boy and bone

Grai's resisting movements froze for an instant. After he realized it, he desperately wanted to turn around to verify it with his own eyes, but the palm covering his eyes remained motionless.

"My dear." The whisper whispered in the ear, revealing the trembling of intimacy.

"Library..."

Before Gray could finish his sentence, his chest suddenly felt warm. He lowered his head between the uncovered hands and saw a bright red sharp knife penetrated from behind to his chest.

"Ah——" After realizing the piercing pain, he twitched all over his body, but he couldn't resist. He couldn't resist, so he could only let the long sword that symbolized all his past be pulled away from his body, take it away and maintain it. All the temperatures of life, because...

"It's me. I love you." The person behind seemed to be comforting, softly speaking words that were gradually drifting away from Grai's consciousness.

The sharp penetration minimized Grace's pain, Curris's gray pupils were like embers of flames, and the momentary emotional fluctuations quickly subsided and were buried in colorless eyes.

Kuris felt the person in his arms still slowly, and his breathing seemed to be still, until the blood flowing from the broken part of Grai's heart became turbid, and the twilight-colored runes were turbid, and the rising runes were like silicon dust. It provoked Curris's arm and burned a wisp of gray smoke.

He picked up the person who was lying in his arms and no longer had any strength, as if he was telling people who didn't exist around him: "Clean it up."

Immediately disappeared into the void where the teleportation rune was broken.

The scene in front of me seemed to happen in the blink of an eye, there was no room for people to think, and the tragedy had already happened.

"This, this is...? This is impossible!" The ferret's slit-like pupil suddenly became narrow and long. He couldn't believe that he pushed Grai into the arms of death with his own hands, creating a tragedy with his own hands.

He didn't think so!He thought they were...

"...What's going on here! Ferret!" Man was also shocked.

"I...I don't know."

He couldn't believe what he saw, he couldn't believe that the person who was arguing with him a few minutes ago, who was still full of foul language, suddenly disappeared.Like the ferret, he seems to have lost all ability to think at this time.

All of a sudden, the surroundings were silent, and the wind didn't move. It was too late when Man and Ferret noticed something, they were already surrounded by demon attendants emerging from all directions.

Surprised and vigilant, that liar, like Grai, can manipulate curses and demon servants.

"Ferret!" Man tried to call back the person beside him who was immersed in regret and grief.

"Go out first." Man grabbed the ferret's arm, chose a direction with the fewest demon attendants, and was about to rush out.

No, they just took a step, and runes like black mist emerged from the soil between the bricks of the square under their feet.

The ferret suddenly came back to his senses, pushed Man away with his backhand, and drew his sword to split the demon waiter who was about to gather in front of him.

However, just by killing this Demon Attendant, there are still monsters emerging around them.

The incident happened suddenly, Man and the ferret were unprepared, except that the ferret had an ordinary sword equipped by the academy, the rest, they were even cleaner than a peeled boiled egg.

Just as they were struggling, a large shadow suddenly fell on the empty square, and then the wind spun up. The two of them looked up to the sky, and saw a huge airship hanging directly above their heads.

Almost without any pause, a long chain ladder was suspended from the airship, and the person standing by the edge of the airship door had short dark blue hair fluttering in the wind: "Come up! Little fools."

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The steady airship passed through the clouds, and the distant sky released the last afterglow.

"Look at my handsome younger brother, how messed up is he?" A short man in front of him stroked his full hair while showing a disgusted face: "Have you not bathed for a few days?"

My heart was filled with many things at once, so I didn't have time to respond to the provocation of the person opposite.However, the man seemed to push forward, his fingers slid down from the top of his head and directly pinched his earlobe.

Man was surprised, there had never been such an intimate act between them: "Have you had enough trouble, Yuexi."

'Yuexi' obviously didn't expect it, he turned his head back and was angry, and said to the man sitting in the main table who was playing with the Rubik's cube: "One last warning! Earl Al, don't control me remotely! Throw away that damn Rubik's cube !"

Hearing this, Al's hand holding the Rubik's Cube spread instantly, with an innocent expression on his face.

Yuexi turned around and said, "Correction, I have officially changed my name to Hill, and I don't want you to call me wrong again."

"I'm so glad you're alive." He said with a blank expression on his face.

