Whispering Verse

As Fiona finished speaking, the flame on the tip of her tail that was still burning in the night rain had already lit the ever-lasting candle. The two people holding hands supported and encouraged each other and started running again in the rainy night.

This time, although there were still false sounds and even false images appearing in the dark night, they were no longer a threat to them.

However, this time the two of them encountered something they did not encounter last time. When the third candle was lit, densely packed small black palms only the size of fingers, with slender black lines connected to their tails, poked out from the dark night and stretched into the range of the candle's light.

In this situation, Fiona also mentioned that if you enter the night many times, there is a chance of being attacked by similar things. Therefore, while running, the red dragon girl opened her mouth and spit out a fan-shaped jet of flames forward. Although the light of the red flames disappeared after leaving the candle area, at least the flames cleared away the small black hands connected in a network in front of her.

"Moonlight Slash!"

In this case, Moonlight Slash, which can cut into pieces, is more effective. The bright silver arc light was slashed diagonally forward by Shade, cutting off the small black hands that were constantly stretching out from the root.

But then the light of the candle in Fiona's hand began to sway, and the third candle had burned to the end:

"you go first."

Shade, who was well prepared, grabbed Fiona's waist from behind and with a strong force, threw the girl, who was not actually heavy, directly to the gallery door five or six steps away.

She successfully reached the light at the last moment when the candle burned out. But when he wiped the rain from his forehead in a panic and turned around to look at the dark night, he only saw Shade being entangled with countless small black hands and disappearing into the night.

"He'll be out soon."

In her heart, she was looking forward to Shade's hand reaching out from the night, but the rain that kept falling gradually swallowed up her expectations over time. I counted 30 numbers in my mind, but Shade still didn't show up. After counting 30 more numbers, Shade still didn't appear.

Tears mixed with rain rolled down his cheeks. He turned and looked at the gallery behind him, wanting to buy three more candles and then rush into the night to rescue Shade no matter what.

At this moment, a faint golden light glowed in her pocket. He put his hand into his pocket and saw that it was Mia's doll that was glowing.

"Meow~"

Amidst the childish and tender meowing, the doll bounced in her hand like it was being bounced by a spring. Then little Mia returned from the doll state to the cat's original posture.

It stood in Fiona's hand. The cat never liked rain. Even though it got wet quickly this time, it still didn't care.

"Meow~"

Facing the dark night in front of her, the cat let out a shrill cry like a lone wolf. Even Fiona, who was not familiar with Mia, could feel the cat's sadness at this time from the cry.

"Don't worry, I will rescue your master!"

Fiona whispered, wiped the water from her face and wanted to rush into the store, but she didn't expect that the cat being held ignored her at all, jumped up, and rushed directly into the deep night:

"Meow!"

"don't want!"

In fear, the young witch subconsciously reached out to grab it, but she didn't notice that her hand had followed the cat's trajectory and reached into the night that could not be covered by light. …

Her head did not immediately realize the fact of danger. Instead, the feeling in her hands reminded her of what she had done at this moment. The thick night is not scary, it just represents what seems to be eternity. The hand immediately "melted" into the night, and the dark color ran along the arm and even spread into the light. The sound of rain in my ears became smaller and smaller, and even the touch of rain hitting my skin seemed to have disappeared.

The dark night is melting Fiona Drago. However, before the despair came, the spreading darkness subsided.

"Meow~"

The small cat was squatting in the witch's hand in the night with great dissatisfaction. He turned his head and looked at her reproachfully with his big amber eyes, as if he was blaming her for stopping him.

Only then did Fiona notice that her heart

It was bouncing around at an abnormal speed. The sound of rain around me returned again, and the sound was even deafening; the touch of rain became clear again, and the impact on the body was even painful.

She had never been so happy to be soaked in the rain, but questions arose:

"Why am I still alive?"

Her outstretched right hand was outside the bright area of ​​the museum, but she could still see her hand clearly. Only then did he realize that it was not his own hands that were glowing, but the little animal in his palm that was glowing.

In the night, the orange and white cat's hair was emitting an unusually soft light yellow light. Fiona couldn't use her shallow words to describe this scene. She felt like she was holding a little sun, and she felt like a cute little angel huddled in her palm.

