Heartbreaker

"Lie down on your side."

When I lay down in the ink-like potion, the female mage moved away the soup bowl that I drank, and said so.

There may be some mysterious potion added to the sleeping soup. Before I was completely unconscious, I have to admit that I felt extremely uncomfortable, as if someone stuffed ginger into my nostrils, and the spicy ginger juice penetrated into the deep holes. It made my eyes water.

The limp limbs made me unable to even hold a fist firmly. In my confused mind, I vaguely wondered why I wanted to save Luo.The first time I met him, I made a fatal mistake, and now the mistake is staged again after my impulse.I was so angry, hated, regretted, and depressed, cursing myself for being stupid in my heart.

It's a pity that it's too late, even if I regret trying to break the ice coffin, I don't have the strength anymore.

"He's going in, be careful."

Before my sleepy mind could react to what the other party said, a cold body was put in and lay face to face with me.The mage picked up our two hands, interlocked their fingers, and placed them among us.I can feel a piece of cold and hard metal squeezed between my fingers, but I can't remember what it is for a while.

"Wish you guys good luck."

The voice of the female mage seemed to come from the other end of the deep sea, completely blocked by a radiant crystal cover.The sticky juice slid through every inch of our bodies like ooze, and he and I lay in this narrow ice coffin, relatively silently, our fingers tightly intertwined.

Anger and remorse filled my heart, and the potion was still tormenting my mouth and nose. Under some strange catalysis, after the extreme anger turned into helpless bubbles, his smell stretched towards me like an insect spinning silk , connected invisibly, making me gasp like a dog, and my whole body was as hot as a branding iron, like a big fireball in my stomach.

damn it.

****

【Lemon...】

I woke up, the piercing frost pierced my cheeks like needles, and the chilling wind blew up the snow.The sky turned into a strange blue, embedded with heavy and stagnant clouds, and the alternating light and dark constituted a sense of sight from far to near.

I struggled to get up in the sharp wind blade, and the black cloak wrapped around me tightly, I only felt that the bones all over my body were so cold that they were about to crack.Lymon, Lymon... I realize that's my name, but I keep calling him, looking for him, breaking my heart in two at the thought of never seeing him again Half.

【Lemon! 】

As the voice became clearer in my heart, I found a beam of fire not far away behind the violent snowstorm.It shone brightly and warmly, like a burning tear in the ice and snow, and just looking at it warmed my heart.

I try to run towards it.

—I want you to kill for me!

There was a crackling sound from the sky, and a hailstorm suddenly fell from the sky, knocking my bone-chilling body to the ground!I groaned, my whole body was in pain like falling apart, but I still got up and staggered forward...

——I don't need your protection.

The strong wind suddenly hit from all directions, and I fell to the ground, hugging a nearby rock tightly so that I would not be blown away like a mayfly.I don't know where the cold wind comes from, I only know that my heart hurts, and I almost have little strength left to stare at the fire.But when the wind died down, I raised myself up again, and walked wearily and longingly towards the leaping flames...

—Useless trash!

A sharp ice edge pierced my chest from behind, and there was a buzzing sound from my brain, and the severe pain like a lightning strike almost made me faint to the ground.Bloody tears flowed from the corners of my eyes, and then condensed into ice, falling like rubies into the thin snow.I fell down in the snow and cried bitterly, pouring out the grief in my heart with tears as much as possible, not knowing the meaning of my progress.

—— Luo...

Just as I curled up in the snow, the proud and charming flame seemed to ripple with sound.I looked at it with tears in my eyes, and my blurred vision seemed to narrow the distance between me and it, as if its gentle flames caressed my body like a stream of water.

——Luo, if your love is always spoiled by other people...

——Then why not...give it all to me...I promise to love you for the rest of my life...

I heard that faint voice, opened my eyes, and saw bloody ice beads formed from my blood and tears all over the floor.I couldn't wait to get up from the ground, and the edge of the cloak splashed fine fluffy snow.The cold wind hit me head and face, but I was no longer afraid, one step after another, without any hesitation, and I wanted to run to that voice.

"Lemon!"

I exclaimed with joy that the flames were within sight.I rushed forward, reaching out my hand to grasp the bright fire source into my palm——

Click, click, click...

The soft sound of ice condensing came from the palm of my hand. I opened my eyes wide, but saw a transparent ice wall under the palm of my hand.The flames danced ferociously towards me just behind the ice wall.My arms were trembling in disbelief, but my skin and flesh were stuck to the cold wall, and I could no longer escape the shackles of the cold.

It was enough to make my freezing chill frantically swim into my body from the ice wall, and the transparent ice covered me layer by layer.I heard my own cry, and my body without temperature was finally frozen into ice in the bone-piercing cold...

