Audrey nodded slightly, "Okay, then what do you need us to do?"
"I'm not sure either. Let's see how things go. We'll tell you when the time comes."
"…"
Audrey took a deep breath, "Where are the two new members?"
"ah..."
Alde patted her head and said suddenly, "I was just saying I forgot something. I left in such a hurry that I forgot to bring them with me. Oh no, my real thought was that the first meeting should be in a more formal setting."
She extended her hand toward Audrey and said, "Come on, I'll take you there."
The moment Audrey touched her finger, both of them became illusory. Audrey only felt a blur in front of her eyes. When she regained clarity, she had arrived at the base of the Psychological Alchemist Society branch.
"That was dream travel. You can use the dreams of people around you to travel. You can use this move when you advance to Sequence 5."
Audrey immediately showed a look of envy. She had just been promoted to hypnotist two weeks ago, and she didn't know how long it would take for her to digest the potion.
"Oh, here they come."
Boom boom boom.
There was a knock on the door, and two ordinary-looking men and women who would be hard to find in a crowd walked in. They greeted Alde and Audrey with very fake smiles on their faces: "Hello, Ms. Alde, hello, Miss Audrey."
"Uh, hello, both of you..."
Audrey looked at the two of them with a questioning look on her face.
The man placed his right hand on his chest and bowed slightly: "I am the new member, Edessac Augustus."
The woman waved and said, "I am Helena Augustus."
"???"
Audrey's emerald pupils suddenly shrank, and she was extremely shocked: "You..."
The two looked at each other and smiled:
"We are back.\秒/璋?结¨晓?说￠网? ·我_错?内容¨"
...
Misty Sea, Lasha Island.
When the Future arrived at the safest channel closest to Lasha, Cattleya took Klein and used fairy tale magic to reach this secret island.
The two of them walked side by side to a mountain peak. Cattleya took a step forward and recited a spell in Giant language towards the cliff wall where there was nothing:
"Open the door, Sesame!"
A road suddenly appeared on the cliff, seeming real and unreal, and no one knew where it led to.
"Let's go, the Queen's palace is inside."
As she spoke, she stepped forward with excitement on her face.
Although he knew that this was Bernadette's territory, Klein still used divination as usual and followed after confirming that there was no danger.
As they walked, the view in front of their eyes suddenly opened up. They saw a sea as clear as sapphire and a magnificent castle made purely of emerald.
This is the Emerald City of Bernadette, the "Mysterious Queen".
"...I thought the Emerald City was just a simple name."
Klein couldn't help but exclaimed, "I didn't expect that this castle was really made of jade."
Cattleya turned around and said, "In fact, the Queen named this place the Emerald City not because of the Emerald Castle. It didn't exist here from the beginning."
"oh?"
"I don't know the details, but I guess it's commemorating something."
"All right."
Cattleya was obviously very familiar with this place. She led Klein through the gatekeeper golem's questions and various tests easily, and walked through the corridors, bridges, and palaces built of emeralds, and came to a semi-open room inside the castle.
From a distance, I saw a tall lady with unique clothing style standing behind the railing, looking at the waves coming in.
At this moment, the excitement, excitement and joy hidden in Cattleya's heart suddenly calmed down, and she felt a sense of peace and freedom, just like a child who had been away from home for many days and finally returned to a home that made her feel warm and safe.
"You're here…"
At this time, Bernadette turned her head and looked. Her face was in the shadow of the sunlight and it was impossible to tell whether she was happy or angry.
Cattleya suddenly became nervous. She opened her mouth and hesitated for a long time before she whispered:
"Good afternoon, Your Majesty. I have brought Mr. Gehrman Sparrow here."
Klein felt helpless. Hey, you made me nervous too.
"Um."
Bernadette stepped forward and looked at Klein with a gentle expression: "Hello again, Mr. World."
See you again?
When have we met before... Oh my god, are you talking about the time I stole the Black Emperor card at the Roselle Memorial Exhibition?!
