"Uh... B-But you must not be a bad person, right?" The girl asked cautiously like a frightened little hamster.
I don't know why, but every time I see this, Xia Ye can't help but want to bully her.
"..." Therefore, she did not answer, just looked at the other party in silence.
"Then, um... why would a powerful witch like you have trouble with such a weak me? Ah, by the way, if it's because of the rent, I, I apologize to you, and I will never ask you for anything in the future. The rent is due!”
"..."
"Ugh...you, what on earth do you want to do..."
The petite girl crossed her arms over her chest and slowly walked backward step by step.
Xia Ye finally spoke: "You..."
"???"
"You need to provide me with a place to live - this room is too bad, and you need to answer some questions. In exchange, I can grant you a wish, of course only one that I can achieve. At least until this deal is completed , I won’t even hurt you. How about it?”
"..." The girl opened her mouth wide and waited for a while before she realized that not only would the other party not hurt her, but he also promised to grant her a wish.
Although the other party emphasizes that the wish is "limited to what can be achieved," there shouldn't be many things that a powerful traveling witch can't do, right?
And for all this, you only need to provide yourself with a place with better conditions and answer some questions.
Lilian nodded her little head like a chicken pecking at rice, feeling that she had gotten a huge advantage.
"My wish is..." she said immediately.
But before she could finish speaking, Xia Ye raised her hand to stop her: "I just said, 'I won't hurt you until the transaction is completed.' In other words, after the transaction is completed, I don't guarantee what I will do to you. .So if I were you, I wouldn’t tell you my wish so quickly.”
"Ah..." Lilian looked at Xia Ye's headless neck and suddenly did not dare to say anything anymore.
"This room is so stuffy." Xia Ye shook her neck and exhaled a breath of air from the broken hole, "Let's change places and chat slowly."
"Then... come to my house." Lillian invited, "Although my house is not big, the floor is quite high and the ventilation is good."
Of course Xia Ye has no objection. She picked up the triangular hood from the ground, put it around her neck, and said to Lillian, "Let's go."
"Um...are you going to wear this hood all the time?" Lilian looked at her with a complicated expression.
"I didn't mean to bring this. I will replace it when I find a better replacement."
"oh."
The girl nodded obediently, opened the door without asking any more questions, and walked out first.
Xia Ye followed her into the dark and narrow corridor. After turning several forks, he finally saw a different light in front of him.
That seemed to be an exit to the outdoors.
Only then did Xia Ye remember that she had been staying in this house since she traveled through time and had not seen what the world was like.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but quicken her pace, passing Lilian who was leading the way, and walked out first.
call--
The refreshing wind blew up her skirt. Xia Ye held the skirt with one hand and held the triangular hood with the other hand, looking around.
Outside the door is a wide terrace, which is located in the center of a tall building. Xia Ye walked to the edge of the terrace, looked down, and found that the terrace was about thirty or forty stories high. She raised her head again and found that there were more floors above, and she could not see the end at a glance.
Not far away, there are hundreds of floors of buildings lined up in rows. Many of the buildings have huge advertising screens hanging on their outer walls, playing advertisements that they have never seen before in Xia Ye. In the gaps between the buildings, countless witches in different costumes flew through the air on broomsticks.
On a summer night, I raised my gaze and looked at the sky. The sky was light yellow, like a piece of pure amber. At the very high point of the dome, I could vaguely see hexagonal patterns like honeycombs.
"What's wrong? Traveling Witch?" Lilian came to her side and asked curiously.
Xia Ye withdrew her gaze.
"Nothing," she said, "I'm just curious about what your city looks like. By the way, what's its name?"
"Debusota."
"Debusota?"
"Well, it's an ancient Tongwen." Lilian explained, "It means 'cake tower', because the city is divided into lower city, middle city, and upper city from the outside to the inside. The height of the buildings in each urban area increases gradually. It was like a tower-shaped multi-layered cake at a banquet, so the city was named 'Debusota'."
"So are we here now?"
"It's at the junction of Zhongcheng and Xiacheng. It's not high enough here. If you fly to a higher place, you can see the upper city. Although I have never been there, I feel like it just from a distance. It’s really beautiful there.”
Lilian pointed in the direction of the uptown area and said with a look of longing in her eyes.
If Xia Ye didn't know how to fly at all, she would have wanted to fly high in the sky to see what the other party said about the upper city. However, this does not prevent her from drawing big cakes:
"Oh? Then I'll take you to the upper city some other time to see if it's really as beautiful as you said."
"Really?!" Lilian had no doubt at all. In her mind, the powerful traveling witch could of course enter the upper city.
"Well, I am a traveling witch." Xia Ye has no shame after all, and she is not afraid of being found out when she lies. "Of course, I have to go and see it no matter where I am. But now, let's do business first."
"Uh-huh!"
Lilian nodded vigorously and led the way towards the terrace.
Xia Ye followed behind, and on the way she turned back and glanced at this city with countless witches flying among the tall buildings.
"Welcome to Debsota, summer night."
She whispered to herself in her heart.
"Enjoy your new life as a witch."
…
"Wow--"
In the empty room, the half-open body bag suddenly moved.
Not long ago, Xia Ye emerged from this body bag. However, she was now at Lillian's home, so naturally she could not see this scene.
After a moment, a tentacle with emerald green lines on its surface carefully poked its head out from the opening of the body bag.
The length of the tentacle was only one foot, and green blood still remained at the break. It originally lived in another world. It came here not long ago because of the rift opened by Xia Ye, and then was slashed by a witch named Luka. When the rift closed, the tentacle with the lightsaber stuck on the body had no time to retract, and a small section at the end remained in this world forever.
Because it happened to fly into the body bag, no one noticed it in the chaos.
Puff-Puff, Puff...
After confirming that there was no danger around, the tentacles got out of the body bag, stretched and retracted on the ground, and squirmed forward.
It was weak and hungry now, and just wanted to find something to devour quickly to fill its stomach.