"Hill? You are...Yuexi...Man's elder sister or elder brother?" The ferret stared at the man in a light and easy attire in surprise.

"I am. Ferret, long time no see." Different from the arrogance facing Man Shi, Hill looked at the ferret with warm eyes like drizzle, and his attitude was completely different: "It's a long story, maybe I really It is the spirit of the deep, and the ocean gives me a second life."

"Wait a minute, Your Highness Hill, have you obliterated my credit? Most of the bones in your body were spliced ​​by me." Al said with a smile.

"Without the effect of the spirit of the deep sea, what you stitched together is just a pile of broken copper and iron. Maybe I am still sinking on the bottom of the sea." Hill said sarcastically.

Al pretended to lament, but there was a smile in his eyes: "It's a waste of my painstaking efforts."

"How did you know that we would be trapped here? Could it be that you released that group of demon attendants?" Man Man looked at his 'sister' as if he had already regarded being mean as a normal greeting.

Hill said angrily: "Do you really think of me as a devil? A wolf-hearted thing."

"Who knows what's going on behind your back, a freak who has pretended to be a woman for 20 years..." Man said.

"Did I do it voluntarily!" Hill was provoked by someone's old wound, and the atmosphere fell into a tense situation in an instant.

Seeing this, the ferret persuaded: "Man means thank you for coming in time to help us out of danger."

In fact, Hill also knew that his younger brother's mouth seemed to be smeared with poison. He had long been used to it, and he was used to repaying it in a weak way.

"Then tell that ignorant person that I didn't come here specially to save him. I just saved his life like picking up an unsightly scrap of paper on the ground, so I don't need him to thank you." Hill's eyes Staring at Man, while the words were replying to Ferret.

"Then you are here?" asked the ferret.

"I'm here to find Gray. I'm here to ask him to return to the Forbidden Forest immediately."

Hill didn't notice, and when he said that, Man and Ferret fell silent.He continued to explain: "We set off from the Southern Continent a month ago. Since I insisted on coming, Al's airship has not yet obtained the landing permit from the Western Continent, so we can only stop in the sky above Fujindu to hide. Just now The compass on the airship is heading in a strange direction, it should be affected by a curse, so we came here just in time to see your distressed appearance..."

While explaining to himself, Hill thought: "Why are there so many demon attendants...Al, what's going on now?"

Al straightened up behind the conference table, a crystal mirror floating in mid-air projected the wind and grass on the ground: "I really became a servant of your Guilanzhi's family... the bottom is very clean, there is not a single demon attendant gone."

"Suddenly appeared, and suddenly disappeared." Hill thought: "Who has such a great ability."

Hill recalled the purpose of his trip, and asked, "Where's Gray? Why isn't he with you?"

"He..." the ferret couldn't bear it.

"He's dead." Man continued.

"Dead?" Hill blinked, and suddenly said with a smile: "Great, where is the corpse."

Ferret and Man's solemn eyes were full of puzzlement and unbearable.

"Okay? You actually said yes?" His calm eyes were slightly red, and he didn't understand why his throat became hoarse.

Al saw something was wrong and immediately got up. Before they attacked Hill, he carried a thick paper bag and walked in front of the other two: "Look at this first."

Inside the bag was a thick book. The cover of the book had been curled up, and the worn and faded writing showed its age.

Opening the title page of the book, there is a yellowed portrait with messy creases, a coffin with the lid half open.

And the next one is a familiar sleeping face inside the coffin.

"Grey?" The ferret recognized him immediately.

"Look at the date marked on the back." Al directed.

"Star calendar 2996 on the 200th day of the winter month... 150 years ago?" Surprised, his fingers couldn't help turning the pages of the book backwards.Below is a red copper-colored photo. This long-standing photo is exactly the result of a cumbersome mechanical portrait washed with red copper powder when the technique was immature more than [-] years ago. In the photo is a young man sitting on the steps. He was still wearing the priest's attire at that time, and his fat and floor-length appearance showed that it was an adult's clothing that did not fit. The surface of the photo seemed to be scratched with a sharp and slender thing. A simple but unclear text: "Touch A person who is hopeless."

The next one is a papyrus with five small handprints. Each small handprint has a name written on it. One of the big handprints has a "Grey" written in the old saying. The immature handwriting also specially circled the five names in a heart shape, and wrote below: "We will be together forever. If you have sworn, you can't go back on it! ——A day full of dandelions in the star calendar 3112, adventure Squad Recorder: Nana."