This is somewhat embarrassing.
Chapter 576 Emlyn Meets His Loyal Ancestor
Ahem, as long as I am not embarrassed, then it is others who are embarrassed!
Klein said calmly in the usual way of The World: "Good afternoon, Ms. Power."
"Do you need to take the potion now."
"Of course, the sooner the better."
Bernadette looked at Cattleya: "Jia Jia, take him to the mermaid."
"good!"
Cattleya became excited again. "Jia Jia" was the nickname the mysterious queen had given her since she was a child. This name symbolized intimacy.
"Thank you very much."
Klein didn't bother to be polite with the mysterious queen. Under Cattleya's guidance, he returned to the original route and took another road, arriving at a harbor leading to overseas.
Graceful figures were sitting on the edge of the harbor, singing softly.
They were all very beautiful, with a huge tail that gave them a strange kind of charm. But at this moment, Klein had only one thought in his mind: "I can finally advance to Sequence 5!"
He reached into his pocket, took out the Puppet Master's potion, unscrewed the cap to the sound of pleasant singing, and drank it all in one gulp.
...
Mid-Range Island, the largest special place.
A handsome man with blood-red pupils pushed open the door and ran out in a hurry. His face was full of panic as if he had encountered something extremely terrible.
Soon, four or five scantily clad women followed him out, waving and shouting, "Hey, little brother, why did you run away? Come back soon."
"Brother, brother!"
"Oh, come on, it's so hard to meet someone handsome and rich."
"He was so handsome even when he was running away. If... I didn't do this job, I would definitely find a way to pursue him."
"Why--"
The girls sighed.
These girls are not really willing to sell their bodies as they seem, but they have no choice. In order to survive, they have to do this dirty job: in this case, facing a young, fair and handsome man is much better than an ugly and dirty pirate.
Emlyn ran all the way, using up all his strength. He heaved a sigh of relief after making sure that the women didn't catch up with him. It was too scary!
It's really scary!
"Yo, you came out so soon? You're not feeling well."
Danitz stood at the side with his arms folded, leaning against the wall and eating an apple.
"Danis!!"
Emlyn was furious, and he raised his fist and punched Danitz in the face, "You fucking tricked me!!"
Danitz nimbly stepped back to avoid it and said with a smile: "When did I lie to you?"
"Didn't you say that was a doll shop?"
"…Please! I mean it can make you excited and happy!" Danitz spread his hands. "No normal man would think that a doll shop can make him excited and happy."
"you..."
Emlyn was furious, "You were deliberately misleading me!"
Danitz immediately raised his hand, "I swear, I didn't!"
"…"
After taking a few deep breaths, Emlyn said coldly, "Didn't you say that it's a place that can make normal men excited, stimulated and happy? Then why don't you go?"
Danitz immediately shouted, "Shut up. The captain is the only one in my heart. Of course I have to stay pure for the captain. Why would I go to a place like that?"
"…"
"Fuck you!"
Emlyn pounced on him again, and the two of them wrestled with each other, but they both knew what was going on and did not use any extraordinary abilities.
"Hello."
Just as I was pulling your hair and you were grabbing my collar, a crisp voice suddenly came from the side: "Are you two playing house or communicating your feelings? Fighting like this won't kill anyone!"
"???"
Upon hearing this, the two immediately let go of each other and looked in the direction of the voice. It was a beautiful girl dressed in "strange" clothes, who looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old. Her long black hair was simply tied into a ponytail, and the clothes she was wearing were a style they had never seen before.
"Yellow-haired, you should have shot him in the head! Vampire, you should have torn his neck with your claws."
Emlyn shouted reflexively: "It's blood..."
Before he could finish, Danitz pushed him away, took out his revolver and pointed it at the girl. Having been on the sea for many years, he would not easily show the slightest "dog-licking attribute" to women other than the captain. No matter how beautiful a woman is, if he kills her, she will die!