……

When I came out of the ice coffin, the mage said, I almost died—was frozen to death.

"You must feel like you've had a terrible dream," she said.

I didn't speak.She went on to say, "Actually, it's not a dream, but a potion that turns your emotions and consciousness into reality, and makes you feel in a more direct state. In other words, sometimes the subconscious that you can't even perceive yourself will appear in this It becomes reality in the ice coffin. What you feel is what Luo Zeng felt, and what Luo feels is what you once felt..."

See I have been silent.The mage looked at me quietly for a while, then said, "Then let me tell you some good news."

She picked Luo up and put him in my arms, "He was successfully revived. At the same time, there are two additional conditions. First, his eyes are blind and he can only perceive the external world with other senses. world."

There was an obvious heat coming from his body, like a mountain spring warmed by the sun, smooth and moist.I caressed his inconceivable body, and then heard the voice of the mage, "Secondly... his body has warmth."

For the first time, I felt that Luo was so thin and small.Once the two of us stood together, he was a bit taller than me, but now he is curled up quietly in my arms, like a sleeping baby animal.

And when I looked again, I found that it wasn't Luo who became smaller, but I who became bigger.I raised my strong and muscular arms, looked down, and saw the thick and well-defined muscles of my abdomen, and the blood-red hair hanging down my waist.I put Luo down, stood in front of the mirror, and saw a strange yet familiar face suddenly came into view.

The painting I saw in the tattoo castle was my future oil painting. In it, the tall, evil and ghostly man stood in front of this mirror, staring at me in a daze and astonishment.

"The ten-year lifespan has disappeared from your soul and body." The female mage said, "Now, you are 25-year-old Lemon Bonespur."

****

It didn't take long for Luo to wake up.When I opened my sleepy eyes tiredly, what caught my eyes was his innocent and curious face.He sat beside me, holding my rough palm seriously with a warm hand, as if confirming his existence.

"Master." He rolled his eyes with a smile, and repeated, "Master."

I watched him quietly, and stroked his fair face with my hand, rubbing it lightly.

He held the back of my hand with his hand, as if he was very happy, but my eyes turned cold, and I pushed him away mercilessly.

"Owner……"

He was pushed aside by me and looked at me in confusion.I got out of bed with dark eyes and tried to put on the old clothes, but only heard a few hisses, and the pants and undershirt were all scrapped when I reached into my legs and arms and tried to pull them up.

"Mage!" I yelled, in a voice so deep and hoarse that I was taken aback, "I need a bigger suit."

Luo Dao, "Master, I'll get it for you."

I stared at him.He got out of bed nervously, and was about to open the door to go out when I suddenly covered his head and wrapped him in a cloak.

I was sure that his naked body would not be seen by others, so I rubbed my hair impatiently, "Go."

Luo quickly staggered and brought me clothes.The castle of the undead only has black clothes and trousers for the undead. I put it on with difficulty, and saw that Luo Zheng was struggling to get his head into the hole in his jacket, acting clumsily like a child of a few years old.

——Damn Satan, you must be fucking kidding me!

I heard my distraught voice, stepped forward, and roughly pulled the shirt off his head.Luo Fasi glanced at me messily, her eyes were red, she seemed to feel aggrieved, she picked up the trousers on the ground and put them on silently.

I sat down heavily on the bed and looked at the tall man with blood-red hair in the opposite mirror. His shoulders were broad, his legs were strong and slender, and his muscles were wrapped in tights to create smooth and tight lines.I snorted coldly, pointed my middle finger at the arrogant guy in the mirror, and moved my hard fist.

Even the sound of the bones is so crisp, like a green bamboo being stepped on.

"Owner……"

When we finished dressing, Luo followed me, carefully watching my gloomy face.I didn't look at him from the beginning to the end, for fear that some inexplicable thoughts would arise from the casual glance at him.

The once-ankle-length cloak barely covered my knees. I was holding my trouser pockets coldly, and the hard soles of my black boots rattled on the worn-out stairs.

"Leaving?" The mage was sitting in the corner of the ground floor, and said casually in the darkness, "But you haven't taken possession yet. I gave you a whole night, but you slept soundly upstairs .”

I walked out of the castle of the undead without saying a word.I feel uncomfortable staying in this place for a second longer, not to mention I don't know how long the outside world has passed.Chichikov and Popolo are still waiting for me near the Twilight Empire. If I'm late, who knows what kind of moths that nasty old man will make.

咴——!

I put one foot in the stirrup and stepped easily into the saddle.After I became taller, even the world changed in my eyes. Those gloomy dead trees seemed ridiculous to me, and the resting crows were childish like wooden dolls.I sneered, pulled the leather rein sharply, and whistled, "Go—go to the southwest!"

