"I originally had two companions. One day, the captain of a whaling ship came to us and asked if we would like to board her ship. She could give me a position as second mate. I agreed, and the three of us joined together. They went out to sea not long after. Who would have thought... the captain was a self-righteous idiot. Under her strange command, not only did we not find the whale, we also encountered a moth beast!"
What is a "moth beast"? Xia Ye immediately caught the new term, but she didn't ask rashly, she just listened quietly to the other person's continued words.
"The ship was destroyed, the captain died, the first mate died, and everyone else died... Only my two companions and I returned to Debsota alive. We thought we had escaped, but the next day The whaling ship leasing company found us. They took the agreement signed by the idiot captain and said that according to the terms of the agreement, if the ship is damaged, compensation will be sought from the captain, top to bottom... …Because the captain is dead and the first mate is dead, the responsibility for compensation falls on me!”
When the brown-haired witch said this, she took several deep breaths before continuing.
"Of course I couldn't agree. Even if I wanted to agree, I don't have the magic power to pay the compensation. So the whaling ship rental company hired a debt collection agency to hunt me down. My two companions... are very loyal, they They didn't abandon me, but helped me escape. Of course - they also knew that if I died, the debt would be traced to them, so they had to help me.
"...But in the process of being chased, my two companions were unfortunately seriously injured. Before they died, they gave me their remaining magic power and told me that they couldn't escape anyway, so they might as well fight to the death. Bo. I used their magic power, plus the rest of my own, to buy several witch contracts through acquaintances, including the 'collapse' you just saw. Then, I ambushed the debt collection team when they were unprepared.
"I killed one, haha... I also injured one, and only two of them are still able to move. Because I have a little magic power, I still have a contract that I haven't signed. As long as you give me 50 magicles, I will definitely be able to defeat them. They asked the debt collection company to give up this order. Until then...when I earn magic power, I will definitely repay you..."
The brown-haired witch stared at Xia Ye, as if she wanted to dig out the magic power from her with her eyes.
"This kind of thing... is so unfair to you!"
Xia Ye blinked her eyes, tears seemed to well up in her eyes. "Of course I will help you, what is your name, sister?"
"...Grady." The other party hesitated for a moment and then told Xia Ye.
"Well, Sister Grady, how should I give you 50 moles of magic power? Do you have a mobile phone?"
"……No."
"What a coincidence, I don't have it either." Xia Ye smiled, "Then I'll deliver it to you directly."
As she spoke, she held the black cat in her arms and took a gentle step towards Grady.
The other party looked at Xia Ye warily, but did not stop her movements.
Xia Ye kept a friendly smile, walked slowly and step by step in front of Grady, and stretched out her white and delicate palms to her.
"Here you go, 50 moles of magic power, Sister Grady." She said with a smile.
But Grady didn't stretch out her hand. She was staring at Xia Ye, from head to toe, from toe to head, and finally her eyes were locked on her face.
This is a face that is too beautiful to be described in words. As long as you see it once, even if it is only a very brief glance, even the focus of that glance is not on this face...
She still remembered it.
Ah...it turned out to be her.
The girl walking in the alley with her companions.
She changed a set of clothes, and what she was paying attention to at that time was the skirt she was wearing, so after talking for so long, she finally remembered that she was that person.
"I've seen you..." Grady said slowly.
"Huh?" Xia Ye tilted her head and blinked in confusion.
"Before you came here, you passed through an alley, right? At that time, I happened to fly through the air and saw you, but you changed your clothes, so I didn't finally remember it until just now."
"Oh..." Xia Ye thought seriously for a while and replied, "That's true. It turns out that the person flying past in the air is Sister Grady. What a coincidence!"
"Where's the dress you were wearing when you came here?" Grady asked suddenly.
"I just changed it when I was trying on clothes..." Xia Ye looked around, and finally pointed to a shelf not far away and said, "Ah, it's on that shelf."
The brown-haired witch reached out and held it in the air, and Xia Ye's white Lolita-style dress immediately flew over and landed in her hands.
She grabbed the skirt and brought it to her eyes, looked at it carefully, and then threw it on the open space next to her with a "huh".
Xia Ye immediately showed an expression of surprise and fear: "Sister Grady?"
"...I have seen this kind of material." The other party stared at Xia Ye and said slowly.
"Huh?"
This time, Xia Ye no longer had to pretend to show doubts. She was really curious. Maybe she could find out the origin of the original host through this skirt.
"Uptown... Only Uptown can use this kind of high-end fabric to make clothes..." Grady's expression was a little ferocious, "I know, because my companion... is one of the people who died this time - bring it to me I have seen that she used to work in a factory that specialized in producing this kind of fabric and supplied it to Shangcheng District.
"so--"
She suddenly raised her hand and grabbed Xia Ye, who was so close at hand.
"Yeah~"
"Sister Xia Ye!"
"Don't even move!!"
Grady shouted.
"If you don't want her to die, just don't move!"
This speaks to Lillian and Victoria.
And her five fingers had already firmly grasped Xia Ye's neck.
"As for you..." Grady slowly opened her bright red lips, "Little sister from uptown, why did you come to downtown?"
"Oh... no... I'm not..." Xia Ye shook her head in panic.
"Haha, you still want to lie to me?" Grady let out a few low and hoarse laughs, "Ah, I should have guessed it a long time ago, how could someone hand over 50 moles of magic power so easily... Unless like You, a rich and naive young lady from uptown! Are you giving me alms? I can satisfy your excess compassion by spending only 50 moles of magic power. You must think it’s a good deal, right?!”
"Wuwu...I didn't...please, please let me go...Sister Grady..." The girl who was strangled by the neck had difficulty even speaking, and could only utter intermittently begging for mercy.
"open?"
Grady looked at the beautiful girl with tears in front of her, and suddenly felt an inexplicable pleasure in her heart. Thinking about her identity from uptown, and comparing it with her helpless and struggling appearance now, she couldn't help but laugh. .
"Cough...gu...please...let me go...I can do anything...promise you..."
The girl's weak plea for mercy came again.
Upon hearing this, Grady gradually stopped laughing.
Yes, I almost forgot. Such a good opportunity, how could I let it slip away?
"How much magic power do you have?" she asked, staring at the girl in front of her.
"..."
"500? 1,000? It can't be several thousand, right? You uptown bugs." She said, while slowly tightening her fingers around her neck, "Listen, I don't have to kill you, but you have to Give me all the magic power in your body, keep only 100... No, only keep 50! Keep only 50 magic, and I will let you leave here alive!"
"You may not believe it, but I don't even have 1 mol of magic power in my body." Xia Ye suddenly answered at an extremely smooth speaking speed.
Grady looked at her in disbelief.
The delicate girl with white hair and red eyes was crying and struggling in vain just now, but now, there is no expression of pain on her face, and there is even a weird smile on her pink lips.
But her own hand is still strangling her neck. The "collapse" contract can not only cause collapse, it can also give the signer a permanent effect [grip strength enhancement], and after the strengthening, she can even crush a piece with her bare hands. Shitou, although he hasn't used all his strength yet, but now this kind of force is no longer something that this delicate neck can easily bear.
At a loss, her fingers continued to tighten subconsciously.
Soon, the girl's neck was pinched until it was only half as thick as usual, but there was still a nonchalant expression on her face.
Looking at the scene in front of her, Grady couldn't help but feel chills in her heart... no, it was chills, as cold as fear.
"Oh, are you wondering about this?"
Xia Ye looked down at the hand strangling her neck, and showed a cute smile to Grady:
"What's so surprising about this? Because what you pinched is not my neck at all!"
With these words, the girl's head and body suddenly separated from each other.