The girl squinted her eyes and smiled: "Your gun is good..."
She stretched out her fair and slender fingers, on which she had not known when a revolver like Danitz's had appeared—no, it was his revolver—and smiled slightly, saying, "It's mine now. *d?u/a.n_q￠i/ng-s_i_.¨n`e¨t."
"!!!"
Memories of death suddenly came flooding back. Danitz would never forget the humiliation he felt when he first met Gehrman Sparrow (Edward)—the other party had used a similar method to take his gun away!
"Emlyn, don't just stand there, run and ask the captain for help!"
Danitz squeezed out a word from between his teeth, and then took a step forward to buy time for him.
Unexpectedly, Emlyn did not move at all, but stared at the girl opposite him with wide eyes in shock. Danitz was desperate: Do you have to choose this time to be interested in women?
"You…you are…"
An image quickly flashed through Emlyn's mind: This girl was the person that Mr. "The World" had materialized at the Tarot Club last time!
No, that's not important!
The important thing is that her voice sounded very familiar to Emlyn: this was clearly the voice of the First Ancestor Lilith when she conveyed her will to him!
So, the girl in front of me... is the ancestor of Lilith? !
Thinking of this, he became excited: "You...you are..."
The girl smiled and said, "It's me. I'm the one who asked you to go out to sea."
It really is the ancestor!
Emlyn became even more excited, but he didn't know what to do or say for a moment: Should he kneel on the ground to show respect to the ancestor?
Then, his legs moved faster than his brain, and he fell to his knees as soon as the thought came to his mind.
Danitz: "???"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The girl doubled over with laughter, "Emlyn, you really are worthy of being the third idiot of the Tarot Club. Get up."
She walked closer with her hands behind her back: "Next, you..." She glanced at Danitz, "Just follow me and run errands for me."
Emlyn bowed without hesitation and said, "I will follow your orders."
Danitz was furious and said, "Emlin, are you crazy today? Aren't you only interested in puppets?!"
The girl looked at Danitz with her azure eyes: "Are you unwilling?"
"I..."
After saying just one word, Danitz's momentum suddenly weakened, "I... I only speak to my captain..."
Ding-ling-ling.
The girl turned her hand over, and there were several glittering gem-like objects of various shapes in her palm. "Will you really not consider it again?"
Danitz's breath was choked: "This is..."
"Oh, it's just the Beyonder characteristics of Sequence 5, Sequence 4, Sequence 3, and Sequence 2 of the Hunter Path."
"!!!"
Danitz stood at attention and bowed in one go: "I am willing to serve you, ma'am."
He swore that his change of attitude was not due to those extraordinary characteristics, but because the person who could easily take out such a bunch of things was beyond his imagination.
He who knows the current situation is a hero - this is the wise saying of Emperor Roselle!
...
Time has passed, 1160 years.
No. 28 Feicui Street.
Dubois almost didn't sleep all night. He got up early the next morning and asked Endili to prepare several different breakfasts: one was the boss's most common breakfast, one was the specialty of Endili's hometown, and one was a children's meal.
Mr. Sparrow hadn't gotten up yet, but Bernadette arrived first. When she saw the children's meal on the table, she was surprised: "Wow! Did Mr. Sparrow prepare this especially for me?"
No, I prepared it for Mr. Sparrow!
Although he thought so in his heart, Dubois certainly would not say it out loud to spoil the fun. He thought to himself: "Bernadette seems to know that the boss is back, so they met last night?"
Thinking of this, he moved closer and asked, "Bernadette, did you see Mr. Sparrow last night?"
"Yes!"
"Did he look relatively..."
Du Bois hesitated over his words.
Bernadette immediately looked at him warily: "Are you trying to get something out of me?"
Damn it, I hate kids who are too smart!
So he just threw the can down the drain: "Are you sure it was Mr. Sparrow you saw at that time?"
"Of course."
"Why?"