After a few more photos, the color of the photo was closer to modern times and clearer. It was a pile of photos of the same scene, a dilapidated ancient ruins, and two figures, one tall and one short, in front of the ruined wall.

"The 3192st of the Flower Moon in the star calendar 3193, the 3193th day of the Flower Moon in the star calendar 3197, the 70th day of the Bruma Moon in the star calendar [-]... the [-]th day of the Rainy Moon in [-], a full [-] years ago..." Can't help but marvel, He looked at the time record on the back of the photo and the time was advancing bit by bit to the present. The young man standing beside Grai was getting old year by year, but Grai would always look exactly the same as he does now.

"The person behind Grai... is the librarian of the college, the director of Ulikhov." Ferret never thought that he had inadvertently seen the director's achievement portrait from the director's achievement portrait when he was young when he was cleaning the library. Their faces overlapped at this moment.

No wonder, no wonder that when Grai entered the library for the first time and was discovered by the school director, he just said lightly: "It's you, you're back."

"What?" Man asked in surprise.

"Yes, this is what was found among the relics of Urikhov's schoolmaster." Aldao: "Urikhov was a native of the Southern Continent before his death, and his son decided to include his achievements in his lifetime including unpublished manuscripts All of them were handed over to the collection hall of the Southern Continent Alliance Academy for safekeeping. This essay record is also among those relics, and I discovered it during the inspection and classification process, so I detained it."

"What's going on here? Why does every face here look so much like Grai?" He asked in disbelief.

"It's not like, he's Gray." Hill felt that Man's question was stupid.

Al added on the side: "According to Ulikhov's records, this boy named 'Grey' has existed for more than two hundred years. But his existence is not continuous. About every five or sixty years, he Appeared in people's field of vision once. Just like this, with portraits, photos, or other proofs, it was recorded by the person who discovered him at that time."

"It took Urikhov a long time to find these few records to find the law of juvenile existence. Not only is there a lack of evidence because of the long age and the long time span, but also because many parties were unwilling to disclose or after that Vandalized. These are stated in the notes written by Urikhov at the back of the book."

"This young man named 'Grey' was first discovered in the Forbidden Forest. Ulikhov recorded that when he was following his teacher to study in the Forbidden Forest, he got separated from his teacher and got lost in the Forbidden Forest. By chance, he went deep into the hinterland of the Forbidden Forest and found an ancient relic palace, which was not full of scary and frightening things as rumored, on the contrary, it was peaceful and quiet like a church that no one visited."

"He entered the palace, and he was shocked by the things that existed there. Complicated and colorful murals, huge and majestic statues, precious and rare magic stones are everywhere among the ruins. It It should belong to a palace of a famous capital, but there is no record in the history. When he was young, Ulikhov thought it was because he had little knowledge, so he secretly remembered the appearance of this place in his heart, and decided to check it after leaving the Forbidden Forest. I understand, but in the next few decades when he was engaged in the management of ancient books, he searched for the ancient books again and again, but he found no trace of the palace in the Forbidden Forest, not even the rumors in the market."

"Urikhov stayed in the ancient ruins for nearly three years, and there is no record in the book about these three years. However, there are several obvious missing pages in it, so it is possible that Urikhov has records The experience of those three years, but for some reason, he was torn away in the end."

"This gap, I have already found Urikhov's peers to confirm that they did follow the great sage at that time to the Forbidden Forest to investigate and study, and Urikhov did disappear there for nearly three years. At that time, all his classmates and teachers thought that he was cursed to die in the Forbidden Forest, and he remembered this incident very clearly, because they had built a burial for Urikhov when they returned from the Forbidden Forest."

"Ulikhov, who returned three years later, has since devoted himself to research and never mentioned anything about the Forbidden Forest."

"As for his essay records, that's all. Only a few photos in the book can prove that what he said before is not false. He did find an ancient palace in the Forbidden Forest."

"At the same time, the photos also prove that 'Grey' once existed in that palace." Al repeated the content in the booklet.

The ferret recalled all the past: "Cosmoto... Gray called the Forbidden Forest Cosmoto, and he said it was his home."

Flipping through the thick pages in a hurry: "Since there are only a few pages in the essay, what did he write in the rest of the book? What did Urikhov want to express?"