"Meow~"

Fiona felt inexplicably that she understood cat language, so she immediately stretched out her other hand to hold the cat, then closed her eyes and walked into the darkness. There are no candles this time, but the body feels better than in those stores.

A warm feeling filled my whole body, and the light of the cat in my hand was more stable and reassuring than any other light source. Even though it was still a rainy night, it felt like curling up into a soft quilt, reading my favorite book with peace of mind under the light of the desk lamp.

"Xia De..."

The small brown leather shoes stepped on the puddles on the ground, and the splashing rain wet her black lace stockings. Fiona hurried towards the place where Shade disappeared just now. As the night seemed to be split by the warm yellow light on Mia's body, she finally saw another silver light in the night.

At this time, the silver light on Shade's body was more powerful than before. He held the moonlight sword in his right hand, and his left hand kept making arc-shaped light marks, fighting with the air like a madman in the thick night. Even Fiona didn't know whether Shade had a mental problem or whether he was unable to see the enemies he encountered.

"Shadow!"

"Meow!"

The voices of a man and a cat called to Shade, and in Shade's eyes, the surroundings were completely dark. Those small hands connected with black lines are surrounding him from all directions. No matter how many are cut off, more enemies will appear.

"This is not the way to go."

Half of his body already felt numb:...

"Force it."

[Spatial movement is not allowed here. 】

"My core spiritual rune is [Silver Moon]. It would be ridiculous if I died in the night. I can feel that although the night is corroding me, the deeper the erosion, the more powerful my Silver Moon magic will be. The power will become stronger, so I have to keep a good balance."

In this state, he didn't even dare to summon the life ring. Once the life ring was soaked in the night, he would be "melted" even faster:

"I want to use [Red Butterfly Incarnation], but this time I will not transform into a red butterfly, but try to transform into a moonlight butterfly. As long as the red butterfly and the red moon can sublimate the magic into thaumaturgy, I will still be saved."

"She" chuckled:

[It’s a very good idea, but let’s try it next time. 】

"Why?"

At this moment, Fiona's voice and Mia's cry came at the same time. Although he heard the sound and thought it was another hallucination, Shade still subconsciously turned his head to look.

In the thick darkness, a golden streak of light split open the night. As the night slowly opened to both sides, the red-haired girl holding a cat appeared in front of Shade like a goddess of salvation.

He didn't even think about doubting that the vision in front of him was an illusion, because the soft and warm light was definitely not something that could be created by the night.

At this moment, Shade almost wanted to fall at her feet and kiss her tail. But this slightly perverted thought only passed by for a moment. As Fiona approached, Shade also leaned over. Warm, soft light shone on him, and the phantoms, phantom sounds, and little black hands all disappeared.

There was only the patter of rain, as if everything just now was really just an illusion.

"Fiona,

Thanks for everything, thanks to you for saving me this time. "

The exhausted Shade whispered, raised his hand to touch his cat, and then realized that it was not Fiona's hand that was glowing, but Mia, who was meowing and looking pitiful.

"Let's get out of here first."

The red dragon girl was very sensible, so with the help of Mia's light, the two returned to the entrance of the art museum from the dark night. At this time, both of them were wet, so they pushed the door open and entered the interior of the art gallery.

At this time, there were only the last seven minutes left before Shade's forty-minute adventure.

The "Midnight Art Museum" covers an area larger than the previous cafe and watch shop combined. After entering the art museum, there is the front hall first, and the deep corridor filled with oil paintings on both sides extends to the corner.

There was a full-body armor holding a sword standing at the corner. The gas lamplight on the wall made the shadow of the armor slant on the ground, making it look a bit scary.

There was also no one inside the art museum. Although it was warm and dry, after entering it, I felt an inexplicable chill in my heart. This was different from the feeling in a cafe or a watch store.

Fiona, who controlled the flames, quickly used the flames to dry herself and Shade. When she wanted to roast the cat, the cat shook its body violently, and even an afterimage appeared, and it had already dried up most of the rainwater.

"Fiona, what happened just now? Did you change Mia back to her original form?"

"No, it changed back on its own."

The red dragon girl replied that Shade was not surprised by this. After all, this was not the first time that the cat took the initiative to release its transformation state.

"Then it glowed just now because..."

Looking down at the cat, Mia was being held by Shade, lying lazily on his arm. After entering the door, the warm light on the cat disappeared, as if nothing happened.

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