Cloud Thinking

The first person Helia saw when she opened her eyes was Eric. He was lying on the side of her bed, holding her hand tightly with one hand, as if he was afraid that she would disappear out of thin air. At this moment, he was taking a nap with his eyes closed.

She turned over and looked at Eric. Her mind was blank and she was not thinking about anything. It had been a long time since she felt so completely relaxed.

She stretched out her other hand out of boredom to play with Eric's golden hair. As she touched it, she couldn't help but sigh, the hair quality is really good, and the amount of hair is really thick!

And her brother's face was also incredibly handsome. Unlike Claude who was cold, even though Eric had no expression on his face, he made people feel that he was a gentle person.

Sensing the movement, Eric tightened his grip on Helia's hand and slowly opened his eyes. He was a little blurry from having just woken up, and his eyes were misty, reflecting Helia's curious face clearly.

He met Helia's gaze and slowly sat up straight. He was stunned for a moment, without any movement, just looking at her quietly, wondering if he was dreaming.

"Brother?" Helia saw that the other party was staring at her blankly. She waved her hand in front of Eric's eyes in confusion and said with a smile: "Brother, don't you recognize me?"

Helia didn't even have time to take her hands back. The next moment, she was hugged tightly by Eric. His arms were so strong that he seemed to want to rub her into his bones. She almost couldn't breathe.

She knew Eric was too excited, so she patted him on the back and comforted him, "I'm fine, don't worry, brother."

"You little bastard!" Eric cursed her while choking. Helia felt her shoulders and neck get wet, most likely Eric's tears. She also knew how bastardly the things she had done seemed to him, so she stopped talking and let him curse her until he had vented his anger.

"I was so worried about you. Do you know how I almost collapsed when I found out you were missing? I looked for you for a whole year, but there was no news of you anywhere. I even suspected that you were dead. I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about you all day long."

"I finally found you, but you're still hiding from me. You don't even recognize your own brother? I'm so pissed! You're such a heartless person! Not only do you hide from me, but you also do something so dangerous!"

"You are asking for your life! I value you more than my own eyes! Who asked you to protect me? Ah! Don't you know that you are in poor health? Who asked you to rush to the front?"

At this point, Helia couldn't help but retort, "The situation was so urgent at the time, and I knew that only I could do that. If I didn't stand up, we would all die there! And more people would die!"

Eric grabbed Helia's shoulders and raised his head from her neck. Tears were still in the corners of his eyes, but his eyes were full of anger: "What do you know? You know it! I don't know you yet! You are clearly ready to sacrifice yourself! You have no sense of propriety!"

Helia was not convinced. "Then tell me, if I didn't stand up in that situation, how would you solve it? How could you solve it? Hmm?"

Eric was silent. Perhaps he didn't know how to solve the problem, but he felt that the solution should not be to sacrifice his sister. After all, people are selfish.

"What, you have nothing to say?" Seeing Eric silent, Helia felt that she was right. She put her hands on her waist and raised her head, looking as proud as she could be.

Seeing Helia's cocky look, Eric couldn't help but smile. He raised his hand and tapped Helia's forehead, saying helplessly, "You little brat, I thought you had grown up, but you still like to be cocky like before."

Helia paused. She didn't expect that her own portrayal would be so similar to the original owner. It seemed that she probably didn't have to worry about being seen through by Eric and then being tied to a cross and burned to death.

But it is better to be cautious. We need to observe carefully for a while and try to figure out how Eric and the original owner get along...

"How long have I slept? What's the situation outside now? Has the monster tide receded?" Helia stopped making a fuss and got down to business.

"You've been sleeping for four days. I thought you were not going to wake up. How could you sleep so well?" Eric complained in a low voice. "We repelled the monster tide the day you killed the dragon. After that, the monsters lay dormant again. It's been very peaceful these days."

He suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, when your teacher found you that night, he said that he saw a man next to you. The dragon's body and you were trapped in his domain, and he took the initiative to send you out. Is that your friend?"

Helia: Uh... that's not a friend. In a sense, Watersiser should be considered my little dad...

"Is the dragon's body still there?" Helia asked. "Has that man been guarding it too?"

After she woke up, she called out Watersise's name in her heart, but the other party didn't respond. This shouldn't happen, unless he turned into a physical body and stayed outside, and lost contact with her for some reason.

It's also possible that the other party simply doesn't want to pay attention to her... or maybe he has a quarrel with her...

"It's still there, and the field is still there, but I don't know if that person is still there," Eric replied.

"Then I have to go." Helia turned around and was about to get out of bed, but Eric grabbed her arm.

"We need to ask the doctor to take a look first and make sure there is no problem."

"Okay..." Seeing his worried look, Helia had no choice but to obediently retract her feet and lie down on the bed.

Helia felt that her whole body was full of strength and she felt extremely healthy. Of course, she didn't think it was the healing magician's credit. She vaguely remembered that her right leg seemed to be broken before she lost consciousness, but now she moved her toes and there was no problem, it was very flexible.