She raised her chin triumphantly: "This is a secret between me and Mr. Sparrow!"
"…"
Okay, okay, you have a secret, you are amazing!
I have become an "outsider" who is asking for trouble.
Du Bois secretly complained, but his doubts were reduced a lot. Sometimes children's words are not trustworthy, and sometimes children's feelings are more accurate than adults.
Step~Step~Step~
At this time, there was a sound of slippers, and Edward, in pajamas, yawning, with messy hair, walked down from the second floor. "I wanted to sleep a little longer, it smells so good."
He kept his childish demeanor and walked straight to the table: "Morning, Dubois, morning, Babe."
"Morning, Boss."
"Huh?"
Bernadette immediately came over and asked in surprise, "Mr. Sparrow, why are you a child again?"
"…I don't want to either."
Edward jumped onto the chair and sat down, his feet still about seven or eight centimeters from the floor. "But there's nothing I can do. I'm cursed."
Her eyes suddenly sparkled: "So you will always be like this in the future?"
"…Are you gloating over someone else's misfortune, Beibei?"
"No!"
Bernadette shook her head repeatedly, "I just think you're very interesting the way you are now."
"I don't think so. Hey, everyone says it's a curse."
Edward ruffled his hair. He was not some mercury snake that seemed to have a special liking for being a child. He didn't think it would be fun to become a child, especially to become "childish".
He forked up a small piece of dessert and ate it with his chin resting on his hand while saying, "You should know there is a kind of people called 'dwarfs', right?"
"Yes, Dad said those people couldn't grow up because of their illness. They were very pitiful."
"That's right! You can also understand my current situation as suffering from a disease similar to dwarfism. Dwarfs are at least mentally normal, but I'm even worse off."
Hearing him say this, Bernadette immediately showed her worry: "Then your disease, is there no cure?"
"Not really, it's just very troublesome. Mainly, there is no precedent for this 'disease', and we don't understand the root cause, so we can't prescribe the right medicine."
Um?
At this point, Edward was suddenly stunned: If we can figure out the "crux" of it, would it be possible to solve it?
As for how to figure it out,
I am a Sequence 3, but I am a deconstruction scholar. Can I use [Deconstruction] on myself to find the "cause" and treat it?
Chapter 577 Evil God, save me!
"Wait for me for a moment."
Before he could react, Edward flashed back to the bedroom. "How should I [deconstruct] myself?"
He thought about it and walked into the bathroom. Looking at his immature self in the mirror, he used [Deconstruction] on a whim. Countless mysterious words suddenly flashed in the depths of his eyes.
The next second,
His gaze immediately penetrated his clothes and skin, and went deep into his flesh and internal organs. Then his line of sight continued to zoom in quickly, and once again went deep into each cell.
The third time he went deeper, those cells gradually turned into pieces of coded data, and each code contained a piece of information - the main part belonged to Edward himself, and a very small part belonged to Bernadette's "memory data" of herself.
But those memories were broken into countless pieces and hidden in different codes, with you in me and me in you, fused together.
After a while, the deconstruction was completed - to be more precise, the preliminary deconstruction was completed. The crux of the problem was indeed found, but in order to eliminate these "bad data", it would take a considerable amount of time for further deconstruction.
As the mysterious words in his eyes faded, Edward withdrew from his self-deconstruction, and a little more joy appeared on his face. Although he couldn't solve the problem in one go, he was already very satisfied.
No matter how much time it takes, it will definitely be much less than waiting for more than a hundred years!
At this moment, he felt that the Deconstruction Scholar potion had shown signs of being digested, and he was even more delighted:
"Is this possible?"
No way, this time I can completely digest the potion by myself, right?
That's awesome.
Seeing Edward reappear with joy, Dubois asked hurriedly: "Boss, do you know how to solve it?"
"Well, I think we have a direction, but it will take some time."
Edward waved his hand and said, "Eat quickly, I'll take you out to play later!"
Bernadette's eyes lit up: "Great!"