****

Under my control, the horse galloped out like an arrow from the string.It wasn't until we ran out of the woods and galloped on the spacious muddy ground of the desolate bone swamp that I remembered my undead who had been silent since just now, looking sideways at the sky.

"..."

Luo Fu, who had turned into an undead state, was in mid-air, following my side and rear loyally with the speed of the horse, and his movements were a bit slow.He has completely become an undead blind man.

Hearing me stop the horse, he also hovered in mid-air, landing lightly like a feather.

"Owner."

He looked up at my approaching face until his fair face was completely covered by my shadow.I stared at him quietly for a moment, stretched my hand over his chin, and approached his swollen lips that I pinched.

The warm touch spread down my fingers to my cold heart.

"Stop following me, Ro."

It wasn't until the breath escaped from my mouth that I realized how hot it was. It turned out that my icy body could still emit such intense heat at this moment.When Luo heard this sentence, his dark eye holes widened in astonishment. I released his jaw indifferently, and heard his bewildered voice, "Master... I am your undead... I have to follow you... ..."

"Yes, you are my undead." I said calmly, "So I order you not to follow me anymore."

He was in a trance, "Why, why..."

"It's painful to follow me, you." I put one hand on the top of his head, imprisoned him with five fingers, and heard his groan.I sneered and said, "Don't try to lie to me. I know what you're subconsciously thinking. You feel pain. Every word I say can poke a hole in your heart, can't you? You want mine Love, but I've always been stingy with delivering—no, there's no such thing."

He suddenly said, "Where's the peach princess? You loved her so much..."

"What are you thinking?" I glanced at him with a sneer, "When is it, you still mention her? Jealous like a woman, you are too ugly."

Oh, peaches?what is she

Maybe the weak and incompetent Lemon Sol liked her, but in the heart of Lemon Bone Spur now, she is nothing, not even a crow in the swamp.When I heard Luo say Yang Tao's name, I almost laughed out loud.The undead who was listening to the foot of the wall in the room at the beginning had always been worried about the sound of the piano on the roof that night——

This fool who has no progress, the impression of me will always remain in the ghost of the watery night, what is he looking forward to?Do you expect me to say "I love you" to him affectionately under the moonlight?

"Hahaha!"

Just thinking about that scene makes me sick and funny.I burst out laughing suddenly, "Luo—! You are so funny, funny, funny and ridiculous! Hahahaha——"

I laughed viciously, at him, at the love he imagined in his head that didn't exist in my heart at all.I wanted to have a good laugh at him, but I couldn't stop laughing, I was out of breath and arched my back.

After a long time, my hysterical laughter was suddenly mixed with the faint sobs of the undead.

"Master... you are too much..."

My laughter suddenly stopped.

He wept intermittently, "Why...you are the one who said you love me...you are the one who tore it apart..."

"..."

"Why...you were the one who chose me...and you were the one who abandoned me..."

"Why...you have to treat me like this..."

Luo squatted down in despair, pulling his hair with his fingers, and whimpered in pain.If he had eyes, I guess I would be able to see the turbulent tears pouring down.

"Have you ever thought about it?" I looked up at the sky and exhaled, "Why do you have to be treated like this by me?"

He raised his red eyes and stared at me blankly.I didn't dare to lower my head and look at him, for fear that a certain line of defense in my heart would be defeated in the next moment.

"I didn't possess you this time." Looking at the deep sea-like night full of loneliness and stars, I said, "You are free."

He stood up suddenly, trying to grab me but hesitating whether to reach out.In the past, I couldn't avoid his gaze even if I wanted to, but now I only need to raise my head a little, so I don't have to stare at him heartbrokenly.

"Lo, let's separate," I said, "so that we can save each other from suffering. I know it's unpleasant for you to follow me, and I feel bored too. What's the good of being together like this?"

"..."

He didn't speak, maybe he did but I didn't hear him.My consciousness seemed to sink into the blue night, and I said in a trance, "Although you are mentally incompetent now, you are an undead after all, and ordinary people can't bully you... I'm going to find a goddamn dog for revenge, and I may die soon Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. When the time comes, you find me and eat my soul—as long as you don't think it stinks."

****

My undead, you ask me, why do I have to treat you like this?

Unfortunately, I don't want to answer this question, nor do I want to think about it.

I just know we can't go on like this, lo.Between us, this kind of master-servant relationship, which should have been cold-blooded and deformed from the beginning, has now been mixed with too many complicated things.As Chichikov said, a simple relationship should be dealt with simply, once it is entangled into a knot, it is difficult to explain——

The only way to do it is to cut it off with your own hands.

"A person... can't do it..."

