boy and bone

260 Six years later...

On this day, without warning, he opened his eyes and sat up from a coffin.

There is an oblate skylight above Gray's head, and from the skylight, a narrow but intense light shines all over his body, and then falls on the old wooden floor to form a quiet circle of light. The light illuminates where he is.

Gray's field of vision was surrounded by boxes, large and small, which made the already cramped room look even more crowded.The stacked wooden boxes are neatly placed against both sides of the wall, leaving a narrow passage leading to the only short and heavy door in the room.

Occasionally, the room shakes slightly, and Grai's eyes that have just recovered are erratic, sometimes tilting to the left and sometimes to the right, the deck and the wooden wall squeeze and pull each other to form a long tone like molars, waves of waves are churning The sound echoed around the wall panels.

He squeezed his nose slightly, and the coldness of the sea water mixed with the dusty smell from the damp old wood poured into his chest.

All kinds of signs made Gray quickly speculate that the current location should be in a boat driving on the sea...

he is on board

Gray's head, which has just started to turn, is still in a state of chaos, his memory is upside down and confused, he can't recall the cause and effect, he is like a person who has been awakened from a deep sleep, and he is still a little dazed and confused about his real situation.

why is he on board

He remembered that he was obviously dead.

And the way of death is quite miserable, it is impossible for him to breathe under such circumstances...

Gray lowered his head in confusion, he wanted to feel if his heart had really recovered.

However, as soon as his eyes lowered, what caught his eyes was a scene that made him shudder...

A pitch-black hand bone was lying on his belly.

Seeing that Grai noticed it, the bone actually responded, stretching five fingers towards Grai, and scurrying in front of him as if cheering.

Although Gray has seen a lot of dead bones, he has never seen a alive dead human bone, let alone a alive dead human bone crawling on a human body!

Anyone who saw such a weird skeleton for the first time would be terrified. Gray cursed and threw the thing lying on him, and quickly jumped out from where he was lying—the edge of a coffin.

He swears he's never seen anything with such a construction!

Gray was very rude to the things that surprised him. He would throw whatever he came across in his hand, and he would throw them all at the human bone that was crawling very quickly on the floor without hesitation.

After Gray almost turned over all the boxes in the room, the flexible and smart Bones jumped up towards Gray's face with five fingers, grabbed his head, and pressed him to the ground.

Gray yelled curses instead of screaming. Enduring nausea and fear, he struggled a few times under the bony hands, and finally tore off the faceless monster.The bone fell at Gray's feet, but it was not discouraged and shook off the skeleton that was about to fall apart, and continued to climb towards Gray's feet.

Gray, however, was quite frightened by Bones' messing around. He immediately kicked Bones far away as if he had been stung by a wasp.

Gray ran to the door, eager to escape, he didn't notice that he was naked at this time.

Gray tried to push open the hatch, but he didn't know the switch valve on the hatch, so he couldn't open the hatch and escape even after hitting his shoulder red.

In his anxiety, Gray was keenly aware of the sound of scratching the ground when the creepy bone behind him was moving, and suddenly fell silent.

He subconsciously wanted to turn around, but his mouth and nose were covered with both hands from behind, unable to move.

Those hands are not human hands in the true sense, they have no temperature, they are only condensed into the shape of hands from a cloud of black mist, but the strength still cannot make people break free.

Curse...Grey's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He is no stranger to this kind of thing. Although Gray himself knows nothing about magic, his lover is a genius in this field, and curse is exactly what Kuris is keen to study and is good at. thing.

This power that is not understood by the world, like its users, Gray is familiar with everything about them.

Wisps of mist wrapped around Grai's empty body like silk.

The touch of the mist as light as floating hair made Gray's whole body froze, and he felt no danger.

Gray did not act rashly, he turned his eyes and quietly waited for the next move of the black mist behind him.

The black mist seemed to feel Grai's obedience, and it suddenly disappeared without a trace.

To be more precise, the black mist didn't dissipate, but was absorbed back into the bones still covering Grai's mouth. It was like the leader and center of the black mist, and could control the black mist at will.

Gray lowered his eyes and looked at it. This bone was different from the pale human bones after death. It was completely black, like a burnt dead branch.