Such an amazing healing effect could only be achieved by the help of Watersise.

Thinking about it carefully, she seemed to owe Watersise a lot of favors this time. Now he was probably still helping her guard the dragon's corpse. She felt more or less guilty about it.

Although in the end Watersise merged the soul and returned control of the body as He said, and did not let Helia commit suicide, death was her own choice.

But Helia felt a little guilty. What Watersiser said was like a thorn in her heart, making her feel very uncomfortable.

In the end, Watersise did not betray her. Although he had the idea of ​​betrayal, he did not actually do it, so Helia did not intend to continue to be angry with him.

Because there is no point and no benefit.

However, what she couldn't understand was that the God of Time and Space actually died, and the gods in heaven didn't seem to care too much about it.

Don’t you know, or do you acquiesce?

No matter what, the other party helped her. If they could meet again one day, she would scold him first and then thank him. After all, it was this damn guy who brought her to this different world and made her suffer so much! One thing at a time! The accounts still need to be settled!

Helia was allowed to get out of bed only after the doctor checked and confirmed that there was no problem.

Of course, her desire to find the dragon's body has not yet received unanimous approval from the higher-ups. Although Eric does not support it, if Helia insists, he will eventually give in.

But Hilda couldn't spare the time for the moment, and opening the city gate required her permission. She said she would give her a reply later, so Helia could only wait.

Helia asked Eric about the news about Ronnie and Chico. She said those words to Ronnie before she left, and then disappeared soon after. There was no guarantee that he would not do something against Hawke, and she was also worried that Hawke would attack them to keep the secret.

Fortunately, after the incident, Ronnie immediately found Chico. Chico was a steady man. On the surface, he tried his best to maintain peaceful relations with Antonio's family, but privately he kept sending people to look for Helia.

Now, the two of them followed Major General Okalai, responsible for staying in Satede and settling the surrounding refugees. Perhaps they thought Helia might be hiding among the refugees, and there was more information in places with more people, which would be convenient for them to act.

In addition, she also heard the news of Hawke's death. She was a little unresponsive for a while and thought she was still dreaming.

"Hawk... Hawke, Marshal Hawke passed away? When did it happen? How could it be possible!" Helia was shocked. She had originally wanted to come back to settle accounts with her uncle, but how could he be gone?

Even if she hated Hawke, she didn't hate him to the point of wanting him dead! At least they were blood relatives!

"Ever since you disappeared a year ago, Marshal Hawke has been infected with a strange disease, and the doctors are helpless." Eric stirred the honey water in the cup with a spoon and told Helia little by little what had happened in the year since she disappeared.

"Marshal Hawke seemed to have his vitality drained away bit by bit. He used to be as strong as an ox, but when I visited him in Sad Forest, he was so thin that he was just a bag of bones."

"I asked Madam Iyena, and she said Hawke eats and drinks normally every day, but he is getting more haggard and weaker every day, and no matter what he eats, it can't make up for it."

"They suspected it might be black magic or some strange witchcraft, but they asked a ninth-level healing magician to take a look, but he couldn't find any problems."

"Before I left, I felt that Marshal Hawke might not live long, but I didn't expect it to be so sudden. We didn't even get to see him for the last time. After all, he is our uncle and our closest relative."

"On what specific day did Marshal Hawke die?" Helia asked.

"Well... eight days ago." Eric gave the answer after thinking carefully.

He handed the honey water he had prepared to Helia, watched her drink it bit by bit, touched her head, and praised her for being so well behaved.

Helia was carefully sorting out the clues in her head while drinking honey water. Hawke began to fall ill after she entered the tower, and Hawke died on the day she left the tower. This was such a coincidence that Helia had to think more about it.

She suddenly thought of Turhei. As the source of power for the tower, he used his life to sustain the tower and her who lived in the tower. Moreover, he was a blood relative of Helia and a member of the royal family of Abraham.

So Hawke...could he also be one of the people in the supply tower?

Half of her blood comes from Madeline, the blood of the Antonio family, and Hawke is the current head of the Antonio family...

Helia felt that everything was clear. The tower that supported her was built on the flesh and blood of Turhei and Hawke.

During the year she was in the tower, she survived by absorbing the lives of her two blood relatives. It was she who killed Hawke.

"How could this happen... How could this happen..."

Helia collapsed, holding her head and shrank back. Without her knowing it, two people had sacrificed themselves for her. Moreover, both of them had volunteered to sacrifice themselves silently for this relative whom she was not familiar with.

Turhei was once a glorious prince, and Hawke was once a famous marshal of a town, but one of them died without any honor or status, and no one collected his body. Until now, he still lies in that cold little dark room that could collapse at any time.

One died in bed, tortured by illness for a whole year, living a life worse than death. It was an insult to them that he was a great marshal, but died in such a miserable way in the end.

How could this be possible...

How could this be possible...

Then how can I repay you for the life I owe you...