Just when I was entangled in thousands of thoughts, a voice suddenly sounded in front of my chest.I lowered my head subconsciously, and crashed into the depths where Luo's eyeholes were more dead than the abyss.He looked straight at me, and seemed to be in a trance of some kind of sea of ​​consciousness.

But different from the turmoil of my heart, his thoughts are simple and firm, like a sharp arrow piercing through the barriers I want to build, and hitting the most vulnerable bullseye.

He took a step forward, as if he wanted to stretch out his arms to hug me, "To get to where the master wants to go...we can't leave each other."

"That's why the master chose me in the first place... isn't it..."

"impossible!"

Without waiting for him to say more, I roughly pushed him away.

"You really love yourself." I sneered, turned around and stepped on the saddle with big strides, shaking the cold sweat and long hair behind my head.The steed snorted and neighed, and Luo stood quietly behind me, his eyes were red but he stared at my back without blinking, motionless.

咴——

I jerked my horse's butt hard, just wanting to keep away from him and continue speeding across the dirt.Messy strands of hair flew in all directions, tickling my sweaty face.

There are no more undead floating in the air, floating in a place where I can see my head slightly...

I couldn't count the number of times I wiped the hot sweat off my side cheeks. I only felt that my head was swollen, and the tiredness and pain slowly rushed to my limbs.Far away from his figure and line of sight, in an instant, I actually forgot where I was going.

—Is it difficult to admit what's on your mind, coward?

When this idea flashed by, I fell off the horse with a plop, and fell right into a puddle of mud, and fell face-to-face.

"..."

Dirty water splashed on my clothes and hair.I struggled to get up, but before I could tidy up my embarrassing self, a figure quickly came to my side, lifted my slumped shoulders, and fumbled to wipe the mud off my face.

"Master, how are you..."

With a snap, I grabbed his wrist.Luo stared blankly at my trembling palm, and was suddenly thrown to the ground by a strong force!

"Huh—Master?!"

I tore the buttons of his cloak.I buried my head into his neck, broke his jaw with one hand, and sucked his lips into my tongue, exchanging hot breaths between panting and moaning.

Why follow me?

Why should you care about me?

Aren't you in pain?Aren't you sad?Don't you know that I can't answer you?

【Lemon...I will always be with you...】

【Never...will never leave you alone...】

I stared blankly at his forehead.

He is so warm.

****

Joy, sorrow, anger, fear.

In the silent night, a pale and shriveled hand held a sharp stone and carved a few words on the wall.The old man was wearing a thick ink-like monk's robe, covering his skinny body with nothing.He crawled out from under the dark bed, rolled over and fell on the bed, staring at the ceiling, panting heavily.

creak...

The door was pushed open, and a slender black figure walked in from the outside, followed by other burly and tall monks.They stared at the dying old man by the bed together. The leading man stepped forward leisurely and took out a gold necklace from under the old man's rolling Adam's apple.

"You...don't even think about..."

Suddenly two cold stars burst out from the old man's eyes, and he grabbed the young man's wrist tightly.The man let out a chuckle of disdain, and the monk behind stepped forward. While the old man was struggling, he forcefully grabbed the necklace around his neck and handed it to the young man.

With his weak body trembling, the old man looked at the satisfied face of the young man in the darkness, pointed at him tremblingly, "You...you will be punished by God sooner or later...Douglas..."

The young man named "Douglas" smiled slightly, "Teacher, you should save your strength for the stairway to heaven after death."

He waved his hand lightly, put the necklace in, and turned his head with a sarcastic smile, "I will take over your position in the world."

"You won't get what you want, Douglas..." The old man's eyes were open, and the corners of his crooked mouth were dripping with saliva. "I still have...and...Wash...he will definitely come back to stop you..."

The young man turned his head indifferently, and said mockingly, "Wash?"

"Yes...Wash...he will always be my...most proud student..." The old man stared at the man's indifferent face, and said hoarsely, "And you... will always be a hateful scum..."

"I thought what were you talking about, it turned out to be dear 'Vash'." The young man shook his head regretfully, "Have you forgotten? You must have forgotten. Once you get older, you tend to forget. things, especially the sins you have committed. Why, you are about to die, but do you remember all the benefits of Vash?"

He returned to the old man's bed, leaned closer to him, and said with a smile, "The 'Wash' you mentioned has been killed by you a long time ago."

"The one who is still alive in this world is a lunatic named 'Poporu'... Hahaha..."

The other monks rushed forward and held down the hands and feet of the dying old man on the bed.The old man let out a hysterical hiss, and his throat was quickly blocked by the pillow, his limbs vibrated violently under the hands of others for a moment, and then he was lifeless.

After a while, the soft pillow was lifted, revealing the old and distorted face underneath.The young man stared fixedly at the dead face of his former mentor, shrugged and smiled, and uttered cold words cruelly.

"Good night, teacher."

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