"What Ulikhov wrote later is all about the analysis of the structure of the holy weapon." Hill said: "I also thought that the content behind it had nothing to do with the Forbidden Forest."

"But you have to look carefully. It's not a general and extensive theory about the structure of holy weapons, but an analysis of a specific holy weapon."

"What kind of holy weapon?" Man asked.

"I don't know. When Urikhov recorded this holy weapon, he replaced it with a '○' symbol." Hill said: "But I speculate that this holy weapon must be related to Grai."

"I have studied the structure of the holy weapon above. It is a kind of pure holy weapon rune, which has a large amount of condensation. It does not have an overly complicated and ingenious structure. It presents a primitive but fullest rune power. It is similar to this Yes, only the twelve most powerful large-scale holy weapons produced in the Rao period, when the curse was the most rampant, in the end of the demon-slaying era."

"What does that have to do with Gray?" The ferret became more and more confused.

Hill hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "This is just my guess. I suspect that Grai itself is a holy weapon."

"Because on the last page of Ulikhov's record, he left a sentence that has nothing to do with the research and has a self-lyrical meaning:'I still feel guilty for my actions back then, but as he once emphasized, he Knowing that he has committed a heinous crime, but if the time is reversed, he will still make the same choice as in the past without hesitation. I am the same. I am sorry, I hope it can ease your pain.'”

"'I hope that when my children read this, please remember that everything I have can be sold, only this notebook, and I hope you will keep it. One day, if you encounter Be kind to this boy named 'Grey'. If you consider him your friend, that's great, I want you to show him this diary from an old friend...and kill him killed him.'”

"'Give him back the death he deserved,'" Hilmer read.

"It's ridiculous!" Man carefully read the words at the end several times, and closed the book with a snap: "The words on this are incoherent and contradictory. It is definitely not the logic that a school director should have. This must be a forgery."

Hill said: "I think that Gray may have died in a certain dark age more than 200 years ago. His bones after death were discovered by the holy weapon maker at that time, or the holy weapon maker chose a person at random. Gray was the one chosen for the experiment, and his body was made into a holy weapon rune container to fight against the flood of curses at that time, but there may be a big flaw in using a human body as a holy weapon. There was a problem with Grai, and he was sealed in an unknown place."

"It's also because of the holy weapon in his body, so he wakes up from the seal every once in a while, but he has flaws. The longer he is active, the greater the possibility of his flaws being exposed."

"If this assumption is followed, it can explain why Grai can only speak the ancient language, because he is a person from the past era; why Ulikhov would ask his descendants to see Grai. He also demanded that Grai must be killed, saying that this was to alleviate the pain of Grai. I think he knew that the "flaw" in Grai's body would cause a big problem, so he had to kill him to force his life to stop... But there are also some things that don't make sense. If Grai is a holy weapon, then he can't manipulate the magic bones at will. Curses and holy weapons are incompatible. Bones can't live in peace."

Hill himself can't figure it out, but he can grasp very few clues. This is the most reasonable inference he made based on what he has learned: "This is just my own opinion. The most effective way to restore the truth , just give this notebook to Gray, and he may explain it to us."

"But he already..." Man An secretly said.

"By the way, you said he was dead, what killed him?" Hill asked.

"He was pierced through the heart by a sword. The sword is a blood-red sword that can change shape at will." The ferret said.

Al wondered, "Isn't it a curse?"

"No." The ferret affirmed.

"Then the group of demon servants who surrounded you just now?" Al asked.

"It came out after Grai's death." Man said.

Aldao: "If according to Hill's inference, Grai is a holy weapon, then it is not a curse that can't kill a holy weapon. A blood blade that can transform will not kill Grai."

"You mean he's still alive?" Man opened his eyes wide.

"Alive, but I'm afraid it won't be particularly comfortable." Hill paused and murmured, "How painful it must be to be stabbed in the heart..."

"Where's Gray's body?" Al said.

"Taken away...by a man." The ferret seemed to respond, as if he saw a glimmer of hope.

"A man?" Hill and Al showed surprised expressions at the same time.

The ferret was annoyed at his previous decision that seemed to lead a wolf into the house: "He said he was Gray's family."

"how old?"

"In his 20s or 30s, with red hair and gray eyes, Gray was very excited when he heard the features of this man. I believed he was really a member of Gray's family." The ferret blamed himself.

