at the young man with red eyes outside the barrier, a hint of disgust flashing in her eyes.

The boy in the hospital gown remained silent, lowered his eyes, and continued reading his book.

At this moment, the spiritual barrier set up by the Lost Witch was about to break. The monster with red eyes opened its mouth and gnawed at her barrier with its teeth. The cracks extended bit by bit, and the monster's face was also distorted by the barrier.

"What a monster..."

The Lost Witch muttered to herself, her tone filled with undisguised disgust.

Then she slowly raised her head, turned her head, and looked at Ke Mingye in the classroom again.

Ke Mingye gently ruffled Little Red Riding Hood's golden hair, then raised his eyes slightly.

Through the classroom window, he and the Lost Witch stared at each other.

Using her peripheral vision to watch the spider-like boy getting closer, the Lost Witch showed no fear or panic. Instead, she slightly grinned.

Amber eyes stared at Ke Mingye.

She knew that she couldn't hear the sounds in the classroom through the glass; similarly, the people in the classroom couldn't hear what she was saying.

Then, the Lost Witch opened her mouth and silently said to Ke Mingye through lip language: "It's useless... Even if I can't shake your spiritual world, you are still no match for me in the real world. As long as I leave here, you will be trapped."

Ke Mingye looked back at her calmly.

His lips moved slightly, responding to her silently.

"Really? Then why don't you go out and take a look at what the 'reality' you mentioned is like now?"

Hearing this, the Lost Witch was slightly startled.

Although she had doubts about Ke Mingye's words and thought he was just bluffing, the barrier she set up to block the red-eyed boy was on the verge of breaking, so she no longer continued to compete with Ke Mingye in this ghost place, but instantly left his spiritual world and returned to the real world.

At this moment, in reality.

Inside the statue space, the light was dim, with only the slight flickering light of a candle.

The Lost Witch slowly opened her eyes, and then was slightly startled. At this moment, huge, wriggling tentacles with a dark halo were surrounding her body tightly. Only her head was allowed to show so that she could breathe a little.

Staring at those strange, twisted tentacles, the Lost Witch was stunned for a while, and soon she recognized who was behind it:

——The Witch of Sloth.

"……Why?"

She murmured in astonishment, looking up at Ke Mingye who was collapsed on the ground, and Little Red Riding Hood who was standing there with empty eyes, and the light slowly returned to their eyes.

Then, footsteps were heard from the shadows at the entrance, and a figure wearing a dark purple tattered long skirt and bat-shaped wings on the back walked out.

She held a whip-shaped magic wand in her hand, her eyes shone with an odd light, and the corners of her mouth were raised high in the darkness, almost reaching her ears.

"If I have time, I really want to teach you a lesson... Lost Witch."

Staring at the Witch of Loss, the Witch of Sloth spoke almost word by word.

"traitor."

The Lost Witch stared at her face, her eyes gradually turned cold, and she spat at her unwillingly.

However, no matter how she struggled, she could not escape the glowing tentacles that were wrapped around her body.

The phantom tentacles have the effect of suppressing magic power, which is a special attack for both magical girls and witches, so her abilities are completely sealed at this time.

Even a witch who had lived for hundreds of years would just become a mortal, an ordinary mortal, in such a situation.

The Witch of Sloth drew out her voice and said jokingly: "How can you call me a 'traitor'... Is there a possibility that I was not one of yours from the beginning?" Hearing this, the Witch of Lost was stunned for a while, then raised her amber eyes and looked at the Blue Owl with resentment.

"I see... The Witch of Sloth is yours? You really have a plan for everything."

Blue Owl adjusted his helmet to make sure that Schnaian couldn't see what he looked like behind the mask, then raised his head and looked at the Lost Witch.

"Are you sure she is one of ours? Is she already unconscious?"

He said sarcastically.

"Isn't it?" The Lost Witch sneered.

Ke Mingye rolled his eyes and replied in his heart, to be precise, she is Kobe's person.

"Lost Witch, what are you talking about?"

The Witch of Sloth held her face in her hands, licked her lips with a flushed face, and spoke slowly.

"It's just that I have wanted to train you witches for a long time. I have tried to train magical girls, but I have never tried to train witches. Congratulations, you are about to become my first target. Let's enjoy it."

"Then I'll leave her to you to deal with, Miss Witch..." Blue Owl said to the Witch of Sloth.

"Okay, Mr. Superhero, you are very sensible. I thought I would have to fight with you..."

The Witch of Sloth responded happily, but her eyes never left the Witch of Loss.

Listening to the conversation between the two, the Lost Witch was stunned for a long time, then looked at the Sloth Witch, then looked at the Blue Owl, and couldn't help but gritted her teeth in anger, her face was shrouded in a dark shadow, and every inch of her muscles was twitching slightly.

Her self-esteem was completely crushed at this moment.

Whether in the spiritual world or the real world, she was completely defeated.

But fortunately... she still had one last trick - or rather, in fact, her mission had already been completed.

"It's no use. Ashes is destined to become a witch. And next, the altar inside the statue will sacrifice her as a witch, and revive the most powerful witch in history - the 'Witch of Jealousy'."

The Lost Witch said as she looked at the Blue Owl with a grin, "You couldn't have expected even that, could you? It's such a pity that you still couldn't save her in the end."