This is the irreparable state after the deep corrosion of the curse. Generally, things that have been corroded by the curse to such an extent will end up with residues like coal ash. The scientific name for 'residue' is curse crystal. It is simply called Sombra.

There are also some things that have been eroded by the curse and can still maintain their original appearance, and will not break into fine black crystals, but even if they remain the same, it does not mean that the things have not changed in any way. There will be two endings, one is to die in pain, and the other is to become the source of a new curse.

The cursed thing that remains as it is will become a hotbed of curses, and there will be no redundant activities except for the continuous release of new curses.

The hand bone in front of him, Gray recognized at a glance that it was something that had been corroded into a source of curse.

After recognizing what the opponent is, Gray is not so afraid.Curris had experimented with a curse on Grai, and the curse, like other magic elements in the world, could not penetrate into Grai's body.

Gray realized that this thing wouldn't kill him, so it would be much easier.

Gray stands still, he waits for this cursed bone stick to find that its power has no effect on the person it holds hostage, and it will recognize Gray as 'worthless' that cannot be corroded Let go of things, which has been verified many times in previous experiments by Curris.

While Gray was waiting, the knuckles that clamped down on his jaw slowly relaxed as expected.

But what Gray didn't expect was that the pitch-black hand bone didn't completely withdraw from his body, it slid down his smooth arm to his palm, and the slender bones with distinct knuckles sank into his soft white fingers. Between the fingers of a newborn, he grasped him firmly in a gesture of clasping his fingers.

This very strange dead bone is also showing the direction of Gray by the longest bone on its body.

Somehow, Gray seems to be able to understand the hand bone's intentions.

He looked over, and suddenly the cursed mist on the black surface of the long bone became distorted and blurred, thin lines of sunflower-like gold and dark blood color appeared on the dark bone wall, and the thin lines were traced bit by bit. Writing familiar fonts, each stroke is like carving on the bone with a sharp blade.

"ku...Kuris?" Gray read out the syllables on the bone arm in surprise.

Finally, upon hearing the name spoken by Grai, the identified bone happily jumped out of Grai's palm, jumped onto his shoulder, and the long bone wrapped around his neck in circles.

Instinctively, Gray used both hands to hold the swaying bone in his arms, as if he was afraid that it would slip away again, protecting him tightly.

Originally, Grai didn't pay much attention to his current body, but right now, his hands holding the bones are abnormally soft and very short, and can't even protect half of the bones. Such a stark contrast suddenly made him realize a terrifying thing. Facts: This appears to be the body of a child.

There was no mirror around to reflect Gray's current appearance, but he guessed that he would not be very tall and straight at the moment.

Gray's brows furrowed even deeper, and only then did he seriously examine the current situation.

Grai held the bone tightly in his arms, looked around the surrounding environment, his childish eyes carried the cautiousness of an adult...

He searched all the memories in his mind, and he was sure that this strange place was one he had never set foot in before.Faced with this brand-new area that he didn't know, Gray didn't understand what happened for a while, but there was no one around him who could answer all the questions that surged in his heart.

He had no clue, no direction, and he hadn't felt this alone in a long time.

At this moment, Gray seemed to feel that time threw him back to his past, to the past where he had not met his Kuris...

It just so happened that at this time, the bone that Gray had been clutching tightly in his arms moved, and when Gray came back to his senses, his eyes were fixed on the restless bone in his arms... This broken limb and arm, the incomplete appearance of death It is impossible to associate Gray with the healthy, energetic and seemingly never-tiring person in his memory.

Why can a living person become only one bone...

Gray stared at the bones in his arms, and unconsciously recalled that person's previous voice and smile in his mind, his throat suddenly became sore and tight, and he scolded fiercely: "How did you make yourself like this!"

The bones shivered, shiveringly, they were enjoying the warmth brought by Grai's fresh skin, and curled up obediently to Grai's bouncing chest.

Gray was about to ask something more when there was a sound from the cabin door.

Gray reacted almost instantly. He loosened the restraint on the bones and let the five phalanxes hang on his shoulders. Gray freed his hands and whispered, "Hold me tight and don't move around."

The room that he had tossed about just now had a lot of hidden places. Grai quickly found a gap built up by several boxes, and went sideways to hide his figure.