"Not good..." Man suddenly froze: "If it is true as what Hill said, then Grai is in danger even if he is not dead..."

After being reminded by him, the ferret seemed to think of something immediately, he said: "Grey has a star map stone on his body, and the star map stone has a tracking function, as long as the thread pattern of the star map is traced on the metal compass, We can find his position by compass."

"Where's the pattern drawing?" Man asked.

The ferret thought for a while and said, "It's on the bookshelf."

Man said: "Sister! Come back to my house."

"What sister, I'm your brother!" Hill retorted, and then calmed down: "What's going on?"

"The man who killed Grai was able to manipulate curses, and he summoned the group of demon attendants. If Grai is really a holy weapon, and holy martial arts are the natural enemy of curses, it will be good for him to fall into the hands of someone who can use curses." Treatment?" Man explained.

"Wait a minute, is that person really malicious? He may have the same idea as Ulikhov, to stop Grai's life activities and relieve his pain." Al threw doubts: "If he has malicious intent, he Why not just kill Grai with a curse? Use a sword instead."

The ferret, who has always been calm, interrupted this time in a little haste: "We will think about the reason later. To be on the safe side, we should find Gray as soon as possible."

"Excuse me, please take us home." Ferret said.

However, before the airship stopped over the Seventh Academy, the familiar alarm bell of the academy sounded urgently and pierced through the clouds, and billowing thick smoke floated from the sky above the Seventh Knight Academy.

"The academy is on fire..." the ferret said secretly.

Man leaned on the window glass of the airship, staring thoughtfully at the chaos below: "No, it's the rented house around the college. It's our house."

At this time, a long cylinder rolled out of the bottom groove of a square metal box placed on Al's table.Al unscrewed the wooden cover of the letter box, and took out a scroll from inside, which was a reward list issued by the Holy Deer Palace.

He glanced at it and handed the scroll to others for browsing.

After the others saw it, the suspicion on their faces deepened a few layers.

On the brand new reward list, there was a face similar to the boy they knew.

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In the dark room, there is a pool of water as clean as a mirror. The boy is soaked in black bandages all over his body. There are eight slender and flexible tubes running through the heart. The long tubes slowly swell, shrink, and swell. , contraction... imitating the flow of blood vessels.

Around the boy's heart flowed runes that flowed like the setting sun for the final resistance, killing each other with the curse pouring in from the long tube inserted on his chest.

The boy closed his eyes, as if he had fallen into a long sleep.

Beside the pool platform, a soft-looking young man was sitting sideways. He brought a pink elephant puppet: "I heard that you like it the most. I will keep it with you."

"Even your hobbies, I have to 'hear' from outsiders..." Kuris suddenly felt lonely: "It won't be like this in the future, I promise you."

"I'll find a way. Just be more patient." Curris stared at the people under the water: "Don't always rush to wake up, always fall into the arms of others."

"If they can treat you well, I don't mind at all, but once they know the truth, they will choose to sacrifice you. Every time I have to erase the memories and people who make you sad for you, it makes you feel sad I'm sad too." Curris touched the surface of the water, like stroking the long-lost face of a lover.

"So I beg you, please be good this time and don't leave me." Kuris murmured, "Don't count everything before you met me, just treat them as dreams when you are still sleeping, okay?" ?”

Curris held up the round face of the puppet elephant, squeezed it gently, and suddenly a child's voice came out from the elephant's nose: "Hello, I'm Grey, I wish you happiness..."

Curris was startled, and then he couldn't help laughing, the corners of his eyes oozing with laughter: "It's so cute."

"I don't even want to give it to you. Give it to me, Gray. Before you wake up, I don't think I'll be alone anymore." Culis couldn't help pinching the little elephant's cheek more, letting the child's voice Repeat over and over without interruption.

At this moment, the door rang, and someone interrupted his good time.

Curlis' complexion darkened, but when he faced the center of the pool, Hexi's smile flickered: "I will deal with some chores first. You rest first, I am back this time, and no outsiders will disturb you from now on."

"Good night, my..."

The door was gently closed, and a half-circle bubble suddenly popped up on the calm water surface, which soon shattered and disappeared.

The heavily restrained young man under the clear water slowly opened his unusually brilliant evening eyes.

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