But after she finished speaking, she did not see the reaction she wanted on the faces of Blue Owl and Little Red Riding Hood. Their eyes were very calm.

"Indeed, as you said, I didn't calculate this, but someone did."

Blue Owl said.

"Who?" asked the Lost Witch.

"Xiziyue."

Blue Owl said the name, and then recalled a conversation from a few days ago.

A few days ago, Black Judge and Blue Owl were in a conference room in the Tongmenghui building, confronting Xi Ziyue.

"I'm here to find someone... Magical Girl Ashes."

Blue Owl stared at Xiziyue and said so.

Xiziyue looked back at him and said slowly: "Although I don't know what your relationship with Huijin is, there is one thing I can tell you - I left two cards in the magic book of the magical girl Huijin."

“The first card can tell me where she is;

"And the second card can absolutely save her life if she encounters a life-threatening situation."

Ke Mingye came back to his senses, breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up at the altar from behind the blue owl mask.

It was precisely because of the two cards Xiziyue mentioned that Ke Mingye was certain that Bai Zini's life would not be threatened during this period of time, thus allowing him to survive these five days that seemed as long as a century.

He was willing to believe Xi Ziyue and trusted her. Although this girl who was known as the "No. 1 Magical Girl in 2,000 Years" was usually careless, she never failed to deliver in critical situations, and Xi Ziyue did not disappoint him.

Just a few seconds later, the card that Xiziyue left in Ashes' magic book played its due role.

"...Xiziyue?"

The Lost Witch was slightly startled and turned her head suddenly.

Just as the dark cocoon light spreading from the altar was about to completely cover the ashes, suddenly, a magic book emitting bright light rose up, and the pages turned automatically at high speed without wind.

Then it stopped at one of the pages.

Then, a magic card with a dark gold and dark gold glowing all over it rose from it.

A-level card magic card - "Shield of Floating Life".

The card turned into a strong light and shattered, like a rain of light falling. The sacred halo of dark gold and white enveloped the whole body of the girl in the Gothic skirt, and then the layer of dark cocoon light that had previously surrounded her body was completely shattered.

Immediately afterwards, the stone altar was destroyed and collapsed.

This also meant that the ritual of resurrecting the Witch of Hatred with ashes as a sacrifice ended in failure—accompanied by a hoarse howl that seemed to come from ancient times that resounded throughout the world and echoed in the cramped space of the statue.

The body of the magical girl Ashes slowly fell to the ground and lay among the ruins.

"How is it possible...how is it possible...how is it possible?"

Looking at this scene, the Lost Witch's pupils trembled and she murmured with a pale face.

"It's so ugly... Please don't make such an ugly expression, it makes me lose interest immediately, it's so boring."

The Sloth Witch spoke listlessly, with a hint of undisguised boredom in her eyes. She then ordered the glowing tentacles to wrap around the body of the Lost Witch, draining all the magic power out of her body.

Finally, when the tentacles dispersed, only a piece of bones remained of the Lost Witch's body, slowly scattered on the ground.

"it's over……"

The Blue Owl, or "Ke Mingye", looked up at the scene and thought to himself.

"So, we have rescued Senior Huijin?"

Little Red Riding Hood asked quietly.

"Yes...we rescued her."

Ke Mingye muttered to himself.

But just as he passed by the wreckage of the Lost Witch and was about to take the unconscious Bai Zini home, a strange vision suddenly descended on the altar that had turned into ruins.

When the girl in the Gothic skirt raised her eyes again, a cold gray-blue flame burned in her pupils.

At the same time, the bunch of umbrellas that fell at her feet changed. The gems embedded in the umbrella handles were completely contaminated by darkness, and thousands of cracks appeared, like cracked earth.

The footsteps suddenly stopped in the silence. Looking at this scene, Blue Owl slowly stopped and stood there in a daze.

Ke Mingye's pupils shrank slightly, reflecting the empty-eyed girl in the Gothic skirt. Half of her cheek was still stained with blood, and her pupils were empty, but the gray-blue fire burning in her eyes was so bright, like the sky at dawn.

The next moment, he turned his back to Shi Naian, slowly took off his Blue Owl helmet, raised his eyes from under his sweat-soaked hair, and said hoarsely to the girl on the altar:
"Bai Zi Ni...it's me."

But these words are so pale, as if they cannot reach anyone's ears.

At this moment, the girl in the Gothic skirt seemed to have nothing in her eyes. Even though her pupils reflected Ke Mingye's face, the two of them were so close, but she still ignored him.

The next moment, the space inside the entire witch statue began to tremble violently, as if it was collapsing.

In the crumbling world, the umbrella named "Cinderella" slowly floated upwards, and then was covered with a layer of gray-blue metal, transforming into an authentic mechanical texture.

Then, the umbrella's cover began to shrink and stick tightly to the umbrella handle.

With the sound of "clicking", countless parts were quickly reassembled and finally turned into a heavy sniper rifle.

At the same time, the Gothic girl's skirt began to change color gradually. In a blink of an eye, the gray-blue color enveloped her entire body, completely replacing the gray part. Then the hem of the pleated skirt broke with a "hiss", and the skirt slowly turned into a shape like embers.

Then the girl raised her eyes, and the gray and blue flames intertwined in her pupils burst out.

The two looked at each other.

Ke Mingye stared at her blankly, and a panel popped up in his eyes.

[Codename: Embers Witch]

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