The moment he saw the girl, Aarons' spirit entered an illusory and hazy world.

The street was still the same street, and passers-by were still walking back and forth on the road, but everything around had somehow become blurred.

This should have been a dangerous change that should have alerted people, but Aarons completely ignored this abnormality.

"You are……"

The only thing that was clear in his eyes at this moment was the girl whose appearance was obviously abnormal.

"What do you want?"

The girl's voice was a little childish but also inexplicably ethereal. However, when Aarons heard this voice, the desire in his heart suddenly swelled uncontrollably.

[I want to do more within my ability] [I hope I can have more value in my existence] [I must find a way to reduce Claire's pressure] [I can't let others worry]...

And [I want to protect the people around me].

"Desire, strange."

"Little girl, why are you here alone? Where are your parents?"

However, Aarons seemed to have not noticed anything unusual about the girl. After a brief silence and pause, his body began to move on its own.

"This street isn't very safe right now... Where is your home? I'll take you back."

"Home, no."

"…An orphan?"

Looking at the girl's somewhat lonely and helpless expression, Aarons frowned slightly.

"I thought there were no more orphans in the city... Damn it."

In Aarons' eyes, this black-haired girl who was only wearing an ill-fitting loose sweater and spoke incoherently was most likely the orphan who did not receive help.

But he completely ignored the girl's inhuman pointed ears, vertical pupils, and the sharp fangs that occasionally appeared in her mouth.

"Do you need help? If you haven't eaten yet or can't find a place to sleep, I can help you."

"Why, no, desire?"

"What did you say? Um... don't you need these? Then please tell me, what can I do for you now?"

Although Aarons behaved very normally, he was completely unaware that his conversation with the girl was actually completely off the mark.

……

In fact, Aarons' consciousness is quite vague now.

He forgot many things in a moment, and even couldn't remember why he came here.

He only knew that this was Moti City, where he was born and raised. And the strange black-haired girl standing in front of him was the orphan he had left behind.

Although the scene before him was full of doubts, his ability to think had been taken over by his expanding desires, so he regarded everything he saw as real.

——Now he just wants to help this homeless girl as much as possible.

"…Do you need help?"

"I want to find someone."

The girl's tender and ethereal voice sounded again, but Aarons didn't notice that she didn't actually speak.

"Looking for someone? Then I might be able to help. Do you know the person's name?"

"Star Child, one of the Originals... Do you know who that person is?"

"I don't know, but I can take you to ask someone else."

Aarons, whose thinking was confused and sluggish, actually couldn't understand the meaning of the girl's words at all, but he still subconsciously made a safe response.

But at this moment, Aarons had only one thought in his mind: "I can't just leave this child alone."

"…Why, no, desire?"

"If we want to find someone, it seems we can only go to the city hall and ask. We also need to ask them if they know anything about this child... If we leave her wandering around the city alone, she might be targeted by some mercenaries."

Although he didn't get any normal response at all, Aarons completed the girl's answer in his mind.

After a brief thought, he extended his hand to the girl without hesitation.

"I'll take you to ask someone who might know. Don't worry, we're going to take the main roads, there won't be any danger."

"Human, weird."

The girl didn't react for a long time as she looked at Aarons's outstretched hand. And Aarons, as if there was something wrong with his program, didn't react at all after he stretched out his hand.

"I'm hungry, eat a little, mark."

After saying something ambiguous, the girl slowly took a step forward and gently held Aarons's outstretched hand with her own.

Then she brought the wrist of that hand to her mouth—and bit it without hesitation.

“Ah! This…wait, where is this?!”

When a stream of bright red blood flowed out from the bitten wrist and was gently sucked and swallowed by the strange girl, Aarons' consciousness seemed to finally regain some clarity.

But when he realized that something seemed to be wrong here, the surrounding scene began to become clearer - and the girl's figure gradually became dim and blurred, like an illusion that was about to disappear.

"Next time, help me find that person."

"Wait, you are..."

"Goodbye."

Before Aarons realized what was happening, the hazy phantoms before his eyes disappeared in an instant, and his confused mind returned to reality in an instant.

……

"Strange, did I just..."

When Aarons recovered from his trance, he found himself still standing on the street, continuously radiating his mental power outwards.

Pedestrians kept passing by him, but not many people noticed his presence.

"My Lord! Why did you stop so suddenly?"

"Oh, it's okay. But it seems like...something happened just now?"

Aarons had no memory of what had just happened, but he always felt that something strange had happened.

Subconsciously looking up at the sky, Aarons discovered that the mist that had originally shrouded the city had dissipated at some point - and when the sun shone on him again, the last trace of haziness in his heart also melted away.

It seems that I was just in a trance just now and didn't encounter any problems at all.

"It must be an illusion. Let's go first. We can do the test later. Let's go first-"

However, when Aarons stretched out his right hand towards Mo Qianyun, intending to ask her to act with him, he suddenly discovered a strange change.

——On his wrist, a blurry mark appeared as if it had been bitten by something, like some special mark.

“…What is this?”

Although he had no relevant memories in his head, Aarons always felt that he had forgotten something important.

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