Positive little sun, magical girl, I am awesome

After finishing dinner and returning to school, Lilith walked up the castle stairs. After passing the lifelike Chimaera statue at the corner of the stairs, she turned left and continued walking. Various beautiful paintings began to appear on the wall. Lilith was now very familiar with this road. She knocked on the door of the infirmary and walked in by herself.

"Lilith!" Phoebe was standing by the door as enthusiastically as usual, waiting for Lilith to come. As soon as Lilith came in, she gave the little girl a warm hug.

"Okay Phoebe..." Lilith tilted her head back to try to save her breath. "Belladonna, Belladonna is going to be crushed by you."

As expected, Phoebe immediately let go of her hand and looked at Lilith with sharp eyes.

"Promise me you won't eat it on weekdays, okay?" Lilith handed it over resignedly. "I heard from Senior Todd that one of his classmates came to you with a dislocated joint, and you fixed it for him four times before you got it right..."

"Oh, it was an accident, it was all an accident." Phoebe opened the bag and took a deep sip, looking intoxicated. "I just drank a few sips of belladonna wine, and it was that kid who kept twisting and turning that made me take it crooked, it had nothing to do with belladonna!"

Lilith: "...Is it possible that it's just twisting around in your eyes, but it's not moving?"

However, Phoebe no longer cared about that. She found her special small basket with great sense of ceremony, cleaned the belladonna one by one, and placed them in it. Then she held her face in her hands and admired them, as if they were her most proud painting.

…It seems I have to plant less next time, Lilith thought secretly.

The little monkey had become familiar with Lilith, and had already climbed onto her shoulders, wrapping its tail around Lilith's neck affectionately. It was chattering to her in a language she couldn't understand, and was pulling Lilith to look at Phoebe's new work.

"Oh, Phoebe drew you. You're so cute!" Lilith praised with a smile as she looked at the little monkey holding belladonna in the painting.

"Oh, I don't have the inspiration anymore. When I was young, I could finish a painting in a day." Phoebe took a big gulp of the belladonna wine she made last week and sighed regretfully.

"I think you're drawing very well now, Phoebe." Lilith affirmed the enthusiastic and lovely witch. She walked along Phoebe's office and looked around until a painting with a very strange angle caught her attention -

The central landscape of the painting was still Goletia's castle, but the angle was a little... weird. The castle was majestic and towering in the sunlight, but it seemed as if it was about to collapse, tilted and twisted, and the sky was still green.

...How much belladonna must have been consumed to draw this? Lilith couldn't help but sigh.

"Phoebe, your painting..." Lilith wanted to ask Phoebe about her inspiration, but she heard a burp. When she looked back, Phoebe's eyes were blurry.

Lilith: ...

"Hip - I like this painting too." Phoebe staggered out, looking proud. "How is it? Very realistic, right?"

Lilith: ...? Does this have anything to do with realism?

However, the doubt on Lilith's face was too obvious, even Phoebe, who was now unconscious due to the alcohol and belladonna toxins, could see it. She was a little unhappy and shouted: "This is what the castle looks like from the Mirror Lake Library! If you don't believe me, just look for yourself!"

After saying that, he grabbed Lilith's hand and pressed it on the painting. Before Lilith could react, she saw her hand actually passed through the frame of the painting and reached inside!

Then Phoebe swayed and pushed Lilith's shoulder. She felt a huge suction coming from her arm. The castle and the green sky in the painting began to twist and turn. She finally understood that it was not the sky, but water! Then her whole body twisted with the picture. The next second, her eyes went black. She fell from a height of one meter in the air and landed on the floor with a thud.

The room is full of light.

Lilith lay on the ground in a daze for a long time. Where was this? She wanted to look back at where she fell. It was another painting, and the painting was Phoebe's office.

Is this a portal? Lilith's brain finally started to work. Then, attracted by the sparkling water light in the room, she looked up.

A huge transparent sky covered it, which didn't look like glass, but emitted a faint halo. In the sky above, one could even see fish swaying in the water, and not far away was the castle of Goletia, which kept deforming and twisting in the water light. Lilith suddenly realized that this was actually the bottom of the Mirror Lake!

——Well, Phoebe is actually a realist. Lilith closed her mouth in surprise and was completely convinced.

She stood up and looked around the unfamiliar environment.

The carved black wooden bookshelves were neatly arranged, and the air was filled with the mellow woody scent of old papers and ancient bookshelves, which made people feel extremely peaceful. However, these bookshelves were almost all empty. Lilith walked along the rows of bookshelves and only occasionally saw some scattered papers.

——This can’t be a restricted area, Lilith couldn’t help feeling a little uneasy. She had never heard that this place was open to students. Could it be that the books here... couldn’t be read by children?

Then Lilith became excited.

She knocked on every bookshelf, trying to find the mechanism hidden somewhere, but she found nothing even after walking all the way to the reading area.

She leaned against a bookshelf dejectedly. It seemed that she had thought too much. Suddenly, she heard the sound of books falling from the bookshelf. Lilith looked up immediately. It was on top!

She dragged over a chair in the reading area that seemed to have been unattended for years, stood on it and looked over. A thick notebook had fallen from the edge because of her leaning and was upside down on the bookshelf. Lilith picked it up and was about to look through it when she suddenly heard the sound of running water behind her. She subconsciously hid the book in the ring and looked back.

Just now she was concentrating on searching every bookshelf, but now when she stood on a high place, she discovered that behind the layers of bookshelves, there was a huge pool right next to the reading area. Bubbles were constantly coming out of the pool, and a shadow was slowly rising from the water.

"Wow..."

A huge pink-blue tail fin swung out of the water, creating a large splash of water, and then ripples appeared on the water surface. A lady with long, jet-black hair broke out of the water, stopped in the middle of the pool, and looked at Lilith. Behind her, a pink-blue fish tail swung out of the water, and crystal water droplets fell one after another, making the fish tail even more beautiful.

Lilith looked at the strange sight that suddenly appeared in front of her, her pupils dilated a little in shock, and she didn't dare to move for a long time, fearing that this was an illusion. This seemed to be -

Mermaid?!